Spinning Wheel Leadership Foundation (SWLF) was started witha mission to provide students with life skills and new age literacies that are crucial in the 21st century. Traditional education infrastructure is already overburdened by the requirements of basic scholastic education, and therefore often incapable of providing these to students. In rural and tribal settings, students have the added challenges of access to opportunities and resources.

In this context SWLF works to train students in the 2 core components of life skills education. First, is the capacity or knowledge of basic digital, legal, civic, environmental, financial, media and multicultural literacies, amongst others and soft skills like critical thinking, problem solving and effective communication. The second is having the culture and opportunities to use these skills as collaborative, empathetic, aware and critical thinking leaders who are well-equipped problem solvers in their daily life and their environments.