Starting from one Apna Skool centre with 40 children in the 1990s, the projects have, as of this writing, grown into a network of more than 25 centres educating greater than 800 students today. The Apna Skool Migrant Labour Project (MLP) which is run under the auspices of Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti, an NGO in Kanpur, is a network of schools focussed on providing primary education to the children of migrant labourers.

While governments and NGOs run educational endeavours for a variety of underprivileged groups in India, migrant labourers, especially those in the brick kiln and construction work industry, tend to fall through the cracks of most other systems. This is primarily because this socio-economic group is migratory by nature, and the times they reside in different physical locations is ever-changing, depending on extraneous factors such as local construction supply and demands and weather patterns (onset of droughts, for instance, in native villages). The Apna Skool centres address this problem by taking the school to the construction and brick kiln sites rather than the more traditional approach of bringing students to a (semi)permanent school location.