Beneficiaries of School Kit Drive

Information of recipients

Chaitanya Mahila Mandal runs night-shelter and informal school for children of Sex Workers in Budhwar Peth. Children get a safer and healthier environment at this shelter, while their mothers are busy.

Bharatiya Stree Shakti Jagran is an all-women organization running Self-Help Groups in economically weaker sections of Pune city. The kits are going to children of women participating in these groups.

Swaroop Wardhinee is a very well-known organization in Pune, which aims at identifying ‘talent’ in the slums and grooming the talent by enhancing physical, academic, and character-building inputs.

Bhatke Vimukta Vikas Pratishthan is working for development of Nomadic and Denotified (declared criminal during British rule) tribes. These tribes do not have any land or home for generations. They often face police harassment for suspicion of thefts. No address, no ration card, no voting rights – rather no recognition of existence; this is their plight. This organization runs a residential school for children of these tribes.

Astitva Pratishthan runs schools for children of Sugarcane harvesting labour. Thousands of families migrate from Marathwada to harvest the cane. Children drop out of school every year for this migration of 5-6 months. This org runs bridge-schools at the harvesting site, known as sakhar-shala (sugar school). Kits are sent to the residential school recently started by this org.

Samrasta Punarutthan Gurukulam run by famous social worker and Marathi writer Girish Prabhune works for the development of nomadic tribes, especially the Pardhi tribe. Kits are sent to the residential school of Pardhi children.

Mata Balak Utkarsh Pratishthan runs a formal school in the drought-prone Sangola Taluka of Solapur district. Kits are sent to the needy children identified by the teachers.

Surajya Prakalp runs education support centres, study-rooms (Abhyasika), women’s SHGs, and many other activities in eight slums in and around Yerawda. Children in the Abhyasika have received the kits.

JiJai Shikan Mandir is a school in Jahangir Nagar area of Pune located in an economically weaker settlement. All the children in this school have received kits.

Nalini Bal Sadan (Vishwa Institute of Social & Welfare

Meghalaya Hostel run by Vikas Sadhak Vahini is a free hostel for girls from Northeastern states. The girls are selected by organizations in the northeast and are provided enabling environment free of terrorism and insurgency.

Nihar is an NGO in Hadapsar running education activities for slum children.

Agarkar school is a formal school run by New Education Society. The teachers identified needy students (Girls on priority) as recipients of the kits.

Maharashtra Education Society (MES) runs many colleges and schools in various parts of Maharashtra. Schools in semi-urban/rural region around Pune have a majority of students coming from the labour class. These children – as identified by the teachers – are receiving the kits.