Background

The association Ashankur is situated in the Ahmednagar District that is known as an area that has often suffered from drought. The main occupation of the people is agriculture which depends so much on the regularity of the monsoon. As a result the people are driven to take big loans to make a living. The money lenders exploit the people. Bank loans are available but as many of them have been defaulters, banks are reluctant to give big loans.

Background

The Malwan community is situated in an lower-middle class area, where most of the population belongs to the fisher folk community and a few are dependent on farming and tourism.

Background

The Training Development Scholarship Society (TDSS), an NGO which conducts development projects in Karnataka and Maharashtra, is committed to restoring dignity to human beings deprived of their rights due to prevalent unjust socioeconomic structures in the rural areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka to combat poverty and exploitation. TDSS aims to make both the people and groups effective and self reliant by generating forces within the society for sustaining these initiatives.

Background

Background

Background

Nowadays, even the poor and those from the lower middle classes aspire to give professional education and training to their children in order that they may have a better future. Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, runs a number of professional, job-oriented courses. As these being professional courses, the fees are comparatively high even if heavily subsidised by the government. In order to make these courses accessible to the poor and marginalised we need to provide financial aid to such students.

Objective

Background

Background

The city of Rishikesh is set at the foothills of the Himalayas besides the Ganges river. It is regarded as one of the holiest places for Hindus and is renowned as a center for studying yoga and meditation. Temples and ashrams (centers for spiritual studies) line the eastern bank of the river.

Activities

The RSCJ community in Rishikesh provide spiritual accompaniment:  

Background

Often Kingergartens (Lower and Upper Kindergartens) in the region do not meet the education standards required by the ICSE and CBSE-certified schools the children will move to, finding it difficult to cope with studies   

Objective

The Prerana Nursery in Pune aims to give a values-based education:

Eco-spirituality retreats