Pune Social Work Initiatives

Name : Shikshangram (शिक्षणग्राम) Founded : 2008 Category :  Child Welfare, Education, Tribal Empowerment Place : Malawali,Lonavla Contact Details : Satish Moon  Yogita Moon   Mob - 09373235894/09689453329 Website -  http://shikshangram.com/ Email - natural.education@gmail.com Description : The shikshangram was established by Satish and Yogita Moon, both come from similar background to the children they care for. This is home for 123 children from the age 4 to 16, mostly found on railway platforms or street corners either orphans or parents are not able to take care of The Shelter is run on the principle of  natural education  and all the staff work hard at keeping the children cared for in the best possible way with play – supplementary education and good nutrition. Various initiatives like strong village project, little buddha natural school, natural education are run by shokshangram All orphaned, homeless or abandoned, are now living at the main new parti

Name : Rashtriya Sarvangin Gramvikas Sanstha  (राष्ट्रीय सर्वांगीण ग्रामविकास संस्था) Location:  Mulshi Tehsil Founded : 1995 Category : Health, Women Empowerment, Tribal Empowerment, Education, Agriculture Address of trust :  A/1 KESHAR SOCIETY BEHIND JOG HOSPITAL, POUD Rd., Pune – 411 038 Contact Details : Anil Vyas : 9422366714 Email : anil_vyas@indiainfo.com Poonam Mehta: 9422088684 Email :prm@mte-india.com Website:  http://mulshigramvikas.org/ Description: Several activities are conducted in various fields  Education -  Bhadas-Gawdewadi-Shileshwar,Asde, Khubawali are 5 villages located on the bank of river Mula. They were isolated from rest of tehsil due to dead end of tad road at Bhadas. There was no school from 5th standard. Swami Vivekanand vidyalay opened in 1995 Botanical trips are arranged Guidance for future education is provided after 10th vocational introductory course provided for 8-10 std in the fields 1. Engineering. 2. Energy &a

Name : Vasundhara Swachhata Abhiyan (वसुंधरा स्वच्छता अभियान) Founded : 2007 Category : Environment,  Place : Baner,Pune Contact Numbers : Anil Gaikwad 9922001442 Deepak Shrote 9850430085 Pushkar Kulkarni 9767050711 Description : Any life Human, Animal, Wild grows and lives peacefully in the very nature of purest form.  To achieve the progress and with technological developments, nature gets disturbed leading to various problems like pollution, hole in ozone layer, global warming and various environmental issues. Instead of blaming any one, Team VSA have considered this as our moral duty and started 'GREEN PUNE’ movement As a part of this, activity of ‘TREE PLANTATION & GROWTH DRIVE’ is consistently going on, on the BANER hill since last 9 years,Pashan hill since last 5 years ,Mahalunge since 4 years and Rotary hill (Kirti Gardens ) since 1.5 Yrs  Watering activity is carried  every day especially on Saturday and Sunday. HELP VSA Join and par

Name : Suryanamskar Yog samiti (सूर्यनमस्कार योग समिती) Founded : 2011  Category : Health,Child Welfare,Yoga,Education Place : Baner, Pune Contact Numbers: Bhalchndra Sarde -  9421222587 Ramchandra/Vijay Faltankar: 9552550920 Murlidhar Jaju -  9403357396 Anant Mahajani -  9881744803 Ramdas Wani -  9657702413 Nandkishor Kabra Description: Conduct short (1 day), 5-10 days shibir(camp) FREE of cost for underprivileged kids who can not afford to join extra curricular activity classes.  Activities in shibir           1. Suryanamskar, Yoga           2. Games           3. Environment awareness sessions           4. Story telling           5. Mathematics tricks           6. Personality development session           7. Meals           8. Trip to nearby places HELP samiti: Volunteer to conduct sessions on different topics in shibir Shibir is run by above individuals from their financial contributions, donation from interested citizens to conduct shibir will be

Name : SWAROOP WARDHINEE (स्वरूपवर्धिनी, मंगळवार पेठ ) Founded : 1979 by Shri.K.L Patwardhan Category : Education Address :  22/1, Mangalwar Peth, Parge Chowk, Barne Road ,Pune - 411011  Maharashtra ,India  Contact Details : Contact: 020-26121704  E-Mail: wardhinee@gmail.com http://www.swaroopwardhinee.org/ Description : After his retirement as a headmaster, Shri.K.L Patwardhan decided to devote his life for enrichment of latent qualities of young, intelligent and capable children from the unprivileged and economically weak section of our society and making them into social assets. Following activities are currently run by institute Integrated Self Development Centers : Number of programs like residential camps, trekking, study tours, group tasks, lectures are organized for integrated development of the students. Mobile Laboratory Project :The vehicle of the institute goes to various villages in Mulshi & Haveli Tehesil (Pune Dist.) and conducts demonstration o

Name : MATOSHREE Old Age Home (मातोश्री वृद्धाश्रम,कर्वेनगर) Founded : 1999 by Shri Shivrai Pratishthan Category : Old Age Home Address :  Rajaram Bridge, Riverside, Near Vitthal Mandir, Karvenagar, Pune - 411 052. Contact Details : Tel: (020) 2541-2375 Email: matoshripune@gmail.com, matoshreepune@gmail.com http://www.matoshreepune.com/ Description : Matoshree is just like a big home for all those needy people with various difficulties and no support Men aged above sixty and women aged above fifty-five is the age criteria for admission More than Hundred people can be accommodated here. Facilities like Library, health care, cultural hall, garden , meals are provided Help MATOSHREE : Adopt needy senior citizens by contributing for his/her well begin. By donating food grains, grocery items, vegetables, fruits, sweets etc. You can donate the items needed by this old age home from time to time. Such as furniture, books, kitchen utensils, bed sheets, blankets, gar

Name : Gurukulam (गुरुकुलम, चिंचवड) Founded : 2009 by Girishji Prabhune Category : Education, Tribal Empowerment Address :  Punaruththan Samarasata Gurukulam, Krantiveer Chapekar Sadan, Near Balasaheb Gawade Swimming Pool, Keshav nagar, Chinchwad, Pune- 411033 Maharashtra Contact Details: Phone: +91-9766325082 Email: gurukulam.pune@gmail.com http://gurukulamonline.org/ Description : Residential school for students from remote areas and various underprivileged communities like paradhi, slum dwellers, child laborers and economical weaker sections Provide education through old and wise 'Gurukulam Education System'. In this system Guru and Shishya stay together.The Disciple follows the teacher and learns language, values, and vocational trades and gets knowledge of Indian culture. The curriculum is based on observation of students. It is designed for mainly overall development of students include engineering, agriculture work, ayurveda, home science an

Name : Dnyandeep Yojana (ज्ञानदीप योजना,चिंचवड) Founded:  July 2015 by Shri. Vishwas Bagul Category: Education, Child Welfare Place: Chinchwad, Pune Contact Numbers   Vishwas Bagul : 9767290702 Ramesh Athavale : 9767751369 Email : vishwas.bagul2012@gmail.com Description: Mr Vishwas Bagul from Chinchwad conducts free sessions/workshop in municipal corporation schools on 'fun with science' (खेळातून विज्ञान) by demonstrating self made small toys based on science principles.This helps students assimilate the science concepts easily. While conducting the sessions in remote villages, he realized that electricity is not available in many villages or available only for few hours a week. Students  not able to study at home after evening. This initiative is to provide solar lamps to students living in remote villages. Let’s light a lamp in their lives, let’s give them a fair chance to succeed. Solar lamp costs 365 Rupees.  If you wish to help with th

Name: Madhusudan Rugnasewa Kendra (मधुसूदन रुग्णसेवा केंद्र,चिंचवड) Founded : 2013 by Shri. Vishwas Bagul Category : Health Place : Chinchwad, Pune Address : 'VARAD' , Devghar Society, Shridharnagar,Chinchwad, Pune - 33 Time : 5 to 7 PM. Contact Numbers   Rameshrao Parakhi : 020-27515002 Vishwas Bagul : 9767290702  Dipak Divekar : 9921599320 Ramesh Athavale : 9767751369 Email :  vishwas.bagul2012@gmail.com Description : Medical equipments like fowler bed, walker, crutches, water beds, commode chairs, wheel chairs are available FREE of charge. Deposit amount needs to be submitted while taking the equipment. Deposit amount is refunded when equipment is returned. This noble initiative is run by above individuals without taking any remunerations. All equipments are purchased initially from the own pocket of above individuals and donations received from equipment users, acquaintances etc. Around 700 patients made use of this free service in l