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, ar...

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. T...

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 ...

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...

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 h...