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SARJAN FOUNDATION

Committed to Improving the “Quality of Life” of the Opportunity deprived

Education

Sarjan wants to educate not just the minds of children but also their hearts as it will empower them to earn their livelihood and lead a dignified life. We provide support to opportunity deprived students through scholarships and coaching. Life skills training, value-based education, leadership skills, yoga and meditation are some of the additional benefits the students get.

Balwadis BADRI, Siholi Scholarship support

Pre-school education forms the foundation of a child’s learning. Sarjan runs preschool Balwadis (Kindergartens) in two villages near Prantij in Sabarkantha District.

Besides imparting basic literacy, the Balwadis prepare the kids for further education.

  • 1308

  • Kids benifited

BADRI (Benevolent Accelerated Development and Reconstruction Initiative) is a residential centre for learning for 10- 11 years old from disadvantaged sections of society to provide them with value-based education, life skills, expression skills and a vocational skill to earn a sustainable living after graduating from the program. By understanding Capabilities, Capacities, Interest and Inclination towards Academics, Sports, Theatre, Arts, Drama, Music or other vocational skills, curated inputs can be provided, thus honing the skill sets of the kids. Enabling these kids in the environment of joyful learning by grouping them into cohorts according to their learning levels rather than their age is our constant focus.

The centre is located in Moti Siholi village Near Chiloda, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
With an aim to promote care and healthy physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural, aesthetic, ethical and spiritual growth of the primary school children and to encourage them to stay on and complete schooling, we conduct remedial classes for the kids of Moti Siholi village in the age group 6-14 years.

Sarjan believes that education is the most powerful weapon to change the world and to create change leaders. Sarjan strives to extend its support to students by providing them with fees, hostel expenses, learning resources etc. To encourage students to continue their education, Sarjan provided scholarship support to 823 (404 boys + 419 girls) students in Primary to Post Graduate level including professional courses between 2004 and 2016. Over 70 % of the beneficiaries hail from the severe opportunity deprived section of society like daily wagers, cobblers, tailors, rickshaw drivers and orphans.

Besides these, Sarjan provides notebooks, drawing books and map books to hundreds of children of primary schools.

  • 823

  • Students got Scholarship support

  • 16

  • Post-Graduates

  • 32

  • Graduates

  • 6

  • Diploma
Health

Sarjan Foundation organizes eye check-up  camps in the rural hinterland of Prantij in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, to ensure that people have proper eyesight.

Eye Camps

Sarjan conducts around 30 eye check-up camps every year in the interior rural areas in northern Gujarat. Lack of financial assistance compels the people out there to suffer from blindness throughout their lives. Sarjan tries to bridge the gap by providing low-cost affordable eye care support. Those identified with faulty vision are provided with numbered specs at a nominal price of ₹40. Sarjan also facilitates cataract surgery with lens implant for the ones in need, free of charge at the nearby speciality hospital.

  • 350+

  • Eye camps organized

  • 145000+

  • Spectacles were provided

  • 18500+

  • Cataract surgeries

  • 250000+

  • Patients examined
Livelihoods

Sarjan runs various employment linked skill enhancement programs for the opportunity deprived youth from socio-economically weaker sections of society. The objective is to build capabilities that help them take up livelihood opportunities.

MARG, Rampura Vadala RFS Tech. Centre, Palanpur Art & Craft Centre, Prantij

With an aim to provide a sustainable livelihood opportunity to the tribal youth Sarjan Foundation in 2007, started a vocational training institute called MARG (Hindi for ‘Path’) – A centre for learning life & livelihood skills in Amirgadh, a village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat state in India. Sarjan started imparting skills that help youngsters improve their quality of life, no matter what background they come from. By combining hard skills and humane skills, the mission of Sarjan is to create kind, compassionate, trained and effective humans.

The centre presently trains students in Welding, Electrical wiring, Mechanical fitting, Turning, CNC lathe Machine-CNC Vertical Milling Machine and Computer operator trades. It offers both short-term (35 days to 9 months duration) and long-term (1 and 2 years duration) training courses. Some of its courses are NCVT certified. Boarding facilities are available.

  • 2535

  • Youths trained

  • 2071

  • Youths placed

  • 392

  • Rural Entrepreneurs

  • 63

  • Not in Contact

  • 9

  • Students went for higher studies

  • 0

  • Under-age

While educating a child is the first step out of poverty, it is not the last. As education becomes more readily available to this generation, many students are graduating from universities. However, the job market is not growing commensurately and competition for jobs is getting tougher. For every 400,000 graduates ready to enter the workforce, only 80,000 find formal employment.

Robert F. Smith Technology Centre, Palanpur – For Reorientation & Development of IT & Soft Skills was set up in 2015 to enable graduates, mostly from the humble strata, to overcome their shortcomings and gain employable skills. It provides training in web technology (PHP), engineering design (Auto CAD), mobile application development (Android) and Tally Erp-9. Students are also taught basic financial literacy, soft skills, social responsibility as well as workplace behaviour.

  • 1225

  • Youths trained

  • 79

  • Under Training

  • 752

  • Youths Placed

  • 377

  • Youths  prosecuting higher Studies

Women of Prantij, a semi-urban area in northern Gujarat had always been involved in household work and never had the opportunity to learn any other skills.

With an aim to make women self-reliant, dignified members of the society by imparting training in useful skills, an Art & Craft centre was established by Sarjan in Prantij in 2011.

It offers skill training in tailoring, embroidery, mehndi or henna application, beauty parlour, crochet work/macramé work.
Over 850 women have got training in different areas and earn a sustainable income for their families.

  • 2200+

  • women have got training

  • 1024

  • Women Entrepreneurs/Self Employed

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