Gram Vikas Trust

Enable socio economic development of underprivileged communities by working on programmes in the areas of education, water management and hygiene, food and nutrition, employment

  • Started: 2001
  • Bharuch, Gujarat

About

Gram Vikas Trust is working to promote a democratic and just living environment where underprivileged people have access to good education, amenities, Read more gainful employment and essential services irrespective of their economic and social status. It believes that poverty and powerlessness can be prevented in the context of development happening in the 21st century, that the underprivileged have rights to a sustainable livelihood and reduction of differences between the rich and poor should ultimately lead to the formation of a just society.


Issue

Underprivileged communities lack access to education, sanitation facilities, healthcare and livelihoods.

Action

Gram Vikas Trust aims to impart education, provide good sanitation and hygiene facilities, bring healthcare to the underprivileged and generate employment and income through skilling the poor.

Sectors

  • Health
  • Sanitation
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Senior Citizens
  • Disaster Management
  • Water
  • Tribes
  • Livelihoods
  • Minority
  • Education
  • Child & Youth Development

Sub Sectors


  • Health & Family Welfare
  • Nutrition
  • Vocational Training
  • Women Empowerment
  • Child Rights
  • Girl Child

Demographies Served

  • Children
  • Senior Citizens
  • Scheduled Castes
  • Scheduled Tribes

Impact

Gram Vikas Trust impacted as follows: 72 villages in the Vagra Block of Bharuch District 53 villages in the Bharuch Block of Bharuch District 40 villages in the Jhagadia Block of Bharuch District 28 Villages in the Nandod block of Narmada District

Programs

  • Education

    Bharuch
    Gujarat

    Its programme in the space of education includes partnering with Government, foreign and Indian social organisations.

    This programme covers many aspects of education like ensuring enrollment of poor children into schools, enabling children to pursue and sustain education, providing bicycles to girls to enable them to travel the distance to pursue education, providing teachers to under-resourced schools and sponsoring education fees and education material to encourage attendance.

  • Water Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Programme

    Bharuch
    Gujarat

    To encourage good sanitation practices it conducted a survey to know the ground situation and initiated awareness drives in schools and the villages promoting good sanitation and hygiene, trained masons to construct washrooms and took up writing slogans on the village walls to promote good sanitation and healthy hygiene practices.

    It also involved itself in the capacity building of NGOs active in the area of maternal health, child health, family planning, sexually transmitted infections and adolescent reproductive health.

  • Food Nutrition and Health Programme

    Bharuch
    Gujarat

    To address malnutrition among the village children It runs an initiative to provide rations to underprivileged families for a three-month period.

    It also distributes rations, in partnership with the local grocery suppliers, to old, destitute and elderly people who are abandoned and left to fend for themselves.

  • Sustainable Livelihood Programme

    Bharuch
    Gujarat

    Through two training centres, GVT provides skill training to poor youth, especially women, in handicrafts, computer operations, tailoring, and Beautician courses.

  • Other programmes

    Bharuch, Narmada
    Gujarat

    In partnership with the Telecommunication Department, Government of India, corporates and other social organisations, GVT runs a child helpline which receives calls of distress and attempts to intervene and attend to the same.

    It helps people during natural calamities and disasters through the distribution of essential food and non-food items and maintains a team of qualified personnel who can be readily deployed in case of such an event.

Impact Metrics

  • Vocational training provided to youth

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2018 661
    • 2019 1000
    • 2020 95
    • 2021 300
    • 2022 850
  • Children provided help and support

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019 150
    • 2020 475
    • 2021 800
    • 2022 2500

Leadership Team

  • Ramesh J. Kasondra

    Founder & President

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  • Jignesh Christi

    Project Co-ordinator

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  • Dinesh Rana

    Project Co-ordinator

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Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAATG6226

  • Registration ID
    E -2875
  • VO ID / Darpan ID
    GJ/2009/0001302
  • 12A

    AAATG6226GE20214

  • 80G

    AAATG6226GF20214

  • FCRA

    41990061

Location

Project Location

Headquarters

A-18, Pushapdhan Banglows, Link Road, Near HDFC Bank

Offices in Cities

Bharuch

Projects in States

West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust

Website

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses
Breakdown
2021-22
Income
Rs.58,899,223
Expenses
Rs.58,899,223
Program Expenses
Rs.57,704,637
Other Expenses
Rs.1,194,586