Antar Bharti Balgram Project

VISION:

A Society in which ALL children without distinction of any caste, creed or gender, enjoy their rights and are empowered through education to develop to their full potential embracing values, learning to live together with faith in the human race.

MISSION:

The mission of the India Sponsorship Committee is to provide children in need the support required by them for an education that offers them opportunities that develop their full potential. Further, it seeks to create opportunities for children to become responsible, contributing members of society by helping them meet their family, social, emotional, physical and spiritual needs.

We have locations in Lonavala, Pune and Mumbai, where we conduct programmes towards ensuring that education reaches every child from disadvantaged sections of society.

In Lonavala, we have established the Antar Bharati Balgram, which is a home for orphan and destitute children since over 4 decades. Towards ensuring them a complete education and preparing them for the future, we also have on the same campus, the Antar Bharati Balgram School, which is a government recognised English medium school from KG to Std.X, under the state SSC Board. We also have a government ITI which imparts training to the rural youth in the trades of welding and electrical fields.

In Pune, we are the pioneers in establishing educational classes for the children of migrant labourers of the brick kilns on the periphery of the city. Here basic education is imparted to the children, and efforts are made to enroll them in mainstream schools nearby since more than 30 years. Other activities include, gender sensitization, rights of the child, women empowerment and early childhood awareness programmes.

Today, over 1000 children of Balgram are settled well in life, earning a good salary, and settled in society. We try to ensure that the children complete their school education, and thereafter they choose their future, either with further studies or with vocational career choices, till they are financially stable.

In Pune too, over, 500 children have completed basic education and have been guided in a choice of careers.

Gender awareness and child rights is a more recent endeavour and the children are today aware of their rights, and ensure a life free of sexual and drug abuse, child marriage and other social evils.

Women empowerment ensures that the women are financially independent and can make choices to their liking. We plan to introduce more career choices in the near future.