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India Sponsorship Committee

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.

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Antar Bharti Balgram Project

The India Sponsorship Committee was established in 1967, and since then has continued to evolve in the sphere of nurturing the underprivileged children in Pune and Lonavala and work for their holistic development.Its flagship project, Antar Bharati Balgram, was established in 1972, and today boasts of 10 sadans (homes) where nearly 100 distressed/deprived children (in need of safe shelter and a conducive environment for academic and holistic pursuit) grow up in an abode similar to normal familial homes.Today the Balgram campus includes the Antar Bharati Balgram School, from KG to Std.X, following the state SSC Board. It is a State of Art English medium school and conforms to the guidelines laid down by the RTE Act.The Technology integrated campus is a perfect place for children to explore and expand their horizons. To ensure the complete rehabilitation process of the Balgram children, they are inducted in the Sarathi program which prepares them from the age of 13 years towards meaningful employment opportunities by engaging in career counselling, aptitude test  and skill based workshops etc.In 1980, the Pune Urban Community Development Project was established in Yerwada. The main focus was to ensure that the children of migrant labourers on the periphery of the city were given an opportunity to study and did not enter the world of child labour in the brick kilns where their parents worked. Today more than 8000 children have had the opportunity of education and lead a better life.Pune project has thereafter focused on areas of Child Rights, Gender Sensitization, Women Empowerment and Early Childhood and Nutrition programs, and continue their success in all these areas each year.Currently there are two programs running in Pune namely Aakar- for the wellbeing of Brick kiln workers’ children and Saksham - for creating livelihood opportunities for young women of slum communities.Upon achieving a milestone of completion of 50 years in the field of ensuring education for the underprivileged, we are assured that every child who has been in our fold is living a life much better having been given the opportunity of Education. Our multifold approach which is child centric ensures that a child or youth develops to his/her full potential and becomes a contributing member of the society.This forms the base of a rapidly growing nation.

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INDIA SPONSORSHIP COMMITTEE

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This nonprofit is registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961. This means you can deduct 50% of the donation you made through your tax return.

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