Diksha Foundation

Diksha Foundation offers holistic education to children and youth from socially and economically marginalized communities in India. Since 2010, Diksha Read more’s movement has been towards creating “transformative learning spaces for children”. Our idea of education is not confined to literacy alone, we focus on the holistic education of children by looking at the social, creative, and moral development of each student. Holistic education stresses on the overall development of an individual which includes core academics, emotional development, social skills with civic understanding, critical thinking skills, conflict resolution skills, personality development, and knowledge about self. While seeking to educate the whole person the basic three R’s of Relationships, Responsibility, and Reverence for all life, are taken into consideration. We believe that education is a journey of self-discovery, self-love, and self-esteem and that it is a process of change from within, a change in one’s habits and worldviews and one’s relationships and responsibilities with the community. Last year our world was caught off guard when a deadly pandemic struck in the form of COVID - 19. Throughout last year we have tried to strengthen our community with safety and personal hygiene, COVID-19 awareness and necessarry precautions we need to take in order to safeguard the community. The pandemic did not only present itself as a major health risk but also threatened the livelihoods of people. The worst hit sector due to the lockdown to resist the virus, was the unorganized sector throughout the world. In Patna, Bihar most of our students families lost their livelihoods for several months due to continued lockdiown. Ins such situation, Diksha Foundation tried to reach out to our students through telephone. We offered them tele counseling to help through the lockdown. We initisated the Annapurna campaign through which we provided ration kits to the families of our students. The ration kit contained all the necessary items that were required to sustain a family for the month.We continue the campaign under the name of Aushadhi - Annapurna Campaign which has been extended to cover medical kits, oxygen necessities along with ration kits of the COVID -19 patients. So far we have been able to distribute these kits to over 1500 families in Patna and Hilsa so far. In further attempts, we have extended our KHEL facilities to ensure our students are never away from learning. Our libraries are open so that students could issue books for reading.