-penned by our board member Mrs. Alo Pal When you wake up every morning to the relentless drudgery of eking out a living as a mason to provide for your wife and three children, you don’t have the mind space to accommodate extra-curricular for your children even if it is a skill you possess. Such… Read more »
In Sharana, as an organization we have never claimed to be able to do it all on our own; we are proud to partner with like-minded collaborators and partners in our journey to make a difference where work is needed to be done. In fact, we know that to move forward and for truly lasting… Read more »
Due to the second Covid-19 wave that hit us this year, the majority of children in the programs of Sharana remain at home without any form of schooling/education whatsoever. For many, this has meant over 1.5 years without formal education. For most children supported by Sharana, this is often the difference between continuing education and… Read more »
COVID19 has brought unprecedented & persisting hunger into the communities. Families are having fewer meals a day & nutrition levels are deplorable. Since last August we’ve been distributing cooked lunches every day. We have just crossed the 100000 packets mark. Work needs to continue! It’s not a milestone we at Sharana get any pride in, it’s… Read more »
The last year and a half have been turbulent, to say the least, and our social workers faced a lot of challenges both at the work and in their personal lives. They have been working day in and day out, witnessing and supporting families in the community through some really difficult experiences esp amid Covid-19;… Read more »
-penned by Mrs Alo Pal, a board member. Pulled out of school when she got her period at the age of 13, Pooja was pronounced a bad omen by a priest. When our social workers approached the family, they were told she would resume school after her period. That did not happen. When questioned, her… Read more »
-penned by Mrs. Alo Pal, board member. Vijay and Bharathi fell in love and got married. He could not bring her to his home as theirs was an inter-caste marriage. Vijay has been living with his wife and in-laws since. Today he is 39, his wife 35, they have two girls and they had taken… Read more »
When Covid-19 struck last year, no one in the world would have thought this is where we would be more than a year from then. And yet a year has gone by; shattering many realities we took for granted and setting into place a new normal that is here to remain. We have all been… Read more »
As stated in our earlier post, to disrupt the Covid-19 contagion we have taken a short pause from the field and are now tackling the Pandemic from the safe and sanitized environment of our centres; this is to keep both our team as well as the communities safe. With the present situation of Covid 19,… Read more »
Sharana has always prided itself in working in the field with the communities we support, however, the need of the hour demands a change in tactic. To disrupt the contagion we have taken a short pause