-Penned by Team Sharana The Climate Fresk is an interactive workshop that helps people understand the causes and consequences of Climate Change. In July of 2022, Ms.Amandine Hersant, volunteer who is also General Manager at Planète Urgence, an NGO, and a trained Climate Fresk facilitator, conducted a workshop for our leadership team. The Workshop has… Read more »

Penned by Board Member Alo Pal, based on a conversation with Social Entrepreneurship Program beneficiary Sangitha (name changed) Sangitha is illiterate. The only assembly of peers she ever interacted with was in the Anganwadi (child care centre) when she was little. Orphaned at 8, she lived with her older sister and was married off at 18…. Read more »

by Communications Intern Tanay Kagal On 20th January 2023, we distributed certificates to students of the 2nd batch of Digital Lab students. There were also some students from the 1st batch who couldn’t complete the course earlier (due to extra-curricular achool activities or playing sports in the evenings) and have now completed with the help… Read more »

Penned by Board Member Alo Pal Seven years ago, almost to the day, my baptism at work in Sharana was with Manuel sitting in front of me introducing himself and speaking about his work. The most basic as well as the overriding aim of Sharana at the time was to send children to school and… Read more »

-Penned by Communications Intern Tanay One of the strongest drives in humans is to protect and nurture children. It is the only drive strong enough to override the other instinct of self-preservation. This is seen with the many videos on the internet of people performing near superhuman feats to save children- their own or otherwise-… Read more »

-penned by Tanay Kagal On the 19th of October 2022, 40 students from the first batch of Sharana’s Digital Lab were awarded certificates in ‘Computer Basics’, in the presence of Mr. M Murugaiyen, CFO at Sharana, Ms. Vandana Shah, Operations Director at Sharana, and Ms. Shazeedaa Mohaimeid, Manager at Straive. The 12-week course was designed… Read more »

-Penned by Kaavya Kumar, a 16-year-old volunteer I interned at Sharana for 3 weeks and it was a great experience! I met many different people, got a taste for what working both at an office and an NGO feels like and about the effort it takes to successfully run and sustain an organization. Most importantly… Read more »

-Penned by Board Member Alo Pal Harshitha is passionate about child protection and ensuring the rights of children through Social Work. She is a fresh graduate from the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry, working at Sharana for almost a year, gathering irreplaceable authentic experience working directly with our beneficiaries. For the past few… Read more »

For almost two years, hundreds of government school-going children from the communities we work in have had no formal schooling of any kind. With dropping out remaining a huge risk, our work remains more important than ever alongside these children. As an organisation we have never hesitated to work where there are challenges, and our… Read more »

-Penned by Communications Intern Tanay Kagal- Those who face the greatest disadvantages are also at highest risk of being mentally ill. However, accessibility of mental health awareness and treatments is limited for the economically disadvantaged. Ms Geeta Bhansali, workshop facilitator, came up with the project ‘Seeds of Wellbeing’ with the aim of helping people become… Read more »