Amar Seva

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Website URL: http://www.amarsevasamiti.com/
Partnership Status: Partner
Partner Headquarters (City): Jaipur
Partner Headquarters (Country): India
Primary Country of Operation: India
 

Description

Amar Seva is a school that provides education for children of domestic workers, rickshaw pullers and also for children of other poor family. The school also runs evening classes for women, who work during the day. The purpose of the Amar Seva school is to promote literacy by providing poor children and women a quality education and other skills to make them independent. As a grassroots initiative, Amar Seva provides moral, mental and material support to families and children, with the main objective of encouraging all students to develop confidence, self-respect, and a greater ability to contribute back to society. The school is fully registered as a non-profit under the 1958 Society Registration Act 1958.

 

Impact

Amar Seva is a school that provides education for children of domestic workers, rickshaw pullers and also for children of other poor family. The school also runs evening classes for women, who work during the day. The purpose of the Amar Seva school is to promote literacy by providing poor children and women a quality education and other skills to make them independent. As a grassroots initiative, Amar Seva provides moral, mental and material support to families and children, with the main objective of encouraging all students to develop confidence, self-respect, and a greater ability to contribute back to society. The school is fully registered as a non-profit under the 1958 Society Registration Act 1958.

Amar Seva works with rural communities and slum residents in different places of Jaipur, such as Jalalna Kachi Basti and Malviya Nagar. In Surajpole Mandi, they provide education to approximately 50 children, as well as distribute food to approximately 100-125 kids every Sunday. In Galta Gate, Amar Seva teaches approximately 60 children. As part of their core mission, Amar Seva encourages young boys to find sustainable self-employment opportunities, such as selling newspapers in evening and learning skilled crafts. In addition to vocational training, Amar Seva provides cultural activities, sports, and extracurricular in the schools they run.
 

Interactions with Givology

Givology supports the grassroots work of the Amar Seva school, in particular their ability to target the poorest and most vulnerable children and families in the slums.

Students and Projects:

Long Term School Fund for Amarseva
$1000 of $1000 donated

Rajesthan, India

The named scholarship initiative is a chance for families to donate two hundred dollars or more and create a fund in their family name or in the name of a loved one that will help children not only today, but tomorrow. It is at the cutting edge of a new field – sustainable charity. The donated money will be placed into a term deposit (CD) that will run for five years. Each year, the interest earned will help pay for the expenses to run the school. The current project is to fund night classes for teenage boys and girls so they can prepare for some of India’s competitive college entrance exams and hopefully study at a college. The school is currently several mud and brick open aired shacks. The students sit on the floor and there is only one blackboard for 20 or more students. Yet, the students come every day, and the teachers have an almost perfect attendance record. The fact is the students and teachers have the passion, the school just needs financial help to get to the next le...
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