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SARTHAK FOUNDATION

  9984031039
  www.sarthakfoundation.org
  achintya.yellowrooms@gmail.com
Sarthak Foundation was founded on the belief that no child should be left behind due to economic and social disadvantages. With a vision of nurturing Happy Empowered Children, Sarthak Foundation aims to make children self-sustainable through education, socio-emotional strengthening, and skill development, enabling them to break free from poverty. Sarthak Foundation is a non-profit that works to tackle abject poverty and hunger in the state of Uttar Pradesh, one of the poorest and most populated states of India, by offering education and social-emotional well-being to very marginalized children. Sarthak works in urban slums/squatter settlements/shanty towns and rural poor areas and uses its three projects - Yellow Rooms, Yellow SLATEs, and Sarthak Gurukul for long-term, deep, and immersive interventions that have life-altering impacts on the lives of the children and their communities. What started with Kshama Teaching 6 Children under a Tree is today an organized, data-centric, and well-managed non-profit running three long-term, deep, immersive, and impactful projects transforming more than 8100+ children’s lives directly and 32,000+ people’s indirectly. Sarthak runs 29 Yellow Rooms slum interventions, 8 Yellow SLATEs government school interventions, and 1 Sarthak Gurukul rural model school.

Appeal

Sarthak reaches out to children from marginalized communities of Uttar Pradesh. The environment for these children is often unhealthy, characterized by domestic violence and abuse. Lacking positive role models and exposure to the outside world, their life outlook is constrained. Inadequate healthcare and hygiene exacerbate their vulnerability, leading to poor health outcomes.
The purpose is to provide them with an environment fostering their socio-emotional and physical well-being to turn children into sensitive, educated, responsible, and healthy youth with a strong emotional quotient.

The funds we raise will be used to educate and strengthen the socio-emotional well-being of children from slums and villages. This includes:

- Regular sessions on linguistic, scientific, and mathematical skills
- Regular sessions on arts and crafts
- Regular sessions on technology and general awareness
- Indoor and outdoor games and yoga sessions
- Distribution of nutritious food
- Access to safe and clean drinking water
- Distribution of shoes, socks, uniforms, bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, and stationery
- Counseling, outdoor events, and workshops

By addressing these needs, we aim to create a nurturing environment that supports their overall development and well-being.

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Fund Utilization in 2024

Total funds raised in 2024 - INR 63500
Project NameYellow Rooms
Amount Utilized (INR)63500
Project DescriptionSocial-emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. Sarthak SEPEt elements aim to shape these children into adults who can apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Our SEPEt (Socio-Emotional Physical Ethical Wellbeing) program, based on designs from Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers, assesses and evaluates these essential elements integral to children's growth.
As part of the SEPEt program activities and sessions were conducted in our Yellow Rooms:
Indoor games and regular yoga of children across all the batches.
Distribution of stationery, books, notebooks, bags.
Clean and safe drinking water for all.
LocationsLucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP),Lucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP)
CausesEducation > STEM,Education > Digital Learning,Education > STEM,Education > Digital Learning
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary DescriptionThrough its projects, the Sarthak Foundation reaches out to more than 6000 beneficiaries, 56% of these beneficiaries are girls, who are the most vulnerable to dropping out of education. It caters to children from the age of 3 to 21. Most families in these communities belong to SC, ST, OBC, and other minority groups, residing in semi-permanent houses or colonies. Many are migrants from various districts of Uttar Pradesh and some even from other states of India. The men typically work as daily wage laborers, sweepers, petty shopkeepers, or farm workers, while the women primarily engage in household chores. The areas they live in lack opportunities and have poor living conditions, making daily life a struggle. Before the intervention of Yellow Rooms, children were largely unmotivated to attend school, even if they were enrolled in a nearby institution. The lack of infrastructure, social and economic hardships, and over-crowded Primary and Upper Primary Govt. schools contributed to low school attendance and poor learning levels for these children.
ImpactWe currently have 29 Yellow Rooms, 8 Yellow SLATEs, and 1 Gurukul, serving over 6,000 direct beneficiaries, including children and youth aged 3 to 21. Among our beneficiaries, 56% are girls. A total of 56 children have completed K-12 formal education, 33 are in college and doing internships, and 23 are in full-time jobs.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Indoor games and regular yoga of children across all the batches. 100
2 Clean and safe drinking water for all. 100
3 Distribution of stationery, books, notebooks, bags. 100

Fund Utilization in 2023

Total funds raised in 2023 - INR 34500
Project NameSarthak Yellow Rooms
Amount Utilized (INR)34500
Project DescriptionYellow Room is a long term, in-depth and immersive intervention that aims to turn children from very marginalized backgrounds into complete and well-rounded human beings by taking education and emotional and physical wellness to their doorsteps.
Yellow Rooms as not just centres where a child could go to get a free class but as permanent safe spaces right in the middle of their SEDG communities. Yellow Rooms are open 6 days a week, all year round and each child in the slum spends 3 to 4 hours every day in the Yellow Rooms. The Yellow Rooms are completely free of cost for the children and the community. The Sarthak Yellow Rooms not only run classes for Science, Maths and English, but they also put equal stress on health, hygiene, industry exposure, nutrition, gender awareness and gender equality, general knowledge, communication and etiquette. The Yellow Rooms also undertake community outreach and parent counselling activities and establish long-lasting roots in the slums. By taking education and emotional wellness to their doorsteps we actually become part of the community.
LocationsLucknow > Uttar Pradesh (UP)
CausesEducation > Early childhood learning,Education > Value education,Education > Education scholarships,Education > STEM
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary DescriptionWith a vision to have Happy Empowered Children, Sarthak Foundation reaches out to children between the ages of 3 and 21 years belonging to Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDG) and impacts their lives through education, skills and value-based life. Each Yellow Room reaches out to around 100 children. Currently Sarthak Yellow Rooms impact the lives of 2300+ children. Of these 56% beneficiaries are girl. Funds Received from TMM and UWM have been used to conduct exposure activities and stationery distributions for one Yellow Rooms (set of 2 rooms) , thus serving around 100 beneficiaries.
ImpactYellow Rooms are Happy Safe Spaces for more than 2300 children living in slums and villages of U.P. This long-term intervention yields deep-rooted impact. With a decade of dedicated service, Sarthak Foundation is committed to effecting social and economic transformation through the powerful tool of education.

Every year we conduct an Impact Assessment to evaluate the impact of our intervention and to make an informed decision about the curriculum and pedagogy that needs to be instituted in the forthcoming academic year. On conducting a multi-layered Impact Assessment for FY 2022-23, the following impacts were observed:
Good attendance score in schools and Yellow Rooms.
Maintenance of the learning levels of children, with an average performance of 60%. Girls outperformed boys.
Continuation of education- 100% girls continued education.
Acquisition of basic computer skills.
Children’s sensitisation on gender, sports and nutrition improved substantially.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Workshops, Exposure Activities and Trainings for Yellow Rooms Children 100
2 Stationery & Educational Items for Yellow Room Children 100
3 Running Programme Expenses ( Yellow Room rent + salaries) 2


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