SAHAS

SAHAS India, a social development grassroots organisation was initiated in 1995 by a small group of like minded professionals who envisioned integrating the underprivileged children with their privileged counterparts; beginning with primary education as a milestone. A unique project in its time, it conceptualized a development model based not on conventional ‘grant in aid’, but instead on Local Area Networking and Resource Donation. All the requirements of the organization were furnished by seeking support from the people of that locality, building a community of well-wishers and supporters. 

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With ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ as the ethos of the organization, SAHAS India over the last 27 years has shown that voluntary participation of people in the community at large can be the best way of promoting inclusion among people of different walks of life and enable and empower marginalized communities to live a life with dignity. 

What started with founder Sunita Palita’s mission to provide equal access quality education to underprivileged children from socio-economically marginalised families and integrating them into mainstream education systems soon blossomed into the vision of ‘empowering families’ to become self-reliant through meaningful livelihood.  SAHAS India's mission on empowering children through education and women through self-employment, has led to an overall enabling of underprivileged families towards self-reliance. Over the last twenty-seven years over 500 families have benefited from these efforts - including their children’s education on 100% freeship, from premier public schools of Delhi - thus creating a paradigm shift in their socio-economic reality - a step in the direction of a more equal and just world.