About us

With a passion for education we as group of friends started visiting rural schools & conducting various workshops from 2014.

Our first complete school kits were dispatched to Hemalkasa School & Karjat zp school in 2014-15.

School kits are special & novel for rural children & we assemble it with our own hands & in our group of friends & well-wishers.

Student’s happy faces & encouraging response from teachers & parents made us traverse more on this enriching path & finally Saksham foundation was formed officially on 1, May 2019 to do something more sustainable & concrete.

And since inception there has been no pause in our work & we continue to strive to support education & medical needs.

We believe if children are engaged & excited to participate in classroom activities their learning outcomes show drastic improvement.

Glimpses of our work in Education: 2020

  • In spite of the pandemic we kept our engagement with our ZP school pocket & students by completing most important projects like ‘Complete school kits’ for 850 students for entire Gorhe school cluster (17 schools).
  • We initiated ‘new smartphones’ drive for ZP Gorhe main school, Taluka wada  so deserving students remain connected & managed to give 15 New Smart phones which students will use in groups & teachers will monitor the same.
Contribution towards the needy:
During the Panademic in 2020, we fully supported Punyakarma foundation (a registered NGO) & supported to provide food to hundreds of migrants. Daily consistently for over 2 months.

Glimpses of our work in Education: 2021

  • Computers & study material to Navghar Safhale ZP School.
  • Complete restoration of toilet block at Mangaon School, Karjat
  • Continuous Medical drive during second wave of Panademic May – Early July 21.
  • Supported 6 charitable Covid care centres with lifesaving medicines.
  • -Nesco covid care centre by giving an important required medicine ‘Fabipiravir 800 mg’, important intravenous ‘Meropenem’ at Nesco covid care centre.
  • Safhale , Kelve & Palghar Covid care centre we supported with all basic medicines required (inc Fabipiravir) , N95 masks , Oxymeters , Gloves , Santisiers etc.
  • So far we have supported 6.50 lakhs worth of medicines & plan to support further post assessing the real needs.
  • On a different note to spread positivity we felicitated 110 Nurses on International Nurses Day at Nesco centre, it struck a great emotional chord.
  • As schools resume this academic year we refocused with teachers to keep students motivated by giving school kits in even remote areas like jawahar , online educational material to schools in navghar safhale to bring back students to education.
  • With all of these activities our online programs for betterment in community & counselling for students continues parallely.

OUR TEAM


Sugam Kulkarni
(Founder)


Pratiksha Thakur


Utpal Tipnis


Sanjay Chitale


Swati Telang