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Shaishav envisions the creation of a society where each child achieves the potential she or he is born with, becomes independent, and contributes to the holistic and sustainable development of a world that is just, peaceful, and humane. We believe that all children should enjoy basic rights and experience the joys of childhood equally; that all children should become productive, socially sensitive, and democratically skilled citizens. Shaishav strives to: Ensure that all children achieve the basic right to free and compulsory education Create a child centred environment and provide opportunities where children and youth can realise their basic rights Develop learning resources for children and make them available to all those who can influence children's holistic development

Bangalore Rural Educational and Development Society (BREADS) is a non-governmental organization committed to sustainable development. Founded in the year 1993, it is dedicated to the empowerment of the marginalized poor in Kerala and Karnataka State of India irrespective of their caste, creed, gender or political affiliations. BREADS works through the Partners (Don Bosco Development Offices) working at grass root level. BREADS is more involved in policy matters, Capacity building, fundraising and collaborating with the government and non-government funding agencies, while the development partners concentrates on the implementation of the program, its management and monitoring. Over the past 19 years, BREADS has maintained a strong donor base of supporters, a consistent network of thousands of volunteers, development organizations, developmental and technical professionals and hundreds of grassroots level people's organizations actively involved in the development process. BREADS stands for sustainable community development and development of the youths and children by addressing the basic individual and community needs of the marginalized on a long-term basis. Ever since its origin, BREADS has been in the forefront to fight poverty by assisting the poor to enhance their education and skills to find livelihood and sustainable living conditions. Over the years it has helped more than 75000 youths, children and women through various programs/projects and has been actively involved in community initiatives.

Mission Our mission is to bring about unity within the poorest section of the society to build up human and material resources and to enhancement of social capital through forming people's organisations by establishing good rapport with people, organising women, children, landless labourers, etc of the poorest of the poor communities into associations/federations. Objectives Organising different Community Based Organisations (women, children, and landless labourers of plains and Tribal) into association at village level and cluster (block) level. Propagation and promotion of Environmental education. Capacity building of women, children, youth and landless labourers to actively participate in the development of their own village. Disseminate necessary information on Nature through seminars, Cultural Melas and campaigns. Net working with other like minded NGO's in order to expand and to propagate our approaches as well as to learn from them. Strategies. Advocacy and lobbying . Networking . Formation of People based Groups . Philosophy BOSS NGO believes in people's strength and capacity to facilitate their own process of development. It respects people's knowledge. Hence BOSS NGO approaches begin with people and end with people.

Vision: One day all children will attain an excellent education. Mission: Create a movement of lifelong leaders working from within various sectors to eliminate educational inequity in the country.

To enable health professionals, institutions, patients and health consumers working in the health care sector, to obtain the best evidence from systematic research, in order to ensure accurate delivery and availability of optimal health care services.

The mission of OBLF is to bring basic English comprehension and Computer skills to children attending the mass schooling system in India, to provide them an equal opportunity to gain meaningful employment on reaching adulthood. The foundation works as a partner to the state government and adopts state run/public elementary schools in India. In a country with a billion plus population about 70% of 200 million children who are in elementary schools attend public schools. Reports have told us year on year about the massive learning deficit in the public schooling system. Some of the issues this system is plagued with are poor content, teacher absenteeism, learning by rote and very poor teacher ratios. The foundation uses the existing infrastructure of public schools mainly in remote rural areas. The children in the adopted schools are divided into levels/groups based on their English skills (and not according to age). The foundation has designed its own child friendly syllabi for each level and uses laptops and tablets (technologies these children have never been exposed to) and other fun filled teaching techniques to teach. The foundation's strategy is to train and employ semi-educated rural women on a part time basis (this doesn't disturb the rural ethos) to teach in the adopted schools. These women whom we call coordinators are mainly homemakers and live in the rural communities where the adopted schools are. Every adopted school has several children divided into three levels (Junior, Middle and Senior), a few coordinators to do the teaching and urban volunteers who take ownership of the school and mentor the coordinators and supervise the work being done in the school. Children undergo baseline assessments at the beginning of the school year and then another assessment at the end of an academic year. We also assess a small number of children who attend the schools but are not in the foundation's School Adoption Program. Children who are in the program have consistently performed way better than the ones in the control group.

- To help Auroville - an idealistic city dedicated to Human Unity - achieve its goals. - To enhance communication amongst people from 50+ nations living in Auroville and of this expatriate population with the local community. - To enhance both multi-language skills and human potential within Auroville and the villages surrounding it. - To create materials and provide services to make language learning fun and enjoyable. - To help those affected by autism, developmental delays, learning disorders, depression, stress, lack of self-confidence, ADD and ADHD, etc., using Audio Psycho Phonology (the Alfred Tomatis method). - To be an international training center in Audio Psycho Phonology with a special focus on India, to train committed practitioners to spread the method without any compromise in its quality, so it can reach thousands who need it. - To collaborate with different research organizations and medical institutions within India to prove the efficacity of the Alfred Tomatis method for different applications. - With its new building, to be an example of both sustainable and healthy architecture and to be a model for institutional buildings in all tropical coastal areas, of construction to combat climate change.

To promote continuous self-improvement in the quality of lives of the villagers by generating their own leadership in solving their problems and by creating opportunities at their doorsteps for utilising their resources most efficiently

AERF's mission is to achieve conservation on the ground through research and multi-stakeholder participation in the biodiversity hotspot of India

Our mission is to lift suffering from the Animal Realm. The core of our work is demonstrative love. Stroking, hugging, kissing, reassuring. Our belief is that deep healing will only take place if an animal feels secure, cared for, and loved. We will treat any animal in need. Large. Small. Wild. Domestic. (including birds and reptiles)........To accomplish that mission we have a staff of eighteen, including two full time veterinary doctors.

To address developmental needs in children through games, toys and play

SPHOORTI is a non-profit organization working for underprivileged children - orphaned, abandoned, destitute and other vulnerable groups. Our mission is to change lives of such children - by providing them with long-term care. This includes basic needs, education and healthcare, and skills necessary to transform them into responsible citizens. We are based in Hyderabad and have three Childrens' Homes (all in the same locality) - two for boys and one for girls. We also have a separate facility for cooking and dining. The total strength of children in our premises is 200.