“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

Children of any country are the key to its future and the quality of education they are imparted with defines how secured that future is, as education plays a crucial for the development of children. For a country like India where the demographic dividend is among highest in the world with its peaking young population, this need for education is further underscored; but the education statistics of India do not indicate a rosy picture. As per a 2012 report by the government of India, more than 8 million children have never been to schools while more than 50% of those enrolled in schools do not complete their school education.

Appa Foundation is working towards bridging this gap by doing its bit for educating the underprivileged and orphan children. Our underlying belief is that if we help one child in receiving quality education, that child would help others thus propagating our work and bringing good to the society. The task of educating every underprivileged child cannot be achieved by one individual or one organization, but we believe that the work we have started is a very small step and several such small steps will lead this change.

Goal

Appa Foundation is working towards the goal of achieving quality education for every underprivileged and orphaned child and to serve towards this cause, the organization has planned to start an educational institute where such children would be given free education along with different activities and programs which can help in overall development of children and in making them responsible citizens.

Objectives

Achievement of the aforesaid goal involves working towards a set of objectives which have also been highlighted in some of the studies on children as the needs of the hour. These objectives are:

• Providing quality education to the underprivileged children & orphans
• Promoting awareness towards a sound health among the children
• Facilitating vocational training to the children to reduce their skill gap which will help them in either getting employed or start their own enterprise
• Promoting moral education among children so as to make them responsible citizens
• Educating children about the importance of a clean environment and its benefits
• Promoting rural development activities in the localities surrounding the area of our education intervention