StudyFin- Financial support to reduce school dropouts in Maharashtra

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At Thinksharp Foundation, we are successfully running project StudyMall in 28 villages in 28 rural schools across Maharashtra,India . Through StudyMall we are helping approximately 5000 rural children by providing them books,digital learning and other better educational infrastructure. While working in rural areas, we closely observed lack of financial resource is one of the critical reason for discontinuing education. One of the major cause of dropouts in secondary schools in rural areas, is lack of financial support. This led us to launch our  new project "StudyFin". StudyFin project supports to financially disadvantaged children to pursue secondary education (9th to 12th Std) and vocational education. Special emphasis is for the girls who cannot pursue or have dropped out of the school due to financial constraints. This will help rural children for completion…
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TISS AESDII CSR conclave 2018

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Our founder Santosh Phad attended TISS AESDII CSR Conclave on 21 May 2018 at Mumbai.Many inputs and guidance from  Mr.Nadir Godrej (MD ,Godrej Industries Ltd), Ms.Shweta Shalini ED, Village Social Transformation Foundation , Mr.Batliwala (Financial Adviser, TISS ) Mr.Rohan Sarma (Head TISS AESDII), Mr.Balasubramaniam (Founder, GRAAM) was received and we had an opportunity to meet many corporate CSR partners who were present for this 3 days event. TISS AESDII (TISS Assessment & Empanelment Standards for Development Institutions in India) is an conference/event that was held between May 21 and 23, 2018, at Tata Institute Of Social Sciences.The TISS AESDII is an initiative to create a model to evaluate, assess, accredit and build capacities of Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) and Social Sector Organisations (SSOs) through robust multi-layered processes that stress adherence to several parameters, a…
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26th StudyMall Launched at village Ambivali, Dist Raigad

26th StudyMall Launched at village Ambivali, Dist Raigad

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Santosh Phad as panelist for MUNIJAN 2018 organised by Mumbai University

Santosh Phad as panelist for MUNIJAN 2018 organised by Mumbai University

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On 02 Oct 2018, Our Founder Mr.Santosh phad was panelist at most esteemed  "MUNIJAN 2018", social initiative organised by Mumbai University on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti at Mumbai University Fort campus. Initiative was to promote social entrepreneurship to bring social innovation /ideas to save environment. Students from various management institutes from Mumbai presented their ideas. Students were very professional,passionate  about creating healthy environment.  It was wonderful intracting with Dr.Smita Shukla (Director ADMI, Mumbai) and Dr.Kavita Laghate (Director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai) and  Prof.Abhiraj Shivdas from Mumbai University.  MUNIJAN is an initiative taken by the University of Mumbai to embrace the core values of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri.   It was fully packed summit with attendees such as numerous esteemed educationists from schools, institutes,…
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16th StudyMall launched at Z.P School, Poshir, Tq.Karjat, Dist.Raigad

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Thinksharp Foundation is growing and reaching more and more villages to help rural children by providing them better educational infrastructure. On 18 April 2018  we met another milestone, we launched 16th StudyMall at Z.P School, Poshir, Tq.Karjat, Dist.Raigad With this StudyMall we are reaching now 4000+ rural children and more than 100 teachers in our StudyMall schools. This Project was sponsored through our CSR  (Corporate Social Responsibility) partnership with Endurance International Group, a renowned Technology company (More details - https://india.endurance.com/about-us/)  [caption id="attachment_641" align="aligncenter" width="840"] A Digital Class-StudyMall with projector being displayed.[/caption] This project was mainly possible due to support from all our donors, funders, supporters, local teachers, parents and villagers .We thank especially our local supporter and volunteer Mr.Ravi Paste Sir who himself is full time Teacher but is helping us in reaching…
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15th StudyMall launched at Z.P school , Mahalgaon, Tq.Vaijapur, Dist.Aurangabad

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Thinksharp Foundation is growing and reaching more and more villages to help rural children by providing them better educational infrastructure. On 17 April 2018  we met another milestone, we launched 15th StudyMall at Z.P school , Mahalgaon, Tq.Vaijapur, Dist.Auranagabad.  With this StudyMall we are reaching now 4000+ rural children and more than 100 teachers in our StudyMall schools. This Project was sponsored through our CSR  (Corporate Social Responsibility) partnership with Endurance International Group, a renowned Technology company (More details - https://india.endurance.com/about-us/)  [caption id="attachment_635" align="aligncenter" width="840"] Team Thinksharp Foundation with all the dignitaries and guest for the StudyMall Launch Ceremony.[/caption] This project was mainly possible due to support from all our donors, funders, supporters, local teachers, parents and villagers . This StudyMall  will be providing  these 218 and many more other children from…
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11th StudyMall launched at Z.P.school Aswalamba village, Dist beed

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Thinksharp Foundation is growing and reaching more and more villages to help rural children by providing them better educational infrastructure. On 23 Dec 2017 we met another milestone, we launched 12th StudyMall at Z.P.School Aswalamba, Tq-Parali Vaijnath, Dist Beed. This project was mainly possible due to support from all our donors, funders, supporters, local teachers, parents villagers and specially because of our team member Mr.Nitin Dhakne. You can catch glimpses of opening ceremony and StudyMall at our facebook page-https://www.facebook.com/pg/ThinkSharpFoundation/photos/?tab=album&album_id=966159173523299 This will help primary students from 1st to 7th std of marathi medium i.e total  175+ village children 8+ teachers in learning and teaching in better way as StudyMall  will be providing them digital learning and library plus arts,crafts and other educational infrastructure.  Aswalamba  is a  small villages located in Taluqa…
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Independence day Celebrations at Balpan English School Village Panodi, Ahmednagar

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On 15 Aug 2017 we celebrated our 70th Independence Day in India. We were also part of the celebrations at Balpan School, Village Panodi, Dist Ahmednagar. We are very humbled and honored to had chance to celebrate this important day where our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad was invited to be chief Guest of Honor. I was very fortunate to join him too. Balpan english school in Panodi Village is set up Mr and Mrs Munde with a sole aim of providing quality education and English language syllabus for the village students. In villages it is really a daunting task for parent to send them children to schools located at Taluqa or District place for better and English medium education. This leads to financial implications for family, health implications for children due…
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Success story of SSC student of StudyMall Surungali village

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The most satisfying thing is giving back without expecting returns and appreciations. But we all are humans and we do love appreciations and we love to know what and how our help did better for the person we helped. To all our supporters who believed in helping rural children read,learn and play better by supporting our project StudyMall , we would like to tell " YES YOUR SUPPORT IS INDEED CHANGING RURAL CHILDREN'S LIVES". Well we can't quantify each and every way rural children are getting benefited by StudyMall, but we can surely update you on few measurable impact that occurred recently. You  are now helping five villages  (June 2017, to know exact locations of project click here http://www.thinksharpfoundation.org/#/projects/study-mall) and that is around more than 3000 rural children. You are responsible for providing…
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Poshir (Dist-Raigad)-Upcoming StudyMall project-Digital class

Poshir (Dist-Raigad)-Upcoming StudyMall project-Digital class

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Thinksharp Foundation team is helping 5 villages and approx more than 3000 rural children by providing  better rural educational infrastructure  through 5 StudyMall projects as of Aug 2017. Our aim is to put one village one StudyMall throughout India. As we are progressing we are getting lot of inquiries to establish StudyMall from lot of villages . While we would love to help and set up StudyMall in each and every village that approaches us, however due to funds and operational challenges we prioritize villages. Thinksharp foundation team has decided to help 10 villages in this financial year (preferably by Dec 2017). Out of this 10 villages one is Village Poshir, Tq-karjat, Dist- Raigad which will have Digital class under StudyMall project.This is a small village close to Neral. Thinksharp Foundation…
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