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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20th StudyMall Launched at Ghore Budruk village,District Pune

20th StudyMall Launched at Ghore Budruk village,District Pune

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23rd and 24th StudyMall launched in Mirwat and Kasarwadi Village of District Beed

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25th StudyMall launched at Gangakhed, Dist Parbhani

25th StudyMall launched at Gangakhed, Dist Parbhani

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Thinksharp Foundation is growing, we are now helping around 5000 rural children in 30 villages of Maharashtra through 28 Studymall projects running in rural schools. We are excited to share a detailed story about one of our Projects, "25th StudyMall" that was launched on 22 Oct 2018 at Sant.Janabai school,Gangakhed taluka,District Parbhani in Marathwada region. In first phase we set up Digital Class and Library which will help more than 818 children from 1st to 12th Std. Our chief guests were education experts,teachers,Sarpanch and parents. In the first phase we launched Digital Class and Library in both schools. Gangakhed is village with approximate total population of 55000.  Sant.Janabai school of this  village is from 01 to 12 std and is Marathi medium school.The total students in this school are 515, 480…
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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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Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad selected in top 100 social entrepreneurs in India by Action For India !

Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad selected in top 100 social entrepreneurs in India by Action For India !

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Our Founder Mr.Santosh Phad has been selected in top 100 social entrepreneurs by Action For India, AFI Forum 2018 powered by LetsEndorse, the forum was held at  Imaginarium, AliGunjan, Alibhag, Maharashtra from 3rd Oct 2018  to 05 oct 2018. The AFI Forum is the annual flagship event of Action For India, bringing 100 hand-picked social innovators together with influencers, Corporate CSR partners, Bureaucrats, Policy Makers, and impact investors to help those entrepreneurs scale their organizations. The Forum aims to benefit social entrepreneurs working in the following six sectors – agriculture, education, energy, healthcare, financial inclusion and livelihoods. It was great platform to share with other fellow social entrepreneurs and know their innovative solutions to solve social problems. Main attraction was insight from Mr.Sam Pitroda through video conference from Chicago. Our…
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14th StudyMall launched at Z.P.school Gajanan Nagar,Tq Sillod,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 16 April 2018  we met another milestone, we launched 14th StudyMall at Z.P.school Gajanan Nagar,Nillod Village,Tq Sillod,Dist Aurangabad.  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_620" align="aligncenter" width="840"] Digital Class room at the StudyMall[/caption] This project was mainly possible due to support from all our donors, funders, supporters, local teachers, parents villagers . This StudyMall  will be providing  these 35 school students and many more other children from this Village -  a chance to read…
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13th StudyMall launched at Z.P school , Rumhana, Tq Sindekhedraja, Dist.Buldhana

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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 14 April 2018  we met another milestone, we launched 13th StudyMall at Z.P school , Rumhana, Tq Sindekhedraja, Dist.Buldhana.  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_609" align="aligncenter" width="840"] Children from the School posing for picture in there new "StudyMall" classroom.[/caption] This project was mainly possible due to support from all our donors, funders, supporters, local teachers, parents villagers and specially because of our mentor and supporter Mr.Chate Sir who is reputed Government officer himself…
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7th StudyMall launched at Village Panodi, Dist Ahemdnagar

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We are very happy to share that our 7th  StudyMall Project was launched on 02 Dec 2017 at Balpan English School. On occasion of the opening ceremony a science exhibition was also presented by  150+ school's talented little scientists . Children made windmill, sound and air properties, volcano eruption, rainbow formation, motor driven boat, sprinkler irrigation, ATM machine, Hydraulic lift etc as part of science exhibition. To know more click the link to see exclusive pictures of this event on our Facebook page album. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.955111167961433.1073741835.181244028681488&type=1&l=fd30796769  This  School is started by a very dynamic couple and social entrepreneurs themselves Mr and Mrs Munde. They both have two talented children Pratik and Varad,  and they realized  they had to send there eldest Son Pratik to a town place to study in English medium.…
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