Pathshala and Pathbhavan, Srotoshwini Trust, Vadodara

Our Story

A chronology of events that lead us to where we are today...

Dream to impart "education" to kids who are less privileged
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2013: Birth of the concept of a mobile school (go to the children, don't expect them to come to you): FOOTPATH PATHSHALA
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2014: Beginning of a learning and development center with a library that encourages children in developing extra curricular skills and provides additional academic tutoring: PATHBHAVAN

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2014: Birth of PATHSHALA HOSTEL for 8 kids (now 18) since parents (construction laborers) were going to take them away and the only way to keep them was to provide them a secure place to stay and the infrastructure to do well.
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2014: All the children in the hostel and children doing well in Pathshala were enrolled into a formal school called NAVPRERNA run by Navrachana Education Trust. Currently we have 48 children going to Navprerna after finishing classes at Pathshala.
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2015: Results were astonishing. In a couple of years hostel children started securing among first three positions in their class. Flourished in music, art, theater, sport. Major difference in speed of development between children attending Pathshala for 3 hours and those living in the hostel.
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2015: The idea to extend the hostel model to 100 children took root.
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2016: Acquired land in Lasundra, Savli
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2017: Spent a year visiting government offices multiple times a week to get NA to start construction on the land
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2017: Fundraising from well wishers, corporate CSRs, Srotoshwini's annual performances
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2017: Construction of the hostel started in December 2017. We are more than half way through but haven’t finished raising funds for the completion of the building yet.
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2018: Please reach out to us if you would like to support the completion of our project. We are 80G compliant.

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