Aims and Objectives
Education plays a key role in the progress of a nation. A new approach to education is the need of hour. In this, we need to identify non-conventional methods of teaching which will benefit children and thereby benefit the nation. It was this motivation which led a group of MSW students and likeminded volunteers to register “Sparsha Trust” in the year 2005. - Eradication of child labour - To ensure that children aren’t deprived of their childhood and are allowed to realize their latent potential.
- Helping children enjoy their constitutional rights.
- Providing quality education for children who are deprived of the same.
- Empowerment of street girl children and women by giving them education and skill-oriented training.
- Providing Job-oriented skills to rural youth (locally in their villages and also to the place of their migration).
- Providing impetus to rural and home industry for making villages self-sufficient.
- Helping villages preserve their cultural and historical identity.
- Catalyzing implementation of government schemes by ensuring community participation and to act as a bridge between government and rural communities to ensure efficient execution
- Ensuring efficient implementation of schemes related to community health.
- Promoting organic farming based on traditional methods integrating the same with cattle rearing.
- Spread of awareness regarding environmental issues and challenges.
Key People Involved
D.S Krishna - President
R Gopinath - Managing Trustee
K.N Chitra - Administrator
The Sparsha Story...
Mr.Gopinath hails from a remote drought area of Kolar region. He started this organization with the support of his friends who were also his classmates in an MSW (Masters in Social Work) programme. His hardship from his childhood days, motivated him to start this organization. His experiences as a child were very trying and difficult - he was bonded as child labour at the young age of 7. With no opportunity to join the school, yet the desire, he went to live with his father when he was 12. His father abandoned their family, leaving his step mother to his son's responsibilities. She, however, gracefully held his hand and took him to be admitted at a near by school. His life completely changed from here on and built up the desire in him to reach for the sky. He was forced to do part time job with his father after the school hours.
While he was living in a slum area near NGF, he came across many children who had the desire to go to school but poverty and other reasons held them back. This was a key factor in his wish to pursue higher education in Social Development. He has been lucky to get like minded friends who are interested in bringing about revolutionary changes in the education field.
Gopi and team registered as a trust under the 1996 Trust Act, in the year 2005 under the name Sparsha Trust, (a Healing Touch). The support of his mother and friends inspires the name "Sparsha". As a pilot, from 2006 to 2009, Sparsha trust voluntarily organized health camps, conducted tuition classes for poor students in slums and informal weekend classes for school drop out children. All these experiences helped the Sparsha Team to initiate a full fledged programmes like Makkala Dhama, Shikshana Mitra and Crèches with having a vision of equal and quality education to all.
Other board members work in other fields and they continue to support Sparsha by contributing ideas, financial assistance and many in many other ways.