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Agastya International
Foundation
Agastya runs the largest hands-on science program in the world!
Tapping the valuable resources of bright but underprivileged children and teachers in rural India, they provide an environment in which they can create, thinker, seek solutions and find them. Agastya encourage inquire from children, who are inquisitive by nature! Help millions of disadvantaged, vulnerable and at-risk children to escape the vicious cycle of ignorance and poverty! Make a donation to support our work!
Agastya is a movement led by entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, teachers and children to revitalize and transform primary and secondary education in India and provide an affordable education model that can be replicated anywhere in the world.
Through interactive high-impact grassroots education, Agastya aims to inspire and catalyze effective and widespread social development, innovation and leadership.
Close to 13.5 million underprivileged children in India are out of school and into child labour in order to earn a single meal in a day. The surest way to break out of the cycle of poverty is through education. Education can significantly improve the quality of life of a family for generations to come. When the basic needs of a child, such as food are not met, education often becomes the last priority.
Akshaya Patra is helping underprivileged children by providing them with a healthy, balanced meal that they would otherwise have to work for. The meal is an incentive for them to continue their education. It helps reduce the dropout rate to an enormous extent and increases classroom attendance.
Akshaya Patra
Shree Kshethra Dharmasthala
The word 'Dharma' traditionally means religion, ritual, duty, righteousness and alms. It also implies justice truthfulness, freedom from fear, faith, solace, fulfillment and peace.
Dharmasthala is the prefect embodiment of the word 'Dharma' for it displays every shade of meaning with which the word is inspired from. The greatness of Dharmasthala, however, is the fact that it has added an active element to 'Dharma,' which touches the lives of people with a transformational directness that is unique. Many institutions are running under the initiative of holly Dharmasthala. SKDRDP is one of its most popular a charitable trust promoted by Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade. SKDRDP concentrates on the empowerment of rural women by organizing Self-help Groups (SHGs) on the lines of Joint Liability Groups (JLBs) of Bangladesh and provides infrastructure and finance through micro credit for the rural people. It is currently engaged in developmental activities in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Coorg, Shimoga, Chickmagalur, Dharwad, Haveri, Gadag, Tumkur and Belgaum districts operating in 8,000 villages covering more than 17,50,000 families.
VRL was founded in 1976 by Mr. Vijay Sankeshwar in Gadag with just a single truck and a bold vision. VRL gradually expanded its services to Bangalore, Hubli and Belgaum. From this humble beginning VRL has today grown into a nationally renowned logistics and transport company which is also currently the largest fleet owner in India with 3673 Vehicles (including 533 tourist buses & 3140 Goods Transport Vehicles) as of August 31, 2013.
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Visvesvaraya Technological University
Established in 1988, VTU is one of the biggest technological universities in India, maintaining affiliations with 208 colleges. With an intake capacity of 67,100, VTU and its affiliated colleges boast 28 undergraduate courses and 71 postgraduate courses. The university is headquartered in Belgaum and has three regional centers located in Bangalore, Gulbarga, and Mysore. At present, VTU has 13 QIP centers and 17 extension centers. Additionally, it has more than 2,305 departments recognized as research centers in different cities throughout Karnataka. The university has signed MOU's with various leading organizations including but not limited to IBM, Intel, Asia Electronics Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Ltd (India) and Microsoft.
Manipal University
In the 58 years of existence, Manipal University has emerged as the leading higher education provider in India. Spread over 600 acres of green expanse, Manipal University is home to 26,000 students pursuing undergraduate and post graduate programs in diverse subjects. The University has a strong alumni network of over 83,000 members.
The University has created an ecosystem of teaching and research excellence making it a universally accepted destination by students. The breadth of disciplines and collaboration among constituent institutions gives unparalleled opportunity to students to cross departmental boundaries and explore different horizons.
Sree Siddaganga Education Society
Sree Siddaganga Education Society, Tumkur was founded by His Holiness Dr. Sree Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamigalu, in the year 1963. Sree Siddaganga Math with a recorded history of 600 years is located at a distance of 63 Km from Bangalore on Bangalore – Pune National Highway. Sree Siddaganga Education Society has established more than 130 schools and colleges mostly in rural areas providing education to nearly 45,000 students. The most difficult and meaningful institution is Siddaganga Gurukula (residential education complex) at Sree Siddaganga Math where more than 9000 poor children are provided with free food, shelter and education without any discrimination of caste, creed or sex. The education complex consists of Pre- primary, Primary, higher Primary, high School, Sanskrit College, a school for the blind and a school for the spastic children.
The head of Sree Siddaganga Math is Dr. Sree Sree Sree Sivakumara Swamiji who was initiated into the holy order in the year 1930. When he assumed full responsibility of the Math in 1941 after his Guruji Sree Sree Uddana Swamiji attained his heavenly abode, the strength of Gurukula was only about 200. There was no educational institution other than the Sanskrit School in Math premises. It is shear hard and devoted work of His Holiness that has brought the Math to its present stature.
