Manav Uthan Sewa Samiti

Manav Utthan Sewa Samiti

Manav Utthan Sewa Samiti, an all-India registered socio-spiritual and charitable organization Area of Intervention Mission Education (ME) aimed at instilling values of honesty/ integrity and character molding among school’s children and the society at large

Key Geography 24 States across India

Need for the initiative

Problem

ME is trying to address the problem by bridging the gap between rich and poor sections of the society through act of voluntarily giving Situation Before A majority of the students dropout even from free schooling facilities, primarily on account of their parents’ inability/ reluctance to afford the recurring expenditure of stationery

Intervention Overview ME - an initiative to provide the stationery to the needy ones with the help of the society having excess of it. ME serves as a medium between affluent to the poor and enables the poor to afford the recurring cost related to education

Steps • Instituted ME at all India level by forming four zonal teams to lead State level teams, which were further lead the Ashram level teams • Ashram level teams placed ‘ME Boxes’ in schools to collect stationery from the children having excess of it No cash/ cheque accepted through ME boxes Collected stationery distributed among the needy ones

Resources Ashram Volunteers for ME and the society at large

Impact and Key Learning

Achieved so far • Benefited 1,89,000 people across 24 states so far

Initiated ‘School on Wheels’ to enable poor children to study at their own place Established linkages between the rich and the deprived Helped in the character development of the children

Key Learning Pooled resource found to be the best way to distribute individually to the beneficiaries