LightUp Lives Early Ed for 75Marginalized Children

Greetings to you and your family members, from team Freedom For You

Thanks to your generous donations for giving early education to rag-pickers/daily labourers children, we could collect  USD2841 till date as against target of USD7500. We are confident of raising the balance funds through your generous support and request you to champion our CAUSE, "LightUp Lives - Provide Early Edcn for 75 marginalized children" ;

To speed up the donations for this project, since the academic year has already started, we are having  discussions with a few large HNIs/corporate to fund the shortfall in the project. We are hopeful we shall be able to conclude this discussion favorably in the next 4 weeks since it has become imperative now to complete the said project as soon as possible.

Monthly recurring donations always help smaller projects like that of ours with monthly expense budget for meeting the operational overheads. WE WISH YOU to contribute smaller amounts in recurring monthly donations.

Despite the onset of severe early monsoon rains, we could construct a brand new spacious play school in our existing Child Learning Center “Bal Niketan Vidyalaya”in the slums of Rabale, Navi Mumbai, and readied it early this week for part occupation; Now we can boast of two large spacious rooms, each of approx. 20 x 20 sq ft, instead of a small room used by us in the last 2 years, that accommodated all our tinytots in a single class. Now we can segregate these children in two different age groups of 2-3 years and 4-5 years and engage them separately as per their age group and development.

You would be happy to know that we have introduced for the first time play school uniform, shoes, school bag, tiffin box etc, in a formal way only in this academic year, unlike the last 2 years where funds crunch constrained us to spend the limited resources on mid-day meals/staff salaries etc rather than on upkeep expenses. Thanks to GlobalGiving and donors like you, who stood by us in fulfilling our wishes for these marginalized tiny tots. We would be distributing these items FREE of any charge, wrapped inside a school bag to all these children immediately after the interiors/furniture work going on now.

We are also proud to mention that the senior boys and girls of over 5/6 years age-group from the last academic year, have been successfully placed in Class 1, in a neighboring school in the current academic year.

Freedom For You, is very happy and proud to inform you that we have received the most prestigious Champion Level PLATINUM Seal Certification last week from GUIDESTAR INDIA and this is valid upto March 2018. This signifies ‘adoption of comprehensive Transparency, Acountability, Good Governance procedures by our NGO, with exemplary level of public disclosure’. This is the third consecutive year we have received this certification since inception of these awards by GuideStar India. Only 14 NGOs in India have received this prestigious PLATINUM certification, till date.

In the last report we had informed you all that we were awarded "BEST SOCIAL ORGANIZATION-2017 in Navi Mumbai on May 1, 2017, and in addition we are recipients of two badges from GlobalGiving for distinguished achievement during 2016, namely, GlobalGiving "TOP RANKED" Organization -2016 & GlobalGiving "VETTED" organization – 2016.

These awards/recognitions/certificates etc strengthens our belief in our mission, systems and processes and are a passion-booster to not only our staff but also to all our esteemed stake-holders/ associates, primarily donors like you who have supported our CAUSE.

Our Humble Appeal....... from team Freedom For You!!

Be our 'Champion' and promote our CAUSE with your like-minded friends and relatives; Your generous contributions for this noble project can be made here.

We are all successful professionals in our respective domains ONLY because we received the most crucial early education at the right time followed by specialization in our areas of interest. Don’t you like these marginalized children too to get ‘Early Education’ ?

Please do click on the link above to support, donate and bring in ‘light in the lives of these 2-5 years tiny-tots’ by providing the most crucial early education.

Every contribution and support, big or small, are very valuable for us.

Thanks for your generous support & cooperation, looking forward to your continuous patronage !!