<p>Let’s Do Some Good Foundation (LDSG) was founded in 2013 in Bengaluru with a vision to facilitate and promote collaboration among corporates, civil society organisations, individuals and other stakeholders to provide maximum support to the underprivileged segments of society, while helping fulfil, fully or partially, the social responsibility goals of stakeholders. The idea was to drive social change much faster, deeper and wider by making stakeholders work together and by leveraging synergies through sharing best practices, and growing together. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The motto of the organisation is to run a sustainable education programme that mainstreams out-of-school children and equips them with knowledge and skills that ultimately make them employable. <br /><br />LDSG funds social development projects and facilitates collaboration among different stakeholders who would like to come together to bring about positive social changes in the following areas:<br />*Education and life-skills for underprivileged children<br />*Vocational training and employability<br />*Health, nutrition and sanitation<br />*Women empowerment and livelihood<br /><br />LDSG is the convener of the Bangalore Effective Education Task Force (BEETF) — a voluntary consortium of corporates, civil society organisations, funding agencies, academia, and many interested individuals working in the field of education — which works for the underprivileged children in urban Bengaluru. The flagship education project of LDSG/BEETF is called ‘Bridging Gaps in Education’. The objective of this project is to put every out-of-school child in Bengaluru to school and provide him/her access to holistic, effective education.<br /><br />The long-term goal of this project is to dent the vicious cycle of poverty through education and employment. Through implementation partners, BEETF runs a bridge education programme combining literacy, knowledge and skills for out-of-school children inside government schools, admits them to mainstream schools after a year of bridging, supports them with after school tuition programme, and provides them with grooming and vocational skills through a finishing school. The target group for this project is mainly children of ragpickers, daily wage labourers and migrant labourers living in urban slums.<br /><br />Bringing back school dropouts<br />BEETF is supported by Manipal Foundation, and implemented by Samridhdhi Trust. It works closely with the Karnataka State Education Department through various Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) that allow its implementation partners to run bridge schools inside government school premises and get mid-day meals and other government sponsored facilities for bridge-school students.<br /><br />Substantial progress has been made since the consortium was formed to work on bridging very poor, out-of-school children in the City. BEETF now has more than 60 organisations in its network. Partner organisations collectively run nine bridge school locations and several in-school and after-school interventions in various government and low-cost private schools. In the current academic year, LDSG has impacted more than 3,500 children through its interventions in education, infrastructure, health and hygiene projects. <br /><br />LDSG also works with children from elite schools through its Young Changemakers Programme, wherein the children are encouraged to come up with consequential social projects. They are guided by LDSG mentors. LDSG also offers a summer internship to children from elite schools from India and abroad, where they go through an immersion programme on how the non-profit world works and existing social issues that need immediate attention. During the programme, they also work towards solving issues that resonates most with them. The objective is to develop in the children an understanding of social issues, empathy for those facing these issues, and a desire to make a difference by seeing things from close quarters and experiencing things first-hand. The ultimate goal is to help them become proactive citizens who can help make the world a better place by using their empathy, skill, ability, and interest. <br /><br />In the women empowerment space, LDSG primarily works for the upliftment of underprivileged women through skill-development programmes and creating awareness on health, hygiene and safety. So far, LDSG has impacted the lives of a few hundred underprivileged women through its activities and support of grassroots women empowerment programmes through partner organisations. <br /><br />The founder of the organisation, Shoma Bakre, believes in the power of collective impact and this is successfully demonstrated through the work that the organisation has been able to do through a network of partners. To know more about its endeavours, visit www.ldsg.in.<br /></p>
<p>Let’s Do Some Good Foundation (LDSG) was founded in 2013 in Bengaluru with a vision to facilitate and promote collaboration among corporates, civil society organisations, individuals and other stakeholders to provide maximum support to the underprivileged segments of society, while helping fulfil, fully or partially, the social responsibility goals of stakeholders. The idea was to drive social change much faster, deeper and wider by making stakeholders work together and by leveraging synergies through sharing best practices, and growing together. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The motto of the organisation is to run a sustainable education programme that mainstreams out-of-school children and equips them with knowledge and skills that ultimately make them employable. <br /><br />LDSG funds social development projects and facilitates collaboration among different stakeholders who would like to come together to bring about positive social changes in the following areas:<br />*Education and life-skills for underprivileged children<br />*Vocational training and employability<br />*Health, nutrition and sanitation<br />*Women empowerment and livelihood<br /><br />LDSG is the convener of the Bangalore Effective Education Task Force (BEETF) — a voluntary consortium of corporates, civil society organisations, funding agencies, academia, and many interested individuals working in the field of education — which works for the underprivileged children in urban Bengaluru. The flagship education project of LDSG/BEETF is called ‘Bridging Gaps in Education’. The objective of this project is to put every out-of-school child in Bengaluru to school and provide him/her access to holistic, effective education.<br /><br />The long-term goal of this project is to dent the vicious cycle of poverty through education and employment. Through implementation partners, BEETF runs a bridge education programme combining literacy, knowledge and skills for out-of-school children inside government schools, admits them to mainstream schools after a year of bridging, supports them with after school tuition programme, and provides them with grooming and vocational skills through a finishing school. The target group for this project is mainly children of ragpickers, daily wage labourers and migrant labourers living in urban slums.<br /><br />Bringing back school dropouts<br />BEETF is supported by Manipal Foundation, and implemented by Samridhdhi Trust. It works closely with the Karnataka State Education Department through various Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) that allow its implementation partners to run bridge schools inside government school premises and get mid-day meals and other government sponsored facilities for bridge-school students.<br /><br />Substantial progress has been made since the consortium was formed to work on bridging very poor, out-of-school children in the City. BEETF now has more than 60 organisations in its network. Partner organisations collectively run nine bridge school locations and several in-school and after-school interventions in various government and low-cost private schools. In the current academic year, LDSG has impacted more than 3,500 children through its interventions in education, infrastructure, health and hygiene projects. <br /><br />LDSG also works with children from elite schools through its Young Changemakers Programme, wherein the children are encouraged to come up with consequential social projects. They are guided by LDSG mentors. LDSG also offers a summer internship to children from elite schools from India and abroad, where they go through an immersion programme on how the non-profit world works and existing social issues that need immediate attention. During the programme, they also work towards solving issues that resonates most with them. The objective is to develop in the children an understanding of social issues, empathy for those facing these issues, and a desire to make a difference by seeing things from close quarters and experiencing things first-hand. The ultimate goal is to help them become proactive citizens who can help make the world a better place by using their empathy, skill, ability, and interest. <br /><br />In the women empowerment space, LDSG primarily works for the upliftment of underprivileged women through skill-development programmes and creating awareness on health, hygiene and safety. So far, LDSG has impacted the lives of a few hundred underprivileged women through its activities and support of grassroots women empowerment programmes through partner organisations. <br /><br />The founder of the organisation, Shoma Bakre, believes in the power of collective impact and this is successfully demonstrated through the work that the organisation has been able to do through a network of partners. To know more about its endeavours, visit www.ldsg.in.<br /></p>
