Purkal Village
Dehradun, Uttaranchal
0135 6452320
Contact: G K Swamy ( Chief Functionary )
Mobile Number: 9837337660
E-mail: purkalsociety@hotmail.com
Website: www.purkal.org
Activities:
Purkal Youth Development Society is an NGO working in Dehradun district of Uttaranchal with the following objectives.
Provision of free but excellent education to very poor bright students began in 1998. Sponsors funded formal education in local English Medium School. The numbers of children swelled and is 284 by March 2013. We now manage a Board affiliated school.
The Society registered in 2003. We progressively provided free transport, uniforms, books and then comprehensive nutrition and finally guaranteed medical support to all children. With improved instruction, the grades at school improved impressively. The school operated out of a house initially, used cattle sheds and garages and finally moved into our custom built campus in December 2006.This campus has regular labs for the Sciences, a library, computer instruction facility apart from Yoga Hall, Playgrounds etc. A Pre-school was added in 2009 with 45 children and we also have an ‘On to Life’ Project for supporting children beyond our school into professional programmes. We are fully dependent on charity to carry on our work. Our infrastructure has come up with support from many. We have about 400 individuals and five corporate/foundations that assis. The teachers are all well paid and the school provides the best to the poorest. Unique is the fact that we identify the poorest in the community for delivering of the best Learning opportunity, not ’some’ Learning.. Holistic education, including physical, emotional and personality Leadership development. Also the visual and the performing arts apart from theatre. Every child can access our help to pursue higher professional education. We have children pursuing professions such as Business Administration, Computer technology, Pharmacy, Mass Media, Marine Navigation, Hotel management, Chartered accountancy. All, not only receive counselling but financial support. Our attempt is that the poorest will get the best in terms of learning, medical care and nutrition from their earliest age to the point at which they are professionally employed. The excellence that we have achieved has vetted appetites but we do not have the wherewithal to widen the scope of this effort and include more beneficiaries. More on work can be found on our website www.purkal.org We have been in existence for over 13 years now. The results in terms of the performance of the children who have gone through our care have been satisfying. The CEO, his wife the directors and many friends of the two Societies that make up the Purkal initiative, provide their time free and a very large number of friends make donations that keep the wheels moving and the Community benefitting. I am also enclosing links to two of our presentations on the work: http://www.youtube.com/purkalsociety