Who We Are

Our vision is to form a new society based on equality, non violence, loving kindness and spiritual understanding through the system of education.

Our mission is to serve the children to encourage a better childhood and to help them become responsible individuals and spiritual human beings. We achieve this by providing food, shelter, clothes, and medicine and equality education.

The Shikshangram Shelter for Children is home for 120 children from the age of 4 to 16.

These children have been found on the railway platforms, rubbish dumps and the street corners – many are orphaned or their parents have been unable to care for them. Even at 4 years old, prior to being gathered up into the safety of the Shelter, most were already working – begging or selling small items to commuters or drivers.  Or they were picking through mountains of rubbish on the dumps, salvaging plastic and other scraps of saleable recycling material.

Their lives now are totally transformed.

The Shikshan Gram Shelter was established in 2008 by Satish and Yogita Moon both passionate and dedicated people and the original rented accommodation is located in a tiny village called  Malavali near Lonavala in Maharasthra, India.  Their story is in itself a journey of the heart.  Both came from a similar background to the children they now care for.  They were brought up in an orphanage – given a real chance in life, brought together by their benefactors and educated and trained in all the skills they need pass on those opportunites to others.

Yogita – is a tireless fund raiser – who works constantly to meet and encourage others to open their hearts and their finances to build develop and provide for the daily needs of this growing band of children.

All our children all orphaned, homeless or abandoned, the boys are now living at the main new partially completed building close to Devale Village – and the girl’s are securely housed in their own building.

The Shelter is run on the principle of natural education and all the staff work hard at keeping the children cared for in the best possible way with play – supplementary education and good nutrition.

The vision of Yogita and Satish includes creating grounds for natural education for the children. As Satish says: “Nature is going to change them. We are just caring for them”.

All the children attend school – the small ones going to the local Devale School and the older children to the school at Bhaje.

They are a very happy group of children who are nurtured, loved and counselled, as they grow.