To date, YSDK Bengaluru has supported the following charitable organizations in 2020:

• Sri Krishnashrya Educational Trust, Bengaluru
• Maitri Foundation
• The Association for the Mentally Challenged

Sri Krishnashrya Educational Trust, Bengaluru

YSDK Bengaluru Kendra made a donation to the Sri Krishnashrya Educational Trust as part of its outreach activities for 2020. The trust focuses on the transformation of needy kids from rural and
urban areas who are semi-orphans and orphans and are deprived of Love, Care, Education and overall development of the child. Such children are provided with Accomodation, Food, Education, Special
Tuition, Meditation and Chants. Also focus on their overall
development so that they become useful citizens of the society and at the same time contribute to the welfare of other such kids.
Currently there are 31boys and 4 girls in the orphanage studying from 1st std. to 2nd PUC.

As part of our Charity programme, YSS, Bangalore supported them financially and also with T Shirts for the children.
 

Maitri Foundation

YSDK, Bangalore extended it support to the Maitri Foundation which reaches out to young children with visual defects and helps them overcome the same through yoga and natural cure.

Maitri Foundation was established to bring the soothing and non-intrusive benefits of yoga to everyone who is in need. The most common vision problems are refractive errors, more commonly known as short sight, long sight, astigmatism, cornea, lazy eye and presbyopia. Maitri covers Government schools in and around Kanakapura Road and also for those children below the poverty line and check their eyesight and if they are found to have a deficiency, they will prescribe dietary supplementary for eyes related and also teach special yogic techniques for eyes improvement so as to restore their normal eyesight. They train the children till they come free of spectacles and eye-related issues. Their school outreach program focuses on severe and chronic eye problems. All this is done free of charge to the children.

The Association for the Mentally Challenged (AMC)

AMC is the oldest registered organisation of its kind in Bangalore, offering comprehensive help to the intellectually disabled. It was set up in 1962 to provide support and services for the intellectually disabled children and adolescents from all sections of the society. Today it shelters and supports about 200 children, adolescents and adults from economically weaker sections of the society. At Akruti, Special School children are undergoing special education. Pragati is multi-category vocational training centre where men and women are trained in various vocations like weaving, candle-making, carpentry and pottery, etc. Sanskriti is the sheltered workshop where the intellectually disabled, who have acquired vocational skills at Pragati are employed. AMC's Day Care centre serves the severely challenged individuals. Our endeavour is to make life for the intellectually disabled more meaningful. The child guidance clinic and self help groups of parents are useful for parents in taking care of their intellectually disabled children. Samruddhi is a program covering families with intellectually challenged child/adult. The objective is to improve families taking care of these special individuals. YSDK, Bangalore made a donation to this organization as part of our 'reach out to our fellow beings' programme.

This page will be updated through the year.
Jai Guru!