Being Human – The Salman Khan Foundation is a registered charitable trust established in 2007 and working in the areas of education and healthcare for the underprivileged.

EDUCATION

Akshara High School

Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation has been supporting Akshara High School since June 2012. Akshara High School is a not-for-profit neighbourhood school located in the western suburbs of Mumbai.

Akshara High School (ICSE Board) began in 2007 with the concept of creating a friendly environment for the education of children in the vicinity of their homes. Over the past years they have successfully developed as a ‘Neighborhood School’ in Kandivili, Mumbai. The school’s motto is to focus on social inclusion for educational and economic growth and to level inequalities ingrained due to gender, caste, economic and religious discrimination. To make education accessible to people from middle and lower economic strata, the fee structure at the school has been kept at a basic minimum.

Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation supports the education of over 200 children studying in Akshara High School

Art at Akshara

This year Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation is supporting the Art programme at Akshara High School. The programme is conducted under the guidance of artists and aims to help children become confident and progressive thinkers through a visual arts curriculum and teacher training programme.

To enhance the experience and give the children the ideal environment to learn art and Art Lab has been built in Akshara High School by Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation.

Agastya at Akshara

With an aim to spark curiosity, nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged children, Akshara High School in collaboration with the renowned Agastya Foundation has set up a unique Science Centre. This is the first of its kind Science Centre in the city of Mumbai. Children will get to perform experiments, learn to make simple models with easily available low-cost materials and participate in team-based projects. Agastya at Akshara will be open to all children from State Board schools and aims to reach 4000 children in its first year. Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation is supporting Agastya at Akshara since its inception in October 2017. aksharaschool.org

ASEEMA

Being Human has been associated with Aseema since June 2011. Aseema is a Mumbai based not-for-profit organization that provides holistic and relevant education to Mumbai’s most neglected children – children living on the streets, or in slums and in inhuman conditions. In partnership with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), they have taken on three municipal schools where children receive high quality education.
Being Human – The Salman Khan Foundation supports the secondary sections of two of their schools in Mumbai (that’s over 300 children in all).
aseema.org

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
CENTERS

In February 2013, Being Human together with Coca Cola and NIIT Foundation, helped build Career Development Centers in non-urban areas which aimed to provide training to the local, educated and underserved youth and through that training, enhance their employability. The training courses were designed to meet the entry level job requirements of the organized sector.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS, MAHARASHTRA

In August 2014, Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation started educational resource centres in local Zilla Parishad primary schools to provide basic aids in Arithmetic,English, Marathi, Health & Social awareness to children from the local community, from grades one to four. Improved skills give them access to better learning tools which are otherwise available mostly to urban students. In the academic year 2016-2017 , 310 children from the local community have benefited from these classes. Currently we are running centres in Waje, Cherivali, Dhamini, Dehrang, Shivansai, Umbroli and Gadeshwar.

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