Akshara

Apna’s Vision to Provide Solutions & Touch Lives initiated the birth of the Apna Foundation which aims at touching the lives of children and adults from backward communities.

Akshara is a small school started by the Foundation in 2005 and was spearheaded by an incredible person Mrs. Mary Mathews who spent her whole life to the end, reaching out to children who needed empowerment and to achieve this, all that the children needed was a little love, compassion, nurturing and that ONE opportunity in life to get them to believe in themselves and world out there!!

Providing Nutrition & Education is the core essence of Akshara. Classes are held every evening and these classes are aimed at providing basic reading & writing knowledge to children and adults. The students at the foundation come from all walks of life & occupations – shepherds, domestic maids, construction labourers and their children, homeless children who live on the streets etc.

The teachers to the children and adults at the foundation apart from the regular teachers are Apna’ites who volunteer on different days to teach the children and the adults on subjects like Mathematics & basic knowledge of reading and writing in local languages like Kannada & Tamil.

Other information like hygiene & family planning is extended to the children & adults respectively. Since Nutrition forms a very important part of the betterment of the students the Foundation provides Milk and one basic meal every evening.