You need not have abundant surplus income to donate and remove inequality. All you need, is a sense of responsibility to donate whatever you can, to help bring significant and serious change.

 

SPEWS is an NGO in India directly benefitting children and their families every year, through education, healthcare, livelihood and women empowerment.

 

Education is both the means as well as the end to a better life: the means because it empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood and the end because it increases one's awareness on a range of issues – from healthcare to appropriate social behaviour to understanding one's rights – and in the process help him/her evolve as a better citizen.

 

Doubtless, education is the most powerful catalyst for social transformation. But child education cannot be done in isolation. A child will go to school only if the family, particularly the mother, is assured of healthcare and empowered. Moreover, when an elder sibling is relevantly skilled to be employable and begins earning, the journey of empowerment continues beyond the present generation.

 

Following a lifecycle approach, Smile Foundation works intensively through focused welfare projects in four major areas – child education, healthcare for families, skills training and livelihood for youth, and community engagement through women empowerment.

 

So far, we have been able to directly impact the lives of many children and families.