Diksha Foundation

District

Patna

States

Bihar

The English Access Microscholarship Program (Access Program) is a two-year global flagship project funded by the US State Department, RELO. It provided after-school English and personality development classes to socio-economically disadvantaged youth aged 13-17 and 17-21 years. As part of their coursework, Access students gained an appreciation for American culture and democratic values, civic consciousness, and critical thinking skills, along with an enhanced capacity to compete for future US exchanges and higher education programs.

We worked with a batch of 50 children and youth from Patna. The focus was on 21st-century learning skills and UN sustainable goals, striving to make each student a global citizen, with English as the medium of teaching and learning.

District

Patna

States

Bihar

We are committed to providing Holistic education to the children from the underprivileged communities through an after-school supplementary education program called Knowledge Hub for Education and Learning.
KHEL is an after-school supplementary education program targeting children and youngsters from low-income communities in Bihar, India. Diksha Foundation started the KHEL centre in 2010 in Patna; over the years, we ran KHEL centres in Patna, Bihta, Samastipur, Nalanda districts of Bihar, and at Kusumpur Pahari, New Delhi. In the past 15 years, the KHEL project has reached out to more than 3000+ students through an intensive six days per week classroom program. Currently, 3 KHEL centres are operational, one in the Jagdeopath, Patna, one in Bihta, and one in Sarairanjan with a combined strength of 490 children. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that every child and young person has an opportunity for Holistic education.

District

Patna

States

Bihar

As the biggest difference between the rich and the rest is money, micro-entrepreneurs like vegetable sellers, small ration shops, tailors, beauticians, etc., face a great deal of difficulty in meeting their basic needs as well as strengthening their livelihood.

As a part of the Poonji project, we have created 10 self–help groups of 100 members respectively in 2023, and in 2024, we made 2 tailoring groups of 10-15 females.

And these SHGs offers credit to the SHG in the form of both loans and grants, the interest generated is further used for the sustainability of the SHG. We also work on strengthening these SHG groups by providing regular training on different topics viz. handling finances, sustaining the group, sales and retailing skills.

In the medium and longer run, we will help the SHG members in expanding their business and building some wealth in association with other community-focused enterprises

District

Patna

States

Bihar

Diksha Foundation was implementing partner under UNFPA and Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) collaboration on the above project. The project seeks to transform the city of Patna as a socially inclusive city, where citizens have equal access to services and opportunities, and thereby focuses on the most vulnerable sections in the urban setting, namely Sanitation Workers and Slum Dwellers. The project seeks to empower the sanitation workers under Patna Municipal Corporation on health, safety and leadership, and seeks to work extensively with the Sanitation worker community, including women and adolescents whose habitation is primarily slums. The project has directly been working across 50 large slums of Patna. Now, the up scaling phase, “Sustainable and inclusive urbanization in Patna; Promoting safe, Healthy and inclusive models for slum development” aims to Reduce gender and health (including sexual and reproductive health) vulnerabilities in slums