If a thought can change the world,
Imagine the power of opportunity...
"Opportunity plays a great role in shaping a child. It gives them the confidence to dream big... "
Children from under privileged background need to be given breakthrough opportunities that place them in learning environments similar to the kind available to children from higher economic strata.
KAFAL Is a charitable society, set up with the main aim of providing this opportunity through education.
It supports the not so privileged children, to enable them to have a strong foundation, and empower them to grow, learn and compete with peers with better endowments.
Kafal
Knowledge Acquisition for Appropriate Livelihood
And yet there is a manifest desire in the people of this area to provide good education to children. Those with just about average means prefer to send their children to far off places disrupting families and imposing huge costs on them.
Another factor that governed the location choice was the familiarity of the founding members of KAFAL with the terrain.
Kafal is the name of a popular dark purple berry found in Uttara Khand which ripens in summer. In order to identify with the local sentiment and to give a message of bonding with the local people, this was adopted as the acronym for the society.
"To empower the under privileged through education and to seek to provide equal opportunities."
KAFAL strongly believes in the power of opportunity and seeks to provide opportunities for education to children who would otherwise not have access to it.
Education enlightens, emancipates, empowers and enthrals. It is the most basic requirement to get out of poverty and squalor, to find employment, to enjoy life and to contribute to the welfare of the society at large. It's vision is:
The society works in Malla Ramgarh in Nainital district of the state of Uttara Khand. KAFAL chose this area for its activities because it is largely rural, lacks good education, its inaccessibility makes manpower sourcing difficult, and it is poor.