01Learning centres
Eleven rooms, open at six
Two hours a day, six days a week, in a group of eighteen. Not a school and not a tuition class — the place a child goes when home has one room and no table.
2,412children this year
Read the whole thingPune · since 2011
Nobody here
is a statistic
A panghat is the village well — the place everyone walks to, and where news, help and gossip get exchanged. We run eleven learning centres and a daily kitchen across Pune's eastern belt, for about 2,400 children a year.
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0Children a year
11Learning centres84%Of every rupee, on programmes14yrsIn the same neighbourhoods
11Learning centres84%Of every rupee, on programmes14yrsIn the same neighbourhoods
An evening at a centre
6:00 pm
Eleven rooms, open at six
Two hours a day, six days a week, in a group of eighteen. Not a school and not a tuition class — the place a child goes when home has one room and no table.
Learning centres6:20 pm
The kitchen runs at four
One hot meal, every centre evening, eaten at the centre. The mid-day meal at school stops at three o'clock and the school year stops in April. Hunger does neither.
Daily kitchen7:15 pm
The child who was not slow
One health check a year for every child at a centre, run at the centre so no parent loses a day's wage. Height, weight, haemoglobin, teeth, ears, and — the one that changes lives — eyes.
Health & sight8:00 pm
The mothers keep their own books
Tailoring courses and savings groups for the mothers of children at the centres. Started because the single best predictor of whether a child stays in school here is whether her mother has an income of her own.
Mothers' livelihoodsLearning centresDaily kitchenHealth & sightMothers' livelihoods
What we do
Four things, in four
streets, for fourteen years
Not a portfolio of pilots. Four programmes that hold each other up — a child who is hungry does not learn, and a child who cannot see the board is not slow.
0102Daily kitchen
The kitchen runs at four
One hot meal, every centre evening, eaten at the centre. The mid-day meal at school stops at three o'clock and the school year stops in April. Hunger does neither.
2,412children fed each centre day
Read the whole thing03Health & sight
The child who was not slow
One health check a year for every child at a centre, run at the centre so no parent loses a day's wage. Height, weight, haemoglobin, teeth, ears, and — the one that changes lives — eyes.
2,790children screened last year
Read the whole thing04Mothers' livelihoods
The mothers keep their own books
Tailoring courses and savings groups for the mothers of children at the centres. Started because the single best predictor of whether a child stays in school here is whether her mother has an income of her own.
310women this year
Read the whole thingThe accounts
Where every hundred
rupees actually went
Audited, 2025–26, on total spend of ₹2.14 crore. Scroll and the bar fills in as the money does.
- 41%
Learning centres
Rent, teachers, books, light. Eleven rooms, six days a week.
- 28%
The kitchen
Grain, vegetables, gas, and the four women who cook.
- 9%
Health and sight
Annual checks, spectacles, the visiting doctor, pads.
- 6%
Mothers' livelihoods
Tailoring courses, savings-group facilitators, the audit of their books.
- 9%
Running the trust
Office rent, accounts, the statutory audit, compliance filings. This number is not zero and any charity that tells you theirs is, is hiding it somewhere else.
- 7%
Raising the next rupee
This website, printing, and one person's part-time salary. No street fundraisers and no call centre.
84%reached a child
16%kept the trust standing up
Sixteen per cent is not a rounding error and we are not hiding it. Rent, an audit and somebody answering the phone are what let the other eighty-four exist. For scale, FCRA rules cap administrative spend at 20% of foreign contributions, and most of the sector sits close to that ceiling. Any charity claiming a hundred per cent reaches the field is paying its overheads out of money it has not told you about.
Every year's accounts, in fullWork it out
What it buys,
and what it costs you
Move the amount, pick your tax position. Everything is worked from the same unit costs the accounts use, and it shows its working.
₹200₹25,000
In a year, that is
₹2,500
Which pays for any one of these
- 0mealsA hot evening meal
- 0kitsA school kit
- 0passesA year's bus pass for a girl in Class 8 or above
- 0termsA term at a learning centre
- 0placesA three-month tailoring course for a mother
- Below the cost of a single unit of anything we run — which does not make it useless, it makes it part of somebody else's.
Alternatives, not additions. The same rupee cannot buy a meal and a school kit, and a calculator that adds them up is lying to you.
After 80G, it costs you
₹2,500
- You give
- ₹2,500
- Deduction from taxable income (50%)
- ₹1,250
- Tax you therefore do not pay
- ₹0
On the new regime, section 80G gives you nothing. This trust is not one of the centrally-notified funds that survive there, so the donation costs you exactly what you give.
An estimate, and not tax advice. 80G deducts from your taxable income — it is not a refund. The total of such donations is itself capped at 10% of your adjusted gross total income, which this does not model, and anything over ₹2,000 given in cash is not deductible at all. Check your own position with your accountant.
Set this upFrom the centres
Five things that
happened here
Including one about a centre that did not work and is closing.
Illustrative
The back row
“I thought the board was supposed to look like that.”
Sanika · 11, Ramtekdi centre
Illustrative
One thousand rupees in February
“My father said we would try again next year. I knew there was no next year.”
Rohit · 16, Hadapsar
Illustrative
The fourth kilometre
“They were not being unfair to me. They were being careful about me.”
Asmita · 14, Wagholi
Before you give us anything
Check us, the way
you would check a
stranger
These three are the ones to look up. All of them are verifiable on a government website that has nothing to do with us, which is the entire point of them.
Everything we publish12AB registration
AAATP0000AE20214
Income of the trust is exempt
80G approval
AAATP0000AF20214
Your donation is deductible — 50%, old regime only
NITI Aayog Darpan ID
MH/2011/0000000
The government's own register of NGOs
In their words
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Pune
That no child in our catchment drops out of school for a reason money can fix.
Nineteen of the twenty-six of us grew up in these four neighbourhoods. We are not going anywhere, which is the only thing we have found that actually works.