About us

Vandemataram Foundation (VMF) was founded as on NGO established with an objective of inculcating such values amongst children. Focusing on the government schools in the backward areas, the Foundation works with the twin principles of extending academic and emotional support to the children and strengthening the infrastructural facilities in the schools. Making a village school the nodal point, the Foundation builds teams consisting of village elders, youth and alumni of the school. These teams working in tandem with the parents and teachers of the school actively involve the students in various constructive and creative activities.

It is obvious that only those children who cannot afford studies in private schools join government schools. Perhaps, such children may not get any guidance either from the parents or from any other source. We need to fill these lacunae by way of extending a helping hand to the poor children. Accordingly, Vandemataram Foundation works towards realizing its Vision of  

“A noble society consisting of citizens with good character and patriotism brought through harmonious and sustainable cooperation between the government schools in the rural areas and the local community”.

Organization Vision:

Very often we hear people lament that the materialistic tendencies are rapidly spreading in the Indian society and the time tested values of its heritage are fast eroding. However, both, those who lament and those who hear reflect over them with a sense of non-chalance or fail to gauge the implications. As a cumulative impact of this, we have rather failed to create an ambience in the society that produces individuals with character and integrity.

Character building, indeed, begins in the class room. Not many realize the imperative of inculcating right values in the formative stage which is the classroom. If we look back and reflect on what has been happening, we sadly realize that all sorts of fissiparous tendencies have entered our society. Towards neutralizing such tendencies, it is important to make every one realize that individuals are not brought up in isolation; their growth is intrinsically linked to various things most importantly, their school, their family, and the nation, therefore they have a responsibility towards them.  

Mission:

VMF aims to realize this vision by working with the four major stakeholders, viz.

• Students studying in government schools 
• Teachers employed in government schools 
• Society, comprising of parents of the students, the village communities, and other well wishers 
• Government,  represented by Department of Education and any other relevant agencies
   

Students:

• To provide quality education to the rural children  
• To inculcate moral values and patriotism in them  
• To provide them with academic support  
• To strengthen their cultural ethos  
• To promote education of girls, who are treated unequally by their parents and society  
• To strive to instill the ideals and teaching of Swami Vivekananda and Dr. APJ Abdul  Kalam among the students    
• To take up activities aimed at expanding their horizon
   

Teachers:

• To awaken and orient them towards their responsibility for their students and society  
• To supplement and encourage their efforts in teaching  
• To take measures to recognize excellence and dedication among teachers
   

Society:

• To take up measures for strengthening community ownership of their local government schools  
• To involve and provide opportunities for those who wish to strengthen government schools and the students studying in them  
• To take up measures for bridging the gap in education and promote understanding between rural and urban school students
   

Government:

To work closely with department of education & other agencies so as to  

• Enable them to implement their activities related to the vision of VMF  
• Help improve the quality of their programs and    
• To scale up the efforts of VMF.
   

Goal:

The main Aim of Vandemataram Foundation is to inculcate “values” in the class room towards a Corruption free society “in addition to developing human values and patriotism in would be of citizens of India”.  

Vandemataram Foundation has been at the forefront of child rights and school empowerment with gross roots level interaction and right to information campaigns.

As opined by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Ex-President of India, ‘our aim should always be and high we have to strive for a totally developed India by 2020’. “A Developed India by 2020 is possible only thro’ “people’s participation and children” are the nucleus of the transformation”.