Manav Sadhna Partnership
Our collaboration with Manav Sadhna began in 2016, when we launched our fellowship program and sent our first two fellows to serve with the organization in Ahmedabad, India.
Since then, we’ve supported 3 additional fellows and turned our focus towards Manav Sadhna’s newest education center, Manav Mitra. We have also supported the Paryavaran Mitra (“friends of the environment”) project and Project Karuna for COVID-19 food relief.
Love All, Serve All
Located on the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, Manav Sadhna has been serving underprivileged communities in Ahmedabad and beyond since 1995. Their programs focus primarily on holistic education, nutrition, health and hygiene, youth and women’s empowerment, senior care, providing livelihoods and more.
Manav Mitra
Upon the return of our first round of fellows, Dry Creek decided to focus on supporting the new Manav Mitra Community Center, the latest of Manav Sadhna’s community and education centers that serve slum communities across Ahmedabad.
The Manav Mitra Center, inaugurated in fall 2016, provides supplemental, value-based education to 180 children in Ahmedabad, India. Due to a growing urban population and a lack of government support, life in India’s urban slums remains stagnant for most of its residents, with opportunities for education and economic mobility fairly difficult to secure. 20 years ago, Manav Sadhna found a way to empower these disadvantaged and deserving communities through community centers. By offering a communal space, providing value-based education to children, and delivering other basic services such as medical treatment, substance abuse treatment, and dental care, these community centers have put many slum-residents on track for a better life.
Paryavaran Mitra
Paryavaran Mitra (“friends of the environment”) works to uplift the rag-picking women of Ahmedebad, who make their living by collecting solid waste for recycling. As these women play an integral role in waste management and recycling, they provide a silent but essential service to both society and the environment.
Project Karuna
As soon as the COVID-19 lockdown was announced, Manav Sadhna began reaching out to help. In two project phases, MS distributed grocery kits to 13,500 families across Ahmedbad, as well as over 1 million meals to over 50,000 people in need, including stranded migrant workers.
