Education & Child Care
Learning-assistance classes for children whose schooling migration broke, and a fifteen-week equality course for boys.
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Gujarat, India
Thirty years in the same district.
We work with children who left school early, with families who have never had a health check, and with cotton farmers on land that is drying out — across four districts of Gujarat: Amreli, Rajkot, Vadodara and Narmada.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Namaste
Why we exist
A thriving society where education and equality empower communities to live in harmony with nature.
Hariraj Charitable Trust was set up in 1993 to improve health and education in Amreli district. 33 years on, the work runs across Amreli, Rajkot, Vadodara and Narmada districts.
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Three programmes
Each one has been running long enough to have a record. Follow any of them to what it does, where, and what has changed.
General Health Awareness
Village health awareness — reproductive and child health, pesticide safety for farm workers, and two years of pandemic logistics.
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Natural Resource Management & Livelihoods
Sustainable cotton, farmer-owned institutions, and trades for women in a district with no industry to employ them.
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Who we reach
- Farmers reached
- 8,000+Farmers reachedCumulative across the natural resource management and REEL cotton programmes.
- Children supported
- 5,000+Children supportedCumulative across the learning assistance and gender education programmes.
- Villages
- 40+VillagesVillages with at least one active intervention.
Figures as published by the trust. See our reports for audited accounts.
Stories
From the villages
What the work looks like for the people in it.
Monthly updates
What we published this year
We publish a report every month, in Gujarati and English. Every issue since 2024 is here.
In their words
Volunteers and participants
They are working very effectively on issues like Health, Education, and Women Empowerment, Self-help Groups, Agriculture and Environment. They always focus on providing education and health to youth of the unrecognised Sectors, women, children and economically deprived communities. They are doing great service to the nation and organisation having great command on arranging training programs for the community to encourage and develop independent business.
Very much humbled and grateful towards the work undertaken by the organization. The outreach and depth of grassroot level work being done is very inspirational. We as volunteers would join for a short duration but the core team lives with the spirit of uplifting the society, works with focus, grit, dedication, patience and perseverance. Their service to the nation is a noble work and I can’t thank them enough for what they are doing.
मेरा नाम मनीष बाबू भाई है मैंने खांभा हरीराज चैरिटेबल ट्रस्ट द्वारा संचालित जेंडर इक्विटेबल बॉयस प्रोग्राम के तहत कुल 15 मॉड्यूल पूरे किए लेकिन 15 मॉड्यूल पूरे करने के बाद मुझे एहसास हुआ कि लड़कियों के बीच कोई अंतर नहीं होना चाहिए वर्तमान में हम एक ग्रामीण क्षेत्र में रहते हैं और लगभग सभी परिवारों की एक सख्त परंपरा है जहां लड़कियों के पास बाहर जाने के लिए कम समय होता है या उनके माता-पिता इसकी अनुमति नहीं देते हैं इसके बारे में मैं मेरे घर पर भी बात करता रहा मेरी बातों को सुनकर मेरे पिताजी का व्यवहार मेरी बहन की तरफ बदला और उसको भी समान तक मिले ऐसा उन्होंने सोचना शुरू किया
I have been connected with this esteemed organization for 7 years and learned a lot of valuable lessons. I learnt very important lessons of the social sector like child education awareness, women empowerment, farmer’s awareness for organic farming etc. I also have developed my communication skills, internal thoughts and personality. I wish that Hariraj charitable trust will grow up and full-fill the expectations of needy beneficiaries.
Remember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
— Scott Adams
