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Sarthak Prayas-

Miracles appear with each new born, each friendship and each moment of forgiveness. By every small act of faith and kindness, the creator reveals another miracle.

Project Submitted By: Kanak Tahlani Priyancy Goyal Anushree Rajvedi

Vision:Our vision is to build a community where no one dies of shortage of Blood, a world where every child gets quality education without worrying about expenses, a Healthy, Happy, Secure and a Respectful world for Sr. Citizens and clean environment to live in. Mission:Our vision is a Healthy, Educated &Respectful world. Our mission is therefore to become the Largest Human Chain of Emergency Blood Donors in India, to provide quality education to children from economically backward families, develop the largest chain of Sr. Citizens Recreational Centres, in order to reconnect them to the society and work towards the green and clean environment.

Presidents profile
Harsh Arora & Sarthak Prayas
Formally part of the corporate world, and working with American Express, Harsh, at a very young age, gave up the security of his job While growing up, Harsh Arora saw his aunts son suffer from Thallassemia, a deadly disease which requires blood transplantation on a regular basis. Watching his aunt struggle to get donors at short notice Harsh realised the importance of ones life and the urgent need for establishing a more effective way of gathering blood donations. These experiences led harsh to establish Sarthak Prayas.

Introduction
Not for Profit organisation Formed under the Societies registration Act of 1860 Started in 2003, with a slow but confident start with a mere 15 blood donors list in 2003 and has now today enlisted support from > 8500 people to form a ready chain of voluntary blood donations in and around Delhi. Currently , Sarthak Prayas is managed by a board comprising of 7 board members while Harsh is the full time board member and president , others do the work on a part time basis and contribute to the financial deficit. Apart from establishing chain of blood donors, Sarthak Prayas has also diversified and started activities in two other important social areas education of poor children and care for old age citizens.

Projects
1. Blood Donation: Main aim of the NGO is to create a chain of registered blood donors, who would be readily available in case of an emergency

2. Build A Foundation:-

Established a school for the under privileged at a village called Pakkakheda located in Karnal district in Haryana. This school, Divya Sanskar, first began as an all-girls school, and eventually widened its arena to become a coeducational institute.

3. Second Innings Centre


ventured into the needs of the old aged opened an old age recreational center in Punjabi Bagh, a prime location in New Delhi. Inspired by the super hit film Lage Raho Munnabhai the center is called Second Innings Centre.

4. Environment projects: Green India Approach made to school children Common Wealth Baton

APPROACH TO CHILDREN

COMMON WEALTH

CSR Opportunities
Sarthak Prayas has been spurred on by the support of its Individual and corporate partners to achieve many of its objectives. believes in the power of collaborative effort in reaching out to the thousands of children & Individuals across India who are in need of help. partnerships are the cornerstone of our progress. harness the potential and resources of corporate companies for the benefit of children by leveraging the unique skills of a company in favour of the causes they work for. In turn, we help companies achieve their CSR and business objectives. Companies who choose to partner with us can contribute in several ways:
a) strategic philanthropy through cash & in-kind contributions b) cause-marketing initiatives c) events & sponsorship d) innovations & program solutions for children

Funds and Future Plans


Along with initiating these three projects under Sarthak Prayas, Harsh has also found a unique way of collecting funds : Over 250 families have been registered under Sarthak Prayas along with the birthdays of each individual members and their anniversaries. The Sarthak team visits and wishes these families on all registered occasions giving the family a convenient way of donating any amount they wish to on special days. With an increase in funds, Harsh wishes to expand and increase the facilities provided to the children of Divya Sanskar and open more branches across Haryana, to give under privileged children across the state a platform to learn and perform to their maximum capabilities. Also he wishes to spread knowledge regarding sustainable development to children in these schools as he believes that villagers play an important role in conserving and utilizing the environment

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