“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
Albert Pike
Author
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.”
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder, Children’s Defense Fund
“Children shouldn't have to suffer, yet there are so many out there who have no family, no home, no food, no clothes and no education. We need to do whatever we can to educate and empower them so they can build a better life.”
Jalpa Naik
Donor
“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”
Albert Einstein
Physicist
About Us
Care, turned into action.
"Sneha" means care, and "Karma" means our actions. Together they carry our whole purpose: care, turned into action for girls and women who deserve a fair start.
Sneha Karma Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit, registered in 2015 by a philanthropist in California, continuing work that began in India in 2011. Our founder refused to accept that a girl's or woman's future should be decided by the family she was born into.
Our promise has not changed since day one: to care for girls and women until care is no longer needed — to educate, to train, and to stand beside each one until she can stand on her own.
Our Causes
We exist for girls and women who were never given a fair start.
Across rural India, a girl or a woman is often the last to be sent to school and the first to be pulled out of it. She is raised to need less and taught to want less. That is not her failure — it is the failure of the world around her.
We believe one educated girl or woman rewrites the story of her family, and that a generation of them rewrites the story of a nation. Give a girl or woman the same chance as her brother, and she does not need rescuing. She needs a fair start.
Everything we do runs through three foundational focus areas. Social Change changes how families and communities see girls — the belief that makes everything else possible. Girls’ Education keeps a girl in school through Support-A-Girl and carries her on to college through our Scholarship. Women’s Livelihood turns that education into an income through Skills Development, Support-A-Artisan loans and the Artisans Direct marketplace. The thinking behind it lives on Our Mission; what each focus area does day to day lives on Our Focus Areas.
Operational transparency — more than 90% of every donation reaches our programs for the girls and women.
A world where no girl’s or woman’s future is decided by her poverty or her gender — only by her own ambition.
By 2030 we intend to be self-funded, with Artisans Direct helping carry the other focus areas. Until then, we walk with every girl and woman. We would be honoured to walk with you.
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of the Indian independence movement
About Us
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Behind every program is a widening circle of supporters: donors, volunteers, ambassadors, companies and foundations who share a simple belief — kindness, invested well, changes lives. Meet the people and partners who make a girl’s education, a new skill, or a fair start possible.
Sneha Karma Foundation began with a refusal to accept that a girl’s future should be decided by the family she was born into. Follow the decisions, launches and milestones that took that belief from one village visit to an organization standing beside hundreds of girls and women.
Official logos, a short vision video and one-page overviews, ready for journalists, partners and supporters to use in stories, presentations and campaigns. Everything you need to represent Sneha Karma Foundation accurately.
Yes. Sneha Karma Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and we provide receipts for every gift.
At least 90% of every gift, after payment-processing fees, goes directly to our programs for the girls. Operating costs are capped at 10%, so the maximum share of each gift reaches the children we serve.
Sneha Karma Foundation is led by a founder-president and governed by an active volunteer board, with leadership from the United States and program teams in India. The board sets direction, oversees finances and keeps the mission accountable.
Our programs currently operate in India, including the Northeast, where we run education, skills and artisan-livelihood work with girls and women.
You can donate, raise funds, or volunteer — onsite at our program sites in India or virtually from anywhere in the world. Start on our Get Involved page.
Prashant P GodiwalaFounder Member / President
Karl MeulemaSecretary
Sudhir SreedharanTreasurer
