Designing Programs That Actually Work
Good intentions are cheap; good programs are expensive and hard. Between 2015 and 2018 we learned that the difference between helping and actually changing…
Author: Volunteer @ Sneha Karma Foundation
Why Transparency Is a Program, Not a Badge
In January 2017, Sneha Karma Foundation received the GuideStar Platinum Select seal — the highest transparency rating GuideStar (now Candid) awards. We have always…
The Quiet Years: Building the Structure Behind the Mission
Between the founding of Sneha Karma Foundation USA in 2015 and the programs that carry our name today lie the quietest years of our…
The Day Sneha Karma Foundation USA Was Born — July 13th, 2015
On July 13th, 2015, Sneha Karma Foundation USA was officially born. But the idea behind it did not begin in a boardroom or a…
The Need for Social Change: The Foundation of Everything We Do
Educate a girl and you change her life. Change what her family and her village believe about girls, and you change every life that…
What the First Village Visits Taught Us
Between the first wide-eyed visit and the conviction that became our mission lay a quiet, stubborn few years of asking better questions. This is…
Society At Stake : A Take on Child Marriage
“Girls are not Brides, They are not a Commodity, They have every right as Human Beings” ~ Hanna Godefa, 17, Unicef, National Ambassador to…
The State of Female Education in India
The Social & Economic Arguments for Female Education by Rishika Kenkre “I’d cry myself out of anger,” Khushboo Rawat admitted. “Sometimes, when I was…
My First Visit to Garbhanga
Long before there was a Sneha Karma Foundation, there was a hillside school in Assam, a handful of children who walked a long way…
A Month That Changed My Life: Volunteering in Peru with IVHQ
December 2011. One month. One small classroom in Cusco, Peru. I arrived expecting to teach English; I left with a completely different understanding of…