Creative, enjoyable, innovative and hands-on ways of learning: Swapath Trust creates Learning Centres where children are encouraged to develop interest in ‘learning’, inculcate values, dissociate education from employment, pick-up essential life-skills and get a chance of participating in their own development.

Swapath Trust participated in the 21st annual TTEC Charity walk on the 19th of February 2023 with the Dang team participating in the walk and the run. Many well-wishers and friends also walked for Swapath Trust. Arvind Jadav, a student supported by Swapath Trust, also from Dang, bagged the first prize by clocking the minimum time of 27 minutes and 35 seconds for the 7.5 km. run. The event benefitted Swapath Trust by raising financial aid besides offering exposure

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  • School Retention Programme (SRP)

    This programme focuses on children in the age group of 6 to 14 (i.e. those in the primary school going age). It aims at helping students not only academically but also through motivation, incentives and counselling...

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  • Higher Education Support Programme (HESP)

    Under this programme, bright and meritorious students from economically weaker families are supported to pursue higher studies. To help needy but meritorious students with financial aid to pursue their University level education...

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  • Special Rehabilitation Programme (SpRP)

    This is the most challenging part of Swapath’s work. Currently, three projects are covered under this programme. This programme is termed as ‘The Special Rehabilitation Programme (SpRP)’ because...

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  • Child Rights Collective Gujarat (CRCG)

    Child Rights Collective Gujarat (CRCG) is a collective, an informal forum, of individuals and organisations working with children. CRCG endeavours to take up collective efforts to enable every child to access every right enshrined in the United Nation’s Convention ...

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Matru Smruti Trust, a review in ten questions

‘Matru Smruti Trust, a review in ten questions’ (2002) by Joep Verhagen a Dutch scholar, was a document that presented the findings of a review of MST’s (earlier name of Swapath Trust) work in its first five years. The review also helped the organization decide the future direction. It also documents the work of MST in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquake. (This report is now out of print).

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Sarpanch

‘Sarpanch’, a quarterly magazine with a focus on the Panchayati Raj in the context of the seventy-third constitutional amendment. It was a publication under the aegis of the Western India Forum for Panchayati Raj (WIFPR) which covered the state of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa. The magazine aimed at promoting and reminding villages that the local self-government was much better placed and empowered by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act. (The magazine was discontinued in 2014).

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Population, Education and Development (2014) by Prof Leela Visaria

This joint publication with the Gujarat Vidyapith provided good insights into the relationship between the three. The author being an eminent demographer, has understood not only the linkages but also has been able to raise questions for the future under changing demography. (The paper is available on request in hard copy).

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  • Success Stories

    Namrata’s Exceptional Progress

    Namrata is cute little girl from a migrant family in Keshnabdh. Her father migrates regularly for most part of the year to cities in south Gujarat for casual labour work. The mother stays back in the village looking after Namrata and her brother. When Namrata first joined the LRC at the Keshbandh School managed by Swapath...

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    Jashoda’s Determination

    Jashoda hails from Nishana village in the Dangs, Gujarat. Even though was desirous of going to college, was married forcefully to a boy younger than the prescribed age for marriage under the law. This child marriage compelled Jashoda to drop her studies in 2017-2018 despite financial support from Swapath Trust and AIF. It was a sad moment for all when...

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