Get involved
Ten people and a district is a chapter. One afternoon a month is a volunteer.
The Foundation runs on people who have a job already. Choose the commitment that fits your week — a school, an elder, a camp, or the paperwork nobody enjoys but everything depends on.
Volunteer
Tell us your city, and what you can do.
We will connect you to the chapter nearest you. Most volunteers start with one afternoon a month; the ones who stay end up running a programme.
What volunteers actually do
Read with children. Take a blood pressure register at a camp. Drive a distribution round. Photograph what was delivered. Teach a teacher how to use a computer. Fill a pension form. Sit with an elder for an hour.
Start a chapter
If you have ten people and a district, you have a chapter.
Find ten people
Teachers, retired officers, college students, a doctor, a carpenter. A chapter needs a mix, not a crowd.
Pick one programme
One government school or one village is enough to begin. Six programmes at once is how chapters die.
Get registered with us
We help with the paperwork, the bank account and the reporting format. It takes about a month.
Deliver, then report
Photographs, a bill, a list of names. Your first report is what makes the second programme possible.
Partner
Adopt one government school for one year.
This is the simplest thing an individual or a company can do with us, and the one that shows results fastest. One school, one academic year: a library, desks and benches where they are missing, a computer with a teacher trained to run it, a sports kit, and two health checks for the students.
You receive photographs of what was delivered, the bills, and a report at the end of the year that says what broke. If you would rather give material than money — books, computers, benches — we will tell you exactly what the school has asked for.
Companies: we can support CSR documentation, but we are a small trust and would rather you funded a specific school than a brochure.
On donations
We are not collecting money online at the moment; online giving opens shortly.
Until then, if you would like to fund a school kit, a health camp or a month of ration, write to kalamfoundationts@gmail.com or call +91 81799 44490. We will send the list, the estimate and the account details — and the photographs when it is done.
One more thing
If you cannot give time or money, give a name.
A school that needs a library, an elder who lives alone, a village where nobody has had a health check. Send us the name and the district, and a chapter will go and look.