Ken means knowledge. This project aims at making quality education available to the rural schools of Valsad district and making each school a ‘role model school’ by training and employing local youth of the district.

Status as of June 2012: 14 program officers and 220 education officers have been trained and deployed in 220 schools of Valsad district are providing:

• Minimum level education to 1820 weak students
• Training to enhance basic reading writing skills of 2778 students of 2nd std.
• Advanced math training to 6174 students of 3rd standard.
• English language training to 5958 students.
• Basic computer education to 24327 students covering 220 schools.
• Health education, every Saturday.
• Implementing pre-defined extracurricular activities in all schools.
• 22,000 school bags with stationary to Class I students every year.

Step up is an innovative method of teaching in which the curriculum is divided into units and each unit is taught to the students with the help of various types of activities. This method improves the teaching- learning process.

Status as of June 2012: As of June 2012, Maa Foundation has implemented this method of teaching for 1st and 2nd standard students of 4 schools of Valsad district.

Parvarish aims to groom the children by instilling in them essential values, social and soft skills thereby leading to their all round development.

Status as of June 2012:

• Over 4000 students have participated in personality development camps organized by Maa Foundation.
• Over 2200 students have participated in educational and industrial tours.

Project Disha identifies the inner strengths, abilities and areas of interest of students with the help of a psychometric test and based on the results, suggests appropriate careers for them. It also gives the students invaluable information about various careers options available under each stream of education and the future growth prospects of each career.

Status as of June 2012:

• Over 80,000 students have received career guidance under this project.

Vidhya is a scholarship project where we provide financial assistance to the deserving & needy children and help them reach their fullest potential.

Status as of June 2012: Project Vidhya has till date provided scholarships to 7777 students. Undergraduates: 3667, Graduates: 3085, Post-graduates: 1025.

Gnyan enhances the quality of teaching by conducting training programs for the teachers & motivating them by giving them awards and their due recognition.

Status as of June 2012:  As on June 2012, 1400 school teachers were provided professional training, 241 teachers have been felicitated; more than 35,600 copies of newspaper are circulated to students every week by Maa Foundation

Project Saath aims at creating a 'Role Model School' by improving its infrastructure, quality of education and by using creative methods in the teaching-learning process.

Status as of June 2012: A school consisting of 2400 underprivileged children has been adopted by project Saath.

Udaan aims to equip the first generation learners who come from financially weak backgrounds, with quality education and skills so as to improve their lives and that of their future generations and drive home the message of 'Prosperity through education'.

Status as of June 2012: As of June 2012, over 1020 students are being covered by project Udaan.

Vikas aims at empowering the rural graduates with essential skills and knowledge so as to increase their chances of employability and/ or help them pursue higher education.

Computer hardware and software courses are conducted at subsidized rates for the benefit of the students.

Status as of May 2012:

• 762 rural graduates have been groomed by project Vikas.
• 163 final year students are presently pursuing professional courses
• 247 students have enrolled for the vocational courses.

Samarthan is an educational portal with information on every area of education. It is a single window that provides information absolutely free of cost to students, teachers, parents and the entire education community.

Status as of June 2012: The portal was launched on 15th January, 2008

Science on wheels is a bus which has been converted into a mobile science lab for the benefit of rural students of 5th to 8th standards.

Status as of June 2012: Till date over 45,000 students have benefitted under this project.

Math fair is a fair organized by the children in which various games and activities are conducted, related to various concept of Math learned in school, so as to make learning Math fun and to engage the parents and the society in the activities conducted by the school.

Status as of June 2012: For the academic year 2011-12, Maa Foundation has covered 234 schools and over 50,000 students and their parents through this fair.

Apart from the above projects, Maa Foundation has various other community projects for the welfare of the society.

To learn in detail about the above projects visit the individual sections pertaining to those projects.