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 reading group, a subject class, a computer room, or the paperwork nobody enjoys but everything depends on. Companies can support the same work through CSR.
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.
CSR partnership
Adopt one government school for one year.
This is the simplest thing a company or an individual can do with us, and the one that shows results fastest. One school, one academic year: reading and number groups in the primary classes, subject teachers for science, mathematics and English, a working computer room with two trained teachers, school kits for the children who arrive without them, and a function for the SSC toppers at the end of it.
A partnership with us pays for:
- expansion of the foundational literacy and subject programmes;
- additional learning centres and learning hubs;
- wider distribution of educational kits;
- enhanced digital and skill-based training.
You receive photographs of what was delivered, the bills, attendance and assessment sheets, and a report at the end of the year that says what did not work. If you would rather give material than money — computers, notebooks, benches — we will tell you exactly what the school has asked for.
Kalam Foundation is registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for CSR activities — CSR-1 registration CSR0011440, PAN AAMAK5774E — and holds provisional 80G approval (AAMAK5774EF20241) for assessment years 2024-25 to 2026-27. Your compliance team can verify both before the transfer.
On donations
Give by bank transfer — NEFT or IMPS — and we issue the receipt under Section 80G. The account details are here.
Until then, if you would like to fund a school kit, a health camp or a month of ration, write to [email protected] 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.