What We Do

Aarti Home

Aarti Home was started to help orphaned and abandoned children in Kadapa district. Started with just five children in a rented house in 1992, we presently have our own home housing 80 children ranging from 1 year to 20 years of age.
At Aarti home, we provide the children with a safe and loving environment. We educate them and give them a start in life by providing emotional, physical and monetary support. We give them access to information, infrastructure, health care and provide opportunities for a secure tomorrow.

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Aarti Education

Aarti Education provides education to children and young girls - girls who do not otherwise get education. Aarti Education currently is working in three areas:
Aarti School
Aarti School is a model school which emphasizes on learning. The school provides Montessori styled education for children from poor and under-privileged backgrounds. The children in Aarti School, despite coming from difficult backgrounds, have done really well in various aspects and have won competitions at district level

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Aarti Women's Centre

Over the years, working with destitute children brought us in close contact with women – helpless women abandoning a female child due to family pressures, destitute women who have no status in the society and deserting her child at the birth, unhealthy women lacking the means to support her children leaving them as servants or worse, open to abuse.
Aarti Women's Support centre aims to provide access to information, infrastructure, health care and training to women in order to provide opportunities for empowerment and independence.

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News and Events

School Bus for Aarti School

Aug 2010: Thanks to Mr.Ajit Kamath, Chairman & MD, Arch Pharmalabs Ltd, the children who attend Aarti School will now be ferried back and forth in their very own school bus.

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Aarti Home Children Create a Wall Mural

May 2010: As part of the Creative Junction project, the children of Aarti Home created an eye-catching mural on the ground level wall of the Aarti School building.

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Namrata Vora coordinating a project for Aarti Home girls at London school

April/May 2010: The girls of Aarti School have been engaged in a very interesting project over the last year. They have been exchanging thoughts and opinions with girls of similar ages at the Newlands School near London. The project has been conceptualised and facilitated by Creative Junction CIC, UK.

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VFT partners with district administration to start 40 bridge schools

May 2009: VFT has been named the primary NGO for 'Sarva Sikshya Abhiyaan', a Government of India initiative that seeks to ensure elementary education for all, for Kadapa District.

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