Ritinjali Brings Hope Where There is None.

Ritinjali is an effort that works for education, for providing opportunity, for providing learning as a means to awareness, such that learning may lead to an open window, an access to a better life. Across thresholds, across boundaries to horizons so that every emerging individual whom we touch, and we enable, we empower. Ritinjali is a volunteer-based organization that is firmly rooted in its philosophy of providing a helping hand wherever needed, in times of immediate crises, to pre-empt social and community issues and to promote responsible citizenship wherever possible.

Our mission is to provide holistic education towards nurturing empowered, responsible citizens, capable of not only providing for themselves, but also of contributing actively to their local communities through enterprise, awareness and self-induced social responsible.

While based in Delhi, Ritinjali's work and efforts have reached areas as far-flung as Rajasthan, Gujarat, Uttaranchal, Tripura, Meghalaya and Karaikal, including slum dwellers, jail inmates, grief and poverty stricken individuals and communities and victims of war and natural disasters, all this through an extensive volunteer network. 

Ritinjali runs intensive volunteer-based and professional programmes that aim at social development through meaningful interactions for volunteers as well as for the individuals and communities that are the recipients of Ritinjali's education programmes, aid and assistance. The programmes include:

Second Chance School - At the Second Chance School in Delhi , we attempt to educate those who unfortunately had to end an educational chapter in their lives. It is a residential programme aimed at imparting literacy, social values, and vocational skills to the urban deprived youth.

 
Night School - A School for the children who work as coolies at INA Market. This operates between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. every night. The school implements the Ritinjali Core Curriculum, which includes Literacy, Numeracy, English, Life Skills, Values and Society, Media in Education.

 
Kusumpur Pahari Learning Centre - Ritinjali runs 3 Learning Centers at Kusumpur Pahari, operating under the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) Mission . The Centre has been able to expand its purview from being just a Learning Centre to being a hub of community activity. It doubles up as a gymnasium for the youth from the community. A Beautician course is also conducted for the women of the community. 

Nathupur Pahari - In 2005, Ritinjali set up its learning centre at Nathupur Pahari for the children of this slum. The centre has been built by the community and accommodates up to 70 children. 

Bakery and Confectionery Centre - The Bhumi Vardaan Foundation and Ritinjali have set up a Bakery in Gurgaon to train boys from underprivileged backgrounds to learn the baker's trade.

 
Dalil Ekta Camp - This project involves educating the children residing in the slum clusters, located behind the Vasant Kunj Police Station.

Drishti – Ritinjali's Rajasthan Project – Ritinjali evolved a comprehensive Life Skills Programme for Teacher Educators in Kota and Jhalawar districts of Rajasthan to address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents.

Tihar Jail - Among a select few NGOs permitted to work at the Tihar Jail, Ritinjali volunteers impart income enhancing vocational skills, run counselling programmes and provide free legal aid to the inmates.

 
AIIMS - The Departments that Ritinjali works with are: Children's OPD, Pain and Palliative care and Board Room OPD

 
Naari Niketan - Naari Niketan is one of the nine institutions under Nirmal Chhaya run by the Delhi Government's Social Welfare Department. Ritinjali has been associated with Naari Niketan since 1997.

 
NIOS - Ritinjali runs two Accredited Vocational Institutes (AVIs), operating under the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) at Mahipalpur. These impart lessons in Computers and Tailoring. 

Ritinjali has embarked on initiatives in urban and rural India that are small but ever so important steps towards the development of marginalized segments of our society: those immersed in poverty; those exploited; those not exposed to progressive education programmes; those suffering the effects of war, natural disasters and crime…the list reads on.

As both problems and solutions come in all shapes and sizes, Ritinjali over the last thirteen years has garnered the experience and the expertise to design and implement integrated community development programmes and interventions. Our projects address the root causes of the problems societies face, and our singular objective is to empower people through our various programmes, so that they may be able to contribute constructively to their own lives, their families, their communities and society at large.

This empowerment is manifest in economic independence and reliability, relevant education beyond mass based literacy, emotional balance, environmental consciousness, progressive thought…all equipping those involved with the necessary "tools" to be responsible citizens.

Ritinjali and its programmes enjoy an unsolicited amount of goodwill among both recipients of interventions as well as an extensive list of volunteers, not to mention partner organizations & networks, government bodies and corporate institutions & offices.

The surge of social consciousness has bred in individuals and organizations alike a need for involvement in community development activities, either through active participation or through latent but tacit support. Ritinjali welcomes all initiatives and contributions to its aim of responsible citizenship through social development and education, in the form of volunteering efforts, financial aid and donations of funds and materials to support its initiatives. 

Ritinjali appreciates your "Helping Hands". Together we can help bring hope where there is none. For more information on Ritinjali, you can visit our website: www.ritinjali.org