Samanta Foundation

07/08/2026

Beautiful minds
Beautiful books
Memorable trip
Children at the centre

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03/08/2026

New spaces, fresh perspectives.
Samanta’s education team is spending some incredible quality time learning alongside the brilliant minds at Muskaan and Eklavya Foundation
Growing together to serve better!

27/07/2026

Through tree plantation activities at schools and Youth Centres, our youth collective PYC inspired young people to nurture nature and take collective action for a greener future

24/07/2026

School level science fair
A day filled with magic of science brings in the curiosity, eagerness and unlimited questions.

23/07/2026

Learning by Doing!
Activity-Based Addition with peer Learning is helping children build stronger mathematical understanding while enhancing their thinking skills, teamwork, and confidence.

09/07/2026

One team,One Mission

Samanta's 8th foundation day.

08/07/2026

A Note from the Co-Founder's
8th Foundation Day — July 8, 2026

Dear Friends of Samanta,
Eight years ago, we set out with a simple belief: that every child growing up in the forest villages of Uttarakhand — along the Shivalik ranges, in the periphery of Rajaji National Park & Tiger Reserve — deserves the same quality of learning, care, and opportunity as any child anywhere else. That belief became Samanta Foundation.

It has been a humbling journey. What started as a handful of conversations under the forest canopy and forest schools has grown into work across 30 schools, 11 Anganwadi Centres, reaching over 4,000 children between the ages of 3 and 14, and walking alongside more than 100 young people — many of them first-generation learners and young women — as they step into roles as educators, leaders, and change-makers in their own communities. In addition to Teacher Training for 250 Foundational stage teachers and also building capacities of Education System Leaders.

Our Whole School Transformation model, Early childhood care initiatives [Skills Enhancement for Early Development Specialists], and now the PARVAT Youth Collective are all born from years of listening closely to the communities we serve, not assuming we knew best.

As we mark eight years, we're conscious that this is still early. The decade ahead is where we want to go deeper, not just wider — developing contextual learning materials, innovating pedagogies, strengthening local leadership so that rural, tribal, forest-dwelling youth themselves drive the change, building institutions that outlast any one of us, and ensuring that "equality" (Samanta) in education stops being an aspiration and becomes lived reality for every child in these hills and forests.

None of this has been possible without our - Team members, CSR partners, Individual Donors, Mentors and Advisors, Government department officers and staff, Family Foundations, Teachers, Youth fellows, Program partnerships, and every single one of you who has believed in this work alongside us.
Here's to the next ten years.

With gratitude and resolve,
Samanta Foundation

Education Whole School Transformation Pedagogy Training Forest Communities Van Gujjar Taungya Health Forest Curriculum Forest Fellowship Forest Libraries Uttarakhand NGO samanta.org.in

07/07/2026

8th Foundation Day on July 8, 2026!

07/07/2026

Learning through play! Children are building sentences with word cards, enhancing their language and thinking skills in an enjoyable way.