Learning Space Foundation

08/08/2025

A New Chapter Begins at Saraswati Ganpat Patil Vidyalaya: Building Futures, One Skill at a Time

On the auspicious morning of Thursday, August 7th, we held the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony to mark the beginning of Phase 2 construction at Saraswati Ganpat Patil Vidyalaya at Kelthan in Vajreshwari, on the outskirts of Mumbai— a transformative step towards empowering rural youth through skill-based learning.

This new building will house a Skills Development Centre on the ground floor, designed for students who have completed their 10th Std, to train in vocational skills such as:

💄 Beautician & Skin Care
🧵 Sewing & Fashion Design
🎨 Painting & Carpentry
🔧 Mobile & Electronics Repair

The first floor will be dedicated to academic and digital readiness, with a Science Lab, Computer Lab, Library, AV Hall, and a Conference Room – creating a comprehensive ecosystem for learning and career preparedness.

During the event, students from 8th and 9th Grades of Saraswati Ganpat Patil Vidyalaya enthusiastically showcased their growing skills in mobile phone repair, basic electrical circuits, paramedical care, sewing & fashion design, and even turning harmful plastic waste into creative decorations. Their confidence and creativity were a powerful reminder of the immense potential that lies in our rural youth — waiting to be nurtured through the right opportunities.

The event was graced by:

✨ Rajiv Shah, MD, Everest Food Products Pvt Ltd.
✨ Noopur Desai, President, Rotary Club of Bombay Pier
✨ Shri K.G. Patil, Chairman, Devghar Shikshan Vibhaag
✨ Nitin Orayan, Founder, Learning Space Foundation - Maharashtra – the key organizer of the initiative & Jamshed Banaji Chief Architect at Banaji & Associates, and Trustee at Learning Space Foundation - Maharashtra

With the generous support of individuals and institutions who care deeply about inclusive education and rural development, this initiative will open up livelihood pathways for youth from Wada, Bhiwandi, Vasai, and surrounding areas – beginning June 2026.

🔗 Let this be a call to action: We invite corporate CSR partners, donors, educators, and changemakers to join hands in making rural Skill Education a strong and sustainable pillar for India's future.

When we build institutions of learning, we don’t just build structures – we build lives, purpose, and dignity.

30/11/2024

We are proud to share that Learning Space Foundation (LSF) has been honored as one of the Top 10 Best NGOs of the Year 2024 by INDIAN CSR! 🏆 from Brand Honchos.

This recognition celebrates our efforts to create positive change and support communities through education and sustainable development.

A big thank you to our team, supporters, and partners for being a part of this journey.
Together, we can achieve even more!

We offer an integrated form of Learning and development to children in remote villages of India to empowering the child, teachers, parents and community.

19/02/2024

On February 19th, on the auspicious occasion of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti, LSF celebrated its 17th anniversary amidst 100s of school children, teachers, education dept officials and other guests.
The program began with a lamp lighting ceremony and garlanding of the revered Chatrapati's idol, followed by outstanding solo & group performances of children.
The Block Education Officer of Panchayat Samiti Wada, Shri Mokashi appreciated the relentless efforts made by LSF Trust over two decades to improve quality of education and opportunities in the Wada Taluka and neighbouring areas of Thane and Palghar districts.

Creative and engaging activities like clay pottery, Warli & other forms of Art and games were organized for the participating children.

Eco-friendly learning aids made at LSF center were the highlight of the program, showcasing the novel early and primary learning model named Sarvaprathamik.
Over 200 early and primary learners gathered at the LSF center near Vajreshwari on the outskirts of Mumbai at 10.30 am, coming from different villages & hamlets in the Wada Taluka.
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11/01/2024

We are pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the new Phase 1 building at Saraswati Ganpat Patil Vidyalaya at Kelthan village near Vajreshwari (on the outskirts of Mumbai) on Saturday 13th January 2024, for a morning program from 10 am till 12.30 pm.
Learning Space Foundation has played the role of the frontrunner of this redevelopment of the flood-damaged village high school, due to the monsoon flooding of Tansa River.
At this joyous occasion, we have a two days program, with a Satsang with Mahamandaleshwar Gurudev Sri Nityanananda Saraswati Ji Maharaj of Shanti Mandir on Day 1 Friday 12th January 2024 and the formal inauguration program on Day 2, Saturday 13th January with special classical dance performances by students of the Natanam Studio for Performing Arts, Goregaon East, Mumbai, led by renowned Kathak artiste Dr Piyush Raj & Guru Shubhada Varadkar.

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12/11/2023

The 'SarvaPrathamik' Shikshan project by LSF is all about fun and learning for rural early and primary learners! They believe in hands-on education, where kids get to participate and learn by doing. They even get to join in and learn about every Indian festival, its significance, and all the fun activities done in the communities, like preparing delicious food and sweets!
Recently, the Sarvaprathamik project team went all out for Diwali Bal-Ananda Divas (Children's Joy Day!) in 17 village schools, giving around 1200 kids the chance to get their hands on paper, cardboard, clay and paint to make dazzling Diwali decorations like diyas and kandeels. The pics here are pretty impressive, showing how much the 3rd and 4th graders got into the festive spirit! But LSF isn't done yet! They'll be running a Diwali workshop for kids later on, keeping the excitement going and bringing out the little artists in everyone!

12/11/2023

19/10/2023

Learning Space Foundation (LSF) won the best project award for its 'SafeSpace' Girls' Restroom & Sanitation for Rural schools in the category of 'Best Women's Hygiene Project' - the award was presented by the Brand Honchos Group Indian CSR Awards to the Founder at LSF, Shri Nitin Orayan on 7th October evening at Hyatt Centric Hotel New Delhi.

We appeal to the large community of donors and NGOs working in the field of rural school sanitation and menstrual hygiene support to come forward and adopt this very useful project and implement it in many States and districts throughout the country.
Our research in this field has proven results showing that over 90% adolescent school girls in remote rural areas drop out of school or severely lose out on education due to inadequate restroom sanitation facility, so step forward and support the 'Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao' work through this project –
Write to [email protected] or [email protected] to find out more about this project.

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19/08/2023

Event on SarvaPrathamik Program implementation and eco-friendly material at Kelthan School Khambala, Dabhad cluster

On 14th August 2023, The SarvaPrathamik project model was presented at one of the larger primary and middle-level Zilla Parishad schools in the Bhiwandi rural area, named, Khambala on Friday the 14th of July. Over 50 children from the 1st to 5th std. participated alongside their parents and teachers in a programme for communicating the efficiency of the model project. As seen in the pictures, many parents and community members participated, and The Kendra Pramukh (cluster official) & President of the School Management Committee were happy to extend the project to more schools in the area.

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05/04/2023

The Redevelopment of the village high school severely damaged by the recurring flooding of the Tansa River, has been a long struggle for the school's Principal, teachers and the students.
Here in this video, the school's Principal speaks about their journey in transforming the difficult situation through approaching the NGO Learning Space Foundation and thereafter finding all solutions for the long-standing problem.
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27/03/2023

The project of Redevelopment of village high school that was inaugurated on 13th November 2022, is fast progressing into its completion of Phase 1 comprising of 3 classrooms built on stilts with a staircase; In the last 4 months, the architects and their construction team on site have done great work ensuring that the new building with 3 classrooms would be ready for use by the onset of monsoon in June 2023; What a wonderful occassion it would be for all the school students to be walking into their new classrooms as they come in their new curriculum year of 2023-24!
Requesting all well-wishers of rural education to write to us or contact us for making their individual contributions towards this endeavour.

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25/03/2023

The Universal Sompo General Insurance Co Ltd - (USGIC www.universalsompo.com) has committed it's social responsibility to mainly support rural development through better infrastructure for village schools & colleges, development projects in rural public sanitation and community health, besides other crucial causes.
The social work association of USGIC and Learning Space Foundation (LSF www.learningspace.org.in) started with supporting one such deserving cause in rural areas - The Rural Women's Community Sanitation (RWCS) project was initiated and implemented in the year 2021at Wada Tehsil in Palghar District of Maharashtra - the social initiative was implemented in the form of a well-designed sanitation unit facility in the public offices area in Wada town where 100s of women worked regularly or visited govt. offices. The facility provided a complete sanitation solution in a central workplace to a large number of college girls, female working staff and visiting women of the rural community from over 50 villages around the central spot. The project site was completed and the sanitation unit inaugurated on 29th March 2022.
In the year 2022-23, the social change association of USGIC and LSF has taken up the CSR initiative of building a new school for the flood affected village high school in village Kelthan, near Vajreshwari in the Wada Tehsil.
We, at LSF are deeply grateful to the USGIC for decisively committing their CSR funds to rural education & community health & sanitation, and trust that our endeavour to better rural infrastructure will continue with the same zeal and intent in the near future.
We sincerely appeal to all sections of urban society to step forward to support this initiative of providing the flood affected village high school and it's students a very sturdy & long-lasting new school building, with all high school amenities.