Our achievements towards a greater GOAL....

The word Sadhana literally translates to "a discipline undertaken to accomplish a goal".

SMILE's SADHANA is a similar devoted practice to help children from the underprivileged section of the society to accomplish greater heights in life intellectually and economically through the ultimate discipline ‘Education’".

Abraham Lincoln said " Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe"... Sadhana is exactly a mission to help these children sharpen their minds by bridging the barrier between poverty and education within practical limits. ‘A Rickshaw puller’s daughter got into a Medical College’ or ‘Tea Shop owner’s son cleared civil service’ is hair raising stories of our times. This very fact is a clear evidence of the reality that education , particularly Higher education which is so very essential for a decent survival in the society, is still a luxury of children who carry the chromosome of ‘Rich’ and ‘Educated’ parents. We dream of a world where a Rickshaw pullers daughter getting into a medical College is a norm and not an exception. We want to live in a society where the story of a Tea Shop owner’s son clearing civil service’ will not raise the eyebrow by a millimeter.

We at SMILE strongly believe that "Nine tenth of Education is ENCOURAGEMENT". Hence Sadhana project encourages and empowers meritorious students from economically backward section to pursue their higher education (post SSLC/+2) by providing financial assistance, career guidance and developmental training programs.

Sadhana’s Milestones in the last 6 years in a gist :

We have disbursed more than 31 lac rupees supporting 190 students and conducted close to 15 camps on soft skill training, personality development for the Sadhana students.
For Administrative purpose Sadhana project is further divided into separate schemes. Click the links below to see the various schemes in Sadhana:

Sadhana-11 :

This year’s Sadhana comes up with a totally different proposal.SMILE is joining hands with Government Social Welfare Department. It is a Golden Year for Government Orphanage Home Girls Students all over Tamilnadu, as this is the first year to carry most of the students to the next level. This is a Big Initiative and Great Milestone in SADHANA.

Please click here for more details

Sadhana-10 :

Every year SMILE has something in particular that keeps the entire year going, this year it was Sadhana 10. The number of students selected for Sadhana keeps increasing year by year and this year the target was to hit a century!! But that was not an easy job at all. Based on the volunteer availability, districts were selected and application forms were sent to more than 50 schools. Nearly 2000 children attended and the filtering was done based on the family back ground, individual ability, interest in further studies and n number of other reasons.
The areas covered are:
       √  Chennai.
       √  Thiruvallur.
       √  Kanchipuram.
       √  Vellore.
       √  Cheyyar.
       √  Jamunamarathur.
       √  Thiruvannamalai.
       √  Villupuram.
       √  Namakkal.
Finally, 65 students were selected from these based on the criteria listed above,and as always the Journey started!!

For Smile's Sadhana-10 students details. Please click here....

Sadhana-09 :

Sadhana 09 is in all glory following the footsteps of successful Sadhanas in the past years. Sadhana 09 is special in a way because Sadhana 08 had impressed the kind souls in the CSS corporate and they have helped us fund education requests in 2009. We can never thank them enough. For proper record maintenance and financial transperancy we have the details for Sadhana students supported by CSS fund as CSS Sadhana 09 separate from other Sadhana students supported by SMILE.

    Smile's Sadhana-09 :

      √  Initiated in June 2009, this program covers 21 students, out of which 18 students are from the Govt. home for destitute and underprivileged children in kosapet and waltax( adopted by SMILE WELFARE FOUDATION under project Atchaya and punnagai Paalam) and 3 students from the educational requests we received.

    For Smile's Sadhana-09 students details. Please click here....

    CSS Sadhana-09 :

    Through Sadhana 2009 SMILE identifies students from rural background and supports them with the help of CSS for their college education. This effort is to make sure CSS & SMILE provides quality education for those underprivileged students who are not able to pursue their higher education due to financial circumstances.
    Selection of Students
      √  CSS & SMILE identifies the student to be sponsored and student doesn’t apply to us for loan.
      √  Selection of students are mainly based on marks scored in HSLC.
      √  Support for rural students who otherwise may have little or no reach to such scholarship programs.
      √  Preference for first time graduates in family.
      √  Students whose parents are daily wagers.
      √  Preference to single parented children.
      √  Support to poorest of poor Annual family income less than 20000 per annum. All the short listed students are from Govt. Schools.

    For CSS Sadhana-09 students information. Please click here...

Sadhana-08 :

This is one of our very special projects and one of the biggest milestones for SMILE WELFARE FOUNDATION.
    √ Initiated in April 2008, all the students covered under this scheme are from the Govt. home for destitute and underprivileged children in Kosapet and Waltax, adopted by SMILE WELFARE FOUNDATION under Project Atchaya and Punnagai Paalam.
    √ All students sponsored through this scheme of Sadhana were personally trained and coached by SMILE volunteers under the Pungai Paalam scheme from 2005-2008 i.e from their 9th grade to their 12th grade.
    √ The grueling efforts put by our volunteers for 4 years to hone the skills of these students, had finally turned fruitful as 32 students being admitted to professional and non-professional course was a big accomplishment and relief to all. Considering that in previous year, only 10% of the students from these homes were continuing with their higher education, the achievement gets even bigger.
For Sadhana-08 students details. Please click here....

Sadhana-07 :

    √ This scheme of Sadhana project was initiated on April 2007 to specially cover students enrolling in 2007-2008 academic year.
    √ Students supported under this scheme were identified by a survey conducted by SMILE , with help of AID India in the Government higher secondary schools of 5 districts(Chennai, Arakonam, Thiruvannamalai, Thiruvallor & Vellore).
    √ Out of the 5000 students surveyed, after the stringent filtration process 22 deserving students were selected to be sponsored under Sadhana-07 scheme.
For Sadhana-07 students details. Please click here....

Sadhana- General :

    √ Students supported under this project were referred by SMILE members, Friends, contacts of members, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s education cell , other NGO’s and all those who somehow reached us.
    √ Supported students are pursuing different courses both profession and non-professional courses.
    √ In total 53 students have been provided scholarship under this scheme and also they are part of our 5 developmental training programs.
For Sadhana General students details. Please click here....
If you are interested, Please Contact:
Mr.M. Vasudevan/ D. Prabu | +91 95001 25380 | vasudevan.mohan@gmail.com
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