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LASA
Nagpur, Maharashtra  ·  Est. December 2014

Every child
deserves to thrive.

Education changes everything. 64,000 meals served this year. 175+ families supported every day. Nourishing lives. Empowering futures.

LASA Charitable Foundation works with economically poor children, families and communities — especially in rural areas — ensuring every child gets the quality education they deserve.

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Guide Star GSN 7016
Our impact, in numbers
64,000
Meals Served
This Financial Year
175+
Families Supported
Every Single Day
10+
Years of
Grassroots Impact
80G
Tax Exempt —
Every Rupee Counts
Education is Power
175+ Families Fed Daily
64,000 Meals This Year
Every Child Deserves School
Nourishing Lives · Supporting Healing
10+ Years of Impact
80G Tax Exempt
Empowering Rural Communities
Educating a Girl · Changing a Nation
Nagpur · Maharashtra · India
Education is Power
175+ Families Fed Daily
64,000 Meals This Year
Every Child Deserves School
Nourishing Lives · Supporting Healing
10+ Years of Impact
80G Tax Exempt
Empowering Rural Communities
Educating a Girl · Changing a Nation
Nagpur · Maharashtra · India
Who We Are

Built on the belief that education changes everything.

LASA Charitable Foundation is a nonprofit registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act since December 2014. We are dedicated to working with economically poor children, families, and their communities — especially in rural areas.

Our activities are aimed at making education enjoyable and inspiring, and at empowering schools so that even the poorest children get quality education. We also build life skills and empower parents — particularly women — to live productive, independent lives.

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Children at a LASA Foundation programme
"Quality education is a fundamental right. At LASA, we hope one day the poorest child of our nation will have the opportunity to attain excellent education."
— LASA Charitable Foundation
Our Purpose

Aim. Mission. Vision.

Our Aim

To ensure all children everywhere are not only able to go to school, but that they get a quality education and learn the skills they need to lead healthy, productive lives and realise their full potential.

Our Mission

We are dedicated to working with economically poor children, families and their communities — especially in rural areas — to ensure that children growing up in poverty get quality education.

Our Vision

To transform lives through education. We believe education will eradicate poverty, boost shared prosperity and broad-based economic growth, and build peaceful, tolerant societies.

What We Do

Programs that transform lives.

01
🍱

Mission Nutrition

Addressing under-nutrition among children in rural communities — because a child who is hungry cannot learn.

02
🎒

Back to School

Identifying out-of-school children and bringing them back into education — reducing dropouts and keeping every child in class.

03
🏫

Rural Education Quality

Improving education quality in rural schools so that the poorest children receive the same standard of learning as any other child.

04
🧼

Health & Hygiene

Promoting health and hygiene awareness so children grow up in safe, clean environments that support their wellbeing and attendance.

05
📖

LASA School Library

Setting up school libraries that make reading accessible and joyful — building the habit of learning from an early age.

06
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Empowering Parents

Vocational training — mehandi, cooking, cake-making and more — helping women start small enterprises and build household incomes.

Special Initiative

Educate a Girl.
Change a Nation.

Under the Educate a Girl project, beneficiaries who complete schooling to secondary level are supported with higher education or skill training — helping underprivileged girls break the inescapable cycle of poverty.

Underprivileged girl children are especially protected from child labour, child marriages, and trafficking. Your donation has the power to help these children move closer to their goal.

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Girls at a LASA Charitable Foundation event
"Educating a girl means educating a nation."
Empower the girls. Change a life.
Special Initiative

Nithya Annadhan Seva.

At Regional Cancer Hospital, Nagpur, LASA runs a daily meal programme for cancer patients' attendants and OPD patients — families already carrying enormous emotional and financial weight.

Because when a family is fighting cancer, the last thing they should worry about is their next meal. A warm plate of food becomes a gesture of dignity, care, and hope.

175+
Families fed daily
64,000
Meals this year
365
Days a year, no break
₹0
Cost to the patient
"Nourishing Lives. Supporting Healing. Serving Humanity."
— LASA Charitable Foundation

Fresh cooked meals, fruit distribution to admitted patients, and the quiet dignity of knowing someone cares — that is what Nithya Annadhan Seva delivers, every single day at Regional Cancer Hospital, Nagpur.

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The Bigger Picture

Why you should care.

Quality education to rural poor is still a distant dream in India. This problem has to be addressed on an urgent basis. Quality education is a high-priced luxury to millions of poor children. The Rural School Quality Education drive of LASA Foundation aids children in reaping the benefits of quality education.

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13,40,000 children below 5 die in India every year — that is 3,671 under-5 child deaths per day. Nearly half are attributed to under-nutrition.

02

1 in every 11 children in India is working when they should be at school. LASA aims to take every child to school and make education enjoyable and inspiring.

03

17.7 million children and adolescents are out of school in India — 14% of the world's out-of-school population. 53% of children drop out at the elementary level. A large number are girls.

04

20% of grade 2 children cannot recognise numbers 1–9. 49.5% of grade 5 children cannot do basic subtraction. Education quality at the grassroots urgently needs attention.

LASA relies on donations from generous individuals to carry out this work. If every person who reads our story helps support it, then transforming lives through education will become a reality. You can support LASA with a contribution of ₹1,000 or in multiples — and it takes only a minute.

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Families queuing for meals at Regional Cancer Hospital
Nithya Annadhan Seva — meal distribution
Caregivers waiting — Nithya Annadhan Seva
Regional Cancer Hospital, Nagpur
A Story of Hope
"The meals gave me both physical nourishment and mental peace — allowing me to focus fully on my wife's recovery."

Mr. Ramesh was accompanying his wife through cancer treatment when he first encountered the Nithya Annadhan Seva initiative. Like many caregivers, he spent long hours at the hospital — emotionally exhausted and financially stretched, struggling to arrange food while coping with fear and uncertainty.

A simple, warm meal changed that. His story is the lived reality of the 175+ families LASA reaches every single day.

Mr. Ramesh
Caregiver · Regional Cancer Hospital, Nagpur
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