About Us

SHRESTHA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improve the life of underprivileged, slum and orphan children in Jaipur (India) .
Shrestha works to break the cycle of poverty that diminishes these children’s life chances. Without a good education, their economic prospects will be as limited as those of their parents, sentencing them and their future children to a similar life of hardship.

Shrestha is also about helping keep families together, because it’s not uncommon for slum children to run away – sometimes because of problems created by their own parents and sometimes in pursuit of their dreams. Most of the street children in Jaipur actually belong to a slum area. That’s why we teach moral values, so they know the importance of family, because when any child leaves home and ends up on the streets there’ll be organised crime gangs waiting to ‘befriend’ them, only to later force them into child labour or criminal activities like pick-pocketing.
Our proposed program will engage and provide identified children,specially slum,street and orphan children in various activities.These will include Education,Health and Hygiene education,Personality Development,so as to build and provide them an opportunity to develop themselves as the responsible citizen of the country. This will further help them to live into the main stream of society.

We believes education is at the heart of improving the children’s prospects – not just for the children, but for their parents, too. We see it as equally important to engage with their parents and community leaders in the slum area to help them understand the value of education, as a way to help the whole family’s prospects in the long term. Through building relationships with the parents over the past few years, We gained their trust and support, which is critical to ensuring that the children continue to attend school for as long as possible. The first we are in the heart of the slum, and we regularly invite parents to special events at our new schoolroom in a basement nearby.

We also put a strong focus on fun and social skills at the Shrestha school. We celebrate festivals and birthdays with the children, which gives them a lot of happiness, and each school day ends with a session of sports and games, to make sure they always leave with a smile.

Shrestha is dedicated to helping impoverished children lead healthy, fulfilling lives and reach their full potential into adulthood – and you can help