ABOUT US



GOOD GOVERNANCE


Credibility and accountability have always been the bench mark for RAHI Education and Charitable Trust and are achieved through the promotion of principles of good governance in the processes and practices. RAHI Education and Charitable Trust has a Three-tier audit and evaluation mechanism to ensure impact of investment and complete transparency and accountability in utilisation of funds. This four-tier audit mechanism reviews programmes and projects, internal operations, compliance of statutory norms and conducts an external evaluation for the impact and outcome of various development programmes. The entire management processes and practices of RAHI Education and Charitable Trust are in compliance with the principles of good governance.


VISION




Work as a catalyst in bringing sustainable change in the lives of underprivileged children, youth and women, with a life-cycle approach of development.

Enable the civil society across the world to engage proactively in the change process through the philosophy of civic driven change.

Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organisation.

Build a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

To create a permanent, irreversible change in the lives of maximum people in rural India in the next upcoming years.

MISSION




RAHI Education and Charitable Trust is to empower underprivileged children, youth and women through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood programmes.

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust is to deploy best possible methodology and technology for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good governance. To link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development initiatives; also to sensitize privileged children, youth and citizens in general to promote Civic Driven Change.

The work of our Organization is aimed at targeted assistance to children in the form of charitable donations from sponsors and patrons, as well as providing material, technical, informational and legal and humanitarian assistance through charitable events and programs.


We also offer additional resources to families with children all over the world as well as support to schools and kindergardens located in poor regions.

The work of our Organization is aimed at targeted assistance to children in the form of charitable donations from sponsors and patrons, as well as providing material, technical, informational and legal and humanitarian assistance through charitable events and programs. We also offer additional resources to families with children all over the world as well as support to schools and kindergartens located in poor regions.



Education: The promotion of education and the improvement of creative abilities of children and youth in developing countries have been our global goals since the establishment of our charity organization.

Adoption: We help orphans find a family and discover what real family values and happiness are. Our organization understands how important it is to find a loving family, and we do everything to make it happen.

Volunteering: We invite everyone to take part in our volunteer abroad programs to set up additional education, provide training, promote the employment of adolescents, and change our world for the better.

Help & Support: Our charity organization provides financial, technical and humanitarian assistance within various charitable programs designed to help every person in the world and to push society forward.

BELIEF

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust believes that unless members of the civil society are involved proactively in the process of development, sustainable change will not happen. Believing in this principle of 'Civic Driven Change', RAHI Education and Charitable Trust sensitises the civil society in order to make them partners in its mission.


LIFE CYCLE APPROACH

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust believes that education is both the means as well as the end to a better life: the means because it empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood and the end because it increases one's awareness on a range of issues - from healthcare to appropriate social behaviour to understanding one's rights - and in the process help him/her evolve as a better citizen.

Education is the most effective tool which helps children build a strong foundation; enabling them to free themselves from the vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty and disease.

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust realised that Education for Children cannot be achieved without the family, particularly, unless the mother is assured of health care and empowered. Moreover, when an elder sibling is educated and relevantly skilled to be employable and begins earning, the journey of empowerment continues beyond the present generation.

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust extended its thematic areas of intervention by supporting family health, livelihood, and women empowerment. Children, their families and the community become the target group for RAHI Education and Charitable Trust's activities as child education cannot be done in isolation and nothing else but education for children can bring long lasting change in the society.

APPROACH

Grass Root-Based: The relief and development work by RAHI Education and Charitable Trust is community-based. Our staff reside with the communities at the grassroots - live with them, learn from them, listen to them and work alongside them to find solutions to their problems. An independent board exercises overall governance leadership, managing risks and ensuring compliance to statutory requirements.

Focus On Children: All development work that we perform focus on children - the bright young minds of tomorrow. Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organisation.

Partnering For Change: RAHI Education and Charitable Trust partners with communities, children, the Government, civil society, corporations, academia and faith-based organisations to build a nation ideal for children. World Vision has been ever responsive to major disasters in India in the last few decades including earthquake and recurring flood situations across various states. In Past years RAHI Education And Charitable Trust is a member of several networks and coalitions at various levels.






Our Commitment to Accountability and Transperency: RAHI Education and Charitable Trust is committed to high standards of accountability and transparency which is an expression of our core value on 'stewardship'. This is because we fervently believe that we work effectively for the well-being of children. RAHI Education and Charitable Trust continually strives to maintain high national and international standards of professional competence and is accountable through appropriate structures for achieving these standards.

We have our policies, procedures, systems, practices, work culture and audits well in place to reflect our commitment to accountability and transparency. As part of RAHI Education ANd Charitable Trust, we uphold a range of NGO standards to help benchmark our performance. RAHI Trust is also actively involved in the International Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Open Forum on Development Effectiveness and the International Aid Transparency Initiative.

RAHI Education and Charitable Trust endeavors to convey a public image that conforms to reality and speaks and acts with diligent honesty. With the power of the Almighty, we intend to pursue excellence beyond compliance, in all aspects of our work - In governance, management, operations and administration.

WORKING MODEL



RAHI Education and Charitable Trust’s Outreach programme was launched in 2013 to directly implement its development initiatives for underprivileged communities residing in remote villages as well as urban slums across the country.

Outreach has a distinctive approach. It partners with corporate bodies, PSUs and international development organisations for direct implementation of various initiatives in target locations. It differs from the Social Venture Philosophy model of RAHI Education and Charitable Trust in which community-based organisations are identified, handheld and made sustainable for implementing the projects on the ground.

The distinct approach of Outreach serves a dual purpose. On one hand, it facilitates a better understanding of the ground realities and challenges encountered in the implementation of a project. Secondly, it also assists the corporate houses, PSUs and international agencies in fulfilling their Corporate Social Responsibility mandate.

Through Outreach, RAHI Education and Charitable Trust implements a variety of intervention projects. Education is provided to underprivileged children living in remote areas, under Mission Education. Well-equipped mobile hospital units with medical expertise, services and medicines traverse across deserts, forest tracts, hilly terrain and urban by lanes to bring affordable, accessible and accountable healthcare, under smile on Wheels programme. Besides this, Smile Health Camps, Integrated Community Development and Infrastructure Development projects ensure overall welfare.

Outreach directly works in 33 districts of Gujarat, more than 150 villages and 10 urban slums, reaching out to a population of over 45,020. The programme has already benefitted approximately 15,425 beneficiaries.

CHAIRMAN MESSAGE



Warm Greetings from RAHI Trust!

At the outset, please accept my heartiest welcome.

I presumed that you have already heard somewhat about our organization and visiting our web portal would meet your expectations, and allows you to discover more about our organization as well as our working culture along with our self-made promise of being the torch bearers of bringing the constructive changes to our society. With the aim of working for the vulnerable class of the society and give everyone a smooth livelihood, RAHI Trust was started in 2013 and got registered in 8th of October, 2013.

RAHI Trust is not just an organization or workplace for me; it is rather a platform for me and my team members where we can exhibit our every responsibility towards the society. While setting up the organization I met a lot of people who shared my view of changing the society in a positive way. I feel fortunate that those people who believe in bringing positive change to the society are in my team.

We as a social Organization mainly focuses on Livelihood improvement of the people and hence, we believe that for all around development we should focus on Socio-Economic, Cultural and Educational,

Chairman (Founder)

Divyendrasinh Rathod

(B.com, M.com, LLB, PGDTP, ICWAI Inter-I)

We as a social Organization mainly focuses on Livelihood improvement of the people and hence, we believe that for all around development we should focus on Socio-Economic, Cultural and Educational, Research and Development, Agriculture and Farming that even should include our responsibilities towards a healthy Environment. And that’s why all our projects mainly focus on these sectors and henceforth our past and ongoing projects have been able to generate employment opportunity for the unemployed youth and the women by inducing skills to the unskilled, replacing outdated techniques to advance technologies and so on. Although this past Nine years has been a kind of roller coaster ride for me, but the support and cooperation of my homeland people and administration has always been a driving force for me and I can’t thank them enough with words.

More-strengthly enough, I am just a face to our stories of success but all our dreams would not meet their appropriate action without the dedication and hard work of our team members who have shared in our incredible journey so far. Their contribution is just a prodigy for me which I can’t even dream of alone!

We are looking forward to continue to serve and support all of you in the future in every possible way and people like you are our main source of motivation and to push our limits every single day.

We are thankful for your valuable time!

Divyendrasinh Rathod

Chairman, RAHI Trust

OUR LEADERSHIP



Chairman (Founder)

Divyendrasinh Rathod

B.com, M.com, LLB, PGDTP, ICWAI (Inter-I)

Managing Trustee

Hiten Tinani

B.com, C.A. (Inter)