Happy new year, dear patron! We hope that you've had a great start to this new year. As 2023 dawns on us, I thought it'd be a good time to share a few updates about what we've been upto in the past couple of months:

Since the last time you heard from us, we've been putting your faith and trust in us to on-ground action. Here are a few key updates:

1. In the past few months, we've put out daily micro-lessons to improve cognitive, physical, socio-emotional and language abilities of children across the states of Punjab and Uttarakhand. We've been delivering 20 micro lessons every week (i.e. 4 micro-lessons every day to 47000+ preschools) since we last spoke.

Here are a few snapshots of our parents and anganwadi workers helping children learn in an activity based, playway method:



One of our supporters, Ulhas, visited an anganwadi in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and wrote about his experience here. Do give it a read, a lot of our supporters found this reflective article meaningful!

2. In order to nudge states to be more outcome focussed, we helped states organise the largest Children’s week yet, this year. 47000+ Anganwadis across 36 districts in 2 states of Punjab and Uttarakhand mobilised 3,86,076 parents & 5,32,227 children to celebrate the idea of holistic development of children.

In fact,
A) 15,301 villages chose a 5 year old as a village sarpanch for a day - cleaned their villages, spread awareness on child protection/child helplines at their new sarpanch’s behest,
B) For better health and nutrition, parents and children planted 23488 plantations at their Anganwadis/homes
C) We ensured 6698 toddlers walked into Anganwadis as new enrolments
D) We nudged villages and communities to donate 18496 toys to assist children's play and learning at the same time.

You can see a short summary video linked here 

Moving from child (bal) to child development (bal vikas) is a slow process that requires patience; but events like these create the right momentum, the right nudge for the change that must come. We are happy to have facilitated this shift, thanks to the support extended by you.

In case you'd like to further support our work, do donate on our fundraiser which is active here: ​https://milaap.org/fundraisers/merakifoundation​​​

You could also support us by spreading the word!

We thank you for your patronage and support. It is because of you, that we continue to work for the children and families who need our support the most!

Warmly,
Team Meraki
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Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your continued support.

Milaap is now offering us a 5% matching on all the donations till 18th May 2022, to reach our goal faster.

Please come forward to help us with our initiative! It would not be possible to initiate the project without your help!

Click on the link below to donate for the cause:
​https://milaap.org/fundraisers/merakifoundation​​​

Thank you!

Dear Friends and donors of Meraki,

As you know, Educational Reform takes long term, enduring & patient action by people who care. Started with myriad stories of parents and children from across the country, Meraki is on one such journey. By choosing to donate to Meraki's cause, you have chosen to be a part of our journey of Education reform for the underserved. On that path, in the past month, we've raised funds to mobilise support for 15000 families. This wouldn't have been possible without your support. Thank you, really.

The mission however, is still not over. So, in case you haven't already, please do share the campaign page (https://milaap.org/fundraisers/merakifoundation) with 2 family/friends who, you know, care. Do encourage them to donate and help Meraki support more families.

Important note:

For everyone, who's donated to us in case you're seeking an 80G tax exemption, please

• Share your pan card number, name (according to pan card), donation acknowledgment receipt from Milaap, amount donated and date of donation with us.
• Write to us at ramang@merakifoundation.in and seemantd@merakifoundation.in 
• We'll revert back to you with your 80g receipt in 48 hours

In case you have any other questions/suggestions or you'd like to know more, please feel free to write to us on the email IDs shared above.

 Thank you once again for choosing to support the cause of Education, of low income families and most importantly the cause of India through your donation.


Warmly,
Team Meraki