Details of Karm Marg: A registered NGO dedicated to improving the lives of street kids, children from disadvantaged background, sex workers' kids, children with special needs. Looking to raise $10,000 at the moment for a number of new facilities. Please contact me at jaideep400@yahoo.co.uk for more details.

1. Karm Marg Charitable Society
A loving long- term family home for children and
youth from disadvantaged circumstances

2. Our Philosophy
• Karm Marg means the Path of Work & Action.
• Our vision is to foster self reliance
Our focus areas are
 A home for disadvantaged children
from age 4-18 years
 Vocational training for young adults
 Income generation for economically
backward, marginalized rural women
and youth from villages near our
campus
 Sharing our skills and expertise with
others

3. We provide…
 Holistic growth
 Love, care and a nourishing
environment
 Shelter, Medical support and
Education for upto 50 children
 Counseling, Health and
Hygiene Advocacy,
 Sports, Visual & Performing Arts
 In-house vocational training
and opportunities for
individualized career choices
outside
 An income generation program
–Jugaad which helps fund
nearly 50% of the expenses of
running the home

4. Our History
 Started in February 1997
 Born out of the need for a
realistic support system for
the street children living
around the New Delhi
Railway Station
 To help prevent the
children from abuse and
petty crime
 Funded initially by
collecting waste
newspaper and selling
them as bags
 Organic growth into a
residential care home

5. A home with a
difference!
 Co-ed home with new-age, modern,
multicultural values unlike other
structured Indian institutes
 Children, young adults with special
needs, youth, staff, dogs, hens, ducks
all co-exist harmoniously
 Children run the home with adults as
equals
 A true home: where every donor,
volunteer becomes part of our
growing family
 Every child is encouraged to follow
their own dreams unlike regular
institutions providing limited
opportunities
 Alumni participate and stay
connected as family
 Eco-friendly initiatives like solar
power, organic vegetable gardens
along with basic simple rural living.

6. Jugaad
 A Hindi word meaning:
Getting results by using the
available, limited resources
 Started as an income
generation program, it is now
an independent entity since
2004
 Offers opportunities for skills
training and self-reliance to
marginalized rural youth and
women
 The revenue generated funds
50% of Karm Marg’s
operational costs. Rs. 41 lakhs
was raised in 2013-14

7. Jugaad’s USP
• Using waste, discarded and up-cycle-
able materials to create
saleable products
• We train and employ youth from
Karm Marg as well as other
disadvantaged youth and rural
women
• Provide a platform for other youth
groups to showcase their products
too.
• The products are sold through
iexhibitions, fair-trade and other
eclectic shops, online websites like
ebay india etc domestically and in
the global market.

8. Why Jugaad
 Sustainability through Jugaad reduces
dependence on donations and grants,
inspires self reliance
 Works as an in house training ground
for older children to get an experience
in all aspects of running a business
 Considered a specialist in field of
making products out of waste and
running income generation programs
for the self-sustenance of self help
groups
 Conduct workshops for skill sharing-training-
production.
 Encouraging enterpreneurship and self
reliance. Helping youth set up their own
units.
 A grooming ground for the next
generation taking over the running of
Karm Marg and Jugaad.

9. The Finances
Year Total Jugaad
Sales
(In Lakhs)
Total Grant
Recd by KM
(In lakhs)
Total KM
Donations
(in lakhs)
2011-12 19.5 45 11
2012-13 28 35 8.7
2013-14 41 36 13

10. Alumni Success Stories…
 Aneesh is part of world renowned Navtej
Johar’s dance troop touring Europe
 Rumpi is running her own business from
Bengaluru
 Shabila started a Beauty parlour
 Deepak has got through a Fine Art college
 Rakesh, Ranjit and Pooja are being
groomed to lead Karm Marg into the future,
taking care of Jugaad’s paper bag
production, exhibitions and care-home
administration respectively.

11. Our Impact…since 1997
 750 children as Alumni of Karm Marg
home
 600 children through our contact points
at the New Delhi Railway station and
the day care centers at the Nizamuddin
railway station till 2006
 150 families have worked for Jugaad,
benefitting about 450 individuals
indirectly
 Social empowerment of the
marginalized rural women thereby
improving the quality of life of the entire
family
 Innumerable skill training workshops and
advocacy programs conducted at
schools, colleges, fairs, exhibitions, youth
programs and few remote rural villages

12. What you can do
 1. Mentor our youth to gain
exposure, experience and
training in different fields.
 2. Help us source old
newspaper, cloth cuttings and
other discarded, but useful raw
materials.
 3. Buy our Jugaad products.

13. Our present needs
 Twelve Solar street lights for
lighting up the area all
around the boundary wall
 Six sewing machines
 One big Sintex septic tank