A gym, a sewing centre and study centres for eight villages

By 2015 the Foundation had been working for nine years in 53 villages of Bareilly district, with medical camps, organic farming training, tree planting, education centres and veterinary camps. That November it chose eight of those villages for a new set of projects, each run from a centre in the village itself.

• 20 November: a gymnasium opened in Faizullapur.
• 22 November: an education centre and a sewing centre opened in Jatau Patti.
• Makrandapur: an education centre and a gymnasium.

Each centre had its purpose. The gyms were meant to keep young men fit and away from addiction; the education centres to help village students keep up with their studies instead of dropping out; and the sewing centres to give women and girls a skill and some income of their own. Similar projects followed in the remaining five villages over the next month.