Dr. KR Shroff Foundation (KRSF), a ten-year-old organisation dedicated to uplifting underprivileged communities through education, recently collaborated with Suzuki Motors Gujarat (SMG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corporation. The collaboration’s goal is to advance the Gujarat government’s initiative of quality education for all by improving education quality and improving education facilities at government primary schools in 22 villages in Ahmedabad, Surendranagar, and Mehsana.
KRSF will undertake and implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in the education sector for SMG as part of the collaboration. Both businesses have mutually agreed to support students at government primary schools in their respective villages. The Gujarat government has remained extremely supportive of KRSF’s education initiatives, allowing its team to work with government-run schools in various villages.
Speaking about the collaboration, Mr Pratul Shroff, founder, KRSF, said, “Our primary focus at KRSF is uplifting underprivileged communities through the power of quality education and making them self-reliant. Over the past decade, we at KRSF have worked across at least 460 rural schools in Gujarat to improve the quality of education among the youth. We are proud to collaborate with SMG and extrapolate our efforts in the education sectors to more villages in the districts of Ahmedabad, Mehsana and Surendranagar.”
SMG will provide KRSF with a financial grant in accordance with the scope and size of the project in order to incur capital expenditures and operational costs over the next three years – the project’s implementation period.
All in all, the project will ensure to make certain immediate impacts towards improvement in the quality of education of the beneficiaries.
As part of the collaboration, KRSF will begin with a foundational learning approach by providing special coaching to weaker students of class 5-8, who struggle with reading, writing and basic arithmetic. That apart, regular classes will be conducted for Math, Science and English for students of class 3-5 with the help of videos and practical demonstrations to make the learning process more engaging and impactful. This will be especially undertaken in schools facing a shortage of teachers.
KRSF will focus on value-based education and extensive sessions on health and hygiene to enable children to lead a quality life and help build character, in addition to providing equitable access to the highest quality of education. KRSF will make every effort to ensure that the project is sustainable and replicable as needed.
Over the past decade, KRSF has been relentlessly and successfully working towards bringing about a measurable change in improving the quality of education across some 460 rural schools of Gujarat. The foundation helps educationally weaker students to be standard appropriate along with imparting value education and ensures holistic development of students.