3. What do we do?

4. How do we do it?

5. Some memories down the lane

6. Some financial talks

7. Learning to teach

8. LEAD in Limelight

9. Some of our achievements

10. Women empowerment project

11. Rural Project

12. Other Projects that we are part of

13. Our journey so far

14. Testimonials

16. We primarily work with the children living in the shanties/ street shelters of Airoli and Ghansoli, in Navi-Mumbai, Maharashtra, who hail from the families of construction workers and other daily wagers.

17. We first admit these children into the nearby municipal schools and then strive to provide a cheerful environment for their holistic development so as to prevent their early drop out due to their problems at home.

21. Supplementing the education of those children by teaching the basic subjects as well as teaching through extra curriculur activities

28. We are now catering to 4 different slum communities in Airoli without any compromise in quality and loss of encouragement

29. From a humble beginning at hutments/footpaths/temples, we have now moved to or own rented place

33. Majority of the kids at our centres have managed to score more than 80% in the academics

34. Have also started work in tribal villages since Mar 2011

40. Distribution of Nutrition powder to the adolescent girls as well as Anganwadi children (1-6yrs)

41. Distributing educational toys/games/books and computer for the primary school

46. Rehabilitation of extremely poor/street children into shelter homes

47. Encouraging kids in some of the shelter homes

49. Avishkar, 25, Telecommunications engineer: “LEAD gave new dimensions to my life, my thinking towards society, people has completely changed. LEAD has helped me to grow as an individual; it feelssatisfying to work for my country and its people.”

52. Volunteering with LEAD involves a lot of multitasking but it also gives us the opportunity to work with the diverse team, freedom to use our skills, execute our ideas and stretch our capacities in a manner of our liking. And hence, we succeed in transforming our volunteers into LEADers.

57. Employees’ time donation to share their skills with kids at our centre

58. Sponsor a specific programme

59. Adopt an area