GIVE US A SMALL HELPING HAND AT MAITHRI

Maithri Educational & Charitable Trust started in 1991 with objective toprovide financial assistance for education to meritorious students from the economically weaker or broken households. Financial assistance comprises of school fees, books, notebooks, uniform & shoes.

A strong will of a differently abled and desire with an empty pocket to help fellow human beings in whatever little way possible, Rajaram Sreedhar started the Trust way back in 1983 as unregistered endeavour. One old friend of the Founder donated Rs 1000 & with this money as the Corpus the Trust was registered in 1991. A little later the first major donation of Rs 3000 came from a gentleman who was on his way to Saudi Arabia. This was utilised to educate a visually impaired student.

We started with 20 children under care, now the trust has 90 students whose educational needs are being looked after. The beneficiaries are academically good students from poor families. We believe that once a child is given good education that would serve as good foundation for future life. So far, more than 250 have been benefited though our Trust, 10 of who are Engineers, well settled in the US and the Middle East.

We have been spreading the ambit of our coverage, hence demanding more funds. We request you to extend donations for catering to sustenance and endowment plans, the amount received under Donations are exempted from Income Tax U/S 80G of the Income Tax Act – 1961, Vide No. Dit (E) No. --------. NRI Donors can donate by money transfer in US dollars or any other Foreign Currency in favour of "Maithri Education and Charitable Trust". We are registered under Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act under Registration No. 075900819 under section 6 (1)(a)of FCR Act 1976.