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Who We Are
A Compassionate, Self-Reliant Society
Hritan Foundation is a registered non-profit working at the point where education, health, animal welfare and cultural life meet. We believe these are not four separate problems to be solved by four separate departments — they are one problem, and they are best answered in one place, by people who live alongside those they serve.
That conviction took physical form in our Gurukul: a residential campus with a gaushala in its grounds, an Ayurveda centre that both treats and researches, a temple that sets the rhythm of the day, and yoga every morning before class. Children who grow up here learn arithmetic and they learn to muck out a cow shed. We think the second lesson matters as much as the first.
Alongside the Gurukul we run free medical camps, an old age home, and kirtan and bhandara seva — from our registered office in Noida and our centre in Vrindavan.
About the Foundation
40+Projects Completed
1000+Lives Impacted
6Core Programmes
2Service Centres
Our Home
The Hritan Gurukul
One campus, four things happening at once — and each one feeding the others.
Where the work actually lives
Most of what the foundation does happens in one place. The Gurukul is a residential campus where children study a full academic curriculum — languages, mathematics, science, social studies — and then step outside to feed cows, sit for morning yoga, and grow up within sight of a temple and a working Ayurveda centre.
The integration is practical, not symbolic. Cow dung from the gaushala fertilises the medicinal garden. The garden supplies herbs to the Ayurveda centre. The centre treats the children, the staff and anyone from the surrounding villages who walks in. The temple sets the daily rhythm that holds the rest together.
Children come to us from families who could not otherwise afford schooling. Boarding, meals, books, uniform and medical care are provided. We do not charge fees.
Explore the Gurukul
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Gaushala
A cow shed inside the campus. Students take a turn at feeding, grooming and cleaning every day — compassion taught as a chore, not a lecture.
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Ayurveda & Research
Consultations, panchakarma-style therapies and herbal preparations — alongside documentation of classical formulations and the plants grown on site.
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Temple
Morning and evening prayer, kirtan, and the festival calendar — the thread that keeps students connected to where they come from.
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Yoga
Asana and pranayama before the school day begins, for students, staff and residents — strength, steadiness and a habit that outlasts the Gurukul.
0Fees Charged
3Meals a Day
4Things on One Campus
365Days the Gaushala Runs
Inside the Gurukul
A Day That Teaches More Than the Syllabus
The timetable is the curriculum. What a child does every day is what a child becomes.
Before dawn
Waking, washing and morning prayer at the temple, then yoga and pranayama on the open ground — the same sequence every day, until it belongs to them.
Morning
Academic classes — Hindi, English, Sanskrit, mathematics, science and social studies — taught to the standard any school would recognise.
Afternoon
Seva duties on a rota: the gaushala, the medicinal garden, the kitchen, the grounds. Every child does every job. Nobody is exempt and nobody is singled out.
Evening
Supervised study, then kirtan or storytelling at the temple. Older students help younger ones with what they could not follow in class.
No Fees, No Conditions
What Every Child Receives
Our students come from families for whom schooling is a genuine financial impossibility — daily-wage households, families that have lost an earning parent, children who had already been pulled out of school and put to work.
Everything below is covered by donors. We do not charge fees, and we do not ask families for “voluntary” contributions afterwards. A family that must weigh school against food will always choose food, and they should not have to.
| Provision | What it covers |
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| Boarding | A bed, a place for belongings, supervision and a safe residential environment through the school year. |
| Meals | Three vegetarian meals a day cooked on campus, with milk and ghee from our own gaushala. |
| Books | Full set of textbooks, notebooks, slate and writing material — replaced when they wear out. |
| Uniform | Two sets, footwear and warm clothing. No child is visibly poorer than the child beside him. |
| Medical care | Check-ups at the campus Ayurveda centre, treatment when ill, referral to hospital when needed. |
| Yoga | Daily supervised practice, plus games and outdoor work as part of the timetable. |
Admissions
Admission Is on Need, Not Marks
A child who has never held a pencil is exactly the child this place exists for.
Who we admit
Children from households where schooling is otherwise unaffordable. Girls are frequently the first to be withdrawn when a family is under pressure — which is precisely why they need a place that costs the family nothing.
If a child is behind
New entrants who cannot yet follow their year group receive bridge teaching until they can. Nobody is made to feel slow for needing it, and nobody is turned away for arriving late to education.
How to apply
Call +91 98111 40431 or write to info@hritanfoundation.com. We will talk to the family and tell you honestly whether we have a place — places are limited by what we can fund properly.
National Service
Our Contribution in National Service
Charity, done properly, is unglamorous and repetitive. A cow has to be fed on the day no donor is watching. A child needs a teacher in February as much as in July. An elder needs someone to sit with him on an ordinary Tuesday. Most of our work looks like that.
We keep our commitments deliberately narrow so we can keep them completely: a Gurukul we actually run, a gaushala we actually staff, camps we actually turn up to. Where we do not have the capacity, we say so and point people to those who do.
Our costs are met almost entirely by individual donors — families who give a little every month, shopkeepers who fund a bhandara, doctors who volunteer a Sunday. If you would like to know exactly where a contribution goes, ask us. We will tell you.
What We Do
Our Core Initiatives
Six programmes through which the foundation serves communities across India.
Healthcare
Free Medical Camps
Running free eye check-up and health awareness camps for underprivileged elders and communities across India.
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Cow Welfare
Gaushala & Cow Seva
Protecting and caring for cows through our Gaushala, upholding cow protection as a sacred cultural duty.
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Spiritual
Kirtan & Katha Seva
Organising devotional kirtans, kathas and bhajans to preserve our rich cultural and spiritual heritage.
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Naturopathy
Ayurvedic & Natural Care
Providing Ayurvedic and naturopathic treatments to elders and community members for holistic natural healing.
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Elder Care
Old Age Home
A warm, welcoming sanctuary where seniors find comfort, dignity, companionship and compassionate daily care.
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Transparency
How Your Support Actually Works
No pooled fund, no vague “general purposes”. You choose a programme, and we report back on that programme.
You choose a cause
Gurukul schooling, a health camp, chara for the gaushala, or a bhandara. Pick the one that means something to you — or tell us to put it where the need is sharpest.
It is ring-fenced
Contributions are recorded against the programme you named. Money given for cow feed buys cow feed; it does not quietly become office rent.
It is spent locally
Fodder from nearby farmers, medicines from local suppliers, teachers hired from the surrounding district. Support that stays in the community it came for.
You get told what happened
A receipt, and then the actual outcome — how many were seen at the camp, which term the books covered, how the cow you fed is doing.
Our Centres
Where We Work
Two centres, each with a different job.
Noida — Registered Office
Office No. 1019, A Tower, ATS Bouquet, Sector 132, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201304.
Administration, donor relations, volunteer intake, statutory records and programme planning are run from here. If you want to see accounts, discuss a partnership, or ask a hard question about how we spend money, this is where to start.
Vrindavan — Seva Centre
Our centre in the Braj region, close to the communities our cultural and cow-welfare work serves.
Kirtan, katha and bhandara seva are organised here, along with support for the gaushala and outreach to elders and widows in the surrounding settlements. Volunteers who want hands-on seva usually end up here.
Our Purpose
Vision & Mission
- A holistic perspective towards education, health & community well-being.
- To propagate Gurukul-based learning and value-driven education for the welfare of future generations.
- Hritan Foundation is committed to serving the nation through cow welfare, charity, and social responsibility.
- To establish and support free Ayurvedic and naturopathic healthcare centres for underprivileged communities.
- To preserve India's spiritual and cultural heritage through devotional kirtans, kathas, and religious activities.
- Building stronger communities by empowering individuals with education, health access, and livelihood support.
Since Our Inception
Hritan Foundation — Our History
Hritan Foundation was established with a vision to create a compassionate and self-reliant society — one in which every individual has access to education, healthcare, spiritual growth and the opportunity to live with dignity. The foundation provides the infrastructure, the organisational framework and the outreach needed to carry that work beyond the immediate community.
How it began
It began the way most of this work begins: with a small group of people who could not walk past something. A handful of children in a nearby settlement were not in school. A few abandoned cows were on the roadside. Elders in the neighbourhood were skipping treatment because they could not afford the bus fare, let alone the consultation. Nobody set out to build an institution.
The first response was informal — evening classes, fodder bought out of pocket, a doctor persuaded to give one Sunday a month. What changed was the realisation that these were not three problems. The same family that could not send a child to school was the family whose elder was going untreated and whose cow had been let loose because there was no money to feed her. Treating one strand at a time simply moved the difficulty around.
From informal seva to a registered foundation
Hritan Foundation was registered so that this work could be done properly — with accounts that can be audited, a governing board that can be held to account, and the ability to take responsibility for a child’s schooling or a cow’s upkeep for years rather than weeks. Registration was not the goal; permanence was.
The Gurukul, and everything around it
The Gurukul is the clearest expression of what we set out to do. It is a residential campus where a child receives a full academic education alongside daily cow seva, morning yoga, temple observance and exposure to a working Ayurveda centre. Nothing there is decorative. The gaushala feeds the campus; the Ayurveda centre treats the surrounding villages; the medicinal garden supplies the centre; the temple gives the day its shape.
Around the Gurukul we run the programmes that grew out of those first informal efforts — free medical and eye camps, an old age home, naturopathy and Ayurveda for the wider community, and kirtan, katha and bhandara seva that keep cultural life alive in the neighbourhoods we serve. We work from our registered office in Noida and our centre in Vrindavan.
What we have learnt
Three things, mainly. That proximity matters — you cannot serve a community you do not live near. That consistency beats scale — a hundred children taught well for ten years is worth more than a thousand reached once. And that people give generously when they can see precisely where their money went, which is why we publish what we publish.
Updates
Latest News
Nov 2024
Grand Kirtan Seva organised for Radha Rani
Hundreds of devotees gathered for a soulful kirtan and bhajan evening celebrating the spiritual heritage of India.
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Apr 2024
Free eye check-up camp held across three districts
The foundation conducted free eye check-up and health awareness camps benefiting hundreds of senior citizens.
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Jan 2026
New Gaushala unit inaugurated — 50 more cows in care
The Gaushala facility was expanded to provide shelter and daily care to 50 additional rescued cows.
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Oct 2024
Gurukul admissions open for underprivileged children
New admissions announced for the Gurukul-based learning programme, with free education for eligible children.
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Our Leadership
Suneeta Ji
Chief Executive Officer
Under visionary leadership, Hritan Foundation continues to grow as a beacon of hope — empowering communities, preserving culture and fostering holistic well-being across India through dedicated service and compassion.
Her commitment to social responsibility and the values of humanity has guided the foundation in touching over 1,000 lives and completing 40+ projects across the country.
Meet the Board
In Their Words
The People We Serve
Names have been shortened at the request of the families concerned.
My son used to work at a tyre shop. He is thirteen. Now he is in the Gurukul, he reads to me in the evening, and he tells me the names of the cows before he tells me anything else about his day.
I had stopped going to the doctor because the bus alone was forty rupees each way. At the camp they checked my eyes and gave me spectacles the same week. I can thread a needle again. It sounds small. It is not.
I came for one Sunday to help at the bhandara. I have been coming for two years. Nobody asked me to stay. There is simply always something that needs doing, and it is good to be the one doing it.
Before You Give
Questions People Actually Ask
Fair questions deserve straight answers. If yours is not here, write to us.
How much of my donation reaches the programme?
Contributions are recorded against the specific programme you name, and spent on that programme. We keep administration deliberately lean — the Gurukul, the gaushala and the camps are run largely by resident staff and volunteers rather than a large head office. If you want to see how a particular contribution was applied, ask us and we will show you.
Is my donation eligible for tax exemption under 80G?
Please write to info@hritanfoundation.com or call +91 98111 40431 and our team will confirm the current status of the foundation’s registrations and issue the appropriate receipt for your contribution.
Can I donate a fixed amount every month?
Yes, and monthly giving is by far the most useful kind. A child’s schooling and a cow’s feed are monthly commitments; a predictable income lets us make promises we can keep. Tell us the amount and the programme, and we will set it up.
Can I visit the Gurukul or the Gaushala before donating?
We would prefer that you did. Visits are welcome by prior arrangement so that classes and feeding rounds are not disrupted. Contact either centre and we will find a time. Seeing the work is a better argument than anything on this page.
I would rather give goods than money. Is that useful?
Often, yes — fodder, books, stationery, blankets, spectacles and medical consumables are all used. Please check with us first, so we do not end up storing things we cannot use while running short of things we can.
How do I volunteer, and what would I actually do?
Teaching and tutoring at the Gurukul, cow care at the gaushala, crowd and kitchen work at bhandaras, registration and record-keeping at medical camps, and skilled help such as medical, legal, accounting or design work. Tell us what you can do and how often, and we will match you honestly rather than find you something to keep you busy.
Does the Gurukul charge fees?
No. Children admitted to the Gurukul receive boarding, meals, books, uniform and medical care at no cost to their families. The programme is funded entirely by donors.
What happens to a cow that arrives sick or very old?
She stays. The gaushala is not a productive dairy and does not need to be — an animal that can no longer give milk is fed, treated and cared for for the rest of her life. That is the entire point of the undertaking.
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