Education & hope for 165 needy children in India

It gives me immense pleasure to present to you Reaching Hand’s Annual Report for the financial year
2017-18. Our programs continued to reach out to children, youths & women especially from the
marginalized communities; to make a positive & sustainable impact in their lives and in the last year,
most of our work focused on reaching the unreached communities through our innovative programs.
Our support has directly reached out to impact from 22000 to over 37,000 students through different
programs in 150 schools with Girls Education, WASH, Women Empowerment, Skill Training, My School
& My Community.

We believe that lasting social change can only become a reality when underlying causes of poverty and
social exclusion are addressed in a holistic manner and therefore this year we started our community
development program called Namma Samudaya -My Community. The program is designed to help the
local people identify their problems, co-create solutions, and then implement the same on their own
with professional & financial support from HCL Foundation, RH Team, Local Leaders & Government,
thereby, lending the dimension of sustainability and ownership to the whole vision of empowering the
community.

Several milestones were achieved during the year and the report outlines some of our key achievements
and how we got there. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our stakeholders - especially
our children, youths, women, corporate partners, donors, volunteers, government, vendors, community
leaders, Reaching Hand staffs and well-wishers for their strong and consistent support, without which
we would not have been able to achieve so much. I would especially like to thank our Board Members
for their contribution, particularly when we needed to find solutions to big development challenges.
Best Wishes.
Akshaya Kumar Sagar
Chief Operating Officer

• ReachingHand2018.pdf (PDF)