Vision
“To create a world class platform for sustainable education transformation”
The SRF Foundation, formerly known as the Society for Education and Welfare Development, was set up by SRF Limited, to provide high quality education to both the urban and rural poor. The Foundation has built on the heritage of its founders like the late Sir Shri Ram and the late Dr Bharat Ram, who believed in contributing to society, particularly in the area of education, and were instrumental in the establishment of institutions, such as the Lady Shri Ram College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, the Shri Ram Research Institute, the Anglo Sanskrit School and many others.
In keeping with these traditions, the SRF Foundation set up the well known Shri Ram Schools in Gurgaon and New Delhi, as well as the SRF Vidyalaya in Chennai. In addition, the Foundation is intimately connected with the running of the well-known Lady Shri Ram College for Women.
Mission
To improve quality of life, by providing resources and expertise to transform education institutes; focusing on imparting excellent academic and vocational skills, especially to the less fortunate.
Goals
Our foundation has set up a the following goals for the near future:
Expand and enhance The Shri Ram School – In an ever changing landscape, not only do we want to expand our school to satisfy the demand for it, we also have to keep up by improving on the infrastructure as well as the soft assets of the school.
Reaching the unreached– We have 2 aims to achieve this goal. One of which is by implementing the “Model School” programme which involves providing support through the direct intervention in a cluster of schools. The second of which is further expand our outreach programme, Shri Sambandh Programme, which indirectly provides support by partnering with other organisation across the country.
Strengthen Enhancing Early Education programme for teachers– After our pilot test run in 2007/08, our foundation has decided to strengthen this programme and hope to encourage and attract more teacher trainees to join this programme to impart to them a set of skills that will help them in their pre-primary education teaching skills.
Set up Vocational Skills Centres– By setting up these vocational skills centre, we hope to integrate unemployed youths from 18-25 year old into the workforce by equipping them with the appropriate skills.
As part of our focus, our foundation plans to open 2 vocational skills centre. The first vocation skills centre will be located in Mewat, Haryana, where our “Model School” programme is. The second one will be located in Manali, Chennai, where one of our business plants is located.
Support Business Units of SRF LIMITED on CSR initiatives– SRF Limited has a firm belief that as a corporate citizen it has a greater role to play in society's development than mere profit generation. In keeping with this, the Foundation also provides support to the SRF business units in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. For instance, with the help of the Foundation, SRF Limited is deeply involved in creating HIV/AIDS awareness at the workplace, supporting of the affirmative action towards SC/ST communities and the education initiatives from the business units of SRF Limited.
Strategy
Our foundation plans to achieve our goals and vision primarily by working on Public Private Participation Model by engaging with the various organisations and stakeholders:
Government– By partnering with the government, we can work hand in hand towards improving the situation. We can help one another to cover the scope and scale of things in relation to education.
Private Industry– Not only will partnering the private sector offer us access to better technological, process-oriented and financial support, we can also encourage the workforce to be more involved in our projects and increase overall awareness. We can offer wider reach in terms of visibility for the various organisations. Support can also be shared both ways in terms of research and resource sharing.
NGOs / Foundations– By working with other NGOs and foundations, we widen the network of everyone involved and could definitely make use of each other’s expertise and resources to help one another towards their cause.
Academic Institutes– With the support from the brains of our society, we work closely with them to share our findings and experiences and exchange views and opinions. Academic institutions can share their research and most up to date teaching methods. In addition, volunteers from these institutions are warmly welcomed to help as well as gain experience and contribute by sharing their knowledge.
Local Community– The essence of our projects is based on the local community. On the ground, support is needed to help out with the actual carrying out of the work and support is also needed to ensure that ownership of the projects is gradually integrated into the community.
Furthermore, with a strong history with regards to The Shri Ram Schools in the region, SRF Foundation plans to leverage on the expertise and experience of the model/design and knowledge of The Shri Ram Schools in relation to the education field.