Linde | Mahesh Foundation

Completed 10 years of making impact on the lives of underprivileged.

Voices of our supporters

Bibhabasu Sengupta

Director-Head of Linde Plc

“Mahesh Foundation team has accomplished these all strongly holding these qualities. We are proud to associate with Mahesh Foundation.”

R C Kaushik

Head of Sales, India Linde Plc

Unfortunately, I could not visit this great place earlier, the way you think to educate the people and needy in society is really a great job.

Rituparna Gosh

CSR Team Member of Linde Plc

I am happy to associate with Mahesh Foundation. The education children get here is world class. I loved the school environment and facilities. I wish all best for their future endaviour

Milestone

Construction of New Classrooms

The support from Linde India facilitated the construction of a new classroom, which increased Utkarsha Learning Center's capacity to accommodate additional 500 children.

2023

Computer Classroom

Linde Plc came forward and supported Mahesh Foundation to setup the new computer classrooms.

2023

2022

Utkarsha Learning Center’s first school bus

Linde Plc supported Mahesh Foundation with a School Bus for the Conveyance of underprivileged children from and to school.

Separate care home for girl children

Linde Plc supported Mahesh Foundation's dream to ensure a safe shelter for medically challenged girls in the year 2021.

2021

2020

School in the cloud

Linde supported us to establish School in the cloud platform for the children to explore and learn new things around the world.

North Karnataka Flood

In collaboration with Linde Plc, Mahesh Foundation Helped the north Karnataka people during the flood-hit.

2019

2016

New classrooms for Utkarsha children

With the support of Linde Plc Mahesh Foundation constructed new classrooms at Utkarsha Learning Center.

Livelihood support for medically challenged children

To uplift the lives of medically challenged children residing at Ashakiran care home, Linde plc supported the livelihood of the children.

2014

Computer Classroom Setup

Our Challenge

Under the community support initiative we provide digital education facilities for underprivileged children present in the society. These children lack privileges and support from their parents. In order to help these underprivileged children kick-start their educational journeys and write brighter future for themselves, we support them by providing digital education facilities like computers, digital libraries and many more. For this we are in need of more computer facilities.

Linde plc has joined their hands with Mahesh Foundation for the setup of the new computer classroom for these underprivileged children. This new computer classroom facility will benefit hundreds of children and provide a strong base to build their future.

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Child Sponsorship

Our Challenge

Mahesh Foundation works for HIV-infected children. These children are infected with HIV/AIDS through their parents by birth. Children are brought into families where the situation is such that either their parents are ill or they are single parents or orphans. Mahesh Foundation started for these HIV-infected and affected children with the principle of reducing the children’s vulnerability to infection, and for protecting children from discrimination. But taking care of these children is a challenging task as they need special care.

Linde Plc(Praxair India) first joined hands with Mahesh Foundation in 2013. The first endeavor they supported was sponsoring children sheltered at Mahesh Foundation’s care home. They supported the livelihood of the multiple children for a whole year. This has enabled us to work on the overall development of medically challenged children.

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Classrooms Construction

Our Challenge

Building a school and a safe shelter for HIV-infected and underprivileged children was a dream for Mahesh Foundation. But it was beyond the ability to build such big premises for them. We were in need of huge funds to construct the building. To start school in rented premises is also a bigger challenge. Mahesh Foundation already had space but then, affording the construction is challenging.

We approached Linde urging the support of construction. They have sponsored the infrastructure facilities of the foundation. Linde has supported the conveyance of school children as well as assisted in the construction of the classrooms. Utkarsha learning center is a school that provides qualitative skill education to slum children.

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North Karnataka Flood

Our Challenge

In 2019, the North Karnataka region has seen one of the deadliest floods in its history. Due to heavy rainfall in the Monsoon season, severe flood affected the region damaging life in rural areas. Thousands of people lost their houses and things. Especially the children’s education was stopped because they lost their things in the flood. Many people including children were suffering from viral infection and contagious diseases. Mahesh Foundation took the initiative of the Flood Relief Campaign, but there was a need for supporters for this.

Linde Plc (Praxair India) joined hands with Mahesh Foundation in the Relief campaign of Flood-hit the North Karnataka region in 2019. Linde Plc (Praxair India) and Mahesh Foundation visited flood-hit villages and distributed school kits. Hundreds of underprivileged children benefitted from this. Also, organized health camps in the flood-affected areas for the welfare of the people.

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School in the Cloud

Our Challenge

The children for whom the Mahesh Foundation has been working are rich in talent and intelligence but the lack of support or no support lag behind them in learning. There are no facilities for the latest technology in the homes of these children. The School in the cloud is needed for such children. This helps them in self-organized learning with digital technology. These first-generation learners require lots more visual stimuli hence, the school in the cloud eases their learning. It provides a Self-Organized Learning Environment to the children.

With the support of Linde, Mahesh Foundation established the School In The Cloud. It is helping hundreds of underprivileged children every day to explore and learn new things around the world. A Self-Organized Learning Environment, or SOLE, can exist anywhere there are a computer, Internet connection, and students who are ready to learn. Within a SOLE students are given the freedom to learn collaboratively using the internet.

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Separate Girls Care Home

Our Challenge

The Child Welfare Department has directed all the Child Care Institutions in India to maintain separate premises for boys and girls and this made us build new premises. As the children are orphans and abandoned by their relatives, it will be difficult for them to lead their life. We have decided to build a separate facility for girls beside our existing premises. We had land but the construction of the building requires lakhs of rupees which was beyond the ability of Mahesh Foundation.

Linde plc has sponsored the construction of one of the five floors of separate girls care home. Currently benefiting 30+ medically challenged girl children with all the facilities they need. Also, it would benefit 100+ children in the coming days. There is a lack of hostels for girls and especially for HIV-infected girls. There will be overall development of the girl children taking into account the mental, physical, and social growth

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School Bus Support

Our Challenge

Mahesh Foundation has been providing free education to underprivileged children who dwell in slums in Belagavi. These children used to travel a long distance by walk to reach the school. Then, we provided school van facilities for them but that was also not enough as the number of children increased from 80 to 275 within the same year. Two school vans used to go multiple rounds to pickup these all children.

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Under CSR initiative, Linde Plc supported with a bigger school bus for the commute of these children. These children used walk 4 km to reach the school but that problem was solved with the help of Linde. Because of their support, we have provided a safe transportation facility to them. Also, this led to reduce in dropout rate of these children.

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Construction of New Classrooms

Our Challenge

The Mahesh Foundation faced challenges stemming from limited space that impeded their capacity to accommodate a growing number of children in pursuit of education. The absence of appropriate facilities for vulnerable children had an adverse effect on their educational experiences. Financial constraints posed difficulties in allocating resources for the construction of new classrooms, thus requiring external support to enhance educational opportunities.

Linde's financial support facilitated the construction of new classrooms, significantly enlarging Utkarsha Learning Center's capacity to accommodate more than 500 children. These upgraded facilities not only promoted high-quality education but also nurtured the all-around development of students. This partnership substantially broadened underprivileged children's access to education, equipping them to chase their aspirations and overcome the shackles of poverty. It heralded a positive transformation in the lives of those in need.

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Growth

The Children were exposed to technology where they could access and grow more knowledge.

Exposoure

With new mode of learning the children were able to expose themselves to learn new skills.

Self Reliance

A mode of transport exclusively for the students and staff of Mahesh Foundation.

Independence

The Vans are punctual to pick and drop thus the Beneficiaries are not Dependant on other means of transport.

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Completed 10 years of making impact on the lives of underprivileged.

Voices of our supporters

Bibhabasu Sengupta

Director-Head of Linde Plc

R C Kaushik

Head of Sales, India Linde Plc

Rituparna Gosh

CSR Team Member of Linde Plc

Milestone

2023

2023

2022

2021

2020

School in the cloud

2019

2016

New classrooms for Utkarsha children

Livelihood support for medically challenged children

2014

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Construction of New Classrooms

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Growth

Exposoure

Self Reliance

Independence

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