A Plate Full of Joy: Celebrating the Spirit of Giving with Migrant Children
This Daan Utsav, we celebrated the true Joy of Giving: not through grand gestures, but through simple, heartfelt acts that filled little plates and brightened young hearts. Across Sampark’s Early Childhood Care and Education Centres, migrant children came together to share meals, laughter, and dreams.Each smile told a story: of nourishment, dignity, and hope, for […]
Migration Fuels School Dropout Crisis in Karnataka — Sampark’s ECCE Model Supports Hope and Offers Action in Bengaluru
A recent survey by the Education Department in Karnataka reveals a worrying trend—9,326 children dropped out of schools across the state in 2024–25. In Bengaluru alone, 3,852 children have left school, with migration emerging as a key cause. Families frequently relocate to cities in search of better livelihoods, destabilizing children’s education. To address this, Sampark […]
FEED A CHILD, AND BE THE SPARK IGNITING THEIR DREAMS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE
The Challenge: Childhood at Risk Mallu and Radha, migrant workers from Raichur, moved to Bangalore in search of a better life. For their children Nithya and Neha, settling into a new city felt difficult. Neha, aged 8, was forced to drop out of school to take care of little Nithya, aged 5. The Bigger Picture: […]
Improving Visibility of Migrant workers
Imagine building a city, but being invisible in it. Imagine building homes for thousands of people, but not owning a house yourself. That’s the paradox that migrant workers live by, every day. They help us build roads, buildings, and other infrastructure on which the city develops. Migrant workers seeking better livelihood opportunities often end up […]
Ninganna’s Story | A Migrant Future Redefined
“I am proud to share that I have received the best outgoing student award for the year 2025–26. Reaching this stage in life has been a journey filled with challenges, support, and hard work, but none of it would have been possible without Sampark and Prema Miss”, said Ninganna, a 21 year old migrant youth, […]
Migration Fuels School Dropout Crisis in Karnataka — Sampark’s ECCE Model Supports Hope and Offers Action in Bengaluru
A recent survey by the Education Department in Karnataka reveals a worrying trend—9,326 children dropped out of schools across the state in 2024–25. In Bengaluru alone, 3,852 children have left school, with migration emerging as a key cause. Families frequently relocate to cities in search of better livelihoods, destabilizing children’s education. To address this, Sampark […]
Ensuring safe motherhood for migrant women
Asma, a migrant woman from Assam, 5 months pregnant, represents the struggles many women face when navigating pregnancy in an unfamiliar city. Moving to Bengaluru’s Siddapura Labour Colony, she found herself isolated and unaware of how to access maternity services due to lack of information about the Public health centres, unfamiliarity with the language and […]
Migrant Women’s Digital Literacy in Bangalore
Reducing the Gender Digital Divide: Voices of Migrant Women in Bangalore on the Knowledge and Use of Technology in their DailyLives Reducing the Gender Digital Divide: Voices of Migrant Women in Bangalore on the Knowledge and Use of Technology in their Daily Lives More than 2 billion migrants don’t have access to the benefits of […]
Bridging India’s Digital Divide: Why Inclusion Matters
India’s leap into digitization is exciting, but there’s a glaring issue we can’t ignore—the digital divide. According to the India Inequality Report: Digital Divide (2022), only 38% of the population is digitally literate. For the poorest 20%, just 2.7% have access to computers and 8.9% to the internet. That’s a huge gap for a country […]