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Absolutely new yet check out the confidence in these Shaktis!!! Thats what we love- its not about the excellence- that comes with time-- its about having the inner strength to recognize our self-worth and put ourselves out there fearlessly. Thats Shakti- encouraging oneself and encouraging others in your team to be bold and courageous and practice and put one's best shot out! Priceless skills that we learn for a lifetime- from teamwork, hardwork, discipline, punctuality, crisis management, focus, health, concentration, creativity- there is SO much that a simple performance requires from us. Provide a Stage! Be a Shakti for Shakti- please contact us on culture@sarvamfoundation.org

To read the POWERFUL translations of the lyrics please see this page! Provide a Stage for that means the world to Shaktis! Contact us on culture@sarvamfoundation.org or call us on +919871157202!

FREEDOM to express- a core core belief at Sarvam Shakti enables our Shaktis to have so much confidence that they can self-choreograph and also showcase it on stage in front of 100s of people! Infact a key skill we teach our girls is, from a very young age- BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and your talents. We are there to tweak your work or give it finishing touches but don't hesitate to try out something new on your own. This piece is an example of what that self-belief can do. Provide a Stage to our Shaktis. Connect with us today on culture@sarvamfoundation.org Educate a Girl Educate a Community! Unleash a Girl. UNLEASH SHAKTI!

Aditi Mangaldas on Sarvam Shakti: "I was so so very impressed by Sarvam Shakti. Gurgaon centre is such a fabulous space for the girls to learn arts and about life itself. It is such a happy and aesthetically beautiful space. The girls were dancing so well! I was so impressed! The atmosphere, the well behaved girls, all the artistically arranged bronze sculptures, the sayings on the wall just added to the atmosphere of learning and freedom and imagination! It was really wonderful to be there." Aditiji is an internally renowned Kathak dancer, choreographer and teacher with her company Drishtikon Dance Foundation. She has travelled the globe setting new pathways for the field of Kathak. Two of her dance troupe members, Sunny and Minhaz teach at Sarvam Shakti. Drishtikon's training and level of expertise under the aegis of Aditiji has been exemplary. To enable our Shaktis to grow in these art forms as teachers and professors of our heritage, do consider a donation here!

Imagine having a cohort of your own outside of school where such love and carmarderie is shared as that of learning art forms together and travelling to perform purely as a life skill! That is the beauty of the education at Sarvam Shakti. It teaches every single girl child such priceless life skills whilst instilling values, love of culture, pride in ones heritage as well as love for each other and life itself-- what MEMORIES of a lifetime for these economically marginalized children!

We have 21 monitors who look after their groups of Shaktis (a total of 170 Shaktis) at the Gurgaon Haryana chapter. Amazing empathic compassionate leadership is encouraged by the Shakti management in how our monitors interact with the groups. With utmost respect and mentorship is the way the representatives manage their groups. Hear them share their experiences!

Meet Chetna Kapur - The face behind PediaNutri.She hails from Mumbai and has completed her majors in Nutrition from the SNDT Mumbai.Chetna has been passionate about Child Nutrition since the time she was in college and that passion got extended to her taking it up professionally. She had her initial stint with Nestle post which she ventured out on her own to craft PediaNutri. With two boys of her own aged 9 years and 12 years now, her hunger for crafting and sharing ways and means of proper upbringing grew manifolds. Chetna carries with herself 17 years of enriching experience that spans across one to one consultations, creating meal plans, guidance on child upbringing w.r.t eating habits, taking sessions for young moms. She specialises in tackling specific issues like obesity, fussy eating and sports nutrition (for kids) and healthy eating & sustainable weight loss (for Adults) Chetna is a regular blogger with Momspresso, Say Cheese and First Moms w.r.t experiences on Early Life Nutrition, Baby Food Recipes, Meal Plan, Cool Foods for Warm Days, Raising healthy, Child habits and upbringing etc. --

She travels to various countries as a cultural ambassador She is her school representative at debates She is her schools cultural head She is a state level champion at classical dance She is interning as a fine visual artist with a book publisher She is in college pursuing applied arts She stands first in her dance diploma exams She can do a headstand She teaches children ancient art forms in govt schools Now imagine this She lives in a home not larger than 6 feet by 8 feet She awakens at 5am to help her father prepare cholas for his bhatura cart or redi food stall She scrubs the utensils at night for her five siblings She delivers clothes as a presswali She cleans her father’s auto rickshaw She cooks all the food for her younger brothers She only eats the cheapest possible food available She often sees her mother with no voice She is however full of hope and promise for the future She recognizes that she is not a statistic She is power She is compassion She is love and confidence She is selfworth She is Sarvam Shakti.

Abstract: A comparative study was conducted in order to investigate certain variables (impact exposure and self-esteem) of the beneficiaries of Sarvam Shakti Project and Non- Sarvam children. The sample consist 30 adolescent girls in the age group of 11-16years. The Sample were further classified under 2 groups- Experimental (n=15, Sarvam Shakti girls, undergoing Indian Classical Dance training for the past 1.5 years) and Controlled group (n=15). It further aimed to highlight health benefits of learning Indian classical dance form on the overall personality of the adolescent girls. Tools used for data collection were Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, M., 1965) and Qualitative Interviews. Results revealed that the average score of Experimental Group (19.73) and Controlled Group (16.33) differ significantly. Qualitative analysis shows that Shakti’s Intervention through dance training not only leads to higher self-esteem but also contribute in their overall personality development be it academic, health, confidence, public speaking, of adolescent girls. Download the study above to learn more!

When we watched the movie Gully Boy, the story of empowerment of a marginalized boy through learning rap music, it reminded us of our own project Sarvam Shakti where performing arts are a medium of discovering their self-worth- her inner Shakti. That strength, that power within that is a force much beyond gender. It is a force of good in this world much greater than what we can ever imagine- only if we care to discover it. Each and every one of us are worthy of love, respect, an identity, compassion and yet for millions of girls- that is a distant dream. They seem to be a statistic in the annals of history- always downtrodden, always secondary. Enabling girls to recognize their self-worth, their inner Shakti free from the strappings of gender, economics, class can be HUGELY beneficial for them and also for the society at large. Giving them an education that is fearless, creative, imaginative, energetic and also full of health and healing is the answer to a world of Shaktis! Educate a Girl. Educate a Community UNLEASH A GIRL. UNLEASH SHAKTI Just the simple fact of turning towards a child and saying 'I see you and you are so worthy of all my love and respect' is enough to bring structural changes for our world. At Shakti, we recognize this and therefore our curriculum is joyful, creative, hopeful, compassionate and full of wonder for a girl child. It is holistic education for she not only trains her physical self, but also her mental, emotional and spiritual selves. This is a film made so beautifully by Sahil Fauzdar, a DOP by passion and an enterpreneur by profession assisted by Puneet Bhojwani. The concept is by Nehha Bhatnagar and this film will release soon in collaboration with an international arts organization. If you find this blog post meaningful, do support our unique work for girl child empowerment!

The Shakti vegetable juice is an elixir of life. ANTIOXIDANTS, PHYTONUTRIENTS, MINERALS- you name it--the 15 magical ingredients have kept our Shaktis so strong and healthy. Here is a video by our Chief Empowerment Officer explaining the recipe! And now we have gone a step further by adding in these two power ingredients- Black chana + Jaggery to give it a PROTEIN punch! Black Chana Brown Jaggery At Shakti, we believe in being extra kind- and unfortunately eggs these days are not ethically sourced. The poor birds suffer and also the added injections and hormones to the birds to plump them up only adds to growth in our cells and hence its not even a healthy option any longer. If a horse can get his power from plants, and a rhino and an elephant- so can we!!