Being Human is a registered

charitable trust
working in the areas of education
and healthcare
for the underprivileged.

EDUCATION

AKSHARA HIGH SCHOOL

Being Human has been associated with Akshara since June 2012.
The Akshara school, Mumbai, is a not-for-profit school. The
schools motto is to focus on social inclusion for educational and
economic growth and to level inequalities ingrained due to
gender, caste, economic and religious discrimination. To make
education affordable and accessible, the fee structure at the
school has been kept to a basic minimum.
Being Human The Salman Khan Foundation supports the school
by funding the education of over 200 children.
aksharaschool.org

ASEEMA
Being Human has been associated with
Aseema since June 2011. Aseema is a Mumbai
based not-for-profit organization that provides
holistic and relevant education to Mumbais
most neglected children children living on
the streets, or in slums and in inhuman
conditions. In partnership with the Municipal
Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), they
have taken on three municipal schools where
children receive high quality education.
Being Human The Salman Khan Foundation
supports the secondary sections of two of
their schools in Mumbai (thats over 300
children in all).
aseema.org

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
CENTERS

In February 2013, Being Human together with Coca

Cola and NIIT Foundation, helped build Career
Development Centers in non-urban areas which aimed
to provide training to the local, educated and
underserved youth and through that training, enhance
their employability. The training courses were designed
to meet the entry level job requirements of the
organized sector.

THE VEER INITIATIVE

In January 2014, Being Human announced the Veer
initiative together with The American India Foundation,
Thums Up and CNN-IBN to bring the differently abled
into the mainstream so the focus is on their abilities
and not their disabilities. The initial target for this
initiative is to train and help over 1000 people with
disabilities gain employment.
Through the first phase of this initiative, 1043
individuals have been trained and 573 of these
individuals have been provided employment.
theveer.in

HEALTHCARE
Here is an overview of the projects supported by
Being Human-The Salman Khan Foundation
Craniofacial Surgeries
Drought Relief Initiative
Free Eye Camps
Little Hearts Program
Marrow Donor Registry, India
The Max Foundation

CRANIOFACIAL SURGERIES
PROGRAM
Being Human partnered with Maaya Foundation
to provide free treatment to children with severe
facial deformities, also known as Craniofacial
Deformities. These deformities are congenital and
vary in type and severity. A child with craniofacial
deformities has difficulty breathing, eating and
with speech. In addition to this, the child faces
social stigma. Through this program, we aim to
reach out to children living with these
deformities, across India.
As of March 2015, 37 children have been treated
through this program.
maayafoundation.org

DROUGHT RELIEF INITIATIVE

Being Human was involved in a
drought relief initiative in
Maharashtra in 2013. This was the
worst drought the state of
Maharashtra had experienced since
1972. Almost 1/5th of Maharashtra
was reeling under drought. Water in
tankers were being provided by the
Maharashtra government but there
was an urgent requirement of tanks,
for the storage of water, across the
districts of Beed, Osamanabad, Jalna,
Aurangabad and Nanded - districts
which were most affected in
Maharashtra. Being HumanThe
Salman Khan Foundation procured
2500 tanks, each having a capacity

PREVENTABLE BLINDNESS
PROGRAM

Being
Being Human
Human has
has conducted
conducted free
free eye
eye
camps
camps in
in Nanded,
Nanded, Mumbai,
Mumbai, Patiala,
Patiala,
Satara,
Satara, Wai
Wai and
and Waje
Waje in
in order
order to
to treat
treat
preventable
preventable blindness
blindness through
through cataract
cataract
surgeries.
surgeries. There
There are
are 12
12 million
million cases
cases of
of
preventable
preventable blindness
blindness in
in India.
India.
As
As of
of March
March 2015,
2015, we
we have
have reached
reached over
over
14,000
14,000 individuals
individuals and
and have
have conducted
conducted
over
over 500
500 cataract
cataract surgeries,
surgeries, through
through the
the
eye
eye camps.
camps.

LITTLE HEARTS PROGRAM

Being Human partnered with Fortis
Foundation in 2013 to provide free treatment
to children with congenital heart defects. The
Little Hearts Program was established with
an aim to reach out to children below the
poverty line who cannot afford the medical
costs. Through this Program we conduct
camps in remote areas that do not have any
pediatric heart facilities such as Alwar,
Bhagalpur, Leh and Kargil.
As of March 2015, 775 surgeries have been
performed through the Little Hearts Program.
fortisfoundation.in

MARROW DONOR
REGISTRY, INDIA (MDRI)

In November 2010, Being Human partnered with

MDRI to create awareness and generate voluntary
donor profiles in order to create a world class stem
cell registry in India. MDRI is the first NGO in India
which maintains a computerized database of
voluntary, unrelated stem cell donors and facilitates
blood stem cell transplants for patients with life
threatening blood diseases. Together with MDRI,
Being Human conducts donor registration camps
across various colleges in Mumbai.
At present, MDRI has 25,000 profiles.
mdrindia.org