Our Vision

Our mission is simple: break the cycle of poverty through education and job training. To this end, our organization, Friends of Seva, run by women, for women, supports the Seva Sadan Society (“Society”). The Society is a non-profit organization located in Mumbai, India, that is also run by women, for women. It houses, educates, and provides job training for over 100 girls, ages 8-18, and provides vocational training leading to financial independence and self-sufficiency for adult women. These are the disenfranchised of Indian society: the orphans, single mothers, homeless, and unwanted daughters.  

We love supporting this organization because we personally know the women who selflessly volunteer their time to sit on the board, teach the students, and administer and maintain the school and girls’ home. We know, from late-night Skype sessions and long-distance calls, and visits to the school that they pour their hearts and souls into this mission. At Seva Sadan, the girls are learning, laughing, dancing, and working on the skills they need to stand on their own. The success stories of Seva Sadan alumnus becoming business owners, social workers, medical professionals – anything they want to be—are truly inspirational.

Help us give these girls an opportunity that their mothers were never offered.

Thank you so much for your interest in Friends of Seva.

Friends of Seva is fiscally sponsored by FJC, a 501c(3), a public charity that has established over 1000 philanthropic funds and distributed over $400 million in grants to charities around the world in more than 25 countries.  All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. 

The Seva Sadan Society is a not-for-profit organization established over a century ago in 1908, to protect, educate and empower disadvantaged girls and women. Its focus today is to reduce the inequities of opportunity between the privileged and the underprivileged.