With our educational programs (Sandipani Muni Schools and adult education), medical services, social development and more, we give the needy - especially children - a chance to learn, to live, to earn; eventually pulling their whole families out of the vicious cycle of poverty and desperation.

FFLV was started in 1990. Since then, FFLV has served mostly children from among the poorest of the poor, or the
"bottom line" of Indian society, those who are forgotten and neglected, those who practically do not exist.

We can proudly say that 95% of all the funds collected go to the recipients; our administration costs are kept to a minimum.

2001 - The first Sandipani Muni school opened for a handful of children in a small rented house.

2003 - After seeing very encouraging results and the dedication of the team, private donors quickly came forward and contributed the funds for permanent premises and a school building for 450 primary school aged children.

2006 - Since the demand for schooling very soon outgrew our facilities, the FFLV team was able to raise the
funds to build a new secondary school providing education for 500 children. That makes a total of approximately
1,000 children currently receiving free education at FFLV schools.

2009 - With over 600 children on the waiting list and a desperate need for more schools, FFLV is constructing a third school. The charity has acquired some of the funds for the building of this school and hopes to complete construction in mid 2010.

The New School Project

The development is situated in the Kiki Nagla area of Vrindavan, which comprises of several large villages. That area is fairly distant from our current schools and facilities, but despite the distance, we have been accommodating a large number of children from that area in our existing schools in the town of Vrindavan.

We have acquired a large plot of land that will facilitate our entire master project, providing a complete solution to the local community. The overall project will include a nursery, primary and secondary school, an orphanage, housing project and a hospital. In total the new campus will provide education for 1440 children.

With kind help and a generous donation from a Gujarati family from Stanmore (London, UK), we have already built a hospital that was officially opened in October 2008.

The cost of the kindergarten, primary/middle school which will educate 1,008 childern is £400,000 of which £250,000 has already been raised leaving a shortfall of £150,000.

Project Sustainability

All of our schools and students are maintained by child sponsorships. Only £25 per month covers one child's total educational and medical needs. Sponsors are people from all over the world, with the majority from UK, Italy, USA, Spain and Germany.

FFLV plans to continue and expand this sponsorship program in order to finance the running of future schools. Sponsorship is vital to maintain the running costs of the schools