Divya Deepa Charitable Trust

Divya Deepa Charitable Trust is an NGO established in Mysore, India which runs Kaliyuva Mane, an alternative school for the underprivileged children in and around Kenchalagudu village where it is situated.

[1][2][3] The mission of the trust is to create a replicable model of educating out of system - opportunity deprived children.

An example of the alternate modes of teaching is the kid's bank inside the campus in which all students have personal savings account.

The volunteers involve themselves in a unique activity called paper empowerment in which they collect old newspapers from houses in Mysore and sell them to raise money, apart from setting up stalls, and designing and selling greeting cards.

[6] Notable people like N. R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys have been reported to have visited the school [7][8] In Spark the Rise competition sponsored by Mahindra, the trust ended up as the second runner up from ideas all over India.

Kaliyuva Mane school