Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Founder

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Swami Dayananda Saraswati is the founder of AIM for Seva^[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and rural & agriculture from Chennai.

AIM for Seva

AIM for Seva (All India Movement for Seva), founded in 2000 by Swami Dayananda Saraswati, provides free student homes (chatralayams) that let children from remote villages access quality education. Headquartered in Chennai, it runs hostels, schools and healthcare projects across India, reaching thousands of first-generation learners.

AIM for Seva reports the following, on its own site:

91 chatralayams (free student homes) covering 2700 villages
10000 children supported year on year, 90% of them first-generation learners

Organisations: 1
Based in: Chennai
Founded: —
Press: 2

References

[1] “Posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, he was the Founder of AIM for Seva, Swami Dayananda Educational Trust (SDET), Arsha Vidya Research & Publication Trust (AVR&PT) and Arsha Vidya Gurukulams in India” — AIM for Seva. Source

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