Empowering Minds -Society for Research and Development (EM) is a registered NGO set up under the Societies Act (1860). It utilizes various participative methodologies in working with individuals and communities for empowering them to attain better quality of life and sustained development.
Empowering Minds was started by a group of like-minded individuals in May 2007, who came together to serve the society in whichever way possible. The first opportunity came with a voluntary training assignment for a research project with the local NGOs in Delhi whose field investigators were trained in data collection and data cleaning and further analysis.
Empowering Minds and Maruti Suzuki’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) department came together on August 1, 2010, to open the latter’s Volunteering Centre at Arthala Baal Vidyalaya – which runs under the aegis of Empowering Minds Society for Research and Development (EM) and provides Formal and Non Formal Education to School drop outs, Street and working children between the age group of 6 – 14 years in the slum (Arthala) area of Ghaziabad.
The automobile major’s GM (Corporate services) Mr. K.D. Singh, along with his team of volunteers and other employees inaugurated the Volunteering Centre. From Empowering Minds, its, President Ms. Richa Mohan was leading her team of Board Members, employees, volunteers including the Principal, students and staff members of Arthala Baal Vidyalaya. Ms. Sujata Parashar, board member of EM was the MC of the function.
