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Recognition & Milestones

Recognition & Milestones: celebrating our journey of impact, partnerships and progress.

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Awards, institutional engagement and the journey since 2021. Every item is dated.

Recognition

Awards & Honours

2022Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Yuva Mandal Puraskar

Swachh Bharat Mission

2025District Youth Award 2024–25

Directorate of Sports & Youth Services, Government of Maharashtra, conferred on SARA Foundation's Dhule District Vice President

Recognition

Institutional Engagement

Government and institutional programmes in which SARA Foundation has taken part.

Sardar@150 Unity March, November 2025

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports

  • 2023Representatives selected for Meri Maati Mera Desh at national level
  • 2025Four representatives selected for the Inter-State Youth Exchange Program, Lucknow, with NYKS
  • 2025Sardar@150 Unity March, co-organised with the Ministry

MY Bharat

  • 2024Drug-awareness programme for 100 students, under the Central Ministry's campaign
  • 2026Yuva Jal Dindi water-conservation yatra

UNICEF

  • 2026Yuva Jal Dindi, with MY Bharat and YASHADA
A SARA Foundation speaker at the DoPT programme, YASHADA, Pune

YASHADA

  • 2026DoPT training programme, where the founder represented SARA Foundation
  • 2026Yuva Jal Dindi

Directorate of Sports & Youth Services, Maharashtra

  • 2025District Youth Award 2024–25
The SARA Foundation Dhule division with the Superintendent of Police

Dhule District Police

  • 2025जागर नारीशक्तीचा essay competition: topics unveiled by the Dhule DySP
  • 2026Met the new Superintendent of Police, IPS Vishal Anand
  • 2026Laling treks and trips with DySP Omkar Gawali

The journey

2021 to today

  1. 2020

    Before the paperwork

    A fort cleanup near Dhule on Independence Day — the earliest work on record, a year before registration. Three members at the start, by the founder's own account.

  2. 2021

    Registered in Dhule

    Public trust registered. First plantation drive at Laling–Landor Bungalow; 10,000 seeds sown with SDRF Dhule. Independence Day with Nehru Yuva Kendra.

  3. 2022

    First award

    Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Yuva Mandal Puraskar announced for SARA Foundation.

  4. 2023

    A statewide organisation

    District presidents appointed across Maharashtra. State executive announced in August. Khandesh Ratna award conferred on the Dhule MP. Representatives selected for Meri Maati Mera Desh.

  5. 2024

    Into the villages

    Free Ladki Bahin Yojana form-filling camps for women of Laling and Diwanmala.

  6. 2025

    Recognised

    जागर नारीशक्तीचा district essay competition. District Youth Award 2024–25 from the Directorate of Sports & Youth Services. Sardar@150 Unity March, jointly with the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports.

  7. 2026

    Scaling up

    DoPT training at YASHADA. Yuva Jal Dindi with UNICEF. Meeting the new SP Dhule. Dhule Shikatay! ₹2 crore CSR proposal. Beti Darj Karo legal internship.

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