Sophia Akash Foundation

Gadens Børn has a strong and rewarding partnership with the Sophia Akash Foundation (CIO), which helps smaller NGOs grow bigger and stronger.

Sophia Akash Foundation, CIO (UK) is a charitable foundation with the mission to improve the livelihoods of the poor and unserved. SAF started collaborating with Gadens Børn during 2020 and is providing guidance and assistance for Institutional Development, Capacity Building and Raising Funds.

Shailendra Robin Patel, who is the founder of the organization, visits us every month at the office in Denmark, where he helps us to develop "recipes" for our projects, that can be used to scale the efforts for the benefit of even more street children in Kolkata. With the help of the organisation, we can realise new initiatives, with sustainability in focus. We are so proud and grateful to create development for the children - together with the talented people behind the Sophia Akash Foundation.

We always look forward to our monthly meetings with Shailendra, who plans to visit our projects in Kolkata, when the world opens up again, to get Gadens Børns DNA completely under the skin. 

A big thanks to Shailendra and the Sophia Akash Foundation for helping Gadens Børn get better, bigger and stronger.

The Christmas Challenge

One donation, twice the impact!

The Big Give runs the UK's largest match funding campaign, The Christmas Challenge, which gives charities the opportunity to have their donations doubled in a 7 day period over Christmas.

We are grateful to participate in the Christmas challenge together with the Sofia Akash Foundation to raise funds for our 12 projects in Kolkata and help the street children.