KHEL Charities – KHEL gives future generations the necessary tools to change their lives

KHEL provides equal opportunity education, support and employment, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation. We believe that it is only through one’s own efforts that success is possible. KHEL gives future generations the necessary tools to change their lives.

Kindness

In Hindi, the language of North India, khel means “to play.” KHEL stands for kindness, health, education, and laughter. We consider these essentials of childhood. KHEL Charities is a non-profit, secular organization based in Dehradun, the state capital of Uttarakhand (previously called Uttaranchal) in northern India.

Health

Education isn’t just about academics. In order to be able to focus on their studies, children need to be healthy and learn how to stay that way. Their families need to be healthy, and they need a clean, safe environment in which to live.

Education

Fifteen years ago, some of KHEL’s teachers and managers of today volunteered as laborers, carrying bricks and fetching water with their own hands to help build what is now Lakshmi Devi Academy (LDA). At LDA we provide a healthy, safe and nurturing academic environment from kindergarten through 5th grade.

Laughter

There’s nothing like the sound of a child’s laughter: innocent, healthy and full of happiness. It is hard to laugh when you’re hungry and scared. We provide basic needs to children so they have the freedom to enjoy life, to laugh.

Shrishti Sings a Song

Stomya Persaud2020-05-29T15:48:19-05:003:48 pm|Comments Off on Shrishti Sings a Song

It's hard out there right now. Take good care of yourselves. We're all doing our best to keep ourselves and our families safe. Here's Ammaji, taking a walk on the isolated farm where she's staying for the duration. She's well looked after by family. Some days it's still too cold but she's doing what she can to get some exercise. Ammaji says 'hi' to everyone, and is getting really good at taking selfies! She says, [...]

Covid-19 and KHEL

Stomya Persaud2020-05-03T15:20:49-05:003:20 pm|Comments Off on Covid-19 and KHEL

This is a letter of love to you. I’ve been trying to write this for a week, composing and discarding professional sounding emails. It didn’t work and at the end of each day I still had this blank page. Right now, we’re just humans, trying to make it through this unscathed, watching, horrified, at the cascading effect of Covid-19 ravaging one country after the next. Hunny, Beni's younger son, scoured the market for masks. [...]

2019 KHEL Annual Report

Stomya Persaud2020-01-08T15:35:44-06:003:35 pm|Comments Off on 2019 KHEL Annual Report

KHEL ANNUAL REPORT 2019 For 36 years, KHEL has served the community around Shiv Puri Colony in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, with education and educational supplies, health clinics, medical and other aid, extracurricular activities, continuing education for our teachers, aid to leprosy colonies, scholarships, and by hiring locally and working with locally owned businesses. At Lakshmi Devi Academy (LDA), KHEL’s school for underserved children, we open our centrally located grounds to local and government activities, and [...]