Who We Are?
Transforming Rural India Through Education and Healthcare
Eternal Charitable Foundation (ECF) is a U.S.-based 501(3)c charity that supports the life-changing work of The Kalgidhar Trust/Society, Baru Sahib, one of India’s leading charitable organizations dedicated to education, healthcare, and community development.
For more than three decades, The Kalgidhar Trust/Society have worked to break the cycle of poverty in rural India by providing access to quality education, healthcare services, and opportunities that empower individuals, families, and entire communities.
Through ECF, supporters in the United States can directly contribute enjoying tax-exemption, to programs that create measurable, lasting impact in the lives of underserved children and families.
Our Impact
Today, the initiatives of The Kalgidhar Trust/Society serve:
– 75,000+ students across rural India
– 130 schools delivering quality education in underserved communities
– Thousands of children receiving free or subsidized education through scholarships and donor support
– Communities benefiting from healthcare, women empowerment, and social welfare programs
The Kalgidhar Trust/Society, Baru Sahib
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills, Baru Sahib is the headquarters of The Kalgidhar Trust/Society and the center of its educational, healthcare, environmental, and humanitarian initiatives.
From rural schools and universities to charitable healthcare services and community outreach programs, the organization is committed to creating sustainable solutions that uplift disadvantaged communities and foster self-reliance.
To meet the need of the hour, Eternal Charitable Foundation has brought low cost quality education to the doorstep of the rural poor through the chain of its Akal Academies.
The atmosphere is distinct, simple with modest uncomplicated approach, rich with the spirit of potential, the heritage of past achievements, and the vitality of inquiry and discovery.
Our 130 schools or shrines of education nurture and attract the simplest and most deprived human talent and open a window to science, art and elevated thinking. Our libraries connect scholars from rural rustic background across global developments. Faculty in our schools and colleges motivate, stimulate and challenge our students, who respond by exploring worlds inner and outer, they never before imagined.
It is a fully functional hospital with all state-of-the art ultra-modern medical facilities and the only available medical care after Solan (65 kms). It provides medical care to the poor patients of the rural areas of backward Himalayan region. These patients and their attendants travel to the hospital from the remote, far-flung areas to take treatment for various ailments and get cured.
In addition to routine services, general medical camps and Ophthalmologic camps are organized 5-6 times a year. These camps see specialists with various medical specializations from USA, Canada, UK, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Delhi and Mumbai. Around 2500 patients benefit and more than 100 operations are carried out free of cost in each of these camps.
In a society where people are indulging in female feticide, Eternal Charitable Foundation lays a great emphasis on educating a girl-child. In all its educational institutions, preference is given to the girls.
“You teach a Man,you teach a man.
You teach a Woman,you teach a FAMILY”
School of Spiritual Sciences for girls, Akal Rozgar Yojana & Elementary Teacher Training Academy are empowering the rural women in the society. With the objective to explore and train rural needy high school girls. They are given free of cost training to improve their English and acquire skills in elementary teaching. They are given intensive training in English language and communication skills, modern teaching methodology and computer education.
Solar Energy utilization in India has been growing steadily over the last two decades. A wide variety of technologies have been developed and some of these have reached maturity and user-friendly status. The technologies are suitable for decentralized applications and have no negative impact on the environment. Both solar thermal and photovoltaic applications have large potential in the country.
Since ECF focuses at promoting education and development in rural areas, which primarily have to bear the brunt of electricity and power cuts due to supply constraints, the organization has established the Institute of Renewable Energy and Research,to facilitate research and implementation of eco-friendly and scalable technologies for harnessing renewable energy, to compensate for power shortages in the intervention areas.
Solar Energy utilization in India has been growing steadily over the last two decades. A wide variety of technologies have been developed and some of these have reached maturity and user-friendly status. The technologies are suitable for decentralized applications and have no negative impact on the environment. Both solar thermal and photovoltaic applications have large potential in the country.
Since ECF focuses at promoting education and development in rural areas, which primarily have to bear the brunt of electricity and power cuts due to supply constraints, the organization has established the Institute of Renewable Energy and Research,to facilitate research and implementation of eco-friendly and scalable technologies for harnessing renewable energy, to compensate for power shortages in the intervention areas.
Social change is a constant and complex phenomenon. It requires slow, gradual and long term process through a strong policy framework because it involves changes in traditions, customs.
Eternal Charitable Foundation works aims at responding to challenges the community confronts and empower the community. Along with other initiatives for the Society ECF also runs Orphanage, Senior Citizen Home and Home for Widows and Destitute for Rural Economic Upliftment.
Rajvinder Singh Dhaliwal
Secretary
Surinder Singh Ghuman
President
Ravinder Pal singh Kohli
Director
