What we do
What we do
Six programme divisions covering every field of social development, from foundational literacy to disaster relief. Each activity is mapped to its Schedule VII head for corporate partners, and each division carries a defined cohort, a unit cost and an indicator we are willing to be judged on.
Our areas of activity
Twenty-four areas of activity
Scapex Foundation is a multi-sector organisation by design. We work across the entire range of activities that a non-governmental organisation in India can undertake — education and literacy, healthcare and nutrition, vocational skills and employment, women's empowerment and self-help groups, child welfare and protection, care for the elderly, disability inclusion, environmental sustainability, water and sanitation, rural development, livelihoods and microenterprise, animal welfare, disaster preparedness and relief, and the promotion of arts, culture, heritage and sport. This breadth is deliberate: the households we serve rarely face a single problem, and an intervention that addresses one need while ignoring the others rarely lasts.
Breadth is only defensible if each field is held to the same discipline, so no activity enters our portfolio without a defined cohort, a unit cost and a published indicator. Every activity below is mapped to its head under Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013, so that a corporate partner can see at a glance where its CSR expenditure will be eligible, and a donor can see exactly what a contribution funds. Where a company's CSR policy calls for an activity not listed here, we will say plainly whether it is something we can deliver well.
Activity map
What we deliver, and where it sits in Schedule VII
| Activity | What Scapex delivers | Schedule VII |
|---|---|---|
| Education & literacy | After-school learning centres on a teaching-at-the-right-level model, school support, remedial classes, libraries and digital classrooms | (ii) |
| Scholarships & school retention | Fee, uniform and transport support for girls and first-generation learners, with attendance tracked to keep children enrolled past Class 8 | (ii) |
| Skill development & employment | Six-to-twelve-week NSQF-aligned tracks in digital work, retail and repair trades, with employers involved from course design and placement followed for six months | (ii) |
| Digital & financial literacy | Basic digital skills, online safety, bank and UPI use, and access to government entitlements for youth, women and the elderly | (ii) |
| Women's empowerment & self-help groups | SHG formation, bookkeeping training, a revolving fund, enterprise seed capital and introductions to buyers | (iii) |
| Livelihoods & microenterprise | Seed capital, product development, market linkage and business support for household and artisan enterprises | (ii), (x) |
| Healthcare & medical camps | School and community screening for vision, anaemia and growth faltering; general and specialist camps; referral tracked to treatment | (i) |
| Nutrition & hunger relief | Supplementary nutrition for children and pregnant women, anaemia care, and food-support in emergencies | (i) |
| Maternal & child health | Immunisation awareness, antenatal follow-up with ASHA and Anganwadi workers, and adolescent health education | (i) |
| Water & sanitation (WASH) | School toilet blocks with maintenance plans, handwashing stations, safe drinking-water systems and village recharge structures | (i), (iv) |
| Menstrual health & hygiene | Awareness sessions, product access and school facilities that keep adolescent girls attending | (i), (iii) |
| Child welfare & protection | Child-labour identification and referral, nutrition, rights awareness, and support to orphaned and vulnerable children | (i), (ii), (iii) |
| Elderly care | Day centres, pension and entitlement facilitation, health outreach and companionship programmes for senior citizens | (iii) |
| Disability & inclusion | Assistive devices, accessible learning, UDID and entitlement facilitation, and job placement for persons with disabilities | (ii), (iii) |
| Environment & climate | Tree plantation with survival tracking, waste-segregation enterprise, rooftop-solar maintenance training and awareness | (iv) |
| Water conservation | Check dams, farm ponds, recharge wells and rainwater harvesting, reported by functional-at-12-months rate rather than count built | (iv), (x) |
| Animal welfare | Street-animal sterilisation and vaccination drives, rescue support, and cattle-care camps with veterinary partners | (iv) |
| Rural development | Village infrastructure, farm-support services, market access and community-centre programmes with the gram panchayat | (x) |
| Slum & urban community development | Basic services, sanitation and learning support in urban informal settlements in Ahmedabad and other Gujarat cities | (xi) |
| Disaster preparedness & relief | Pre-positioned relief stock, response teams, and rebuild support after floods, cyclones and heatwaves | (xii) |
| Arts, culture & heritage | Folk-art and handicraft livelihoods, village libraries and support to sites of local historical importance | (v) |
| Sport for development | Coaching, equipment and tournaments for rural youth, including Paralympic disciplines | (vii) |
| Public health awareness | Blood-donation drives, road-safety, de-addiction and mental-health awareness campaigns in schools and communities | (i) |
| Government scheme facilitation | Helping eligible families enrol in central and Gujarat state schemes — from Vahali Dikri to MYSY — with documentation support | (ii), (iii), (x) |
Schedule VII heads are given for the guidance of corporate partners; the final mapping for any project is agreed in the concept note and confirmed by the company's CSR Committee. The full Schedule VII list, with the rules around it, is explained here.
Foundational learning
After-school learning centres for Classes 3 to 8, run on a teaching-at-the-right-level model: children are grouped by assessed reading and arithmetic level rather than by the class they are enrolled in, and regrouped as they move.
Before a centre can help, a child needs a school place. For families in Gujarat who cannot afford a private school, RTE 25% admission reserves a quarter of Class 1 seats for weaker and disadvantaged groups.
Indicator: share of Class 5 children who can read a Class 2 level text, measured at baseline, midline and endline.
Skills & livelihoods
Six-to-twelve week tracks for 18–29 year olds in digital work, retail operations and repair trades, mapped to NSQF levels. Employers are brought in at course design, not at the placement drive, and we follow each graduate for six months.
Indicator: share of graduates in paid work at 90 and 180 days, with median monthly earning reported alongside.
Women & child welfare
Self-help groups with bookkeeping training, a revolving fund and introductions to actual buyers. The link to education is direct: household income is the single strongest predictor of whether a girl stays enrolled past Class 8.
Indicator: monthly household income change over 12 months, against a matched comparison group.
Health, nutrition & sanitation
School screening camps for vision, anaemia and growth faltering. A camp that screens a thousand children and refers two hundred has achieved nothing until those referrals close, so we track to treatment rather than to attendance.
Indicator: referral closure rate — children screened, referred, and confirmed treated.
Environment, water & rural development
Village recharge structures and school WASH blocks, paired with a green-jobs track training young people in rooftop-solar maintenance and waste-segregation enterprise. Gujarat's groundwater and its solar build-out are both facts on the ground; this pillar works with them.
Indicator: functional-at-12-months rate for every structure built, not the count built.
Community, inclusion & relief
The fields that rarely get an organisation of their own: elderly day care and pension facilitation, assistive devices and job placement for people with disabilities, disaster preparedness and rebuild support, street-animal sterilisation and vaccination, and folk-art livelihoods.
These are grouped deliberately. Each is too small to justify a standalone vertical, and each serves people the other five divisions would otherwise miss entirely.
Indicator: reported separately per field — no blended figure, because averaging across unrelated fields hides the one that is failing.