{"id":49,"date":"2026-09-28T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:36:07","slug":"foundation-about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><div class=\"wrap page-shell\"><div class=\"breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ About the foundation<\/div><div class=\"page-title\"><div class=\"eyebrow\">Saumitra Foundation<\/div><h1>About the foundation<\/h1><p>A commitment to education, opportunity and community wellbeing.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"two-col\"><div><section class=\"content-box\"><h2>Our story<\/h2><p>Saumitra Foundation is a public charitable trust established on 9 May 2025. It works towards learning, leadership and skill-development opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, alongside wider support for communities in need.<\/p><p>Education, sports and culture are central to this purpose. Based in New Delhi, the foundation\u2019s mission extends across India.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"content-box\"><h2>Remembering Yogi Babu<\/h2><p>The <strong>Yogi Babu Memorial Scholarship<\/strong> honours the memory of late Shri Yogendra Prasad Gupta, affectionately known as Yogi Babu. It recognises academic merit and supports students from socially and financially disadvantaged backgrounds.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"content-box\"><h2>Our areas of work<\/h2><p>Our mission encompasses the following areas. We aim to develop initiatives that respond to the needs of students and communities.<\/p><h3>Education<\/h3><p>Scholarships, school kits, remedial learning, career guidance and mentoring.<\/p><h3>Livelihoods &amp; poverty alleviation<\/h3><p>Vocational training, self-help group support, health and hygiene awareness, and rural development.<\/p><h3>Sports<\/h3><p>Local tournaments, coaching, training support and access to sports equipment and facilities.<\/p><h3>Culture<\/h3><p>Folk art, music and dance, preservation of local crafts, cultural programmes and support for young artists.<\/p><h3>Community development<\/h3><p>Sanitation, environmental awareness, tree planting, health camps, community infrastructure and emergency relief.<\/p><\/section><\/div><div><section class=\"content-box\"><h2>Founding team<\/h2><h3>Ar Seema Biva<\/h3><p>Settlor and founding Chairperson.<\/p><h3>Er Arun Kumar<\/h3><p>Founding Trustee.<\/p><h3>Dr Gaurav Kumar<\/h3><p>Founding Trustee.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"content-box\"><h2>How we work<\/h2><p>The scholarship framework combines academic merit with financial need, involves the school administration and Trust in selection, and provides for annual review and school feedback.<\/p><p>A Board of Trustees guides the foundation\u2019s work.<\/p><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \/ About the foundation Saumitra Foundation About the foundation A commitment to education, opportunity and community wellbeing. Our story Saumitra Foundation is a public charitable trust established on 9 May 2025. It works towards learning, leadership and skill-development opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, alongside wider support for communities in need. Education, sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saumitrafoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}