Established in 1981, Rajasthan Bal Kalyan Samiti has been working for the betterment of poor tribal and rural population in India. The organization started with an aim to expanding the scope of primary education among the tribal community in Southern Rajasthan, today works across 641 villages in 15 districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The organization works towards rural development, developing micro-credit opportunities, providing education and healthcare opportunities and natural resource management.
RBKS has a team of 548 volunteers and presently runs 21 schools and 12 colleges along with working on a number of beneficial projects for the rural and tribal community. RBKS believes that a society can be transformed by introducing a sustainable development model through the involvement of local communities and a participatory approach. The organization, through its initiatives, has empowered local communities and has significantly improved the standards of living of the tribal, rural and poor population in remote areas and villages in India.
Along with Wells for India, RBKS is supported by Educate for Life that started working with RBKS in the year 2006. Being a newly-registered charity organization, Educate for Life chose RBKS as the first organization for promoting formal school education among poor children. In 2007, RBKS with the help of Educate for Life started a school in Kotra, Udaipur for providing quality education to children of the tribal community in the area. The school is currently operational with strength of 150 children who are getting quality education at the school.
Sharpe Children Foundation also supports RBKS for promotion of education in tribal areas and for the upliftment of poor and tribal community in the region. With the support of Mr. Uday Patel, International Chairman, NRI Institute, RBKS managed to establish a well-stacked library for J.R. Sharma P.G. College in Jhadol. Many individual donors from UK such as Mr. Panesar have also helped RBKS in fulfilling its objectives. Mr. Panesar provided support to RBKS for running 5 child learning centers that directly benefit about 250 non-school-going children in the tribal area to get an opportunity to learn and be educated.