SURMAN SANSTHAN

Surman is more than an organization. It is a place where children who have grown up without the care and support of a family can find safety, love, and a sense of belonging. Fondly known as Surman Home, it strives to give abandoned and underprivileged children a home where they can feel secure, valued, and cared for.

For years, Surman has been working to meet the basic needs of children and women from vulnerable backgrounds. From nutritious food and healthcare to education and everyday care, the focus is simple — to help people live with dignity and build a better future.

Over the years, Surman has become a caring home for hundreds of children. Every child is welcomed with warmth, encouraged to learn, and given the opportunity to grow with confidence. Festivals and important occasions are celebrated together, bringing everyone closer and creating a strong feeling of family and togetherness, regardless of religion or background.

Through its continuous efforts, Surman Home has earned recognition and respect across India. The awards and appreciation it has received are a reflection of the dedication of the people who have worked tirelessly to support children, women, and families in need.

Surman Sansthan was formally registered under the Rajasthan Co-operative Act, 1958 (Section 28) on 31 January 1998, with Registration No. 552/97-98. The organization grew from the long-held vision of its founder, Mrs. Manan Chaturvedi, whose belief in compassion, dignity, and social responsibility became the foundation of Surman's work.

What began as a heartfelt vision has grown into an institution dedicated to giving vulnerable children and communities the care, opportunities, and hope they deserve.

Join Hands with Us

Every child deserves a childhood filled with happiness, safety, learning, and hope. But for many children, everyday life is a struggle. They may not have enough food to eat, a safe place to live, proper education, or the basic care they need to grow up with confidence.

A small act of kindness from you can make a real difference. Your support can help provide nutritious meals, education, healthcare, and a caring environment for children who need it most.

Together, we can give children more than just support — we can give them a chance to dream, grow, and build a better future.

Your One Step Can Transform a Child’s Life

For many children across India, childhood is not always about school, play, and happy memories. Poverty, abandonment, and difficult circumstances can take away some of the simplest joys of growing up. At Surman Sansthan, we work to change that.

We believe every child deserves the chance to feel safe, loved, and hopeful about the future. Through our programs — Palna, Koshish, Phulwari, Tapasya, and Jeevan Life — we work to provide children with the care, education, support, and opportunities they need to grow with confidence.

Surman is more than a shelter. It is a home where children are cared for with love and respect. Along with education and healthcare, we encourage children to explore their interests through creative, recreational, and extracurricular activities. Our aim is to help every child discover their abilities and become confident about their future.

Every child has the right to survive, develop, be protected, and participate in the world around them. We can help make these rights a reality when we come together.

We are grateful to everyone who has supported Surman's journey so far. And there is always room for more people to join us. Whether you choose to volunteer, contribute, sponsor a child, or simply spread the word, you can become a part of the Surman Family.

Because sometimes, one person’s support can give a child the confidence to believe in tomorrow.

Sambal

Sambal is an initiative created by Surman Sansthan to support young adults as they move from childhood into independent life. It was started around 2–3 years ago with a simple goal — to help our young adults build the skills, confidence, and financial independence they need for the next chapter of their lives.

As per government guidelines and Surman's policies, children can leave the care of the Sansthan after turning 18. But turning 18 does not mean that every young person is ready to manage life on their own. Many of our young adults are talented, hardworking, and eager to continue their education or build a career, but financial limitations can make those dreams difficult to pursue.

Sambal was created to bridge that gap.

Through the initiative, young adults actively take part in making products such as homemade chocolates, paper bags, woolen items, dolls, dresses, cotton bags, magazines, and other handmade products. It gives them practical experience while helping them develop a sense of responsibility, confidence, and self-reliance.

More importantly, Sambal helps our young adults feel that they are not a burden on the Surman family. Instead, they become capable of supporting themselves and, when possible, helping younger children who are still growing up at Surman.

Our support is not limited to young adults from Surman. We also extend a helping hand to deserving young people from underprivileged families who have the ability and determination to continue their education but do not have the financial resources to do so.

The products created through this initiative are sold under the name Klleemm, and 100% of the funds generated are put back into education and the personal development of the young adults we support.

Sambal is more than a livelihood initiative. It is about giving young people the confidence to stand on their own feet, pursue their dreams, and step into adulthood with dignity.

We don't just want our children to grow up — we want them to grow into confident, independent individuals who can shape their own future.

Founder

Manan Chaturvedi

Manan Chaturvedi is the founder of Surman Sansthan and a dedicated child rights advocate who has spent years working to create a safer and more caring world for children. Her work has focused on raising awareness about child welfare, abuse, exploitation, and the challenges faced by children growing up in difficult circumstances.

Her commitment to children's rights also led her to serve as the former Chairperson of the Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, where she worked to strengthen the protection and rights of children on a wider platform.

protection, and a fair chance at life.

For Manan, helping children was never simply about running an organization. It began with compassion and the belief that every child deserves to be treated with love, dignity, and respect.

Before Surman became what it is today, Manan regularly visited slum communities and distributed food, clothes, stationery, and other essentials to children who needed support. One day, she met a young girl named Gauri, who was badly injured and bleeding. Manan immediately took her to the hospital and stayed with her for three days.

When she was asked to take Gauri home, Manan chose to do so without hesitation. What began as one child needing help soon became a much larger responsibility. Within a month, eight more children joined her home. Over time, more children came into her care.

Their backgrounds were different, but Manan saw the same need in each of them — a safe place, someone to care for them, and the opportunity to build a better life.

That growing family eventually became Surman Sansthan.

Today, Surman Home continues to provide children with a safe and nurturing environment where they can receive education, healthcare, care, and opportunities to grow. Over the years, 370 children have been successfully rehabilitated and reunited with their families, while around 110 children currently live and grow at Surman Home.

Manan's journey is a reminder that meaningful change often begins with one simple decision — to care when others choose to look away.

Her work continues to be guided by a simple belief:

Every child deserves love, dignity,

Our Projects

Palna

A Safe Home for Every Child

Surman Palna provides a safe and caring home for abandoned and vulnerable children, particularly infants and young children up to the age of six. Here, children grow up together as one family, surrounded by care, affection, and a sense of belonging.

Many of the children who come to Palna have faced heartbreaking circumstances. Some have been abandoned in places such as roadsides, public toilets, or even dustbins. Behind these situations are often difficult realities — poverty, social stigma, disability, or the rejection of a girl child.

Rather than simply looking at where these children came from, we try to understand why they were abandoned in the first place. This has helped us identify deeper issues within society, including the struggles faced by single mothers living in poverty. That understanding eventually led to another important initiative, Koshish.

Through Palna, our aim is to give every child more than food and shelter. We want them to grow up feeling safe, loved, respected, and confident about their future. Their circumstances may have been beyond their control, but their future does not have to be.

Jeevan

Giving Children a Chance to Heal and Live

Jeevan was started in response to a simple but urgent need — children who were seriously ill and families who could not afford the treatment they needed.

Through Jeevan, Surman provides medical assistance, temporary care, and support to children facing serious health problems. When a family is unable to manage the cost of treatment, we step in to help wherever we can.

The initiative has supported children suffering from malnutrition, anemia, septicemia, and other critical health conditions. One such case involved a child who was found in a public toilet and was suffering from severe anemia, with a hemoglobin level of only 2.7. He was immediately taken to J.K. Lon Hospital, Jaipur, where he received the necessary treatment and continued care until his health improved.

For us, Jeevan is not simply about providing medical support. It is about standing beside children and their families during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

Our hope is that every child we help gets the opportunity to recover, return to their family, and move forward with a healthier and happier life.

Every child deserves the chance to receive proper care, recover, and live with dignity.

Tapasya

Opening the Door to Education

Tapasya was created for children who had missed out on education because of difficult circumstances.

Some children who came to Surman at the age of 11 or 12 had never been to school or even learned the basics of reading and writing. They had fallen far behind their peers, not because they lacked ability, but because they had never been given the opportunity to learn.

To help them catch up, Surman developed an accelerated learning program based on their individual needs. Dedicated teachers were brought in to help children build their basic skills and develop confidence in learning.

With regular teaching and support, many children were able to make significant progress within one to two years and eventually enter formal schools. Some were even able to join directly in Class 10.

What makes Tapasya especially meaningful is seeing these children move forward — continuing their studies, discovering their interests, pursuing higher education, and working towards careers they once may not have imagined.

Education gives children much more than academic knowledge. It gives them confidence, independence, choices, and the belief that they can build a better future for themselves.

Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and decide what they want their future to be.

The Beginning of Surman

The story of Surman began through a series of small but deeply meaningful moments in Manan Chaturvedi's life. Each one shaped her understanding of compassion and gradually led her towards a larger purpose — helping children who had been left behind.

When Manan was still a schoolgirl, she learned that one of her classmates was about to leave school because her family could no longer afford the fees. Instead of simply feeling sorry for her, Manan decided to do something. She encouraged her classmates to contribute whatever they could from their pocket money. They collected the money in the girl's lunchbox, and Manan personally took it to the principal's office and paid the fees.

It was a small act, but it taught her something that stayed with her — sometimes, helping someone begins with simply refusing to look away.

Years later, another experience touched her deeply. A bird had made its nest above a switchboard in her home. One day, the bird was accidentally killed by a ceiling fan, leaving its young chicks behind. Manan began caring for them, feeding them and protecting them until they were able to survive on their own. It was another reminder of how vulnerable life can be when there is no one to care for it.

Then came a moment that changed the direction of her life.

As a young woman, Manan dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and was travelling towards Delhi when she saw a seven-year-old girl searching for food near a garbage pile. The sight stayed with her. She began questioning her own plans and wondered how she could focus on designing clothes when children around her did not have enough food or even proper clothing.

She turned back.

Instead of continuing towards the life she had planned, Manan began visiting slum communities and distributing food and clothes to children who needed them.

One day, she met a young girl named Gauri, who had suffered a serious head injury and was bleeding badly. Manan immediately took her to the hospital and stayed with her for three days. When it became clear that Gauri needed a safe place to stay, Manan brought her home.

Soon after, eight more children came into her care.

The number continued to grow. What started with one child gradually became a family, and that family eventually became Surman Sansthan.

Growing Through Challenges

The early days were not easy. There was no Child Welfare Committee to guide or support the work, and resources were limited. Yet children continued to arrive, each carrying their own story and each needing someone to stand beside them.

Manan chose not to turn them away.

She opened her home and her heart to children who had nowhere else to go. As more children became part of the Surman family, the responsibility grew — but so did the vision.

What began with a few simple acts of kindness slowly developed into a lifelong commitment to providing children with care, safety, education, dignity, and the opportunity to build a better future.

Surman was not created overnight. It grew one child, one decision, and one act of compassion at a time.

Dream Home

ANANDLOAK-

Anandloak is the future home of Surman Sansthan a six-story shelter being constructed at the Anand Lok JDA Scheme along the Jaipur–Sikar Road, spread across 2616 sq. meters. Once completed, 1,200 children will live in a secure, hygienic, and uplifting space designed for healing, growth, and education.

The structure is complete. Boys currently live on the ground floor, while girls and children under six remain in the main Surman home. Furnishing and development are underway but to finish this dream, we need you.

Surman Sansthan isn’t just an NGO – it’s a living testament to the power of unconditional love, quiet sacrifice, and relentless compassion. If you believe in giving children a chance, in empowering women to rise, and in turning pain into purpose – join us.