Shree Sharada Granth Prasarak Saunstha, a registered NGO, is an outstanding example of every woman’s inner strength, confidence, organizational skills and social responsibility.
 
This organisation, founded by women, on 19th Dec. 1992, started by establishing Goa’s first exclusive children’s library with the initiative of Vijaya Dixit and a group of like minded woman's. Since then, we have been conducting various activities for overall development of children.
 
The Children, Women, Senior Citizens and the society in general have benefitted greatly from various activities initiated successfully by our organisation. In the last 25 years, we have made a mark in the cultural, literary and social fields in the state of Goa.

On 19 December 2017, Shree Sharada Granth Prasarak Saunstha completed twenty five years of working towards the betterment of society and entered the silver jubilee year.

First decade was marked by the establishment of a children’s library on December 19, 1992 titled as “Sharada Balvachanalay”

Other Activities for children:

  1. Workshops for rural students
  2. Children’s Cultural Programmes
  3. Children’s Literary Meets.
  4. Balsanskar
  5. Balvachanotsav: Meet of young readers

Second Decade comprised of the activities extended for women and a focus was on development of reading habits and writing skills in women and children.

 In 2003, under the mantle of expert guidance of Late Madhavitai Desai, "Gomantak Mahila Sahitya Sammelan" was established as a qualitative literary platform in the state of Goa. This annual Women’s Literary Conference has thrived with the participation of the Marathi literatti, year after year, thus winning unstinted support and accolades from the audience.

Luminaries from the field of Marathi literature from the state of Goa and other states graced 15 sammelans. All the events received a very good response from the delegates and audience. This has become a unique literary event which has carved its own niche in the Goan literary scenario.

Third decade, started with a determination to direct our collective potential to contribute more toward the social cause. This sowed the seed of starting a new social project to create the facility that was not available in the state of Goa.

With the initiative of Ms. Sangeeta Abhyankar, a team of our members visited ‘Swaranaad’- a pre-school and speech therapy centre for deaf children at Pune. Sharada team witnessed the fact that children who are born deaf, can speak if speech therapy is given at an early age. After studying the local scenario, it was realised that there is an alarming need of such a centre in Goa. After rounds of discussions with the director of Swaranaad, other members of ‘Sharada’, medical fraternity and well-wishers in Ponda, it was decided to work towards establishing a speech therapy centre at Ponda.

SHREE SHARADA GRANTH PRASARAK SAUNSTHA MOVED TO ITS OWN PREMISES

In 2013, a decision was made to purchase two flats F-$ and S-4 at Pai house, Sadar, Ponda. On 14 October 2013, On the auspicious occasion of Dussehra, Saraswati poojan was performed in the same premise. Fund raising drive was initiated on the same day.

By the grace of Goddess Saraswati and the support of kind hearted individuals from the society, we raised the necessary funds in the span of three years. On December 20, 2016, we purchased our own premises and marked the beginning of SILVER JUBILEE YEAR.