KISS Foundation

The KISS Foundation is a non-profit humanitarian foundation based in Bhubaneswar, India established to support the Kalinga Institute Of Social Studies (KISS). It was founded by Achyuta Samanta, who founded both KISS and the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT}. KISS is the largest residential institute for tribal people in the world.. It provides accommodation, study, career development, healthcare to 20,000 tribal students each year in its largest integrated residential campus located in Bhubaneswar.

The foundation follows the "Art of Giving", a humanitarian and philanthropic concept of simple living and high thinking .[1]

History

Achyuta Samanta, born into a deprived, widowed family of eight, won a scholarship to study chemistry, then began KIIT with $100 in his pocket and KISS with 125 children in 1992.[2] With dorms and classrooms for thousands of students, the campus is a large township in northern Bhubaneswar. Samanta is setting up 20 KISS branches in Odisha's tribal areas. Work has also started in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Delhi. His new aim is to educate 200,000 adivasi (tribal people) by 2020.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Achyuta Samanta’s Kiss Of Life". Readers Digest. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Children of a Lesser God". The Time. Retrieved 30 Oct 2011.
  3. ↑ "KISS Award for Philanthropist". Indian Express. Retrieved 28 February 2014.

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