Our History
Gwalior Children's Charity is a small UK registered charity
(No: 1063694) working to provide health, education and medical services to poor, needy and disabled children in Gwalior; its slums, rural and remote areas as well an orphanage - Snehalaya. Snehalaya aims to provide rehabilitation and training for disabled and destitute children to make them independent and able to lead a life with self esteem.
Dr B.K.Sharma, the founder trustee of the charity is a Paediatric Surgeon who has worked for many years in the British NHS, but who was born near Gwalior, India. Having worked in Britain, Dr Sharma was keen to set up a charity to help people in his home town in India.
His vision has been to set up an institution which could provide health education and high quality medical services to the under privileged section of the society especially to poor, needy, destitute and disabled children there- the most neglected ones.
Since then many donors and volunteers from all over the world have helped the charity progress and work has included rural clinics, school work, orphanage work and hospital treatment. After much fundraising and persistence, Snehalaya was completed in 2006, on the outskirts of Gwalior, as an orphanage, and all round home, for children and adults who were not being provided for. Snehalaya is so much better than anything its residents had experienced before, but we want it to be even better!
Dr BK Sharma