About us

SMART comprises of a group of professionals with varied experience in education, literacy, health and empowerment. We have come together to bring about real transformation in the marginalized sections of society through literacy and empowerment.

We work  towards providing an environment for acquiring knowledge and developing not only the ability to organize and influence the direction of social change but also to help create a more just social and economic order. We are committed to providing alternatives to development in areas, which have been deprived of basic facilities like health, education and employment.

Our programs to go beyond the basic mechanics of reading and writing in order to embrace life skills and sustainable growth like providing an opportunity to think, act freely, and exercise their choice and to fulfill their potential as full and equal society.

Social Activist, a filmmaker by profession and publisher of Hardnews, a Delhi-based monthly political magazine, Archana Kapoor started this initiative. Believing that poverty has the face of a woman she decided to work for the betterment of women in the marginalized areas. Her work in Mewat brought her an understanding of the enormity of both the illiteracy problem and the predicament of the girl-child. She has tried to leverage her experience of documenting the state of literacy and education in the Muslim-dominated nations of Bangladesh and Indonesia to break the resistance to education of the Mewat community. She has made over 250 documentaries on social and cultural issues and has also authored a coffee table book. Apart from this, she is the Indian representative of Women without Borders, www.women-without-borders.org  an advocacy, PR and lobbying organization for women around the globe. It offers women a forum to make their voices heard and to make their concerns made public. She has also produced the first Women without Borders film titled “Different Strokes” which was premiered on March 8 in Vienna on Women’s Day.