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Social Action for Manpower Creation (SAMPARC) focuses on the rehabilitation and education of orphans, children of sex workers, children of imprisoned parents and needy, and disadvantaged rural kids. They now directly support 600 orphan children at various centers in Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal and Rajasthan, as well as run a school, hostel, medical center, and vocational training center for the rural poor.

Their programs are:

• Education Programs: Balgram, SAMPARC’s Children Home, provides education, hostel, health facilities and a home friendly atmosphere for beneficiaries in the age group of 5-18 years. SAMPARC provides support in areas of computer literacy, general knowledge, math, reasoning and spoken English too. It also runs 2 schools, a junior college and 2 hostel facilities for senior children. Gramin Vidya Vikas Kendra at Bhambarde, is a school from class 5 to 12 cum hostel  for underprivileged children of 43 villages of Mulshi Taluka. Over 160 students reside in the hostel. SAMPARC Abhinav English medium school has a total of 109 students enrolled from nursery to class 3.
• Village Programs and Women Empowerment: “Nai Roshni” is a rural development project to empower minority rural women through Self Help Groups. Training programs on tailoring are organized. SAMPARC runs a family counselling center and child counselling center to help solve issues of domestic violence and psychological issues. It also runs an Integrated community development program to address issues like women empowerment, education, human and animal health and other community projects.
• Vocational Training Centre (VTC): VTC provides Central Government recognized courses at Pune on computers, welding and electrical wiring courses for boys and beautician, stitching and cutting courses in tailoring, cooking and basic food production course for girls. During the year, over 500 beneficiaries successfully completed the course.
• Medical Centre: The center conducts health awareness camps and also provides regular medical support and health service to the rural poor patients of Maval Taluka through OPD, IPD and Medical Mobile Clinic. The Medical Mobile Clinic visits villages in Maval Taluka twice a week to treat patients. In FY15, the center provided medical support to over 4,000 beneficiaries through their services.