Art, Culture & Heritage
Preserving and propagating Odisha's classical and folk arts — Odissi dance, music, drama and living folk…
About us
Our Approach
How the Trust Deed asks Saga Foundation to work: through Odisha's own art forms, with volunteers and institutions, for everyone who needs it.
The method
How Saga Foundation works
Five principles drawn from the Trust Deed run through every area of the Trust's work, from art and heritage to health, education and relief.
01
Art as the messenger
Awareness is carried in the idiom people already trust — dance, music, street play, Pala, Daskathia, Ghoda Nacha and tribal dance — alongside modern methods.
02
Traditions kept alive by practice
Classical, Odissi and folk forms are preserved by teaching them: dance schools, music schools, training centres, talent searches, prizes and certificates.
03
Volunteers and specialists
The Trust invites volunteers and people with specialised skills to carry its objects forward and to run livelihood schemes for the poor.
04
In collaboration
Classes, workshops and awareness work are run alone or with other institutions — including the School & Mass Education Department, CBSE and ICMR.
05
Wherever the need is
The Trust's area of operation is the whole of India and abroad, and its service is for the public at large, irrespective of religion, caste or creed.
What the Trust will never do
Uplift the down-trodden
Clause 13 of the Trust Deed sets hard limits on the Trust's work, so that it stays true to its motto.
- No act or objective that is illegal or unethical
- Nothing that results in communal disharmony
- Nothing oppressive to the needy and distressed
- No activity that prejudices its character as a public charitable trust
Where it applies
All of our work
Our thematic pillars
Health & Awareness
Awareness of TB, dengue, flu, AIDS and COVID-19 through the performing arts, with health camps, donation…
Education & Skilling
Dance and music schools, scholarships and education that joins culture with science, values and heritage.
Women & Child Empowerment
Female education, rural leadership of women and girls, and the welfare of children.
Community & Disaster Relief
Relief in calamities, and care for the poor, disabled, elderly and ailing — irrespective of religion, caste…
Environment & Living Heritage
Plantation, a cleaner environment, care for animals, and Odisha's culture, tourism and handicrafts.