Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal (GVM) was founded in the year 1911 A.D. with a small school named A. J. de Almeida High S2chool at Ponda, in the state of Goa in India, with a vision to cater to the fundamental educational needs of children from urban as well as rural areas and to enable them to lead a self reliant and a quality human life.