Underprivileged kids

Ashok Rathod founded the Oscar Foundation in Mumbai to keep children away from addiction, dropouts, and child marriage. With its ‘No School, No Football’ rule, the foundation blends education and sport, empowering thousands of children to dream, learn, and lead.

Seema Seth started Nayi Disha, an NGO that provides education to underprivileged children in Gurugram, transforming their lives. And it all started with an auto driver!

Satinder Bajwa was a coach of the squash team for Harvard University. He returned to Chandigarh to start Khelshala to provide an all-rounded education to underprivileged kids.

Taking inspiration from Maharshi Karve, Jameendar Babasaheb Keshav Narayanrao Deshmukh set up the Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal (SSM), to start the first-ever residential school in Sagroli, Maharashtra committed to empowering girls through education

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After watching her father donating food and clothes to flood survivors, little Tunisha asked him, "But you did not collect schools bags, books or stationery for the children. How will they go to school now?”

“We were not part of any NGO. We were just individuals trying to do whatever best we can to make our education beneficial not just for us, but also our society.”

Did you know 8000 litres of water is needed to make one pair of jeans? Now think of the happy implications if all those old denims could be repurposed into school stationery for hundreds of marginalised kids.

From starvation to domestic violence, from being defrauded of lakhs to her younger sister’s murder⁠—Anchal’s life has been a roller-coaster of traumatic experiences. Yet, ‘Anchal Didi’ is a guardian angel for hundreds of kids in Delhi slums. #HeroesOfHumanity

Everyone thinks of helping school children by giving stationery but no one thinks of how to get the child to attend school. This Mumbaikar thought of it and is now giving cycles to underprivileged kids.