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Initiatives - Welfare

Click to EnlargeBihar Flood Relief, 2008-2009
Assisted Gramysheel, an NGO based in Bihar, to provide warm clothing to disadvantaged children in the flood affected areas of Supaul district in Bihar.

 

 

 


 

Click to EnlargeMumbai Terror Attack, 2008
Supported families of Leopold Café employees killed in the Mumbai terror attack.

Supported Bombay Community Public Trust for their project towards the education of 30 children of the victims of the Mumbai terror attack at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

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Click to enlargeFlood relief for Sidi families, 2006-2007
Provided assistance to the Siddi Goma Al-Mubrik Charitable Trust to rebuild homes for Sidi families affected by the devastating floods in Surat, Gujarat, 2006. The Sidis, a community originally from Africa settled in India over 300 years ago, are an important part of Indian maritime history.

 


 

Click to enlargeMumbai Flood Relief, 2005-2006
Supported the Bombay Community Public Trust (BCPT) to purchase uniforms and schools bags for 400 children from flood-affected fishing villages of Versova and Madh Island during the floods in Mumbai, July 2005.Also, as part of the flood relief drive, helped rebuild the Women's India Trust's (WIT) Panvel centre where the Foundation had donated teaching aids.

 


 

Click to enlargeTsunami Relief, 2005
Supported the C P Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation to provide relief material to 170 tsunami-affected coastal families of Anumanthaikuppam in Tamil Nadu. Household materials like utensils, stoves, mats, blankets, buckets and lanterns were provided to the affected families. Students were given books and stationery.

 


 

Click to enlargeChildren for Tsunami Relief: Exhibition, 2005
Organised an exhibition of paintings on jute panels by children of Great Eastern staff and the Akanksha Foundation to raise funds for a children's park in Anumanthaikuppam in Tamil Nadu. The target of Rs. 2,00,000/- was achieved and the park developed by the C P Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation.

 

 


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Non-formal education, Vimla Vikas Kendra, 2004-2005
Supported Vimla Vikas Kendra in 2004-05, dedicated to the welfare and education of street children working at the Mazagaon Docks, Mumbai. The project supports 150 children between 8 and 14 years and provides books and stationery.

 

 


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Girls' Hostel, Kelshi Education Society, 2004
Built a girls' hostel in Kelshi Education Society in Dhapoli, Maharashtra to enable full school attendance and arranged free computers gifted by the Lala Arjundas Seth Charitable Trust.

 

 


 

Click to enlargeToy Libraries, 2004
Established toy Libraries in coastal schools at Kovalam in Kerala, and Vesawa, Marve and Worli in Mumbai through the Children's Toy Foundation. Also supported a mobile toy van, which travels to ten construction sites to entertain children of the workers in Mumbai. Toy libraries were also established at Kelshi Education Society in Dhapoli and at the Women's India Trust Centre at Panvel.

 


 

Development Project for Koli Children and Youth, Pragati Kendra Trust,
2002-2004

Supported Pragati Kendra Trust to initiate and implement a developmental project for the children and youth in Koli dominated areas of Worli, Mumbai from 2002 to 2004. The project includes special classes for weaker students and school drop-outs, balwadi (pre-school) programmes, holiday camps and cultural programmes.

 
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