Category: Delhi NGOs

  • How it began at SOS Children’s Villages of India

    On June 23rd 1919, Hermann Gmeiner was born into a large farming family in Vorarlberg (present-day Austria). When he lost his mother at the age of five, his elder sister Elsa took on the responsibility of caring for the younger siblings. He missed his mother tremendously and often used to express this feeling as, “There…

  • How it all began at CSSAR

    Back in 2007, in Delhi’s biting Winter, Mr. Yogendra Jha was drinking tea at a roadside stall when he witnessed an incident that would play an important role in changing his career path. On the opposite side of the road, a passenger got into a hand-pulled rickshaw. The rickshaw-wala pulled his rickshaw just a step…

  • CSSAR ensures that children do not remain educated on paper only

    The Center for Social Security Action and Research ’s (CSSAR) name is a misnomer; as the organization’s vision is to ensure that every child gets access to quality education irrespective of his/her social/financial background. Set up in 2008, this vision is met through its main activity, which is teaching slum children in Delhi. Currently, 463…

  • Lives changed by Sshrishti

    by Yashika Sharma Children standing up and saying, “Good morning ma’am!” Me smiling at all of them and replying “Good morning everyone!” Children sitting down and uttering “Thank you ma’am!” This was exactly how I was greeted in every classroom of every learning centre of Sshrishti I visited. I could not tell that these educated…

  • How it began at Sshrishti

    by Yashika Sharma My first question to Ms. Sanghamitra Bose, CEO and Founder of Sshrishti was,“Why the two S in Sshrishti?” She said, “While we were driving to get ourselves registered as an NGO, it suddenly hit me that they would ask for a name and I don’t have one! I kept on thinking and…

  • Improving lives of underprivileged women and children in Delhi

    by Yashika Sharma When I started my visit to Sshrishti, I had no idea what to expect from a relatively new NGO with two Ss in it. After conversing with Ms. Sanghamitra Bose, CEO and founder of Sshrishti, I was pretty sure that a few unique days awaited me. I wasn’t wrong. The first centre,…

  • Lives Changed by Udayan Care

    by Yashika Sharma Physical abuse. Sexual abuse. Rape. Abandonment. Murder. Trauma. These are the words that describe so many childrens’ pasts. Turning the life around of children with such agonizing backgrounds is not a simple task. However, Udayan Care has successfully been fulfilling this duty for the past two decades! Rupali, Rakhi and Jaspreet are…

  • How it began at Udayan Care

    by Yashika Sharma Udayan Care is a Delhi-based NGO that, since 1994, has been painting the empty canvas of destitute and abandoned children, women and youth with bright, vibrant and permanent colors. Who could have guessed that behind the commencement of this wonderful cause is a painful memory, a faint violet image that never ceases…

  • Providing loving, group foster care for orphans in Delhi

    by Yashika Sharma I entered the Udayan Care Ghar (“Home” in Hindi) and all the children, in a surprisingly coordinated way, greeted me with “Hi!”. Entering the room filled with girls smiling, running, drawing and chatting, I would never have been able to guess that all of them come from abusive and ugly pasts. While…

  • Lives Changed by Sarthak Prayas

    by Yashika Sharma “Enjoy Life!” This piece of advice came from Harsh Arora, Founder and CEO of Sarthak Prayas, multiple times, during my conversations with him. “Harsh” means “happiness,” and he truly has been giving to it to needy individuals who have come across his path. Some of these people are are Param Lal, Archana…

  • How it began at Sarthak Prayas

    by Yashika Sharma GE-Countrywide, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd, Wipro BPO Solution Ltd, Hutchison Essar (or Vodafone), American Express—these are some of the companies where Harsh Arora has worked. Today, he is founder and CEO of Sarthak Prayas as well as Improve Life Human Value Management Pvt Ltd. Harsh describes his past occupations as…

  • Emergency Blood Donor Bank, Ration Distribution, Birthday Project, Green India and more

    by Yashika Sharma Started in 1999 as emergency blood phone help line, Sarthak Prayas now works for four majorcauses —creating the longest chain of emergency blood donors, providing education and human values to children, giving benefits to senior citizens, and greening the environment for future generations. Mission Save Life, which is their dream project, is…

  • A 100-year old organisation that provides quality eye care to the poor

    by Yashika Sharma Not very often does one hear of organizations that have successfully been around for 100 years, so when I learnt I was visiting a 100-year old nonprofit organization, you can image how intrigued I was. Set up in 1914 in Daryaganj, which is now the heart of Purani Dilli, Dr. Shroff’s Charity…

  • How it began at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital

    Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, a charitable trust, was set up in 1914 by Dr. S.P. Shroff. An overachiever who completed his degree from England and could have easily received a highly-paid job instead decided to open a hospital for the deprived individuals. What motivated him to do so, is probably a question that comes…