Touching Lives Welfare Trust

Touching Lives' core focus is on working with children living in the slums of Borivali and Dahisar in Mumbai. Their primary objective is to provide these children with the necessary resources and teachers to facilitate both learning and healing processes. Through this project, they aim to enable over 200 children to receive activity-based education every year.
To achieve this, Touching Lives has established quality resource centers, known as Learning Centers and Community Centers. These centers serve as spaces where children can recover from challenging circumstances, discover their potential, and actively engage in activities that contribute positively to both themselves and the world around them.
The organization employs trained mentors (teachers) who utilize therapeutic learning methods for the holistic development of the children.

The Dream project at Touching Lives is specifically designed for college-going students, aiming to achieve three primary goals:
Workshops: The project offers workshops that cover various life skills, career guidance, and subjects such as organic farming. These workshops aim to equip the students with essential skills and knowledge beyond their academic curriculum, helping them develop into well-rounded individuals capable of facing real-world challenges.
Self Learning: The Dream project encourages self-learning among the students, emphasizing the availability of online resources and tools for learning. This approach empowers the students to take charge of their education, explore new topics, and access a wide range of learning materials available on the internet, fostering independent and continuous learning.
Knowing the World: The project seeks to expand the students' horizons by exposing them to diverse subjects like business, sports, and current affairs.

Touching Lives is dedicated to creating opportunities for children at their Learning Center through various initiatives.
Connecting with prestigious schools and scholarships: The organization helps talented children access better educational opportunities by connecting them with prestigious schools and scholarships.
Career guidance workshops: Touching Lives conducts career guidance workshops to assist the children in exploring different career paths and understanding the requirements for various professions. These workshops empower children to make informed decisions about their future career choices.

Touching Lives offers a variety of healing and awareness workshops for different groups.
Individual Healing Sessions: Individual children at the Learning Center receive personalized love, care, attention, healing, and therapy through the Care program. Experienced and trained healers provide support and guidance to help children cope with emotional challenges and foster their overall well-being. Workshops on body-mind-heart awareness and knowing yourself: Workshops are conducted to promote self-awareness and understanding of one's emotions, thoughts, and physical well-being. These workshops encourage children to explore and connect with their inner selves.

Touching Lives aims to support intuitive art and expressive therapy by incorporating film/video-making as a creative process, emphasizing self-expression over the final product. The organization seeks to empower individuals and groups in exploring their creativity, storytelling, and self-expression through film media. By integrating film/video-making into the therapeutic process, Touching Lives encourages participants to explore their emotions and experiences creatively, fostering healing and personal growth. Through film-making, participants are empowered to express themselves freely and authentically, both individually and collectively, using the medium as a powerful tool for self-discovery and communication.The organization provides technical training to children, covering all stages of film-making, from pre-production (storytelling, equipment introduction) to production (camera work, sound, collaboration) and post-production (editing, sound design).