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Team Everest started its journey in August 2006 when founder Karthee Vidya completed graduation and joined his first job. He donated from his first-month salary and collected funds from 3 of his friends to raise Rs 4000 to help children in a rural school in Tamilnadu. We used the funds to buy books and uniforms for the school kids there.

After working in an IT company for 8 years, he quit his high paying job in 2014 to work full time on Team Everest.

What started as a small activity, has taken wings over the last 14 years. Today, Team Everest work with 40,000 children a year with help from 25,000 proud Volunteers.

Scholarships, Spoken English, Digital literacy, Soft Skill classes are some of their key initiatives. Team Everest work is recognized by many organization and individuals including Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former president of India.

Some of our key recognition include:

1. 'Leader in Volunteer Engagement' award which is given to only 1 NGO in entire India a year.
2. Guidestar Transparency Key award for being transparent
3. The founder is selected as 'Best Person of the Year' by Puthiya Thalaimurai Magazine. This award is given to only 1 or 2 people in the entire state of Tamilnadu (India) a year.
4. Chennai Citizen award for Team Everest founder which is given to only 10 citizens a year.

Our work is also appreciated by many famous newspaper and magazines like Times of India, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle etc.

We are a collective of passionate leaders taking strategic actions to end all forms of animal harm.  

With decades of experience in multinational corporations and the development sector, we act a backbone organisation to the entire animal protection sector.

We are devoted to the cause of mainstreaming and elevating animal protection in India. We work in collaboration with national and international organisations, sector experts, communities and grassroots participants to create impact. 

Our Mission

To build a platform for effective giving for animals that produces evidence-based, actionable recommendations to reduce animal suffering in India, and offer support to organisations working on these interventions with strategy, create shared measurement practises, effect policy changes, mobilise funding and build public goodwill towards the movement.

Our Vision

A world free of animal harm and exploitation, and a society that prioritises the ending of suffering of all sentient beings, independent of their species. 

Bhumi is one of India’s largest volunteer organizations. We enable over 30,000 volunteers every year for the Sustainable Development Goals. Bhumi provides comprehensive educational support for over 25,000 underprivileged children across India.

We are working towards a more equal and educated India through our volunteers.

Our Programs:

Ignite: Educational support for children in shelter homes, communities, and schools across India. Trained volunteers and Fellows deliver this program towards sustainable livelihoods.

Catalyse: Civic initiatives that aim to make volunteering a habit and get every Indian volunteering. It involves volunteering for causes like environment, animal welfare, community welfare, and more.

Giving is about better outcomes and bigger opportunities. Give with Bhumi to empower lives and transform communities.

The organization was founded in 2005 by Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Bhopinder Singh and Mrs. Winnie Singh with the goal of spreading awareness on essential health affecting information among members of India’s uniformed services and their families. This included sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tuberculosis and HIV/AIDs. Since then, Maitri soon expanded its work to include education and sensitization to end violence against women as well as citizenship rights and health issues concerning migrant populations.

In 2008, Maitri came across a unique and an extremely vulnerable population in Vrindavan, widows who were victims of domestic violence, inflicted by their family members, including their sons and relatives and rendered homeless and destitute to live on the streets of Vrindavan, begging. It was a heartfelt need to support and bring dignity into the lives of the homeless, destitute and abandoned widows of Vrindavan. One can say it was a crucial moment in the history of Maitri and formed a benchmark to work towards identity, dignity and respect. In July 2010, Maitri launched Project Jeevan in Vrindavan, Jeevan symbolizes life, a life with dignity. Maitri translates as Compassion, loving-kindness. Hence compassion in life and addressing another human with loving kindness was the motto for the projects birth. The project’s aim has been to ensure identity, respect and dignity to the ageing, homeless, abandoned and destitute widows. Due to circumstances they have been left abandoned and left homeless, to survive begging on the streets of Vrindavan

Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society (SHEOWS) is a "home away from home" for the abandoned elderly of our country. The organization is registered under the Society Registration Act of 1860 and the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, of 1976. Since the last 20 years we have been providing free shelter, food, cloth, medical care, love, and affection to the destitute, abandoned, homeless, and PWD (Person with disability) elderlies with the help of generous and mindful people of our community.

The Old Age Homes stand with a Special Care Unit, 24X7 Doctors and nurses, Physiotherapy unit, Pathology lab, Digital X-ray monitoring machine, an in-house Pharmacy, and all the necessary equipment required to treat any sort of illness or disease. All these facilities are provided to the elderly completely free of cost. Most of these elders are picked up from the streets of Delhi NCR or brought in by Police/hospital authorities.

Our caregivers facilitate a homely environment in the Ashrams and ensure the socio-emotional well-being of the beneficiaries. SHEOWS is currently running 2 old age homes , Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram of Delhi and Garhmukhteshwar, since 2003 & 2008 respectively. These are the homes of 600 elderly residents who were found alone and abandoned, left to die on the streets.

In the last 20 years, we have served over 7,000 elders out of which more than 2,600 have been rehabilitated back to home.

The aim is to serve every destitute, orphan, needy, abandoned, specially challenged elderly by providing them free shelter, food, clothes, healthcare, love, and respect. We uphold a strong belief that helping aged people and spreading awareness of elderly care would not only give them a new life but also reduce the issue of elder abuse in society.

We believe in the notion of “Vasudeva Kutumbakam” which means that the whole world is our family and this inspires us to serve every needy old aged person as our own family member.

We urge you to come forward and ensure that each elderly gets to live a respectable life and none of them dies on the streets!

AWARDS & RECOGNITION:

● Shram Samman Award 2009

● Purvanchali Pratibha Summan Award 2011

● Distinguished Service Award by Rotary Club of Delhi, Midtown 2013

● Mahatma Gandhi Intergenerational Empowerment Award, 2015

● Best NGO Footprint Award.

● Corona Warrior Award, 2021

● Mahatma Award for Social Good, 2021

● World Geriatrics Care Award

● Indian CSR Social Impact Award- Top 20 NGOs of the Year, 2023

Snehalaya has been working in rural India for almost three decades to bring rescue, rights and rehabilitation to those adversely affected by the commercial sex industry, poverty and droughts. We started rescuing trafficked and forced women and children from red light areas in 1989 and have been fighting HIV/AIDS, reducing 2nd generation prostitution by 100% and ensuring there are no minors working in the sex industry in our district ever since.

Our mission statement is that every woman and child should have the right to a life free from inequality, cruelty and discrimination. We support around 20,000 beneficiaries a year through 19 rehabilitation, health and AIDS prevention, education and awareness-raising projects. We shelter 250 children of sex workers, minors rescued from sex work and those orphaned by or living with HIV. We provide a safe and supportive family setting, with our own school and HIV hospital. We also work in slum areas, run an organic farm for people living with HIV, provide rescue and adoption to abandoned babies. We are nationally recognised as a key healthcare provider for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and also have an outstanding track record in education and sustainable social change.