nurturinglives

[nurturinglives]

"Helping someone is not a social cause, it's our responsibility"

Nurturing lives is a volunteer-based organization started on 1st November 2018 that aims at providing help to the lesser fortunate people of our society. Started in Mumbai by Mr Dhruman Gohil it is currently expanded to 5 major cities Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad.

In the last 2.8 years over 1200+ volunteers nationwide helped the NGO to successfully complete 45+ major events and projects. We at Nurturing Lives always think that what matters more to them is the time that the orphans or the old-age people spend with us. We have collaborated with 20+ organizations over the years that helped us grow exponentially.

Our motive is to bring smiles to the people of India and help the needy in whichever way possible.

We executed our first event at Sharda Ashram on the joyous occasion of Diwali with the orphan kids in 2018. We spent time with them, danced with them and enjoyed ourselves throughout. These kids will always be close to our hearts. Over the years, the time that we spent together at orphanages and old age homes really motivated us to do even better for society. We visited Shanti Daan Ashram, provided them with daily necessities for the organization. Meeting the deaf people was an eye-opener for us. Our next event was at the Good Samaritan mission where we distributed food parcels to the dying destitute who were left on the road by their families. Their stories and journey really inspired us. Some of the more organizations that we collaborated with, in 2019 are Little Sisters of the Poor, Vatsalya trust, Vivekanand Bala Ashram.

We provided essential commodities, food, medicines and also interacted with the people. The joy after seeing them smiling was priceless. We also organized a book distribution project in the month of august 2019 wherein we collected used notebooks, unused pages and bound them into a new book which helped the kids at the Ashram. Later in the month of February 2020, we took a one-month long project where we aimed to feed 500+ people across the streets of Mumbai. There were 8 different locations and we provided them with food twice a week. The food was homemade and collected from the needy which also helped their business. Our volunteers really enjoyed the whole experience right from packing the food to distributing them. The names of the people who funded our project were written on the packets for complete transparency.

Check details of each and every event that we have conducted.

In April 2020 when covid hit us and destroyed the lives of many people, our willingness and motivation to help the less fortunate did not stop. The poor sections of the society were the most affected by covid and hence we aimed at providing them help. We created awareness through our social media and did our first covid project by providing masks to 100+ security guards, workers, maids and also spread awareness regarding the same. We also started a fundraising campaign in the month of July and the funds collected were used to provide daily essentials to orphanages and old age homes all over Mumbai.

There was a shortage of medicines, food and daily essentials during the month of August in most of the ashrams due to the pandemic that spread worldwide, hence we helped them by providing the required supply of medicines and daily essentials. Our first project in Pune was the distribution of masks and soaps to 100+ construction workers and their families.

We organized many food distribution drives at the end of 2020 and the volunteers helped us in achieving the goal.

We also went to Ashrams to talk with the old age people as they were alone and had no one visiting them due to covid. We Had a soothing conversation at the ‘Angel care foundation’ and we really got emotional after the long talk. In the month of October 2020, we conducted a short live session with Hariom Sunny (chief smile officer) on the importance of sharing happiness in orphanages.

Watch the session here!!

Mr Sunny Nagpal is the co-founder of education which has spread its wings in over 11 cities he has spent seven Golden years under the leadership of Dr Kiran Bedi where he executed an early leadership model for children in slums impacting over 15,000 families. This helped the people understand the value of volunteering and made them realize the importance of volunteering at NGOs from a young age. The second event at Pune was completed successfully by providing daily essentials and toys to the kids at survey sarvesham Seva Sangh.

At the end of the second year of Nurturing Lives, we achieved a milestone when our article got published in the newspaper of Mumbai and Pune. This year too we celebrated Diwali at Seva Sangh Ashram by distributing homemade Diwali snacks with them and dancing and singing and hearts outs.

Collaborating with Navjyoti India Foundation was one of our major projects in the year 2020. Navjyoti India Foundation was founded by doctor Kiran Bedi in 1987- a child education program was started in Delhi with an aim to ensure your continuity in the schooling of slum children's “A mission to educate the underprivileged”. We were excited to be a part of this program and educate as many children as we can. This was our first project in Delhi. We started with an English course for standard 6th to 10th and the kids were very eager to learn with us. We also came up with a virtual Mumbai tour for the slum children who were a part of the Nav Jyoti project as a way to end our project in a happy and enjoyable way. The kids were very happy which eventually made our project successful.

As the chill in winters ranges, we decided to organise a blanket distribution project where we collected old and used blankets and handed them over to the people on the streets of Mumbai. As this event was a major success we also came up with a clothes distribution drive for the homeless and orphanages and distributed over 1,000 clothes to the needy across Mumbai and Nashik. “It's not about how much we give, it’s about how much love we put into it.

In the month of April we came up with our largest "Project Ekasaathe"; a Sanskrit derivation that preaches about being "all together".

With the same belief at heart, we at Nurturing Lives had come up with the idea of the 'Ekasaathe', a prospective social media transgender awareness campaign in April 2021. Upholding this very perspective that needed to be changed, our team began the two-month work of shaping the whole campaign right from jotted down points on the paper. Hundreds of stories on the internet that needed a voice; we went through them all, every single one strengthening our resolve to bring this campaign to life a little more. Through an extensive hiring program across platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and combined with the efforts of all members, we were overwhelmed to be joined by 1000 volunteers from all across India, each one eager to contribute and join hands. With such an amazing triumph on our table, the campaign soon went off the ground on our official social media handles for the whole month of April, spanning across 15 posts and 90 different stories; each one of them meticulously covering a different aspect. A true miscellany of positivity, hope, love, trust, coordination and dedication. In addition, not a single rupee was spent throughout the process; another small achievement only adding more to the belief that indeed, sometimes even a strong motive is all that is needed to trigger a life-sized change. We reached 1 million people through this project which was all we needed. We thank every single volunteer from the bottom of our hearts, who joined Nurturing lives in the past 2.8 years, who made the dream of "Nurturing lives''' a reality and gave us the strength and the will to contribute more for a better world through means of such events in future. We collect funds through which food parcels, daily essentials and medicines are bought for the underprivileged! In these 2.8 years, We have expanded to 5 major cities throughout India and we're currently impacting a lot of people nationwide! And we're only able to do what we're doing because of generous people like you! Help us raise funds so that we can continue to help the less fortunate.

Let's watch one movie less or eat at home instead of ordering food from outside and donate that amount for someone's better future. Even a small donation will go a long way!

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