This yr, you helped 1,000 youngsters from farming households in Maharashtra’s hinterlands obtain college kits; ensured 6,000 labourers in Mirzapur acquired a pair of slippers, and introduced pleasure to a whole bunch of youngsters by giving their college a brand new roof. Sure, you probably did it!
With influence on the coronary heart of each endeavour at The Higher India, we’ve spent the final yr spreading smiles throughout communities in India. And it wouldn’t have been potential with out your help in money and sort. Right here’s trying again on the yr that was:
1. #GiftASchoolKit: Altering youngsters’s futures in Maharashtra
The Shivprabha Charitable Belief was established in 2007 with the intent of bringing academic, well being, environmental and financial fairness to farming communities in rural India. To help their ‘training’ arm, The Higher India ran a Republic Day marketing campaign that aimed to boost Rs 5,00,000.
The funds have been channelled in the direction of serving to 1,000 underprivileged youngsters in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal and Chandrapur districts get college kits, every comprising a college bag, notebooks, a drawing e book, wax crayons, a slate, a pencil field, and a pouch that included stationery.
2. #DonateASlipper: Serving to labourers in Mirzapur courageous the scorching warmth
In a centre in Uttar Pradesh, a bunch of girls hailing from the close by villages are laborious at work. They name themselves ‘Inexperienced Military’ — a bunch intent on bringing change to the state. As temperatures throughout the summer time season soared to an insufferable excessive, the Inexperienced Military busied themselves by making slippers to distribute to the day by day wage labourers working within the forests.
The Higher India’s marketing campaign managed to boost Rs Rs 5,08,359, thus serving to 6,000 labourers get the slippers they so desperately wanted.
3. #DonateARoof: Giving wings to youngsters’s goals
At a small examine centre in Varanasi, a most cancers survivor, Shyam Shrivastav (65) helps youngsters from underserved communities within the area channel their inside potential. Right here, 200 youngsters are below Shrivastav’s tutelage. Nonetheless, on most days, the centre would stay shut owing to heavy rains and scorching warmth. The centre lacked a roof.
The Higher India stepped in with a marketing campaign, which raised Rs 4,82,950 via collective help. The funds went in the direction of constructing the roof of Shrivastav’s centre, thus making certain that the warmth and rain now not hinder youngsters’s courses.
4. #DonateAnUmbrella: A step in the direction of serving to road distributors
The Higher India partnered with ‘Warriors And not using a Trigger’ — an NGO based by 4 younger associates from Delhi who’ve, because the COVID-19 pandemic, been directing their efforts in the direction of social causes throughout Delhi NCR, Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Chandigarh.
The marketing campaign ensured that, via the Rs 3,54,118 raised, 1,000 road distributors got a token of kindness within the type of umbrellas to defend them from the scorching solar, permitting them to proceed working their companies.
5. Rebuilding Dhanam Paati’s mud residence
If you happen to ever go to Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, you’ll hear from the locals about an idli ‘store’ that it’s essential to go to. Everybody swears by it. Run by 84-year-old Dhanam Paati, the idli enterprise is her humble endeavour to earn for herself and her household. Nonetheless, Paati (‘grandmother’ in Tamil) was discovering it powerful to proceed, because the mud residence by which she lived was on the verge of crumbling. Held collectively by tarpaulin sheets and a thatched roof, the house wasn’t conducive to persevering with the enterprise.
When The Higher India wrote about Paati and the fervour that goes into the idli-making course of, love began pouring in within the type of donations, and shortly, her son shared that they’d obtained Rs 1,00,000. The household meant to make use of the funds to renovate the house.
6. #BlueToGreen: How jeans might be repurposed
Began in 2022 by Nirvaan Somany, ‘Undertaking Denims — Blue To Inexperienced’ has distributed over 2,000 sleeping baggage throughout Delhi-NCR, Himachal, Bengaluru, Pune, and even Turkey and Syria by recycling over 12,000 denims previously two years. The Higher India noticed potential within the concept and stepped in to scale it. By our marketing campaign, we have been profitable in elevating Rs 1,06,494, which went in the direction of the upcycling of denims into sleeping baggage.
This had a twin vantage — the sleeping baggage have been distributed among the many homeless, whereas additionally saving 70,000 litres of water for each bag made. Along with this, the ladies — together with wives of tailors from Shivani’s unit and others from Rajokri village in New Delhi — employed by Undertaking Denims have been helped to earn via the upcycling.
7. Offering a house for the deserted
The Higher India stepped in to assist Nakshatra, a trans lady who runs ‘Nammane Summane’, a shelter in Bengaluru for folks with disabilities, aged people, and orphans deserted by their households. The Rs 1,02,375 raised via the marketing campaign was channelled in the direction of the ration and grocery wants of the residents of the centre.
“We have been in a position to fulfill the meals necessities for 2 meals a day for 150 folks for a month,” Nakshatra shared after we reached out to her.
8. #VolunteerForSeniors
We determined to do an attention-grabbing tackle the that means of affection final Valentine’s Day. We reached out to the senior residents of the group, offering them with care and companionship by partnering with Maya Care Basis, rallying volunteers throughout six metro cities — Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Kolkata.
We requested volunteers to present their time to present care, companionship, and help to senior residents, serving to them really feel liked, valued, and revered.
9. #HelpThemBack
The marketing campaign objective was to thank the silent help system in each residence — the home staff. Because the spine of our cities and houses, their function typically goes unnoticed. By #HelpThemBack, we requested our readers to information these unbelievable people towards digital and monetary literacy, from accessing banking providers to benefitting from welfare schemes.
10. #DonateABlanket
Gurugram-native Sajan Veerr Abrol, founding father of Garments Field Basis, had the ingenious concept just a few years in the past of turning outdated garments into blankets that would then be distributed to the homeless in Delhi. By the marketing campaign, we have been in a position to elevate Rs 5,76,900, serving to 1,400 homeless folks in Delhi, Gurugram, Haryana, Jaipur, and different cities of India. Along with this, the ladies concerned within the upcycling of the blankets additionally obtained a fee for his or her work.
11. #BetterIndiaForWomen
This Navratri and Durga Pujo, festivals that honour the female, we referred to as upon the collective conscience of India to not simply have fun however to behave in the direction of constructing a #BetterIndiaForWomen. From security to training, we tackled the 9 most crucial points impacting ladies in India. Along with your help, our voices echoed louder than ever.
As we bid farewell to this yr, we thank YOU in your unwavering help.
Right here’s to 2025, a yr of even higher hope, motion, and influence.
Let’s hold constructing a #BetterIndia collectively.
Edited by Khushi Arora
