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Winter Drive — December
Dignity Kits — in schools
Festival Joy — Dussehra & Diwali
Ration Kits — monthly
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Some needs arrive on a calendar

This season that means

Winter. Exam season. Festival week. The monsoon gap in daily wages. These are predictable — which means there is no excuse for being caught out by them.

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🧣2,400+ blankets distributed🩹1,100+ dignity kits given to schoolgirls🎆3 festival drives every year🍚₹1,200 one month of family ration❄️Dec–Jan our most demanding window
Drive one

Winter Blanket Drive — before the first cold night

Cold does not kill the way hunger does. It just takes the very old and the very young quietly, and nobody records it as a cold death.

We buy new blankets in bulk in November, before the price rises and before the first serious drop in temperature. Distribution runs through December and early January across pavements, settlements, shelters and our entire elder care list.

New, not collected. Second-hand blankets in December are a well-meant insult — we would not put one on our own parent.

  • ₹400 — one new blanket, one person through the winter
  • ₹4,000 — ten blankets, an entire pavement stretch
  • ₹40,000 — one hundred blankets, a full night's route
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A boy carrying a stack of new blankets
2,400+blankets handed over, new, in the last two winters
Schoolgirls holding dignity kits in their classroom
₹250six months of supplies — and six months of school not missed
Drive two

Dignity Kits — the cheapest education intervention there is

A girl in a low-income household can lose four or five school days every single month for the want of something that costs ₹40. Over a school year that is most of a term.

We distribute six-month sanitary supply kits directly in government schools, together with a short, matter-of-fact session run by a woman volunteer. No lecture, no embarrassment, no boys in the room unless the school asks for a joint session — and increasingly, they do.

  • ₹250 — one girl, six months of supplies
  • ₹12,500 — fifty girls, an entire school year group
  • ₹25,000 — a whole school, every girl covered
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Drive three

Festival Joy — because children should get to be children

There is a strand of charitable thinking that says a poor child needs food and nothing else. We disagree, and so does every child who has watched a festival happen to other people.

At Diwali and Dussehra our volunteers walk the same streets we serve food on, with sweets, toys, balloons and new clothes. It is not nutrition. It is not education. It is the memory of one day in the year when somebody made a fuss of them.

  • ₹300 — sweets, a toy and new clothes for one child
  • ₹6,000 — twenty children, one lane
  • ₹30,000 — a hundred children, a whole settlement
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Volunteers walking through a settlement with toys and balloons
3×festival drives every year — Dussehra, Diwali, Uttarayan
Drive four

Monthly Ration Kits — a month of breathing room

For a family whose daily wage has stopped — illness, monsoon, a lost job — a month of food is the difference between a difficult period and a permanent slide.

10 kgflour & rice
3 kgdal & pulses
Oil, tea
sugar, saltthe full basket
₹1,200one family, one month
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My daughter used to miss four or five days of school every month. Since the foundation started giving the kits she has not missed a single one. Nobody had ever spoken to us about it before.

Kailashben P.Mother, dignity kit programme
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Pick a drive, or let us put it where it is most urgent

Seasonal drives are funded in the weeks before they run. Money that arrives in November buys blankets at November prices — which is roughly a fifth cheaper than buying them in January.

The most useful thing you can do is give early. We can buy in bulk, negotiate properly and reach more people with the same rupee.

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Pick an amount — we will show you what it becomes.

80G receipt issued for every donation.

Drive questions

What people ask about the seasonal work

Buying happens in November, distribution through December and the first half of January. Funds that reach us by early November go furthest, because blanket prices climb steeply once the cold arrives.
Clean, genuinely warm and undamaged winter clothing, yes. Used blankets, no — we distribute new ones. If you would hesitate to give it to your own parent, please do not send it to ours.
Bulk purchase of sanitary pads for six cycles, plus soap and a small pouch, bought at wholesale. It is the single cheapest way we know to protect a girl's attendance record.
Both. A woman volunteer runs a short, practical session in the classroom. The kit without the conversation solves half the problem.
We hear this and we understand it. Our answer is that we already run a hunger programme every week of the year, and that a childhood with no festival in it is its own kind of deprivation. If you disagree, fund the meals instead — genuinely, no hard feelings.
Yes, and drives are the easiest thing for a CSR committee to approve: a defined window, a countable output and clean documentation. Ask us for a drive proposal.
Yes. The winter drive in particular needs many more hands than we have. Register through the volunteer form and we will tell you the dates as soon as they are fixed.
It goes out in the following weeks to the same communities — never stored for the next year, never returned, never quietly resold.
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