Kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or a
group to cherish many lives.
It is defined as being "helpfulness towards someone in
need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of
the helper himself, but for that of the person helped.
Ms. Rita Panicker Pinto is the Founder
Director of Butterflies.
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• She has been a faculty member in the
Women’s Studies Unit, at Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai .
• The Founder Member of MASHAL –
Maharashtra
Association
for
Social
Housing
Voluntary organization working
with vulnerable groups of children,
specially street children and
working children since 1989.
Non institutional approach to
educate and impart life skills to
underprivileged children so that
they become self reliant .
Reaches out to almost 5,200 children
every year and it has touched the lives of
more than 44,000 children.
Main programmes are
Education
Children ‘s Development Khazana(CDK)
Child health cooperative (CHC)
Resilience Centre and Childline
(1098,24X7 Help Line)
Khazana : A Treasure of their Own
Chidren’s Development Khazana
(CDK), A life skills programme
with cooperative bank at its
heart that enable children to
take collective responsibilities of
their
own
“Khazana”—The
Persian word for treasure
“The ultimate goal is to promote
an exit from the vicious circle of
poverty and illiteracy”
Who can be a member of CDK?
Any child from poor and marginalized urban,
rural and tribal communities, aged 9–18 can
become a member of CDK.
To open an account in India, a child needs just
one basic unit of currency – a rupee.
A volunteer child manager is chosen or elected
by the members and holds this position for six
months.
Child managers are trained by the Butterflies
finance team and help them to maintain ledger,
cash and pass books.
Ms. Beena Rao
What This Lady Has Done For Over 5000 Slum
Children Has An Important Lesson For All Of Us.
Beena Rao is a Lecturer at Sardar Vallabha
National Institute of Technology, Surat.
 Social Activist in slum area. Founder,
“Prayas free coaching class”.
She has been immensely inspired by her
father who is a violinist and teaches the
blind students for free.
 Beena Rao is one such person who is
changing the lives of thousands of slum
children around her with her simple
initiative.
Beena Rao’s Mission – To give free education to
underprivileged-children.
Her initiative ‘Prayas Free Coaching Classes’ was started
in 2006 and sought to bridge a gap in delivery standards of
present-day education in deprived neighbourhoods and
slums of Surat, Gujarat.
Rao, with the help of various volunteers, conducts
coaching for the students of classes 3rd to 8th at various
locations for free.
She pays Rs.1,000-1,500 to the volunteers
out of her own pocket or some donations
that Prayas receives.
A batch has 30 students and classes are
conducted in the evening from 6 pm to 8
pm.
 Apart from teaching basic subjects, she
also
imparts
moral
education,
and
encourages students to engage in various art
and craft activities.
Rao also started a Mobile Laboratory to promote the spirit of science in
underprivileged kids and to identify those who have potential to pursue a
career in the sciences.
Rao and her team also distribute books to these slum children to
inculcate reading habits in them. Around 5,000 students have benefited
from this so far
Beena Rao’s efforts have brought a great transformation in the children.
Most of the children are now disciplined and far away from their slang
and abuse lingos.
Narayanan Krishnan is an Indian
chef-turned-social worker
He was born in
year 1981.
Madurai, Tamil Nadu in the
Krishnan was an award-winning chef with Taj
Hotel , Bangalore and was short-listed for an
elite job in Switzerland.
After witnessing a distressing incident in 2002,
he quit his job and began feeding the homeless
and mentally disabled in his hometown.
He said,
"I saw a very old man,
literally eating his own human
waste out of hunger. I went to the
nearby hotel and asked them what
was available. They had idly ,
which I bought and gave to the old
man. Believe me, I had never seen
a person eating so fast, ever. As he
ate the food, his eyes were filled
with tears. Those were the tears of
happiness."
•Krishnan founded the Akshaya Trust organization in 2003,
which helps to feed the homeless and mentally-disabled
in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
•He serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to 425 indigent
and elderly people in Madurai. He also provides haircuts
and shaves to give dignity to those he serves.
•During the last 12 years, he has served over 1.5 million
meals to India’s homeless, mostly people abandoned by
their families, either suffering from mental conditions or
too old to care for themselves.
•He was selected as one of the Top 10 in "CNN heroes
2010" list.
A student of Nav Bharti Public School who took
an initiative to do Random Acts Of Kindness .
•He spent Rs. 5,000
from his
salary for serving poor destitute.
•He provided meals to poor people
who live in the slum near Yamuna
River near night shelters.
•He feeds monkeys by giving 2
dozen banana and 50 chapattis on
every Thursday.
ON 18 Dec 2015, He along with his Friends
organized an event with SRK fan club in order
to get biggest treasure i.e. Smile. They took
50 children from GUDHULI, NGO .
They booked a special show of movie
‘DILWALE’ in Satyam cinema and later on they
provided meals to tiny tots.
In fact SHAHRUKH KHAN
their event on twitter.
shared photos of