Kindness has a ripple effect. As more and more well wishers come together new ideas of contributing to the society take birth. Take a look at our portfolio of recent activities. See the action on the ground.
Glad to announce starting of our kitchen facility in association with Rotaty Club of Bombay supporting 100 room set up run by Tata Cancer hospital in space given by Mhada. We are thankful to Rotary members involved in showing trust in us and we pray for continuous support of our well wishers to further our cause of reaching to many more!!!
WithAarya along with Bombay Scottish student organised an eye camp, health check up and ration kits drive for truck drivers. We thank everyone and especially Dev Lapsiwala for initiating this drive!
We're happy to share that WithAarya distributed brand new sandals to the children in KEM Hospital's 5 Wards. Their smiles and happiness have warmed our hearts. Thank you to all who contributed to this wonderful initiative!
Gopinath Sawant became permanently disabled an accident. Bedridden for five years and jobless, his life changed when Shital Bhatkar secured funds for an electric wheelchair from Rotary Club of Mumbai, Mahim restoring his hope and mobility. Five months ago, Gopinath secured a delivery job with Zomato, We applaud Gopinath's resilience and courage, as well as the support from the Rotary Club and Zomato. All of this helped Gopinath get his livelihood back.
WithAarya is making a difference! Today, we're proud to share that we have started providing free meals to leprosy patients in Ratnagiri. These resilient individuals often face neglect, but together, we can bring nourishment and compassion into their lives. Join us in supporting this cause.
Geetanjali a 29-year-old widow and mother of three from Sholapur, from Pandharpur lost her husband to aplastic anemia. Shital provided Geetanjali with a sewing machine and sponsored her children's education. Recognizing the need for a stable income, Shital, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Mumbai Mahim also arranged an atta chaki for her. WithAarya wishes Geetanjali strength and hopes these efforts will help her stand on her feet.
Withaarya along with the support of Shanmukhananda Charitable Trust, organized a free eye camp on for the boot polishers and coolies. Our outreach touched the lives of 109 individuals, and among them, 5 have been identified for complimentary cataract surgery, while 34 others have been called for detailed retina check-ups
WithAarya is glad to be a part of the ACIW (American Club for International Women) Mumbai exhibition at BKC Trident. This event provides an excellent platform for us to showcase our initiatives and connect with a diverse and supportive community. It enabled us to engage with attendees and spread awareness about our cause.
Goverment donated 100 flats to Tata Memorial situated at Bhoiwada, Parel for outstation patients and their caregivers. There was a need for healthy breakfast. We at Withaarya are now providing daily breakfasts to these needy families and bridging the gap.
A lot of children volunteer at Don Ghaas. This is an enlightening experience for the children. They understand the value of food, interact with the patients and relatives sharing their plight and hardships faced during the period of illness. The children become more mature and responsible human beings, uplifting their willingness to help the society in the near future.
Tuberculosis patients are often neglected due to the stigma surrounding this communicable disease. With this in mind, WithAarya along with Ek Zariya have taken a step to sponsor khichdi food packets at the Tuberculosis hospital in Parel, Mumbai. While the meals are sponsored by Ek Zariya, the on ground execution is carried out by WithAarya.
It is heartening to see young minds interning with us! From engineering to MBA we see children from numerous colleges helping us out in their summer breaks. These bright students gain invaluable experience while contributing to our mission of supporting those in need. Their enthusiasm and fresh perspectives are truly inspiring!
Taking WITHAARYA initiative a step forward, we have recently been approached by Swaccha NGO in Amravati which is run by Aarti Amte, daughter of Prakash Baba Amte, and her husband to start a food distribution initiative at IRWIN Civil Hospital at Amravati.
By the grace of God and our donors we have managed to start a centre at Amravati!! We seek the blessings of our well wishers as we try to cater to more and more people who deserve a good meal every single day.
Donations are nice ! But a present that supports meaningful charity can be special !!
That’s what we experienced at WITHAARYA.
Recently a birthday was celebrated and all gifts were donated to WITHAARYA which were then donated onwards to a toy library and books library in a Zilla parishad run school in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
Along with these WITHAARYA also distributed sky bags to all kids.. Children in the school as remote were extremely thrilled to have someone reach out to them and think about them!
‘ YOU ARE THE LIGHT’ is C20 motto which is an official engagement groups of G20. Under Indian presidency of G20, C20 will focus on solving socio economic matters touching daily lives of people which include Health , Environment, Technology and SEWA.
Withaarya was today invited to be one of the selected participant for discussion to deliberate upon and structure the priority agenda. We truely feel proud and humbled at the same time to be part of changing face for the society.
Withaarya expands once again! Thanks to our donors well wishers volunteers we have been able to Don Ghaas ahead to a new location, Chatrapati Pramilaraje Hospital at Kolhapur. It is a government run hospital in Kolhapur and Withaarya has started distribution for 200 food packets everyday.
Our volunteers metomorphosise into angels and that keeps us going. We have donors who provide bottled water to our beneficiaries time and again.
A monsoon birthday celebration at Withaarya! Umbrellas were distributed by a donor on the occasion of her birthday.
It was a Double Sunday !! WithAarya celebrated Aashadi Ekadashi with tradintional sabudana khichadi along with regular meals.. some fasting on this today could also enjoy the meal ! Withaarya wishes all Eid Mubarak too !!
Thanks to our donors and wellwishers we at WithAarya are able to provide a sustained ration to the families of underpriveledged those which have a member suffering from cancer. We cannot experience their pain but we try our best to make life a tiny bit easier.
WithAarya founder Shital Bhatkar was invited as the guest of honour at the lamp lighting and the oath taking ceremony of the first year nursing students at KEM hospital. Shital Bhatkar was felicitated at the event. WithAarya is proud to be a part of this event!
We had a great pleasure of having Dr Amit Maydeo, renowned gastroenterologist, Padmashree awardee, at Don Ghaas. Feels good when efforts of the entire team are appreciated by such renowned personalities.
As part of the initiative for womens hygiene, Withaarya organised a hygiene awareness program for women of tribal region at Rampur near Dahanu, about 150 km off Mumbai. Sarees, sanitary pads & protinex powder were distributed.
The volunteers at Withaarya identified a tribal pocket of children. These tribal children are from V K Lakhani High School Borigain Taluka, Talasari District at Palghar. Fortunately they attend school. Withaarya distributed 700 kits containing towel, soap, hair oil, notebook and pen. The girls were also given a pack of sanitary kit each.
WithAarya volunteers set out to Mahad and Chiplun flood affected areas with a truck full of relief items from water to grocery. It was a fairly literal mission. These places affected by floods were having no light, food, water and electricity. We at WithAarya take extra efforts and pain to ensure the funds of donors reach the deserving. It was a humungous effort but we are glad we did it.
There is no limit to doing good and this is what keeps WithAarya going. With that we announce our next drive which will be distribution of grocery kits to the auto drivers from rural area of Maharashtra i.e. Ratnagiri.
WithAarya distributed ration kits to the Sahayaks/porters and shoe polishers of Mumbai City at CST Station. The event was graced by several dignitaries from the railways.
Mumbai is slowly inching towards 100% vaccination. There are however a segment of the society who are still considered a taboo. We at WithAarya, backed by the support of all our well wishers have today taken a huge step.
We have organised a vaccination drive for the Commercial Sex Workers on 28th June 2021. We are also going to arrange for ration kit distribution, hygiene kit distribution an transport to and fro from the vaccine centre. Support Us In This Drive!
This pandemic has brought in unprecedented times for all of us. Among those who are severely impacted are the Taxi Drivers of Mumbai. For a period of two years they have not received fares. A good number of people used Ola and Uber.
This has led to complete dearth of savings amongst Taxi Drivers impacting their ability to secure daily meals. WithAarya took up the initiative of sponsoring the monthly grocery for the family of 4, of a whopping 300 taxi drivers.
Meet Vikas Jadhav. He was admitted to KEM last year due to lung infection. His ailment has made him dependent on oxygen 24/7. As he could not afford to have one at his house, he was forced to stay put at KEM hospital. In terms of caretaker he just had his old mother who was looking after him. Having seen his plight, one of the donors at Withaarya arranged an oxygen machine for him. This allowed Vikas the leeway to move back to his house and gave his old mother a respite too. After all in these covid times it is risky for senior citizens to remain in hospitals. There are million ways in which we can help those around us. We at WithArya are happy to come in touch with such amazing souls who don't bat an eye and donate for a cause.
We at Withaarya give away 6-8 food packets to few people abandoned and staying on footpath, they are barely surviving forget the hygiene and physical upkeep !!
One of volunteer sunita has come up with an idea to do a small make over for these people so that also look as to part of the society... we have called out for a hair dresser to give them haircut / shave to ensure they start feeling good about themselves!!!!
Shipra has been a steady beneficiary at our centre. She has been at KEM taking care of her husband for liver aliment for almost 5 months. At times she is extremely tied up with hospital rounds but whenever she has any time free she is always at opportunity to help Withaarya in various aspects, be it distribution / managing queues etc.
Her indomitable spirit has often infected us. Looking at her efforts and zest one of our fellow volunteers has given her a sewing machine with which she can make some living here in Mumbai.
She now makes masks from the same which we distribute along with meals at Withaarya.
If you have a will, the seven seas between continents does not really matter. We experienced this when Vikrant Chachare, a school student studying in 9th grade, who resides in Ohio, U.S.A, collected a fund for Withaarya. It's really commendable that Vikrant at such a small age and being so far from India, could understand the importance of our mission here at DON GHAAS. His aquaintainces did not know Withaarya so well, but just on his goodwill he attained this contribution. Three cheers to Vikrant and also his parents for imbibing in him such valuables like empathy and love.
We thank all our donors who contributed to the blanket drive. Thank you for warming up the chilly nights!
A small ray of hope can lead you to sunshine. We at WithArya were not too sure till we saw gurshant walking towards us. Dumbfounded we were wondering is this a dream or reality. No matter the self pinch he was really there in real.. sakshat...very much hale and hearty and walking... our relentless efforts paid off... the young boy who was lying on the bed with a spine injury, no sensation in legs and no future... is here with us today standing on his own two feet. Its gods grace and a miracle in itself...such life changing transformations egg us further to do good each day... three cheers to gurshant speedy recovery...here is Gurshant smiling for you
Happy Dusshera to all !!! Don Ghaas today completed 4 years !! We had started this not knowing how far we would go ! But with support of lot of like minded people and our volunteers we have been able to hold on to this for 4 years now !!!
What started as a small step is slowly and gradually seeing growth that we had never anticipated.
Withaarya and don ghaas celebrated this special occasion today with some sweets...
Dussehra hai toh Jalebi toh banti hai !!!!
Happy Dussehra once again !
Today we started with evening distribution at Civil hospital at Ratnagiri which services all patients at district level for all sorts to treatments. We at WithAarya would urge like minded people at Ratnagiri to join hands with us to make this food distribution a success. We welcome Sidharth, our first torch bearer at ratnagiri who has come forward to volunteer with us.
It’s 11th October today !!!! Don Ghaas today turns 4 !!! It was this same day that we took baby step towards making a small difference in few lives !!! Today we started with evening distribution at Civil hospital at Ratnagiri which services all patients at district level for all sorts to treatments. We welcome Sidharth, our first torch bearer at ratnagiri who has come forward to volunteer with us..
WithAarya distributes meals in a covid conducive manner. How? Well we leave the food bags on a platform. Our volunteer stands at a distance. All the beneficiaries maintain their social distance. So here is a win win for all. Dear Covid, everyone at WithArya will fight you tooth and nail and ensure food to the needy.
New solutions... newer problems ! The train schdeduled for taking people to other states got cancelled today leaving more than 500 people stranded on roads... withaarya made provisions for food and water to these people.... we will continue as long as we can !
Thank you Naveen Malhotra & Pratik Nanavati for reaching out to these people.
Withaarya reached out to families who had lost everything that they had to fire in a hutment area Ganjamal at Nashik. They had lost everything from utensils to clothes etc and were on streets. Ofcourse government was taking care of them by providing for food etc and temporarily putting them at school for immediate.
Withaarya decided to reach out to them and make provision for their essential requirements like stove / utensils/ towels / sarees / nighties and other essentials required to start with living again, to be provided for all 106 families.
We were able to distribute these today to all, which is also birthday of our inspiration and our son Aarya!
We are sure he is watching us from above and hopefully we have bought smile on his face too !!!
Children's day is one special day for everyone, big and small. Like the previous years, WithAarya went about in zest to make it a memorable one for all kids in the KEM hospital.
These 3 pediatric wards were lit up with electric smiles on the faces of more than 100 innocent children and their parents who momentarily forgot the pains that they were going through for this day.
WithArya with all its enthusiastic volunteers organized a small children's day celebration.
Acts such as Magic Show, Tattoo Artists, Doremon, Chota Bheem, Gift Sets, Stationery Set, Craft Windmills etc, all added a lot of colour and fun to the otherwise monotonous hospital set up. Innocent laughter and love flowed through the ward and we all felt blessed to be a part of this wonderful day.
Diwali celebrated by distibuting maharashtrian fafal and jalebi
Distribution of strong Carry Bags for relatives and patients of KEM and TATA hospital.
Adoption of Families by WithAarya by providing raw grains and items for food preparation at the Ashrams where these families reside till completion of treatment at KEM and TATA Hospital.
Our Volunteers- Dipti Joshi & Tanmay's mom today made 125 nos of home made "Ukadiche Modak", a delicious maharashtrian sweet most favorite of lord Ganesha. It was distributed to all patients and relatives on event of Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
Ganpati Bappa Morya
Mangalmurti Morya
Some bonds are formed beyond blood ! Today we had small celebration along with regular food distribution on occasion of Raksha Bandhan with tying rakhis and distribution of jalebi and fafda.
Since 15th May till 06th June 2019, we initiated an old shoe collection drive. Many societies around Mumbai including Dosti Flamingo and Dosti Acres pitched in with children playing a major part in the collection.
It was a huge success as 1486 pairs of adult shoes was collected and donated to Greensole, an agency refurbishing and preparing new footwear for underpreviliged kids in remote areas.
We also collected 169 pairs of kids shoes. WithAarya took this opportunity to donate these cute shoes to the young members of two pediatric wards of KEM on 15th June.
Distribution of utlities required for day to day activities, WIthAarya arranged for these items for the ease of the patients and relatives of KEM and TATA hospital.
Race for 7, an initiative championed by the organization for Rare diseases India ( ORDI) organised to raise awareness for rare disease patients, 50% are whom children held a 7km race which was a huge success. The event represented 7000 rare diseases and run by 7000 participants running for 7 kms, also the number of years it takes to diagnose a rare disease.
Donation of slippers to the people travelling from all parts of India to the KEM, Tata and Wadia hospital.
Distribution of new shirts to all patients and relatives
