ACCESS(Association for Community Care, Education, and Social Services) was founded to help children who are being exploited in the stone quarries of Bangalore as child labourers. At such a tender age, when they were supposed to be playing and learning, they were being oppressed; ACCESS took an initiative to rescue these innocent souls, providing them with education and health facilities.

It also takes care of the Social, Emotional, Physical, and Cognitive development of each child through a wide range of care options & prepares them to be productive adults. Various projects have been undertaken by ACCESS which includes Child Development Centers, Foster Care, Community Service, Play School and Women's Program. It takes care of women in a plethora of ways, from aiding and restoration of the women-in-crisis to providing them livelihood opportunities in its tailoring center.

ACCESS has provided daily nutritional supplements along with screening and preventive care to 700 children in the past one year. 836 children are still continuing with their schools and colleges. ACCESS continues to reshape the lives of these children and women, making them confident and future-ready.

Operation Shanti is an America based NGO that focuses primarily on providing the basic amenities to the unprivileged sections of our society. It has been working to give a roof and meals to the unsheltered families of Mysore, Karnataka.

Project Street provides home and medical attention to destitute men, women, and kids. It relocates them into homes from the streets and provides medical assistance to those struck with HIV/AIDS.

Project Food & More (PFM) provides monthly care packages to homeless families affected by medical hardship.

Under Project Home, Karuna Maye is a shelter for children that aims at improving their lives by providing them with food and school tutoring. Kids who have been orphaned and left to beg on the streets with their mothers are taken into a shelter and given a life of a middle-class child, as they deserve. Suma and Surya are one of those few kids whose lives have been transformed by Karuna Maye.

The right guidance has landed Suma in a college and Surya speaks fluent English now. Operation Shanti is incessantly working to improve the lives of these people, as it believes that everyone deserves a right to live to their full potential.

After the partition Bangladeshi refugees were rehabilitated in India. The government launched various projects to tackle the situations and one such project was in Sindhanur which went through a rough patch. A point when the trust was shattered and despair all over the place, a group of individuals stood up for the cause with a vision to create a healthy environment.

They believed that all individuals have equal access and control over the social, cultural, educational and political institutions with an economically secured livelihood. That belief took the form of an organization in 1997 - Janakalyan.

Prasen Raptan the Executive Director and co-founder of Janakalyan has 20 years' of experience in various Management aspects. A gold medalist for his scholastic performance, his experience allows him to juggle with projects of various sizes at ease. Mr. Raptan developed innovative projects and viable models for the empowerment of women, peasant communities, and youth.

What started as a project in an area now operates in 5 districts of North Karnataka. It is inspiring how people like Mr. Raptan dedicated their lives to uplifting the rural masses.

The vision of Association for the Mentally Challenged is to establish a centre of excellence in the field of mental retardation by providing knowledge based services. They do it through a child guidance clinic, special school, vocational training centre, day care centre, sheltered workshop and research centre.

The organisation also aims to establish services for mentally challenged people of our society who are coming from poor families so that quality of life of these people is improved.

AMC is dedicated to the well being of intellectually challenged children, adults and their parents. Over the years, with the committed efforts of volunteers, staff, parents and society, they have built a robust and purposeful organisation focusing on the integrated well being of these challenged people. There have been many struggles encountered to be sure; but the cause has always triumphed.

Their endeavor is to create an atmosphere of harmony, learning and constructive participation and they dedicate their efforts constantly to achieve this goal.

Number of adults with severe degree of mental retardation - 8

Number of families covered under this program - 175

Number of persons attended - 49

Number of families covered under this program - 125

Number of persons in sheltered workshop - 24

Number of persons 5 years to 16 years - 40

Cheshire Homes India, Bangalore Unit works to bring meaningful changes in the lives of people with disabilities. To achieve this, they run two Homes - one that provides educational and residential facilities to more than 25 differently abled girls, and the other that provides love, care, and security to elderly/differently abled women.

The girls are given educational support along with skills training, which helps them become more confident and independent. The elderly residents are given adequate medical care and residential support. Apart from this, Cheshire Homes also provides training in Basic Computer Skills, English Language, and Life Skills, after which the students are provided support for placements.

Cheshire Homes has helped change the lives of so many people. With the aim to carry forward Group Captain Leonard Cheshire's mission to provide care and support people with disabilities, Cheshire Home India, Bangalore Unit was begun in 1961.

Free residential facilities in a beautiful old-fashioned cottage in a serene and tranquil environment are provided for the residents. The residents thrive with this wonderful quality of life, nutritious and healthy food and an environment filled with residents alike.

The management of the Home is in the hands of the able sisters of Daughters of Charity. The sisters display a commendable spirit of energy, commitment, and perseverance. Be it coaxing an elderly to eat, or giving their shoulders when some of the residents want to let go their depression or taking a firm stand when they need to be - the sisters play their role to the exception.

The home aims to build a society in which every differently abled person can enjoy their rights and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime is the philosophy on which Christel House India operates. Their vision is to help the children break the shackles of poverty and make them independent and productive for the nation. Since no one chooses to be poor, Christel House is designed to transform the lives of these impoverished children.

After being a part of Christel House Learning Center, the outlook of the children coming from a weak financial background has completely changed; they are now more hygienic and enthusiastic about studies and excel not only in classroom studies but extra-curricular activities too. Christel House Learning Center is a place where children are not only fed, educated and given health care but values like respect, responsibility, integrity, a love for learning are inculcated in them to maximize their human potential.

They focus on the holistic development of the child so that they can live with dignity and pride. 879 Students (5 - 18 years) are receiving free of cost quality education, medical care, and nutrition in Christel House Learning Centre as of now.

Diya Foundation has the mission to enrich the quality of life and bring dignity to differently-abled adults by training them in life skills and vocational skills, building support systems and enhancing awareness in the community. Every individual has the right to be loved and respected. Thus, Diya Foundation strives to see individuals who are intellectually challenged, live with dignity, pride, and confidence in the present and future.

People at Diya Foundation are given pre-vocational and life skills training to make them eligible for future employment, thereby enabling them to live a life of dignity. Diya Innovations Pvt Ltd is a project of Diya Foundation that provides employment to the differently-abled. Diya Foundation is an instigator, bridging the significant gaps that specially-abled individuals otherwise face once they complete school. Through training, intellectually challenged adults are taken on a journey from self-awareness to expressing their self-worth, striving towards self-organization and finally self-actualization.

They have completely transformed the lives of those whose parents were constantly worried about their future and safety, by making them self-reliant. Diya Foundation believes in pushing the boundaries when it comes to the word 'impossibe'.

The Foundation for Excellence (FFE) is a registered non-profit, based in the USA and was founded by the serial entrepreneur, Dr. Prabhu Goel. The Foundation for Excellence India Trust (FFEIT) was registered in 2003 as a public Charitable Trust in India to expand the scope of FFE’s support and works in association with FFE. It has the same objectives as FFE, but raises resources from donors worldwide.

Foundation for Excellence was formed with the mission to help economically underprivileged and academically bright students complete their higher education through a Scholarship Program. The objective of the program is to help these students and their families transition from a low to middle income group in a single generation. The scholarship program also envisions a multiplier effect as each scholar will then go on to support at least 2 other scholars in his/her lifetime.

In twenty five years since its inception in 1994, FFE has already helped over 22,400 scholars across India, changing their lives for posterity; over 63,800 scholarships in excess of USD 27 million (~Rs. 189 Crores) have been awarded to students in 27 states in India. FFE has a network of over 500 volunteer “facilitators” distributed throughout India who identify potential awardees, verify the genuineness of their need, and act as mentors once the scholarship is awarded. This ensures that only genuinely deserving students are awarded scholarships.

2019-20 has been a record-breaking year on multiple fronts. FFE awarded a total of 6383 scholarships amounting to Rs. 27.27 Crores during FY 2019-20. Of these, 4756 scholarships were awarded to Engineering students and 1565 to Medical students. FFE also launched scholarships supporting 2 new disciplines in FY 2019-20, awarding 17 LLB scholarships to students pursuing law, and 45 scholarships to students pursuing BPharm degrees in India. FY 2019-20 saw the largest and most involved alumni participation in the "Circle of Giving", with more than 1500 alumni contributing in excess of Rs. 1 Crore to FFE, another milestone that was achieved in close collaboration with FFE’s alumni.

Karunashraya, meaning 'an abode of compassion' is a huge establishment, covered in lush greenery, bird song and peace, in the middle of a busy city that houses the hospice that caters to palliative care.

The hospice has been offering in-patient care since 1999 and home care since 1995, tending to over 17,500 patients and touching the lives of their families by providing a supportive environment.

Cancer is a leading cause of death in India with nearly 3 million suffering from it. WHO predicts that 700,000 people will succumb to the disease on an annual basis by 2015.

Nearly 80% of cancer patients in India access medical help when there is no hope for cure!

The need for palliative care has never been more critical, especially in Bangalore which is also apparently the 'Cancer Capital of India'.

Karunashraya is the first hospice of its genre in India to offer patients the flexibility of alternating between the hospice and their home, Karunashraya helps patients live without pain, and in dignity and peace till their journey's end.

Kutumba was set up in 1991 when Mary Paul was on a sabbatical from Vathsalya Charitable Trust. The idea was suggested to her by one of Vathsalya's trustees as Vathasalya struggled to place differently abled kids in homes.

Kutumba was started as a home for boys with MR/CP. Patients were mainly referred by Spastic Society. Until 1997-98 the boys were sent to Spastic Society for vocational training. However slowly Kutumba started accepting girls but as there was an issue housing boys and girls, they started weaning of the boys. Once the last boy had left they tied up with APD to offer safe housing for the girls attending APD vocational training courses.

Kutumba was operating out of rented premises until 2006 they moved into their own premises. The 10000 sq.ft of land was donated by Mary's cousin and two corporate donors. I-flex solutions, Bangalore and Stichting Geron in the Netherlands came forward and donated 15 lacs each to fund the building of two cottages.

In 2007 Goldman Sachs sponsored roofing between the 2 cottages to create a sheltered space for activities. This is when Kutumba started a preschool/daycare for kids of daily wage workers (mainly construction workers).

Kutumba has a residential facility for differently abled young women. The ages of these young women range between 19 and 30. Most of the girls are orthopedically challenged. A few are with speech and hearing impairment. These girls are from rural parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh from very poor homes. All the girls attend 1-year or 2-year vocational & technical training classes at The Association of People with Disability (APD).

The beneficiaries are provided food, shelter, transport free of cost. The girls stay at Kutumba for one to three years on an average. An average of 20 girls stay, although the numbers could go up to 30 or come down to 15 depending on the period of training and admission of new residents. APD also sends short-term course trainees. These girls stay here anywhere between 2 days to 3 months.

Kutumba also runs a pre-school and day care (10:30 a.m. -4:00 p.m.) for young children between the ages of 2-5 years. These kids come from a nearby slum area. Most of their parents are daily wage workers or are employed as maids. During the hours that they spend at Kutumba, these children learn rhymes, numbers and play games. The teacher engages them in activities for a couple of hours in the morning. After lunch, they have rest. Parents are not charged any fees.

Mahila Dakshata Samiti was set up in Delhi by a few members of women support group in response to the SOS calls from the woman sorority against the dowry scourge. Spreading its branches all over India, their purpose blazed with a mission of eradicating atrocities that were inflicted time and again on women and securing equal access to women in all areas of society.

Their core principles of Health, Education, Empowerment, and Equality have shaped various programs and services through Women Empowerment, Dakshata Family Counseling Centre, Education and Child Welfare and Dakshata Short Stay Home.

The 45 working members of the organization have worked relentlessly to provide free consultation and medicines to 1028 patients, shelter to 36 women at Short Stay Homes, counseling to 72 families and scholarships to 75 girls for college.

The Synergia Foundation in association with the Government of Karnataka has lauded their efforts by awarding them for Exemplary Contribution in the field of Social Service. Their struggle to combat dowry deaths, female foeticide, domestic violence, sexual abuse, rape, etc. has made a mark in history.

Make A Difference (MAD) is a youth driven, non-profit organisation working to ensure equitable outcomes for children in orphanages and street shelters.

Registered as a non-profit in 2006, Make A Difference reaches out to over 3,460 children in 67 shelters across 23 cities in India, through a highly efficient 3,822 strong volunteer network.

Volunteers commit a year and spend between 2 and 10 hours every week mentoring, teaching and interacting with children in order to ensure that they get the support and care they need during childhood.

Their aim is to ensure that even the most vulnerable children in shelters are able to realize equitable outcomes and that they are able to live a life free from exploitation, with a capability of managing emotional and financial life crises.

Mauvikasa is an NGO that works in Uttara Kannada and Haveri District of Karnataka State on the issues of water conservation, education improvement, and livelihood development. They have collaborated with Deshpande Foundation and are developing small Tanks and springs and trying to support farming communities to improve agriculture income through SRI cultivation.

Manuvikasa aims to create a social order among the marginalized and deprived members of the rural community regardless of caste, class, creed, and gender with mostly affected women and children, uplifting them through various programs as well as activities giving them an improved quality of life and good human values, sustainable livelihood and enriched environment. This organization is created by educated and experienced social workers. All of the members have the experience of women, children, and youth development activities.

They try to benefit the depressed families of the targeted villages through empowerment of women, youths and providing education to the children.They have developed 2130 small water harvesting units or farm ponds and harvest 840 million liters of water every year, 150 energy efficient smokeless choolas and have also provided micro insurance for the low-income groups covering 2000 families.

Maria Seva Sangha (M.S.S) is a charitable society registered under Section 12A of the Indian Income Tax Act. Maria Seva Sangha was established in 1981 to undertake educational, medical, housing and other social activities in aid of the poor and the underprivileged of all ages, irrespective of caste, creed, and community.

The initial seeds of Maria Seva Sangha was planted by Ms. Ethel Brito, a prominent social worker. Back in the 1970s, Ms. Brito was strongly concerned by the poor quality of life of the weaker sections of society in Bangalore. Her dream of improving the plight of the underprivileged began to grow and in 1981, the Maria Seva Sangha was born, to cater to their needs.

Some of the issues that Ms. Brito felt strongly about inlcuded:

Poor, deserving students not being able to pursue higher studies due to financial constraints.

Hundreds of poverty stricken children attending school on empty stomachs.

Shortage of housing for battered women, widows and low income group families.

Large numbers of elderly people desperately wanting care and shelter.

In 1981, Ms. Brito, along with a group of like-minded, public-spirited people, set up a voluntary organization and they called it, Maria Seva Sangha. They worked together to obtain registration, tax-exemption, FCRA sanction and the like, to establish the institution's credentials in the eyes of the public. Several projects were launched to support economically deprived children, widows, families and elders, through a strong financial base slowly built up by the generosity and goodwill of donors.

However, following prolonged litigation, spanning over one-and-a-half decades, related to the eviction of tenants and settlement of claims on properties bequeathed to MSS, the Sangha's resources were severely depleted.

With good support from donors and the public, on closure of these issues, the Sangha has been able to embark whole-heartedly on two new projects, the Senior Citizens Home and the development of apartment buildings and residential sites for the underprivileged- Mathrudhan- at Krishnarajapuram .

The Midday Meal Scheme for underpriviledged children commenced in 1987. It aims to improve attendance in schools along with the health of the children and their performance in studies. The incentive of free midday meals pulled children from slum areas into schools thus avoiding them getting involved in theft, drugs prostitution, etc.

They currently aid 21 schools in Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural. The monitoring of meals effectiveness is done by Maria Seva Sangha aided by St.Anne's Women's Degree College, Ulsoor.

Over the past 37 years, the dream of one lady has become a reality, benefiting thousands of poor and needy persons and has given the members of the MSS great personal satisfaction for their selfless service.

Mitra Jyothi is a registered trust (under Indian Trust Act) which was started in 1990.

For the last 26 years they have been they have working for the welfare of people with disability with a focus on the visually impaired.

Mitra Jyothi's Mission is to help visually impaired individuals lead independent and dignified lives through education, training, counseling, communication, and technology. They provide computer training, accessible educational material, Independent Living skills, Braille transcription and library access to students. They also have a placement cell for their trainees. In addition to this they also have a residential ‘Center for Empowerment of Women with Disabilities' (CEWD).

Over the years, it has conducted a variety of training courses and support programmes to assist people with disability to become independent and instil in them the confidence to achieve their goals.

The organization is run under the able guidance of Ms. Madhu Singhal, a National Awardee who has accomplished many milestones not only in India but also abroad despite her own disability. The organization and its founder have received many awards and accolades over the years for the exemplary service they have been providing.

The Quality education and Skills Training - QUEST Alliance focuses on research-led innovation and implementation of high-impact projects in the field of teaching and learning. They engage with Government schools, community colleges and vocational institutes, to help them adopt ICT-enabled educational solutions.

Founded in 2005 as a program of the International Youth Foundation - IYF, and financially supported by the United States Agency for International Development -USAID, they help educators and educational institutions drive the use of technology in teaching and learning.

There is a significant disconnect between India's basic education system and the needs and opportunities of its emerging economy, which highlights the need for greater emphasis in linking learning with livelihoods. To bridge this gap between education and skills, Quest Alliance designs scalable and replicable solutions across four major programs to enable self-learning for young people between the ages of 10 and 35 years.

Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled is a National Award winning NGO that works for the empowerment of persons with disabilities and the underserved. They primarily cater to people in need by providing a plethora of services including quality education, accommodation, nutritious food, vocational training, sports and placement based rehabilitation.

Their initiatives strive towards creating opportunities for them to keep pace with the rest of the society. Today they stand as a complete solution provider by supporting education and livelihood needs of persons with disabilities and those from underprivileged backgrounds. Apart from these initiatives, they also foster the game of blind cricket amongst visually impaired players across India, through their cricketing arm Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).

They envision to touch at least 100,000 lives by 2020, providing comprehensive solutions to the differently-abled and underserved communities. They were felicitated with the National Award for Child Welfare by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India and received it from Smt. Pratibha Patil, Honourable President of India in 2010.

SAMUHA' derives its name from a Sanskrit word, which means an organized group or society. This reflects their ideology that "development is best sustained when undertaken through group processes ".They work with vulnerable people to improve their quality of life within defined periods of time.

Their mission is "To Improve the Quality of Vulnerable People within Defined Period of Time". Based out of Koppal, the Samarthya wing of Samuha works specifically with the differently-abled in Karnataka and was awarded the State Award for Organisations by the Directorate of Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment.

They are supported with 150 Full-time staff, 5 Volunteers and 46 Consultants, who work on implementing a plethora of projects ranging from the Early Intervention Centre and Mobility Aids workshop to their screening camps and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Centre. Samarthya works across 352 villages in the Koppal and Raichur districts of Karnataka, impacting the lives of over 3700 differently-abled people every year.

In 1992, an organization called Prerana had been working with farmers in North Karnataka's Raichur district. Prerana offered its office as a shelter for children, who were mostly living on Raichur railway station.

Over the next 3 to 4 years, the activities with the children expanded and recreational activities were included such as picnics, skill training programs like cycle-repair, screen printing and so on. Although the attempts to place them in jobs met limited success, the engagement with children continued. After a family adopted one child, they realized that many of these children were not abandoned by their families, but had opted to 'flee' because of certain reasons (which in most cases were not very serious) without actually thinking of the consequences.

The concept of 'restoration' or 'home-placement' of children thus began to take shape. Ground research revealed that the parents are also distraught when the child leaves; and they often attempt to search the child without any leads. There was a zeal within the team members to work on this issue in a dedicated manner and a new organization was carved out of Prerana. SATHI was born.

Founded in 1992, SATHI was formally registered in 1997 in Raichur, Karnataka. With the growth of the organization and expansion of work, SATHI moved its head office to Bangalore. Over the years, SATHI has worked in more than 40 different locations in 14 states across India and has helped nearly 60,000 children reunite with their families.

Passionate about children and their well-being, Pramod Kulkarni founded SATHI with an initial focus on providing immediate care and opportunities of resettlement for run-away children. Experience and research convinced him that run-away children could be settled back with families. An action-oriented individual, he decided to demonstrate this possibility - in large numbers and at a national scale.

SATHI continued to work with Raichur as a base until the year 2000. During this phase, the work was restricted to Raichur and Wadi in Karnataka and Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh. From 2000 to 2006, the work expanded to cover other locations in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. The year 2000 also marked the beginning of SATHI's work in Government Children Homes.

The year 2006 marked a new phase in SATHI's history, when it began to expand its geographical spread across the country through collaborations with other NGOs. Between 2006 and 2010, SATHI collaborated with more than 30 different organizations and covered railway stations in 10 states including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh.

Senior Citizens Bangalore was started by a group of retired defence personnel along with a bunch of corporate professionals to empower underprivileged children and mold them into leaders of tomorrow. Over a period of time, the mission of the organization inspired other like-minded retired individuals from the public and private sector.

They work towards making quality primary and high school education available to meritorious children who otherwise wouldn't have been able to continue with their education owing to their underprivileged backgrounds. They help such students and handicapped children in rural areas around Bangalore procure educational loans as well.

The team at Senior Citizens Bangalore believe every child has the potential to become nation-builders of tomorrow and opportunities need to be made available to them, free of all religion, caste, creed and community-based barriers.

Parents of the underprivileged have great dreams for their kids. But, these dreams are often accompanied by fear; fear of financial requirements, discrimination etc. Hence, with a vision to serve different sections of society, in the year 1978, Sree Guruvayurappan Bhajan Samaj Trust (SGBS) was established.

The underprivileged could avail their educational benefits with the help of the organizations initiative- Shiksha. Shiksha provides educational assistance to more than 350 children per year. It extends financial support to the underprivileged children to continue their education.With the increasing unemployment, the organization also focuses on providing vocational training to the unemployed youth. SGBS provided accommodation and food facilities to hundreds of youth.

More than 400 were guaranteed job placement.SGBS mission to move with society towards serenity is supporting hundreds every year by providing them with life skills. The organization aims to train one million youth by 2020.

According to data, 76 percent of the rural households in India send their children to government or government-aided schools. The ASER assessment data of all Indian states submitted by the organisation

Pratham states that only 40 percent of the children studying in V class in rural government schools in India can read level 2 (Class II) text and only 20 percent of them can do division. Sikshana felt the need to improve the learning levels among children studying in government school.

The organisation was started by a group of like-minded professionals in the year 2002 and began its work by adopting a few government primary schools based in and around Bangalore. Today, Sikshana reaches out to children across 44,000 schools in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra.

Since inception, they have been working on enhancing the learning levels delivered by Govt. Schools in India with a Vision to evolve sustainable and replicable models for an effective and decentralized public school system. Their Mission is to synergize with the Government at all levels, share and transfer knowledge along with designing and implementing student centric learning experiences in the Govt. Schools.

The vision of the organisation is to make the differently-abled fully employable, bringing them into the mainstream and helping them lead a life of dignity and economic independence.

Snehadeep Trust for the differently abled was established in 1999 by three highly motivated graduates, all visually impaired, who had a strong desire to help people with disabilities experience the life opportunities for which they had to fight so hard to obtain.

Paul Muddha, visually challenged, post an MBA and MA in Economics, is currently employed as a manager in Canara bank and has also taken the responsibility of running Snehadeep Trust. He is the recipient of the National Award for people with disabilities from the then President of India - Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in 2004.

Snehadeep runs a free residential Computer Training course designed specifically for differently abled individuals. One of the most prevalent hurdles to education for the visually impaired is the availability of Braille textbooks. Snehadeep aims to provide free Braille textbooks to visually challenged students, thereby encouraging their continued education.

Stats for 16-17

No. of visually impaired and hearing impaired people trained - 145

No. of visually impaired people who received the books - 227

No. of visually impaired students being supported - 82

TIDE (Technology Informatics Design Endeavour) was founded in 1993. They work around the themes of Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Women and Livelihood, Cook Stoves and Water and Environment.

They have worked on over 250 projects around these themes experimenting with over 30 technologies and products with funders, resource partners, and communities. TIDE strives to improve lives and the environment, to create opportunities for the underserved, to be a change agent, create more change agents from grass root, and to demonstrate that technology can be an enabler.

Their endeavors have resulted in an annual saving of about 30,000 tons of firewood and about 45,000 tons of CO2 emissions. The TIDE entrepreneurs have had a total turnover of more than 7 crores and earned profits of about 1 crore.

TIDE's methodology has been profiled as Best Practices by UNDP in the area of Energy access to poor. Through Sustaintech, more than 3000 commercial cook stoves have been sold resulting in better indoor quality for about 45000 cooks and in mitigating about 40,000 MTs of CO2 cumulatively.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was founded in Bengaluru, India to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government and government-aided schools. Aiming also to bring children to school, the organization has worked towards reaching more children with wholesome food on every single school day.

Continuously leveraging technology to cater to millions of children, their state-of-the-art kitchens have become a subject of study attracting curious visitors from around the world. With humble beginnings of serving just 1,500 children across 5 schools their program has become the world's largest (not-for-profit run) mid-day meal programme serving wholesome food to over 1.6 million children from 13,839 schools across 12 states in India.

Their efforts have been recognized nationally and internationally with awards like CII National Food Safety Awards by the CII Food Safety, International ARC Award by the International ARC honoring outstanding achievements in annual reports and Nikkei Asia Prize by the Nikkei in Economic and Business Innovation. Their mission to feed 5 million children by 2020 reflects the 6,550 strong staff's commitment that no child in India shall be deprived of Education because of Hunger.

APD was founded as an NGO in Karnataka in 1959, working for equality, dignity and justice for People with Disability (PWD). Founded by a visionary, a polio afflicted lady, late Ms. N. S. Hema’s aim was to empower persons with disability to become active, contributing members of society.

In the Early Intervention Program, APD’s pioneering work for Children with Special Needs (CWSN) in the age group 0 to 8 yrs has been accredited as the best replicable model. APD’s Inclusive Education’s model for CWSN’s was assessed by the Education Department of the Government of Karnataka, based on the “Inclusive Education Assessment Format” for Children With Special Needs and recommended for use in all government schools in the state. Community Mental Health Program (CMHP) initiated as far back as 2004, based on the CBR model, covered 19041 persons with mental illness (PWMIs). Spinal Cord Injury Program (SCIR) is the only program with an Institutional and Community based delivery model along with a transdisciplinary social model that reached 3300 beneficiaries. APD’s work on for Youth with Disability (YwD) is commendable.

APD has collaborated with Central Government to run Rehabilitation Council of India and Tata Institute of Social Sciences certified courses to address the acute shortage of skilled, certified manpower for the disability sector through its Institute of Disability for Rehabilitation and Research (IDRR).

In 2018-19, APD served 65,000 beneficiaries in the disability ecosystem in 14 districts of Karnataka.

The issues of acute poverty, resource degradation, ill health, illiteracy and lack of awareness on various aspects of development among the rural communities have prompted few like-minded people from various walks of life to start Tropical Research and Development Centre. The mission of TRDC is 'Universal Access to Resources without Discrimination'

Tropical Research & Development Centre's Paryavaran project, which is run in the Western Ghats and Mysore Districts intends to address the issues of climate change by working in collaboration with local farmers. This is done through regeneration, enrichment of plants in deforested areas, promotion of eco-friendly boiling water chulas, enhancement and restoration of wetlands and water resources, and conservation of wildlife.

Tropical Research & Development Centre's (TRDC) Asha Kiran project focuses on enrollment, retention, quality education and child rights in rural Government schools in Ranibennur Taluk, Karnataka.

Vathsalya Charitable Trust was started in 1988 in Bangalore, Karnataka to offer shelter and security to homeless women and children. Vathsalya was started to supplement the services for child care and adoption of destitute children. Their mission is to facilitate the creation of an ecosystem for children to flourish within their adoptive and birth families, by leveraging our experience in the area of family preservation and strengthening.

Vathsalya Charitable Trust was started with the goal of providing a family and a home for orphaned and abandoned children. The organization's mission is to preserve and provide a sustainable environment for a healthy mother, children, and families by providing nutrition, education, and counseling.Jessy Job, Executive Director of Vathsalya Charitable Trust is an experienced Social worker who has done her Master's in Social Science. She is specialized in Community Development programme and had been involved in various community programmes for the past 15 years.

She also has a Counselling Diploma from TRADA as well as Gender Trainer Training course certificate from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy at Mussouri. Close to a 1000 children have received an educational scholarship though Vathsalya

VidyaPoshak has been supporting financially challenged but bright students in Karnataka for the past 16 years. Over 15,376 students have been awarded scholarships, 1,25,000+ youths empowered with skill training through the various program like GFS, RBC, ELAAP, C-Doss, ELIP and 1,87,000 students have accessed their 6 Library branches and 28 Book Banks.

A registered society, Vidyaposhak was started in 2001 with a belief that investment in higher education provides significant dividends far beyond individual achievement to contribute to the overall betterment of the society. Youth is an aspiration of any country. The entire community and the nation as a whole benefit from a greater, effective and quality higher-education.

It is here that Vidyaposhak brings in interventions to handhold the student community to sail through safe and strong to achieve their academic goals on one hand and to lead a quality professional and personal life, which ultimately causes for the effective quality development of the nation as a whole. The heart of Vidyaposhak's philosophy lies in the slogan: empowering the student community.