NGOs in Mumbai

Mumbai--the financial capital of India and the city of dreams--is not only a commercial and cultural hub but is also home to many NGOs that are focused on creating positive change. From education and healthcare for marginalized groups to women's empowerment, child welfare, skill development and environmental sustainability, these organization’s play an important role in tackling Mumbai's social issues. Here are some worthy NGOs in Mumbai that have been working day and night to change lives and help build a more inclusive and sustainable city.

Future Foundation

Future Foundation is a non-governmental organization based in Mumbai, India. It was established in 2018. The organization provides deep enrichment support for Education, Guidance, Health, and Sports & Culture Program. The Future Foundation, Mumbai, is presently engaged in the charitable activities detailed below. They are working in the field of environmental preservation. This includes watersheds, lake restorations, solid waste management, education, women's and child welfare programs, and women's skill development and empowerment.

Future Foundation is also proposing to set up plants for sewage water treatment and effluent water treatment across the main river, primarily in the region of Maharashtra. They are actively campaigning and conducting awareness programs towards river and water pollution and its hazardous effects on humans, animals, vegetation, and aquatic life. Future Foundation is actively involved in the awareness drive towards women's hygiene and sanitation programs. They have installed sanitary napkin vending machines at various public toilets for women across the municipalities and public places.

Helping Hand Foundation

Founded in 2011, the Helping Hand Foundation is the culmination of the passion of seven like-minded people to do good for society. The key founders of the NGO are Dr. John Sircar and Dr. Pramod Kumar Sircar. The other members are Dr. Sandhya Dalsingh, Mr. Tejas Wadekar, Dr. Sanjeevani R. Dabre, Dr. Fatema Kapadia, and Dr. Imran Shaikh. They have formed the Helping Hand Foundation to alleviate poverty by helping the marginalized people of society. Dr. John Sircar has over 30 years of experience in the social service sector, working towards many social causes. It is his experience that forms the bedrock of the Helping Hand Foundation. The other founder, Dr. Pramod Kumar Parsi, shares his over 25 years of medical expertise in helping the poor.

The Helping Hand Foundation's been assisting underprivileged people in Mumbai with financial and non-financial aid for over a decade now. The foundation lends its helping hand to children, women, youth, and the elderly from marginalized communities. While the organization primarily works towards the cause of providing education, it also works towards public health and women's empowerment.

Global Thought Foundation

Global Thought Foundation is an NGO based in Mumbai. It aims to empower underprivileged rural and urban communities through activism in four core areas: education, women's empowerment, health, and environment. The foundation seeks to create opportunities and services that are equitable for marginalized children, women and families. As such, the organization implements projects and services such as medical camps, literacy and schooling, hygiene and sanitation, tree plantations projects and self-help groups, working toward its goal to shift and grow margins of empowered, educated, healthy, and green communities.

SaveThem India Foundation

SaveThem India Foundation is a cybersecurity activism NGO run by youngsters that advocates for data privacy and protection. The intelligence team comprises cybersecurity professionals and criminologists who actively find vulnerabilities and threats in the Indian cyberspace. The team has brought to light some of the massive app-based scams and has assisted the Telangana, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu Police in cracking down on several cases.

Paranubhuti Foundation

Paranubhuti Means Empathy. The Paranubhuti Foundation is a multi-objective, central government-approved Section 8 NGO that primarily works in the areas of health, education, environment, women's empowerment, and other sectors of public importance. They have a mission to work for the poor & weaker sections of society at the ground level by using advanced scientific, strategic & management tools with a perfectly organized, empathetic & motivated team having individuals from all sections of society.

Sahyogini Palak Sansthan

Sahayogini” is a non-governmental charity organization pioneered by the parents of persons with Multiple Disabilities Having Visual and/or Hearing Impairment with Other Associated Disabilities. As the name suggests, it is the culmination of cooperation & collective efforts of the concerned parents who are aimed at securing for such disabled persons self-sufficiency and betterment of life with a major focus on rehabilitation of those left with no parental/family support. It has come into existence with the inspiration and motivation from Sense International India and Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deafblind, Navi Mumbai. It is registered as 21 of the Societies Registration Act 1860, as well as under the Maharashtra Public Trust Act 1950.

Ashish Foundation

Ashish Foundation envisions to empower, enrich, and enlighten the lives and careers of disabled, orphans and all other underprivileged. They also strive to bring together all disabled people and provide them with a platform to showcase their talents and shape their careers. They do so by organizing blind stick donations, clothes distribution drive and food donation drives. Contacts through social media help us massively in serving our purpose. Ashish Foundation's sole purpose is to help all the needy and we aim to keep on serving them. Their founder and his team are ready to put in the best efforts to do this and take the Ashish Foundation to greater heights.

Nav Nirman Vidnyan Prabodhan (NVP)

Nav Nirman Vidnyan Prabodhan (NVP) is a registered NGO under the Mumbai Public Trust Act of 1950. It was set up in 2002 with the motto of helping the community in all sectors of service. In its work, NVP is registered with NITI Aayog, and various other organizations for social welfare, science promotion, education, and sustainable development through education, environment, and healthcare. In its work, NVP is committed to empowering marginalized people, including women, children, and farmers through skill development, health care programs, and learning modern farming skills.

NVP has a yearly Career Guidance Camps and Food for All program, when every year volunteers across Maharashtra prepare food (bundles) for the underprivileged people. As part of the initiative NVP is promoting science education to the public through YouTube. NVP also served as a frontline Corona Warrior during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting affected communities across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Vasai, and Delhi.