Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust

Its food for education programme intends to encourage children to attend school and reduce drop-out rates. Its kitchens prepare nutritious food on a daily basis which is distributed to children who attend school, be it formal or non-formal, leading to well-fed and educated children.

Partnering with Essilor Vision Foundation, Titan Eye Plus, Vision Foundation of India, Lotus Eye Hospital and Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, the Trust seeks to deal with eye-care problems. It conducts cataract surgeries and provides prescribed glasses for free to beneficiaries through its eye-care camps.

Partnering with DP’s fast food chain of restaurants, Rise Against Hunger, Ministry of Health, Mumbai Police and MCGM, the Trust engaged 40 plus kitchen staff and 35 volunteers working day in and day out during the pandemic, cooking and distributing around 10000 thousand plus Free Khichdi daily.

It had set up five kitchens for the purpose of covering different areas in the city of Mumbai serving the needy in the slums of Mumbai.

This programme intended to focus attention on orthopedically disabled individuals by inviting Stephen Voormans of Germany, who was paralysed due to an accident and consequently took up the sport of hand cycling, to cycle a distance of over 650 kilometres in ten days.

The event was an attempt to inspire physically disabled people to understand their potential and achieve their dreams.

The Trust through its health and mobility programme seeks to empower disabled people to live a life of self-reliance and independence. It conducts mobility camps in major cities in India and abroad besides reaching hard-to-reach mountainous areas like Leh, Kargil, Srinagar, and Dharamsala.

It supports polio-affected children by providing callipers, amputees fitted with Jaipur foots, tricycles, wheelchairs, crutches and hearing aids are also dispensed as per the requirement.

It operates a fully equipped fleet of Mobile Orthopaedic Hospital Vans that assists disabled people in remote areas with prosthetics within hours of their consultation and diagnosis.

Ratna Nidhi Library, run by the Trust, provides access to over 20,000 books in Mumbai for all age groups. Membership is open to individuals, schools, colleges, NGOs, and organisations for a fee of Rs. 250 with exclusive benefits. It offers a long borrowing time of 6 months to a year with a 100% refundable deposit and does not charge borrowing fees. The library also provides an online library management system and reader advisory service.