Four commitments, and the real work behind each — with dates, numbers and photographs from our own drives.
We waited for the rain. Monsoon softens the soil, keeps young roots damp and spares a sapling the shock of summer heat — survival rates aren't slightly better, they're dramatically better. Our largest drive in fourteen years.
Planted across the city and gifted to citizens to plant themselves. The goal was never the tree — it was the habit.
Autobiographies and biographies of people who built something, given to government-school students — because a child who reads how great lives were built starts imagining their own.
A hundred students painted clay pots and clay water cups. Traditional materials, young imaginations, one very colourful room — and something each child made with their own hands.
Six months with a certified fire-safety expert, deliberately run as three batches of 100 orphaned children — because safety isn't a lecture you sit through, it's a skill you practise.
As Ahmedabad endured a record summer, we taught children to spot the warning signs early and keep themselves cool — drink before you're thirsty, recognise dizziness, help a friend who looks unwell.
One morning, twenty cows fed with green grass. No stage, no speeches. Gau seva sits naturally alongside everything else: the trees we plant, the children we teach, the animals we feed — the same instinct pointed in different directions.
Three days, five government schools, biscuits and cold drinks to around 1,000 students. Showing up with something simple and joyful builds the trust that makes the serious programs work.
A thousand-year-old temple at Paldi-Kankaj, Taluka Dascroi — said to have been built by Nakul of the Pandavas. We fed cows and three elephants, and spent the day in devotion and quiet reflection.
When the pandemic hit, we directed donations and support to underserved families across the city — quiet help, given when it was needed most.
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