Random acts of beauty
Vandana Didi – The fourth pillar of Manav Sadhna An extremely talented artist herself, she is one super incubator of random acts of kindness ideas and actually manages to make them happen. I have never seen her depend on anyone else in order to fulfill them. When you meet her, be rest assured that two things will […]
Full circle
10 years ago, among a small circle of friends on a wednesday evening is where my journey to life of service started. Harshida Aunty and Dinesh Uncle also lovingly called as Charity Focus Mom & Dad hosted these evenings. Now they have been doing this for more than 14 years, keeping their hearts and doors […]
Stories for change
Having a wonderful retreat with mass media students from Baroda. Sharing power of stories and using it for social transformation
Finding method to your madness
He suffers from cerebral palsy – a brain disease that hampers physical movement. As a child, he struggled to overcome it with nothing but a positive attitude. He dreamed of being a musician but couldn’t hold a musical instrument due to his illness, so he chose to study sound engineering instead. He tried running a music […]
Gifting the gifts
During Joy of Giving week somebody anonymously gifted us lot of very beautiful children books in Moved by love space. It definitley felt gift of love as somebody literally emptied their library and I am sure those books held lot of childhood memories for the person who gifted them. Our first natural response was to share it further in […]
“Work is love made visible”
Seva Cafe has been operating in the spirit of Gift economy for last six years. Recently it took a 3 month retreat to reflect on t’s learnings and how to strenthen the spirit of service. It reopened on 13th Oct for 4 days a weeks. Here’s reflection of Siddharth who is the current volunteer co-ordinator […]
Ekatva Curtain Raiser
Pictures: Rahul Pardasani After a long anticipated wait, finally on 2nd October, Ekatva Team performed it’s first magnificent show in Natrani Theater, Ahmedabad. Ekatva has been a journey of 16 slum children who have been preparing for a dance and dram show on love, peace and oneness. Here’s few moments captured through pictures of the first show. […]
Joy of Giving
Krupali Shares: We go to this Narayan temple every thursday, its a one hour drive from the Urban ashram. After visiting the temple and praying we usually go to this small place for breakfast. After we are done we distribute some food among the pilgrims outside the temple and the small kids who sell flowers […]
Smile Store
To celebrate the spirit of “Vasudhev Kutumbkam” ( All world is one family) during Joy of Giving week, we started Smile store, a place for sharing, connecting and recycling. Its a complete volunteer run gift store to share our gifts with unknown brothers and sisters. There are no price tags, any one can leave any […]
Football in the Air
“I was really impressed with the progress since Jesus and I were running a raggedy practice with ~12 kids every Sunday. We struggled to get the kids to pass and dribble. Now they were keeping space and intelligently passing. I participated in and watched some 3-on-1 keep-aways and was happy to see that a number […]
