Misplaced Pages

Apnalaya

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Apnalaya" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Apnalaya" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Apnalaya, "our space" in English, is a non-profit organization, founded in 1973 by Tom Holland, who was then the Australian Consul General in Bombay. At that time it was called Holland Welfare Centre, which was a day care centre for labourers' children in Nariman Point, the place where National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) stands today.

Apnalaya has been awarded the Guidestar India Gold as one of the most transparent NGO in 2016. Sachin Tendulkar's voice has been a big support to Apnalaya.

History

Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based non-governmental organization, works in verticals of education, livelihood, and healthcare. In the initial 6 months of pandemic induced lockdown in the year 2020,Apnalaya had raised over 64.6 million to provide relief to 230 thousand individuals and 18,910 households. The organization also engaged 50-65 youth volunteers from community and provided relief kits going door to door and also following social distancing norms. Apnalaya is also providing dry ration, sanitary kits, fruits, vegetables and dry bank transfers in the 15 slum clusters it works and ensuring no household is abandoned in this time of distress. The organization was able to distribute 37,699 dry ration kits, 25,729 fruits and vegetable packets and had conducted over 2,185 direct bank transfers to help the most vulnerable sections of the society. Recently Indian cricket star batsman had joined hands with Apnalaya NGO to help 5000 people with one month ration.

Apnalaya was founded in the year 1973 and works to improve the life quality of five slum communities in India.

References

  1. "How it all began at Apnalaya - Real NGOs, Real Stories, Real Impact". 28 July 2014. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. "'Sachin's efforts for education of slum children commendable' - Times of India".
  3. ^ "Empowering the Urban Poor with Apnalaya". Bristlecone Labs. 2 December 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  4. ^ Singh, Sihyeu (10 April 2020). "Sachin Tendulkar joins hands with Apnalaya NGO to help 5000 people with one-month ration". Circle Of Cricket. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
Categories:
Apnalaya Add topic