Projects
Art Of Enlightenment
The philosophy of Jainism is concerned mainly with unfolding of pure consciousness within you which is an exclusive prerogative of the human race. It is called emancipation – a state of existence beyond sorrow and death.The Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust is deeply involved in carrying out the richness of this sacrosanct Jain Philosophy across the globe through [...]
Book Distribution
World Bank in the USA sends us a wide variety of educational books which we distribute in school libraries and NGO’s, thereby providing world class reading material for school children especially the poor who may otherwise never get the opportunity to access such books. In addition to this we have also donated 6000 Braille books [...]
GAIL Project, Guna – 15th to 22nd December 2011
GAIL (India) Limited, a Navratna Company and one of the successful PSU under Ministry Of Petroleum & Natural Gas had under CSR project considered to have a major disability support project in their important area of operation at Vijaipur, Dist. Guna (M.P). In 2010-2011 they along with the co-ordination and co-operation of Ratna Nidhi Charitable [...]
About Health and Disability
Through our mobility camps, we aim to bequeath a new life to those who have been deprived of the basic privileges of mobility and hearing, by providing aids such as prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, tricycles, callipers, orthopaedic supports and hearing aids.
About our Education and Employment Program
Project Mainstream is a vocational training and micro credit support program that we run in Mumbai. It aims at imparting gainful employment to street children and migrants from villages with the objective of enabling them to be a respectable part of mainstream society.
Banaskantha Viklang Mela, 2010
It is the first project of its kind to be implemented under the Public-Private partnership model where the dynamic District Collector mobilized Corporations, Industry, Markets and the local community to pool in half the project costs. The other half was mobilized with active support from Palanpur Samaj Kendra, Mumbai by Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust , [...]
Palitana Viklang Mela, 2009
The world’s largest mobility camp was inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Narendrabhai Modi Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust, Mumbai in association with and supported by several National and International organizations as well as other well wishers had organized a Mega Mobility Camp for rehabilitation of the physically challenged and hearing impaired at [...]
Project Mainstream
Since 1994 Project Mainstream focuses with an objective in providing vocational and small business training to the underprivileged street and slum youth (age group 18 to 25 years) in Mumbai. These youth are mostly runaways from other cities who come to Mumbai to pursue a career, are then misled in a direction unknown to them [...]
Patan Viklang Mela, 2010
After its resounding success in Bhavnagar district with 28,549 poorest of the poor beneficiaries and then 16,789 in Banaskantha district Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust continued its humanitarian project by organizing a Patan Viklang Melo from the 17th to the 30th of November, 2010. This was again a joint initiative of the dynamic Collector Patan and [...]
Jamnagar Viklang Mela, 2010
The success of the Viklang Melas organized by Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust with the active support and assistance of the local Government authorities in Bhavnagar (Palitana-28,549 beneficiaries), Banaskantha (16,798 beneficiaries) and Patan (21,513 beneficiaries) continued at Jamnagar which would easily be the largest project of its kind in the world having rehabilitated 31,330 beneficiaries. To [...]
Blasts of 13 July,2011
The city of Mumbai has become very susceptible to such terror attacks and bomb blasts and it has become very common place to hear about such an occurring. Recently, the city witnessed one more such blast on the 13th of July 2011. 17 were killed and 131 injured leaving behind their helpless families and dependents. [...]
Terror project
The dependents of the victims of various terror attacks have all of a sudden lost their emotional and financial backbone. The demise or severe injury of their parents has brought their life to a standstill for no fault of theirs. They now live in a world of darkness. Through the scholarship program we aim to kindle a ray [...]
Garment Project
Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust has been working for the welfare of the underprivileged strata of society for the last 25 years. One of its welfare programmes is the Garments Project where usable garments are distributed to the poorest of the poor children, women and men of all ages. The garments that are received from various [...]
Food for Education – Night Schools
Another of RNCT’s newest ventures in this project is with 150 night schools in 23 wards of Mumbai city which are facing serious survival problem owing to an absence of a strong policy position from the government and general apathy from the community at large, especially the educationists in particular. On an average these night [...]
Food for Education
The Food Project has been going on since 1990 and has been appreciated by one and all for its benefits to the poor children Mumbai. The food is prepared centrally in the kitchens of the trust and then distributed to the children through networking with NGOs who work with the poor children. Around 7000 children [...]
Touching stories
One look at Varun aged 11 and his cute little sister Roshni and you will never be able to guess the tragedy that they have been through. Watching them laughing and playing it may seem that they are back to their normal lives, but deep inside the incident has left a mark on them for [...]
About our Disaster Relief Projects
We provide health, education and survival kits to victims of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis etc. We also provide support to those affected by terrorist attacks such as educational sponsorships to victims’ children.
About our Food Security Projects
Through our Food for Education programme we distribute free food to poor children if they attend any formal/non-formal educational class. We now have a child who is both educated and well fed also. The programme has been highly effective in reducing the drop-out rate in schools as well as increasing the attentiveness of children during classes.
Nargis Cyclone – Myanmar 2008
Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust implemented a project for the distribution of over 6000 hygiene and educational kits for children affected by the ravaging cyclone-Nargis in Myanmar. The project was implemented in spite of severe restrictions and difficult logistical problems in Myanmar. Contents of each type of kit were selected carefully, packed under close supervision and [...]
Bihar Floods – 2008
May 2008 was a black month for over 18 districts of Bihar that were ravaged by floods in the Kosi river. Nearly 3 million men, women & children were rendered homeless and facing starvation due to lack of food and drinking water. Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust made a valiant effort to outreach thousands of survivors [...]
Flash floods in Mumbai – 26th July 2005
The trust in association with the Disaster Management Cell of the city’s Municipal Corporation organized distribution of Food packets, Utensils and garments to the poor left homeless after all their belongings got washed away. In addition to this the trust also helped school going children through provision of school bags and stationery so that they [...]
Rehabilitation of Tsunami victims in 2004
RNCT co-ordinated and implemented several projects for welfare of the tsunami victims in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in South India. These included the following: A major project covering selected districts in Tamil Nadu and Andhra for fitting of Jaipur foot prosthetics and distribution of Tricycles and Wheelchairs. Distribution of sewing machines to the widows [...]
Gujarat earthquake – 2001
Immediately after the massive Gujarat earthquake of 2001 the trust had co-ordinated extensive relief supplies to the affected regions jointly in association with the German Government. Subsequently in association with HELP, a German NGO the trust had implemented a European Commission funded project for provision of temporary shelters, maintenance of water storing facilities and temporary school facilities in [...]