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It brings me so much joy to read the stories of real-life changemakers to children. Here's hoping that maybe one kid will become a changemaker in the future! #AngelsOfMumbai . Thank you Dharmesh Barai and Aabid Surti for being a part of this. And special thanks to Paramjeet Singh of DBM India for hosting us. @dharmeshbarai @DBMission @EnvironmentLife
✨#AngelsOfMumbai ✨| What happens when young minds meet real-life changemakers? Inspiration takes root: The Free Press Journal’s Angels of Mumbai recently conducted an interactive book-reading session with students at @DBMission’s Deonar centre, where stories inspired by everyday heroes came alive through storytelling and conversation.
✨Also present were @dharmeshbarai of @EnvironmentLife and 91-year-old Aabid Surti of Drop Dead Foundation, who shared their journeys of environmental conservation and water-saving initiatives with the students.
✨From cleaning Maharashtra’s mangroves for 300 consecutive Sundays to fixing leaking taps across homes for free, their stories reminded students that even one small act can create meaningful change.
Read more: https://t.co/GIXkldZ36I
#Mumbai #changemakers #MumbaiNGO #childrensbook @7_Poojapatel
✨#AngelsOfMumbai ✨| What happens when young minds meet real-life changemakers? Inspiration takes root: The Free Press Journal’s Angels of Mumbai recently conducted an interactive book-reading session with students at @DBMission’s Deonar centre, where stories inspired by everyday heroes came alive through storytelling and conversation.
✨Also present were @dharmeshbarai of @EnvironmentLife and 91-year-old Aabid Surti of Drop Dead Foundation, who shared their journeys of environmental conservation and water-saving initiatives with the students.
✨From cleaning Maharashtra’s mangroves for 300 consecutive Sundays to fixing leaking taps across homes for free, their stories reminded students that even one small act can create meaningful change.
Read more: https://t.co/GIXkldZ36I
#Mumbai #changemakers #MumbaiNGO #childrensbook @7_Poojapatel
📽️ Shubhada Nikharge and Hutokshi Rustomfram, Founder-trustees of Save Rani Bagh Botanical Garden Foundation share their experience of the special moment at #AngelsOfMumbai Season 2025.
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📽️ #AngelsOfMumbai | Paramjeet Singh, Co-founder of @DBMission India speaks about what this recognition means to him.
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📽️ Kedar Sohoni, Founder of Green Communities Foundation (@GreenCommF), shares his thoughts after being honoured at #AngelsOfMumbai Season 2025.
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From purpose to recognition: Sheetal Agarwal, Founder & Director of @clownselors Foundation on winning at #AngelsOfMumbai Season 2025.
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Angel Dr Tatyana Dias, Founder & CEO of Veruschka Foundation, winner of #AngelsOfMumbai Season 2025, shares her thoughts about the winning moment.
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The Free Press Journal's #AngelsOfMumbai Season 2025 felicitated 11 changemakers who have been transforming #Mumbai’s social landscape.
Here are the winners: Gargi Mashruwala, Director, St. Jude India Child Care Centres; Padma Shri Fr. Joseph Pereira, founder, Kripa Foundation; Aman Sharma, Co-founder, Training and Educational Centre for Hearing Impaired (TEACH); Dr Tatyana Dias, Founder & CEO, Veruschka Foundation; Pushpa Subramanian and Lata Srinivasan, Co-founders, Gyaandaan Foundation (Sampoorna Shiksha); Hutokshi Rustomfram, Founder-Trustee, Save Rani Bagh Botanical Garden Foundation; Dr Eric Borges, Chairperson, Sukoon Nilaya Palliative Care Centre & King George V Memorial Trust; Kedar Sohoni, Founder, Green Communities Foundation; Rashmi Misra, Founder-President, VIDYA; Sheetal Agarwal, Founder & Director, Clownselors Foundation; and Paramjeet Singh, Co-founder, DBM India.
@frjoepereira @VeruschkaFdn @bluewhale_waves @sampoornashik @Vidya_India @iyerkavi @7_Poojapatel @clownselors @DBMission @TheChahatt @TawdeRitu @nishjamvwal @madhoo69
#AngelsOfMumbai | Maharashtra Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha (@MPLodha) Praises Initiative
✦At an electrifying event on Friday, The Free Press Journal honoured 11 changemakers, as part of the Angels of Mumbai Season 2025 Felicitation Awards Ceremony.
✦Angels of Mumbai is an initiative of this paper, which shines a spotlight on individuals and organisations working selflessly to address pressing social challenges in and around Mumbai, and has completed six seasons of storytelling for good.
✦The Free Press Journal's Angels of Mumbai Season 2025 Awards Night was was attended by the stalwarts from the philanthropy world, and saw Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Minister of Skill, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Government of Maharashtra as the chief guest; and Ritu Tawde, Mayor of Mumbai and Ronnie Screwvala, movie producer and philanthropist as guests of honour.
@tawderitu_ @RonnieScrewvala @MPLodha @midc_setup @indianoilcorp @bpclimited @kvicindia @redfmindia @abhishek_karnani @astrangenessinmymind @7_poojapatel #Mumbai
Honoured to present #awards at #angelsofmumbai celebrating game-changing #NGO changemakers transformational work at grassroots reshaping lives & communities in India
who refuse to accept statusquo
#NishaJamVwal #SocialImpact #NGOChampions #SocialResponsibility #CommunityImpact
This year, #AngelsofMumbai debuted at the 7th edition of Storyexpress, a storytelling initiative exclusively for children from underserved communities.
At 2 storytelling sessions named Angels of Mumbai and Stories of Kindness and Courage, our illustrated children’s book series based on Mumbai’s real-life heroes were read aloud by author Pooja Patel, followed by animal-themed craft sessions and the distribution of these books to the young audience, which was appreciated by curious children aged eight to 10.
Conducted at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum Plaza and the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo (Byculla) at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, the festival was an initiative of the Akshara Foundation that aims to demonstrate how storytelling can help raise awareness, change attitudes and motivate people to take action.
#storytelling #childrenbook #changemakers @7_Poojapatel
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The Free Press Journal’s #AngelsOfMumbai initiative has reached young readers through a series of brightly illustrated children’s books inspired by the lives and work of real-life change-makers featured in the Angels of Mumbai series.
The book series, launched at Khoj School in Govandi, run by the @ApniShala Foundation, features @strayingaround of @WSDIndia, Monisha Narke of @RURGreenlife, Dharmesh Barai of @EnvironmentLife Foundation, and Aabid Surti of Drop Dead Foundation.
If you would like a copy of the books or would like us to read these stories at your school, please contact us.
#AngelsOfMumbai #Philanthropy #ChildrensBooks #ReadingForChildren #KidsWhoRead #ReadingCulture #Storytime #BooksForKids #LearningThroughStories #ApniShala #KhojSchool @7_Poojapatel @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | Flavia Agnes’ (@FlaviaAgnes5) Mission To Help Women Facing Domestic And Sexual Violence Through Majlis (@MajlisLaw)
✦“After I became a lawyer due to my own experience with litigation, I found that most lawyers lacked understanding and sensitivity towards women facing domestic violence, and even judges did not always display that sensitivity. So I felt that I would be able to represent women better. That is what led me to start the organisation 34 years ago. The aim was to provide quality legal support at a very reduced rate, or pro bono if they were poor,” she shares.
Watch🎥the full video on YouTube.
Link 🔗https://t.co/Q5RfUuseTD
#domesticviolence #sexualharassment #womensafety #womenrights #NGO #lawyer #litigation @7_Poojapatel @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | 'We Cook About 1,500 Meals A Day At Peak'
✦ Prabhadevi resident Anuja Kohli Mariwala director of Pepper Cook Seva Foundation has always believed in helping people and strives to devote 20 per cent of her time to social service.
Mariwala spends a significant amount of time planning the menu because they must work with whatever ingredients arrive.
“It’s not like we buy anything. We cook with what we get. Once, we had bubblegum syrup, so we made bubblegum halwa, and the kids absolutely loved it. If we get cucumbers or fruit, we make fruit salad or fruit chaat. I once got 2,000 kilos of cornflakes, so I made cornflakes bhel. For me, that creative part is fun and it’s even more fun knowing that someone is going to eat it and truly enjoy it. All our food is made with love,” she says.
Watch🎥the full video on YouTube.
Link 🔗https://t.co/IuirbdqJ2B
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#Mumbai #NGO #PepperCookSevaFoundation @iyerkavi @7_Poojapatel
#AngelsOfMumbai | Anuja Kohli Mariwala’s NGO, The Pepper Cook Seva Foundation feeds 1,200 children in #Mumbai every day.
Prabhadevi resident Anuja Kohli Mariwala has always believed in helping people and strives to devote 20 per cent of her time to social service.
“I also attended Chinmaya Mission’s Gita classes at my house for 10 years, and they constantly tell you to do seva (a selfless act to help the community) to increase your spirituality. So you think less about yourself and your family, and more about the community,” says the hardware and software engineer.
Read the full article by @7_Poojapatel on The Free Press Journal.
Link: https://t.co/HQDYLLiRnw
Watch the full interview on YouTube.
Link: https://t.co/roFvKSloGW
#NGO #FeedingChildren #PepperCookSevaFoundation @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | 'My Mission And Vision Is About Education'
In the 1990s, when Asma Batliwala first began educating children, she had never imagined that three decades later she would have transformed the lives of thousands of students in underserved communities.
“I wanted to rethink education in marginalised communities. I wanted students not just to learn, but to be happy and enjoy studying. I wanted the classroom to be a space children looked forward to entering every day,” she explains.
Watch the full video on YouTube.
Link: https://t.co/OuB6eOAsXV
#Education #WomenEmpowerment #EducateGirl #Student #NGO @7_Poojapatel @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | 'We Don't Have To Memorise Things, We Have To Teach Them'
In the 1990s, when Asma Batliwala first began educating children, she had never imagined that three decades later she would have transformed the lives of thousands of students in underserved communities.
The Managing Trustee of The Scholar’s Education Trust, which she founded in 1997, Batliwala set out to challenge rote learning and introduce a more holistic, engaging approach to education.
Watch the full video on YouTube.
Link: https://t.co/ZSUNtTVZQT
#Education #WomenEmpowerment #EducateGirl #Student #NGO @7_Poojapatel @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | 'We Were Giving Textbooks To Students They Would Return It, And Again Next Year We Would Give It To The Other People'
MES began its journey by lending school textbooks to students in underserved communities, offering educational and medical scholarships, and eventually building schools.
“We felt the need to do something that would help shape their entire outlook on life. That’s when the idea of starting a school emerged — a place where children would come to us, and we would have the opportunity to nurture their potential in every sphere, not just academics,” Dr Khatkhatay president, MES shared.
Watch full video on YouTube.
Link: https://t.co/OZNUm5Zp9s
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#Education #NGO #SocialUplift #MES #MESCO #Mumbai #India #HealthcareSupport #StudentScholarships @7_Poojapatel @iyerkavi
#AngelsOfMumbai | 'Don’t You Know Girls Don’t Go To School... Nobody’s Going To Teach Us, We’re Girls'
More than four decades ago, Rashmi Misra experienced something that deeply moved her, which cemented a lifelong commitment to education. Her husband, then a professor at IIT Delhi, and she lived on the institute’s campus which was separated from ‘real life’ by a wall.
Beyond the wall lay a slum area with a stagnant pool of dirty water where five little girls often played. One day, she asked them why they weren’t in school, to which one of the girls replied, “Don’t you know girls don’t go to school?” Misra asked if they wanted to study, and the girl responded, “Nobody’s going to teach us, we’re girls.”
Watch the full interview on YouTube.
Link: https://t.co/vkVaIAIvnc
#womenempoerment #girlchild #educategirls #NGO #Mumbai @7_poojapatel @iyerkavi @Vidya_India
#AngelsOfMumbai | We are thrilled to announce that The Free Press Journal's lovely illustrated children’s storybooks on real-life heroes were part of The Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, which is the city's first and biggest literature festival.
At The Little Festival, which is part of this fest but exclusively tailored for children, journalist and author Pooja Patel read the stories of Mumbai's changemakers who are featured in the book and under the special project Angels of Mumbai.
Around 100 enthusiastic children listened with rapt attention to the stories of Abodh Aras of The Welfare of Stray Dogs, Dharmesh Barai of Environment Life Foundation, Aabid Surti of Drop Dead Foundation, and Monisha Narke of RUR Greenlife.
The changemakers' stories left the young ones in awe, who took home the message that one can bring change in society even through their simplest and smallest acts.
#MumbaiLitFest #Mumbai #LiteratureFestival #TheLiteratureLive #MumbaiEvent @strayingaround @wsdindia @rurgreenlife @EnvironmentLife @qtpindia @7_poojapatel @iyerkavi @litlivefest
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