Who We Are
Building Resilient Communities
Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF) is an India-based charitable trust that has been spreading hope and happiness since 1999, with an overseas office in London, UK (CIO: 1182723), started in 2018. We are primarily engaged at the grassroots level with vulnerable, marginalised communities and individuals. Working dedicatedly to give access to the resources they need to flourish, to feel empowered and cherished.
Our work encompasses healthcare, education, social welfare, water and environmental conservation, sanitation, women’s empowerment, disaster relief, promotion of sports and skill development. This accounts for 17 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and 15 of the 16 CSR Mandates put forward by the Indian Government in 2014. Helping under-served individuals across the length and breadth of India build stronger foundations for themselves so that they can reach their true potential and take their communities along with them. We have continued to do this, and more, year after year, thanks to the support of our like-minded collaborators, on-ground partners and teams. Together, we let hope and happiness flourish.
Since our inception, we have initiated several milestone projects, impacting tens of thousands of lives. Let us show you the milestone projects we have set in motion.
We set up Pune’s first PICU in KEM Hospital, Pune. Since then, we have helped set up several NICUs in government hospitals, like Sassoon General Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi and Sonawane Hospitals, to care for babies with world-class equipment, expanding their facilities and training their staff.
Another one of our dream projects was to provide English-medium curriculum in rural Maharashtra with urban facilities. This took the form of Mukul Madhav Vidyalaya in 2010 in Golap village, Ratnagiri. Today, the school has over 650 students enrolled. In April 2020, MMV was also one of the first to start conducting online education as a precaution considering the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the school expanded its impact with the opening of its Junior College.
A project very close to our hearts is Mission Cerebral Palsy, which started in November 2015 with 313 children in Satara, which soon grew to 536. We then expanded to include Ratnagiri on the request of its CEO with therapies starting in 2 houses at the Finolex Industries Colony. Here, our number of enrolled children grew to over 1,000. In 2021, we took this mission into Gujarat. We conducted assessment camps in various places to ensure minimal travel and high attendance. During the pandemic, we continued these camps with the help of doctors from Sancheti Orthopaedic Hospital who pre-recorded assessment sessions to play on Zoom calls and on a local Ratnagiri television channel to reach the rural interiors where there is poor internet connectivity.
We have also been working with the Swachh Bharat initiative to clean rivers and beaches in Maharashtra. An extensive effort has been made to ensure 13 villages are open defecation free by constructing more than 770 individual toilets in tribal villages of Palghar, Maharashtra. 22 water conservation projects have also been initiated in 8 districts of Maharashtra to support approximately 1 lakh people.
Assisting disaster relief is close to our hearts at MMF. The most recent and destructive is the COVID-19 Pandemic. Our efforts have been pan-India, supporting various sections of society. #GivewithDignity™ was initiated during the preparations for the festive season of Diwali. The idea of revival and survival of self-help groups was at the heart of this initiative. Primarily sourcing dry rations and hygiene essentials from self-help groups and MSMEs helped support local communities. MNCs also participated with their products contributions in kind. In 2020, this effort impacted over 3 lakh individuals in 26 states of India with more than 73,000 families, and in 2021, our continued efforts have impacted 44,000 people in 10 states. Besides this, our efforts included mitigating food poverty amongst animals.
During the pandemic, Mukul Madhav Foundation collaborated with like-minded donors, corporates, individuals and NRIs to support marginalised communities, hospitals, and frontline warriors with oxygen concentrators and tanks, ventilators, PPE kits, masks, face shields, cooked meals and other essentials that were needed to support lives and livelihoods.
In 2019-2020, MMF has provided extensive relief to victims of Cyclone Amphan, Cyclone Nisarg and the floods in Assam and the Konkan belt – affecting Raigad and Ratnagiri, and in Western Maharashtra, Pune, Kolhapur and Sangli.
MMF has doubled its efforts to take water to those who need it the most. Our desilting, constructing and repairing of canals, water tanks, dams, reservoirs and Cement Nala Bunds (CNB) have led to tens of thousands of people in Maharashtra and Gujarat receiving water for drinking, farming and sanitation. Other projects have included the installation of over 70 RO water filtration systems and toilets in schools and villages in the region. To date, we have successfully completed 22 water conservation projects, thereby helping more than 30,000 households get access to potable water and sanitation.
Our Mission
- Our mission is to help the most vulnerable communities with quality healthcare, education, equality, empowerment, clean water, and sanitation.
- Our mission is to support individuals with disabilities to live with dignity, to thrive and to succeed.
- Our mission is to help the earth heal by initiating water conservation, planting trees and driving sustainable environmental initiatives.
The road has been long, rewarding and steep, but we have promises to keep
2017
2017
- We created a 59-bed NICU in Sassoon General Hospital with state-of-the-art equipment. More than 6,000 babies have been treated there to date.
2017
- In November 2017, MMF began working with Kherwadi Social Welfare Association towards making villages in the Palghar region open defecation free by constructing a toilet for every household and imparting education on good health and hygienic practices. Funding for construction was received from individual families and corporates like Finolex industries, Shapoorji Pallonji, ZF Gears and Hinduja Foundation. This work has expanded to more locations over the years and, so far, 13 villages have been declared open defecation free.
2020
2020
- In April 2020, MMV was also one of the first to start conducting online education as a precaution considering the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the school expanded its impact with the opening of its Junior College offering science and commerce streams.
2020
- In February 2020, preparations for COVID-19 relief efforts were mobilised to assist individuals and communities nationwide. MMF supported hospitals with PPE, sanitisers, ventilators, masks and face shields. We helped migrant workers with hot meals, rations, blankets, shoes and much more. These efforts have been continuing and will continue for as long as they are needed.
2020
- In September 2020, Give with DignityTM was initiated to give people and businesses a reason to celebrate Diwali and Dussehra in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. We sourced dry rations and essentials from self-help groups and MSMEs to give to their local communities, thereby reviving their business while helping families survive. Over 3 lakh people from 26 states benefited from Give with DignityTM this year.
2020
- In 2020, natural calamities were in abundance. Cyclone Amphan and Nisarga along with floods in Assam, the Konkan belt and western Maharashtra. We put relief efforts in motion for each of these calamities with the distribution of dry rations, medicines, soap, tarpaulin, roof sheets and more.
2021
2021
- Our extensive support for front line workers and vulnerable communities continued through the second wave. This time, we sourced, procured and distributed oxygen concentrators and oxygen tanks from the UK, Thailand and China to hospitals and healthcare centres in rural interiors of 11 states.
2021
- In 2021, our continued efforts with Give with DignityTM impacted 10,000 families in 10 states with the distribution of dry rations, diyas and hygiene kits.
…and miles to go before we sleep.
Help us build a foundation for a better world
What we ask for isn’t simply a donation; we ask for a collaboration. If you share our mission to build a brighter future for the people of our country and the world, then join us. We offer you complete transparency at every step of the way, showing you where your contribution is impacting lives in measurable, quantifiable ways.
