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A volunteer shares a laugh with a woman holding her ration kit outside her home.SEVA ▪ DELHI-NCR
SERVING INDIA · SINCE 2020

Everyone
deserves a smile.

Rations, school kits and winter warmth for families across India, delivered hand to hand since 2020.

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RESEARCHThe winter Delhi doesn't seeJul 2026FIELD NOTESWhy we leave some numbers blankJul 2026RESEARCHIndia ranks 105th on hunger. Here's what that measures.Jul 2026RESEARCHWhy 3.22 crore children are out of schoolJul 2026
THE RUNNING COUNT · SINCE 2020
1,00,000+
Smiles delivered

Ration, school and winter kits handed over in person.

Drives run
200+
Children supported since 2020
500+
Interns trained
2,500+
Three small children smiling at the Raahat banner on a winter morning
12A & 80G registeredSection 8 non-profitISO 9001
WHAT WE DO

Three projects.
65+ tonnes, 500+ children, 8,500+ families.

Three women hold ration sacks of dal and oil, looking straight into the camera
SEVA ▪ 2026
Project Seva

65+ tonnes of food grains, hand to hand.

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Children hold up new notebooks in golden courtyard lightMUSKAAN ▪ EDUCATIONProject Muskaan500+ children supported since 2020Three young boys clutch their new winter jacketsRAAHAT ▪ WINTER RELIEFProject Raahat8,500+ families warmed
Past initiatives: Project Noori · Project Qadam
A crowd receives atta ration bags at a Project Seva drive by a brick wall
SEVA ▪ 2026See the archive
Elderly sadhu in saffron and white shawl receiving a ration kitBoys grinning with peace signs over new yellow shoe boxesA mother in a mustard-green shawl holds her toddler and a folded blanket

We feed families, keep children learning, and bring warmth: hand to hand, street by street.

  • We show up in person: every kit is handed over, not couriered.
  • We follow up, returning to the same streets drive after drive across the season.
  • We date, place and photograph every drive, building a record anyone can check.
How we work
WHAT YOUR ₹ DOES

Every rupee
has a job.

  • Food: dry ration kits, packed to the size of the household they reach.
  • School: kits, fees and the small costs that stop a child dropping out.
  • Winter: blankets and warm clothing for families living through the cold outdoors.
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You give₹1,000
goes straight to the next drive
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80G tax receipt by email · every drive photographed

A woman in a pink shawl smiles beside the Seva banner, ration kit in handSEVA ▪ 2026
When the lockdown took our work, the ration from Pledge A Smile reached our door. My children did not sleep hungry.
A mother of two, Yamuna Khadar, Delhi-NCR
Two boys in winter sweaters stand together in a street portraitRAAHAT ▪ 2025
A small girl in a white knit cap presents her new backpack in a school corridorMUSKAAN ▪ 2026
Two labourers smile under a green canopy holding their ration packetsSEVA ▪ 2026
FROM THE FIELD

The drives, written up.
The numbers behind them.

Mothers and children wrapped in newly distributed grey blankets at a Delhi-NCR settlement, open winter sky across the top.RAAHAT ▪ 2026
COLD-WAVE RISK ▪ EXPLAINER

The winter Delhi
doesn't see

Every December the cold turns into a body count. Here's who it reaches first, and what a single winter kit actually holds back.

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EXPLAINERWhat ₹12,000 buys in a year of schoolJul 20265 min readREPORTProject Muskaan, measuredJul 20264 min readDRIVE REPORTA month of rations, handed over in a bag.Feb 2026
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IN THE PRESS

The drives made
the morning paper.

Rajasthan Patrika covered the 2021 Shahpura ration drives and named the foundation in print, and the regional evening news ran the handover with our banner on air.

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Rajasthan Patrika newspaper page from 21 May 2021 covering Pledge A Smile ration-kit distribution drives in ShahpuraRAJASTHAN PATRIKA ▪ 21 MAY 2021
“Donors rally to help those in need.”
WHERE TO NEXT

Three ways to stay
in the work.

GIVE

Pledge a smile
on the next drive.

From ₹300. Rations, school kits and winter warmth, every rupee tracked back to a drive, with an 80G tax receipt by email.

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SPONSORSponsor a driveFund one full drive and put your name on a street.INTERNIntern with usNo experience needed. Real fieldwork on real drives, from day one.

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next street.

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