IMPACT ▪ 2022Field notes, drive reports, and the numbers behind Seva, Muskaan and Raahat, across India, since 2020. Documentary write-ups on one side, cited explainers on the other.
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food grains distributed through Project Seva since 2020
Every figure here carries the name of the document it came from, or it doesn't ship. The rule, and the numbers we refused to invent.
India's rank on the 2024 Global Hunger Index (score 27.3, 'serious')
India sits 105th of 127 on the 2024 Global Hunger Index, not a headcount of empty stomachs, but built partly on child wasting and stunting.
children aged 6-13 out of school in India
Over 32 million children aged 6-13 are out of school in India, most from migrant families, falling out not at a desk, but when a family moves mid-year.
of young women aged 15–24 still use cloth for menstrual protection
The gap in menstrual protection isn't about awareness. It tracks income, schooling and geography almost exactly, which is where Project Noori worked.
documented cost per child, per year
Project Muskaan began as a stationery drive, one bright morning, no idea what came next. Why we turned it into an adoption model, the harder choice.
dropout rate at the secondary level (Classes 9–10), the peak
School is free. Keeping a child in it is not. Here's the arithmetic of a year in class, and what one dropout costs a lifetime.
of India's workers are in informal employment, with no contract or paid leave
One ration morning, start to finish: a truck loaded before dawn, sacks worked off the bed two at a time. What happens between the photographs.
of Indians could not afford a healthy diet in 2022 (about 790 million people)
Rice or wheat flour, dal, oil, salt and sugar where needed: a bag of staples that gets a family through the month without skipped meals.
of India's workers are informal, with no contract or paid leave
Cold, hunger and school dropout are one household's problem at once: why Seva, Raahat and Muskaan serve the same families, not three charities.
Report · FY2026Jul 20264 min read
The education programme in its own numbers: 500+ children since 2020, sixteen centres, and a per-child cost that's a rounding error against a lifetime of earnings.
Read the brief: Project Muskaan, measured
A plain walk-through of what an 80G receipt does: the 50% deduction, the ₹2,000 cash rule, and why it only works under the old tax regime.
FSSAI's Surplus Food regulations placed hygiene and recording duties on donated-food distribution, heavier for cooked than for sealed dry rations
A workplace or campus drive dies from vagueness, not a shortage of goodwill. Pick one need, one deadline, one owner and a short item list.
RAAHAT ▪ 2026Migrant families fire bricks through the winter and live along the stacks. We brought blankets and warm clothes before the cold set in.
Read the report: We spent a February morning at a brick kiln, before the cold does what it does.
SEVA ▪ 2026A dry-ration kit is rice or wheat flour, dal and oil: a daily-wage family's cushion, the reason a missed workday doesn't become a missed meal.
Read the report: A month of rations, handed over in a bag.
MUSKAAN ▪ 2026School is nominally free. The bag, the notebooks, the shoes and the bus fare are not, and those are the costs that make a family feel a child can't turn up.
Read the report: The reason a child leaves school is almost never the classroom.
IMPACT ▪ 2022We ran it under Raahat and Muskaan together. Footwear covers both kinds of need: winter cold, and the everyday cost of getting a child to school.
Read the report: Shoes are a small thing until you're the one without them.Looking for the internship rules instead: AICTE and NEP mandates, fieldwork hours, NOC letters, how to spot a fake offer? Those live in the guides, each one cited to the document it draws on.
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