November 2020

Birth of a child is a miracle of Nature. It is the most precious gift of creation. Sadly, in some places, the happiness of childbirth is eclipsed by conditions out of our control.

We at Path of bliss decided to impart joy to the children who are born in the red light areas and brought up at an Observation and Remand Home at Bhiwandi. We tried to give them the joy which they equally deserve during Diwali, the festival of lights.

This month's activity involved donations of grocery (wheat flour and dal) and Diwali snacks (Chivda, Chakli, Shankarpali) which had been prepared in the tribal kitchens of Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

This served the dual purpose of uplifting the tribal villagers who are gearing up in their kitchen skills as well as providing joy to these innocent children.

It is our earnest attempt to spread smiles in the lives of these children and the tribal families during this festive occasion.

Wishing you all a safe, happy and prosperous festive season!🪔

October 2020

Villages around Mumbai where families need food for their survival.

We at Path of Bliss joined hands with the NGO EarthAngel Foundation to extend our support to provide monthly grocery kits to these hungry souls.

A helping hand to the families to fight this tough period...

Villages- Kharamba, bhendicha pada, agan wadi, kadakwadi, chinchawadi, Bauddhwadi, Bhagatwadi.

The adivasi families thanked again and again for the kind support provided to them. Thanks to you all lovely kind hearted members. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

September 2020

This month we helped one of the most responsible forces who have worked in the entire lockdown period and continue to do so... In this challenging environment it is amazing to see their commitment and dedication. They not only protect life and property through the enforcement of law & order but also proactively patrol assigned areas, respond to calls, conduct criminal and traffic investigations, arrest and process criminals, testify in court and perform all emergency duties during adverse conditions.

Path of bliss donated a printer and rims of paper to Trombay police station and felicitated lady officers with sarees.

Happy to be of some help to our police forces.

We also donated scarves and beauty accessories to 250 breast cancer patients at Tata Cancer OPD.

🙏🏼🙏🏼

August 2020

We helped our animal friends in this month. The lockdown was not kind on them too and they needed our help.

*Animal Rescue Trust*

This rehoming and retirement home centre was made fully functional in 2018 where rescued/abandoned dogs spend their lives in utmost medical care and love.

*Pet Owners and Animal Lovers Foundation PAL*

With tremendous support from animal lovers PAL has successfully been providing shelter, treatment and support to stray animals for the last eight years. They have managed to get an ambulance through donations from like minded good samaritans.This mobility enables their team to rush to the spot of an animal in distress and provide immediate help and treatment. Innumerable precious lives have been saved by the timely action and service rendered by the PAL helpline.

*Animal rescue and care*

They treat and feed the stray dogs and other hungry souls in this hour of need.

*Amigos Mission Help* organised a drive for the needy and helped by distributing Ration Kits along with Masks and Vitamin C tablets.

July 2020

Path of Bliss extended support to-

“Community Teaching” by Varadarajan Sir at Hiranandani Estate, Thane - Towards upliftment of the educational needs of the children (grade 6 to 12) from low income groups. We provided notebooks and textbooks to the children.
“Sangopita”, A Shelter for Care at Badlapur - Towards food and medical requirement of the inmates who needed special care due to their mental and physical disabilities.
“Gurukul’ Centre for special children at Ghatkopar - Towards various co-curricular activities for physically challenged and differently abled children which will help them to reach greater heights.

June 2020

We continued the fight against Covid in this month too.

We supported

Shree Raj Medical Centre in their Preventive Care and Food grains distribution drive to provide basic essential resources to at-risk residents across 100 plus backward and tribal villages in Raigad district. Daily wage earners like farmers, labour, fruit and vegetable hawkers, small grocery shop owners, drivers, repair technicians, due to nationwide lockdown none of them have any work at hand.
Robert Metri, an independent social worker fed underprivileged families in our city at Dharavi, Vashi naka, Bhandup, Nallasopara, LTT. A grocery kit of rice, dal, wheat, salt, oil, sugar, tea etc was packed and rations were distributed.
AMURT, Relief work involving grocery distribution in Vashi, Navi Mumbai was conducted by the AMURT volunteers. They provided rice, pulse potatoes, oil, beaten rice, molasses, soap, cooked food and other essential commodities to the affected people.
Bhupendra Singh- A good Samaritan of Chembur. He and his energetic team provided cooked food as well as raw ration to the starving people in and around Chembur. Nobody should sleep hungry is their prime motto. They will keep this work continued till they get support from the people like us.

May 2020

This month PoB activity will be to further extend help to those who are affected by lockdown.

This will be done through the volunteers of following organizations :

Sprouts - Within the first week Sprouts realised that the frontline people have almost no protective gears, and making simple visors using OHP sheets and elastic or string, can provide them protection from splatter or droplets. We supported Sprouts for making visors for police, doctors, nurses, food distribution volunteers and anyone who is on the frontline battling the various challenges created by COVID19.
Rotighar - Team Rotighar distributed meals to the Rag pickers, BPL slums kids, Safai walas and Security Guards.
Ananda Parivar Seva Kendra - Was Cooking and providing food to the daily workers and their families since the day the lockdown began.
MDCH Mankhurd - They had no resources and needed food. Government aid did not reachthere and they needed groceries

April 2020

This month PoB activity was to extend help to those who are badly affected due to the lockdown like the daily wagers, truck drivers, municipal hospitals by providing them and their families with groceries, hygiene products and protection equipment.

This was done through the volunteers of following organizations.

Seva Sahayog Foundation-Providing food kits, safety kits, medical supplies in Mumbai, Pune, Palghar and Raigad.
Spark-a-change foundation is an NGO associated with the upliftment of poor people whose lives depends on daily wages. They are preparing hygiene kits to be donated to the slum dwellers - hand soap, sanitizer, masks, gloves and such essentials.
Earthangels welfare foundation delivers groceries to weaker segments of society from Govandi west families. Family kits of groceries and utilities were made and distributed.
Bharat Vikas Parishad Konkan Prant charitable trust : They distributed cooked food packets to needy people in Thane and Bhiwandi area in cooperation with Thane Police. Food packets are being distributed almost 600 packets daily.

February 2020

Path of Bliss Activity for February 2020 was to support communities (especially women) residing in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali by providing them sustainable livelihood. This was done by joining hands with Seva Charitable Trust. We donated 200 meters of fabric and other raw materials for their tailoring project.

Thanks to a few of our kind members who donated 2 laptops, 1 printer, a mixer grinder for their tribal kitchen project and plenty of clothes. The objective is to empower these women to independently earn their living through their different skill based projects, like authentic traditional lunch, handicrafts and tailoring projects. Our members learnt to make bird-feeders in the workshop conducted by them, had a nature trail led by the locals and also had a delicious breakfast and lunch cooked traditionally in their kitchen. We also bought various handicraft items made by them. Such attempts will boost their self-confidence and make them independent to live an empowered life.

January 2020

Path of bliss Activity for January 2020 was to support to All Saints Home, an old age home established in 1897 and today having 39 inmates.

Our members had a wonderful time spent with All Saints Home. We had an interesting game of Housie and then Antakshari and then the floor was open for dance.We gave them goody bags thoughtfully filled with useful goodies. We had a special live Dosa Counter serving 6 different types of dosas along with idli, bissebille rice, medu wada, masala idli, dahi wada, sambar, chutney and gulab jamun for lunch.

The joy and happiness on their faces gave a wonderful happy feeling and we promised them that we will make it more interesting next year. May be a short one day trip for all inmates. Thank you all for making this event successfull.

December 2019

We supported Accesslife with their desktop requirement and gifted each kid with a goody bag filled with healthy snacks and gifts. Accesslife provides accommodation, food and travel to the poor families of kids suffering from cancer and undergoing long treatments.
Path of bliss members arranged music and dance and also puppet making and magic show for the kids and spent some fun time with the kids.
The kids were a bit reluctant in the beginning but slowly opened up and started dancing. Dr. Happy made them happy by making puppets and showed some magic tricks. The smile and their laughter was a real treat to watch. Even their parents forgot all the worries and laughed their heart out.
It is so important for us to make them forget their sorrows, atleast for some time.
With long cancer treatment regimes the entire family already displaced from their village is without any financial support and in depression.
Spending a small amount of your time with them gives them so much happiness that it is simply worth it.
Thanks Vandana Desai and Kiritbhai for your kind support. This time Kids of our members made the program very interesting.
The event ended with the prayer song from Accesslife kids..
इतनी शक्ती हमे देना दाता....
The song was more appropriate for us to sing when we see the kids undergoing so much trauma during the treatment.
Thanks to all members who could make it to the event and those who were in spirits with us.