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With the support of SMFT, Karma Junction successfully built a water well in Pay Center School, Gujarat, ensuring a sustainable water source for the entire community. This initiative has brought about a transformative change. The students now have access to clean water for drinking, sanitation, and maintaining personal hygiene. It has created a healthier and more conducive learning environment, enabling the students to focus on their education and reach their full potential.
Manu Shah, MSI’s Co-founder & CEO recently interviewed for the series Just Three Questions: Brief Conversations for Big Inspiration, a series that explores the values and motivations of philanthropists and social impact leaders.
You can read the interview at this link: https://stories.indiaspora.org/three-questions/Manu-Shah
Resolution Project honored Manu and Rika Shah, co-founders of MS International (MSI), with the Champions Circle Award for Supporting Young Leaders. This award is presented to top leaders who, throughout their careers, have distinguished themselves as champions for social change and advocates for entrepreneurship. In addition to creating hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide through MSI, Mr. and Mrs. Shah’s Sarva Mangal Family Trust supports philanthropic endeavors like Resolution, which has allowed it to identify and propel dozens of young social entrepreneurs working on impactful social ventures across Sub-Saharan Africa.
SMFT Supports Health Living Of Young Girls Ages 11-13 In South Asia
Arogya World is a global health non-profit organization working to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—diabetes, heart disease, cancer and chronic lung diseases—through health education and lifestyle change. Through our programs and advocacy efforts, we help people around the world lead healthier lives. Our mission is reflected in our name: “Arogya” in Sanskrit means to live a life without disease.
Sarva Mangal Family Trust supports Arogya World to empower young girls to eat right and steer their families toward healthy living and educate adolescent children (ages 11-13) on healthy living and help ensure a healthier future generation.
SMFT Donates 5 Liter Oxygen Concentrator To Treat A Covid-19 Patient In North Carolina, USA
SMFT Supports A Large Scale Social Impact Initiative In Africa
Resolution Project works towards finding and supporting innovative not-for-profits across the world run by young social entrepreneurs.
Sarva Mangal Family Trust aims to increase social impact activities in Nairobi and other parts of Africa covering preventive healthcare, education and employment generation with the help of small-scale nonprofits and young social entrepreneurs. Through Resolution Project, we aim to identify and support 130 Not-for-profits and Social Entrepreneurs from Kenya and Rest of Africa that work in areas relevant to MSI Charitable Trust. The Resolution Project will setup 3 Social Innovation Hubs with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and other locations in Africa that will serve as a Launchpad for the most impactful Not-for-profits and Social Entrepreneurs.
Some of the other foundations that support this initiative are: Mastercard Foundation, Deloitte, DuPont, Ford, White & Case, Morgan Lewis, Open Society Foundations and Macquarie.
Starting this April 2021, MSI started providing academic scholarships to college-bound, high-school seniors who excel academically, exhibit exceptional leadership potential, participate in community service activities, & demonstrate financial need.
The scholarships were granted to high school students from Tustin Public Schools Foundation in Southern California. MSI’s efforts were well received by TPSF especially during the pandemic. The two students who received MSI’s scholarships are on their way to the universities of Portland and Southern California respectively, for their undergraduate studies. The scholarships were provided as a result of a rigorous vetting process, where the applicants shared their academic/career goals, and their inspiration to pursue education and create an impact in their communities.
We are proud to partner with TPSF and wish all the very best to MSI Scholarship recipients.
SMFT Donates 100 Refurbished IPads For The Use Of Seniors In Orange County
M S International, Inc. at Orange County partnered with Orange Senior Center to donate 100 refurbished iPads to adults 50 and better to help them transition to virtual environment at the time of COVID-19. We are hoping to help seniors connect to the world and improve the quality of their life. MSI volunteers will conduct seminars for the seniors to help them learn the use of iPads and make their fullest use. Our philanthropic effort will help over 100 seniors who are served by Orange Senior Center.
SMFT recently partnered with Lestonnac Free Clinic, which has over 300 volunteer providers and 400 volunteer professionals who donate their time and skills to provide FREE medical, dental, and vision healthcare to uninsured and low-income families. We donated a mobile van with pre-installed telemedicine equipment for patient assessment using technology.
As a response to COVID-19, SMFT supported United Sikh Mission - a local organization, which works on the principles of Gurudwaras and provides access to free meals to thousands of people a day here in the US. SMFT supported 10,000 meals over the next 60 days to frontline health workers, senior citizens, the homeless and families who have been affected by coronavirus in Southern California.