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Helplines:

Police: 226 333 333

Fire brigade: 101

Child abuse: 1098


  Organizations that need help:

1. National Domestic Workers Movement

Requirements:

  • Volunteers to conduct sports and games for children
  • Volunteers to compile and process information
  • Volunteers for advocacy and lobbying
  • Legal aid
  • Employers of domestic servants to assist in the training

 

Contact: Marioreme@gmail.com:

Address:  A-104, St. Mary’s Apts.,
Nesbit Rd.,
Mazagaon, Mumbai 400 010
Tel: +91 - 022 - 2378 0903 / 23702498
Fax: +91 - 022 - 23771131

 

2. Ashadaan

 

Requirements:

  • Iron beds
  • Phenyl, bed sheets, towel, napkins,
  • Soap, talcum powder
  • Cooking oil, masalas, vegetables,
  • Cough medicines, multivitamins, B-complex,
  • Sponsored meals at Rs 3,500 for vegetarian and Rs 5,000 for non-vegetarian meals
  • Cooked food.

Vehicle for transport of donated items is available

 

Address: Missionaries of Charity
Sankli Street
Byculla 
Mumbai 400008
Contact: Sister Yvoone, Superintendent 
Tel: 23093591

 

 

3. Children’s Toy Foundation

 

Requirements:

  • Toys, games for 3- to 12-year-olds.
  • Printouts of downloaded games for children from the internet.
  • Books on activities, storybooks in Marathi and Hindi.
  • Educational games/toys (such as from Funskool etc)
  • Regular volunteers to teach drawing, theatre, craft, karate
  • Volunteers to work for two hours in the children’s ward of the hospital (training will be given)
  •  Garage space to store toys

Contact: Shri Devendra S. Desai-Founder/Mg.Trustee
Address: Ali Bldg, 72, Shahid Bhagatsingh Road, Mumbai 400023, Maharastra, India.
Tel : (091-22) 22664831/09987754555

Fax : 091-22-22841247.

Email : play@childrentoyfoundation.org

 

 

4. The Shelter

 

Requirements:

  • Foodgrains, (100 kg for a month)
  • Cooking oil, poha, pulses, biscuits, churan, packed food
  • Raincoats for 38 orphans

 

Address: The League of Mercy

61, Clare Road , Byculla, Mumboi 400 008.
Telephone :  23072381  

Contact: Mrs Mardey

 

 

5. SOS Children’s Village

 

Requirements:

  • Doctors, counselors
  • Volunteers to organize camps and activities such as drawing competitions etc
  • Volunteers for fund raising

Phone : 011 - 2435 9450, 2435 7299,Fax : 011 - 2435 7298,Email : soscvi@soscvindia.org,URL : www.soscvindia.org

 

6. Children’s Home

 

Requirements:

  • 60 umbrellas, 6 chairs for office use
  • Rice, dal, sugar
  • Old clothes
  • Games like caroms etc
  • Sponsor lunch at Rs 3,000 (for 130 girls) or dinner at Rs 1,900
  •  Volunteers to teach weekends or after 6 on weekends, to play with children

 

Address: Sion Road
Sion
Mumbai – 400022
Contact: Major Shashikala Sharma, Officer In Charge
Tel : 2409 4405

 

 

7) Family Service Centre

 

Requirements:

  • Old clothes, toys or daycare center, sewing machines, cloth material, filing cabinet (for office)
  • Food provided already by Taj for TB patients
  • Other corporates invited to help

Address: Eucharistic Congress Building III
5-Convent Street,
Near Holy Name High School,
Mumbai 400 001

Tel : 91-22-2282 8862,
91-22-220 21432

email : director@fscmumbai.org

 

 

8) Stephen High School for the Deaf

 

Requirements:

  • Hearing aids,
  • Teaching aids,
  • New uniforms,
  • Storybooks

Address: Plot No. 898
S. K. Bole Road
Prabhadevi

(Next to Bank of Baroda)
Dadar (W)
Mumbai 400028
Karmayogi: Brother Joseph
Tel : 24321572 / 24320733
E-mail: shschool@vsnl.com
www.montfort.net

 

 

9) Aural education for the Hearing Impaired

 

Requirements:

  • Space for a school
  • Batteries,
  • Sponsors for cochlear implants,
  • Biscuits,
  • Milk

 

10) CITD

Requirements:

  • Toys for children,
  • Cycles,
  • Scooters,
  • Notebooks,
  • Reading books for students till Std IV

Will train volunteers to teach children

 

Contact: Aruna

 

11) Community Outreach Programme (CORP)

 

Requirements:

  • Furniture, cupboards for children’s clothes, plates
  • Toys – slides, seesaws, small toys
  • Old clothes
  • Books in English, Hindi
  • Sleeping mats, bed sheets
  • Rice grains, cereals, pulses
  • Cooked food for 40-50 children
  • Sponsored meals at Rs 500 to 1000 for vegetarian meals, and Rs 1,100 for non-vegetarian meals
  • Volunteers to teach English and Maths, Volunteers to organize games and music, and to organize extracurricular activities
  • Mastech volunteers take children on outing, other corporates invited to help in diff ways.

Address: Methodist Centre 1st floor
21 YMCA Road
Mumbai Central
Mumbai - 400008
Website: www.corpindia.org

Phone: 23086789
Fax : 23073406
E-mail: corp_india@yahoo.co.in , nancy_george12@hotmail.com
Contact : Ms. Rosamma George, Jr. Programme Coordinator
Bishop Sampath Kumar

(16 centres for pre-school education) Has shelters for street girls and boys

 

 

12) The Education Audiology and Research Society

 

Requirements:

  • Hearing aids,
  • Batteries,
  • Toys,
  • Books

 

Address: Topiwala Municipal School, 2nd Floor
Mumbai – 400007

Phone: 23886425
Fax: 23886425
E-mail: prm.ear@vsnl.net , geethaprasanna@gmail.com
Contact: Ms. Pervin R Mehta, Director
Ms. Geetha Prasanna, Head Teacher
Other centre:
Infant Centre Education Audiology And Research Centre
Gulmarg 62 Napean Sea Road, Malabar Hill Mumbai 400006
Phone: 23691705.

 

13) Nilam Patel Bahushrut Foundation

 

Requirements:

  • Batteries,
  • Hearing aids,
  • Sponsors for scholarship

 

Address: 401 Amogh
1098 Murari Ghag Marg
Prabhadevi
Mumbai – 400025
Website: www.bahushrutfoundation.org

Phone: 24220477 /24373079
Fax: 24372693
Email: nilampatel@vsnl.com
Contact: Ms. Nilam Patel

 

 

14) Anza Special School

 

Requirements:

  • Stationary
  • Sponsors for fees for three students (Rs 2,000 for uniforms etc)
  • Jobs for students – minimum Rs 1,500 for a trainer
  • (Usually monotonous routine jobs preferable)

 

Address: C/o Gloria Church
Sant Savata Marg
Byculla (E)
Mumbai – 400 027

Phone: 23755480, 28555480, 28554269
Contact: Ms. Mansi Dali, Principal

 

15) Canossa Special School

 

Requirements:

  • Educational toys,
  • Drawing books,
  • Crayons,
  • Clay,
  • Music cassettes,
  • Record players,
  • Thread for weaving,
  • Wool,
  • Beads,
  • Brown paper
  • Volunteers

 

Address: Special Education Dept.
Pitamber Lane
Mahim
Mumbai – 400016
Website:
Involved in:
Phone: 24457684 / 2445-4214
Contact: Ms. Dsoza

Contact: Sr Annie Orumbal

 

 

16) ICMH

 

Requirements:

  • Computers (5-15), furniture – table and chairs, toys – puzzles and games, textbooks, stationary, occupational therapy equipment
  • Volunteers – (two- or three-month commitment for even once a week required) to work with children (Marathi/Hindi speaker)
  • Volunteers to teach sports, music and computer skills
  • Classroom assistance (one-on-one assistance)
  • Volunteers to help in administration

 

Address: Indian Council For Mental Health (Hygiene) – ICMH
Executive Secretary
UPM School, Ground floor
1st. khetwadi lane,S.V.P.Road
Girgaum
Mumbai – 400004
Phone: 3855204, 3861087
Email: icmh1@rediffmail.com
Contact: Colonel J P Bajpai

 

 

17) Kshitij

 

Requirements:

  • Customers to buy products from their exhibition
  • Leftover silk material
  • Volunteers to cut material and help in crafts
  • Space

Address: 2nd Patel Chambers,
C/O G.S.Kelkar Clinic,
2nd floor, Above Vyshya Bank,
Charni Road
Mumbai
Maharashtra
Web Site : http://www.kshitij-mumbai.org

Phone: 22 -2382 1126 / 22 56289958
E-mail : info@kshitij-mumbai.org
Contact : Ms. Neela Bhatia

 

 

18) SHARE

 

Requirements:

  • Old greeting cards or calendars (in 100s)
  • Old clothes for adivasis and villages, rice and dal, sugar, jaggery, groundnuts,
  • Beds, chairs, old fans, bedding, old utensils, old fridge
  • Makes bags for Fabindia; HongKong Bank contributes paper. Other corporates invited to help.

Has a tempo to collect donated items

Address: Room No. 108 1st Floor
Urban Health Centre
Sion Hospital
Mahim (E)
Mumbai 400017

Phone: 24456284, 28575083
Email: monpirostephen@hotmail.com , monteirostephen@hotmail.com

Contact: Nikola Mandheri

 

19) Spastics Society

 

Requirements:

  • Old clothes,
  • Spices,
  • Milk,
  • Rice,
  • Dal,
  • Computers,
  • Furniture,
  • Bags

Spastics Society of India- National Resource Centre for Inclusion
Near Afghan Church
Upper Colaba Road
Colaba
Mumbai – 400005
Website: www.nrcissi.org
Involved in:
Phone: 22186813, 22150555
Contact: Ms. Manju Chattreji, Principal

 

20) District Benevolent Society of Mumbai

 

Requirements:

  • Urgent Need: Diapers (Rs 400 for 1 pkt of adult diapers)
  • Grains (not rice), moong dal, cooking oil, tea powder, sabhudana
  • Puzzles or games for adults
  • Old clothes

Address: Sir J J Dharamshala
Jehangir Boman Behram Road
Nagpada Junction
Mumbai Central
Mumbai – 400008

Phone: 23079838
Contact: Mr. Chandrakant Kable, Manager

 

21) League of Mercy

 

Requirements:

  • Old cellphones,
  • Tiffin boxes for primary sections,
  • Colourful chart paper,
  • Plastic folders,
  • Labels,
  • Brown covers,
  • 15 school bags,
  • Story books,
  • Toys and games,
  • Bournvita/Complan,
  • Vitamins,
  • Teapowder,
  • Rava,
  • Ghee
  • Volunteers to teach Marathi/English on a regular basis from 5-7 pm

 

Address: Clare Road, Byculla (West), Mumbai - 400 008
Phone: 2307 2381
Contact: Mrs Bardey

 

22) Sheperd Widow’s Home

 

Requirements:

  • New clothes,
  • Upholstery
  • Sugar,
  • Tea powder,
  • Food items

Contact: Mr Kurien

 

23) Indian Association of retired persons

 

Requirement:

  • Office space

 

24) Bombay Leprosy Project

 

Requirements:

  • Old newspapers (through residential buildings or corporate collection)
  • Clothes (for Wadala hospital)
  • Mobile phones for field work,
  • Casual doctors
  • Volunteers for leprosy field work, fund raising, computer work, public awareness, selling coupons, training handicapped.

 Has a vehicle to collect donated items

 

Address: 11 V.N. Purav Marg, Sion-Chunabhatti, Mumbai-400 022, India.
Website:
Involved in:
Phone: 91-22-2522 0608 /2 522 3040,
Fax: 91-22-2529 6486.
E-mail: info@bomlep.org

Contact: Dr Ganapathy (director) or Mr Kamath (manager)

Ph : 25220608