Building Dreams Foundation (BDF)

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Building Dreams Foundation (BDF) is a Non- Profit Organization registered in 2017. BDF promotes the social development of disadvantaged children and communities. Our NGO’s mission is to serve the most vulnerable populations in India.

Our vision
To foster a thriving society BDF develops and implements innovative social welfare programs which have a lasting positive impact on the lives of the most vulnerable populations in India. Our dream is to build a new India where all people hold the power to create opportunities for themselves and their communities.

Our goal is to empower people and transform their lives by providing them with food, education, healthcare, and other resources essential to their livelihood.
Therefore our slogan takes shapes as: Helping People To Help Themselves Grow.

Objectives
• To provide a formal education and encourage artistic development for all children.
• To promote female empowerment by offering vocational training and skills.
• To ensure that the community has access to nutritious food and clean drinking water.
• To raise awareness that proper hygiene and cleanliness lead to better health.
• To promote environmental conservation to ensure a cleaner and greener community by planting trees and reducing the use of plastic waste.

Projects:
Education
• DIDI-ED: This is a program where our team travels to government schools to provide education about the use of technology, including computers, cameras and projectors, in the hopes of making education more exciting, more advanced, and more innovative.
• Door Step School: The “Doorstep After-School Education” program takes extra curricular activities to the huts students live in. This includes music, dance, arts and crafts, moral education, and technology.
• UDAAN: The Udaan project aims to present students in remote areas with an array of career options, in the hopes of allowing children to discover what they are passionate about and pursue it. This is done through seminars and hands-on career guidance. Every student in the Udaan project has access to BDF assistance throughout the year, whether they need a friend or a mentor.
• Navadha School, Kalagacchia: We are working on building a school for underprivileged children.
Food:
• Food for All: This is an initiative to fight against hunger and malnutrition in India. We started this initiative on August 16, 2018 with the target to feed more than 500 kids every Sunday.
• Zero Food Wastage: This is an initiative that aims to end the waste of food and to provide an opportunity for the community to provide food for the hungry.
• Community Fridge: This is a refrigerator located in a public space. Anyone can put food in and take food out, which enables food to be shared within a community. The main aim of Community Fridges is to reduce food waste.
• Meals on wheels: This is an initiative to eliminate hunger. Under this project, we cook food and serve it to people living on the streets, the physically challenged, the mentally challenged, malnourished children and elderly people. This food is completely free and comes at no cost.
Environment:
• Cleanliness Drive focuses on cleaning up the slums. We collect and sweep litter off of the streets, helping the environment and the community.
• Plantation Drive
Empowerment:
• Pads for All: Building Dreams aims to ensure that every woman in slums & villages has access to pads during their period. In addition to our monthly pad drive, we have also opened pad banks in various government aided schools, villages and slums. Women are free to access these pads at any time.
• ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist): ASHAs are local women trained to act as health educators and promoters in their communities.
Other activities:
• Clothes Distribution Drive: We conduct clothing drives to give the underprivileged access to the basic necessity of clothes.
• Eco-Brics: Through our Eco-Brick program, we: Collect plastic bottles and plastic waste; fill the collected plastic bottles with the plastic wrappers and other waste. These are used as bricks for constructing structures around the community.

Ranjit Bar is the Founder of Building Dreams Foundation (BDF).

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