VISION & MISSION

The vision is to have a world be at peace with harmony

and unity at all it’s level of existence.

The mission is to be a medium and create a path in

varied areas of services (education, health,
livelihood, empowerment & others largely
depending on the identified needs)
(without any discrimination of caste, age,
gender, sect, religion etc) contributing towards
humanity and the higher vision of
Touching Lives.
 Touching Lives
About Touching Lives
 Started by Dr. Sonia Mackwani in 2003 with a vision and mission of Love and
Humanity.

 www.touchonelife.org
 www.touchinglivesmicroworld.blogspot.com

Premise of Touching Lives

 Our Need to Serve then saying serving the needy.
 Need based/ Need Focused
 Serving is inner meditation
 No one is ‘underprivileged,’ or ‘destitute’: We are just humans supporting
humanity.
 ‘Touch ONE Life’ motto: serving qualitatively to multifarious people in multiple
aspects with multifold outcomes and effects
 Serving with Love and Compassion
 Creating Change
 Touching Lives
Where is Touching Lives Today ?
Suburbs of Mumbai- Dahisar & Borivili

2 Centers:
a) Educational Center from where all
projects function.

b) Community centre; a tent parallel to the railway

tracks and in between the slum area of the community

Future in Nut-shell
 Building 1 Head center and 5 Pocket/Community Center/Open School Center
between Dahisar-Borivili Slums by 2011

 Head Center: R&D, Admin, Finance, Micro-credit Set-up, Rehabilitation Program

etc.

 5 Open School :Alternative/Non-formal Learning Models

 1 Center : MENTAL REHAB for learning/earning

 *Current Projects

Education
• Complimentary/Non-Conventional Activity Centers (All age group)
• Vocational : Music, Dance, Computer, Photography, Art etc
• Mentorship Programs
• School-Subject Support Program
• Foundational Language Development
• Creative Kids program for the age group of 1.5 years to 5 years
• Self-Empowerment Programs for children

Community Development
• Community Empowerment Programs
• Infrastructural/Architectural Dev. Awareness
• Environmental Awareness Inititatives
• Health/ Sanitary Initiatives
 *Current Projects
*Current Projects

Micro-credit/Self-Help Group
• Forming Self-Help Group within the community; mothers of the children of our center

• Self-Help Learning Kit for the education of women on varied aspects of life.
moral values, savings, recycling, parenting to name a few.

• Funding the beneficiaries to start their livelihood and enterprises

• Self-Empowerment Programs

Funding
• Emergency Health cases

• Education

• Micro-crediting

• Vocational Educational
 *Current Projects

NGO Support Program

We partner with NGOs and Support them on all the aspects on which we have gained
experience over the years. As a part of these partnerships,

• We Share our Resource Pool with them

• Conduct Training and Workshops in their Regions and Locations

Media & Entertainment

• Video Unit for training in Documentary Film Making

• Music Album Production

• Radio Station Programs

• Performances
 Lives Touched!

Educational
• 75 children in our centre
• 2 given scholarships for vocations
• New curriculum dev. for age group of 1.5 to 4
•Computer Education

MicroWorld
• 20 Women funded to started their enterprises

Self- Help Group

• 25 Women
• Started their own saving system
• Educational Lessons for them
• 3 Women funded to learn a profession

NGO Support
• Funded an NGO which works for
Mental Rehab

Media & Entertainment

• Pottery
•Photography
•Paper Quiling
• Documentary Film Making etc

Open School Education & Community Development
 5 Educational Pocket Centre in the slums between Dahisar-
Borivili (for all age group)
 Professional Trainers/Mentors for the children
 Basic Infrastructural facilities with children’s resources
 Vocational Devpt. Resources for the means of learning &
earning
Touching Lives Micro World
 A Head Center from where all the 5 community centers +
NGOs + beneficiaries can be assisted.
 Team of Professionals/ HR Mgmt/ Software Developers etc
 Self-Help Group Learning and Earning Development
UPCOMING PROJECTS
Touching Lives Media & Entertainment
 Resources Developed at the head center for training on
documentary film making
 Ones the child learns, it can become a great means of
earning for him/her
 Music, Dance, Meditation programs Resources
 Dev. Of NGO Radio station (Individual Project funding
needed- seed funding), children will run the station.
Media & Rehab Program (@ 1 of the centers)
 Half day care center for ‘special children’ where they would
be helped through therapies and vocations.
 Making in-house products where the Self Help Group
Women can be a part of it eg. Paper bags, pots, gift
materials etc.
 Product Sold can be provided as incentive to the ‘special
child and the Self Help Group Women.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
About the Founder
Dr. Sonia Mackwani (27)

- Clinical Psychologist
- Hypno-therapist
- Integrated Healer
- Author (Recognized- Frankfurt Book Fair- Magna Publications)
- Trustee of ‘Atma-viswas’ (an NGO for mental rehabilitation)
- AGA KHAN Social Role Model Recognition Award
- AGA KHAN Youth Excellence Award for Leadership
- CNBC Young Turks Transformers
- ETV Yuva Bharat
- Social Entrepreneur (Yourstory.in)
The Team
Team of Professionals

Clinical Psychologist
MSW
Interns
Mentor
Volunteers
TOUCHING LIVES WELFARE TRUST
Thank You