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Shakti Smaran Diwas, 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ commemorated at BGMS school

Mitra Foundation recently commemorated ‘Shakti Smaran Diwas’ at BGMS School, a unique institution that not only provides residential education to students but also extends care and shelter to needy women and senior citizens through its old age home for women.

A Heartwarming Beginning

The day began with a simple yet meaningful gesture — Breakfast shared by children, senior citizens, and volunteers. Before the meal, students chanted a prayer expressing gratitude for the food. It was a beautiful sight to witness the children standing in disciplined queues, patiently waiting for their turn, taking only what they needed, and finishing every morsel without wasting food. Their sense of responsibility and gratitude was truly inspiring.

Counselling Session (25th January, 2026)

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On the 25th of January, 2025, a counselling session was conducted in the premises of Karunashraya.

This was an annual educational counselling session, aimed at helping the beneficiary children choose a suitable career path. The goal of the session was to introduce the children to the various skill based diploma and graduate courses that would help them find employment and become self-sufficient young individuals.

The session started off with brief introductions of the children, where they spoke about their current academic status and future aspirations. Children of various age groups were present, ranging from seventh grade to PU students in various streams.

Blood Donation in the time of COVID

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Blood Donation in the times of Covid Sunday, July 19, 2020 12:32 PM As part of the JanaSahayog initiative of Mitra Foundation, we have been conducting 2 blood donation camps in the LBS Nagar area, over the past 8 years. In all we had conducted 16 camps, with a total collection crossing 1000 units. We had our last camp on 22nd Sept 2019, and were scheduled to the have the next one on 23rd Mar 2020. While we had initiated the preparation and communications for this camp, we ran into a the Covid 19 challenges, and the start of lockdown forcing us to cancel it, while we had time to understand how the situation pans out and see what would be the appropriate approach. In the current Covid situation, there is a reduction in the need for Blood, as there were fewer surgeries etc being taken up, but the need for blood for some of the other needs like those suffering from various anemic diseases, sickle cell disease or various forms of blood cancer is as in normal times. After the initial periods of lockdown, the shortage of blood at the hospitals and blood banks as become more prominent. We have been in touch with a couple of blood banks to monitor the situation. With the intent of sustaining our normal cadence of enabling our community to donate blood on a regular basis, we have started to look for ways that will factor in the necessary precautions to enable a safe donation from the volunteers minimizing their exposure to risks. The government has already recognized this and came out with an Advisory for Voluntary Blood Donation during COVID - MoHFW. The BMST-TTK blood bank has recently adapted one of their ambulances as a mobile blood donation van, and Standard Operation Procedures, to setup up mini-camps. After satisfying ourselves that we would be comfortable getting our community volunteers to donate in this setup, we set out to plan our first Mitra Foundation mini-camp.