Our Impact — Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust, Mumbai Chapter

By programme

Outcomes, not just activity.

Wherever we can, we report a result — a test-score change, a completion rate — not just a headcount.

Financial Literacy Programme

6,421 students across 18 schools in FY 2024–25, run with First Abu Dhabi Bank's CSR initiative. Average post-session test score: 62.4%. Every participating student also received a co-branded storybook to reinforce the material at home.

Ratnanidhi Saksham Science Centre

1,407 beneficiaries across 68 schools in the 2025–26 academic year, across 80+ interactive exhibits in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Astronomy. Participants showed an average 47% improvement between pre- and post-test science scores. A 40-hour Science Club runs alongside for students who want deeper, ongoing engagement.

Health & Disability Support

Across its history, the trust's mobility and hearing-aid camps have reached more than 2,57,336 people with disabilities nationally — including a single camp in Palitana, Gujarat that supported 28,549 people in one drive. This is a trust-wide figure, not a Mumbai-chapter-only count; our chapter contributes through the trust's permanent Mumbai centres, including a Jaipur Foot centre for amputees.

Hunger Relief

Our Mumbai kitchens have provided daily mid-day meals to schools including Union High School, Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School (Girgaum), and Lilavati Lalji Dayal High School — and ran daily khichdi distribution from kitchens in Matunga, Dadar, Ghatkopar and Chembur throughout the COVID-19 lockdown. We're working on publishing a consolidated meal count for this chapter specifically.

A story from our work

One school, one outcome.

The principal of Union High School (E.M.) wrote to thank the trust for its daily mid-day meals — noting that the food is fresh and hygienic enough that students stopped bringing tiffin boxes from home, and that teachers observed real gains in students' weight, height and concentration after the programme began. It's the kind of small, specific change — one school, one steady meal — that our programmes are built to deliver.

Have a story from a programme you ran or attended? Send it to us and we'll consider it for this page.

Transparency & reporting

As part of Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust, our chapter's activities roll up into the trust's overall, audited reporting.

Read our summary of the Annual Report 2024–25 above for full programme results.
Prior years' audited financials are available on request.
Donations made through this chapter are receipted and accounted for within the parent trust's books — see our financial transparency breakdown.
Registration and tax-exemption details are on our About page.

Seeing the work

From the ground, in Mumbai.

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Alishah's story — Food for Education

A nine-year-old in Mankhurd's Mhada Colony, Alishah often went to school on an empty stomach before her school joined the Food for Education programme. Teachers reported her concentration and marks improving once daily meals began — one of thousands of similar outcomes behind our meal-count figures.

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Devaji's story — Health & Disability

A farmer from a remote forest village in Dahanu, Palghar, Devaji lost his leg after an accident in 2017. A mobility aid fitted through the trust's prosthetic programme let him return to walking and working his land — one case among the 2,638 mobility and prosthetic aids fitted in FY 2024–25.

Mobility aid recipient supported by Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust — Health & Disability — mobility aid distribution

Storybook distribution to a schoolchild — Health & Disability — mobility aid distribution

What the numbers say.