Nationality Indian | ||
Born 1985 Delhi, India Occupation Social activist and founder of Lakshyam | ||
Mrs rashi anand founder member lakshyam ngo
Rashi Anand is an Indian women social activist who is engaged in taking measures to uplift the underprivileged people. With this objective and in association with her mother she has established a NGO in 2005 known as Lakshyam for children welfare, education, health, and empowerment of women.
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Biography
Anand was born in 1986. After her initial education, when she was 18 years old, she joined her mother Poonam Anand, who has worked for tribal upliftment, in co-founding Lakshyam in Delhi for social work. The plight of the large number of street children (said to be more than 100,000 in Delhi) prompted her to establish this NGO to rehabilitate those who were susceptible to drug abuse, prostitution, begging, petty thefts and so forth. The children cooperated with her efforts as they wanted to change for the better. Within a short span of 18 months Lakshyama had its branches operating on five states/cities of Jharkhand, Delhi, Bangalore, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Her first effort was in collection toys for the underprivileged children whose play tools were tyres, empty bottles and stone. In this effort she established a Toy library boxes in 12 upscale schools in Delhi with a request that students donate their toys for use by street children. The response was pontaneous and she collected as much as 60,000 toys which she distributed in Delhi but also through the sister institutions of Lakshyam in some villages of Bihar, Kurnool, Theni district and Refugee camps in Dharamshala for distribution among street children.
Anand has also instituted an orphanage in Ranchi which she has run for three years in helping blind, deaf and dumb children. With the help of the event management and advertising agency which she operates nationally and internationally in the name of "Mirrorz", she has been able to raise funds for the cause of Lakshyam by organizing specific events with celebrities from the film world and fashion industry helping her
Awards
Anand is the recipient of the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award given at the Entrepreneur India Summit 2013. BBC did a broadcast of a story centered on Lakshyam and Raashi Anand's social work.