MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER
“You were born with the ability
to change someone’s life. Don’t waste it.”
These words inspire and motivate us at Nityaasha. Set up as a registered charitable trust in 2013, Nityaasha reaches out to children from less privileged backgrounds who suffer from Type 1 Diabetes, a constant, unrelenting condition. Our Foundation is committed to providing the education, guidance, monitoring and medical assistance essential for families to gain confidence in managing diabetes at home and at school.
Our ultimate goal is not merely to help these children control their disease but to promote the overall development of the child and pave the way to a happy, healthy future.
Through our work, we aim to throw light on a cause that so far, has not received the attention it deserves. The plight of these children is heart-rending; if we can alleviate their troubles and enable them to rise above their conditions, we will be enriching our own lives.
Happily, today, our circle of care covers 135 children & families. But we still have miles to go. We appeal to individuals and organizations for support so that we can help more and more children with holistic, humane care from Nityaasha.
TRUSTEES & COMMITTEE
TRUSTEES
Farook Merchant
Farook Merchant, Chairman and Managing Director, Messung Group of Companies, is an innovator credited with discovering the first Programmable Logic Controller in India. Mr. Merchant is a successful entrepreneur who built Messung from a one man company to a 500-member team with national presence and global collaborations.
Trustees
Farook Merchant
Farook Merchant, Chairman and Managing Director, Messung Group of Companies, is an innovator credited with discovering the first Programmable Logic Controller in India. Mr. Merchant is a successful entrepreneur who built Messung from a one man company to a 500-member team with national presence and global collaborations.
Taking his interest to the next level, a born Humanitarian Mr. Merchant recently established Nityaasha Foundation, a charitable registered trust, dedicated towards care of underprivileged children with Type 1 Diabetes. Another social initiative GyaanAdab helmed by Mr. Merchant aims to unite people from different sections of society through the medium of literature. With an objective to encourage global innovation into India, Mr. Merchant initiated Messung Global Connect, a global advisory and implementation brand focused to provide business solutions to global SMEs planning to expand in India.
Mr. Merchant has to his credit a graduation degree in BE (Electronics & Telecommunications) from College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) in 1978. Mr. Merchant is a subject matter expert in various technology domains and is well recognized across the industry.
Nasima Merchant
Founder and Trustee, Nityaasha Foundation, member of Inner Wheel Pune Downtown, Mrs. Nasima Merchant is an inspiration to women who look through the glass ceiling and rue the missed opportunity of higher education.
Trustees
Nasima Merchant
Founder and Trustee, Nityaasha Foundation, member of Inner Wheel Pune Downtown, Mrs. Nasima Merchant is an inspiration to women who look through the glass ceiling and rue the missed opportunity of higher education.
Though she came from a fairly well to do family, her education took a halt after she finished standard twelve.
In her forties, her love for literature and the Urdu language drove her to take a step that would seem intimidating and daring to any woman who had grown comfortable in her safe abode. Nasima went back to college. She not only pursued a bachelor’s degree in Urdu but did a Master’s in the same and stood first in Poona College. Her passion for education extends outside herself and has led her to start Gyaan Ruchi, a project to empower women through literature and literacy. Nasima is an avid reader and intends to soon start writing a novel.
She has been actively involved in community welfare services for the last many years. She is closely associated in all the day to day activities of Nityaasha Foundation. She goes for home visits to interior rural areas and urban slums, where she interacts with the children and their families and understands their problems.
COMMITTEE
Team
SUPPORT TEAM FROM MESSUNG
Tushar Shingare
Shamsher Amlani
Rohini Account Team
