In a country like India where rich diversity, multifaceted challenges, and the immense potential for change co-exist, NGOs play the transformative role of an architect that shapes a positive societal image. Our NGOs are uncelebrated heroes standing at the forefront of change breathing life into our community.
NGOs have a shared journey of empathy blended with the road of empowerment, leading to a collective spirit of upliftment for those who need a helping hand.
This blog takes you through the journey of NGOs and their stories of efforts they make to find the light at the end of the tunnel for people looking for a ray of hope.
Let’s unveil and understand the contributions and more these NGOs in India make behind the curtains to bring a positive change in the lives of thousands and millions of people. Let’s join in and be the catalysts of change!
NGO Dynamics and Community Responsibilities
An NGOs core and its strength is its passionate and inspiring nature, energized towards a shared cause. Its inclusive nature enables them to pinpoint and address multiple social issues that are ignored. With a vision united with community engagement helps NGOs advocate a systematic change that’s life changing, bringing a curve of hope going upwards in happiness.
While we open-heartedly celebrate the strength of NGOs, let’s not sideline our responsibility as the same community by contributing and doing what we can.
Roles & Responsibilities NGOs Fulfills In the Society
The diverse roles and responsibilities these NGOs fulfill impacts many aspects of the society. Let’s understand them below:
Humanitarian Aid
During times of disasters and emergencies like COVID-19, NGOs humanitarian assistance helps save lives and provide shelter to those in need. Directly or indirectly, their efforts lead to the development and well-being of society in areas like healthcare, education, medicine, poverty alleviation, and more. Keeping humanity first, NGOs are a blessing to society.
Education
An educated individual is an enlightened being. NGOs efforts towards education for different sections of society are unmatched. The impact it creates is magical. People, especially girls, are barred from getting an education, which is a bane for society. NGOs becoming a helping hand here is a life-changing initiative.
Social Help
NGOs take lead where the Government lacks to send help. NGOs get into the micro level to help people where big eyes can’t reach. Their social service reaches people genuinely in need even at a smaller level. From underserved to marginalized areas, NGOs serve basics too like sanitation or education.
Elderly Care
Bringing the older generation to the forefront, NGOs take the right care of the neglected people, who are the most important pillars of society. The aid and help extend to their healthcare, home-based care, community support, and more. These vulnerable individuals at the age where they must be taken care of are left, but NGOs make sure of their well-being by running programmes and on a personal level too.
Elderly Rights
Not only care, NGOs help and aid also extend to advocating for elderly rights like elder abuse, discrimination, and neglect. They work whenever and however possible from their end to create awareness for older people and their rights.
Empowerment
Every individual is a human. This is what NGOs core idea is. You are not a minority, male, female, elder, kid, disabled, or anything. You are a human with equal rights and opportunities. You must live happily with dignity and respect.
Following the same agenda, NGOs work day and night to reduce discrimination and any kind of inequality prevailing in society.
Flexible Approach
The most beautiful part of an NGO is its ability to be flexible in different situations. Adopting what’s happening around them, they respond quickly and get the needed help at the right time, surpassing what big bureaucrats fail to do. This flexibility is what we need in a dynamic and big country like India.
Challenges Faced By NGOs
In the noble cause of the betterment of society, these NGOs face challenges that are sometimes hard to overcome without a collective effort. Therefore, let us understand these challenges and do whatever we can to help NGOs strive and keep the good work alive.
Lack Of Funds
Lack of funds often prevents NGOs from realizing their full potential and doing more than they can do. Limited funds are a major concern that chains the ability and doesn’t let it thrive. Fundraising, grants, and crowdfunding are some of the solutions that help combat this challenge a bit. Still, this issue prevails, which we as a society can help overcome.
Poor Networking
For a collective impact, networking is crucial. Most NGOs have an inefficient network that limits their outreach.
A better way out is to engage with like-minded organizations, lead more events, and have a strong social base to make your words reach more and more people. It will help NGOs overcome the networking challenge to a great extent.
Limited Capacity
Though having an enormous capacity to bring the much-needed change in the society, lack of funds, funding, or other relevant aspects often limit the capacity of NGOs. That’s heartbreaking. It doesn’t allow them to scale that would have been a biggest blessing for a society like India where NGOs efforts are priceless.
Less Strategic Planning
Again, due to lack of funds and other aspects, not having a strategic and long-term plan automatically follows. To be able to have a long-term vision, there should be enough resources in hand to plan wisely. Be it volunteers, money, or other help, NGOs can’t count on continuous help to create a blue-print of years and months of deliverables.
Misconception
Public misconception is another major challenge and hurdle many NGOs have to face. People still lack understanding about NGOs, how they work, the broader role, and more. Everything together leads to a distrust not allowing them to lend a helping hand.
To combat this, NGOs must take the lead and invest in good communication strategies to spread words about their cause and also educate the general public of the same. Creating awareness is one way out of this mistrust that has been deep rooted among the masses. Especially with smaller NGOs, this issue is a major concern.
For a meaningful change, we must join hands!
Before we proceed further, read this!
“For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.”
― Sunday Adelaja
How Can You Help & Make a Difference?
As a part of this society, we can have our silent shares in it. To help people in need, we don’t have to have our own entity, rather we can make a decent share by sharing with what already exists. So, here’s how you can help an NGO and indirectly become a part of selfless kindness the world needs.
Donate
One of the easiest and convenient ways to be a helping hand to the cause is by donating to NGOs. From money, food, time, and whatever efforts you can make, even a small donation can make a huge difference. You don’t have to go outside your ways and comfort yourself to be a part of it. Just some basics and it’s done. You might think it’s a small help, but its effects can be huge. Let’s all stand up to make a meaningful difference by doing whatever small or smaller we can.
Now-a-days, you can donate from your device anytime, anywhere. No time-boundation, no location issues, and nothing. You will and it happens. In fact, you can get more people on board to make the smallest share, and the outcome can be mind-blowing.
Volunteering
Your time is priceless. Volunteering with your time is one of the priceless things you can do for NGOs near you. If you have never volunteered before, try it once and it’s going to be a transformative experience for you. Also, it leaves a lasting impression on those who you serve.
The best part about volunteering is you can be as flexible about it as you want. You can match it with your time-table and serve the people in need whenever you can.
Support
If you look around in your own community, you will find many NGOs, big or small, that you can support. From your neighborhood, school, office, and even while you travel, you may encounter many such NGOs that you can involve with either for volunteering, food, money, and more. Try to help them because small NGOs are more in need of help to survive and keep spreading goodness in society.
It can be a collective effort too. Meaning? You can get involved in a fundraising event and try to involve more and more people.
Even if the financial idea is not feasible, you can volunteer and help with your time.
Social Media
The power social media holds today is unmatched. You can use multiple platforms to spread awareness and words about the NGOs you want to help. Share their goals, mission, and vision to let people know what the good cause is all about. People are also willing to spend on NGOs they find authentic, and someone known for spreading these words will have a positive impact.
To make it more impactful, you can use sympathy and empathy evoking words like help, care, share, and more.
Your donation is like a caring hug during tough times to people you don’t know, but your kindness connects to their hearts.
Section 80G: Support a Cause and Save on Taxes
In the good spirit of Philanthropy, section 80G of the Income tax is a unique opportunity to save on taxes while indulging in noble causes like donations.
“Section 80G of the Indian Income Tax Act allows a tax deduction for contributions to certain relief funds and charitable institutions.”
This is to encourage individuals and organizations to donate to NGOs and, in return, get a tax exemption. It’s like getting a reward for good deeds. Under this section, you, as a donor, become eligible for tax exemption if you donate to registered NGOs like Aashritha. Your hard-earned money definitely goes into a noble cause like education, healthcare, elders well-being, and more, but it counts for your efforts. When your generosity is a tool for society, the government recognises this, and the introduction of Section 80G of the income tax resulted in a boost for donations.
This tax saving initiative makes you a part of the much-needed transformation in the society, while letting you help optimize your financial strategies well. Sounds like a win-win for all, right? You make a difference by shedding some tax burden off your shoulders.
It serves multiple benefits like it brings in more acts of philanthropy, better optimization of tax liability, adds to the corporate social responsibility score, helps in community development, and a humongous financial benefits to NGOs.
Now, while you take your journey of donations, remember you have section 80G by your side to double your satisfaction. Let’s donate and make it a habit because smiles are priceless.
The NGOs, like Aashritha, registered under this can issue a receipt that can decrease your taxable salary by 50% of the amount you donate.
Aashritha Charitable Trust Illuminating Lives as The Best NGO in India
Aashritha Charitable Trust is a true reflection of empathy in society and also defines the best NGOs in India. By offering comprehensive care and services for elders, the disabled, children, and other marginalized sections, we share a vision of a better society where smiles and happiness lead. Our multifaceted efforts leave no-one behind covering social, physical, emotional, relief, respect, empowerment & everything and anything where it’s needed and matters.
So, we encourage you all to join us and lend a helping hand in making even the smallest difference that matters. Be it volunteering or financial help, come join our cause with a mission of happiness and respect.
Click here to make your generous and valuable donation to support Aashritha Charitable Trust. Start availing of tax exemption benefits from now on.
