Posts by Madhu

Grassroot Ladders

  “Over the past two days in Ahmedabad, I’ve learnt a principle, that was constantly re-iterated – simplify things in your life & focus on love & trust to...

Smile it forward :)

Few days back we were tagged with a big basket of best quality sweets, at least 5 kgs of it. Everyone knows I love sweets and they bring a big smile on my face but co-incidentally this last week I...

Anandwan

Journey within, from Chris to Krishna

Sharing updates from Christopher: After a year in India and 11 months in the field at a leprosy community (otherwise known as the Loving Community)—a place that has become like home and...

A slice of smile

As I entered the Smile Store today, I found two youngest volunteers, Asha (6yrs) and Shilpa (3yrs) helping clean the place.  Entire day these children had spent rag-picking and were clearly...

Full circle

10 years ago, among a small circle of friends on a wednesday evening is where my journey to life of service started. Harshida Aunty and Dinesh Uncle also lovingly called as Charity Focus Mom &...

Gifting the Gifts

During Joy of Giving week somebody "anonymously" gifted us lot of very beautiful children books in Moved by love space. It definitley felt gift of love as somebody literally emptied their...

Servant of Peace

Meet Gopaldada, a true mystic and servant of humanity. An 86-year-young teacher, singer, activist, and philosopher, he was born in a small village of Gujarat, India called Unjha. Although he was...

A Smiling God

One of our Lokmitra fellows, Raghu, has been running a Tiffin service for the poorest of the poor. Recently Rafa, a Manav Sadhna volunteer from Spain, went to distribute food with Raghu and shared...

A Water Bowl

“I step outside the gate pleased with my bottle of cold water in my hand to combat the beads of sweat on my brow. No real rush to get to my destination. I know I will get there though. I step...

Opening of Moved By Love Space

Birds sang, squirrels roamed and peacocks danced as nature showered its blessings through mild raindrops on a small group of people who gathered to pray for well being of all. On morning of...

Music night in Seva Cafe

"Food for soul" is what many friends say about Seva CAfe, a gift economy restaurant run by volunteers. Recently there was a beautiful poetry and music night held there by Robin Sukhadia...

Samajhdar Shopkeeper

Recently Gujarat Govt banned use of plastic bags in it’s state, yet it is always a challenge to implement it. Our lives have become so accustomed to it that now it seems almost impossible...

Spread smiles..

One month back we were anonymously gifted with few Flip Video cameras with a smile card. “Just keep spreading smiles and share stories” the mail read. This was not the...

Architects of Love

“Constructing buildings are easy, making homes are difficult”, felt Jesus Porras when he first came to volunteer in Manav Sadhna from Spain. After spending more than a year helping...

Local Moved By Love Gatherings

I always believed that we all have goodness within us and when we are in a safe environment, our best automatically reflects. We sometimes create a shell around ourselves, afraid of being hurt or...

Loving Leper Community

Few days back I had the opportunity to visit a leper community to do a movie screening. I went with an idea to share stories but came back home with my heart moved by hearing their stories. I was...

Give, Receive, Dance

On Jan 7th, Nipun gave an informal talk at ESI on service, generosity, and how 'being the change changes the being'. He spoke about his own service journey, framing it in three stages: giving,...

India On a Bike

Meet Kalyan Akkipeddi and Wiebke Koch, who are on social adventure that takes them on cycles, but sometimes on buses, trains, horseback, whatever it takes. covering around 12000km through (mostly)...

Small Bag Project

 A small act of generosity sometimes changes the entire world of somebody. This happened to Nathi ben, who after her husband died, has been trying to raise three daughters and two son...

Mr. Toilet -- Shri Ishwar Patel

"To build toilets is easy, but to shift people's mind and hearts is the real work. Software is more important than hardware," Ishwar Dada often used to say. ...