'Friends Outlet' -
http://friendsoutlet.weebly.com -
a Registered Charitable Trust (with Sec 80 G) completed 7
years on 28th Feb
2018. It is a Community venture with a retail outlet for empowering persons with diff abilities.
Sale of products alone are insufficient to meet the overheads of Rent and Salaries.
We are attempting diff approaches to arrive at a viable community model. Till we have the right model, we need Donations for sustenance.
We have
recently
enlarged the scope by adding support services for the Elderly - Project Vishram
https://friendsoutlet.weebly.com/project-vishram.html
Vishram has recently got recognition in the Smartfifty.com contest held by the Govt of India. Among 15,000 applicants, Vishram was short listed to the last 3000 and then made it to the last 400. We have not made it to the last 50.