Our History | MMPC: A 25-Year Journey of Empowerment and Social Welfare

Experience Our Journey

The road has been long, rewarding and steep, but we have promises to keep…

1998

Envisioned as a body that works across spectrums to make a real and lasting difference.

Applied for registration in July 1998

Began groundwork assessing potential beneficiaries and partners

1999

The Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF) was established as an independent charitable trust under the Bombay Charitable Act 1950.

1999-2001: Began working in the health sector in collaboration with KEM Hospital, Pune. We established their Children’s Ward, which included Pune’s first PICU.

2002

2002-2008: Started extensive work in Pune in the fields of healthcare and education by upgrading, updating and uplifting hospitals and schools.

2002: Started supporting individual appeals for healthcare and educational assistance. Over 2,500 students have been supported so far.

2002 - MMF support for updating and uplifting hospitals and schools

2008

Started supporting rural communities with the first few projects in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. Particularly, conducting health camps in 53 rural schools in Pune, Satara, Ratnagiri and beyond.

2010

In 2010, our dream project, Mukul Madhav Vidyalaya, was established at Golap Village, Ratnagiri District, to provide an English-medium curriculum with urban facilities in rural Maharashtra. Today, over 550 students are enrolled.

2012

MMF obtained the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act Certificate (FCRA), which allowed international funding, enabling us to double our efforts to help the vulnerable lead better lives.

2014

MMF officially became the CSR partner for Finolex Industries, extending our social impact into sectors like sanitation, water conservation, social welfare and more.

2015

Mission Cerebral Palsy started in November 2015 with 313 children in Satara, which soon grew to 536. We then expanded to include Ratnagiri on the request of its CEO with therapies starting in 2 houses at the Finolex Industries Colony. Here, our number of enrolled children grew to over 1,000.

2017

In November 2017, MMF began working with Kherwadi Social Welfare Association towards making villages in the Palghar region open defecation free by constructing a toilet for every household and imparting education on good health and hygienic practices. Funding for construction was received from individual families and corporates like Finolex industries, Shapoorji Pallonji, ZF Gears and Hinduja Foundation. This work has expanded to more locations over the years and, so far, 13 villages have been declared open defecation free.

We created a 59-bed NICU in Sassoon General Hospital with state-of-the-art equipment. More than 6,000 babies have been treated there to date.

2017 - MMF began constructing free toilets for good health and hygienic practices

2020

In April 2020, MMV was also one of the first to start conducting online education as a precaution considering the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the school expanded its impact with the opening of its Junior College offering science and commerce streams.

In February 2020, preparations for COVID-19 relief efforts were mobilised to assist individuals and communities nationwide. MMF supported hospitals with PPE, sanitisers, ventilators, masks and face shields. We helped migrant workers with hot meals, rations, blankets, shoes and much more. These efforts have been continuing and will continue for as long as they are needed.

In September 2020, Give with Dignity^TM was initiated to give people and businesses a reason to celebrate Diwali and Dussehra in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. We sourced dry rations and essentials from self-help groups and MSMEs to give to their local communities, thereby reviving their business while helping families survive. Over 3 lakh people from 26 states benefited from Give with Dignity^TM this year.

In 2020, natural calamities were in abundance. Cyclone Amphan and Nisarga along with floods in Assam, the Konkan belt and western Maharashtra. We put relief efforts in motion for each of these calamities with the distribution of dry rations, medicines, soap, tarpaulin, roof sheets and more.

2021

Our extensive support for front line workers and vulnerable communities continued through the second wave. This time, we sourced, procured and distributed oxygen concentrators and oxygen tanks from the UK, Thailand and China to hospitals and healthcare centres in rural interiors of 11 states.

In 2021, our continued efforts with Give with Dignity^TM impacted 10,000 families in 10 states with the distribution of dry rations, diyas and hygiene kits.

2021 - MMF extensive support for front line workers and vulnerable communities

2022

Completed irrigation work to support 3,500 farmers across 350 acres at 5 villages in rural Maharashtra. Supported infrastructural upgrades for Central Agriculture Testing Laboratory at Madha Village in Solapur District that impacts almost 25 per cent of agriculture sector in Maharashtra.

2023

This marks the 25th year of Mukul Madhav Foundation’s social welfare services. Looking back at our journey, and looking ahead at the future, we continue to expand the difference we can make across communities.