The Live and Learn Foundation®: Our Vision; Aims, and Objectives.

I went to Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India in October 2021. I had no plans to set up a non profit organization at that time, although the social work I do now is very dear to my heart, and has been a cherished dream of mine for many years. 

I want to help the children who are forced to live on the streets in large cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pondicherry and Chennai. At this point in time, there is very little employment for people who live in the villages of India. Many decide to go the big cities such as Delhi or Mumbai or Chennai in order to find work. Whole families leave their villages, taking their children with them. When these families arrive in the cities, they often find it impossible to get work, so they end up unemployed and sleeping on the streets. Their children do not receive proper nourishment and education because their parents cannot provide for them. These families end up living in abject poverty. They are vulnerable to diseases and they are subjected to constant abuse and humiliation. The children become vulnerable to being preyed upon by gangs who force them into begging, prostitution, and crime. 

I want to tackle this problem at the root, by creating rural development projects in Indian villages, which will provide free skills training for low-income adults, so they can support themselves and their families; and free education for low-income children so they can rise out of poverty. I also want to eventually create such projects in the large cities, for street children. 

In Khajuraho, everything happened miraculously. So, I began to manifest my dream. And here it is! 

The Live and Learn Foundation® is a Section 8 Non-Profit Organization under Indian Law. It was incorporated on the 24th of November 2021 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), India.

The aim of The Live and Learn Foundation® is simple: to create a world without poverty, in which the ideal of social equality can slowly become a reality. 

The true wealth of every nation consists of the people who inhabit that country; the adults and the children. Human beings are the true wealth of Humanity.

We believe that all human beings have equal rights to create and enjoy sustainable financial and material wealth for themselves and their families in transparent and ethical ways; while honoring, cherishing and protecting the Earth and conserving her environment, her flora and fauna, her wealth of natural resources, and her natural beauty, for future generations. 

This means that we believe in creating and providing:

• Education for all. Education provides knowledge, and knowledge is power. Education enables people to choose what to do with their lives. Education enables people to enrich their own lives, and enrich humanity as a whole. 
• Transparent, ethical and sustainable sources of financial income and material wealth that do not cause damage to the perfectly balanced natural eco-systems in which we live, but rather help to conserve and protect the environment, the Earth, and her wealth of natural resources.