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Help Empower
Empowering the underprivileged youth of today with a better tomorrow!

Who We Are

Help Empower is a  non-profit organization founded and run by youth to help our local and global disadvantaged communities through better education, food, healthcare and livelihood.

Our Founders

Sisters Sanya and Sanah Goenka believe that by creating awareness for underprivileged children’s education, health issues, and gender equality they can inspire others to become involved in undertaking charitable projects to help those in need. Sanya is a Freshman at Cornell University and Sanah is a Freshman at Wellesley High School.

The Goenka sisters always believe in helping others and giving back to their community. From a young age, they have been involved in fundraising efforts and volunteering at various sites at home in Wellesley, MA, and in India through different organizations.

Our Mission

  • Create awareness and raise funds to provide programs that give girls in deprived communities the right to education, improved health, and gender equality.
  • Involve the young generation of today to help improve the lives of those in need
  • Undertake meaningful charitable projects to help people from poor socio-economic backgrounds and communities.
  • Create awareness and raise funds to provide programs that give girls in deprived communities the right to education, improved health, and gender equality.
  • Involve the young generation of today to help improve the lives of those in need
  • Undertake meaningful charitable projects to help people from poor socio-economic backgrounds and communities.

Our Projects

Home Cooked Meals Program (2022 – 2024)

India occupies the largest undernourished population in the world. To fight and prevent malnutrition and hunger, the Help Empower team started a chapter of the Youth Ambassador Program in Mumbai,
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Back-to-School Program (2022 – 2023)

We distributed books, stationary, and other school supplies to over 500 underprivileged students studying in Manekji Gajshar Municipal School, Mumbai, Radhadevi Goenka Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Akola, India, and Girls, Inc. in
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Holiday Book Drive for Girls, Inc. (2022 – 2024)

Over the holiday season, we teamed up with Girls Inc. to help provide books for their annual Stocking Up For Books Party. Through their projects, they work to encourage girls
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American India Foundation – Light a Lamp Campaign (2015 – 2024)

AIF is a non-profit organization helping underprivileged and underserved communities in India. AIF has raised more than $118 million and impacted about 5.6 million lives from across 24 states of
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Help Educate during Covid-19 & Beyond (2020 – 2024)

The recent coronavirus outbreak has created a lot of uncertainties and disrupted education with school closures for several children nationwide. With schools going online it has become a challenge for
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Book Drive for Biden-Harris Presidential Inaugural Committee National Day of Service ( 2021 )

Help Empower is participating in the Biden-Harris Presidential Inaugural Committee’s National Day of Service ( https://bideninaugural.org/day-of-service/) with a Book Drive for underprivileged children in the Boston area. Accepting engaging and culturally diverse books ( new or
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Food Drive for Centre St. Pantry

The Centre St. Food Pantry in Newton, MA ( www.centrestfoodpantry.org ) works tirelessly  to end hunger and provides households that need help with pre-packed grocery bags of shelf stable food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Families with children
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Making Inspirational Note Cards for Women’s Lunch Place in Boston

About Women’s Lunch Place (https://womenslunchplace.org): WLP welcomes about 250 women each day, most of whom have experienced trauma, abuse, and loss without judgement or requirements for assistance. They provide free
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Help Thank our Healthcare Heroes Campaign for COVID-19 (2020)

We are currently fundraising to thank healthcare workers on the frontline by donating meals to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston Children’s Hospital and workers at other local hospitals. Our medical
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Youth Ambassador Projects

Our Youth Ambassador Mentorship Program & Projects: The Centre St. Food Pantry in Newton, MA ( www.centrestfoodpantry.org ) works tirelessly  to end hunger and provides households that need help with pre-packed grocery bags of…Read More About Women’s
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Awareness & Pen Pal Program

Created awareness through presentations and speeches for the AIF – Light a Lamp campaign at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols school, Wellesley Public school and community events like IFNET Newton Diwali
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Bicycle & Book Donation Drive

Every summer the girls have visited, volunteered and raised funds for various necessities like Bicycles, books etc. for underprivileged girls at the Smt. Radhadevi Goenka Public School and the RDG
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Cataract – Eye Operation Camps (2012 – 2015)

Raised Funds and distributed food, clothing to patients at the Cataract eye camps organized in Akola, India. A mere $25 helps to restore eyesight to a poor person. They were
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Orthopedic & Limb Surgeries Camps (2010/ 2011)

Volunteered and raised funds to be provide free limb corrective surgeries and prosthetic limbs to over 50 disable children at the Orthopedic Camps in Akola, India. Our mission was to
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