Help Empower

Help Empower

Empowering the underprivileged youth of today with a better tomorrow!

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 Story

Sisters Sanya and Sanah Goenka have been visiting India every summer to meet the family. During their trips there, they witnessed the effects of homelessness, poverty, and illiteracy firsthand. They wanted to help in whatever way they could. They were inspired by their great-grandmother, the Late Smt. Radhadevi Goenka, was a renowned social worker, a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and a freedom fighter. She started the Bhartiya Seva Sadan as a consequence of her resentment of the prevalent education system in the British rule and a lack of girls’ education. [Read More]…

Home Cooked Meals Program (2022)

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,

Back-to-School Program (2022)

We distributed books, stationary, and other school supplies to over 300 underprivileged students studying in Manekji Gajshar Municipal School, Mumbai, Radhadevi Goenka Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Akola, India, and Girls, Inc. in

Holiday Book Drive for Girls, Inc. (2022)

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

American India Foundation – Light a Lamp Campaign (2015-2023)

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

Help Educate during Covid-19 & Beyond (2020-2023)

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

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