Free eye care in Lakadganj
Announced alongside the Shri Ram Katha at the same ground, with examinations open to anyone who came.
PHILANTHROPY.
Service has long been part of life in the Agrawal family. In 2015 Dr. Ravi Agrawal formed the O.J. Agarwal Charitable Trust to carry that responsibility forward in a more organised way. The work is for the everyday things no one should go without.
सेवा हमारा संस्कार, धर्म हमारी पहचान और जिम्मेदारी हमारा कर्तव्य।
Service is our culture. Religion is our identity. Responsibility is our duty.
A STORY FROM LADAKH
Keeping school within reach.
These children belong to taxi-driver families in Ladakh who have lost their fathers in road accidents. Where livelihoods depend on a short tourist season, that loss can also put school expenses out of reach.
The Trust began supporting their education in April 2026 and bears the full cost of their schooling up to class 10, so that a change in family circumstances does not have to bring a child’s education to an end. Dr. Ravi Agrawal, Smt. Amita Ravi Agarwal and Shri Kapil Taneja met the children and their families that month.
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Health
Eye examinations, hospital equipment, and help reaching treatment.
Medical equipment and care
Equipment and machinery for hospitals, and help for people from rural areas to receive medical care they could not otherwise afford.
Dr. Ravi Agrawal and trustee Shri Hemang Tanna met Shri Prafulbhai Ganatra and office bearers of Navratra Davakhana to discuss a new hospital and the services it could provide. The work is in full swing and is expected to be complete by mid 2027.
Meeting held May 202602 / AREA OF SUPPORT
Alongside communities
The ordinary needs that become difficult to meet alone.
Food distribution in Nagpur
Food distribution that helps with an immediate household need when money is short.
Masks and sanitiser during COVID-19
Supplied to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and Nagpur Police Urban, and to police stations across Wardha district.
Water, winter clothing and last rites
Drinking-water filters at railway stations, warm clothing in winter, and a vehicle named Vaikunth Rath given to an organisation providing funeral services free of charge.
Bhavani Seva Samiti organises a सामूहिक विवाह, a shared ceremony in which several families take part. The Trust met part of the programme’s cost.
Pardi, Nagpur · February 202603 / AREA OF SUPPORT
Education
Helping a child stay in school, and a young woman earn.
Scholarships for students
Scholarship support for school students, to help with the cost of continuing their education.
Sewing and tailoring instruction
Sewing centres in rural areas, with machines, instructors and space for girls and young women to learn tailoring.
SURBHI GARBA · CHATTARPUR FARMS
सेवा ही धर्म
Navratri at Chattarpur Farms is Surbhi, central India’s largest garba, and it is danced on the understanding that service is dharma. Every pass becomes a quiet act of giving, and what the nine nights raise goes to hospitals, relief funds, animal welfare and community kitchens.
CAUSES SUPPORTED THROUGH SURBHI
- National Cancer Institute
- Chief Minister’s Relief Fund
- Go-Seva, for cow welfare
- Adarsh Jeevdaya Kendra
- Renovatio Foundation
- Shri Maheshwari Yuvak Sangh, for the public dispensary
- Deendayal Thali, community meals, run by Shri Salasar Seva Samiti
O.J. Agarwal Charitable Trust
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