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About the Organisation
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Toybank’s interventions focus on development and learning through Play. It aims to provide safe and happy spaces for at-risk children who are otherwise mostly subject to negative environments. By setting up the Toybank Play Centers, its long-term goal is to be able to provide early childhood development through structured & unstructured Play. It allows children to develop a sense of well-being, improves their interpersonal abilities, develops language skills, establishes creating thinking and involves exploring and problem-solving skills.
Toybank currently impacts 48,300 children through its 352 Play centres spread across Maharashtra.
Shweta believes that for children, Play is as natural as breathing and as necessary. Depriving them of play leads to bottled up depression & anger that bursts when children reach adulthood and lead to all sorts of crimes and anti-social activities.
She has written and spoken on this subject in many forums. Her article on Right to Play was published in The Global Journal. Shweta is listed as one of the 'Real Heroes of India'. She has spoken twice on the TEDx, was awarded the 'Game Changer' Award (2016) by HR Club of India, 'Star Social Entrepreneur award' by Indira International Innovation (2011) & the 'Woman of Courage’ award by Godrej (2011). In 2013 she was labelled as the ‘Young Achiever’ by the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce. She has been invited to speak to the Consulate of Singapore Government on 2 occasions.
Shweta is the recipient of The Change Looms Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2007). In 2008, Shweta was the Pepsi MTV Youth Icon of India Nominee & was featured on the cover of Aspire, India Today magazine (2010). Toybank’s work was documented by UK’s National Television Channel 4 on a special series called the ‘Slumdog Secret Millionaire’ program in January 2010. Shweta was selected as one of the ‘Young Turks’ on CNBC’s programme & was featured on CNN IBN as a “Young Social Changemaker”. In June 2017, Shweta received the ‘Amazing Mumbaikar Award’ by the Rotary Club.
In September 2018, Toybank were the National winners at the Spirit of Humanity Awards organised by AmeriCares.
In July 2017, Shweta made it into the Harvard Business School - Strategic Nonprofit Management - India programme with a full scholarship for the same.
In 2018, Shweta was selected to be a part of the prestigious Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program, which comprised of a cohort of senior NGO leaders and founders. This was a yearlong program focusing on building leadership skills and getting a deeper sense of the impact of the work we do in this sector.
As Frederick Douglass said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. Shweta’s Toybank is silently revolutionizing the children of the country by teaching them the virtue of sharing.
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In 2009, Shweta Chari quit her corporate job and registered Toybank as a trust, after having worked for her cause as an individual since 2004. Her mission was startling in its clarity: set up spaces where children could play with educational games, thus rediscovering their childhood and gaining the intellectual and developmental benefits of play. These spaces were called game libraries. Toybank’s first game library was set up in 2010.
In its journey of growth under Shweta’s leadership, Toybank has grown considerably. It now encompasses 270 play spaces across the state of Maharashtra.
This grand journey would not have been possible without Shweta Chari’s passion and vision. Not caring for money or fame, she is guided by the realisation that each child has the right to a happy and nurturing childhood, which includes the right to play.
She is backed by science: it is scientifically proven that appropriate kinds of play help children enhance their social and cognitive abilities. And Toybank brings these benefits to around 35,000 children today.
Her vision is unique, then, in that many NGOs work with the children’s right to food and education. But very few NGOs, if any, are working with the right to play.
MISSION:
To address developmental needs in children through games, toys and play.
PHILOSOPHY:
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
A world where all children have a happy and healthy childhood.
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AABTT6842N
PAN Registration Document
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083781403
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Shweta Chari is the Founder of Toybank. Toybank drives its work with the support of Volunteers from across 6 cities in India to ensure safe & happy Childhoods for the children it works with. Play has been recognized as essential for the healthy development of children for their physical, social and cognitive development. It allows children to develop a sense of well-being, improves their interpersonal abilities, develops language skills, establishes creating thinking and involves exploring and problem solving skills.
Toybank took birth in August 2004 and over the 13 years has now reached out to 100,000 kids from across Rural & Urban India through direct distributions.
Shweta believes that for children, play is as natural as breathing and as necessary. Depriving them of play and toys, leads to bottled up depression & anger that bursts when children reach adulthood and leads to all sorts of crimes, anti social activities and ruins a nation’s peace.
She has written and spoken on this subject in many forums. Her article on Right to Play was published in The Global Journal.
Shweta was recently listed as one of the 'Real Heroes of India' by an online survey conducted by a public portal.
She has spoken twice on the TEDx. She was awarded the 'Game Changer' Award (2016) by HR Club of India, 'Star Social Entrepreneur award' by Indira International Innovation (2011) & the 'Woman of Courage’ award by Godrej (2011). In 2013 she was labeled as the ‘Young Achiever’ by the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce. She has been invited to speak to the Consulate of Singapore Government on 2 occasions.
Shweta is the recipient of The Change Looms Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2007). In 2008 at the age of 25, Shweta was the Pepsi MTV Youth Icon of India Nominee & was featured on the cover of Aspire, India Today magazine(2010). Toybank’s work was documented by UK’s National Television Channel 4 on a special series called the ‘Slumdog Secret Millionaire’ program in January 2010. Shweta was selected as one of the ‘Young Turks’ on CNBC’s programme & was featured on CNN IBN as a “Young Social Change maker”. In June 2017, Shweta received the ‘Amazing Mumbaikar Award’ by the Rotary Club.
In July 2017, Shweta made it into the Harvard Business School - Strategic Nonprofit Management - India programme.with a full scholarship for the same.
As Frederick Douglass said “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. Toybank is silently revolutionizing the children of the country by teaching them the virtue of sharing.
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