Nitin Dhondiba Kinhale, a CybageAsha beneficiary, narrated how CybageAsha’s collaboration with BAIF has helped him start a dairy business and become an entrepreneur.

I feel fortunate to have been a volunteer at CybageAsha for past 6 years. It has given me a number of opportunities to carry out my responsibility towards society. I have enjoyed working as a teacher, guide, instructor, Santa, and so on. The activity at Anandvan Vyasanmukti Kendra was a different, memorable, and challenging one. I had to take a drug addict from Ambedkar community to the center. Due to the man's behaviour I was initially very scared, but my colleague assisted me and finally the addict was admitted to the center for 8 days. I could see his family's happiness. Our efforts helped in transforming his life from a drug addict to a normal one.

I have been a community leader in Ambedkar Nagar for over 3 years now and have worked with CybageAsha on a number of projects. Seeing a company of this magnitude care for us and our needs like a family warms my heart. Cybage Asha has catered to all age groups to provide sanitation, good health, skills, literacy and recreation. They have truly used an approach that allows us a chance at holistic development. Their efforts towards women’s empowerment have especially helped me and various other women build confidence. I will always be thankful for this ray of hope.

I thank CybageAsha for their focus on rural upliftment. After nominating my village (Dinnapur – Marathwada region) for the village adoption initiative, CybageAsha immediately visited my village and initiated the river deepening project. This project helped in eradicating the drought-like situation in my village. Such projects impact the lives of many. CybageAsha’s dedicated CSR team connects with the villagers with their onsite visits and also virtually with the growing number of smart phone users. Apart from this, I conduct the art club in iTeach schools (funded by CybageAsha). I like the way the CSR team plans these activities and helps the volunteers in managing these clubs successfully. They encourage volunteers by felicitating them from time to time.

Since its inception on August 15, 2009, Anandvan De-addiction Center has been working tirelessly for victims of drug abuse. Our association with CybageAsha goes back to more than a year. With their support, we conducted two 10-day residential de-addiction camps for addicts from low-income groups—one in April and one in August 2016. Twenty-five addicts benefited from these free camps. CybageAsha also helped us financially by providing Diwali donations for 2015–16. With their help, we have started family counseling and addiction counseling meetings at Ambedkar Nagar on Nagar Road. We are grateful to CybageAsha and its volunteers for their unrelenting support through donations, pamphlet distribution, and street plays. Together, we hope to reach out to more needy people and rescue families from the clutches of addiction.

I was an alcoholic for 15 years before my life took a turn for the better in 2009. That was when CybageAsha started its de-addiction center in my community, Khulewadi. I started visiting their weekly OPD every Sunday and within a year, I had quit alcohol completely. This was not easy but was made possible with the help of the counselling sessions. CybageAsha felicitated me in front of my community, in which I was known only as a drunkard who beats up his wife and children. The week after that, I was appointed as ‘community coordinator’ to help other alcoholics break the vicious cycle of addiction. In the last five years, I have helped reform about 25 addicts. Now, I earn a decent living and support my family. My transformation was possible only because of CybageAsha. I thank CybageAsha for making me the agent of change for other addicts.

CybageAsha has always had a long-lasting impact on backward regions, and it’s looked up to by every village for development purposes. I, Chandrakant Dnyanoba Bhame, Upsarpanch of Mavadi Kade Pathar, am thankful to CybageAsha for the great work teamed with proper planning they have done in my village! Within a span of just two years, CybageAsha has completely transformed the underground drainage line, organizes a health camp to improve the health of villagers, and a school wall compound to improve the school infrastructure. Desilting of streams and rivers has been done to tackle drought issues and individual toilets have also been constructed. CybageAsha is not just a charitable trust, it offers a ray of hope for villagers. Thank you CybageAsha!

Mavadi is a small village in Purandar taluka with a population of 1,500. CybageAsha carried out the first desilting work in Mavadi in a very economical way. It also helped 38 families in the village to construct toilets. CybageAsha also helped the villagers the construction of a CybageAsha took the initiative along with the villagers in the construction of a community hall and organized health camps and tree plantation drives. Cybage has also provided scholarships to deserving students of the village. Because of CybageAsha’s immense contribution, Mavadi received the ‘Ideal Village’ award from the renowned social worker, Dr. Prakash Amte. CybageAsha has made the overall development of the village possible in very easy and practical ways and continues to be a ray of hope for Mavadi. It won't be wrong to say that the village has been transformed by CybageAsha. I salute the work of CybageAsha.

CybageAsha has created a ray of hope working in their special way to spread smiles and make a difference to society. I am Anil Chachar, Headmaster of Zila Parishad Primary School, Hanumanvasti in Velhe. I had been trying to build a compound wall for the school since 2011. As per the RTE rules, we had all the facilities except the compound wall. CybageAsha helped us construct the compound wall and now, the school premises look beautiful and environment-friendly. The school has a total of 34 students, out of which 26 students hail from tribal communities. CybageAsha dreams to walk the unknown in terms of the skills to help, teach, and educate for a better future. We aim to continue working with CybageAsha for the education of underprivileged students.

CybageAsha was really a boon for our village. CybageAsha helped us in our efforts to make our village 100% free of open defecation. Therefore, we were successful in implementing the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ initiative propagated by the government. CybageAsha also helped us build toilets for people who couldn’t afford it in their houses to promote personal hygiene. Additionally, CybageKhushboo provided full-time scholarships to economically backward and academically good students of our village. There is no doubt that the future of our village will certainly be bright because of CybageAsha and CybageKhushboo. We expect to maintain a long-lasting relationship with CybageAsha and we would like to thank them for bringing prosperous times to Laptalwadi village.