As responsible citizens of India, we are constantly worried about the underprivileged sections of our society. In the year 1997, Mrs Anaxi Shah, Founder President of SMILE and also an experienced social worker having a track record of 32 years of professional experience had a vision to commit herself to bring about a positive change in the lives of the street children, handicapped children, the downtrodden women, and the lonely senior citizens. With this vision in mind, Mrs. Anaxi Shah set out all by herself to accomplish her mission of providing a helping hand to the least of our brethren under the name of SMILE a Registered Charitable Trust. Initially, SMILE had no fixed place to work. However, while Mrs Shah was working on one of such endeavours, her activities caught the attention of the Nagar Sevak Mr Gunvant Sheth. Mr. Sheth understood the importance and depth of her activities and arranged for a Day Care Centre at Babulnath. From then, SMILE had no turning back and gradually progressed in its efforts to bring back smiles on the faces of these less fortunate ones. Today, SMILE has been into existence for the past eight years. SMILE has its own office and has a team of dedicated workers that run a series of projects namely UDAAN, UTKARSH, UMANG and UNCHHI UDAAN.

SMILE aims to promote educational, medical, emotional and social well being of underprivileged children and women irrespective of religion, race, community, caste, creed or language. The main focus of the organisation is to:

¤   Provide education to underprivileged children including orphans, children of single parent, street children and poor children.
¤   Conduct rehabilitation programs for handicapped street children.
¤   Provide vocational and other training programs to generate self-employment opportunities for needy women.