Volunteering & Social Impact
Make A Difference (MAD)
Award-winning non-profit mentoring and empowering vulnerable children across India through volunteers
City-wide
50000 members
About This Opportunity
Make A Difference (MAD) is an Indian non-profit founded by Jithin Nedumala in 2006, focused on ending generational poverty for children in orphanages and street shelters by providing long-term mentoring. Through volunteers, MAD supports children from ages 10 to 28 along every major life milestone: emotional and academic development, higher education, job placements, marriage, and parenting. The program is volunteer-driven, scaling to 20 cities nationwide including Bengaluru. MAD mobilizes passionate young leaders and organizes community-powered programs that make it eight times more likely for a child born in poverty to move above the empowerment line by age 28.
What We Do
- MAD volunteers (MADsters) mentor, teach, counsel, and interact with kids in orphanages and street shelters
- Organizing workshops and meetups year-round
- "MAD-meets"
- Dream camps
- Recruitment drives
- Workshops