Jivanamasteya Trust (“जीवानाम्‌स्तेय”) is an NGO founded by the Father and inspired by his two Daughters, Cherry (Naomi), and Kiwi (Daomi), and their life experiences. Jivanamasteya Trust working on Solving the most challenging problems that India is facing. It works in the area of Children’s best interest, Family Welfare, Women Empowerment, Human Rights, Entrepreneurship, Livelihoods, Education and Healthcare.

Jivanamasteya Trust is registered under The BPT Act 1950, Reg. No.: E/7385/Surat, Reg. u/s 12AA and 80G of The Income Tax Act, 1961, Government of India. Moreover, it’s registered as a Volunteer Organization, NGO with NGO Darpan, Government of India, having its Unique id No.: GJ/2014/0072602 and Ministry of Commerce and Industry having its IEC registration certificate No.: AABTJ6566D.

The story of Jivanamasteya Trust begun from some of the most bitter experience of Karnav Shah from his life. Everything was changed in his daughter’s and his life, be it personal or professional. To learn what causes changes in a life of Karnav Shah and how he got inspired to Start a NGO and its various programs visit Quora answer given by Karnav Shah, which made the social cause of Jivanamasteya Trust widely known and appreciated.

Karnav Shah is a founder of JivanamAsteya Trust NGO. He has grown through what he has gone through. He worked with Baptcare organization, an Australian based-NGO where he was working in the area of administration, community development and management of aged, disabled, dementia and palliative care facilities and, later he was promoted to a Team Leader. Despite he was selected in one of the world’s top 50 universities in Australia, he dropped out of the university and changed his career towards the social work due to his life-changing experience with Baptcare Organization. Moreover, his personal life tragedies such as loved one turned against him for adulterous and monetary purpose and cheated with him, and later filed sixty-plus criminal cases, the false defamatory allegation against him misusing India’s law, determined and shaped him to work in Legal social work domain with his self-learned skilled and qualified knowledge. The series of events occurred in his life, had also affected karnav’s two minor daughters, which triggered him to rise, and address the problems with possible solutions.

Karnav learnt, fought and stood up again successfully and won the worst battle of his life, however, he became concerned about the best interests of the children, and how Indian laws are being misused, and judiciary and police are misled affected constitutional and fundamental rights of its innocent citizens. Karnav started his groundwork, aggregated right resources, utilized and implemented his Professional skills, life experiences, social work skills and pursued donors to contribute in his social cause and programs to address each economical, legal, social, family, judicial problem he experienced himself, and millions of people in India and around the globe are facing. That launched the Journey of Jivanamasteya Trust, and all these cause-driven programs of JivanamAsteya Trust later became successful non-profit initiatives, and it has benefiting thousands of beneficiaries now. Jivanamasteya Trust is focusing on real-life solution and implementation, rather than keeping it limited with advising and, consulting Individuals, Societies and Government. It believes that if this NGO do not stand with a citizen, consumer, families, children and entrepreneurs when they truly need us, during their life’s crucial issues caused by social-economic loopholes, weaker societal conditions and legal remedies, the purpose of help, support and empowerment can’t be achieved. Jivanamasteya Trust exists to fill these gaps.

Returning to India, Karnav realized that the issues he learned about in Australia are different to the present issues India is facing. India is the fastest developing economy and quality of the life of people has been improved, however, people living at the bottom of the pyramid are still underprivileged and often abused.

Access to an adequate healthcare facility and legal aid is expensive; fair justice has become inaccessible to the victim. The government has introduced several reforms however the grassroots government employee and community require to be enhanced by training, positive intervention and support.

Children are also vulnerable from domestic violence, physical abuse, (parental) custodial battle, unmet educational, social and nutritional needs and sex trafficking. Their voice is not heard appropriately which cause them severe mental trauma, that last throughout the development of their brain, and life.

India is a young nation, however, this generation requires resources, training, and support to push up their start-ups which eventually create employment and boost economic growth, meanwhile social innovation and social entrepreneurship is an essential element of ever-growing entrepreneur generation.

Strengthening India family, customs, values, and culture were never so important than the present time. We as a society witness abuse of matrimonial laws to satisfy persona ego or gain. The misuse and abuse of the law are prevalent in India for wrongful gain, that harms families and community at macro level.

Education, training, street school education, skill development, social justice, and empowerment are also important areas to work. At JivanamAsteya Trust, we focus on individual problems and the problem of communities and the public at large.

Overall, While India is developing economically, it has its own social, legal and national challenges which demand to be addressed and resolved. At JivanamAsteya Trust, we take up these challenges and encourage people of India to join us in this noble movement of change for happiness, peace, respect, and prosperity of citizen without discrimination of caste, creed, sex, religion and Gender.

That Karnav shah has learned from his life experience, and the hardship that his daughters have experienced, If he is not going to ignite reforms and changes, how could he expect others to do so. He quit his job and profession, and initiated a social campaign through an NGO and satisfied himself with limited personal monetary resources while donating everything to an NGO for a greater social goal.

He believes, the criminal justice system, law and Judiciary reforms, Positive change in our social systems, families and relationships, education, Children’s best interest, Healthcare, sustainable livelihoods, women’s empowerment and economic development are the primary challenges of our generation to ensure inclusive growth, safety, protection of constitutional and human rights and wellness. 

Jivanamasteya is composed of two words i.e. (1) Jivanam – All Life, (2) Asteya – Justice to all being, non-stealing. Hence Jivanamasteya refers to “Justice to all life irrespective of discrimination of caste, creed, religion, sex, gender. Justice means economic, social, educational, legal empowerment of people.

JivanamAsteya NGO has initiated multiple program/project to achieve its individual social and non-profit goal i.e. Solving India’s Most Challenging problems. Each project focus on specific problems of India. Below are details of each project in a summary manner, you can click on the link provided under the project to explore its goals, services and activities in detail.

(1) Project Karnav (प्रोजेक्ट कर्णव)

Resolve Complaint Online Against Brand, Government, Police. File Cyber Crime Complaint, FIR and RTI Online. File Matrimonial Complaint.

Website I Facebook I Facebook Group for Free Legal Aid

(2) Dear Cherry Kiwi

Child Care, Protection, & their best interests. Promoting welfare, education, & rights of children. Family & Women Empowerment.

Website I Facebook

(3) Live More Family

Monitoring & act to prevent domestic violence & injustice to women, & prevent false, fakes cases against men, women & family members.

Website

(4) India Fights Corona

An NGO Initiative to provide aid, support & awareness to citizens affected from Covid-19 lockdown/economic stress, and to Fight & Prevent COVID – 19 Novel Coronavirus in India, & addressing citizen’s socio-economic issues. To work in Research & Development related to Rate Disease, aid in support for Police Government Officials & Healthcare Professionals.

Website

(5) Startup Entrepreneur

Start, Run & Grow Your Business with success Guarantee. India’s First NGO empowering Startup & entrepreneurs without Risk.

Facebook I Facebook Group for Entrepreneurs

(5) Gujarat Police Research and Development – GPRD

Empowering Police, Forming Citizen Friendly Police Services. Focus on The Police Welfare, Research, and Development.

Website

(6) Karnav With You

An Initiative to empower and educate Individual, Families, Couples and Startup to build Happy, Prosperous, Safe and peaceful life, and More. Karnav with you deliver its services through Blog in English and Gujarati, as well as YouTube Channel is under process. We are also working on counselling, training and workshops.

English Blog I Gujarati Blog

(7) Avirat Meera – Direct Artisan

Direct Artesian is an NGO, inspired by Cherry & Kiwi, empowers local artisans through the promotion of handmade for generation livelihood in a partnership with Avirat Meera, a social enterprise.

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