Crafting a Better Future: The Vision and Impact of Nipa Kamal Patel

Nipa Kamal Patel's life and work embody the true essence of empowerment and social change. Her journey from a privileged upbringing to becoming a mother figure to thousands of slum children and a beacon of hope for many women is inspiring. Patel's dedication to education, hygiene, and women's empowerment has left an indelible mark on society, transforming countless lives and communities. The mission statement of her foundation is that a student may have been born into a poor family but has the right to die rich. Hence the projects are based accordingly.

Her projects include Masti ki pathshala, a grooming, teaching, skill development, creative development, and craft workshops at Nivedita Foundation’s farmhouse daily which continues in schools around the year with many creative skill projects. Another project includes Unmask India.

She also works towards women's and girls' safety. She organizes self-defense classes for girls by the experts. She also spread awareness about menstruation and organized a workshop about clean sanitary napkins. She also empowered women by creating different earning platforms to make them self-reliant.

Introduction:

Nipa Kamal Patel, a distinguished social worker and philanthropist, is a testament to the power of compassion and dedication, she was born into the richest and most cultured family in Anand Gujarat. She was born and brought up with a golden spoon she inculcated virtues of helping others and working for slum children's education and women's empowerment.

Despite being born into a rich family she ended her studies with a graduate basic degree due to her orthodox family thinking which led her to work for girls' education & empowerment to make them self-reliant.

Challenges and Achievements:

Her career started in 2002 after her marriage to famous architect Anand Kamal Patel she started learning interiors through her aesthetic sense of design, and passion for playing with colors and combination with the support of her husband and she became a self-learned interior designer and partner of her husband's Anand's leading company KPA design studio, from childhood she observed her family's social work of grassroots and helping needy families she continued her family legacy and became a mother of 30,000 plus children of slums .she started working from one school in 2006 now 130 plus government schools of slums are benefited by her non government foundation named Nivedita foundation.

Nivedita Foundation established in the year of 2006 is a registered public trust exempted under 80g of income tax. Founded by Nipa Patel having a goal to serve society while peak a professional career as an interior designer and partner in her husband's 35-year-old architecture firm based in Anand and Amdavad.NF serves 130 plus schools in the Anand district. Today 30,000 plus children and 500 teachers benefit from purposeful activities organised by Nivedita Foundation. 

Doing things selflessly she became a mother to thousands of children, a guiding force to the teacher's community inspiration to several other NGOs. Several individuals and organizations seek to give back to the society following example of the Nivedita foundation. The results allowed the government to follow our example and implement suggestions the intangible working aspects were noticed by Reliance Industries Limited and the prime minister resulting in to invitation as a CSR consultant for 10 years and Gujarat BJP mahila morcha secretary respectively.

The biggest challenge was to help parents of the Village school children understand the importance of education where as clean uniform shoes, and hygiene while promoting the use of sanitary pads its scientific importance economic health, and disease was a taboo-breaking task.

Out of several nominations and awards few are the Quality Mark Woman's Award, Ficci Flo Woman Achiever Award, Rotary Club Sangini Award, Sardar Patel University Best Social Worker Award, World Book of Records, and many more felicitations.

Personal Insights:

On balancing work and life, she took the advice from her mother, her mother says “When you go out for work you may be a social worker, businesswoman or politician but when you step in to home your are a wife, mother, and daughter in law. Remain grounded, focused with all-round support from the teacher's fraternity and my family, needs of my family first once that is set career automatically boost up”.

She also believes that one may be born poor that does not mean they should be devoid of decent life just one push or motivation toward the right direction can lift a student's entire life.

Impact and Visions:

Doing things selflessly she became a mother to thousands of children, a guiding force to the teacher's community inspiration to several other NGOs. Several individuals and organizations seek to give back to the society following example of the Nivedita Foundation. The results allowed the government to follow our example and implement suggestions the intangible working aspects were noticed by Reliance Industries Limited and the prime minister resulting in to invitation as a CSR consultant for 10 years and Gujarat BJP mahila morcha secretary respectively.

She is currently working on projects drinking water for salty Khambhat region village where women have to walk miles water conservation, tree plantation in mass at Gujarat level, menstrual health and hygiene for slum girls and women, and mission shoes for slum children project is always ongoing.

For our future goal, we want to establish a mega cloth bank getting expensive single clothing from non-residential Gujaratis from the USA and Britain to distribute among the needy looking forward to instituting a skill center for permanent training to youth and women in various vocations.

Conclusion:

Her advice to young women is that social work should not be taken as a photo opportunity or getting famous for personal benefits. Do it only if you honestly want to help only then you will have a sound sleep. Mainly women or young women it is not a free time activity or kitty party do only what is possible for you under your limits without sacrificing family life.­­­

At last, she said, "True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant."