Named for the thing we set out to build.
A plain account of what ViZvasta is, where it has been, and how it works.
ViZvasta noun
from vishwas (विश्वास) — confidence, trust.
The Foundation was named for the thing it sets out to build.
Founded in 2015. Dormant for a decade. Re-activated in 2027.
We do not hide the gap. An organisation that has been quiet and says so is easier to trust than one that pretends otherwise.
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2015
Registered
ViZvasta Foundation is registered.
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2015
First programme: NISTHA
In association with Greater Valley School, Greater Noida, Nistha stages a fashion show and a painting competition and exhibition performed and created by the school’s autistic students.
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2017
ViZvasta Workshop pilot
An 8-day programme for ages 14–17, built around grooming and presentation, runs across two phases and four modules.
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Dormant
The quiet years
The Foundation remained dormant while its founding team built other ventures. Annual returns were filed; there was no programme activity.
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2027
Re-activated
Re-activated with a defined three-IP structure — ViZvasta Workshop, Nistha and Chaya — and a commitment to publish what we do.
A society in which confidence is built through inclusion.
Where teenagers, autistic children, the elderly and animals are treated as participants in shared life, not as recipients of charity.
To build confidence through inclusive action.
By designing and delivering programmes with existing institutions: a wellbeing curriculum for teenagers, events where autistic and neurotypical children meet as equals, and shelter and dignity for the elderly and for animals.
One idea, three programmes.
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ViZvasta Workshop
Confidence for teenagers — a life-skills and wellbeing curriculum for ages 14–17.
Workshop -
Nistha
Confidence through inclusion — events where autistic and neurotypical children meet as equals.
Nistha -
Chaya
Compassion in action — shelter and dignity for the elderly and for animals.
Chaya
We partner with institutions that already exist.
Schools, shelters and clinics already hold the trust of the people we want to reach. Rather than build parallel infrastructure, we bring a defined programme to an institution that already exists and deliver it with them.
- Schools host the ViZvasta Workshop and Nistha events, with their own students and their own knowledge of them.
- Shelters and clinics will be the partners for Chaya, which is in planning.
- Practising professionals mentor. We scope, deliver, and report back on what happened.
Trustees by role. Policies before brochures.
ViZvasta is governed by a board of trustees, listed by role. Our 12A application is in progress; 80G follows, and CSR-1 will be filed on 12A approval. Our safeguarding policy is the first document we send any partner.