Vineet Siwal

Vineet Siwal

Founder, GEP Foundation

India

A philanthropist by her thoughts, a humanitarian by action, Mrs. Vineet Siwal is currently successfully running her Charitable Organization ‘’Green Earth Patron Foundation’’ and is working for betterment for villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. She is a grassroot Social Worker with Entrepreneurial skills and very much crafty by heart and started her journey of social service in 2014. She is engaged in various ways to create a better, sustainable and proper livelihood to the rural of India by various skill development programs focused to develop the sustainable monthly earning to afford a better life, better education and health and for that she first enhance their own skill set Foreg: if the lady knows knitting, she guide them and provide training to turn their hobby into a profitable business that boost their household income and she also works closely for the implementation of various government policies by providing training sessions to the Pradhans and other local representative to utilise govt policies for basic amenities in a better way. Like, there is scheme to distribute gas connection, making adhere cards, she guides and help villagers to proceed with the formalities to have best outcome, that includes making them aware of the schemes for the farmers or NABARD for irrigation, agriculture, cattle livestock, small scale industries etc. and help them to proceed with the documentation part as well, as mostly villagers are illiterates and often lack the proper information. She has made her vision clear to bring positive changes to the society. Earlier she was engaged as founder and director with largest manufacturing brand of luxury candles in Singapore and being crafty naturally, she sometimes teach various ways of craft activities online as well and have plans for the expansion of her hobby at entrepreneurial level with the unprivileged women to train them and open a business mini centre at village level to create a selfsustainable model of earning for those ladies/youth and for that she left all luxurious life behind to bring sustainable changes to the villagers of India. She was also the voice at Women Economic Forum 2016 for India among 102 countries for sustainable life for rural India and in 2017 for youth empowerment. Her social sphere and activities: She involved to covers most of the aspects to empower the society as a whole though she is mainly into the empowerment of youth and women. She was always been very vocal and active. One Million EyesTwo Millions Lives: Previous year she also donated her beautiful eyes to the All India Eye Bank Association with pledge of “ ONE MILLIONS EYE DONATION ”. Her foundation is now the official partner of the Eye Bank Association of India and working towards fulfilling the pledge taken. Along with this all, she has been working for many villages for sustainable life and model village development.