About us

On the three founders’ first trip to India, they visited places that must be pretty close to hell.
From the simplest brick-making where hundreds of families are paying off the inherited debts of their ancestors and it is normal for even 4-year-old family members to make bricks all day – without any possibility of influencing their own future.

to steaming piles of rubbish on which children search barefoot for saleable scraps of garbage so that they don’t have to go to sleep hungry in the evening.

Lokesh Kumar, MA BA
Manager, Head of Department

Lokesh Kumar, coming from humble background, is a Manager, Head of Department of this program.
Lokesh is an important part of our organization. He leads the fortunes in India with heart, brain, and empathy.

He is keen and dedicated to eradicating the pains of these children from Rag picking community because he has experience this in his childhood days.
With more than 10 years of experience working with various organizations such as CHRD SAS, Magic Bus India Foundation, Peepul India, and Bartimai, Lokesh brings extensive knowledge and expertise.

Lokesh has graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and master’s in social work.

Kanika
Academic coordinator

Kanika, with an experience of 6+ years in teaching, is working with us as an academic coordinator.
Education is her passion, and she works for social cause to uplift the challenging communities enthusiastically.
She graduated in B. El. Ed and MA in psychology and read books in her free time.

With her sharp management skills, she handles and trains our teachers to become more efficient to deliver teaching in an effective manner. Her skills of managing team and work effectively and maintaining collaborative relationships with people are at par. She empowers community through relation building.

Rubi Gupta
Teacher

Rubi Gupta is an enthusiastic teacher at SMB, coming with an experience of 2 years in teaching. Teaching and working for underprivileged community children are her passion.

She has completed her D.El.Ed. Ed and has also passed CTET exam. She likes to read novels.

With her creative teaching skills, she makes her classroom more interactive and alive with innovative ideas and activities for her students and creates a joyful and meaningful learning environment for children.

Sani
Senior Teacher

Sani is a dedicated and composed teacher at SMB. She is coming with an experience of more than 2 years in teaching. She is motivated to teach and work for the future of slum children and their overall development. She is qualified with D.El.Ed. and cleared CTET exam.

Being innovative and resourceful, she aids students to discover their true potential and inspire them to grow and learn.

Ruparani
Helping Staff and Cook

A kind-hearted lady who ensures that the children get a healthy meal at least once a day and do not have to study hungry. She maintains our centre with high hygiene standards and cleanliness.

Her story is very inspiring. She was into segregation of different metals at a steel company in Shahbad diary. She visited our centre and appreciated our work, got inspired and dedicated to join us in maintaining centre.

Stefania Ciarella
Volunteer

Stefania is a multicultural italian, living in Austrian being married to an Indian. Furthermore she contributes her experiences in aid organisations at Stiftung Mein Beitrag She has always an open ear and is ready to help and advise to any problems.

Mag. Armin Lunzer
Volunteer Auditor & Accountant

Armin is always in a good mood and even available for accounting questions at 11:00 PM. As a certified tax advisor, he brings structure and order to the accounting of this aid organization. With wit and humor, he handles all things numbers for the foundation.

Roman Frühberger
Volunteer Auditor

Roman has many years of expertise in a senior position in the banking sector, as well as serving as the City Councilor for Finance in his hometown. He is key in representing the four-eyes-principle when it comes to auditiing our books.

In principle, only countries with a particularly high level of poverty according to the Global Hunger Index were considered.

The following criteria were then decisive from a purely rational point of view:

• Political and personal security
• attitude towards foreigners or other religions or cultures
• Purchasing power of the euro
• good/easy accessibility of Vienna

In our view, India best fulfilled all of these criteria.

The answer is simple. Because every child has the right to a happy and healthy childhood with a future. Every child deserves the chance to realize their dreams and lead a decent life. The mere fact that we grew up in Austria gives us the highest level of privilege. At the end of 2016, the three founders decided to make a contribution to changing the world a little. We are also dependent on your donations.

Shocked and disappointed at how the majority of organizations in India work and handle valuable donations, we had to realize “if you want it done well, do it yourself”. This laid the foundation for the Federal Foundation My Contribution. We work together with our own independent social workers and teachers on site in order to be able to guarantee complete transparency.

Our aim was to generate the highest possible output with low administrative costs and 100% transparency. Our donors should be able to see this for themselves at any time. We opted for a “federal foundation”, as this legal form is the most closely controlled organizational form there is. At the same time, our donors can see for themselves at any time and unannounced on site where their donations have gone.