Bringing Relish To The Impoverished

"The business of life, is life not business", was the belief with which the Ponty Chadha Foundation envisioned institutions so as to make a difference to the community as a whole. Business cannot grow in isolation; instead empowering communities that are directly or indirectly connected with it, can create a huge difference and have an everlasting impact

- Manpreet Singh Chadha

Foundation envisioned institutions so as to make a difference to the community as a whole. Business cannot grow in isolation; instead, empowering communities that are directly or indirectly connected with it, can create a huge difference and have an everlasting impact. An integral belief of the Wave Group is to give back to the communities that it serves, through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. It is the very intent of the Group to create a vibrant, empowered and a selfsustaining community where resources are shared equally between men, women and children. We also work towards enabling people to realize their full potential, so that they actively participate in improving their social and economic development for a better life.

One cherished project was a school for the differently abled children, Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan (MBCN). When the school was established, the intent was to create a ground where children with special needs could mature and grow without the realization of the barriers. The Late Ponty Chadha, the founder of the school, himself a victim of physical disability, had stated that a barrier first arises at the mental level, and, social, intellectual or physical barriers follow. Today, the school not only brings more than a thousand differently-abled children under the same roof, it also provides a friendly and empathetic environment for a supportive approach towards moving ahead with life. The co-curricular and class activities that are scheduled for the batches are specially modulated keeping in mind their limitations, and help them make use of their strengths. It instils a belief in every child that he or she is not deprived, but is in fact gifted.

A very unique attribute of this school is that most of the teachers are parents of differently-abled children themselves, and, therefore, the need to respond to their needs, and be considerate to all the children comes automatically, and, this is what