Celebrate Kindness with Project Gift A Smile

Some projects and initiatives that we have worked in our community

2025

Donation At Anami Parnu, Vadodara, India

At Anami Parnu, they take care of kids between newborn and 10 years old who their families left behind for multiple reasons. Vidhi, Zeus, Prachi, Meera, and Shivangi arranged a donation drive for these organizations to collect things like Lactogen, bottles of Candid powder, clothes, food, and candy treats.

Fire Safety & Prevention Awareness

On Feb.18th, a single-family residence in the 3500 block of Redwing Court caught fire where an elderly man got killed. Due to this heartbreaking incident, we decided to bring awareness to families in the community on what to do in such circumstances, and what precautions one should take, as we, kids do all different drills in the schools including fire drills but our parents, grandparents and us don't know how to react when it happens at home. With the help of NAPERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC EDUCATION SPECIALIST(MS. SORAYA McLaughlin) & NAPERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY(95TH STREET), we are conducting a live interactive session on April 16th @7pm at 95th Street Naperville Public Library. It was a great success! Here is the link to the video we prepared for those who couldn't make it:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJDaumIO8RW/?igsh=OXBkNHVrYWtmbWJi

Toys/Games for Kid Patients at Comer's Children Hospital

On April 1st, we donated new toys/games to Comer's Children Hospital to help their kid patients, and we feel proud of doing that. This was in celebration of our birthdays.

Presentation for Grade 4 at Geneses Global International School

On March 5th, we shared our campaign idea with Grade 4 students at Geneses Global International school with the presentation & interactive session. Students loved our idea and promised to celebrate their up coming birthdays with an act of kindness. Below is the reel they posted on their school Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHNWyqgTU70/?igsh=ZWZpcmF5bmJsc3Zi

50 lunch bags to homeless people

On Feb 27th, Our youngest agent Ariyan celebrated his 4th birthday by preparing & donating 50 lunch bags with the help of his family for the homeless people. Isn't it inspiring? Look at this video..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7ZEhtaijcdJ5V0MAuj3ytY1W5wZkpEW/view?usp=drivesdk

Cookies Drive

We provided some sweet and salty treats to Wayside Ministries as a part of Valientine's Day celebration.

Hesed House Cookie Drive

Hesed House is a low threshold homeless shelter near downtown Aurora, IL which accepts the most vulnerable people from all walks of life. Hesed House is currently serving about 250 people onsite which includes adult men, adult women, and families. They are the second largest shelter in the state of Illinois, and are one of only a handful of shelters in the nation with a comprehensive resource center.

Hesed House relies heavily on volunteers that help with donating and serving meals, cleaning around the shelter, landscaping, sorting through donations, and much more! They practice a rapid-rehousing model which means they are trying to get people rehoused as quickly as possible when they come into the shelter.

The Project Gift-A-Smile did several food and essential supplies drives for the Hesed House, collecting food, gift cards, household and essential items and donating them to the shelter.

Holiday Food Drive for Life Spring Center

Recently, with the help of 17 kids, we were able to make a donation to LifeSpring Center of Westside Cross Ministries. We wanted to do something special for the community during the holidays, so we gathered food items and provided the shelter with dinner that night. Thank you to everyone that helped us make our donation! You all are rockstars.

Food packing at Feed My Starving Children

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) believes hope starts with food. FMSC is dedicated to seeing every child whole in body and spirit. FMSC works with food distribution partners that stay with communities for the long haul, empowering them to move from relief to development.

We organized a family food packaging volunteer event to pack meals at the FSMC location in Aurora, IL in the summer of 2024

Toy donations at Comer Children's Hospital at UChicago

Aanya bought toys/games from the gift cards she received on her milestone birthday from families and friends and donated everything to Comer Children's Hospital at UChicago

Toys Sale Campaign

We organized a Toys sale in Nov-Dec. 2021 to help kids in need where friends and families purchased the toys to either donate or for themselves. The funds they received from this sale were used to donate items for homeless people & less fortunate kids at multiple locations( In India and the USA)

Personal Monetary Donation to School PTA

Aashka donated the monetary birthday gifts she received from her family and friends to Gregory Middle School PTA to help their mission be successful!

Donations at Toys for Tots, Hesed House & American Hearts Association

Monetary donations were made at the above 3 locations to help kids, homeless people, and kids with heart diseases.

Food drive organized by our parents and their friends for Naperville Tornado Victims

June 20, 2021 our town Naperville got hit by the Tornadoes where a section of our city had major impacts. Lots of people were homeless due to damages that occurred to their houses. Our parents with the help of their friends & local stores organized multiple food drives where they delivered cooked food, groceries & house hold items to the victims.

Target Gift cards donation

Our family came forward to help 4 local families in need during the tough times after Covid where they were struggling to meet their ends.

Grandparent Birthday Celebration

In loving memory of our grandpa on our grandma's birthday our parents donated candies, juice boxes & pretzels within the communities we live.

Helped setting up an apartment for a Single Mom

Our family organized a drive in our community for house hold items for this widow who moved to USA for a teaching job. This lady took this overseas job so that she could pay tuition for her daughter's college.

Sponsored a Child- SOS Children's Village

Since 2017, our family is sponsoring a child at SOS Children's Village where your donation covers daily needs of the children in their family-based care and guarantees that they receive medical assistance and education.

Individual Family

When we found out that someone's father had an accident and was hospitalized for treatment, the family was struggling. It was hard for them to meet their ends due to the financial situation and the treatment bills. Aashka & Aanya decided to help this family by donating $300, which they earned by selling their handmade artifacts at the Naperville Children's Business Fair. They participated in the fair to help the family and made more than 100+ artifacts in a short time.

2024

Hesed House Drives

Neighborhood picnic

This drive was organized at our subdivision summer picnic where our leads were able to gather the following items for Hesed House: 1 Brand new microwave from Target, 2 laundry baskets, 7 Black garbage cans, 1 reversible comforter, 2 pkts of sandwich bags, 5chopping boards, 10 each- pink, blue and white folders, 3 bug sprays, 1 children's Tylenol, 1 Motrin, 3 dryer sheets, 3pkts on the go kleenex, Travel size shampoo, cream and body wash, toothbrushes, used towels & bed sheets. 1 used rice cooker & 1 new rice cooker.

Naperville Children's Business Fair

A monetary donation of $180 was raised through participating in the Naperville Children's Business Fair by selling homemade Mango Kulfi, cell phone lanyards, Flavored Jellos & Bracelets. Household items were bought and donated to Hesed House.

Girls Scout Troop 55790

Scout Troop took a part in the drive for Hesed House and donated Gift cards worth $215 to Hesed House.

2023

2022

Hair Donation

Aashka donated her hair at Great Clips to the organization Wigs for Kids, which gives free wigs to kids suffering from cancer. A wig made from her hair was prepared and given to a kid suffering from cancer.

2021

American Hearts Association

Joined Jump Rope For Hearts campaign organized by school and helped raised monetary donations for American Hearts Association. Some of team members are participating in this campaign starting from 2015 until 2024.

Blood Donation By Adults of Our Family

Our parents volunteers went to donate the blood on their wedding anniversary.

Launched Kindness Campaign

All the kindness acts we sisters and our family have been doing for so many years, we decided to share it with the world on World's Kindness Day! We published the video using social media and shared our ideas through community gatherings.

Presentation At Genesis Global International School of Noida, India

We also got an opportunity to do a 30-minute presentation with an International school in India where we talked and shared our campaign details using Microsoft Teams. It was a great interactive session with elementary school-age kids. Students at the school loved the idea and agreed to spread the kindness.

Give.Org

Since 2021, our family has been making a monthly donation to the "Keep No Child Hungry" cause to Give.org.

Sponsored a Child- SOS Children's Village

Since 2017, our family has been sponsoring a child at SOS Children's Village where your donation covers the daily needs of the children in their family-based care and guarantees that they receive medical assistance and education.

American Hearts Association

Joined Jump Rope For Hearts campaign organized by school and helped raised monetary donations for American Hearts Association.

Blood Donation By Adults of Our Family

Our parents went to donate the blood on their wedding anniversary.

Sponsored a Child- SOS Children's Village

American Hearts Association

Joined Jump Rope For Hearts campaign organized by school and helped raised monetary donations for American Hearts Association.

Blood Donation By Adults of Our Family

Our parents went to donate the blood on their wedding anniversary.

Sponsored a Child- SOS Children's Village

2020- COVID19

Monetary Donations

Due to COVID 19, starting from March 2020, the period was very tough. While keeping ourselves safe, we kept looking to those organizations that needed donations for food, clothes, household items, and medical supplies.