Robin Raina Foundation Inc

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 13, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$203,218

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Cash Grant Paid to Slum Dwellers of Bawana towards their daily food & medical needs

Activity 3

Dilli - Dilli is a documentary film commissioned by the RRF to raise awareness and funds for the cause of homes for the slum dwellers across the world. The film has won 23 awards in internationak film festivals as on date.Infrastructure development in any large city across the world means different things to different people today. What is perceived as infrastructure development in one persons eyes could be actually resulting in homelessness for another person. The film Dilli attempts to capture the stark comparison of the rampant progress and development of the megalopolis of Delhi vis--vis thousands who are left homeless while the whole city is modernized and revamped.In the year 2003, Delhi Government decided to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In the name of cleansing the city to show off the new prowess of the country, tens of thousands of slum homes along the banks of the Yamuna River were razed to the ground, in the name of safety and environment. Soon thereafter, Government sanctioned large projects like the Commonwealth games village for athletes, on the banks of the same Yamuna River.As an involved world citizen, who has always believed in the cause of the underprivileged, RRF felt something had to be done to provide a sense of identity to these dislodged slum dwellers who had been thrown away from the confines of the city into a slum area called Juggi Jhopri (JJ Colony) in Bawana. We decided to work on various fronts - to provide education, meals, medical care, clothing to the children of these slum dwellers; to provide vocational training to these people; and most importantly to provide 6000 free concrete homes to these slum dweller families. We came up with a project to do so and today have handed over 1454 free homes already.RRF approached Documentary film makers Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas with the idea of making this film. The thought was to provide a voice to these underprivileged people through the power of cinema. Both of them loved the idea and agreed to write and direct the film. From day one, we wanted the film story to be told directly by the real cast of the film the dislodged slum dwellers and the underprivileged faces that power the citys development today as laborers, workers, rickshaw pullers, masons, cobblers etc. The goal was to convey their story in their words from their lips. As these folks deal with the dismal civil conditions around them, they still manage to keep a smile on their faces and keep their families together. The goal was to let the film be the voice of these people who are still struggling to have an identity in the same city that they are building with their own hands.Rintu and Sushmit did a fantastic job of capturing the above in a very non-fictional and matter of fact manner without making the film treatment depressing for the viewer. RRF is proud of the end product that ensured that the world gets to see this film and hears the voices of the underprivileged of Delhi. This could happen in another city in another part of the world tomorrow!

Filer

EIN

51-0497387