Posted On: January 4th 2023, 12:07 pm
Meet Irinder Singh Ahluwalia, the founder of India's foremost non-profit organisation, Hemkunt Foundation. Irinder founded the Hemkunt Foundation with a mission to combat inequity, poverty, and disease through humanitarian aid, disaster relief, healthcare support, education, and access to livelihoods for economically weaker sections of society. Irinder established Hemkunt Foundation in 2010 with 3 after-school centres for English, Math, and IT. In 2013, he and his family were stranded at the base of Gurudwara Hemkunt Sahib for a week while they witnessed nature's fury. Buildings and bridges fell, automobiles were swallowed and swept away by the torrential rain, and rescue helicopters vanished before their eyes. They were deprived of food and shelter for a week, and all of their possessions and provisions were burned. Momentarily, death seems certain amidst the frenzy, terror, and lack of hope. Irinder's encounter with life's fragility renewed his mission. He vowed to dedicate his entire existence to serving humanity. This event signified the establishment of the Hemkunt Foundation.
Since 2013, Hemkunt has served the nation by establishing rehabilitation projects for people displaced by disasters, providing aid to families living below the poverty line through the distribution of rations, establishing local businesses to generate employment, establishing mobile medical units to provide medical aid in the most remote pockets of rural India, and serving 25,00,000 people across all disaster waves. Irinder is constantly on the move to provide and extend the best health care to the underprivileged.
Irinder and his team are leaving revolutionary imprints on the world by constructing India's largest non-profit skill development centre, the Hemkunt Foundation Gurukul. It will be India's largest non-profit skill development centre, located 125 kilometres from Indore in Chalpi Khurd, district Khandwa. They are working with a strong vision to provide skill training to 1000 students over three years in their academy, which is planned to be built on a 2,10,000-square-foot site.