(Children Toy Foundation)
...was founded in Mumbai in 1982 by Devendra Shivlal Desai, an enthusiastic chess player, whose main business is selling paper. The elderly gentleman, single and childless, likes to explain, that the games are his children and Toy Foundation is his wife. For more than 20 years he collects donations in the form of games of all sorts. With childlike excitement he – of course – tests all of them himself and there is no visiting time in his office passing by without playing at least one game. Yet, the organisation is as convincing as the founder. The Toy Foundation has set itself to offer slum kids, who can often only dream about own toys, the possibility of playing together. Therefore, the organisation constructed four unique buses, which regularly make a stop in respective city zones – bulging with games and stuffed animals – even the outer walls of these vehicles can be used as playboards. That is the only carefree time in a tough everyday life for many of children, who benefit. Moreover, the Toy Foundation managed to entrench playrooms in several slum schools. Hundreds of games and toys are stored there, that are used at specified playing times supervised by dedicated employees of the Toy Foundation. Dancing and singing are also inherent parts of those game hours. All in all, the Toy Foundation absolutely deserves to be supported and sponsored in future.
Further information: www.childrentoyfoundation.org