Blessed by the Gods and passing on the blessings Sapna co-founded the non-profit trust for urban women empowerment along with Vandana Gupta. Originally conceptualised as the physical, functional arm of IndiaSareeChallenge, they unveiled in August 2015 at the World’s first-ever Saree Flash mob, performed by more than 50 members of all ages at Saket Mall, Delhi.
A women’s organization with a social conscience, we undertake environmental responsibility by conducting drives such as tree plantations, reduce-reuse-recycle, and knowledge dissemination sessions, waste segregation, women’s hygiene, breast cancer, education for the underprivileged and employable skilling for girls from underprivileged homes and female convicts in Tihar Jail.
Our biggest charitable venture to date, however, is the Devditi Humanitarian Bank, where articles of need for specific recipient bodies, such as leper centers, old age homes, schools, hospitals, etc. are identified, collected from members and given to them.
Regular events to celebrate festivals and occasions, as well as get-togethers and out-of-town trips to heritage-rich places, are a regular feature of the group. Apart from the enjoyment and women-to-women bonding, these are also a means to reinforce the cultural connect of the group, take in educational visits to the sites of traditional textile and artisanal work such as bagru, dabu, benarasi weaves, etc. These are followed up by the promotion of traditional craftsmen’s work and placing of bulk orders to boost their precarious livelihoods.
With wide coverage by Indian media as well as on the Internet, Devditi Foundation (‘Dev’ from Vandana’s daughter, Devyani, and ‘diti’ from Sapna’s daughter-in-law, Aditi) had arrived with a bang in the public eye.
