Runanubandh Trust is a registered Trust under the Bombay Charities Act, 1956. The Trust was founded in 2001 by a philanthropist Shri Vasant Harshi Galia, with an aim of helping the needy in all possible ways. The Trust is involved in various charitable works, including providing healthcare services to the needy at a discounted cost or even free of cost, jeevdaya or compassion towards animals and birds, environmental services, educational services, and more. In one of its landmark social service, between 1996-2001, it has also executed a huge housing for free scheme for 1,850 families from the Kutchi community.

During the coronavirus pandemic, it offered free of cost treatment to 5,000+ affected patients while also providing free of cost ICU treatment to 1,750 critically ill patients. Since its inception, Runanubandh Trust has touched 25 lakh+ human lives and countless other living beings. Today, Runanubandh Trust is considered as one of the most socially responsible and active NGOs across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).

Decades of Dedication: A Legacy of Selfless Service

  • Runanubandh Trust founded under the leadership of Vasant Harshi Galia

  • Rescues 3,000 cows taken to Aarey Colony’s slaughterhouse

  • Installed cow dung based biogas plant in Gujarat’s Dang district, offering clean energy to power strived 170 families

  • Played a vital role in putting a ban on less than 20 micron plastic carry bags, hazardous to environment, in Mumbai

  • Rescued adolescent girls from prostitution houses by joining force with Mumbai’s then Municipal Commissioner Govind Ragho Khairnar

  • Conceptualised and executed a grand scheme of providing free houses to Mumbai’s 1,850 Kutchi families and handed over flats to them

  • Played a leading role in running a successful movement against selling and use of animals in street frolics and put a ban on such activities

  • Pioneered and started Mumbai’s first Khichi Ghar

  • Started Jivdaya camps across places for injured, sick stray animals to cure them and to remove plastic from their stomach

  • In a world record setting camp, collected 35,000 bottles of blood

  • Provided free of cost treatment to 5,000+ coronavirus patients of which 1,750 serious patients were treated in ICU

  • Started offering highly subsidised treatment and free bed facility to critically ill patients at Nanavati Hospital

  • Initiated and ran a public awareness campaign to help people know about Maharashtra government’s pro-poor schemes offering free treatment for various serious illness

  • The first ever healthcare camp of Runanubandh organised, the service which soon became an integral and ongoing service of the Trust

  • Organised a diabetes camp, which became 1,000th healthcare camp of the Trust

  • Played an important role in acquiring land free of cost for starting a new centre of Surendranagar, Gujarat’s Andhvidyalay Blind School, near Mumbai and Gujarat border

  • Visamo Dham, an old age shelter in the premises of Shri Mallinath Vihar Dham Jain Mandir, Talsari

  • Started offering free of cost bypass surgery to the needy patients at Seven Hills Hospital, Andheri, Mumbai by partnering with it

  • A massive campaign to treat paralytic pigeon started under which 167 Kabootar khana encompassing Mumbai and nearby districts covered

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitated Runanubandh Trust for its remarkable charitable services

  • Yet again, Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitated Runanubandh Trust for its remarkable charitable services

  • Ram Nath Kovind, then President of India, felicitated Runanubandh Trust for its remarkable social works

  • Global saint Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity gave time and met Vsant Galia, Runanubandh Trust’s Founder, and discussed charity works

  • A derasar, probably the first built in a crematorium premises across India, dedicated to people in Andheri’s Parsiwada

  • Against assurance of stopping to offer non-vegetarian food for one year, all convents in Mumbai were offered the entire year’s free of cost grain supply

  • Treated numerous polio patients in a camp organised in association with Padma Shri S. V. Adinarayana Rao, renowned orthopaedic surgeon, in Kutch, Gujarat

  • A free sweaters distribution drive across the entire Kutch region conducted throughout the winter season with generous support of Mafatkaka of Diwaliben Ukabhai Patel Sarvajanik Trust, Bardoli, Gujarat, and Roopam Store’s Raichandbhai Shah. A vehicle was also offered by them the drive

  • Forged an alliance with 40 hospitals across Mumbai to offer the needy patients treatment for serious illness and making benefits of Maharashtra government’s healthcare schemes to them

  • Started an awareness drive against tobacco and liquors across along with offering free treatments to addicts

  • Started an awareness drive about varicose veins, affecting 10-20 males out of 100, and 25-33 females out of 100 along with offering free of cost treatment to the needy

  • Started offering bypass surgery at a token cost to the needy patients at Nanavati Hospital (now Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vile Parle Mumbai, supported by senior cardiac surgeon Dr. Pavan Kumar and Padma Bhushan cardiovascular thoracic surgeon Dr. Ramakanta Panda