educating India's Children
ABOUT Us
IMPACT INDIA is a charitable non-profit 501(c)3 organization that exists to love and serve the poor and destitute of India; and to break the cycle of poverty by providing Loving care, Quality education, Skill Training, Medical care and opportunities for becoming successful contributors to the Indian community. Our mission is to Rescue, Restore and Educate children that have been orphaned, abandoned, trafficked or unwanted. Besides rescuing kids, we are also working toward rehabilitating and providing skilled training to widows, single mothers and poor women who have been victims of domestic violence or rejected by the society; and to provide humanitarian welfare assistance to the poor in several villages and communities of India.
The goal of Impact India is to see hundreds of lives redeemed and restored every single day.
Our Story
From Raj:
"My story is one of pain, trauma, redemption and of overcoming all odds. I was born in India into an abusive home where my father eventually ended up breaking my mother's arm. My mother tried to escape, along with me and my younger brother. Unfortunately, he discovered our whereabouts and took back my brother. We were now separated and ended up growing up in different cities (only to be reunited 15 years later.) My mother and I were left on the streets. My days were spent working as a child laborer cleaning floors at local stores and restaurants for the next two years, many days barely having enough to eat. At the age of seven I was sent to an orphanage where I ended up going to school and college living out the rest of my childhood and young adult years. It was surely a step up from living on the streets. It was years before I ever got to see my mother again. It was there in that place of loneliness and longing for family that the Lord met me and became my father."
From Colleen:
"I went to the nation of India when I was 19 and lived and served there for 4 years studying the culture. It was there that I met my husband Raj and we were married in India in 2005. We moved to the USA for seven years and worked there, until we moved back to India in 2011.
We knew from the beginning that we were brought together for a great cause to help people. In 2011 we moved back there and began rescuing kids and helping the less fortunate. Today we are known lovingly as 'mommy' and 'daddy' to the kids in our care.
-Raj & Colleen
Founders