Gaya district, Bihar, India · Non-profit Trust since 2019
ActiveSmile Together India Foundation
Neighbors helping neighbors in rural Bihar
What Smile Together India Does
Founded in 2019 to support families in one of India's poorest regions — people facing hunger and shut out of basic education and healthcare. The work serves those everyone else steps over: Dalit families, poor widows, the elderly, people with disabilities, women, and children without family support. The work is rice carried into homes, wool blankets handed out before the cold turns deadly, and a doctor brought to a village that has never had one.
Who Leads It
Sourabh Kumar Pathak, founder and secretary, with local volunteers who live in the villages they serve.
WholeFam as Primary US Sponsor
WholeFam serves as the primary US sponsor of Smile Together India. The relationship is built on trust and transparency: a rooted local team, double-entry books, photographs, and direct relationships. The network covers its own operating costs so that 100% of the support that reaches the field goes to the field — rice, blankets, medicine, a doctor in a village that has never had one.
Why WholeFam Visited
Smile Together India is a sibling organization — independent and cooperating. The connection represents WholeFam's field research in India: studying how small, trustworthy local teams reach the people the big charities and government never reach. The model is directly relevant to WholeFam's vision of community-supported, neighborhood-level care.
What We Learned
That a small team with double-entry books, photographs, and direct relationships can do what large organizations struggle to do: reach the unreached, account for every rupee, and build trust through visible results. The five-year plan reaches toward education, reliable healthcare, and skills training — but it starts by meeting the need in front of it.
The Connection to WholeFam
Smile Together India is the first Anchor in WholeFam's sibling network. The relationship demonstrates how WholeFam's community-supported model works in practice: a rooted local organization, accountable and trusted, backed by a network that covers its own costs so 100% of support reaches the field.
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