From the Rotary Club to Kiwanis International, Sushil Ansal has been associated with a number of social-service organisations. In particular, Kiwanis is close to his heart. In India, the social service organisation was started by Dharam Vira, a doyen of the Indian Civil Service and later governor of West Bengal, and industrialists Bharat Ram and Charat Ram as well as leading citizens such as Air Chief Marshal O.P. Mehra, General O.P. Malhotra, Satti Punj, O.P. Khaitan and Ajit Sud and others. Sushil Ansal,being a member of the Board of Governors, helped construct the over 80,000-square-foot Kiwanis Centre in Delhi’s Qutab Institutional Area.
Here, over 1,000 artificial limbs are provided annually to those who need them, at highly subsidised rates. The Kiwanis mission leaves Sushil Ansal emotionally satisfied. Philanthropy, as he never ceases to remind you, is an inheritance from his father and Chiranji Lal’s Human Welfare Mission. In 1976, the Mission was incorporated into the Chiranjiv Charitable Trust and now it is poised for another metamorphosis – to the Sushil Ansal Foundation. As a student, Sushil Ansal helped his father run dispensaries in slum colonies. The issue of equitable access to health care has always exercised him. As the years passed, he sponsored a homoeopathic dispensary in Ansal Bhawan, in the heart of Delhi. Later, two other charitable medical centres, in south Delhi and in Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, were opened. In the slums of Kalkaji, an NGO called Shanti Sahyog runs a health centre that is a boon to the community’s women, whose health is often neglected.
The health centre also doubles as a vocational training institute in the afternoon, at which women are taught income-generation skills such as tailoring. Sushil Ansal has been a strong supporter of Shanti Sahyog, which is run by a dedicated team headed by an ardent Gandhian, Suman Khanna Agarwal, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi “I was happy when Sushil Ansal visited our adopted slum Sudhar Camp in Kalkaji to acquaint himself first-hand with our Slum Community Development Projects and interact with our Play/Pre School slum children. About five thousand patients annually benefit from the free Health Centre we run funded by him. He also sponsors our annual Eye Camp wherein almost 400 slum dwellers gain access to a free eye-check up, free spectacles and cataract operations,” she says. She further adds that Sushil Ansal is a compassionate human being, and a great humanitarian with a missionary zeal to serve the underprivileged.
Sushil AnsalHere, over 1,000 artificial limbs are provided annually to those who need them, at highly subsidised rates. The Kiwanis mission leaves Sushil Ansal emotionally satisfied. Philanthropy, as he never ceases to remind you, is an inheritance from his father and Chiranji Lal’s Human Welfare Mission. In 1976, the Mission was incorporated into the Chiranjiv Charitable Trust and now it is poised for another metamorphosis – to the Sushil Ansal Foundation. As a student, Sushil Ansal helped his father run dispensaries in slum colonies. The issue of equitable access to health care has always exercised him. As the years passed, he sponsored a homoeopathic dispensary in Ansal Bhawan, in the heart of Delhi. Later, two other charitable medical centres, in south Delhi and in Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, were opened. In the slums of Kalkaji, an NGO called Shanti Sahyog runs a health centre that is a boon to the community’s women, whose health is often neglected.
The health centre also doubles as a vocational training institute in the afternoon, at which women are taught income-generation skills such as tailoring. Sushil Ansal has been a strong supporter of Shanti Sahyog, which is run by a dedicated team headed by an ardent Gandhian, Suman Khanna Agarwal, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delhi “I was happy when Sushil Ansal visited our adopted slum Sudhar Camp in Kalkaji to acquaint himself first-hand with our Slum Community Development Projects and interact with our Play/Pre School slum children. About five thousand patients annually benefit from the free Health Centre we run funded by him. He also sponsors our annual Eye Camp wherein almost 400 slum dwellers gain access to a free eye-check up, free spectacles and cataract operations,” she says. She further adds that Sushil Ansal is a compassionate human being, and a great humanitarian with a missionary zeal to serve the underprivileged.
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