This story is of Divya Vohra and how a little thought changed her life and impacted several others. Divya had always been a bright student since childhood. Most people around her were confident about her intelligence, capabilities, and zeal. They were sure that she would succeed in her career, no matter the field she chose. But for Divya, it was not just about excelling professionally. Deep within, she knew that she was missing something, maybe a bigger purpose.
Divya Vohra – Her Story
In 1994, Divya pursued her graduation in Economics from the famous Shri Ram College of Commerce, North Campus. It was then that she was introduced to Social Activism. She took a significant interest in it and started teaching under-privileged children near the North Campus of Delhi University. As soon as she graduated, Divya attempted to start her own NGO for teaching the underprivileged but fate had something else planned for her.
With her academic qualifications and perseverance, corporate success was a natural progression for Divya. She landed her MBA internship at JLL, a Fortune 500 company. The relationship and rapport she had built during the internship led to her being offered a permanent role at the company. Being a natural leader, it didn’t take her long to climb the corporate ladder.
However, stress is a common factor to all those thriving in the corporate world, and Divya faced the same. On the advice of a mentor, she learned about Pranic Healing. It added to the grace with which she handled the pressures of the Boardroom. A practice that started of self-care was extended to help those around her. Being a people person right from the beginning, Divya was eager to share the secret of the practice that brought her peace.
Divya always wanted to achieve success in her career and to bring a positive change with the authority that success brings. She never forgot her original intention and her inner calling, the one she realized during her college. Divya was sincerely determined to do something for the people.
Humanity faces mammoth problems every moment somewhere in the world– whether it is an epidemic, famine, water scarcity, earthquake, or tornado. Some of these might even be impossible to solve or overcome instantly. But one problem that we can try to solve, the one that should have been seen for what it is, a blot on the foreheads of the most impactful species to ever walk the Earth, is the one that it should have solved decades ago is – Hunger. There’s a famous saying, “Hunger makes a thief of any man,” and there are close to a billion people living in hunger every single day, so how many jails should we build?
Divya was inspired by her Spiritual teacher Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, the modern founder of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga and a philanthropist. Her teacher believed that to raise the consciousness of humanity; their basic needs should be met.
With the determination to provide food to the starving, Divya set out to the path of her inner calling. In 2015, Divya started Food4Smile in Gurgaon, intending to make free nutritious food accessible to everyone. She began her efforts by providing food to over 150 underprivileged children every week initially. Being a natural leader and a relationship builder, she built a team and expanded Food4Smile’s reach in minimal time.
At present, Food4Smile is based in Gurgaon and serves food to more than 9000 people every month. They have been expanding their efforts to Mumbai – Dombivali, Thane to feed 150 underprivileged children every day post the lockdown. You can join their efforts by supporting them in expansion and multiplying their operations.
Divya feels that the world was supposed to have come together by now, but it seems like we have further grown apart. The two corners of this spherical world couldn’t have been more apart, with one wasting more and more tons of food each year and creating one starving generation after the other.
Divya says that “Every time a person goes to sleep without food in his belly. It breaks my heart every day knowing that I might not be able to solve this solvable problem. Knowing that for every soul I feed, there will be millions of others whom I won’t.”
“And the soul I feed may stay hungry on days that I fail to return. It’s a curse to feel for the less fortunate as there are so many of them. But such is the life I have chosen. My ask is big but what I want is small. It’s nothing short of a blessing that even when the hurdle in front of us is huge, and there are almost a billion reasons to be sad, it is the smiles that make my day.”
“It’s a smile of the eyes that comes after the food hits a stomach that had been eating itself, at times for days. I go to sleep tired every night but never broken for my work here isn’t done. I shall forever fight for the souls that need me the most.”
“For hunger isn’t an issue of Charity, it’s an issue of Justice. We can’t allow the Future of India sleep hungry at Night”- Divya Vohra.
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