Zoro Foundation is a volunteer-run initiative that turns small gifts into direct help for low-income families: school kits for children, groceries for a household in a hard month, and one emergency bill paid before it becomes a loan.
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Unit costs are our estimates from local shops in Ramapuram, Chennai, updated as we buy. Any amount from ₹100 is welcome on the next page.
You always know what a given amount does. Pin a gift to one programme, or give to the general fund and we'll put it where the need is sharpest that week.
Representative photoNotebooks, stationery, a school bag, the textbooks the school asked for, and an hour of homework help a week from a volunteer who knows their name.
Representative photoRice, dal, oil, atta and the basics for a family of four for two weeks, handed over by a neighbour, no queue and no form.
Representative photoA medicine bill, a school fee due on Friday, a roof before the rains. Paid straight to the pharmacy, school or shop, within days, never as cash.
Six scenes from the neighbourhoods our volunteers live in. The situations are real and common; names and details are changed, and none of the people pictured are the families described.
"The school list came home in June. Six notebooks, a geometry box, a bag. Amma had ₹140."
Kavitha is good at sums and sits in the second row. Her mother does piecework at home near the bus depot. The list is the difference between sitting in class and sitting out; by July, children without books stop coming.
₹800 puts a full kit in her hands before the first week ends.
"The site shut for eleven days in the rain. No work, no wages. The rice tin was down to the bottom."
Murugan lays tiles on daily wages. His wife, two children and mother eat from what he brings home that week. Nobody is sick and nobody is in crisis. It is simply a fortnight with nothing coming in, and the kitchen knows it first.
₹1,200 is two weeks of groceries, handed over the same evening by a volunteer from the next lane.
"The pharmacy said ₹2,300 for the month. The moneylender said 10% a week. I was going to say yes."
Selvi's mother is on blood-pressure and diabetes tablets and lives with her son's family. One month of medicine, once, is the whole emergency. Left alone it becomes a loan that eats every month after.
₹2,500 pays the pharmacy directly, and the moneylender never gets the call.
"He shares his friend's textbook and copies it out at night. He's two chapters behind and pretending he isn't."
Arun's father drives an auto; the family moved twice this year. The school's book list came to ₹640, and every month something else came first. He is bright, quiet and about to fall through the gap.
₹800 covers the books and puts him in a Saturday homework group.
"When the factory cut the night shift, four houses on our lane lost their income the same week."
Lakshmi runs a tiny tailoring shop and knows every family on her lane. When the shift went, she knew who would skip dinner first. She asked for kits, not for herself, but for the four houses that wouldn't ask.
₹4,800 feeds four families for two weeks, delivered door to door.
"The fee notice said Friday. Her name would be read out in assembly on Monday. She stopped eating breakfast."
Priya's father has been in hospital for three weeks. A ₹2,100 term fee, due now, was about to cost her the exams she had prepared for all year. Nobody in the family had the words to ask for help.
₹2,500 pays the school directly, and she sits her exams.
Illustrative scenes with names changed. Zoro has not yet published a real case; when our first drives run, the real stories, with permission and with real photographs, go here.
We are just getting started, so these numbers begin at zero. We publish only what has actually happened, and update this ledger after every drive.
Last updated 26 September 2026. Razorpay deducts its standard payment fee (about 2%) before funds reach us; we show it on the ledger rather than hide it in the numbers.
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