There are organisations that talk about change. And then there is the Bhamla Foundation, led by Asif Bhamla and Saher Bhamla, which simply goes ahead and creates it. The foundation is all set to launch its Pink E-Rickshaw Support Initiative on June 1, 2026, at Jamnabai Narsee School, under the rallying call of ‘#DriveHerFuture’, a programme designed to empower 1,000 women with their own vehicles and by extension, their own independence, their own income and their own voice. Joining hands with the Bhamla Foundation for this landmark initiative are actor and climate advocate Bhumi Pednekar and singer, social activist and banker Amruta Fadnavis, two women who have consistently used their platforms to champion causes that go far beyond their own spotlight.
The Pink E-Rickshaw Support Initiative is rooted in a truth that the Bhamla Foundation has always understood, supported and acted upon. That real empowerment is never abstract. It is a scholarship in a young girl’s hands. It is a clean beach returned to a community. It is a tree planted with the promise of shade for someone who comes after. And it is a pink e-rickshaw that gives a woman the ability to earn, to move freely and to build a future entirely on her own terms. In backing this initiative alongside the BMC, the foundation is once again demonstrating that its commitment to social change is not seasonal or symbolic. It is structural, sustained and deeply human.
Asif Bhamla and Saher Bhamla have, over the years, built a foundation that refuses to be defined by a single cause. From the Supergirls of Tomorrow scholarship programme that has put education within reach for hundreds of girls from BMC schools, to beach clean-up drives across Mumbai’s coastline, to the #EkPedMaaKeNaam and #NowForClimate tree plantation campaigns, to now #DriveHerFuture, the through-line has always been the same. Show up. Act. And make sure the most vulnerable are never the last to benefit. The Pink E-Rickshaw Support Initiative is the latest chapter in that story and it is, like everything the Bhamla Foundation touches, exactly the kind of change that lasts.
