Mission:
Dedicated to making a difference in the life of anyone in need, especially the underserved in our local community and around the world! Our vision is focused on doing our part in fighting educational inequity especially for underserved and encouraging more girls in STEM (gender disparity) and youth hunger. Education and having access to a meal should be a basic right and not a privilege!
More than 13 million children face hunger in 2022. 1 in 5 children across America don't have enough to eat.
Only 18% of girls in high-income countries, and as low as 11% in low-income countries, show interest in pursuing STEM careers (UNESCO, 2020).
Joys of Giving provides the first ‘pay what you can’ STEAM classes so everyone can contribute to fighting youth hunger. For every $20 dollars donated, you will receive a shout out on our social media commending your contribution. You will receive a Joys of Giving merchandise for a donation of $50 and more. All proceeds go to fighting youth hunger supporting the NoKidHungry organization.
Varshini Hari is the Founder and President of Joys of Giving. She is a rising junior in High school and was inspired to help the community when she first saw several children unable to afford basic privileges like healthy nutritious meals few times a day or books to read! Her visits to India and witnessing young kids working at homes and doing chores instead of having school education, also equally inpired and triggered her to found 'Joys of Giving' to bring educational equity. She loves to bring her passion of culinary arts and help with outreach and fundraising leadership activities! She has been baking since she was 6 years old and loves to experiement with art of baking and how to infuse science and creativity when she teaches baking skills to other kids. She is also an avid STEAMnist with a passion to fade gender boundaries in STEM fields and aspires to outreach and bring more minorities to have the same opportunities as everyone else. She strongly believes that no one should be left behind!
Featured on Wall Street Journal, 425 Magazine 30 under 30, US Congressional Gold Medal Award, US Presidential Award Gold, Redmond Reporter news, King 5 News interview, George Bush Point of Light awards and many more social media articles.
Executive Team
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Vanesha Hari is the advisor for Joys of Giving. She is a currently pursuing her undergraduate college degree and is passionate about educational equity. Over several family trips to India, she noticed several girls working at homes to financially support their families. She began to wonder why kids as young as 10 years old would not be getting school education instead? Later when she was back to Seattle, she also witnessed women homelessness (Seattle #3 for homelessness in nation) and underserved youth in foster homes with no basic necessities. Several such incidents which didn't seem normal and fair, led to the birth of 'Joys of Giving' with a simple intention of helping others and more specifically minorities and underserved to have education as a basic right in their lives.
She wants to have a direct impact on the inclusion and diversity in STEM. She continues to research, utilize creative talents, outreach and raise funds to help the betterment of the society we live in and bring gender equality in STEM!