12/09/2026
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One Step at a Time Nilesh Jadhav, 36 | Mulund, Mumbai
He had built a life with numbers.
Nilesh Jadhav, anan M. Com graduate and accountant from Mulund, was the kind of man who planned carefully — for his family, his son's future, his career. At 36, life was moving in the right direction.
Then, on 5 October 2023, a train accident took his leg. And in one moment, everything he had planned came undone.
The months that followed were among the hardest of his life. He could no longer commute. He could no longer work. His wife, already managing the household and their young son's education, quietly became the sole earner. Nilesh sat at home — an educated, capable man reduced, in his own mind, to helplessness.
"I felt like I was watching my life from the outside," he says. "The sadness was constant."
In February 2026, a camp organised at Ghatkopar by Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust changed everything. Nilesh received a modular prosthetic leg — fitted properly, with training, follow-up, and a team that treated him not as a case number but as a person.
He practices for an hour every day now. He can wear it independently. He sits with his family at the dinner table. He climbs stairs — carefully, but on his own.
"Never lose hope," he says. "Disability does not define you."
He rates RNCT 10 out of 10. But behind that number is something quieter and more powerful — a man beginning to believe in himself again.
Nilesh's mobility is returning. His confidence is growing. But emotional recovery — the rebuilding of self-worth after loss — takes more than a prosthetic can provide. It takes someone willing to sit with him. To listen. To remind him that his life still has direction.
That is where you come in.
If you are a psychology or counselling student, volunteer just one hour a week with beneficiaries like Nilesh. Your presence can restore what no device alone can — dignity, hope, and the courage to keep going.
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