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Naani’s Touch Cafés
Paid roles for mothers aged 50+ preparing and serving traditional food.
From lived wisdom to lasting livelihoods
Every mother deserves her next chapter.
We help mothers aged 50+ turn generations of culinary wisdom, resilience and care into confidence, livelihoods and independent enterprises.
Naani’s Touch — Bringing Mothers’ Warmth to Four Cities✦
Empowering 50,000 mothersA national vision rooted in dignity, tradition and enterprise.
Why Naani’s Touch
Her experience is an asset, not a memory.
Across Bharat, mothers carry recipes, skills and life lessons refined over decades. Naani’s Touch creates a structured pathway for these women to re-enter economic life—with training, support, visibility and ownership.
“When a mother becomes independent, a family becomes stronger.”
A pathway with purpose
From identification to enterprise.
We begin locally, learn carefully and scale responsibly—keeping each mother’s confidence, capability and future at the centre.
01IdentifyLocal mothers 50+
02TrainSkills & standards
03IncubatePractice & mentoring
04EmpowerConfidence & income
05EntrepreneurOwn enterprise
06MeasureTrack outcomes
07ScaleReplicate impact
Our initiatives
Many ways to empower a mother.
Each initiative recognises a different strength and creates a path to participation, income or connection.
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Mother Empowerment & Hospitality Skill Training Centre
Training in food safety, hospitality, packaging and running a small business.
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Naani’s Gurukul – Gyan Maa Fellowship
Skilled mothers aged 50+ support children in government schools through teaching and mentoring, under school supervision.
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Naani’s Kitchen
Helping mothers turn family recipes into packaged food products and income.
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Naani’s Bazaar
Retail and online sales opportunities for products made by mothers.
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Naani’s Stories
Recording mothers’ recipes, experiences and traditions through films, events and books.
Empowering mothers across Bharat
Mother Empowerment & Hospitality Skill Training Centre
A vision to help mothers aged 50+ build skills in food safety, cooking, hospitality, packaging and small business. Training, mentoring and pathways to café work and entrepreneurship aim to nurture livelihoods, confidence, belonging and emotional wellbeing.
The proposed programme brings together culinary skills, café operations, financial and digital literacy, marketing, branding, business management and enterprise mentorship.
Identify · Assess · Train · Certify · Incubate · Employ · Entrepreneur · Mentor · Scale
Skills. Livelihoods. Dignity. Belonging.
Naani’s Gurukul Initiative
Gyan Maa Fellowship
A proposed CSR-supported teaching and mentorship programme that invites skilled mothers aged 50+ to share their experience with children in government schools.
- Fellows are selected, screened and prepared before placement.
- They may support reading, numeracy, storytelling, mentoring and small-group learning, as agreed with each school.
- Fellows work in approved roles under teacher supervision and follow school safeguarding procedures.
- Training and a stipend recognise the mothers’ time and contribution.
Let experience return to the classroom.
Welcome, Beta
Naani’s Touch Café
A welcoming pure vegetarian café with a fine dining touch, where mothers aged 50+ can prepare and serve traditional food with the warmth of home.
Guests can enjoy tea, coffee, fresh snacks and traditional sweets; discover mothers’ spice blends, pickles and packaged foods; and explore handmade gifts. The concept also makes room for catering enquiries and celebrations.
Each café is intended to create paid roles, confidence and emotional connection while bringing generations together.
Traditional recipes. Mothers’ expertise. New opportunities.
Naani’s Kitchen
Naani’s Kitchen, an initiative of Naani’s Touch, aims to help mothers—with priority to those aged 50+—turn treasured family recipes into quality food products and earning opportunities.
From masalas, pickles and chutneys to traditional snacks, sweets and ready-to-cook mixes, the initiative combines mothers’ culinary expertise with training in hygiene, costing, packaging and quality checks. Products can reach customers through Naani’s Touch Cafés, Naani’s Bazaar, retail and online sales, community orders and gifting.
By supporting paid work and small food enterprises, Naani’s Kitchen seeks to build confidence, companionship and recognition while preserving Bharat’s culinary heritage.
From a mother’s kitchen to every family’s table.
Mothers’ creations. Wider markets. Meaningful livelihoods.
Naani’s Bazaar
An initiative of Naani’s Touch, Naani’s Bazaar aims to connect mothers’ traditional skills and handmade products with customers across Bharat, with priority to mothers aged 50+.
From homemade foods and embroidered textiles to crafts, accessories and festive hampers, the initiative seeks to create retail and online sales opportunities through café displays, community bazaars, retail partnerships and corporate gifting.
Planned support includes product development, quality checks, packaging guidance and transparent payment terms—helping mothers turn their skills into income, confidence and recognition.
Made with skill. Shared with pride.
Mothers’ voices. Living traditions. Memories for generations.
Naani’s Stories
An initiative of Naani’s Touch, Naani’s Stories is envisioned to celebrate mothers’ lives, recipes and wisdom through films, recorded conversations, books, events and digital platforms.
Across Bharat, mothers carry memories of raising families, overcoming challenges and keeping traditions alive. By preserving their voices, regional stories and everyday knowledge, the initiative seeks to give mothers recognition and help younger generations connect with their roots.
Every mother has a story. Every story holds wisdom. Every voice deserves to be heard.
Built for responsible impact
Purpose needs accountability.
Our implementation approach is designed around documented approvals, ring-fenced project use, auditable records and measurable outcomes.
✓Dedicated programme accounting and utilisation records
✓Milestone-based implementation and reporting
✓Independent financial and programme oversight
✓Impact measurement from pilot to scale
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A note from the founder
Preserving what mothers know. Expanding what they can become.
Naani’s Touch was born from a simple conviction: age should never make a mother’s contribution invisible. Her knowledge carries cultural and economic value. By pairing that wisdom with training, systems and opportunity, we can help her build a future on her own terms—and strengthen families in the process.
Konakanchi Ramesh VittalFounder, Naani’s Touch
Help a mother begin again.
Partner with us to train, incubate and empower mothers across Bharat.
Our next chapter
Naani’s Touch — Bringing Mothers’ Warmth to Four Cities
Mumbai • Chennai • Bengaluru • Delhi
Coming by mid-2027
Naani’s Touch – An Initiative to Empower Mothers is preparing to bring its vision to Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Delhi by mid-2027.
Each city chapter will celebrate mothers’ wisdom, talents and traditions, creating opportunities for meaningful livelihoods, emotional wellbeing and a stronger sense of belonging. Through cafés, hospitality training, traditional food products, handmade creations and storytelling, we aim to help mothers share their skills, earn with dignity and receive the recognition they deserve.
Our vision goes beyond financial empowerment. We want every mother to feel valued, connected and loved—to find companionship, rediscover her confidence and begin a fulfilling new chapter.
Four cities. One shared purpose. A brighter future for mothers.
When we empower a mother, we strengthen a family. When we strengthen families, we strengthen society—and together, we contribute to Viksit Bharat.
Mumbai Naani’s TouchChennai Naani’s TouchBengaluru Naani’s TouchDelhi Naani’s Touch
Join us in bringing “Welcome, Beta” to more hearts and homes.