Helping person: A person who wants to provide help to a needy is referred to here as helping person. Under Niwasi initiative, we encourage everyone to be a helping person. They could be poor or affluent. http://help.niwasi.in is developed for this purpose only.

Needy: Almost all the persons are always in need of some kind of helps but sometime they are unable to meet those needs on their own due to some prevailing situation. They lack the necessities of life due to some reason or others. Needy can be: Individual, residents, Family, or a Community. Opposite of needy is helping person.

Need: Need here defined as something that a person is not able to meet on their own. Needs could be temporary or needed for a longer period of time. Example of a temporary need : Cooking Gas is finished and back up gas cylinder is also vacant. Example of long required need: Educational scholarship for a bright but economically underprivileged poor child.