Who wouldn't like a world without borders? But since that is like a chimera, you do have these demarcations and the effect of this is felt most perhaps by those living on either side of the line. People in the border areas are more or less like shock absorbers. With the child hood conviction of working at and for the people living near India's borders and greatly inspired by Bhagat Singh and his works, Adik Kadam and his cousin Bharati Mamani established the NGO, Borderless World Foundation (BWF) in 2002.

Adik, the founder and director of the foundation started visiting the most disturbed and sensitive State of J & K from 1997 after completing his class 12. He was the only Hindu civilian working in Kupwara. Even after being kidnapped many times, he never gave up and continued to work for the girl orphans in that area. "There are many organisations working for Kashmir but in my experience of 11 years, I haven't seen even one organisation working in Kashmir," said Kadam.

There are around 24,000 orphans in Kupwara.The BWF established three orphanages in different parts of Kashmir namely in Kupwara, Budgam and Anantnag. Starting with four orphan girls, Basera –e –Tabassum (BeT) which means 'adode of smiles' was established in May 2002. Today it has seventy-eight orphans. BeT works for the development, survival, protection, participation of the girl child towards their physical, psychological recovery and social reintegration.

The girls are encouraged with their academics for nine months in Kashmir and then during their vacation of two to three months in winters various activities are conducted for their overall development. Last year the girls were here in Pune for an education tour for twenty-eight days. They studied various languages like Sanskrit, German, French, and Spanish and were also involved in various extra circular activities like sports, music, drama, and dance in some of the city schools. "The main reason to get them here is to bridge the gap between them and our people, to make them feel that there is the whole of India to take care of them and there is much more than Kashmir," said Kadam.