Udayan Care

Udayan Care has opened IT and vocational training centres to promote digital literacy and make it a medium to get employment and financial independence. They also conduct certification courses from Adobe, Microsoft and Tally.

The 'Skill Centre' is another project in Greater Noida which trains women in stitching, pottery, enamelled products and paper crafts, so that the women can secure a living after learning. The range of products developed at the Skill Centre is called 'Sukriti Creation'.

Under this programme, Udayan Care works with governmental and non-governmental organizations to promote policy reforms for homeless children in various spheres like education, physical and mental health, nutrition and livelihood.

Some of the highlights of their work include; filing and winning a PIL to include a 'Guardian' column in Boards form along with 'Mother' and 'Father' in 2005. In 2008, they advocated for Child Protection Policies for adoption. In March 2014, it initiated the first Biennial Conference on 'Alternative Care' and launched the academic, bi-annual journal, named ‘Institutionalised Children: Explorations and Beyond'.

The 'Education' vertical hosts programmes like 'Udayan Shalini Fellowship' and 'Pragnya'. ‘Udayan Shalini’ strives to provide school education to girls and women who have been denied access because of financial constraints or social setbacks.

The admission criteria for the programme are based on the 'NAT' (Need, Ambition, and Talent) model. Candidates have to undergo a series of verbal and written tests and home visits by the team to determine the need for support. 'Pragnya' aids graduate and postgraduate studies for women bound by financial and social restrictions.

This programme of Udayan Care has 17 Ghars across 4 states. An Udayan Ghar is a structure derived from the concept of 'Sunshine Homes' which are group homes aimed to provide a family-like environment to the children. Each Ghar has around 12 children from ages 6-18 staying together as a family unit.

The concept of Udayan Ghar is rooted in the belief that a family setup fosters the right values, interactions, development and education in the children who have not been granted a safe family space naturally.

The 'AfterCare' programme under 'Child Care and Youth' vertical looks after children from the age of eighteen till the time they attain financial independence. 'Gate Keeping' is a programme under the 'Child and Youth Care' vertical that aids in restoring ties with the biological family of the child and reuniting them. The 'Foster care' programme is an alternative to Udayan Ghar, where the child lives with a foster family if 'Gate Keeping' has not worked out.

The Udayan Shalini Fellowship Program addresses adolescent girls from difficult circumstances who are in peril of dropping out of formal education system. It offers them a modest financial support, personalized mentoring and teaches them life skills, employable skills, personality development skills from XI std up to graduation for a period of 6 years and transforms them into educated, empowered and confident women or Shalinis. The girls are inducted into the program through a proprietary recruitment model that establishes their Need, Aptitude and Talent (NAT). The program spends a min of 250 hours annually through program engagement with each girl. The girls are expected to put in 50 hours of social work every year through the program – a feature that builds social sensitivity and makes them active citizens of India. The program is spread across the length and breadth of the country is offered through 32 city chapters.

Small group homes for children (6-18Yrs) in need of parental care. Our focus is on the holistic development of the child through education, individual attention, and mentoring. We have 16 homes in Delhi NCR, Kurukshetra, and Jaipur with separate facilities for girls and boys.

Youth living in underprivileged communities lack the opportunities to train themselves with the skills needed to pave the way for better employment. The UCIT program fills the gap and teaches them IT skills and soft skills and makes them employment ready. We teach digital literacy courses to community youth and women. We also teach job specific courses in specific IT skills like Tally, Data Entry Operator, Graphic Design and Python. The program also offers placement support for job specific courses.