Extend your Support to underprivileged children

Delhi Council for Child Welfare has been serving underprivileged children in and around Delhi since 1952, in line with our mission of “Giving Children a Childhood”. To date our programmes and projects have impacted the lives of over 300,000 children. More details can be found on our website www.dccw.org. Pre-pandemic we touched the lives of 3000 children daily. Since all our programmes are targeted at underprivileged children, due to the pandemic several of our programmes have had to be suspended for extended periods of time in line with government guidelines. Covid has also resulted in a financial crunch as all our programmes run on donations, and these have been deeply impacted in these unparalleled circumstances that the world has been faced with. This fundraiser is to raise funds to help bridge this gap to the extent possible.

We serve the underprivileged children in and around Delhi, through our different programmes running out of 16 centres located in slum and resettlement areas:

• PALNA (meaning cradle and nurture) is our home and licensed adoption centre for abandoned / lost / homeless children. It is a best-in-class home in India. It also has a section for special needs children, who will not go in adoption. All the children have been safe from covid.
• Our Educational Sponsorship programme provides financial support, counselling and stationery to school-going children.
• We train adolescent school drop-out girls in income-generating skills through our Vocational Training Programme* (VTP).
• Palna WeeKids* programme prepares children in age group of 2-6 years to get admission into schools.
• Our Supervised Homework Scheme* helps school-going children with their homework so as to help them cope with their schooling and not drop out.
• The Orthopaedic Programme which rehabilitated physically challenged children through necessary surgeries and therapies is suspended since April 2020.
• BalChetna Outreach programme providing daycare and rehabilitation for special needs children is also suspended since April 2020.

(* these programmes have had several suspensions over the last 2 years, as per government guidelines on the pandemic. But the beneficiaries do come as soon as the programmes are operational.)

1. PALNA to continue to be known as one of the best homes for abandoned children in India, which works with commitment to ensure the physical, social and mental well-being of each child. At any time there are about 65 children in PALNA. To date 3000 PALNA children have gone in adoption into loving families.
2. We aim to support about a 1000 children annually through or Educational Sponsorship Programme
3. Annually we train 700 girls in income-generating skills (beauty culture, computers, tailoring.
4. Pre-covid we typically have 550 children in our Palna WeeKids programme.
5. Pre-covid the Supervised Homework Scheme had over 300 beneficiaries annually
6. We hope to restart the BalChetna Outreach and Orthopaedic programme in a phased manner as and when the situation allows.