Support Chetpet's Children

Yein Udaan was founded in 2017 with a powerful mission: to transform Chennai’s oldest and largest dhobi ghat (washermen community) into a model community by providing its children, youth, and women access to education and employment opportunities. We are working towards a future wherein motivated individuals have the agency and social capital to break out of the cycles of poverty and build thriving communities.

Our mission is to hand-hold these impressionable learners throughout their school journey into college, to realise our long-term vision of every child having access to diverse and deserving learning opportunities. Since our inception, we have been working with 200 children and their families on this transformative path. We have already witnessed improvements in language skills, shifts in mindsets about abuse, development of healthy relationships with self and others, honing of non-academic skills which tap into each learner’s unique abilities, and overall healthy growth of the child. Children are also more joyful and secure to express themselves around caring adults in a safe space.

We believe a holistic model of intervention at a safe space will enable participating children to improve their quality of development and life, and in turn culminate in a safe, healthy and joyous childhood. Such an intervention will not only result in short-term improvements as children stay away from negative influences but also have a long-term, sustainable impact as they grow into well-rounded, self-aware young adults, ready to thrive in the real world, and break the cycles of abuse and poverty.