Udayan Care

Just like another intern, I with other interns visited one of the Udayan Ghars: Home 12.    There were 12 girls with happy faces and chirpy voices. Everyone had a different personality yet all living under one roof. It’s so amazing that these Udayan Ghars provide sunshine homes that foster abandoned and orphaned children in nurturing settings. While some of the girls in the Udayan Ghar were shy others were the complete opposite, but every girl in the house was unique. Udayan care has done a great job by putting all of them under one roof. This not only helps them to become independent but also helps the girls to be successful in some or the other ways in the later years when they experience the real world i.e. after the age of 18 years. While I was there I did not feel that they are total different girls together but a bunch of cousin sisters living together pursuing their own goals and ambitions in life. These Udayan Ghars have lightened the ability in a child to grow ...

During my internship at the office of Udayan Care, I get the chance to visit the Udayan Ghar in Sant Nagar, a foster home accommodating twelve girls. A personal impression   I ring the bell with mixed expectations. I´ve heard praise about the Udayan Ghars from literally all the staff, seen the long list of awards the organisation received – but from experience I know that despite being praised and awarded, an NGO might still fail or simply not care to improve the situation of its target group. So I try to keep my hopes down, but still I can´t help to secretly wish that this time it will be different. Well, it is. The door is opened by a young woman, who, as I will learn later, is one of the caregivers that constantly live with the girls. I get a short impression of a large, well-lit flat, several beds covered with pink bedspreads, then I am asked to sit down, being successively offered water, lunch and chai and introduced to the Home´s coordinators, Preeti and Poonam. A fe...