ActionAid India is part of a global federation and a full affiliate of ActionAid International that has presence in over 40 countries worldwide.

Since 1972, the poor and the excluded have been at the centre of their programs in India. In 2006, they got registered as an Indian organisation called ActionAid Association.

They are primarily a human rights organization. They work for the rights of disadvantaged women and children ensuring that they have good means of livelihood. ActionAid has empowered its women to take up roles in the society which till now were dominated by males, such as truck drivers, cab drivers etc.

After a public hearing of a rape case in Gwalior, ActionAid set up the crisis centre in Bhopal. Gauravi is the first of its kind in India with the help of the Department of Health In 2014 to provide rights to victims of domestic and sexual abuse, belonging to vulnerable community chiefly.

There are 22 Gauravi centres across the country - 3 in Madhya Pradesh, 17 in Uttar Pradesh and the most recent ones started in 2017 in Manipur and in Tuticorin. Till now, 40,000 cases have been registered in the centers.

The cases that are looked into are: rape, domestic violence, molestation, minor cases, witch branding, victims of trafficking, women with mental illness, destitute women, and male or minor male victims of sexual harassment.

Centre for Social Security and Research aims at strengthening urban poor communities, especially the slum dwellers to participate in the development process for claiming their rights. Students who used to drop out of the schools because of unsatisfactory teaching methods or lack of finances to afford a tutor are regularly attending school these days owing to the remedial classes conducted by CSSAR.

The education programme fills the gaps in school education and sustains the interest of children and their parents in a formal education system. The teachers pay individual attention to the students to have a better understanding of the subject. This has helped in enhancing their performance in their schools and motivated them to pursue higher studies.Spoken English classes are also conducted for secondary level school students to enhance their communication skills and make them better equipped for the future.

Remedial classes to the school going slum girl children are conducted separately to reach out to the girls in the slums who are generally side-lined or neglected in the education system due to various constraints. So far, CSSAR has educated 3104 children. About 500 children attend the remedial classes every year.

Deepalaya is a New Delhi based organization with projects being implemented across north India. The organization is working dedicatedly towards improving the lives of children in vulnerable conditions.

They believe that sensitisation of the community is the approach through which empowerment, capacity building and social transformation can be achieved.

One of their projects is the Institutional Care programme where they provide shelter, care and a homely atmosphere, all aimed towards a dignified life for children from difficult circumstances. These range from street and run-away children, victims of child abuse, children of lifetime convicts, children of HIV+ and AIDS patients, children of sex workers, and other vulnerable categories.

These children belong to deprived backgrounds ? on an emotional, physical and social front. When brought under the care of Deepalaya, they receive overall rehabilitation support to help overcome the deprivation in their life. Healthy nutritious meals are one component of this rehabilitation process. In addition, the emotional, social, academic/vocational rehabilitation also take place through facilities available on campus, as well as in the nearby town of Tauru.

Mr. A J Philip is the CEO of the organisation, after having served as the president of the organisation for more than 20 years. Mr. Philip served Deepalaya since it started operations in 1979, with the sole intention of providing quality education at affordable costs. The motto is to enable the child look beyond slums.

Delhi Council for Child Welfare started its work to provide care to the displaced, lost or abandoned children in the riots surrounding the Partition of India. It is an NGO that now provides services to the underprivileged children of Delhi and the neighboring regions to promote their health, development, economic and social wellbeing.

The most well-known programme of DCCW is Palna, home for the abandoned, homeless and destitute children. At Palna, infants arrive in a precarious state of health and the best possible medical care is given to them. It is a home to those children whose parents relinquish them or surrendered to them by the Police. DCCW works towards creating awareness on matters of basic health and hygiene, nutrition, pre-natal and post-natal maternal and childcare to the women in rural areas and urban slums. They also conduct programmes aimed at the education of children from underprivileged families.

The Orthopaedic Centre set by DCCW provides a complete range of rehabilitation services to physically disabled children, especially those affected by polio. More than 9,000 surgeries have been performed up to date and 25000 children have been fitted with polio aids. Their mission is to give every child the childhood they deserve.

With 20,000 surgeries; around 30,000 eye screenings and more than 1500 eye surgeries to the children- this humongous work without a second thought are being done by Dr. Shroff's Charity eye hospital (SCEH).

SCEH was founded in the year 1914 to facilitate eye care to the underprivileged. With a mission to be the best Tertiary Eye and ENT Care Institution in Northern India, the clinic stands out when it comes to quality eye care. Graduating from Royal college of Surgeries, London, Mr. Shroff established the eye care center in the year 1926 with the best equipment from those times.

Right from Retinal to Cornea, eye cancers to surgeries, cataract to the general care; SCEH has 125 full-time staff with over 35 doctors attending constantly to those in need. SCEH is synonymous with a vision for its excellent and committed service.

ETASHA (Enabling and Training Adolescents for Successful and healthy Adulthood) is a Delhi-based NGO training disadvantaged young Indians for employment in the organised sector. Their mission is to equip people to make the right choices at the right time and enable them to lead successful and healthy lives.

Each of their programmes are geared towards developing employability skills to enable communities to become employed, self sufficient and live lives with dignity. ETASHA's core activities are aimed at engaging various stakeholders to holistically impact communities by orienting them to value and respect skills.

These activities are vocational training and placement, career guidance, life skills development, employability skills training, training of employability skills trainers, and development of women entrepreneurs.

Goonj is an award-winning social enterprise working to build a bridge between the cities and villages. They focus on empowering the communities in far-flung villages to solve their own problems. For the last 19 years they have established a culture of mindful giving in urban India. They collect vast stocks of everyday necessities; from clothes to medicines, that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Every year Goonj processes thousands of tons of urban surplus material to run 3000+ development activities across rural India. With the clothes as motivation, people build bridges, dig wells, repair roads and other community building activities. These people don't get material as charity but earn it as a reward for their work.

The work that Goonj does brings attention to essential but often ignored needs of people. Millions of kilograms of donated cloth is turned into sanitary pads, Sujnis, and Aasans, giving livelihood to thousands of people.

Goonj is a mass movement connecting people in the cities and villages of India as equal stakeholders.

Gunjan Foundation is a non-government organization founded in 2004 with a mission to pursue educational and other welfare measures for the upliftment of the underprivileged sections of the society. Gunjan reaches out to children, especially girls, to promote empowerment through education. It enables beneficiaries to achieve self-respect and self-reliance, which fosters hope and confidence in fulfilling their lives.

Gunjan Foundation was visualized by Mrs. Sushma Singhvi to provide a forum for education and personality development for the underprivileged sections of the society in slum areas. Late Sh.Ram Niwas Mirdha was the motivating force behind this project.

In 2015, Sushma Singhvi was awarded the “Woman of the year” by the All India Achievers' Award. In 2016, Sushma Singhvi was awarded the “Double Helical Award” by the Double Helical Social Worker and a year later, she was awarded the “Guest Of Honour” by the Heart & Soul Women Rising.

As of 2020-2021, we are a team of 19 full-time working staff members and 2 part-time staff members. We have 4 volunteers offering their support. We have successfully impacted 210 children from Nursery to grade 5 by providing education.

Our total receipts for 2016-17 is INR 12733826 and payments for 2017-17 is INR 4884961

Helpage India aims to serve elder needs in a holistic manner, enabling them to live active, dignified and healthier lives.

In a country of 104 million elders, 51 million live below the poverty line. By 2050 the number of senior citizens is estimated to rise to 324 million. With more than half the country's elderly living below the poverty line, even day to day survival is crucial.

Where quality of life is concerned for these elderly, there is much left to be desired. Inadequate healthcare, minimal or no pension and a depleting source of income, often force the destitute rural elderly to continue working despite physical hardships.

HelpAge India is a leading charity in India working with and for disadvantaged elderly for nearly 4 decades. HelpAge advocates for their needs such as for Universal pension, Quality healthcare, Action against Elder Abuse and many more at a national, state and societal level with Central and State governments.

HelpAges focus over the years has moved from welfare to development. They provide elderly relief through various age-care interventions.

They conduct cataract surgeries to restore sight of elders, looks after their basic needs though its Support-a-Gran program, runs Elder Helplines across the country, provides relief & rehabilitation for elderly post disasters and provides active-ageing opportunities.

They run one of the largest mobile healthcare programs through its Mobile Healthcare Units. These units operate across the country providing free healthcare services to destitute elders.

They also help elders earn their livelihood through the formation of Elder-Self-Help Groups making them self-reliant.

The Organization was started in 1983 by Ashok Verma who was himself a hemophilia patient, to alleviate the sufferings of thousands of hemophiliacs in the country. Mr. Vikash C. Goyal President, HFI, is a Banglore-based businessman and a father of a hemophiliac son who passed away because of hemophilia. He very passionate about this cause and for the welfare of the suffering hemophiliacs of India.

Work done by the organization -

Provided 5000 ius each of free AHF factor VIII, IX, Fieba to 55 beneficiaries from all over India

Provided education support to 500 children with hemophilia from all over India

Provided 3000 ius each of factor VIII & IX to 720 beneficiaries from all over India

Providing support for Carrier Detection and Prenatal Diagnosis for 120 girls and women from hemophiliac families from all over India

In 2013, Hemophilia Federation (India) was awarded the India NGO Awards by the EdelGive Foundation & The Resource Alliance Finalist and in 2017, Project Heal A Soul was awarded the Bureaucracy Today Winner by Bureaucracy Today.

The Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) was established in 2004 under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi to create a world which is worth living in for a child. A world where every child is free, lives a life of dignity, has access to health and education, and the opportunity to realize her or his potential.

The goal of the foundation is to end all violence against and exploitation of children by ensuring child protection through innovations, research, awareness generation, promoting partnerships and participation.

Towards this, KSCF is scaling Mr. Satyarthi’s committed work of almost four decades at both the grassroots and global policy level.

KSCF has adopted a strategy of building greater collaboration between governments, businesses and communities, ensuring effective national and international laws, scaling know-how and successful practices, and creating partnerships with key stakeholders.

KSCF is part of the larger movement sparked by Mr. Satyarthi, which also includes Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Bal Ashram Trust and Global March Against Child Labour.

Maitri is a New Delhi-based developmental humanitarian NGO that is committed to facilitating every individual's Human Rights, especially the Rights to Identity, Dignity and Respect. Since 2005, Maitri has worked with over 45,000 individuals on the issues of social and health inequities and public health concerns through education, community outreach, networking, and legal advocacy.

Maitri work is organized under two main pillars: Violence Against Women and Migrant Workers. The organization has been addressing the issue of violence against women (especially in the uniformed forces), running a victim support and victim to survivor program, and promoting dignity and support for abandoned elderly widows in Vrindavan (Mathura, India).

Their initiatives with Migrant Workers include facilitating access to Citizenship Rights to ensure access to basic rights including healthcare to vulnerable migrant populations like rickshaw pullers and the homeless, and providing educational and skill-enhancement opportunities for underserved children and women respectively. They also run an Integrated Counseling and Testing Center (ICTC) for HIV/AIDS.

In 2005, Lt. General Bhopinder Singh (Retd) and Winnie Singh founded Maitri upon identifying the need for support for members of the Uniformed Services affected by HIV/AIDS. Since 2007, Maitri has expanded its areas of reach through a variety of projects. A world in which each individual lives with identity, dignity, and respect.

Maitri's mission is to act as a catalyst to enable access to basic rights to some of the most Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations in India including:

1) Women who are at the risk of facing Gender-Based Violence

2) Destitute and Elderly Women/Widows

3) Migrant Workers and their families in urban environments

Mobile Creches for Working Mothers aims to build a just and caring world which enables young children of marginalized and mobile population to develop into competent and confident individuals.

Ms. Sumitra Mishra, the Executive Director of Mobile Creches has twenty years of work experience ranging from grassroots direct practice, rural, urban poor and urban contexts, programme delivery and partnerships, grant management, fund raising and communications, research and advocacy, and organisation development.

She has a focus on development, establishing linkages between local resources, community embedded programmes and effectiveness measured in terms of poverty reduction and increased participation by stakeholders. .

Number of children provided with supplementary nutrition - 25

Number of exposure visits of children done for practical learning - 30

The first Mobile Creche was set up in 1969 at a construction site in Delhi to provide basic care for children of migrant workers. Early Child care is a preventive strategy that enables the young child to blossom, the older sibling to go to school and the mother to work.

Navjyoti India Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which challenges the social inequalities and empowers the vulnerable by making them independent to help themselves. Navjyoti began with an aim to improve, correct de-addiction and rehabilitation of the drug addicts as a crime prevention measure. They have established many camps and programs to help people to face the economic and social challenges.

They have their members over to 4900 to assist the poor people by their outreach activities.They also focus to empower women through various projects, they have educated 1109 women till now. They have cover 977 women and children were skilled in the skills up-gradation program. Because of their hard work and dedication, they were awarded 'The Pride of India Award 2015' by the Toppers Education Society Education; 'The Promoting Women Empowerment Award 2016' by the Ph.D. Chamber 'Women Empowerment.

They were also awarded the Swachh Doot' Award 2016 by the North-Ex Cooperative Society for their Environment & Social Reform; 'Health Care Leadership Award 2012' by the Knowledge Resource Development and Welfare Group Health Care;and Quality Initiative Mission Award 2013 for Innovation and Excellence in School Education by the Knowledge Resource Development and Welfare Group(KRDWG) Child Education.

PRADAN was created in 1983 by two young professionals, Deep Joshi and Vijay Mahajan, who were convinced that even the stubborn, endemic poverty of rural India can be solved.

They believed that well-educated professionals working within communities can bring both the empathy and knowledge needed to help poor people improve their lives.

Deep and Vijay also believed that grassroots work in the spirit of pradan, or giving back to society, can be a fulfilling and viable vocation for educated men and women. They created Professional Assistance for Development Action (Pradan), to systematically groom and enable professionals with empathy towards the poor to work at the grassroots level.

In 1987 PRADAN began working with the government and over the years they have played a major role in developing such programs as IRDP, SGSY, and the National Rural Livelihood Mission.

They continue to work for change that is sustainable and self-perpetuating, bringing skills and systems that help women, families and communities gain confidence and take charge of their own lives.

Kamalini Vocational Training Centre is a joint initiative of two non-profit organizations: educational Development Initiatives (a Registered Society) and Protsahan (a Charitable Trust).

Some of the women promoters of educational and Development Initiatives (EDI), after the experience in one of its projects for unprivileged girls, wanted to create an institution especially dedicated to women. Thus, was born Protsahan Charitable Trust.

In 2007 a MoU was signed between EDI & Protsahan through which EDI would provide management guidance, knowledge sharing and human resources (including volunteers) to Protsahan, and Protsahan on its side would bring beneficiaries, run the training activities for underprivileged women and facilitate volunteering programs organized by EDI.

In 2007 Protsahan launched its first Kamalini Vocational Training Centre in the urban village of Shahpur Jat. In 2008, a second centre opened in Kishangarh and in 2010 Protsahan and educational and Development Initiatives signed a MoU to jointly develop a new Kamalini Vocational Training Centre on the Gurgaon-Sohna Road, for which EDI acquired 5 acres of land. The new Kamalini centre operated by EDI opened in 2017. Since 2007, hundreds of women have gained valuable skills to increase their earning power and take better care of their homes and families.

Kamalini has enabled many women to achieve their aspirations of becoming socially and economically independent and above all to realize their inner potential.

Flexibility and care for students' real needs are the main features of their basic and vocational skills education. No formal education is required to attend the private certificated courses. Teachers adapt to the student's capacities and the length of the course is expanded to meet the need. The focus is on "performing" and not on "Knowing". Lecturing is restricted to the minimum and emphasis is given on "hands on training". Individual counselling with an encouraging approach is provided in order to optimize the students' performance. Training is provided to the women in the following areas: cutting and tailoring, machine and embroidery, basic IT, domestic workers programme, spoken English and soft skills.

Psycho-Educational Society (PES) is an NGO with the prime objectives of uplifting the less privileged children in rural areas by providing basic education and creating awareness among the illiterate women on family welfare, health education and personal hygiene.

Eminent Psychologist and educationist Dr. T.R. Paliwal started the society after his retirement to work for the poor, underprivileged downtrodden section of society in rural areas to impart education, health, and overall development. The Secretary K.M. Paliwal has a clear mission to uplift the Rural Underprivileged section of the society by running formal educational programs and vocational training. PES established the B.D.Paliwal school in the year 2000 in the interiors of Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.

Close to 500 students have successfully completed 8th grade. In addition to imparting education in the formal mode, the school conducts skill development programs for girls and village women in tailoring, embroidery, knitting, and agriculture. Over a 100 rural women have benefited from these programs.

Sahyog is a committed NGO working towards the empowerment of slum dwellers. It was started in 2002 with the vision to bring smiles in the lives of underprivileged people. The word "Sahyog" beckons cooperation; to walk in cooperation with each other is what Sahyog is all about. Sahyog gives its Sahyog in providing quality education to slum children with an aim to facilitate their all round development and finally to mainstream these children into government schools.

Sahyog is all about working in synergy with all the stakeholders of our community. Shekhar, the founder of Sahyog, happened to chance upon two small children working in a tea shop instead of attending school. This motivated him and a group of people sharing his dream to help children, start Sahyog.

The programme began with five students which has now risen to 1850 students in 21 centres and 750 women in Adult literacy centers in Sultanpuri, Mangolpuri, Shakti Nagar, Nihal Vihar, Burari, Moti Nagar, Bawana, Budh Vihar, Gulabi Bagh, R.P Bagh. Delhi and NCR.

Students are provided adequate infrastructure and regular support from teachers to prevent their dropout rate from school. The organisation is also flexible about supporting various other campaigns such as organising health camps, supporting the cause of women, destitute old people and so on. Till date, the organisation has been running with the help of cooperation extended by their team members, friends and relatives.

Due to the happiness and response that they received from the beneficiaries, they long to spread our arms to reach out to more people. They need help in their mission to reach out to a minimum of 5000 underprivileged students within next two years. Every Sahyog you make will bring smiles to thousand.

SBT aims to provide a sensitive and caring environment to the street and working children and other children on the margins of society. It seeks to dissolve the barriers that rob these children of the opportunity to realize their rights.

In the 1980s, the making of Mira Nair’s ‘Salaam Bombay’ (award winning film) revealed the dark underbelly of Mumbai’s streets, where several childhoods were at stake. A combination of socio-economic exigencies, political circumstances and parents’ struggle for survival created a large population of children, living and working on the streets of India. All across the country, the street children, an invisible section of the society, continued an invisible struggle on the streets of Delhi too.

In the day time, children grapple with the challenges of street life. When night falls, they curl up in crevices - at the end of the platform, under a staircase, in the subway - where the possibility of security exists. Ms Praveen Nair, Chairperson and Trustee at Salaam Baalak Trust testifies: “It took us quite a while to break the ice with the boys. Sanjoy (Roy) and myself would scout the railway platforms every day, chat with the boys, however they had been cheated time and again, and we weren’t the first to propose help. So, they would laugh off our intentions but we never gave up. Finally, when we answered their urgent call for help to care for a terribly sick boy, a friend of theirs, began the never-ending bond.”

Having spent quality time with these children, the founding members of the Trust realised that while most of these children were forced into these circumstances, many of them had chosen this life. What set them apart, was their chutzpah, their spirit. Ms Nair adds: “We started with the idea of donating blankets to the children in the bitter winter cold. We started at the very place where GRP centre now stands. However, we were naive about their actual needs. The children told us that sleeping under a blanket invited sexual attentions from older children. They stuffed newspapers and wore layers of clothing (all the clothes they possessed, actually) which not only kept them warm but also kept the clothes from being stolen! That’s when we realised that these children needed a roof over their heads and safe spaces.”

From three staff and 25 children on a balcony of the Ground Reserve Police at the New Delhi Railway station more than 32 years ago, we have now grown to over 250 staff, providing support services for approximately 10000 children a year in Delhi and the NCR region through our 7 shelter homes and 10 contact points.

Over the years, Salaam Baalak Trust has successfully worked with over 1 lakh children; out of which significant numbers have been restored to their families. Every year almost 10-11 children across SBT pursue higher education. We have children who grew up to become lawyers, fashion designers, photographers, puppeteers and engineers. This year, three of our children have got more than 80 percent in their 12th board exams.

Sapna was created by a group of professionals who shared a dream to work on a people-centric model of development in areas of public health, education, women empowerment, community development and social welfare.

Inspired by Gandhian ideals of social change, their primary objective is to: Empower the poor and marginalized; Provide shelter to the sick and destitute; Promote community health programmes and services; Support literacy centers and e-learning; Facilitate livelihood programmes; Help the poor access information and resources; Work for environment protection and conservation. Their basic focus is to help those who are the most vulnerable and are in dire need of help.They believe that development has to be holistic to break the vicious cycle of poverty and wish to bring about visible change. They work by focusing energies in these sectors as well as building their understanding of the related issues.

They believe that any organization, or for that matter, any individual, whose fundamentals are based on the virtues of honesty, ownership towards our society and regard to human dignity, are bound to grow in the right direction and the last 10 years have been a testimony to this philosophy.

Sarthak Prayas was established in the year 2003 with aim to help the underprivileged of New Delhi in the area of health and education. The programs are spread across different slum areas in the city. Two of their major interventions are in the field of education as well as elderly.

Under education, Sarthak Prayas runs remedial education centers where students from government schools attend classes every day to improve their knowledge. The centres help students complete their homework and revise lessons of the day. They also impart life skills and teach them how to deal with real life situations. The organisation runs eight centers in Delhi/NCR with 40 students studying in each center.

Since the children are from an impoverished background, the organisation also supplements their nutrition with packed food every day after the class. In addition to this, as part of recreation for the children, the centres also celebrate children's birthdays every month. During the celebrations, children cut cake and the teachers distribute gifts. Each day the students attend sessions for approximately 90 minutes.

Their other program focuses on people at the other end of the age spectrum, the underprivileged elderly. The premise behind this is that the elderly have struggled all their life for food, shelter and livelihood. They have now reached an age where their bodies don't allow them to work a lot and their economic conditions do not allow their families to be able to take care of them either.

Sarthak Prayas visits the slums and identifies elderly people who were unable to take care of themselves. As a part of their intervention, they provide dry ration on a monthly basis for a one person's need. They also provide quarterly clothing and toiletries. The material is distributed in designated locations near their slums every month.

Apart from the above two programs, they also run a telephonic helpline centre for people who require blood transfusions. Sarthak Prayas tries to fulfil requests raised within 2 hours. Finally, they also organise awareness camps at public places and schools on the dangers of Global warming. Till now, they run such camps for more 1000 students in the Delhi/ NCR region.

Driven by the conviction that there is a way to create a world of equal opportunities for people with disabilities, the Society for Child Development (SFCD) was set-up as a non-profit organization in 1992 to establish programs and initiatives for its actualization. Prabhat, a school for children with learning difficulties was set up with an aim to provide students with an educational and training facility that would assist them in acquiring basic living and academic skills. At the age of 18, students transfer to the Vocational Training Center to learn market-driven skills and crafts.

But the road to development is not about school and vocational education alone, and SFCD embarked on a unique website called the Disability India Network. Encouraged by the enthusiastic responses, they added an Online Legal Aid Cell which provides pro-bono counsel to the differently-abled and their families.

To expand the scope and extend their reach further, they also set-up a Parent Support Network to provide a forum for parents to benefit from each others' experiences. Because of this expansion, the Society for Child Development now includes a variety of programs and initiatives to promote the rights of persons with disabilities from several angles.

SOS Children's Villages of India is an independent and non-profit organisation working towards holistic development of parentless children, women and children belonging to vulnerable families. Based at Faridabad, they have worked with children and communities in disaster struck and disaster-prone areas, spreading hope to weary societies and families.

Striving to achieve their vision where every child grows up in a family with love, respect & security, the organization bases its work on the four pillars of The Mother, Brothers and Sisters, The House and The Village. Their various flagship programs like Family Based Care and Family Strengthening Program have reached out to over 25,000 parentless children across 22 states and 32 locations in India.

The noble efforts of their 1700 strong workforce were awarded the Strong Delivery Capability & High Financial Proficiency Award by the prestigious CRISIL VO 2A. Providing a home-like environment and long-term support to every child up to the age of 24, the members of this organization are committed to the welfare of parentless and abandoned children and to the strengthening of families and communities as a preventive measure in the fight against abandonment and social neglect.

The Leprosy Mission was born in 1874 when friends of an Irish school teacher, Wellesley Bailey, and his wife Alice, promised to raise 30 pounds a year to help persons affected by leprosy in India.

Since then, the legacy of their commitment and selfless work has inspired Leprosy Mission Trust India (TLM) to serve lakhs of people who are suffering from leprosy and its social, economic and psychological impact. TLM works through 14 Hospitals, 6 Vocational Training Centers, 5 Snehalayas (Homes for the care of the elderly leprosy-affected people), and various Community-Based Development Projects. Their constant endeavor has been to provide healing, inclusion, dignity and an opportunity for sustainable livelihoods to individuals affected by leprosy.

Appalled by the stark reality of 31 million orphans in India and shocked by the condition of institutions housing them, a few like-minded people came together to take serious action. This obsession was the seed which sprouted as Udayan Care - which was registered in 1994, as a Public Charitable Trust.

Dr. Kiran Modi, started Udayan Care and the first Udayan Ghar (Home) for orphaned and abandoned children, in Delhi, with a strong belief that every individual is a catalyst of change. A doctorate from IIT, Delhi, Dr. Modi is a person of varied experience in several fields, including the media and has also been a founding member of several other trusts working for the disadvantaged.

They started with the Udayan Ghar Programme for orphaned and abandoned children. In 2002, they moved towards higher education for girls through the Udayan Shalini Fellowships. In 2004, they started the Udayan Information and Technology Centres to improve employability of underserved communities.

A thorough research on models existing for children in need of care & protection and opportunities for disadvantaged women and youth helped develop innovative models across all initiatives.