UDAAN
UDAAN
Udaan, meaning “taking flight,” is a child labor and sex trafficking prevention initiative. We currently operate three child development centers, equipped with classrooms, computer labs, beauty salons, and tailoring centers. These centers are located in Bhiwandi and Govandi in Western India, and in Bithari on the India-Bangladesh border. Many of the children we aim to reach previously worked in garbage dumps, scavenging plastic and metal items to sell for less than 50 cents a day. Others worked in hazardous industrial establishments. These children are extremely vulnerable to trafficking, including child labor, sex, and child bride trafficking.
Our focus is on the holistic development of each child. Therefore, our centers provide a learning-friendly environment with a play area for warm-up exercises and engaging activities, as well as a dining area. Children receive two nutritious meals daily at our centers, often their only meals. Our tailored program ensures they receive a quality education and mentorship within a safe, beautiful facility staffed by trained professionals.
At our centers, we also conduct regular workshops for parents, particularly mothers, through our Moms’ Empowerment program. These workshops cover topics such as health and hygiene, parenting, and literacy. We’ve learned that empowering a mother motivates her to fight for and prioritize her children’s education.
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A Note to Our Sponsors
Udaan is a project aimed at mainstreaming children who have never had an education or dropped out of school at a very early age. Our goal is to work with them for one to two years and then transition them into vocational training or regular education.
If you are a sponsor, please note there are times a child may drop out of the program because of the following reasons.
- These are migrant communities, and sometimes a family decides to go back to their village.
- Parents do not always see the value in education, although our constant goal is to mentor the parents so they become involved in their child’s future.
- A child may drop out of the program if they mainstream into regular school or a vocational program.
If your sponsored child drops out of Udaan, we will inform you, and you may transfer your sponsorship to another child.
The Udaan sponsorship model is unique from other sponsorship models because of the nature of the communities where we are located.