UDAAN
UDAAN
Udaan, meaning “taking flight,” is a child labour and sex trafficking prevention initiative. We currently operate three child development centres, equipped with classrooms, computer labs, beauty salons, and tailoring centres. These centres 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 rubbish dumps, scavenging plastic and metal items to sell for less than 39 pence a day. Others worked in hazardous industrial establishments. These children are extremely vulnerable to trafficking, including child labour, sex, and child bride trafficking.
Our focus is on the holistic development of each child. Therefore, our centres 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 centres, often their only meals. Our tailored programme ensures they receive a quality education and mentorship within a safe, beautiful facility staffed by trained professionals.
At our centres, we also conduct regular workshops for parents, particularly mothers, through our Moms Empowerment programme. 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 prioritise 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 programme 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 programme if they mainstream into regular school or a vocational programme.
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.