About NGO:

The Vatsalya Foundation is a pioneer organization working for the marginalized and the vulnerable children. The organization caters to the needs of street children in the city of Mumbai at various day-care centers, shelter home and a group home. The organization conducts outreach at various places to identify the needs and issues faced by street children and rehabilitate them to the shelter home and girls' shelter home if needed. The organization provides formal and non-formal education to children and youth, alongwith providing an opportunity to reveal their creativity through various creative activity as well as recreational activity.

The organization aims to meet the emotional needs of street children by being child friendly, non-judgmental and non-threatening, with love and full acceptance of their life situations and experiences. The policy to accept children as partners and not mere beneficiaries is a unique characteristic of Vatsalya and a good example of its faith in them. The Vatsalya Foundation works with "children without home, but not without hope"

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Impact:

Suresh Harijans hails from Hyderabad and has spent his childhood doing construction work alongwith his father in Santacruz, Mumbai. He was brought to Vatsalya when he was 7 years of age, by a volunteer who was teaching the children at the organization's shelter home. Since then he has been staying at the shelter home of The Vatsalya Foundation. The organization enrolled him in a Hindi Medium School and motivated him to study alongwith providing him with the opportunity towards a holistic development. Suresh has also been to Netherland in the year 2007 as part of the Indo- Dutch exchange programme. His interests lie in drawing, painting, dance and cricket, and has also played with Harbajan Singh during a cricket coaching class. He has scored 88% in the SSC and is planning to get into Science stream and in future wants to pursue a degree in Medical or Merchant Navy.

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http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo106_the_vatsalya_foundation.htm

Founded Year: 1982

Cause category: Education