A man gives you the award but God gives you the reward. - Denzel Washington

As active members of a crowdfunding platform - Global Giving, we were recognized with ‘Superstar Status’ and were awarded badges for being a top-ranked, vetted, site visit verified, and as an effective organization. In addition to this, our organization has acquired the 80th position on a global level.

“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.” –Jesse Owens
To encourage and recognize the relentless efforts put in by our staff members, the UCIT department organized a Rewards and Recognition (R&R) Ceremony.  The felicitation ceremony left no one behind and included 34 staff members on various roles as trainers, counselors, mobilizers etc. from all 14 IT centers.

Approximately 80 people participated, which included government functionaries, experts in the field of child protection, personnel of Child Care Institutions, members of UNICEF and Gujarat State Child Protection Society (GSCPS) and care leavers themselves. Three FGDs were also part of the event, to understand the ground reality of Aftercare in the State.

The awards included gift cards for "Good Job Done", "Extra Mile", as well as "Distinction award" "High five award" and "Key contributor award".

1-day Roundtables on the Current Aftercare Practices (CAP) were organized at Pune, Maharashtra & Bangalore, and Karnataka

A 1-day Roundtable was organized in Pune, Maharashtra to share the key findings of the ‘Current Aftercare Practices’ (CAP) study, on January 25, 2019.  The CAP study aims to document the challenges of those young persons who have lived in institutional care and have left them after attaining 18 years of age. There were approximately 80 participants including care Leavers, government functionaries, child protection experts, and stakeholders. The deliberations helped in developing a road map for improving the situation of Aftercare in the State. Dr. Hrishikesh Yashod, Commissioner, Women and Child Development Department, GoM and Mr. Ravi Patil, Dy. Commissioner (Child Development), DWCD, GoM, expressed his their fullest support in this important child protection agenda. Other important dignitaries included Ms. Alpa Vora, UNICEF, and Ms. Manisha Biraris, Programme Manager, ICPS, GoM.

Similarly, the round-table in Bangalore was held on February 27, 2019, at the NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore, to take forward the process of the CAP study in Karnataka. Over 92 participants including a large number of Care Leavers deliberated on the actual situation of Aftercare in the State and gave suggestions on improving it.

Wedding Bells!

On January 20th, 2019, Udayan Care’s daughter from its Jagshanti Aftercare programme, Preeti, got married. The staff of Skill Centre, Greater Noida, were proud to do the bridal for her, the first ‘customer’ to use the newly refurbished salon. All grooming preparations for the big day were carried out by our trainer, Ms. Sindrela Mani, and her students, ably assisted by our Assistant Trainer, Sangeeta. On the morning of the wedding they were all there at the crack of dawn to enhance Preeti’s natural beauty with all the makeup techniques that they had learnt. After that, Preeti was dressed in her wedding outfit by our team who paid attention to the smallest detail so that Preeti looked radiant.
Additionally, our first batch of Beauty and Grooming students took their final exams. Their theory exam was conducted by Ms. Sindrela Mani and the practical examination was conducted by our Director, Tarjani Aggarwal. She had instructed them to bring a ‘model’ on whom they were asked to give bridal make up and also to dress them in their bridal outfit. They all passed with flying colours.