Knowledge Is The Best GiftIt's not just the money! Often, knowledge and time are the most thoughtful gifts one could offer to someone. Our supporters from all over the world ensure that they actively participate in mentoring our children and help us create a better future for them. Mentoring by PricewaterhouseCoopers Service Delivery Center Pvt. Ltd. at USF Kolkata Centre Mentoring means to guide, advise and train. It ensures that a bond develops between the mentor and our children - and that makes learning easy, fun and meaningful. That is why we always encourage active involvement of our stakeholders in our programmes by choosing one of the many options we offer. With this in mind, one of our partner donors, PricewaterhouseCoopers Service Delivery Center Pvt. Ltd., collaborated with us to run mentoring classes for Shalinis in Kolkata. The programme is sponsored by its CSR team and we are thankful to Mrs. Jaishree Kannan for facilitating the entire process. This is one gift that will stay with our girls forever. |
From Kurukshetra to Aon HewittWhat is the distance between curiosity and wisdom? For our 45 Udayan Shalini girls it was just from Kurukshetra to Gurgaon. The girls visited the Aon Hewitt office located in Gurgaon, a company which has been supporting them for pursuing higher studies. They were warmly welcomed with a diary and a rose, before Mr. Dalbir Singh Sehrawat, Chief Legal Counsel, conducted a session on 'Motivation'. In this session, he emphasised on the three fundamentals of a successful career - hard work, good health and consistent performance. At the end of the session, he quizzed the girls, and they were ready with the answers! The senior mentors organised a floor walk for the girls, during which they were asked to share their marks and ambitions. All the Hewitt employees were pleasantly surprised to know that most of them had scored between 80% and 90% in class XI. Inspired by this, Aon Hewitt employees also signed up for the mentorship programme and the pairing of mentor and mentee was done immediately. Overall, this field trip provided Udayan Shalini girls with an opportunity to experience the work culture at Aon Hewitt. In return, the girls expressed their gratitude with a handmade 'Thank you' card. |
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand |
Our responsibility toward our children doesn't end with providing them a formal education. As home to our children, we ensure that their minds are sharpened and their skills polished so that they can go out into the world and make a contribution. Udayan Care provides its children with a platform to recognise and seize new opportunities in the outside world. |
A degree or a certificate helps one create an identity. We, at Udayan Care, believe in creating feasible and fruitful careers. We have taken yet another firm step toward this by establishing a placement cell for our IT Students. Aimed at reaching 100% employment rate, we expect this entity to ensure myriad possibilities for our children.
Describe yourself!
Sometimes a task as simple as this is enough to make one flounder. A perfect example of how lack of confidence can overpower knowledge and talent. To address this seemingly unimportant issue, we organised a career counselling workshop with the support of Accenture India, on 16 May 2015. It was attended by 60 children from Udayan Care.
On the same day, we also launched our new course, Job Readiness Training, which helps students prepare for interviews by improving their confidence level and communication skills.
The workshop was so beneficial that many students now want to partake in every career guidance workshop to boost their career.
Education meets its purpose when it helps a society evolve, and that happens only when women are truly empowered.
At our Jagshanti Udayan Care Skill Development Centre, we have designed various programmes to make young women financially independent, with low investment. We have also created a new Paper Craft and Ceramic Painting workroom from 100% recycled material that had been lying at the back of our sewing room for at least 3 years.
A marketing campaign was undertaken in May to inform ladies in the locality of our programmes. It resulted in doubling of our student strength in the Sewing Centre, as well as 9 girls attending the course.
Aarti, daughter of construction workers, who was keen to learn sewing, was unable to pay for her classes. But such was her determination that she started accompanying her aunt to work as a cleaner in a house, so she could collect the money. By sheer dint of hard work and fervour she has progressed to the advanced class in sewing.
Her story reminds us of a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions'.
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