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Udaan Ghar… home aw
…a way from streeets and
home. This is one o our residen
of ntial projects. This is one o our early in
of nitiatives taken 11 years ag
go…The
residen of Udaan Ghar are mo
nts ostly from stre
eets, broken and marginalized families This is a sh
s. helter for
girl chil
ldren at risk. E
Experiences with children here is magic They fill u your life with colours.
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Shelter for girl childr at risk. Ud
r ren daan Ghar is a shelter hom for the und
me derprivileged girls initiated in 2003.
This ye we have 6 kids in the age group o 5 years to 1 years. This is a home a
ear 64 e of 14 away from ho ome. We
believe that children have the right to basic care, educa
e r c ation, and se
ecurity, and th children who are
hat
marginalized becaus of poverty, disability or gender shoul have the sa
se ld ame opportunnities as other r.
Who th are?
hey
• The g child on th streets
girl he
• Runaway girls
• Girls in distress an from broken families
nd
bjectives are
Our Ob e:
• To provide the g
girls with a he
ealthy & secur environment.
red
• To restore huma dignity and build up self
an d f-esteem of th girls.
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• To provide them with facilities for recreatio medical aid and education
m on,
• To understand ttheir physical and emotional needs.
• Ne based voc
eed cational training.
• To reunite them with their fam
m milies, wherev possible.
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• To aware others in the societ about the p
s ty problems face by them.
ed
• To make them a aware of their rights and to assure that t
r o they are a pa of the socie
art ety.

2. Activities conducted at the shelter:
• We accommodate girl child in need of a home.
• Counseling – We have a regular counseling program at the shelter and ensure that we understand
every aspect of their lives and mould them for a better future.
• Health - Health education programmes which includes first Aid, cleanliness, hygiene, sex education
etc.
• Each child study in a English medium school named Kala Vidyalaya.
• Training and Income generating schemes – The centre imparts training in different skills so that the
girls earn while they learn, they make paper bags, files/folders, greeting cards, cloth bags and purses and
various other gift articles.
• Workshops – From time to time we conduct various workshops for holistic development of our
children. Below mentioned are a few workshops :
a. Workshop on Social Justice and Rights:
We have recently collaborated with another non profit called Kranti, they work with children of sex
workers and for their rights. The workshop that we have designed is on ‘Social Justice and Rights for
our older girls between 12 to 14 years of age. Presently our 14 girls along with 6 girls from Kranti are
attending the workshop every Sunday since 29 .01.2012. This workshop is for a year.
The workshop includes modules like –
• Child rights
• Gender n sexuality
• Women rights
• Class
• Caste
• Religion
• Health Care n hygiene
• Prison n justice system in India
• Migration n immigration
• Nationalism
• Education

3. • Mental health
• Ability
• Animal welfare
• Capitalism
Tools: films, puppets, stories.
After the class children will be given a topic for making presentation. They will be presenting it in
the following week.
b. Workshop on Comics For Rights :
Grassroot comics are created by and for ‘You and Me’ and as a medium stand out distinctly from
mainstream comics. This is a powerful medium of self expression. With ease one can communicate about
different situations. This is one of the most popular communication tools for several organizations and
people’s movement.
The approach is very simple and cost effective, only paper, pencil and pen is needed and your lines tell
stories about issues chosen. The objective of this ‘Comics Workshop’ was to make children understand
their rights and to use comics as a tool to create advocacy regarding issues in the communities.
Project Crayons in collaboration with World Comics conducted a ‘Comics Workshop’ to make children
understand their rights and to use comics as a tool to create advocacy regarding issues in the
communities as a part of Children's Day celebrations.
30 children in the age group of 8 – 14 years from Udaan Ghar and Community Development Centre,
Mankhurd participated. This workshop was for 4 days from 11th of November to 14th of November. 4 days
were filled with fun and excitement. Children were very enthusiastic about the entire process and fondly
participated. They were very innovative with their approach. Each child wrote a story on the issue of their
choice. They were taught to develop scripts. Then those scripts were translated into comics posters.
Posters were telling their stories. They went with their comics on streets and were overwhelmed to
receive good comments from people. Individually each of them presented the comics poster and
expressed their learning and stories of self discovery. The comics workshop was facilitated by Rajeshwari
and Chaitanya from World Comics India.

4. With th tool childr
his ren and youth will tell the own storie After a fol
h eir es. llow up comics’ workshop we will
p
select a few comic trainers from the group Later as o trainers g
c p. our group will become strong we will
orate with other organizatio and facilitate Comics W
collabo ons Workshop for them. Long term plan to create a
r
group o comics journalists who will tell stories about their a neighbor communities
of w s and s.
orkshop with Toybank :
c. Wo h
Project Crayons alo
t ong with Toyb owards ‘Giving back their right to a childhood’,
bank, an NGO working to
organis a Toy Dis
sed stribution even at Udaan G
nt Ghar.
Childre enjoyed fu filled activities. At Udan Ghar, girls collected wa
en un n aste to make the best o of it.
e out
Kids as well as To
s oyBank volunt
teers absolut
tely enjoyed this entire ex
xperience an it was follo
nd owed by
distribu
ution of Toys.
Everybbody involved had a great time with the kids. Volunt
e teers got to s places in Mumbai, which have
see
often b
been neglecte and need our most atten
ed o ntion.
Lavita one of the vo
olunteers of Toybank says:
T
“We ha never rea
ave alized that the is anothe part in Mum
ere er mbai where ppeople live in shanty home work
es,
hard to live a hand to mouth existence, don’t send thei children to school and make them work for
o d e ir
family’s living.Mumbai is filled with unbelie
s evable contraasts that mak it a unique and eye-
ke -opening
experieence. This voolunteering ex xperience has given me a chance to s
s see the other side of this city and
r
most of all to be aro
ound kids and see their lov
d vely smiles an interact with the innoce little ones. When I
nd ent
see the smile its w
em worth all the efforts I have p in to volun
e put nteer!"
d. Be My Buddy p
e programme :
Presen we are de
ntly esigning the curriculum for Be My Budd initiative . W be conducting this pro
c r dy Will ogramme
at Uda
aan Ghar for girls aged between 11 t 14 years i 7th to 9th standard. T
b to ie. h This is a one to one
e
nd
mentor
ring programm By 2
me. week of Mar rch will be ind
ducting the v
volunteers fro various c
om corporate
companies.

5. Presently we need 18 volunteers. 14 volunteers for mentoring and 4 for group activities.
Will be using different tools like art therapy, puppet, films, comics and music. Modules will be on the
following subjects:
Communication,
Goal Setting activity ( ie to explore their past experiences with education and how they learn
best),
Ice Breaking activities
Out of boxthinking
Time Management
Crisis Management
Team Skills
Mentor and Mentee Mapping
Mirror games and games for personality and behavioural development
Life Skills
Career Planning
Art Therapy

6. Child sponsorship for Udaan Ghar kids (age group of 5 – 14 years):
3600/- one year education fee with stationery
300/ - term fees
4000/- low cost nutrition food
700/ - medical expense
1000/- two pairs of clothes, toys etc
1000/- computer education
Total -11000/ for one child for the entire year (annually)
Udaan Ghar helps children to dream and fly high with it to a land of their own…