Enable 100 low-income girls to complete graduation

Udayan Care initiated the programme with a Visionto turn deserving and talented girls from weak socio-economic into empowered and dignified women. Since the programme’s uniqueness lies in the fact that it goes beyond being a usual scholarship programme by not only supporting higher education but also providing regular mentoring and leadership development and inculcating a sense of social responsibility to the selected talented girls. Therefore, many personality development Workshops and camps were organised during the period of reporting. All of these workshops were based on the objective to develop Confidenceand Leadership skills in their Personality. Following are the few activities organised during the reporting period

• To develop Confidence in our students a workshop was organised by one of our Alumnae student and our volunteer from one of our Cooperate partners. The Workshop was divided in three sessions – the first session talked about the identification of motivation factors in ourselves and the second discussed about how to get over your fear and how to balance between confidence and over confidence. The last session emphasized on Identifying the five signs that show lack of confidence, How to overcome shyness and the Strategies to bring for instant confidence in ourselves.

Since one of our Resource person for the workshop was one of our Alumnaestudent, it brings the sense of responsibility of giving back to the society amongst our existing students.

• With the central theme of “Leadership & Personality Development” a five days Residential Camp was organised during the month of May, 2014. The basic aim of the camp was to provide meaningful exposure to the fellows of different states, to interact, participate and engage on a common platform for mutual learning and develop positive attitude towards each other.

Every day was planned around the OBJECTIVES and activities were also planned accordingly.

A social campaign was also organised by our students during the reporting period. The campaign was organised to create awareness about the cause and the preventive measures of DIARROHEA. The Camapign helped both illiterate and literate mothers to understand the causes of Diarrohea and how they can protect their children from the disease.

Sucess Story - Miracle of Hope    

In the narrow lanes of Sangam vihar area of South Delhi young aspirations are taking shape. While most girls in the area venture out only to their schools, Pooja travels, the distance of approximately two hours, confidently toin North Delhi, which is distantly located from her home.

Now, after completing her school this year with 78% marks, she is looking forward to join a renowned University of Delhi. However, before joining the programme she wanted to pursue graduation through distance education because her unfavorable family’s economic conditions.

Her achievement is an absolute success of overcoming hardships at different steps. While the family was coping up with economic crisis, the academic engagements kept her over occupied.

Today there is a confident spark in her personality and she is looking forward to pursue her graduation in commerce and the option of doing it through the distance mode does not exist anymore.