Centre for Development

Consists of multiple initiatives focused on enabling needy children with access to education. It includes Education Centres to cater to drop-outs, a resource centre specifically assisting girls to complete their higher studies and a sponsorship programme aimed at supporting orphans with finance. All supported children are made part of “LitClubs” to impart life values enabling them to understand themselves and other around them.

This programme ventures to create children’s groups and train both rural and urban children to ask for their rights and know how to protect themselves. It also features a child help-desk, which, collaborating with another NGO, rescues destitute children found on the Kalupur railway platform to be brought back and rehabilitated.

Under the banner of Kruti Livelihood Programme CfD aims to train school drop-outs in trades such as sewing, mobile phone repairing, embroidery, beauticians and drivers etc. to enable them to attain self-sustenance. It helps needy women from the Valmiki Community by employing them to make cost-effective sanitary pads, which ensure that they sustain themselves and also learn to maintain sanitation and hygiene while menstruating.

CfD volunteers, as a way to help underserved children, go out to households to collect old newspapers and articles to be sold off later. The proceeds from these sales go to support needy children with school fees and nutrition. It engages with social activists, renowned academics and civil society in general in its efforts to come up with research, studies and reports to bring the issues faced by the marginalised to the forefront.

The organisation brings women together into groups to fight for gender rights and equality besides lending a helping hand to families displaced due to development projects by engaging with municipal bodies for relief measures and allocation of alternative living spaces. Partnering with the CEPT University it researches the effect of urbanisation on underserved populations.