Every child deserves a second chance.
Every child is born with the capacity to grow and participate in mainstream society. The foundation works to ensure that this potential is protected and developed through care, education, healthcare, nutrition, recreation, skills, and advocacy.
1982
Year established
40+
Years of sustained intervention
5
Core intervention strategies
2
Urban and rural program landscapes
Urban education and enrolment
2,182
children linked to formal schooling
Nutrition and family support
1,554
families receiving dry ration assistance
Rural child wellbeing
1,168
children reached through nutrition sessions
Community health action
127
health and hygiene sessions delivered
What the foundation stands for
Care that protects childhood and strengthens futures.
The Vatsalya Foundation works so that children and young people in difficult circumstances can grow with safety, dignity, education, healthcare, nourishment, recreation, and opportunities for development. Its work remains rooted in long-term relationships with children, families, and communities.
Nurture
Care, counselling, nutrition, recreation, and safe spaces are designed to help children recover stability and confidence.
Educate
Formal schooling, non-formal education, school enrolment support, and learning continuity remain central to the foundation’s work.
Empower
Vocational training, advocacy, outreach, youth transition, and community-based support help children move toward participation in mainstream society.
Infographic view
How Vatsalya turns concern into structured child-focused action.
The foundation’s standards emphasize commitment, creativity, compassion, research, advocacy, and multi-level intervention. This section translates that operating model into a simpler visual pathway for visitors.
Reach
Outreach and contact with children in streets, slums, and communities.
Protect
Shelter, counselling, preventive work, and safe support environments.
Develop
Education, recreation, healthcare, nutrition, and personal growth.
Enable
Skills, advocacy, networking, and reintegration into mainstream society.
About the foundation
More than four decades of child-rights based work.
Established in 1982, the foundation emerged from a field-action tradition connected to social work education and evolved into a multi-layered organization serving street children, youth, and children from at-risk families. Its standards emphasize commitment, creativity, compassion, research, advocacy, and planned intervention with the child at the centre.
Mission
To ensure underprivileged children receive education, healthcare, nutrition, recreation, and developmental support through non-institutional care.
Vision
A world where every child develops to full potential without discrimination and with basic rights protected.
Programs snapshot
Interventions that respond to real conditions.
The organization’s old-website structure and current reports together show a broad ecosystem of support, including outreach, shelter, rural learning, preventive work, advocacy, skill-building, nutrition, and infrastructure support.
Outreach
Open Shelter
Rural Project
Advocacy
Impact highlights
Statistics that show scale, continuity, and care.
The foundation’s work is reflected not only in stories of care and resilience, but also in measurable outcomes across education, nutrition, family support, health awareness, and community-based intervention.
261
Children in formal schooling
9
Children in non-formal education
180
Families receiving dry ration kits
135
Children reached through nutrition sessions
Support pathways
Many ways to contribute meaningfully.
The organization’s own program descriptions show that meaningful support can include volunteering, skills training, nutrition sponsorship, outings, infrastructure, workshops, and one-day event support.
Volunteer your time, expertise, or services.
Teach art, dance, music, theatre, computers, or sports.
Support nutrition, one-day meals, school supplies, and hygiene needs.
Sponsor camps, outings, or celebrations with the children.
Help with health awareness, sanitation, or training workshops.
Contribute infrastructure, equipment, or skill-development resources.