Continuum Art Exhibition at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (April 5 & 6, 2008)

A very special art exhibition was organized on the 5th and 6th of April in conjunction with the Hyatt Regency in Delhi. This event was designed as a fundraiser for the building of our new dream home in Modi Nagar which will become home to 28 orphaned and abandoned girls.

Get an impression about the exhibition by watching the following movie.

2nd Adi Dasler Udayan Care Annual Sports Day (January 13, 2008)

Udayan Care, held the 2nd Adi Dasler Udayan Care Annual Sports Day at Banyan Tree School sports ground in the capital, marking the beginning of a new year’s dawn in the lives of disadvantaged children.

113 children participated in various activities which started off with March Past and Oath-taking to several sports and games by kids – cricket, basket ball, relay race, 100-meter race, balloon race, frog race and tug of war etc. Celebrities and eminent personalities signaled the beginning of the programme. Mr. Andreas Gellner (Managing Director, Adidas India) was the Chief Guest for the event while Mr. Hartwin Fedderson (Marketing Head, Adidas India) was the Guest of Honour.

The high point of the day, however, happened to be the Special Guest of Honour – Murali Karthik. At the special request of the children, the cricketer was in for a surprise cricket match between Karthik Eleven led by Murali Karthik, and TV Eleven led by the other Guest and famous anchor of Crime Reporter – Raghavendra Mudgal. Murali Karthik, felt “humbled” when playing, interacting and sharing experiences with “children with immense courage” and was highly appreciative of the initiative.

Murali was quick to offer to come and contribute to the betterment of these children’s lives in all the ways possible. When asked what was the best feeling he would carry back from the event, he said, it was “the joy of making these children feel wanted”. He added, “Everyone in this world – in professional as well personal lives – wishes to feel wanted by people around oneself. Udayan Care has just been remarkably doing that, in addition to providing them quality education and upbringing in a complete family environment. The children at Udayan Care showed great spirit at various sports and that is the indicator of how wanted they are made to feel.”

Team Adidas and Udayan Care personnel & Trustees also engaged in various competitions. Mr. Andreas Gellner stood second in 100-meter race. Having made the difference and showing the way for their youngsters, some of Udayan Care alumni and scholars also joined the resident children for the event. They are the success stories and Udayan Care’s real brand ambassadors who have shown to the world in action and spirit by becoming independent and mainstream like any adult their age.

Udayan Care is grateful to Adidas for providing prizes and footgear for its children, The Banyan Tree School for permitting us to organize this event on their school grounds and Creambell for sponsoring ice creams, for two years in succession.

Fundraising program ‘The Perfect Wife’

As part of our efforts to raise funds to keep continuity of our programmes as well as to expand our projects, we staged in the much awaited star cast play ‘The Perfect Wife’ on 15th October, 2007, at the Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg. The play was directed by Ms. Rekha Sahay with Poonam Dhillon as the central figure. Mr. Shatrughan Sinha was the Chief Guest at the event. We are grateful to our sponsors Vatika and LG for making this event a huge success.