VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT:  KARTHIK

In 2014, American student Karthik joined Udayan Care as a intern in our head office.  During his time, he regularly visited one of our boys’ homes in Mayur Vihar.  While there, he grew very close to the children.  But he also grew to notice a troubling concern:  there was only one desktop in home -- not nearly enough for all the children!  Soon he learned this was the case at most of our homes.

It was then that he decided he would get laptops for all of the homes.

Three years later, he has run two successful fundraisers in the U.S., one last year and one this year.  Each time, he returns to India to bring back two more laptops for our children.  Now he has given laptops to two homes, but he is committed to give laptops to the eleven other homes!

MORE GIFTS OF LOVE

• We are happy to welcome TEXT100 into the lives of our children and youth. Their team of 20-30 young professionals visited our North and South Delhi USF chapters, our Badarpur IT Centre, and some of our Ghar children conducting numerous workshops on topics like Communication, Confidence, Painting and Dancing!
• Charu Mishra (Student-Architect from Sharda University) & Monika Verma (Student form Marwah Studio) both taught a 4 hour session on skteching to improve the design skills of our IT Centre Graphc Design students.
• In our Gurgaon USF Chapter, the Royal Bank of Scotland team paid a visit to share the joy of celebrating Independence Day and Raksha Bandhan. The girls also made rakhis and tied them on their favorite RBS brothers!
• Genpact invites our Gurgaon USF Fellows to their Gurgaon office once a month to impart various skills and knowledge. In July and August, sessions on understanding career choices, time management and goal setting were taught. Also, Shalinis got a surprise session with USF alumna Nidhi Dang, currently a Process Associate at Genpact!
• Team Panthera started volunteering at our Mayur Vihar homes at the end of August, getting a chance to meet the kids and donating school supplies to help their learning. They will be with our children until March 2017 and we look forward to the joy they will bring the kids!