Since 2007, Hope for the Children Foundation (HFCF) has impacted the lives of over 1 millions children and their families and empower the most vulnerable communities by creating long-term programmes and strategic solutions that transform the lives of children, women, and youth while also promoting social change, economic transformation, equal rights and opportunities for all. HFCF leverages its gr
assroots experience to create in-house programmes that identify and respond to the needs of children in vulnerable communities, ultimately contributing to their individual growth as well as the community's overall development. We measure, assess, and provide sustainable and scalable solutions on a regular basis. For the past 15 years, we have worked to provide underprivileged children with a remedial and inclusive educational programme, as well as to nurture and encourage teenagers to continue their formal education or vocational training. We offer counselling to help them choose the right career path and develop their literacy in areas such as financial, digital, soft, and life skill literacy. We also empower and educate unskilled mothers through livelihood training and entrepreneurship programmes. Utthan is a programme that assists children who have been in conflict with the law and wish to be rehabilitated. Since its inception in 2015 at the Yerawada Boys Observation Home, the initiative has supported the rehabilitation of almost 2,000 juveniles. The project's core component is a well-defined Life Skills Education curriculum, VSI assessment, vocational training, counselling, and rehabilitation of the family through timely community interventions that help strengthen families. For the past 3 years, we have created the 'Child Friendly Pune Initiative' for the city of Pune, with the goal of instilling positive attitudes and behaviours with a more right-based approach among systems and spaces via a comprehensive approach that is preventive, curative, and promotes child-friendly mechanisms among schools, child friendly police stations, juvenile justice board, Child Welfare Committee and Childcare Institutes. Our “Common Purpose Mission" brings together Socially Responsible Companies and various stakeholders such as the police, juvenile justice board, Dalsa, and CWC in collaboration with the Women and Child Department to create: Pune, First Child Friendly City.