Vathsalya Charitable Trust (VCT), was started in 1988 in Bangalore, Karnataka as a welfare, child care and adoption center for homeless and orphaned children. The aim was to place these children with families through adoption thus allowing them to grow and be nurtured with love, staying true to our name Vathsalya which means “Mother’s Love”.
In 2013, VCT closed down its adoption division and made a full transition to child development and building stability within the family unit. Through our community-based projects, we work with families who are struggling, to help them build up their capacity to independently live their life to the fullest potential.
Our focus is mainly on migrant families who moved to the Bangalore Urban area for better job prospects, education and standard of living. Post relocating however, they have struggled to provide their families with basic necessities and need help getting back on their feet.
Through Vathsalya, we focus on the three main problem areas of education and unemployment. We thus established our three verticals
The goal is to strengthen families so that they never have to consider giving up their children to shelter homes because they can’t afford to raise them.
Apart from these services, VCT also provides informal counselling for families dealing with single parenthood, entrepreneurship, sickness, marital disputes, vices and addictions, unemployment. We also constantly conduct workshops and sessions for children on career counselling and mental health awareness among others.
Vathsalya Charitable Trust is a non-profit, non-government organisation registered on June 28, 1988, under the Indian Trusts' Act of 1882. Feel free to contact us for more information.
