Deepalaya

Deepalaya is an Indian non-governmental organization that aids the development of the urban and rural poor in India, with a focus on children.

[2] Deepalaya primarily serves the urban slums of Delhi, but also works on rural development in the states of Haryana and Uttarakhand.

[4] The school had five children, two teachers and an investment of Rupees 17,500 from the seven founding members who also took the responsibility of providing basic facilities like transport and material.

[4] In year 2016,Nikon India, had donated a bus, school desks and water filters to underprivileged children of the organisation.

[5] Strengthening its partnership with foundation and as part of its CSR initiative the company had increased its efforts to aid the education, transport and health needs of the student community and donated two water filters for safe drinking water and another school bus for safe and sure means of transport in the second phase.

[4] Currently, Deepalaya is an ISO 9001:2008 certified non – government organisation that believes in enabling self reliance and is committed to working on issues affecting the urban and rural poor, with a special focus on women and children and over the years, it has established several projects in the areas of Education (Formal/Non-Formal/Remedial), Women Empowerment (reproductive health, SHG, Micro-finance), Institutional care, Community health, Vocational training and Differently Abled and these projects are operational in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and till 2014 Deepalaya had reached out to more than 2,70,000 children, given vocational training to 9,700 adults and helped for more than 1,000 Self Help Groups with 11,000 women who have together saved Rs.408 million with a community revolving fund of Rs.1053 million and efforts of organisation for social transformation is growing with each year.

One is located in the Kalkaji extension area of Delhi and caters to slum children and the other one is situated 30 km away from Gurugram, in village Gusbethi in Nuh district of Haryana.

[10] In year 2014, Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF), the corporate social responsibility arm of Amway India, organised a special event for the students of Deepalaya School, New Delhi, to celebrate the AOF day and the event commenced with students of Deepalaya performing a cultural program and later followed by a painting competition and a puppet show and this made the children feel overjoyed to participate in all the competitions and they took part with full enthusiasm.

[6] It was also pledged during the event by the members of AOF along with students of Deepalaya to end child malnutrition across the globe by providing their colourful handprints to the global mural, as a part of the “Power of 5 Campaign”, an initiative undertaken to address the issue of malnourishment amongst kids, especially those below 5 years of age and for every colourful handprint, Amway will donate US$1 up to a total of US $400,000 to CARE International towards the support of underprivileged children and through this initiative AOF also planned to break the Guinness World record of the maximum handprints from any country which at that year stood at 30,000.

[11] With pre-natal and post-natal treatments provided, Deepalaya has also brought down significantly the cases of abortion and infant death.

[citation needed] The organisation also runs a 22 bed mini-hospital in Gusbethi in Haryana with secondary services in Institutional Delivery and Cataract operations and also menstrual health education to around 10,000 girl children.

[4] Deepalaya Special Unit in Sanjay Colony[12] is equipped with learning tools and different toys for disabled children to engage in.