VATSALYA

Vatsalya is a Sanskrit word meaning unconditional motherly love. Vatsalya came into existence in 1995 in Rajasthan. The major activities of the organization, however, started in the year 2000 when its founding members, Jaimala and Hitesh, both educated as Health Management Professionals from the USA, decided to leave their full-time lucrative job and devote their energy and efforts to work for the rehabilitation of disadvantaged and abandoned children and to do public health management work in Rajasthan. Vatsalya works in project mode and has undertaken projects and interventions that have spread across the entire state of Rajasthan, especially in the area of health.

Vatsalya Society (referred to as Vatsalya or Vatsalya Jaipur) is a not-for-profit organization (NPO/NGO) established in 1995 under the Society Institution Registration Act 1958. It catered to orphaned and abandoned children, especially street children through its short-term and long-term program for 20 years. Today, Vatsalya has evolved into a full-fledged community school amidst the villages of Achrol, Rural Rajasthan, along with many other outreach programs across the fields of public health and nutrition, women empowerment, climate change mitigation especially Solar energy, and a very unique STEM-based learning School (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), in a self-developed Carbon Neutral Green Campus, the only kind in Rajasthan. Vatsalya has worked extensively in the entire Rajasthan in Public Health and nutrition in partnership with RSACS (Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society), UNICEF, GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition), and the European Commission, directly benefitting almost 1 million beneficiaries to date (2023).

Vatsalya team has worked on grassroots for the community children coming from varied backgrounds, even amongst the disadvantaged categories. The experiences gained, each child’s story, the various case studies, the trainings delivered and those taken by the team, the internal and external workshops, have all been fruitful in helping develop a better understanding of the community we work for and help us gain a better insight of our own objectives.

Vision: To progress Indian society by enabling our disadvantaged people to achieve their true potential.
Mission: By Direct action and intervention, provide a caring environment where our disadvantaged and vulnerable people can develop their capabilities with dignity.

Vatsalya is a thought, a philosophy, similar to the meaning of the word "unconditional motherly love”, working on equitable access to all across human development fields.