Founder - Poonam Haldwa
Founder Mrs. Poonam Haldua is from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. She has more than 20 years of experience in social work. Whatever you give to her, you get back millions of times from her.
Poonam Haldua is the President and Advisor of the NGO. The main pillar of the NGO Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation is that it . To provide skills to the underprivileged and impoverished, thereby integrating them into the mainstream of society, and to implement various types of projects. She has amazing skills in identifying the person sitting in the last row of the society and connecting him to the beneficial schemes. Poonam Haldua has done her graduation and post graduation along with M.Ed from DAV College. It is one of the prestigious colleges of Dehradun. She has contributed for a long time in a reputed NGO of Uttarakhand. Thereafter, she decided to spend the rest of her life for the betterment of the society and the country.
She started Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation in 2010 while the registration was done in 2013. Meanwhile, she kept providing her services to the people. And Ensuring that underprivileged children are aware of their constitutional rights, and how to eradicate the child labour system, it laid more emphasis on this. It laid emphasis on providing quality, employable skill oriented education to empower underprivileged children and youth, women. To make people aware about child rights, child care, child protection, child development and child education and how to inculcate a sense of responsibility in them.
Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation is always open to people of any religion, caste or creed, provided they fulfil the basic entry criteria. Come, you all are welcome.
From The chairperson’s Desk
I have come to know from personal experiences that my early experiences of interacting with children from underprivileged backgrounds made me realise how much potential they have. At the same time, it also made me aware of the challenges they face due to the environment they live in.
Our work with Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation over the past two decades or so has taught me that apart from some monetary help, these children need constant encouragement and motivation, counselling and moral support. Our job is not just to support them but to make them believe in themselves and help them build self-confidence, which is the most important tool for success. Once we manage to give them this most important asset, the sky is truly the limit.
Soon after I started working with the women, I realised what amazing qualities most of them have. They are talented, patient, multi-tasking and have innate inner strength and courage. They also have many challenges in their lives.
Our role at Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation is to help them realise their potential and nurture what they already have. We see them as emerging and developing leaders and empowered women.
This belief in the skills and abilities of the people we work with has been at the core of all our programmes. We have seen that this approach can lead to dramatic changes.
All our students have performed well in their studies, a large number of women have found a good job in government service, some have enrolled in professional courses, some have got jobs in leading companies. And all the women have stable and good incomes. Some are almost self-sufficient, others contribute substantially to their family income.
During the second decade of Chanakya Jan Utthan Foundation, I expanded from working only in urban settings to rural India as well. After an initial survey to understand the needs of this section of society, I decided to focus on education, along with providing good employment to those in need by supporting the setting up of a variety of skill development training institutes.
I could not have done what I did, could not have gone down this path without the consistent and systematic efforts of my team.
The work I do, and the smile on the faces of the people I work with is my greatest reward; it gives me and all the others immense satisfaction.
And it will continue to motivate us in our work in the years to come.
We are still very young and our journey has just begun. This journey needs the continued support of me and my team.