The Odisha Foundation (UK) was created with the belief that every child and Adolescent children and young adults deserves opportunity, care, dignity, and a safe environment to grow.
Our work began with the desire to support under-served communities in Odisha — especially children without parental care and Adolescent children and young adults unable to access education or employment. Over time, our focus expanded as we witnessed the need for life-skills, digital literacy, job placements, proper childcare, and community-level interventions.
What Make Us Different
We Educate
We provide quality education and essential skills to help children learn, grow, and succeed.
We Care
We offer love, protection, and care so every child can live with dignity and hope.
We Donate
We channel generosity into meaningful support that transforms lives and communities.
We Empower
We empower organisations with capacity, partnerships, and resources to run their programmes sustainably
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India is one of the fastest developing countries in the world. Though the divide between those who have and those that have nothing is only too obvious to anyone visiting India. So, we a group of individuals in the United Kingdom have started this foundation having keen interest to help the needy children and families in Odisha, India.
Our focus is on Odisha- an eastern Indian state on the Bay of Bengal – one of the poorest states in the whole of India. it’s rich in natural resources but underdeveloped and with a slum population of 1.5 million. Many from the 62 scheduled rural tribes are subsistence farmers struggling to survive so they travel to the cities like Bhubaneswar to seek a new life and sadly many become stuck in the cycle of poverty and become slum dwellers. 14 of the coastal districts are prone to cyclones and floods while in the western districts 11 are prone to drought. Only 19 % of the population have access to drinking water in their home. 20% of children do not have any schooling. Odisha has the highest rate of infant mortality in the whole of India. So we want to seek out well managed local charities that can help those that need help most. I hope you will support our efforts in any way you can .
Richard Cook
Colin Allen
Manoj Kumar
