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Help Our Platform Popularise Adoption And Support Parents & Children
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    Created by

    Gayatri
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Padme India

    from Bangalore, Karnataka

Why I started Padme

Our children brought joy and happiness into our lives and I have always thought that it was important to share our journey, hoping it would inspire other parents to not think of adoption as a fall-back option but view it as an alternate way to start a family.

I would often speak to potential and newly adoptive parents on approaching adoption the right way. I volunteered at an adoption agency, which gave me an inkling about the areas that I would like to contribute to in adoption.

Sometime last year, I read that there were around 15,000 prospective parents in India and only 1,800-2,000 children up for adoption. According to CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority), only 3210 in-country adoptions and 578 inter-country adoptions took place in 2016-17, is. I can’t imagine why a country like ours, has such a small number of children for adoption.
 
The state of adoption in India 

A UNICEF study (2007) concluded there are about 25 million orphaned children in India. According to a study conducted by the Mumbai-based non-profit Catalysts for Social Action (CSA), an estimated 500,000 of them are in childcare institutions. The rest are “outside the system”.

Even among the 500.000 orphans in institutions, the number of children who are adopted is less than 3500 in a year. There is a dire need for more of these children to find loving, nurturing homes.

For this to happen, there has to be a two-pronged approach:
(i) motivate more parents to think about adoption as an option,
(ii) give these parents enough information and support to help them through their journey raising their children.

That’s where Padme comes in

Padme aims to open minds and hearts by bringing together critical stakeholders on a common platform.

Padme is a comprehensive resource platform that will bridge the gap between the current situation and adopting a new mindset on adoption. We work towards demystifying adoption and help mitigate social conditioning that stigmatises adoption which sometimes hampers the decision-making process.

Our intended takeaway is to make the whole adoption experience less overwhelming, and have a more balanced approach while tackling concerns arising out of adoption.

Padme works towards changing views and attitudes on adoption - including clearing myths and misconceptions - especially among those who are not directly connected with adoption. The goal is to build awareness towards expanding people's minds to be more inclusive and to consider broader options with the end goal of popularising adoption.

Why we need the funding

The first step in Padme’s journey has taken shape in www.padme.in. The site demonstrates some of the areas we would like to cover in terms of information as well as the stakeholders.

The current site is based on an existing design template. But to be truly impactful and carry out Padme’s vision to its fullest potential, many more features need to be added. That requires a custom design and build, along with a large amount of content, which is what the largest component of the funds raised will be spent on.
Website design and build Rs.400,000
Content creation Rs.100,000
Technology costs Rs.80,000.
Promotional costs (Building awareness via online media) Rs.250,000

The second part of Padme’s mission involves spreading adoption education among the various stakeholders – educationists, paediatricians, counsellors, special educators, nutritionists and the legal community. Padme aims to hold workshops and seminars to sensitise and update information among these critical stakeholders in the adoption ecosystem. Organising these events is the other critical outflow planned by Padme.

3 events at Rs.50,000 each – Rs.150,000.


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