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Inspired by the service rendered to the people by great personalities like Mother Theressa, Dr. BR Ambedkar, Bhanthe Sangharakshitha etc., Aadarana was started in 2003 with a boy’s Orphanage home by Mr. Dhamma Mitra Madhavarao with a motto to help the orphans by providing them accommodation, education, knowledge under one roof, above and beyond the love and affection of the parents, which they lost.

Mr. Rao along with the support of his friends put in relentless effort to expand to organization. They established the Girls orphanage home in 2007 and started admitting orphaned Girls. This girl’s orphanage housed in a rented two bedroom apartment in Saroor Nagar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India has been the home for 30 kids between the ages 5 and 15. They are all provided with food, shelter, clothes and education.

• Providing shelter to the kids with basic facilities like regular water supply for drinking and daily usage has been the biggest challenge faced by Aadarana.
• Due to the lack of support from the Apartment community Aadarana is being charged exorbitant money for water supply and rent.

Aadarana management believes having their own facility is a silver bullet to these issues and is putting in more efforts into building construction fund collection and in the process cutting down on amenities (cook, tutor etc.) kids need.

• Until recently teenage kids with the help of a unpaid volunteering care taker were taking turns to cook food for 30+ residents of the orphanage.
• Kids in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades need a tutor for the mathematics and sciences. Until recently they did not access to one.

The lack of consistent large funding source until recently to run the girls home was pushing the management to make these cuts. ASHA San Diego Chapter started funding the Education component since the academic year 2011 and requested Aadarana to bring back the cook and tutor (which they did).

Your support for the non-educational components described in the budget proposal will give them the necessary bandwidth and confidence to concentrate on raising funds for the building and worry less to meet their regular needs.

Unlike the boy’s orphanage run by Aadarana the girl’s orphanage home is not receiving any large consistent funding for any of its major budget components. Running the girl’s home since 2007 with donations from door to door visits and large inconsistent donations in has been the biggest success story. Mr. Rao and other volunteer’s efforts through Aadarana has been applauded in a number local and national publications including ‘The Hindu’.

Aadarana has delivered phenomenal results in achieving their motto of making the orphan kids into respectable citizens and making them stand on their own feet.

1. 2 students completed MBA and are self employed. One of them is an active volunteer and board member.
2. 3 students were admitted into B-Tech Engineering. They are in their final 4th year of Bachelor degree. They are now getting scholarship and so they moved out of orphanage.
3. 1 child secured good rank to get admitted into the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) this year.
4. 12 kids passed out of their 10th grade and are starting their next step
5. Having secured 470+ marks in 10th grade this year one girl got free admission into a prominent private junior college Sri Chaitanya

After successfully running the boys orphanage for 4 years Aadarana grew by establishing the Girls orphanage home in 2007. They have consistently strived hard to increase their support by adding 4 to 5 kids each year. Until December 2010 they had 26 kids. This year they have increased the strength to 30 kids.

With the help of local educationalists and business men Aadarana procured 650 Sq Yards land to build their own facility. They are aggressively raising funds to start building construction. Their short term goal is to provide shelter and education to 100 kids (50 boys and 50 girls) through this new facility. Establishing their own school and imparting education to more children is their long term goal.