ACHARYA- Be a Mentor, a Guide, a Pseudo Parent to an Orphan child..and give him better Childhood & Future with your Love and Support.

Problem

There are more than 200 Million Orphans in World. With more than 20 Million Orphans in India alone! If we talk about statistics, 40% of India's total population is below the age of 18, and 4% of these children are Orphan. As an estimate there were around 3500 adoptions in India in 2010.Out of which around 900 were International, and 2400 Domestic adoptions only. This is primarily because of Social attitude of Indian people. Indians prefer to have their own kids than adoptions. And there are just around 1000 orphanages in India, where orphans live in a pity state, it is also due to lack of funds from the government and high levels of corruption.Millions of orphan have no access to food, healthcare and most important education.They are forced to work as labors, and as sex workers.

Solution

Since most people in India do not prefer legal adoptions. The Acharya website can give them a chance to become mentor and support the child financially. And help the child in his education and living. The basic aim of website will be to provide "Acharya", which means a mentor, a teacher, a guide to a child, without hassles of legal adoptions. Acharya will be a non profit website, where all the orphans will be listed living in orphanages across the country. It will ask people to support a child(of their choice) by giving small amount of money every month for his/her education, food and healthcare. They will get a monthly bill of expenses. The website will also organize monthly meetings of child with their Acharya. And help interested people in legal adoptions. It will be a kind of Facebook, which will provide orphans a pseudo parent. And help them to have a better future. And bring people forward to help orphans with least responsibilities and give them chance to do a good deed.

Example

Acharya website will provide an easy link between orphans, orphanages and people. There are many people willing to help orphans, but due to work pressure and lack of time, that willingness- to visit an orphanage, help orphans and support is simply lost. Today people seek and need easy ways to do everything. And Acharya will be that solution, which will bring people together easily using the power of internet and support the orphans, to help them grow truly as a child. People will be able to see information about all the orphans living in orphanages. As per their wish, they can choose a child and choose a specific amount, which they can give monthly to support the child in his education, food and more. The orphanages, will send them e-receipts to the "Acharaya" of child for their education and other expenses. With financial support, an orphan can study in government schools, with a small expense of approximate 300 rupees only. The website will also help orphans above 18 years, to get good jobs and help girl orphans to get married. It will encourage people to adopt, conduct meetings of orphan child and their "Acharya" and help them to be in touch with child whom they support. And also help people provide orphanages for all things needed. Also the website will allow people to communicate with the child they support, by sending them messages, which will be conveyed by orphanage Head or Admin. to child. With advancement of internet technology, availability of cheap tablets, computers , easy e-banking, mobile banking all this can be really possible and feasible.

Marketplace

As such there is no existing website, which comes up with this idea of bringing orphans and people together with the use of technology. There are ample of NGO's and Fund raising websites which ask people to help poor, orphans etc. But they lack providing people information about their expenditure of money to specific beneficiaries. Which ultimately raise doubts among the donors. The "Acharya" website will not only overcome the lack of technology but also provide exact information of the beneficiary child, which people will have freedom to choose. And give people a sense of responsibility and personal touch towards the orphan child, when they will see exact expenditure of their money on the child, see his/her monthly progress. And thus giving an orphan child at least a pseudo parent.