UPAY (UnderPrivileged’s Advancement By Youth)

About UPAY (UnderPrivileged’s Advancement By Youth)

UPAY primarily focuses on providing free of charge education to needy children and conducting recreational activities aimed at broadening the skill set of such children. We teach kids begging at footpaths under the footpathshala concept. It was founded by Varun Shrivastava, an IIT Kharagpur alumni, with the help of three other socially motivated engineers on 20- April 2010. On 19 September 2011, UPAY was registered under the Mumbai Public Trusts Act 1950 and the Societies Registration Act 1860. Currently, it has 27 centers (9 centers in Nagpur zone, 9 centers in Mouda zone, 6 centers in Delhi-NCR, 1 center in Varanasi, 2 centers in Pune). UPAY has expanded from 15 children to more than 1500 children and 250 volunteers in a span of 7 years.