Supporting Ummeed

Financial Support

Ummeed is a non-profit organization with an explicit goal of helping all children with developmental disabilities, irrespective of financial considerations. Over 40% of the patient sessions are with children from economically under privileged families and these families pay a much lower service fee to Ummeed, in fact, in most cases, just at token amount to ensure their commitment.

Ummeed also supports other organizations in building awareness, advocacy and training professionals. This support is not paid for and the cost is picked up by Ummeed. Ummeed also invests in training its professionals.

We do get some funding from some organizations (like a seed grant from the Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust) and individual contributions, but this only covers 20% of the operating loss.

As we are planning to significantly expand our operations to serve a larger number of children, do more research, provide more support to other organizations in the areas of awareness building, advocacy and training of professionals, and start an information platform and an early intervention center, we are going to need funding. The estimated deficit in the next four calendar years is Rs 33,00,000 (US $ 73,000) in 2004, Rs 65,00,000(US $ 144,000) in 2005, Rs 87,00,000 (US $ 193,000) in 2006 and Rs 1,13,00,000 (US $ 250,000) in 2007.

If you would like to financially support us, you can contact us at ummeed@vsnl.net or send us your contribution at:

Ummeed Child Development Center 7A Chinoy Mansions Warden Road Mumbai 400 036 India

Ummeed Child Development Fund 17 Powder Mill Road Framingham MA 01701 USA

Please let us know if you would like your contribution to go towards the aggregate expenses if you would like to designate it for a specific purpose, e.g.,

Diagnostic Assessments at Rs 500 (US$ 11) each

Awareness building events at Rs 3000 (US $ 65) per event

Annual care for a typical child visiting Ummeed once a week at Rs 12500 (US $ 275)

Training of professionals; cost is Rs 150,000 (US $ 3,300) per training programe

Infrastructure for a new central facility; cost is Rs 15,00,000 (US$ 33,000)

Also, please send us your contact details so that we can send you a receipt for your contribution and Indian or US Tax exemption certificates.

Training Support

One of our key activities is to help enhance the skills of the professionals at Ummeed. If you are a skilled professional in developmental disabilities and would like to enhance the skills of our staff, we would appreciate it if you could contact us at ummeed@vsnl.net