Our Vision:
To see individuals with a disability and their families alive with dignity and pride in the present and operating with love, respect and confidence in the future.
Mission:
To enrich the quality of life and bring dignity to differently-abled adults by training them in life skills and vocational skills, building support systems and enhancing awareness in the Community.
Blog
June 5th World Environment Day
This year our trainees decided to do their bit to save the planet by getting down and dirty!
We started off by showing our trainees some videos, explaining the ways in which we are destroying our planet and how we can prevent this by getting involved in planting seed bombs and saplings.
Each trainee was given a paper cup with their name on it, they made little balls of mud and dipped them in seeds of Tulsi, Methi and Coriander. They then dropped them in the cup full of coco peat and compost. Some of our students also planted saplings of Ginger, Turmeric and Aloe Vera.
Over the next couple of weeks our trainees will nurture them and then plant them in the ground near their houses.
Visits from NGOs for awareness and collaboration
On August 8th, August 22nd and September 4th we had staff from Wards, Sambhav Foundation and Guanellam Convent come in to visit Diya to see the Diya Innovations product line and see first hand how [...]
DIWALI – Time for some team work and fun!
October - the month of festivities and fun - translates to a lot of learning through work. Trainees learn skills in appropriate work behaviors, fine motor skills are put to the test and work targets [...]
Capacity building of Staff
August 16 and 17 - a special holiday was decided for our students to enable staff to attend the orientation to job coaching planned by Enable India and DNA as a prelude [...]
Our Partners
Diya Innovations
An off-shoot of Diya Foundation, Diya Innovations is a ‘for-profit’ social enterprise set up to be the Employment and marketing arm of Diya Foundation. It is a separate entity from Diya Foundation. All those trainees from Diya Foundation, who are proficient at working without ongoing supervision, are recruited by Diya Innovations.
The company is competitive in the market in terms of quality and pricing with its employees being paid at least the minimum wage.
Visit us at www.diyainnovations.com
“In August 2014, our trainees Nigel and Savitri were successfully placed with Sodexo India Onsite Services at the Bengaluru campus of their client Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL). This effort was the culmination of Sodexo and HUL’s strategic alliance on Diversity & Inclusion initiatives.
In May 2016, Savitri was moved to another project and has been replaced by Charles, another Diya trainee. The two trainees are doing a good job applying their housekeeping skills in the Unilever facility.”