Rise Up Home
RUH is a group foster care initiative by the Rise Up Forum in Kerala. It provides a nurturing, family-like environment for orphaned and vulnerable children, moving them from institutional care to homes that accommodate up to eight children with a dedicated caregiver.
What Rise Up Home did here
Rise Up Forum volunteers met to plan future projects
Volunteers team gathered at the space for a volunteer meet-up focused on discussions, reflections, and planning for future projects and community activities. The session brought together ideas, collaboration, and collective energy towards building stronger youth-led initiatives through the Rise Up Forum network.
Rise Up Home spent New Year here and explored Fort Kochi
Volunteers, team and children from Rise Up Home spent New Year's Eve and New Year's Day at aikyam space, and explored Fort Kochi together as a family. There was a movie, and the plants got nurtured.
Rise Up Home looked back on a year and mapped its stakeholders
A program design workshop with Rise Up Home, facilitated by Shemeer, from 10 am to 2 pm. The first half reflected on the past year's work — successes, areas to improve, and practices to discontinue. The second mapped Rise Up Home's key stakeholders and their top three needs, and impact levels L1 to L4.