Subject: Two Years In | Beginning Our Monthly Newsletter
Dear reader,
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We’re starting this monthly newsletter as a way to share ongoing updates, reflections, and learnings from Seedling Foundation’s work.
It has been a little over two years since we began, and as we look back, it feels important to pause and acknowledge how far the work has come… in terms of new areas of work as well as a clarity of purpose.
Looking Back, Briefly
Seedling Foundation started in November 2023 with a simple intention: to work meaningfully within the Observation Home system, alongside Children in Conflict with Law. What began as focused, on-ground engagement has gradually evolved into deeper work across multiple levels of the system.
Over time, our work expanded from children to staff, and then to system-level partnerships, each step guided less by plans on paper and more by what we were seeing and learning on the ground.
Recent Additions to Our Work
In the past year, our scope has widened in important ways:
- Post-release rehabilitation with Children in Conflict with Law, through the DeepRoots Center (DRC), extending support beyond institutional care
- Engagement with the Women and Child Development (WCD), Mumbai City, supporting their ongoing initiatives and strengthening planning, and implementation
- System-level collaboration with the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), the umbrella body overseeing multiple children’s homes in Mumbai, including the Dongri Observation Home
These additions reflect a growing belief that sustainable change requires engagement across children, staff, and systems, not in isolation, but together.
A Brief Timeline
- Nov 2023 — Seedling Foundation started
- Feb 2024 — Structured work began with Observation Home staff
- Nov 2024 — System-level work initiated at the Dongri Observation Home
- July 2025 — Collaboration with WCD, Mumbai City
- Oct 2025 — Post-release rehabilitation work through DeepRoots Center
- Dec 2025 — System-level engagement with Children’s Aid Society (CAS)
A Recent Story
Dongri ke Mastermind – Dongri Ka Apna KBC 
Recently we organized a new event called “Dongri ke Mastermind”, a quiz game show, similar to “Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC)” at the Dongri Observation Home, and it had quite a reaction from the children!
You can read the full story on our website (6 min read)… Read Full Story
Looking Ahead
We will continue sharing updates through this monthly newsletter, offering on-ground developments, reflections from the work, and links to our writing. Our intention is to stay honest, grounded, and thoughtful, without oversimplifying the realities of this space. (Subscribe Here)
Thank you for your continued support and trust. If you feel this newsletter may be meaningful to someone else, we invite you to share it with them. As always, we welcome reflections, questions, and dialogue.
Planting Seeds of Transformation,
Seedling Foundation
Why this newsletter exists
We believe this work is incomplete without society’s awareness and participation. This space is for sharing our work, approach, and learnings, including insights, questions, and challenges, and for building a thoughtful community around this often unseen area of work.
