WeLive Foundation

Bridging the Gap: Transitioning from Care to Autonomy

It’s your 18th birthday and you have to move out of your home.

This is the situation faced by youth in childcare institutions (orphanages/shelter homes) when they turn 18 and are no longer children, but recognised legally as adults. From being referred to as children in need of care and protection(CNCP), they are now referred to as care leavers.

With an incomplete education of 10th/12th/graduation, no job/skills/experience or money in hand, and lacking identity documents, care leavers are left to figure out where to sleep at night and how to ensure they eat enough to survive. WeLive Foundation has been working with care leavers since 2019 through residential and non-residential bridge programs designed to aid them in their transition from care to autonomous adulthood.

Our Impact

Residential Program

Graduated successfully

Non-residential Transition Program

Pursuing Education

Youth in Jobs

"I have a keen interest in starting my own business and becoming an entrepreneur". WeLive supported my plan to study and I joined St. Joseph's Evening College and completed my degree in B Com. Alongside my education, I managed to secure a part-time job at a gift packaging company and also started a small business selling coffee beans to shops. Now I have a job at Kantar, a reputed MNC. This has given me confidence and reinforced my belief that I can achieve my dream."

Suvin

from Dharward and grew up in child care home in Bengaluru.

Latest Update

WeLive Newsletter – October 2025

WeLive Newsletter – August 2025

Leaving The Nest

Welive Newsletter – March

Community of support

Message from Our CEO

"The Young People in WeLive Foundation’s program have gone through a tough journey in their childhood growing up in institutions. When they join WeLive, we support them in their growth as autonomous adults. Assisting their well-being and work readiness is what WeLive’s Bridge Program does so that the youth step out emotionally & physically resilient, experienced & skilled at work, capable with finances, armed with education, confident of their autonomy in navigating life through its ups and downs.”