Lakshmi Krishnan - Udayan - SOS

Mrs Lakshmi Krishnan,

President

 

Mrs Lakshmi Krishnan, a qualified Social Worker, holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Delhi School of Social Work, University of Delhi. She also holds a degree in Home Science from University of Delhi. She has been in the field of Women and Child development for more than twenty seven years.

 

In the early part of her career, she was employed with CCF (Christian Children’s Fund) as a Social Worker and was engaged in Khrist Raja Family Helper Project of the Convent of Jesus and Mary School. Her job responsibilities included providing welfare and development programmes for the weaker section of the society. The girls belonging to this section were identified in school and the project involved   a close interaction with the parents and other members of the family and providing suitable help for their upliftment. The job profile also included providing help to the community in general.

 

The major portion of her employment was with “Udayan”, a project of SOS Childrens Villages of India. She was independent In-Charge of the project which provided shelter to abandoned and destitute babies/infants. She was independently running this home situated at Doctors Lane in Gole Market. During this period, she would have rehabilitated more than Two Thousand babies/infants by way of Adoption to needy couple or repatriation to the family. She had during this period handled babies / infants with serious medical problems and every day was a challenge because at any given point of time, there were more than twenty children at the home. She has effectively handled the needs of pre-term, high risk babies with complicated medical problems. This experience of more than twenty years has given her a rich exposure to handling a shelter home and understanding the needs of such homes from grass root level.

 

She has presented several papers and has been a resource person for several seminars in the field of adoptions. She has delivered several lecturers on family and child welfare issues in educational institutions (school, college and medical) as a part of their curricular and co-curricular activity. She has also been invited by several Television Networks as a Resource Person on Child Adoption issues. She has also given several interviews on Print Media. She has independently conceived and produced a documentary for Delhi Doordarshan titled “Blissful Parenting” which dealt with socio- psychological issues of Adoption.

 

She is at present actively involved with SPOWAC on a day to day basis and monitors all the programmes of this society. She maintains a close link with all Government Departments and handles all the reports and returns.