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About Us ::
It all started in 1996 to
overcome a standstill situation with regard to adoption
activities in the State. There was no VCA functioning
in Orissa then for more than a year to facilitate and
promote Indian adoptions. Adoption activities in the
State were getting hampered in the absence of a VCA.
Against this backdrop, a group of like minded eminent
social activists from different walks of life thought of
forming an association which would act as VCA for the
State of Orissa for the rehabilitation of orphaned and
abandoned children through legal adoption, and thus
Sanyog formally came into existence on April 04, 1996.
Sanyog is registered under
Societies Registration Act, 1860 XXI and bears
registration number 20039/96. Later, it was registered
again to become the V.C.A. (Voluntary Coordinating
Agency) for coordinating, facilitating and promoting
adoption activities in the State of Orissa.
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recommended to act as the
VCA of the State by Women & Child Development
Department, Govt. of Orissa on May 22, 1996, yet it took
more than a year for the Central Adoption Resource
Agency, the apex adoption programme controlling body in
India under the Ministry of Social Justice &
Empowerment, Govt. of India to accord the VCA license
for the State of Orissa on September 16, 1997. Since
then, it has been working incessantly and has now
completed three successive three-year terms as Orissa
V.C.A. In 2006, however, its VCA (now referred as ACA-Adoption
Coordinating Agency) license renewal was extended by one
year and thereafter the current term for another three
years expires on September 15, 2010.
Over the years, as it grew
gradually, Sanyog has expanded its activities beyond
adoption and took up various works and issues relating
to the disadvantaged and neglected sections of the
society as well. The diversified social activities have
only enhanced its credentials. Besides, working in
close cooperation with government, adoption agencies and
other like minded NGOs like Basundhara, Open Learning
Systems, CLAP, Rush, Vijaya, Project Swarajya, etc.
Sanyog has also worked with Unicef, National Institute
of Social Defense (NISD), NIPCID, State Social Welfare
Advisory Board, Orissa State Council for Child Welfare,
ACAs and adoption agencies of other States, etc. CARA
provides funding for the functioning of ACA while W&CD
Department, Govt. of Orissa for promotion and
popularization of the concept of adoption in the State.
Sanyog has so far availed
three projects from Swedish International Development
Agency (Sida) and Adoptionscentrum of Sweden, the third
being currently implemented. With the support,
cooperation, and patronage of all concerned, Sanyog, in
the meanwhile, has completed a decade of its existence
and now looking forward to contribute more in the coming
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