Our Journey
Empowering vulnerable children through education, care, and integration.
Rainbow Homes Program
Rainbow Home Program offers a unique child and community-centric model of care that helps vulnerable children access their basic rights of a safe, loving, and happy childhood. The program aims to integrate them into regular schools and helps to put them on an equal footing with other children their age.
Key Milestones Over The Years
Explore how Rainbow Homes evolved and expanded across India to protect and empower vulnerable children.
Loreto Convent, Sealdah, Kolkata, opens up the gates of its elite school to homeless children living in the immediate neighbourhood, pioneering a new model for inclusion and integration of street children.
The Netherlands-based Partnership Foundation, led by the late Ferdinand Van Koolwijk, discovered and collaborated with the Program, collectively coining the initiative as the "Rainbow Homes Program."
RHP extended to Delhi with erstwhile schools, prompting the Department of Education, Government of Delhi, to respond to the advocacy initiative leading to the opening of the first Sneh Ghar in Delhi.
Delhi witnesses the inauguration of its first Rainbow Home, a collaborative effort involving the State Government, Partnership Foundation, and Civil Society.
Kolkata adds its sixth Rainbow Home, while Hyderabad introduces two new Rainbow Homes. Delhi also inaugurates its second Rainbow Home.
Six more Rainbow Homes and one Sneh Ghar for boys open in Hyderabad.
Establishment of National Rainbow Coordination Centre in Hyderabad for national expansion. Indradhanush Academy is also set up in Delhi to research and document best practices.
Bangalore establishes four Rainbow Homes, and five Sneh Ghars open in Hyderabad. The Department of Education initiates the Residential Special Training Centres scheme.
Government sanctions conversion to Urban Deprived Children scheme. Expansion continues across Chennai, Patna, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
One more Sneh Ghar opens in Hyderabad, and two Sneh Ghars are initiated in Patna.
ARUN starts nurturing Rainbow Foundation India to function with a shared vision to scale up the Rainbow Home model across the nation.
Pune city gets its very first Rainbow Home.
Two more Rainbow Homes start operations in Pune.
One additional Rainbow Home and the first Sneh Ghar start in Pune.
Five more homes open in Bengaluru. Ranchi city gets its first Rainbow Home.
Ranchi reaches a new milestone by establishing its first Sneh Ghar.
Diversified models of child care are launched. Community-based care models for children are initiated across Rainbow Homes.
Re-structuring programs by introducing City Desks and rolling out a new community-based care model through Rainbow Community Centres.