The brainchild of Kozhikode District Collector S Seeram Sambasiva Rao IAS, the project under the district administration's Udayam Charitable Society aims at the comprehensive rehabilitation of street dwellers, homeless, destitutes and adult orphans.

There are many homeless, or rough sleepers, in this ancient city who have found a safe roof above their head amid Covid-19 pandemic through the Udayam home Project. The brainchild of Kozhikode District Collector S Seeram Sambasiva Rao IAS, the project under the district administration’s Udayam Charitable Society aims at the comprehensive rehabilitation of street dwellers, homeless, destitutes and adult orphans.1

Rao adds that with the announcement of the lockdown, these people suffered the most, even for obtaining food as hotels and eateries were closed. “So, we took this as an opportunity and decided to revive the mission and rehabilitate all of them and make the district destitutes-free. With the help of several NGOs and police force we were able to identify over 750 people at that point of time.”

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  • 1. “Udayam is an important initiative under ‘Nammude Kozhikode’ (our Kozhikode) project. Destitutes are a complex problem. Even before Covid-19 outbreak, we had tried to rehabilitate these people, but failed. We couldn’t rehabilitate even a single person. So this had been remaining as an unachieved mission for quite some time,” says the Collector.