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United Way of Chennai
United Way Chennai is a non-profit organization committed to improving lives and strengthening communities across India, with no geographic limitations. In partnership with corporates, we tackle pressing social challenges in education, health, livelihoods, environment, and disaster response, working alongside NGOs, volunteers, and community leaders. With extensive hands-on experience in each area, we implement programs that create meaningful, lasting impact. From enhancing access to quality education and healthcare, empowering youth and women through skill-building and livelihood opportunities, restoring water bodies and promoting environmental sustainability, to providing timely disaster relief and rehabilitation, our interventions are designed for long-term community resilience. Through strategic partnerships and holistic initiatives, we strive to empower communities across India to thrive and build a better, more equitable future.
About us
Get to Know
United Way of Chennai
United Way Chennai is a non-profit organization committed to improving lives and strengthening communities across India, with no geographic limitations. In partnership with corporates, we tackle pressing social challenges in education, health, livelihoods, environment, and disaster response, working alongside NGOs, volunteers, and community leaders. With extensive hands-on experience in each area, we implement programs that create meaningful, lasting impact. From enhancing access to quality education and healthcare, empowering youth and women through skill-building and livelihood opportunities, restoring water bodies and promoting environmental sustainability, to providing timely disaster relief and rehabilitation, our interventions are designed for long-term community resilience. Through strategic partnerships and holistic initiatives, we strive to empower communities across India to thrive and build a better, more equitable future.
Our Vision
United Way envisions a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability, and healthy lives.
Our Mission
United Way of Chennai commits to mobilizing the caring power of communities through sustainable and impactful interventions. We work with compassion and integrity towards inclusive and equitable solutions in education, health, livelihood and environment.
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What Does Our Work Look Like on the Ground?
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How would you like to create impact with us?
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Our Journey
The beginning
The Beginning of the journey 2010
Establishing our CSR & Volunteering verticals
- Provided assistive devices & employment opportunities to the differently-abled
- Organized the first CEO Run in Chennai
Striking collaborative partnerships
- First Budget Meet organized
- 10,000 runners participated in The Wipro Chennai Marathon
- Organized our First Dream Madras Exhibition
Pitching in to turn it around
- Piloted the first WaSH program in Sholinganallur Govt. Higher Sec School
- UWC’s First Day of Action held
- Championed Flood Relief Efforts during the 2015 Chennai Rains
Creating a Culture of Giving
- Kickstarted the Anganwadi Programme with ICDS & UNICEF
- Happy Hands initiative was born
- Set up the first Child-Friendly Court Room in Madras HC with UNICEF
Growing in leaps & bounds across verticals
- Expanded our scope of work
- Reversing & rehabilitating flood-affected Kerala
Decade of change
- Gaja Cyclone – Relief & Response
- Child Friendly Police Stations
- Battle of the Buffet
A year of resilient change
- Miyawaki program to create a small forest on unproductive land of 395.43 square meters
- Restored 2 lakes of 7.5 acres and 10.5 acres in Tamil Nadu
Standing with the community
- Erected a 2.5-kilometer steel rope fence that is friendly to elephants in the villages surrounding elephant habitats along the Jawalagiri Forest Range.
- Renovation of the Pediatric ward and ICU at Lawley Hospital in Coonoor.
- Extended essential one-time financial assistance to street vendors, domestic laborers, and daily wage laborers who had been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year of empowerment
- Established banana fibre product manufacturing centres, offering an alternative means of livelihood for 150 women involved in beedi rolling
- Empowered 50 girls between the age group of 15 to 21 from coastal communities in Kovalam, Chennai, and Calicut, Kerala, to equip them in open water swimming.
- Initiated the ‘COVID Express’ program, benefiting 118 families spread across 11 districts in Tamil Nadu
YEAR OF NEW BEGINNINGS
- Benefited 24,025 students through education-focused interventions
- Provided critical support to 15 hospitals and primary health centres
- Awarded 374 scholarships, reinforcing our commitment to education
- Reached 180 differently-abled individuals through inclusive initiatives
- Reached 597,936 individuals through our initiatives
- Focused support extended to 116,714 women and 11,626 children
- Impact created across 30 schools and 8 Anganwadi centres
Year of Growth and Gratitude
During the year 2024–2025, we successfully implemented 127 projects across diverse focus areas, driving meaningful change in communities.
- 7 Disaster Response Projects
- 14 Health Projects
- 12 Education Projects
- 8 Livelihood Projects
- 85 Volunteering Events