Welcome to Umeed Foundation

A non-profit organization committed to Creating Umeed-spreading THE POWER OF HOPE. Umeed involves both optimism and a can-do attitude, it is the belief that our future will be better than the present and that WE have the ability to make it happen. Hope helps people to better cope with difficult or stressful times and adapt better to life situations that are demanding and daunting.

This CORE PHILOSOPHY of Umeed has its deep root in “Hope Theory,” a positive psychology concept that we have believed in and founder trustee Ms Salony Priya practiced for last twenty-five years in her personal and professional life.

UMEED Foundation strives with its various initiatives to Build Hope in people and in society at large!

Hope is most important in life-People with hope don't just wish for something good to happen – they have a concrete plan to make it happen. Hope reduces feelings of helplessness, increases happiness, reduces stress, and improves our quality of life. With this vision Umeed foundation has an endeavour to reach out to the unreached, creating possibilities and pathways to success.

Mrs. Salony Priya

Founder, Umeed Foundation

“It’s amazing how alittle tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” - John Guare

Empowering & Energizing, Coaching and Counselling for last 25 years, made me realize the POWER OF OPTIMISM, POWER OF FAITH and POWER OF RESILIENCE that makes impossible possible. The grit to face odds and deal with adversity, unearths the deepest potential in us and is so liberating and fulfilling.
After years of path breaking work in the field of mental health, psychological well-being with positive psychology, breaking myths of ‘counselling is for crazy’… in mainstream educational institutions, corporates and social organizations, conducting life skill workshops, building proactive parenting platforms and offering teacher education in psychosocial domain, from Ummeed Counselling & Consulting Services, a multi-speciality centre based in Kolkata, with countrywide operations. I had deep satisfaction in the acceptance it created in people, communities and organizations. This also gave me tremendous insight into the power of human connect, the difference people can make in their lives with right knowledge, with little resources and genuine support.

However, I always felt the need to reach out to those who were needing it the most, yet not being reached. To be able to reach out and connect to more people, young and young at heart, those who are not so privileged; was always there. The need in society to spread long-term well-being, spread good mental health practices, provide life skill education and enhance capacity of caregivers in the NGO sector led to this reach out - Umeed Foundation ‘reaching the unreached’ came into existence in 2015

The like minded people who encouraged me, walked with me, made Umeed Foundation possible.

  • To feel is human,
  • To give is noble,
  • To give HOPE is divine!

We at Umeed Foundation are committed:

To give to restore dignity
To create self-sufficiency
To build skills and potential
To conserve and create a meaningful life
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of human resource with special focus on girls & women - trainings, capacity building initiatives with NGO sector, orphanages, shelter homes, etc.

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to reach the most unreached and build hope with wholistic, life skill educational programmes for academic, vocational, sports, cultural education to create a harmonious existence of Head, Heart and Hand for truly educated young minds.

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building sensitivity and consciousness in people through advocacy campaigns and supporting environmental projects so that we leave a beautiful world for the next generation.