Butterflies USA
Butterflies USA proudly serves as the US resource base for Butterflies NGO, Delhi's leading child rights organisation. With a belief that street children and working youth hold unbridled potential, Butterflies USA supports a non-institutional, participatory, rights-based approach to empowering India's most vulnerable children. Through innovative children's cooperatives, child protection services, culinary school training, and the award-winning Children's Development Khazana (CDK) — a financial management programme now reaching 43,000 young members across 14 Indian states and 7 Asian countries — Butterflies is shaping confident, self-reliant leaders. Over 30+ years, its cooperatives have transformed the futures of more than 88,000 children in Delhi alone. When you support Butterflies USA, you invest in the next generation of changemakers in the world's largest democracy.
Culinary School
From the Streets of New Delhi to the Kitchen: How Butterflies is Serving Up Second Chances For children living on the streets of New Delhi, finding a single reliable meal each day is already a victory
Child Protection
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Butterflies NGO's Work at the Intersection of Safety and Justice In a city as vast and complex as New Delhi, thousands of children fall through the cracks of systems that were built to protect them.
Children's Cooperatives
Education, Health, and a Voice: How Butterflies NGO Builds Cooperatives with Street Children — Not Just for Them Most people think of education as something that happens inside a building — four walls, desks, a chalkboard.
