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| Published: April 25, 2024
The Udayam Project for Homeless: A Success Story from Kozhikode, South India
Director, The Department of Survey and Land records, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
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Special Officer, Udayam Project, Udayam Home, Govt. Hospital of Dermatology campus, Chevayur, Kozhikode, Kerala, India & Psychiatric Social Worker, Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS), Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
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DIP: 18.01.048.20241202
DOI: 10.25215/1202.048
ABSTRACT
Homelessness is a major public health challenge globally. Rehabilitation of people experiencing homelessness is a difficult task considering various psycho-socio-economic-political aspects. The outbreak of COVID-19 made it more challenging and the life of people experiencing homelessness more miserable. The administration of Kozhikode district of Kerala state of South India made a remarkable initiative called the “Udayam Project” for the comprehensive rehabilitation of people experiencing homelessness with the support of various Non-Government Organisations and Government Organisations. Three years of services provided for people experiencing homelessness have made the project a model for similar projects.
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Rough Sleepers, Pandemic, Development, Social Justice, Public Health
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2024, Rao, S.S. & Ragesh, G.
Received: February 25, 2024; Revision Received: April 21, 2024; Accepted: April 25, 2024
G. Ragesh @ rageshpsw@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.048.20241202
10.25215/1202.048
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 2, April-June, 2024