United VARs continues its support of vulnerable children
United VARs sponsors a different charity every year. In 2024, it was a project in Hyderabad in India, which UVARs Managing Director, Detlef Mehlmann, visited to see how their fundraising was able to help. Here are Detlef’s words:
Since United VARs was founded in 2006 in a small meeting room at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, the business has grown exponentially and today has both a global and local presence in 100 countries.
Each year, we select a country in which one of our Partners is located, and an NGO project is identified through our Charity Partner, Kleine Hilfsaktion, which needs our help and support.
In 2024, the Chaitanya Mahila Mandali (CMM) in Hyderabad, India was our chosen project. It is home to almost 100 girls who enter the facility aged between 4-5 years. Its founder, Mr Jaya Singh Thomas, wanted to take the girls away from living in extreme squalor in red light districts and give them a chance to learn skills that would allow them to live independently.
United VARs funded a new garden and playground which is providing plenty of outside activities in a safe environment.
It is the aim of CMM to help to provide their residents with a better life through educational support, vocational training, awareness-building workshops in different fields (education, health and pressing social issues), offering a safe and healthy refuge for the girls.
The girls learn to sew in the sewing school within the home, a skill they can take with them on leaving Chaitanya Mahila Mandali Rehab project. They stay living in the safe environment until they are at least 18 years and at a time when they believe they are ready to run their own sewing business outside of the home and live independently.
Interestingly, the clothes made by the residents within Chaitanya Mahila Mandali are already being sold and delivered out of the project to customers by a well-known delivery business. Some of the young ladies are even in a position to buy their own apartments from their sewing businesses – a fine testament to their work and determination to shape a very different future for themselves.
We wish them every happiness and success.
About United VARs
United VARs is a global alliance of SAP solution providers mainly serving the mid-market. With over 70 members in 100 countries, the alliance supports all types of SAP rollouts and integrations worldwide.
United VARs was founded in 2006 when a group of SAP Value-Added Resellers came together in Hanover, Germany to discuss how we could help customers deal with their business objectives across all of their operations internationally. Our vision was, and is, to provide customers with in-country partners familiar with local and legal requirements, and with specific industry knowledge.