~90%
of 21,239 surveyed students had not received professional career guidance before the study.
Bharat Career Aspirations Report 2025Why We Exist
Every child is born with wings.
Opportunity is not distributed equally.
Guidance can make possibility visible.
7.9%
of girls aged 15–16 in rural India were not enrolled in school in 2022.
ASER 2022 National FindingsA guide shows the way. The choice stays yours.
We help students see more clearly without deciding their future for them.
Dignity
Every student arrives with agency, curiosity, and potential.
Choice
A Rehnuma reveals options; the destination remains theirs.
Consistency
Trust grows when someone listens, remembers, and returns.
The name holds the idea.
Direction without control. Possibility without prescription.
Rehnuma
A guide who helps make the path visible.
Udaan
The freedom to rise in a direction of your own choosing.
From the founders
Zaara Zaidi
Founder
“Access becomes more meaningfulwhen it creates access for someone else.”
Read Zaara's full note
Circumstance shapes opportunity in ways we often underestimate. We believe there is extraordinary potential everywhere. What is not equally distributed is the opportunity to discover it.
Privilege is often unearned. But what we do with it is a choice.
The question is not, “Did I deserve the opportunities I was given?” It is: “What am I doing with them?”
Because access becomes more meaningful when it creates access for someone else.
That is the thought that became Rehnuma-e-Udaan.
Ojas Srivastava
Co-founder
“Where someone starts should notdecide how far they are allowed to dream.”
Read Ojas's full note
Nobody gets to choose where they start, the resources they have, or the environment they grow up in. And sometimes, that is deeply unfair.
For some, things as basic as proper clothing or primary education can feel like a privilege—sometimes even the first such opportunity in their family.
I do not think where someone starts should decide how far they are allowed to dream.
We may not be able to change someone's beginning, but we can make what comes next a little easier through guidance, opportunity, or simply someone who believes in them.
That is what I hope Rehnuma-e-Udaan can be.
Where would you like to begin?
Choose one path. The rest can wait.
Rehnumas may mentor one-to-one or help possibility travel through schools and communities.
- School visits
- Educational sessions
- Community drives
- Workshops
- Field visits
- Awareness campaigns