GFA partners in Savda Ghevra
Child Survival
Email : csi_org@hotmail.com / www.childsurvival-india.org
General activities
Integrated approach to development with a prime focus on health and gender issues is the basic theme of all programs. The organization works on issue of children and other groups like women in distress ,people living with HIV ,Adolescent girls, truckers, commercial sex workers etc.
The programs include Primary Health Care, reproductive & Child health, HIV prevention amongst truckers & sex workers, Gender Resource Centre, care & support to people living with HIV/AIDS, Legal literacy and formation of Mahila Panchayats and Adolescent development programs.
Programs in Savda Ghevra
Child Survival India program on Health started in April 2008. As of now the program is envisaged to run till September 2011.
Overall goal
To strengthen and enhance the primary health care facilities in the Savda Ghevra resettlement colony and develop its linkages with public health system to improve the health status, especially the maternal and child health status in the communities.
Activities:
1. OPDs
CSI and GFA opened four OPDs in the different blocks of the community. Two of these OPDs have paid services, while afternoon shift in the Directorate of Health Services dispensary and the OPD at GMR are getting support for medicines etc. from the resources of these respective agencies. The OPDs run 6 days a week, each with a set of full time team, including a Doctor, an ANM, and a clinic attendant etc. Through a nominal consultation charge of Rs. 5, the patient is given a 2 day dose of basic medicines.
2. Swasthya Samooh’s
A group of 10-15 members were mobilized for every 200 families, resulting in a total of 25 groups in the entire community. These groups were formed to ensure the long term sustainability of the program by building up the community’s capacity. In the first year the members of these groups have been provided knowledge & skills on primary health care issues, with special focus on maternal & child health issues. The focus now is to make them the change agents in the community.
3. Organizing Health Camps
A series of specialized Health Camps run in order to complement the General Physicians at the OPD’s and to cater to the diverse health needs of the community e.g. Eye check up, Dental camps, skin and VD, breast cancer, orthopedic problems etc.
4. Emergency transportation facility
Ambulance service is provided through the system of ‘Suraksha Van 24×7’ in the project area for ensuring availability of vehicle at the time of health emergency.
Staff, monitoring mechanism
There are 13 members engaged in health project In Savda Ghevra including the project coordinator, Doctors, ANMs and community health educators.
Monthly reports are sent by the organization to the funders as well as Growth for All. Assigned staff from Growth for All submits reports based on observation, interaction with project beneficiary, staff, and swastha samoohs members. Quarterly meetings are held between Directors of both the organization.
Dr. Reddy’s Foundation
Programs
Set up in 1996, Dr. Reddy’s Foundation (DRF) is a non-profit partner of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories.
The Foundation’s major programs aim at poverty alleviation in the country through promotion of quality education and livelihood advancement for young people.
In the Education sector, DRF seeks to spread quality education through its
Program in Savda Ghevra:
105 students underwent an intensive training under the LABS program. After the successful training, the students were placed into various organizations. Many of the individuals were placed into corporate organizations like Pizza Hut, Spencers, Radha Krishna Hospitality Services and in addition to this few also started their own micro-entrepreneurship. In total, close to 90 individuals found jobs after the completion of the training.
Hasmukh Kala
Website under construction.
Programs
Hasmukh Kala Trust, founded by Mr. Hemchandra Javeri is a dedication to his grand-mother, Hirabai Javeri, a renowned artiste, who along with her sister, Shyamalabai Mazgaonkar, initiated the Swami Samarth Sangeet Vidyalaya, in 1929. With dedication, passion, caring and commitment, they taught music to women from all walks of life. Along with music, women also learnt how to live their lives with self-confidence and dignity. They built a Hindustani classical music school for women, by women and of women.
Hasmukh Kala uses art in the form of music and dance to bring. about transformation and empowerment of women’. Music has often enabled talented people from different backgrounds and cultures achieve incredible things. Hasmukh Kala identifies such hidden talent, provides quality education, support, infrastructure and environment to them, and acts as a catalyst to help transform their lives.
Program in Savda Ghevra:
Hasmukh Kala was introduced in Savda Ghevra, by with Growth-for-All, in April 2008. The project in Savda addresses over 120 young girls and women, and a few boys. With classes being held twice a week, on Saturdays and Sundays, under the tutelage of a dynamic and committed “Guru Ji”, the children get an excellent exposure to the wonderful world of music. Based on the number of children participating, the students are divided into three groups or classes. The first two groups are for girls, and focus on music and dance, while the third group is for boys with a keen interest in learning how to play musical instruments like the guitar, harmonium, drums and tabla. Since starting in April 2008, Hasmukh Kala has generated tremendous amount of interest among children who never miss a day of practice. The enthusiasm can be seen in their participation in “The Independence Day Concert” inside the community. The concert saw coming together of children with unique talent and improvising their ability to perform.
The interest shown by children has led the Hasmukh Kala Foundation to distribute scholarships to extremely promising and talented children. 5 children from Savda’s Hasmukh Kala were provided a scholarship of amount Rs 1000 in the month of November, 2008.
The extremely successful journey thus far has motivated Hasmukh Kala to expand its work in Savda Ghevra. Going forward, Hasmukh Kala plans to reach out to older women of the community besides providing advanced training to promising and talented children who have crossed the first stage
Staff and Monitoring:
Hasmukh kala is operated by team of two, The Music teacher and program coordinator. Growth for All receives weekly update from the program coordinator. The field coordinator of Growth for All also reports his observation on weekly basis.
Programs
GRAS Vocational Education and Training (VET) : It offers vocational training modules in the hospitality and retail sectors, complemented with life-skills, for urban youth seeking training in order to become more ‘employable’; it offers companies tailor-made programmes to upgrade existing staff skill levels, and to recruit new staff with essential basic skills.
GRAS Skills Development and Employment Centre (SD&EC): It provides skills training tied in with job placements for Indian youth living in the smaller cities, towns and rural areas.
Deepalaya
http://www.deepalaya.org/
Programs:
They work in more than 35 projects and our focus is distributed to the following areas:
Education : Deepalaya aims to promote and provide qualitative education at affordable costs to children and communities, which are socially and economically deprived. They have established 337 educational centers where 50,000 beneficiaries are educated through formal and non-formal education.
Institutional Care : Under this program children living on the streets, in need of shelter, care are provided shelter and better life at the hostel in Deepalaya Gram, in village Gusbethi in the state of Haryana.
Vocational Training: The Vocational training centers seek to provide better jobs to young adults from marginalized communities. It runs a training center in Khirki village which provides training on various courses
Health : the Community Health program focuses on preventive and promoting health. Through various health related interventions, Deepalaya have been able to reach out to 64,436 beneficiaries in 76 locations of
Differently-Abled : Disability became an important core of Deepalaya work. The first breakthrough was setting up of Centre for Special Children at
Gender Equity: Working in the Mewat region of Haryana where gender discrimination is rampant, Deepalaya started a comprehensive program on Self Help Groups in 1999. Until 2005 it has covered 308 groups with 3216 women in all 84 villages of the Tavru Block. The movement is also being implemented in the slum locations of
Empowering NGOs
Deepalaya acts as resource and training institute to other ngos. It organizes capacity building workshops for several ngo’s.
MARG, Multiple Action Research Group
Programs
The organization works on socio-legal issues related to discriminated and marginalized groups both at the mass level and at the level of policy makers. MARG is a forerunner in the sphere of legal empowerment through legal literacy workshops and undertaking action research on socio –legal issues. A majority of MARG’s legal awareness workshops aim at creating a cadre of women paralegal at the community level. MARG has trained over 300 persons per year, such as lawyers, police, teachers, panchayat members, community mobilisers, self help groups, etc. 80% of the persons trained are women.
MARG is a pioneer in creating legal training materials and advocacy tools, notably “Hamare Kanoon” and “Bol Basanto”- a 10 episode film on women’s rights. In addition, MARG has produced posters, literacy pamphlets, and radio programs on issues related to violence against women .MARG’s action research work relating to displacement, rehabilitation, personal laws, laws relating to rape have all addressed issues affecting women. MARG members have actively participated and contributed to law reform initiatives of the Law Commission, statutory national institutions and civil society networks.
Program in Savda Ghevra:
Legal Empowerment of community members: Under the program 15 Para-legals and 45 Community members are being trained on legal issues in Savda. This is done through a monthly workshop where a particular issue is discussed. The issues are very much related to lives of people and deals with concern of Rights, Law, and Police, Government department (Public Distribution systems, Education, Water, Sanitation and so on). Exposure visits are done. The objective is to provide adequate information and training to people in Savda so that they are able to take up issues concerning themselves from a legal stand-point.
Staff and Monitoring:
The workshops are conducted by trainers from MARG. Community mobilization is done by Growth for All. Feedback is taken from the participants after the workshops are conducted. Growth for -all members are presents during the workshop.
Tata Consultancy Service – Corporate Adult Literacy Program (ALP) Group
Program:
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization. The CBFL programme teaches reading skills to illiterate adults, between the ages of 18-50 years, who have not
attended a formal school. It uses animated graphics and a voiceover to explain how individual alphabets combine to give structure and meaning to various words. The settings for the lessons are visually stimulating and crafted in a manner that learners can easily relate to. n CBFL is implemented using computers, which deliver the lessons (via puppet shows) in multimedia form to the learners. Supplementing computers in this process are reference textbooks or primers from the National Literacy
Program in Savda Ghevra:
The Corporate Adult Literacy Program was implemented in Savda and ran for a period of 6 months was classes for 20 women were held on daily basis. The computer based curriculum was imparted by local instructor who was trained by TCS. At the end of the course women were able to understand and learn basic of hindi
Staff and Monitoring:
A local instructor was recruited to take classes for women. Growth for All coordinator was responsible for mobilizing women and keeping daily records of the progress made.
Maruti Driving School
http://www.marutidrivingschool.com/index.html
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. has launched
Program in Savda Ghevra
