BNS (Bhartiya Navdeep Samiti)

Area of Support: Women & children.
Key Issues: Education and Health
Objectives: Eduation, Health, Community development

Bhartiya Navdeep Samiti (BNS) is a national level NGO. BNS has been working in different parts of the country both rural as well as urban areas. It was established in 2001. The strategy is to empower the marginal community by building up their capacities through education and capacity building to realize their potential, its objectives through community participation, human capital development, personality development, resource mobilization and networking with government agencies and other counterpart organizations. BNS works for the deprived, underprivileged and marginal families in both urban and rural areas in different states in country as in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
Activities:

BNS has been working on developmental activities for national growth and development since inception.
Involved in learning programmes such as the Education Programme and growing up healthy (Health Programme), capacity building, livelihood and environmental sustainability programme
BNS is running 10 Remedial Education Centers under ISF’s Girl Child Initiative
 
 
Achievements:
10 centers are running at Shakurpur and Pitampura.
How many children were mainstreamed.
Have the no of dropouts decreased

Case Study
The seven year old Arzoo who always used to be quiet and calm is being discussed in G-Block MCD School Shakurpur and REC. She is on the lips of virtually every body. Its a sort of 'Breaking News' for all those who considered Arzoo as any other School going child of deprived sections. As she has taken a remarkable 'lead' in studies and has been taking part in extra – curricular activities as well.

She is the youngest among the four siblings of the poor family of Jahangir – a tailor who hardly gets time for his children. It’s a matter of sheer chance and a mere coincidence that BNS workers during the course of survey identified her and got her admitted in class-I, during 2007. But her father didn’t allow her to attend REC. However, later on her mother Maheshwari after knowing about REC's credentials started sending her to REC.

When she joined the Centre she was even unable to pick up pencil properly but she started doing well gradually and never absented from school. Shrimati Neelam, her class teacher praised her a lot during 'Latent Talent Show' programme under co-curricular activities of GGSI Project when Arzoo showed her hidden talents. In her own wordings 'BNS remedial Centre has proved to be a boon for Arzoo, she has improved a lot- rather miracle has happened. Arzoo who kept a low profile didn’t talk to others normally used to sit on the last bench, afraid of mixing with others and avoided School and studies --- has completely changed. Now she is one of the best among all her class mates --- sits on front bench, answers all questions with full confidence. Her personality has undergone tremendous change, a rare scene in MCD Schools. The REC has proved to be a catalyst for Arzoo.

Arzoo's mother is quite happy and expresses her gratitude towards BNS and wants to educate her daughter. Arzoo! wants to do something unique in future although she feels shy while expressing her future flans but is with full of hopes. She is now in Class-II and has secured 78.33% marks in Unit Test held in December’ 2008

Contact Person: Mr. R. K Shukla.
Contact Coordinate: 011-55267609, 9871542530 & 9350440686(M)
Address: L P. 54 D Maurya Enclave, Pitampura Delhi-110088
Email Id: bns_india31@rediffmail.com

Area of Support: Women & children. 

Key Issues: Education and Health

Objectives:

A nonprofit organization works with equal dedication and commitment through well-defined programmes on literacy, education and Health with a focus on children and women in the area of Madangir, Lal Kuan, Sangam Vihar and Okhla. Started in 1999, Kalyanam’s main objective was to main stream the dropouts into the formal system of Education.

• To have a discussion in ICT & Development (Give the full meaning of the term ICT once
• Positive case studies that have taken place in women enterprises with respect to ICT
• Policies that can be framed by government on ICT
• How ICT can empower women at village level
• Various organizations working in the field of ICT
• Recent trends in ICT's
• How ICT can be used in currently running enterprises
• How ICT can be used for women's empowerment
• Want to know more on models that empower women based enterprises in India that can be replicated in Afghanistan
• How to empower rural women through ICT
• How to develop enterprise in tribal women
• Understand the sustainability in ICT enabled enterprises
• Understand the Demand & Supply aspect in ICT
• How to create capacity to handle enterprises of ICT
• Want to know more ideas about ICT's in rural areas
• Kalyanam is running 3 Remedial Education Centers under ISF’s Girl Child Initiative at Sangam Vihar and Lal kuan.

Achievements:
In addition to regular learning opportunities for children , Kalyanam organized regular eye camps especially for women and children for curative and preventive measures .

Contact Person: Mr. R B Prashant
Contact Coordinate: +91-9810246133
Email Id: prashant_131@yahoo.com
41/1407, First Floor, DDA Flats, Madangir, New Delhi-62
Ph. No: +91-11- 64150203

NIPUN

Area of Support: Women & children.
Key Issues: Education and Health

Objectives:
Nipun is a Delhi based organization founded mainly to enhance quality of life of the needy people living under adverse conditions. Education, health, self-help, gender equity, child development and physically and mentally challenged children and adults. NIPUN has made a modest beginning with community organization, self-help, skill training and educational activities in the slum areas.

Activities:

• At present NIPUN is working at Meera Bagh, West Delhi & Indira Camp, South Delhi. The focus of NIPUN has always been about inclusion of marginalized, abandoned, vulnerable, neglected, deprived and exploited.
• Involved on multiple issues ranging from education, health, Self Help Group formation, gender equity, disability and advocacy on child rights.
• Nipun is running 3 Remedial Education Centers under ISF’s Girl Child Initiative at J.J Clusters, Meerabagh

Achievements:
1. RECs were started at Basti Vikash Kendra but due to political influences they were forced to vacant the premises of BVK. People from the community came forward especially the parents of those girls who have been mainstreamed in MCD schools in 2006-07.
Series of meetings were conducted to provide space for construction of temporary structure for conducting remedial classes. Today a space 35ft X 22ft has been provided by the community through community mobilizations and they themselves constructed temporary shed for their children. After Completion, the community named it as NIPUN Basti Pathshala which is decorated with TLMs in Hindi and English.
2. Prizes were given to students namely Madhu(Class IV), Maya(Class V), Radhika(Class V), Fizza(Class II), Neelu(Class VIII), Bharti(Class VIII) Monika(Class VII) and Chanda(Class VII) who have scored good marks in their final examinations at MCD Schools in March 2008
Total children :96

Contact Person: Mr. Pradeep Kumar
Contact Coordinate: +91-9810694867, 011 -25270903
Address: GH – 5&7,883 Paschim Vihar, New Delhi 87
Email Id: pss_gi@rediffmail.com or info.nipun@gmail.com

RASTA

Area of Support: Women & children.
Key Issues: Education and Health

Objectives:
Rasta is a Hindi word which means path or direction. Rasta provides direction and support to the people enabling them to realize their capacities for sustainable development. The core objectives of Rasta are:

• Universalization of Education: To improve quality of education by running formal and non-formal education centres, incorporating different innovations, for all age groups with emphasis on girl child and people living below poverty line.
• Community health: To implement comprehensive community health programmes focusing on women and children.
• Community Organization: To organize the underprivileged into self-help groups and undertake community infrastructure development like school construction, park development, etc.
• Income Generation: To undertake skill training and income generational activities to promote self reliance in the less privileged.

Activities

• Rasta is running 5 Remedial Education Centers under ISF’s Girl Child Initiative at Indira Camp I, II and Hassanpur
  

Achievements:
During Admission drive
Peer girls groups with about 10 active children in each were formed. They did awareness drives in the summer holidays. They passed through the streets and motivated the parents to send girls to school. About 856 houses were surveyed and also girls who needed remedial help were identified to join the REC’s. About 236 kids were found out of school as a result of this drive.

Contact Person: K. C Pant
Contact Coordinate: 9868268418
C/o Dr K.C. Papain, C-2, Press Apartments,
Plot No. 23, Parparganj Society, Delhi-92
Email Id: kcpant60@yahoo.co.in

SAVE (Soceity for Advancement of Village Economy)
Area of Support: Women & children. 
Key Issues:
Society for Advancement of Village Economy (Save) is national level voluntary organization, which has been working among under privileged, marginalized and deprived people of the society on no profit no loss basis. Save was established   in 1996 in New Delhi. Save started its development work before its registration. Volunteers, sympathizers, trustees and stakeholders were simply working in target areas without any hope for benefit or return. After four years of its establishment   it was felt that Save should get registered under the appropriate act of government of India.  It was registered on 5th December 2001.

Objectives:

• To develop and mobilize community and natural resources to give the right direction to people of the marginalized and economically weaker section of the society.
• To form groups, women, youth, old age, clubs, community leader groups for developing team spirit among different level communities.
• To take up initiate or assist the social development activities or welfare programmes for bringing positive change in the lives of common people

Activities & Achievements:
Save has been in partner with ISF from August 2008 runs 2 remedial centers under ISF GGS . The children coming in  RECs are from resettlement colonies and slums of Jhilmil and surrounding areas of East Delhi

Total children in REC: 60
    
Contact Person: Sampa Banerjee
Address: A-162, Jhilmil Colony, East Delhi- 95
Contact Coordinate: +91-11-32631800, (M) 9811783723
Email Id: save_org@yahoo.co.in

SAVERA
Area of Support: Women & children. 
Key Issues:
Mission of the organization is to make a contribution to poor and under privileged people of India by providing them education and basic healthcare facilities. We at Shwarnim Savera involve the people of India in the process of development of Education, Healthcare and Environment.
The responsibility of Shwarnim Savera is mainly to uplift the education in the rural areas and we try to reach all area where education has not.

We recognize education as the main tool that empowers individuals to make informed choices, resist oppression & claim their rights, besides opening new possibilities & opportunities for themselves. Everything that we do is focused on turning our beliefs into a tangible reality. We have a very comprehensive education programme as per the developmental age of children and socio-economic milieu under which they exist. The philosophy of our organization is based on the belief that each child deserves an equal opportunity for total development. The triad of the project includes- parents, children and the community.

Objectives:

• To create self reliant individuals, through intervention at various levels of development, in the life cycle.
• To empower the vulnerable sections of the society by building up their capacities through education, health and skill-based development.
• We are working for the cause of human development focusing on the less privileged sections of the society in the rural & urban areas of the country.

Activities & Achievements:

• Savera is running 2 Remedial Education Centers under ISF’s Girl Child Initiative at Kalyanpuri
• They are also running a Gender Resource Center.

Achievements:
Project work was carried out  by the  children of RECs in  Decoration of Diyas and Candle. A trained worker helped them to make candle out of wax. Materials required were glitter, wick, colored beads,   paint, sitara thread and sanchas etc. It was an enjoyable time for the children to imagine and create lovely paintings on diyas making candles.           
                                                                        
Contact Person: Ms Amita Agarwal
Contact Coordinate: +91-9873158895, 011-22728407
Address: B-46, Retreat Apartment, 20 IP Extension, Mother Diary Marg, New Delhi- 110092
Email Id: firdosh.hussain@yahoo.co.in

VVF (Vigyan Vijay Foundation)
Area of Support: Women & children.
Key Issues: Education for All
Objectives:

Long-Term Goals

• Establish a norm for schools for preparatory/ bridge courses for dropouts, children from slum pockets, migrant families etc
• Skill Training and Functional Literacy for adolescent children from the given section
• Adult Literacy for men and women from the given section
• Education on issues of Self Advocacy, Social Security, Personal Savings
• Health education and primary health care for slum inmates
• Self-help groups for trained adolescents, adults.

Activities:

• Non-Formal Education for children in the age groups 4- 8 years and 8 - 13 years; focus on integrating these children in to formal schools
• Remedial classes for mainstreamed students
• Child Care Centre caters to young ones in the group 1 - 4 years, while their elder siblings attend school; provides them with early intervention & basic concepts for formal education later
• Mid-Day Meals are provided free of cost; well-balanced diet of 250-300 calories, Average weight gain of 1-1.5 kg achieved per pupil.
• Vocational Training of adolescent boys & girls from slums - cutting and tailoring, beautician, candle making, screen printing and typing.
  

Achievements:
Jay Kumari(UIN no- 11/ 06/ R1/ 0026) is a 12 year old girl who lives with her parents at 1/70 Gali No 1, Mahavir Enclave. Her parents had migrated here from their village Bhainda, District Mahoba, UP. Being the oldest child in her family, she had to look after her siblings and so had never attended school. It was a mere coincidence that the VVF staff identified her during one of their regular visits in the community.
 At first she was very shy and hesitant to join school and be in a class with much younger children. In 2006, with persistence and persuasion by the VVF workers, she agreed to, and joined the VVF run REC which is supported by ISF. Over a period of time, with constant motivation by the REC teacher and interesting class activities, she started enjoying the classes. Her academic progress and other skills acquired in the REC, further encouraged her to attend regularly for three years. She is now able to read and write confidently and finds this very useful in her day to day life.. In her unit tests in Hindi, English, and Math she scored an A grade and in EVS, she scored a B. That is truly remarkable!
Her progress has been so great that she is now looking after the Pre and Nursery children of the REC. The fact that her parents are letting her do so is also an achievement and a step towards change.

Contact Person: Asha rani
Contact Coordinate: +91-11-25058853, (M)9968253755
Email Id: ash.kumar@vigyanvijay.org
Visit our website at:www.vigyanvijay.org