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Hi! I am Gopika. I work in the GuideStar India office in Mumbai. I take care of accounts. I enjoyed teaching. 
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Dear Friends
My Name is Waseem Iqbal working as executive Director at AAs. Let me introduce our journey with all of you.
Despite all the various kinds of evils surrounding our society from all four sides, what makes this world a beautiful place? According to us, it’s ‘hope’. It’s ‘hope’ that whispers in our ears during testing times that good days are ahead.
‘AAs’ means hope, was established to create a child-friendly world for every child. A child-friendly world where children have access to each and every resource to ensure their survival, development, protection and participation.
The seven founder members of the organization met in the year 2003. They entered the same college from different walks of life, having different struggles in their childhood and adolescents’ age to pursue M.A. in Social work.
During their educational journey, they were put in the same group for an internship and were asked to organize different activities in urban and rural communities. They came across lots of children from underserved communities and realized they shares the similar experiences of various difficulties and lack of guidance. They organized different activities like skit plays, awareness campaigns on education, sanitation and drug addiction. All these activities were appreciated and they realized the power of co-creation. The first idea of creating an organization came in the year 2004 and in 2005 this idea converted into reality in a form of AAs.
AAs is on the mission of creating Child Friendly World and we believe that Child development and protection could not be achieved by only working with children but this should be a comprehensive approach to include each and every stakeholder to address different cross-cutting issues affecting child development. AAs has adopted its 5Ps model.
The 5Ps model of AAs contains, Protection of every child from any kind of abuse, Prevention by engaging all the direct and indirect stakeholders by sensitizing and capacity building programmes for creating child-friendly atmospheres, People’s Participation to ensure the participation of every stakeholder i.e., children, parents, child care institutions, Police and other line departments to ensure their participation for creating child-friendly spaces, Partnership in terms of knowledge and resource partner with the likeminded organization and Propagate the child rights issues at different forums to influence decision-makers to develop child-friendly policies and laws in the country.
AAs always explore partnerships and projects interventions in a way by which we can achieve all of our 5Ps for creating a child-friendly world. We have not limited ourselves only to financial partnerships with our supporters, but always open our doors for knowledge and resource partnerships.
This year in 2023, AAs is completing its 18 years of journey in which we have touched more than 300000 children by imparting training on child abuse, directly working with more than 10000 families for family based alternative care, supported more than 10000 children in need of care and protection, rescued more than 2000 children from beggary and child labor, trained more than 5000 officials from police department, women and child development department and representatives of child care institutions. More than 2000 drivers’ community for ensuring child friendly transport.
Absolutely lovely to read how your organisation originated. Could you also mention your name and what role you play in your organisation. It would be helpful to everyone no the community.
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Thanks. I have edited the post and mentioned my name and role.
Hello Everyone,
This is Vinay from ‘Quality Education Support Trust’ (QuEST) an NGO working in the Education space and our goal is to improve the quality of education through professional development of Teachers & Teacher Educators and Parent awareness. I have been associated with QuEST since 2015 and currently looks after the Compliance, Grant Management & HR of the organization.
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My name is Amar and its been over a decade I am working with Samavedana.
Samavedana work towards bridging the gap between essential and necessary healthcare and the underprivileged. We use three pillars of healthcare to do so, namely : treatment, prevention and awareness.
We operate from Pune, Maharashtra.
Our projects are dynamic and are evolved time to time based on current and contextual need and are offered irrespective of cast and creed.
We provide financial aid to patients for tertiary or specialty care treatment, for the treatments that incur lacs of rupees in expenses. We support patient famlies with treatments and procedures that (aid or support) are not offered by any other Govt or Non Gvt schemes.
We also work in community health by working with school aged children. We have cancer screening and care initiative that serves women at risk of having cancer.
So far, since inception in 2003, we have served lives of more than 1500 patients and their families; and also have worked with more than 50,000 community members for improving their health orientation and health status.
Looking forward to learning, sharing and interacting.
Thank you for sharing about Samavedana with us Amar. Welcome to the forum and we hope this platform can help you and your organisation
Hi, I am Mini Bhargava from ETASHA Society. I am the Chief of Collaborations & MIS and have been with ETASHA for last 17 years. My main responsibilities are managing the data flow, M&E and reporting system. Along with this I also manage the volunteering, corporate connect and collaborations with other organisations for funding, platform management, accreditation & compliance.
ETASHA Society has been operational since 2006, working with Beneficiaries from the underserved communities. We work with Adolescents on Scholastic Improvement, Life skills training, Computer training and Career Guidance. We also have a helpline ‘Keh Dalo’.
We train youth with Employability skills and place them in the service sector. We work with Adult women to help them become Entrepreneurs.
To know more do visit our website www.etashasociety.org
Welcome Mini and thank you for introducing yourself and ETASHA Society to everyone on the forum.
Greetings,
I am Sri Joydip, the Managing Trustee of the Sri Joydip Ashram Gyan Yoga Training and Research Centre. We are more than just an organization; we are a catalyst for change, a beacon of hope, and a driving force behind the quest for better health and well-being for all.
Our mission revolves around Gyan Yoga for Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), which is dedicated to ensuring the health and well-being of every individual. As a tax-exempted organization and a proud member of the United Nations Global Compact, we are committed to making a lasting impact on the world. We are also honored to be recognized as an institutional publisher.
To gain a deeper understanding of our work and the positive change we are striving to bring about, I invite you to explore our microsite on the United Nations portal.
Please take a moment to visit our webpage as well at www.srijoydipashram.org.
Our journey is a testament to the power of collective action and shared purpose. Join us in our mission to promote health, well-being, and a better world for all. Together, we can make a difference.
Hello Friends,
Founded in 1992 in Rayagada, tribal dominated district of Odisha, Shakti Organisation is a not-for-profit registered organization committed to strengthening its interventions to catalyze change and contribute to the development and growth of the vulnerable and marginal communities. Shakti Organisation is focusing on addressing the gaps created through agricultural, educational, health, and socio-economic shortfalls. A group of educated and highly motivated persons endeavouring to address the underlying causes of poverty, poor health care, literacy and livelihood insecurity led the foundation of the organisation. Its interventions aims to improve the well-being of tribal people, improve and diversify the available secure livelihood options, improve water resource management and sanitation, empower women and community organisations, and strengthen the Panchayat Raj Institutions.
At Shakti, we achieve sustainable behavioural and societal change through capacity building of communities to take charge of their own lives. We are the first to inaugurate Village Health Committees (VHC) and continue to advance the cause of full and active participation in the areas of governance, health & nutrition, education and livelihood development.
We have considerable expertise in the areas of forming and strengthening village committees; training of PRI members, increasing political literacy; establishing SHGs, SHG Federations, training members, developing market linkage schemes, managing micro- finance schemes; women empowerment; creating sustainable livelihood opportunities like leaf plate, stitching, poultry, mushroom cultivation, etc.; surveying, designing and constructing gravity fed water supply systems; advocacy and sensitizing communities on land rights, health, and education.
The name Shakti, a Hindi word meaning ‘empowerment’ was chosen deliberately to align with mission and vision of Shakti Organisation. Shakti has taken an integrated and innovative developmental approach to solving the problems of social and economic backwardness. Its work has focused on addressing the problems created through agricultural, educational, health, socio-economic shortfalls by enabling the needy and down trodden utilise available resources.
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Myself Radha, working for a Not for Profit Organization - MOTHER in Karnataka state.
Multipurpose Organization for Training, Health, Education and Rehabitation (MOTHER) was set up as a voluntary organization in April 1995. Registered under KSR Act 1960, registration No.SOC 1/95-96.
Vision :
To Develop and Empower the poorer section of the society and bring them to the mainstream.
Mission :
By providing sustainable livelihood interventions, convergence and creation of institutions
The MOTHER has worked consistently with the small and marginal sections of rural society including women. MOTHER aims to empower the rural community to have a say in decision making and planning.
To know more about MOTHER click www.motherngo.org