GVS is sensitising the community and changing the negative attitudes towards education and delay age of marriage among 5,000 adolescent girls through girls groups led by trained peer educators, life and livelihood skills and by collaborating with the Government to ensure the basic health, nutrition and education services, in Ghazipur district, Ratnapur block of Uttar Pradesh.
Grameena Koolikaarmikara Sanghatane (GRAKOOS) is a community based organisation of agriculture workers with a membership of over 35,000 households. Their key focus areas are effective implementation of NREGA, Access to social welfare schemes and entitlements, greater participation in local governance mechanisms and addressing women's rights issues. The grant will support GRAKOOS to expand its coverage from 40 blocks to 90 blocks and increase its membership to 1,50,000 households in 5 years.
The Gramin Samassya Mukti Trust was Established in 1991 they works with Kolam PVTG(Particularly vulnerable Tribal Group) and other tribes like Gond,Pardhi in Yavatmal and Chandrapur District of Maharashtra which also overlap with socioeconomically backward schedule V area . They have been working with the district administration with a focus to build capacities(managerial, thematic and financial skills) of Gramsabhas in preparing and executing their participatory conservation and management plan and have demonstrated the economic and ecological benefits of this in 10 villages. Our support will help them scale their work to 20 new villages.
Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS) was founded in 1983 to improve agriculture and animal husbandry, water security, education and health among small and marginal farmer communities in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Bundelkhand regions. Through the Philanthropy grant, they will promote rain-fed and drought-resistant farming by working with 1,000 small and marginal farmer households across 40 villages.
Maarga was established in 1999 and has worked in the urban slums of Karnataka for the past 9 years to promote the education of children, especially first generation, from deprived dalit and Muslim families. The grant will help them expand their work from 40 to 80 girls enabling them to pursue higher education through daily after-school sessions, football coaching, social education workshops, art and craft workshops and exposure visits. It will also help make mothers more aware of the benefits of supporting the educational and professional growth of their daughters.
The Madhyam Foundation was founded in 2004 as a Development Support Organization(building capacity of smaller NGOs and Microfinance Institutions) by Mr. Subrat Singhdeo a Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University Madhyam’s vision is “An Odisha where every low income family is livelihood secure and lives a dignified life” and major activities currently undertaken are:
Promotion of System of Rice Intensification, vegetable cultivation, pulses and millet cultivation, tuber crop and turmeric cultivation among small and marginal households
Goat rearing and Poultry for land less farmers
Promotion of Vegetable growers co-operatives,
Promotion of simple cost effective gravity flow irrigation methods and
APPI support is to carry out above activities in Khandamal district with 4000 small marginal Farmers.
Magic Bus is enabling a better future for adolescent girls by imparting life-skills through the Sports for Development Programme where children engage in numerous games and activities that are relatable to real-life challenges and situations. This participation enables them to cope better and facilitates a more natural and more capable transition to adulthood.
Magic Bus is enabling a better future for adolescent girls by imparting life-skills through the Sports for Development Programme where children engage in numerous games and activities that are relatable to real-life challenges and situations. This participation enables them to cope better and facilitates a more natural and more capable transition to adulthood.
Maher - Sheltering 500 mentally ill and challenged destitute women and men, helping them lead a life of dignity away from abuse and vulnerability on the streets of Pune.