Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), meaning Self Education for Empowerment, is a learning and development organization in Mumbai. SSP translates its mission by providing technical support and access to social and economic opportunities and promoting community driven entities and forging partnerships with institutional actors. Today, SSP combined operations in ten of the most disaster prone districts in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and partner with over 5,000 Self Help Groups with 60,000 women members.
Kherwadi Social Welfare Association’s mission is to successfully set up ‘Parishramalaya Vidhyapeeth’ as a Deemed Center of Excellence that propels the Yuva Parivartan (Youth Change) movement to the national level. Our vision is to create opportunities for school dropouts and deprived youth to enable them to lead productive and socially useful lives.
Tribal Health Initiative is a small organisation working with tribal’s in the remote forest area of Sittilingi Valley of Dharmapuri Dist in Tamil Nadu. We run a Base Hospital of 24 beds with secondary care and a Community Health program for about 10,000 tribals. Few years ago we have started programs in organic farming and craft as part of community development.
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As a Social Venture Philanthropist, Smile Foundation promotes and catalyses universal education among underprivileged children.
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CASE STUDY OF ANCHAL AGARWAL
Aanchal is an individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder and a student of Action for Autism.She is 24 years old. She started learning computer from Action For Autism Computer Training Centre from August 2009. Aanchal does not know about computer applications. But as she started learning computer she is showing interest MSoffice 2007. Firstly we started with MS-Word 2007 and then MS-PowerPoint 2007.
We are grateful to Bigtech for providing original Microsoft applications at a very concessional rate. Being a charity, we firmly believe that each and every donation is valuable and goes to eradicate poverty. Every rupee saved is every rupee earned for the betterment of the poor. Plus, the original applications have increased our work efficiency. As part of the Bigtech initiative, we also lend our helping hand to fight piracy.
Naandi Foundation faced several hurdles such as huge cost of Microsoft Software, complexity and expense in adopting Audio Conferencing Solution and collaborating with field staff. Project management of multi-site programmes was complex due to non-availability of conferencing facility & had to do redundant point to point phone calls for regular updates.
Population Foundation of India (PFI) is a voluntary organization and was established in 1970 by a dedicated group of industrialists and population activists led by Bharat Ratna, the late Mr. JRD Tata, who guided it as the founder Chairman until his death in l993. The Foundation has been at the forefront of the Non-Governmental efforts towards a rights based, Gender sensitive approach for Human development.
