STUDENTS MASTERING IMPORTANT LIFE-SKILLS EDUCATION

"...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity."- Carol Bellamy Students Mastering Important Life-skills Education (SMILE) Program is an educational program designed to cater to the awareness of young children & adolescents from 1st-10th std by embedding values of life skills in the context of physical, psychosocial and emotional issues according to their age.

The process begins in standards 1st-4th with Child Protection section. Special flipchart story adapted for India provide basic knowledge about being safe and how parents and teachers can be supportive and protective for students at home, school and in public places. In addition to this children in 5th-7th standard are trained on issues related to gender, for instance equality, sensitivity and responsible behaviour. For the 8th-10th standard, professional doctors conducting workshops emphasize on Puberty changes widening the topic of genders and reiterarting the child protection story too. For the 10th standard there is also a basic information on HIV, STI's, Pregnancy and Contraception.

The Program approaches underprivileged children from BMC Schools in Mumbai as well as in Private Schools in order to incorporate the model of sustainability. The aim is to create awareness in a non-threatening way based on positive, simple language and interactive participation. The continuum of Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Sessions enables to see the progress and evaluate the whole process of attaining behavioural changes over a period of three years.

Research has found that individuals who developed life skills in a positive rather than preventive manner feel a great sense of competence, usefulness, power and belonging to understand, protect, report and most important ways to respond or act.

The Program also involves adults (Parents, Teachers & Admin staff) who partner on the program. Special sessions for parents prepare them for counselling their children in open discussions at home on a daily basis, Teachers are advised how to instill awareness in the minds of children in order to master important life skills during their education. The third part for administrative staff creates the responsible attitude of all employees who can have the influence on child's safety during school time.

Samabhavana Society also provides and then streamlines the health care access of the underprivileged, marginalized adolescents in 53 schools of E Ward of Brihan Mumbai Mahanagar Palika (BMC) high schools by way of quarterly health check up in an academic year.

The objective is to increase continuum of health care facilities to the student community of Brihan Mumbai Mahanagar Palika schools in E Ward in order to provide a quarterly doorstep health check up and to provide data on better health management of students to parents.

HEALTHY ADOLESCENTS INITIATIVES

Healthy Adolescents Initiatives is strategic alliance between Health Care Providers and Adolescent children for providing health linkages that are of high Quality and moreover Consistent Health Care and will be sustainable via the PPP model.

The project is to streamline the health care access of the under privileged, marginalized adolescents in 53 schools of 'E' ward of Brihan Mumbai Mahanagar Palika (BMC) high schools by way of quarterly health check up in an academic year School health Camps.

Goal:

To increase continuum of health care facilities to the student community of Brihan Mumbai Mahanagar Palika schools in E Ward.

Objective:

To provide doorstep health check up quarterly in one academic year,
To provide data on better health management of students to parents.

Rationale:

The Program is simple in terms of deliverables as its goal is to Provide Quality Affordable Consistent Health care for the underprivileged, marginalized adolescents in BMC schools section of the society.

Strategy:

To conduct quarterly health camps in 53 schools of E Ward to create further awareness of medical adherence and affordable quality medication.

Samabhavana Society organized ASTITVA, The Art Festival was initiated in 2007 with student of Media, Fine arts from more than 35 colleges in Maharashtra and was an ongoing process till 2010, there after the concept evolved into creating a process as an Awareness Advocacy on Issues of Male Child Protection and culminated into Astitva The Art Quake (ATAQ), which was a Fund-raiser; that helped raise equity at four levels, Skills & Expertise, Youth Volunteers, Networking to Raise Awareness and to connect with the main stream society.

Astitva brought together art, culture and media to acknowledge, accept and express these concerns to a larger audience and invite partnerships from Corporates, Artists, Youth, Individuals and Mainstream society to pro-actively work towards increasing happiness index.

Astitva successfully reduced the gaps and barriers in bringing out the stigmatized and unspoken issues in the open and solutions to lessen the pain that humans cause to other humans from positions of Influence (of money, gender, social status)

Astitva is multidimensional in its theme, designed to inspire artistic curious minds- a platform for young artistic talent so as to generate interest in Male Child Protection, Gender, Sexuality, Human Rights through the medium of Art, Theatre, Film and allied fields of Media focused on bridging perceived gaps between Awareness and modes of creative expression ~ An amalgamation of young people who share similar passion for the Art and Culture.

Disney Volunteer Engagement:

Under Disney's "Voluntears" program, Samabhavana Collaborated with Disney UTV with the painting of a paediatric wards in Wadia hospital, Mumbai.

Here is what Jinal Kakadia one of the Samabhavana Volunteer had to say about the initiative, "It is every child's right to be happy and I am happy to be a part of the process" Another volunteer Marilyn Pereira who spent her birthday painting the walls of the ward said "It was the best way I could spend my birthday and I am very glad that I could be a part of the program."

Disney Hospital Evaluation

A mirror image process of Girl Child Protection further provided to male child and adolescents through school program training in Mumbai on Child Protection and further creating campaigns on diverse platform of media for the awareness of the Male Child cause.

Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation

Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, The Netherlands based agency with its India Regional office in Bangalore, supports the Empowering of Men who sell sex and Men who have sex with men program along with Youth Power an intervention with school and college students and Ehsaas the interactive response toll free help line 1800 22 2199 Hivos has been supporting us since November 2004 and the the support is still ongoing

For more details Please visit :

http://www.hivos.nl/

Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society is an organization constituted by Government of Maharashtra under 100% centrally sponsored scheme of Govt of India through financial assistance from World Bank for implementation of National AIDS Control Programme, supports us from November 2003.

For more details Please visit :

http://mahasacs.org/

Pathfinder International is a non-profit international and non-governmental organization and under its Mukta Project supports our MSM intervention in Pune.

For more details Please visit :

http://www.pathfinder.org/

Mumbai District AIDS Control Society,

Mumbai District AIDS Control Society, supports training on Life skills education in 50 schools of Mumbai for its AIDS Education Program in Schools

For more details Please visit :

http://www.mdacs.org/

Groupe Developement is an international NGO that works on child protection, poverty alleviation and livelihoods.Its South Asian regional programme focuses on preventing trafficking and exploitation of children. It has a regional office in India (SARO)

For more details Please visit :

SWISSAID INDIA

Samabhavana Society is being supported by Swissaid for Conducting Gender, Human Rights and HIV /AIDS awareness through our following education initiatives

Students Matering Important Life Skills Education ( SMILE ) - To reach out to children and adolescents in 12 schools, STD 1 to STD X of Mumbai/ Pune

Certificate in Human Advocacy Resource Management ( CHARM ) - To reach out to 150 Youth of Mumbai /Pune colleges

For more details Please visit :

http://www.swissaid.ch/en/india

Community Lead Sustained Structural Intervention – (CLSI)

A strategic alliance between Health Care Providers and Community for filing in the gaps in existing health linkages to provide Quality, Affordable Consistent Health Care.

Brief Description

The project is to streamline the health care access of the under privileged, marginalized in three locations of Mumbai, Dharavi, Beherampada (Bandra-e) and Mahul (Bharat Nagar) and to dovetail them into developed government health systems by building a bridge by setting in a linkage between community programmes by way of regular mobile health check up and alternate month Holistic Health Camp

Goal

To increase continuum of health care facilities to the target community

Objective

• To streamline out Health outreach activities for referrals by developing sustainable linkages
• To develop an MIS system so as to get correct, consistent data
• To forge and sustain partnership between Health Care Providers and Community.

For more details Please visit :

Love146.ORG

LOVE146.ORG, The abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation and works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through Prevention and Aftercare solutions while contributing to a growing abolition movement, supports our Soft and vocational skills program for boys in sex work , since July 2009

For more details Please visit :

http://love146.org/

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

Samabhavana's collaborations with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi and IBM India Pvt Ltd which was initiated with organizing the Global Conference on CSR in year 2013, as the goal was to create a platform for Civil Society organisations to create a meaningful partnership, the process of capacity building was one of the way ahead for ensuring the creation of platform for partnership and another way ahead was also to provide grass root organisation consultation for CSR Connect via the existing connects of Corporates, that Samabhavana has built over the period of years.

The collaboration was a natural way ahead as it was the shared goal between three partners, IBM, IICA and Samabhavana. Sponsored by IBM, Supported by IICA, Samabhavana Society then initiated a series of workshops across India in four geographical zones (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata). It was proposed to be a two day '3Cs (Capability, Capacity, Connects) Training Workshop' for NGOs and Social Enterprises.

The Samabhavana Society, along with Community Business announced the launch of the D&I Seminar during its Global Conference on CSR- India. the initiative is supported by IBM, will strategize, structure seminars/workshops with the goals of getting the agenda of Diversity in the corporate boardroom as well as within the Human Resources Framework and present it to IICA for further clearance as it's a very sensitive topic that will have to be well camouflaged, so as to not deter traditional Indian Corporates and PSUs.

Sponsored by IBM, Supported by IICA, Samabhavana Society then initiated a series of workshops across India in four geographical zones (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata). It was proposed to be a two day '3Cs (Capability, Capacity, Connects) Training Workshop' for NGOs and Social Enterprises.

The collaboration was a natural way ahead as it was the shared goal between three partners, IBM, IICA and Samabhavana.

The Samabhavana Society, along with Community Business announced the launch of the D&I Seminar during its Global Conference on CSR- India. the initiative is supported by IBM, will strategize, structure seminars/workshops with the goals of getting the agenda of Diversity in the corporate boardroom as well as within the Human Resources Framework and present it to IICA for further clearance as it's a very sensitive topic that will have to be well camouflaged, so as to not deter traditional Indian Corporates and PSUs.

Sponsored by IBM, Supported by IICA, Samabhavana Society then initiated a series of workshops across India in four geographical zones (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata). It was proposed to be a two day '3Cs (Capability, Capacity, Connects) Training Workshop' for NGOs and Social Enterprises.

Samabhavana organised a series of workshops across India in four zones, a two day '3Cs (Capacity, Capability, connects) Training Workshop- Phase I, which was aimed at capacity building of NGOs. The goal was to create a platform for Civil Society organisations to create a meaningful partnership, the process of capacity building was one of the way ahead for ensuring the creation of platform for partnership and another way ahead was also to provide grass root organisation consultation for CSR Connect via the existing connects of Corporates.

The 3Cs Training Workshop- Phase II, will focus on NGO preparedness analysis, importance of documentation for pitching for corporate funding, log frame matrix, governance, transparency and accountability and other important and relevant features useful for capacity building of the NGOs.

PARTNERING RESOURCES FOR INDIA IN SUSTAINABLE MOVEMENT

Project:

Partnering Resources for India in Sustainable Movement (PRISM) - An Initiative of Samabhavana Society.

Our Goal:

The long term goal of PRISM initiative is to ensure that the discriminated and stigmatized communities also benefit from the CSR process- under Section III – "Measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backwards groups"

Objectives of PRISM initiative:

The key objective of this initiative is to facilitate a platform for Corporates to support developmental issues that otherwise would not be supported due to the mere association that may hamper their Corporate brand value and hence will not associate, wherein the Corporates will share the project at a fraction of cost and still ensure impact in the marginalized communities, that are visibly – invisible.

Background:

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not going to solve the world's problems. That said, CSR is a way for companies to benefit themselves while also benefiting society. Reasons for Corporates to engage in CSR are multiple, to mention innovation, cost savings, brand differentiation, long-term thinking, customer engagement and employee engagement.

Five years ago, it was considered good if a company simply did not harm the environment. However, times have changed, and now employees, customers,, stock holders and society demand that their company do more than simply not be bad. It requires a different form and less voluntary approach on CSR policies and practices.

The PRISM initiative was exactly developed for this reason, to offer a solution to changing CSR environments, offer opportunities to improve existing CSR policies and practices and provide extensive services to companies to develop their CSR initiatives with exciting and innovative projects and most important work with communities that hitherto would not have got CSR support.

Rationale:

For India to move well in to the 21st century there is an imminent need to work with the truly disadvantaged communities that cry out for support BUT, will not get in the area of social development.

With the passing of the Company Bill, Section 135, schedule VII, some see CSR issues became part of the mainstream conversation, twenty years ago, CSR was limited to corporate philanthropy and for some businesses, the adherence to environmental legislation. What we see today is a far more complex picture and an ever-widening stakeholder universe. And now CSR is mandatory and compliance for all which will positively affect their bottom lines.

Children with disabilities are not given education on Maths and English in government run schools and these project will provide specialized training for such children to be able to compete with stand ground with kids who have had education in English and maths and have a n equal ground to further their education and skills.

Samabhavana is in collaboration with TATA Interactive Systems technical support is developing E modules on its flagship project Students Mastering Important Life-skills Education (SMILE) Program is an educational program designed to cater to the awareness of Child Protection in young children & adolescents from 1st - 10th STD by embedding values of life skills in the context of physical, psychosocial and emotional issues according to their age.

These E modules will enable schools to conduct the sessions without disturbing the curriculum schedule of the school.

The modules will also be designed for Teachers as TOT & further providing the tools for parents to deal with children at homes and open spaces for communication on various issues.

For Students in Colleges and universities a special awareness and training module on Anti bullying and Ragging.

E-modules are also being developed for Corporates on Anti Sexual Harassment at Work place & Working with Persons with Disability.

In Mathura to ensure that migration is reduced and the Youth i Mathura are self sufficient and secure in their own home environment and won't have to fall victim to trafficking and migration, by developing Self Help Groups (SHG) and via the Jana Vikas Programme and Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana.

Women above the age of 45 years who has been in extremely difficult stigmatized situations in life and need to have Dignity in Life, by way of providing them shelter and vocational skills which at these age they can easily master and become self sufficient; this will be our self sufficient model in association with destitute home for women, where they will be trained to be care givers, cooks, nannies and will also the manage the facility on rotational basis to learn the facets of each process and then reintegrated into the society.

A project that ensures Dignity in Life, where the support system is evolved by the residents, for the residents.

Reconnecting with roots and rejuvenating, de stressing with being in Nature. In today's times of high stress, this project will provide to one and all a process of environmental living with nutritious food and providing succour in the most unique way that will provide process of de‐stressing and rejuvenate the person to take up the challenges of life with a new vitality.

For more details Please visit :

A program that will provide financial Dignity in Life and also ensure delivery of the National Policy for Persons with Disabilities, primarily: Educational Rehabilitation including vocational training and Economic Rehabilitation for a dignified life in society, which is the by line of our organisation "Dignity in Life"

As per the new CSR act, under section VII, sub section II: promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently able and livelihood enhancement projects.

The project design will ensure compliance with one of the clause of the CSR bill.

Samabhavana will create employment opportunities, for Specially Challenged Persons as per the requirements of company