History Timeline
- 1984 - 1994
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With children
Stabilizing as ‘Shishu Milap’ by initiating concept of library and inculcating importance for education amongst the street children and their parents through ....
- summer camps
- enrolments of these children in government residential and day schools
- non formal education – learning through fun
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With women
- Organizing waste picking women in Vadodara city
- Action research on rituals and practices of traditional midwives
- 1995 - 2004
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With women
- Women Centered Health Project- Mumbai
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With children
Strengthening the education component through...
- Non formal education centers
- Book exhibitions and regular sale of low priced quality books and toys for children.
- Aveshika- Science and Maths centered programme for school children
- Shodhkhol- curriculum based workbooks on Science for standards 5 to 7 along with low cost laboratory kits.
- Advocacy for abolition of child labour
- 2005 – 2014
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With children
- Discovery Science Resource Group- Practical training to teachers to teach Maths and Science in schools (through Shodkhol books and kit).
- Non formal education centers.
- Advocacy on quality of Education and Child Rights
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With women
- Evidence based advocacy for maternal health – Urban Vadodara
- Work on maternal health and documenting maternal deaths in select districts of Gujarat
- Work on comprehensive health of urban poor women with a life cycle approach and men’s involvement
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With adolescents
- Life skill education with adolescents and building Peer Leadership (urban Vadodara)
- Financial support for continuation of formal education – Scholarship Programme – urban Vadodara
- Adolescents as responsible citizens – strengthening peer leadership and enhancing collective action for Social accountability (Urban Vadodara, Dahod, Mahisagar and Surendranagar)
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights of adolescents
- Livelihood – empowering girls towards self reliance
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With urban poor
- Work around right to shelter as right to life against eviction of poor from prime locations of Vadodara
- Strengthening local committees of people for liasoning between community and service providers in for improvement in basic facilities in their bastis
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Organizational growth
- Entering partnerships for wider reach
- Membership in various networks and alliances
- 2015- Till Date
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With children
- Support centers in select bastis – creating a space for children to study, learn and play
- Age specific and need specific interventions like strengthening the pre school component in anganwadis, creating strong base in three R’s of literacy in lower classes, additional inputs in understanding basic concept, value education and life skill education
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With women
- Advocacy (local, state, national, international), research and improvements in maternal health services, facilities and quality of care of pregnant and lactating women using social accountability to make it a community issue- thereby reducing near miss cases and maternal deaths.
- Public awareness for better planning, implementation and monitoring of selected SDGs with a gender equality lens.
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With adolescents and youth
- Strengthening of the scholarship programme widening its scope to career counseling and exposure to various vocational and academic institutes
- Social accountability through adolescent and youth leadership with an inclusion approach (including adolescents and youth with disabilities and in sexual minorities) – in Urban Vadodara, Anand, Dahod, Mahisagar, Bharuch)
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and youth - in Urban Vadodara, Anand, Dahod, Mahisagar, Bharuch)
- Livelihood component revived and strengthened
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Organizational work
- Strengthening existing partnerships and expanding with new ones
- Sustained membership and active participation in various state, national and international coalitions and bringing together feminist groups, civil society organizations and academicians in a strategic way for gender justice.
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General areas of work since the organization’s inception
- Relief and rehabilitation work
- Empowering communities and change agents for sustainable outcomes