EZ Vidya

EZ Vidya is India's premier school education products and services organization. All their endeavours are driven by their passion, which is to 'Let the child blossom'. They are headquartered in Chennai, South India and believe in 'cross-fertilized' approach, wherein sharing and learning happens across different functions within and with the partners.

Their services encompass development of academic curricula, training initiatives and strategic engagements with school. Their journey began a decade ago, when computers and technology started to gain entry into schools in a big way. They started out in a small garage where children would come over to explore technology in a meaningful and fun way. Progressively, activities and learning material were designed. EZ Vidya began to approach schools in order to make Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education more meaningful. With a handful of partner schools, EZ Vidya began its foray into formal school education. Today, more than 300 schools partner with EZ Vidya, whereby more than 1,50,000 students derive the benefits of learning and using technology, the Chrysalis way.

Eventually, EZ Vidya also stepped into the domain of teacher professional development. EZ Vidya has trained more than 5,000 teachers, clocking more than 50,000 hours of training, focusing on bringing to our teachers the latest from education research and pedagogy.

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AutomotionAds

Inmotion Foundation & Inmotion Media Pvt. Ltd. is an attempt to revamp the basic problems of a major society in India: Auto Rickshaw. Their aim is to organize and symbiotically grow by providing basic education to Auto Drivers and more importantly their kids (8-15 Years) with strong emphasis on Computer literacy/Personality development and Free Schooling.

This is clubbed with other important financial benefits like micro finance, micro insurance. This will be in tandem with using the space on auto rickshaws for advertising- An unorganized and widely untargeted area of advertising in India. They believe that they will bring not only added income to auto rickshaw owners/drivers by adding value to their vehicles and using our organizing, advertising and marketing skills to lure companies/organizations/events and movements to promote their brand/service/product but also an overall upliftment of this segment.

AutomotionAds are a unique model based upon symbiosis and need. They have more than 1500 autos spread across cities and offer penetration and visibility to masses with minimum cost of impression. AutomationAds provides all kind of  advertisement related to Auto Rickshaws. 

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Search Years : Igniting Young Minds

By: Kanika Kakkar

Search Years vision is to create a positive environment where children and young people can realize their full potential, take control of their lives and interact with the world around them. Its mission is to research, create, develop and employ such innovative mediums and tools that make the process of learning inspiring, impaction and above all, full of wonderment and fun for our partners – children.

Search Years partners with young minds through the stages when they begin to question and search for answers. They understand that development of a child should not only be on a physical and mental level, but spiritual, personal and social planes too, SY through education raises awareness about social issues and motivates young people to be the engines of change. Search Years partners with individuals, corporate and organizations to have them share their knowledge equity by placing highly qualified and motivated educators from the community in government schools to improve the quality of education in the under- served and challenging schools. 

Their volunteer educators from the community engage in active teaching of academic, environmental, cultural and art education by using creative tools, interactive mediums and play, thereby enhancing impact and wonder in the learning process.

SY works in government schools, to make education meaningful and fun, improve student enrollment and attendance and bring down school drop-out rate by adopting teaching methodologies that inspire a sense of discovery and transform learning into a joyous experience for children. They infuse quality in education through creative and innovative methods of delivering the content based on the syllabus drawn by the concerned boards of education.

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Project Disha (an initiative of Prayatna School of Excellence)

Disha counseling campaign for government school students.

Disha (an initiative of Prayatna School of Excellence) launches a PAN India toll free helpline for counseling and assistance for stress related issues for the 10th and 12th class students of the government schools. 

They are offering counseling and assistance through professional and qualified psychology students who will talk to the government school kids before and during the exams to relieve them of the stress and problems faced by them. 

The helpline set up by Prayatna School of Excellence can be accessed through their toll-free number 1800-2000026 between 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. The number will be operational from Feb 22^nd  till 22^nd  April.

Their panel of counselors will help students with their exams preparations and related queries and also counsel them during their exams. More than 120 governments and lower level private schools from state of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan will be covered under this program. In Delhi alone, they are targeting over 20+ government schools including Kendriya Vidyalaya.  More than 50,000 students will be provided with this facility, thereby reducing the dropout rates in government schools, and preventing depression, suicides during and post exam time.

Project Disha is an establish education clinic in tier 3 and 4 town schools of India which empowers students with effective guidance and mentoring through professional and sustained assessment & e-counseling activities. The education clinic caters to solve the problems of student and their parents by providing sustained counseling/assistance on academics/career/personal issues.

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Attitude is Altitude

Nick Vujicic's life demonstrates that all things are possible.

By:Debarati Rakshit

Attitude Is Everything and Self Perception Determines Direction are the principle of the Attitude is Altitude program. Nick Vujicic has a unique plan designed to enhance the lives of employees, employers, students and educators alike. Through Nick's motivational talks people discovers that a positive approach points the way to a meaningful life. 

Nick speaks from experience. He was born with no arms and no legs. To most this would be a great detriment, but to Nick it was a challenge to triumph. Nick made a conscious effort to prevail and to dream big. Realizing it was about how he perceived his own situation, Nick changed the course of his life. He had a purpose. Today people gather strength from Nick and tap into their own worth, as he guides them through an insightful method of achieving greatness, regardless of situation.

Schools benefit from this unique appeal. This brings to light the fact that everyone has potential and that the educational process can be fulfilling. People learn how to overcome adversity, persevere under any circumstance and attain the height of their ambition. Nick Vujicic is reaching out to the corporate world and the educational system with powerful words of encouragement. We all matter! 

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Captain Haneef (Vr.C) Foundation

BY:  Soubhik Chakrabarti

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The organization is founded in the memory of late Capt.Haneef Uddin of 11th Battalion, The Rajputana Rifles. He attained martyrdom in Turtuk (now renamed as sub-sector Haneef Uddin) on June 6th, 1999, in operation Vijay of the Kargil War. Captain Haneef Uddin was awarded Veer Chakra posthumously for the courage and valor he displayed while on duty. The organization aims to work for the socio-economic development of the underprivileged masses and promotion of art and culture.

Currently, the foundation focuses on three projects viz. education (Samarth), music (Swarah) and a pre primary school named Daisy Chain. Captain Haneef (Vr.C) Foundation successfully achieved their set goals through providing non-formal education and providing a proper education support system. The foundation is planning an expansion spreading their wings towards environmental issues.  

A lot of cultural events including dance and music are held by the foundation. Capt. Haneef (Vr.C) Foundation has been actively working for the welfare of underprivileged section of the society since its inception in 1999. 

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Bond Street Theatre

By: Bindu Doddahatti

Bond Street Theatre was founded in 1976 by a group of physically skilled and socially concerned actors and musicians. The ensemble’s method was shaped by their diversity of techniques and their mission motivated by their passion to be useful in this world. 

The company creates innovative works that address social and environmental issues, and uses the performing arts as humanitarian outreach and a tool for education and healing. Their work takes them to refugee camps, areas of conflict and post-war environments. They collaborate with local artists to enjoy the benefits of artistic exchange and promote the value of the arts in shaping a peaceful future.

Bond Street Theatre continue to train it’s members in a wide variety of performance arts from around the world, selecting the gestures, rituals, symbols, and games which give life its shape and dynamics, and complementing them with striking theatrical forms. As a result, they have the diversity to present innovative, provocative theatre work as well as popular forms. Each year, the company reaffirms its mission to reach the widest variety of audiences, advance the quality of the theatre arts, and promote theatre’s relevance as an instrument for healing and world peace. 

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SUKRUPA

By:Shubhendu Shekhar

SUKRUPA mission is to create a pathway to a dignified life for marginalized Indians who are below the poverty line. Its mission is to help underprivileged children escape a background of poverty, slum life, illiteracy and ignorance, replacing these challenges with hope and opportunities available to mainstream children.  

SUKRUPA works with more than 400 children from the slums in and around R.T. Nagar, Bangalore and offers the programs ranging in many disciplines like residential program, school program,  program for school dropouts and leadership program. Sukrupa is a 10 year old, registered non-profit charitable organization that addresses the socio-economic development of the disadvantaged in urban and rural Bangalore, India. 

SUKRUPA works with deprived children and young adults, providing a secure environment, schooling and skills training that enable them to escape poverty, slum life, illiteracy, and ignorance. Sukrupa breaks the poverty cycle for these individuals and their families by creating opportunities so that they are able to integrate fully as participants and contributors in mainstream society.

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The Kutumb Foundation

By: Kimberley Fernandes

The Kutumb Foundation was initiated by a group of young people who felt that there is an increasing need to develop a sense of community among urban displaced people belonging to lower income groups through the spread of education and to provide them with greater employment opportunities as well as better conditions of employment.

They felt the need for greater transparency in the NGO sector and better management practices in its functioning, and such practices must be developed through research into their existing ways of functioning; and, the corporate sector could and ought to be involved in social works, especially in the area of welfare programs for children, as an investment in our future.

In a short period of time Kutumb has tried to provide a platform for young people from the non-privileged sections of society to engage in conversations and express themselves through creative forms as diverse as football, painting and theatre. Aiming to provide holistic development, their events are a celebration of the spirit, innocence and vitality of children.

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Sanchayan

By: KANIKA KAKKAR

Sanchayan works in the area of Financial Literacy, Financial Inclusion and Investor Education. It works for enhancing income and enabling qualitative financial inclusion for the youth, urban migrants and rural populations through a gendered approach to savings, financial literacy and micro finance using technology.

It works towards disseminating financial literacy to youth and adults especially from the underprivileged sections, undertaking literacy drives to create awareness about disadvantaged section's financial rights and obligations, facilitating the inclusion of the underprivileged section into the mainstream banking and financial services industry, spreading awareness so that youth and adults are protected from financial risks and are financially secure and working with the government and regulators to provide basic financial products and services for the youth.

Sanchayan works in 3 verticals, school & college youth, urban migrants and rural poor with a focus on livelihoods. It promotes maximum utilization of available financial products and services among the Indian public and complementing the existing academic curriculum in schools and colleges by addition of financial education workshops to create smart future investors.

 

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Volunteers for the Blind Foundation (VBF)

by Kimberley Fernandes

 

Volunteers for the Blind Foundation (VBF), a Delhi based organization functioning nationally for the Rehabilitation of the Blind was founded in the year 2000. VBF works with NGO’s & Visually Challenged individuals, while networking with the latter offering support and assistance on a national basis. 

Their vision is to improve the quality of life for the Visually-Challenged with a strong mission to assist Blind persons & organizations supporting them, to promote an understanding of their needs & to enable the availability of better quality of services nationally & internationally.

Their activities vary between Projects & Programmes like Sports, Placements, Ablympics, General Awareness and Networking. The Studies and Training involved are Methodologies in Technology, Volunteer Orientation, Technical Guidance, among many others. The services provided by VBF are for both - volunteers and NGO's.

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Wello : the centennial post

by Kanika Kakkar

Wello is a social venture with a bold mission: to effectively deliver clean water to a thirsty world. Wello has reinvented the wheel and developed an innovative business model that empowers individuals to use the Water Wheel as an income-generating tool to lift their families out of poverty.

By giving people easier access to potable water, the WaterWheel frees up valuable time, and in the process, removes barriers that prevent children from going to school and empowers women to engage in more productive activities. Research shows that when women have extra time, they choose to spend it on activities that boost family income, education, health, and wellbeing. Women with even a few years of education have smaller, healthier families, and are more likely to send their children to school. Female education is a key means of breaking the cycle of poverty.

The Water Wheel is an innovative leapfrog technology that will replace piped water infrastructure in the same way that cellular phones have replaced landlines. In the process, Wello creates jobs, improves health and increases access to education; it’s the girl effect in action!

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ASSCOD

ASSCOD is a voluntary organization working for social and economic development in the rural areas of Kancheepuram and Thiruvannamalai Districts in Tamil Nadu, India. The team is focused on working mainly with the grassroots need gap - women and families from the deprived sections of the society such as the lower castes, who are especially vulnerable to poverty, social injustice, illiteracy and poor health. 

 

Founded in 1994, ASSCOD started its operations with core concentration on the health issues of the poor people in Tamilnadu, India. The organization made greater impact after expanding its focus on promoting the social and economic development of the rural poor, especially through the empowerment of women, education and disaster management. ASSCOD identified the weak links in the development of an empowered society and robust economy. Since 2003, ASSCOD’s centered its approach around the concept of self-help groups: organizing women into small groups, encouraging micro-savings and credit, and imparting skills and awareness training to its beneficiaries. 

Furthermore, ASSCOD is committed to helping people in other ways as new opportunities and needs arise, and so in response to the Tsunami that devastated most of coastal regions Tamil Nadu in year 2004, ASSCOD collaborated with other development organizations in the regions to assist the disaster-hit individuals and families in a variety of ways. ASSCOD is also dedicated to working closely with smaller, local NGOs and supporting and promoting their efforts.

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Karm Marg

 - inputs by Kanika Kakkar

Karm Marg, a non-governmental organization, started in 1997 is committed to the cause of supporting disadvantaged children and young adults. Set in the outskirts of New Delhi, Karm Marg runs a home, Karm Gaon, which provides a loving space for such children to live, study, work and play together in.

The focus groups for Karm Marg are disadvantaged children, young adults and economically backward rural women from villages near the campus. The products made by these people are sold under the brand Jugaad. It’s worth noting that most of the Jugaad products utilize as much recycled and reused raw material as possible.

Karm Marg also imparts training in mainstream education, medical care, counseling, health and hygiene advocacy, sports, visual & performing arts besides providing shelter to the needy children. 

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Odanadi

with inputs: Bindu N. D. 

Odanadi was founded 20 years ago by two former journalists Stanly and Parashuram while researching a story on the streets of Mysore. It has three offshore branches at UK, Netherlands & US. 

Odanadi rescue and rehabilitate individuals who have been trafficked, prostituted, enslaved or abused. It offers them a home, counselling, an education and career opportunities. 

Its aim is to create a global movement to combat human trafficking, child exploitation and sexual violence, to rescue, protect and rehabilitate victims of trafficking and help them lead free, independent lives and to ensure that perpetrators of trafficking are brought to justice. 

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Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya

With Inputs: Ira Swasti

The Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya (KSV), located in Kalkeri, Dharwad district, Karnataka, provides a musical and academic education to one hundred and sixty children. In addition, food, accommodation, health care and clothing are also provided, and everything is free. There are no fees at all. 

Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya empowers, supports and encourages children from socially marginalized and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to realize their full potential and attain a better life. This is done through an intensive and comprehensive educational program of academics and music which is undertaken in a peaceful rural residential setting.

Through their achievements at KSV the students will be in a position to attain more meaningful livelihoods, thus breaking the cycle of persistent poverty and creating a better future for themselves and their communities. Through their music the children will contribute towards the conservation and diffusion of India’s vast musical heritage. Currently at KSV there are 14 students who are studying higher education courses. 

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Source:The Better India