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The livelihood opportunities for octogenarian Shantabai Balu Pawar got stalled due to COVID-19 led lockdown. A resident of Gosavi, Hadapsar in Pune, she restarted to perform on the streets during the lockdown and soon turned into an internet sensation.
The staff of the Foundation provided required information on scheme and sought her help to in the awareness promotion. The social media tagged her as “Warrior Aaji” as she twirled her sticks “lathi kathi” with unusual dexterity to create awareness on benefits of various government welfare schemes. like Pradhan Mantri Aarogya Bima Yojana and other schemes.
Two brothers’ journey from a child care institute to a foster family
India is home to 20 million orphans with only 611 orphanages to accommodate this ever-increasing number. Samaj Suraksha Sankul, a public-private partnership (PPP) between Deepak Foundation and Dept. of Social Justice and Empowerment, is home to more than 150 such children. Sankul facilitated Gujarat’s first ever foster care case, where a 14 years old orphan was taken into foster care by one of Deepak Foundation’s team member.
Foster care is a family based non-institutional child care program that provides substitute care for children who are abandoned….
Hailing from Anjar Bhuj, Gujarat, Naki Rabari completed her graduation from GMN Nursing College in Lakhond Bhuj in 2017.
11-year-old Sameer Rathodiya (name changed), native of Por village, Vadodara district has been addicted to tobacco chewing ever since he was 5-year-old.
Premilaben Damor from Panchmahudi, Bhiloda. In 2007 she joined as an ASHA worker.
She has faced many ups and downs as an ASHA worker in her village but still she did not lose hope and continued working as an ASHA worker. She has proved, that humanity and compassion still prevails, irrespective of the gender or any other social barriers.
Aniket Patni student of Sankul School and Resource Center won 1 st price in under 17 chess competition at Chennai Fide Rating National Level Chess Tournament for visually impaired . The tournament was organized by Tamilnadu Braille Chess Association from 27 th Dec to 31 st Dec2019. Aniket played total 9 rounds in which he won by 5.5 points with highest rating. Total 180 visually impaired from all over India participated in which 100 were rated player from India. Now after winning this tournament Aniket has open the doors for him to play international level tournaments.
Five-year-old Anita(name changed) was diagnosed with heart murmur during one of the health checkup camps conducted by Deepak foundation in Balwadi in Pune, Maharashtra. Deepak Foundation extended support and financial assistance to the parents. The doctor counselled her mother for referral visit to Budhrani Hospital. Post diagnosis tests, two holes in the heart was confirmed. Budhrani Hospital Trust waived off the costs Rs 4.5 lakh under various government schemes and private aids. When she was admitted to the hospital for surgery, the pre-operative angiography revealed the critical condition of the patient. As a result of post-surgery complications, Anushka developed kidney infection. With constant follow up and counselling from Foundation’s staff, Anita is recovering.
Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental, and social changes required for sustainable development. In the remote locations of Chhota Udepur district, with the social, technological, and economical inclusion of rural, tribal women are carving a new identity by using purposeful design of activities and institutional support. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) has supported Deepak Foundation to undertake a project on building the capacity of tribal women farmers. This project is designed to include women in mainstream knowledge system, skills system, technological system, market sphere and thus contribute to a sustainable livelihood.
Fahima(name changed) former student of the Home Health Aide course hails from an economically weak section in Chintal, Hyderabad in Telangana. She had been subjected to domestic violence in her married life since her spouse was a compulsive alcoholic. She also survived a suicide attempt. She later joined the Home Health Aide course and got successfully placed at the Raghavendra Hospital with a promising package as paramedical staff.
His deliverables in HR Systems include Designing / Redesigning the Organization Structure, Roles & Responsibilities Mapping, Developing the Employee Policy Manual, Designing and Implementing the Performance Management System, Doing Competency Mapping. Apart from the HR Systems he also carries the knowledge of Statutory Compliance, US Staffing Industry.
The Government of India has been working on TB since 1962 & launched a program called National Tuberculosis Program which later converted into the Revised National Tuberculosis Program in 1997 which was further converted to National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, with a goal to eliminate Tuberculosis by 2025.
The project intends to achieve the following specific objectives within three years:
▪ To accelerate the early detection of TB cases in high-risk group.
▪ To ensure patient ease and convenience for providing the sputum sample at health facilities and linking to appropriate transport and testing services.
▪ To institute a mechanism for the collection of respiratory (GA/IS/BAL) and extra-pulmonary samples.
▪ To avoid/reduce the travel of patients, to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure, and reduce loss in referral.
▪ To ensure access to free and quality assured investigations for pre-treatment evaluation and follow-up of DR-TB patients.
▪ To ensure easy access to free X-ray investigation for patients in the public and private sectors.
objectives of the project identified based on the need assessment survey are as follows:
• To establish a Skill Upgradation Centre that creates proficient quality workforce in various sectors.
• To provide vocational training for the Manual Housekeeping course
• To provide vocational training for the Domestic Data Entry Operator
• To ensure 100% industry exposure to all the registered beneficiaries to provide them hands-on training during internship tenure.
• To ensure that at least 80% of the trained candidates secure certification from government at the completion of course.
• Use natural product like neem seeds/leaves and create income from them,
• Make available neem-based hygiene products like hand wash and homemade soap to the rural community at lower rate.
• Create awareness among the communities about the use of environment friendly hand wash & soap.
• Give a secondary income source of income to SHG members by selling of neem-based hand made products.
Ms. Archana Joshi is the Director of Deepak Foundation, a registered civil society organization established in 1982.
Her expertise is in the areas of designing projects aimed at achieving sustainable development goals and developing systems for monitoring and evaluation in various development sectors such as public health & nutrition, women’s empowerment, education, skills building & livelihood, disability & special needs and providing disaster relief and rehabilitation. Her major focus is on developing and implementing evidence based intervention research projects. As the Head of the Foundation, she has been instrumental in:
She is a member of the Ethics Committee Technical Review Committee of various academic institutions. She is a member of Internal Complaints Committee on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) as well as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) in various Companies and Institutes. She is the fellows of Aspire Circle, a not-for-profit forum that promotes social leadership in India through Fellowships and Research with the purpose of building India’s foremost Social Leadership forum (http://aspirecircle.org/fellows/). She was a member of the World Bank – Health, Nutrition and Population Civil Society Consultative Group (WB-HNP CSCG) from 2013-16. Her research papers are published in several international journals and conference proceedings.
The Foundation is committed to contributing its share in social development with compliance to the statutory and regulatory requirements, wherever applicable. We are committed to quality, integrity and excellence in all areas of social services. We pledge to monitor our performance as an on-going activity and strive for continual improvement.
Hailing from Anjar Bhuj, Gujarat, Naki Rabari completed her graduation from GMN Nursing College in Lakhond Bhuj in 2017. She joined the Certificate Course for Community Health run by Deepak Foundation.
Despite being a mother of a10-month-old baby, Naki decided to pursue the course. Her grit and confidence never stopped her from completing the course. She was facing family-related problems when she had to miss a few classes. She gradually covered the course with the help of her batchmates and teaching faculty. On completion of the course, she is posted at the Community Health Office in Anjar taluka. She is the first woman from her village who took the plunge of enrolling in six months course, leaving behind her infant child with her parents.
11-year-old Sameer Rathodiya (name changed), native of Por village, Vadodara district has been addicted to tobacco chewing ever since he was 5-year-old. A student of class 5, lives Navinanagri slums where major percent of the population are daily wagers. Mahesh started chewing Tobacco when he was 5-year-old. Deepak foundation works in collaboration with Godrej (Cartiny) in this area for women empowerment and child life skill development. The Foundation conducts awareness and counselling sessions for adolescents and young adults for their development, education health, nutrition, hygiene (WASH), environment issues, life-skills and various career options. Through Deepak Foundation’s intervention, counselling of more than 70 childrens.
250 beneficiaries provided with masks through Mobile Health Units
807 families supported through dry ration kits & hygiene supplies in Bharuch & Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat
1255 vulnerable population such as migrants, truckers, senior citizen provided with hot cooked meals in Vadodara and Panchmahal district, Gujarat
1255 vulnerable population such as migrants, truckers, senior citizen provided with hot cooked meals in Vadodara and Panchmahal district, Gujarat
2380 masks, 264 protective suits provided to the COVID-19 warriors (health functionaries), 300 PPE provided to K G P Children Hospital, Vadodara
2955 masks prepared by SHG women trained by the Foundation earning total income of Rs.25760 during the lockdown
20,000 gloves supply facilitated to the Gujarat Medical Service Corporation and 10,000 latex gloves provided to Narmada district administration to mitigate supply shortage in public health delivery system
Samaj Suraksha Sankul is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) between Deepak Foundation and Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of Gujarat, under which Deepak Foundation is undertaking the operations and management of the Institute. Sankul is a residential and support institute for visually impaired, physically challenged, and orphans with a school for visually impaired. Our goal is to rehabilitate children with special needs and enable them to live a life of dignity and independence.
Jeevan project focused on non-formal preschool education, nutritional food supplements, health and nutritional checkups, and referral to public health centers for medical care Jeevan project focused on non-formal preschool education, nutritional food supplements, health and nutritional checkups, and referral to public health centers for medical care
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