Nav Srishti, a non-profit organization dedicated to women empowerment and child rights, is celebrating 20 years of community development work this August. Over two decades, it has significantly impacted marginalized groups in Delhi through various programs focused on education, health, and advocacy, engaging over 60,000 families. The organization emphasizes collaborative efforts and transparency, with a goal to foster self-dependence among underprivileged individuals, especially women and children.

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From Secretary’s Desk
Dear friends!
I am happy to share that Nav Srishti will complete its
journey of 20 years on August 03, this year. I also take
this opportunity to congratulate everyone associated
with Nav Srishti for a meaningful relationship.
On behalf of Nav Srishti and personally, I would like to
express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to all people
who have extended their financial, programmatic, organizational, technical support
to us and the quality of time spent towards community development work in the
past 20 years. I sincerely thank our individual sponsors and partners for their
solidarity and timely support. By our combined efforts, we have achieved many
positive changes among weaker sections of the society. We do expect the same in
the future.
I would like to thank immensely for the support provided by government officials
from Government of India, Government of Delhi, various consultants, auditors, legal
advisors, media people and well wishers so that we could contribute towards the
causes of marginalized people. By reposing faith in us, we are optimistic to achieve
extended milestones what we will foresee to set out to do in the future
programmes. I do wish to thank my teammates who have worked with full
commitment and devotion.
We would like to wish everyone and believe that, we will be able to extend our
incessant qualitative services to the underprivileged women and children across our
operational area.
Sincerely,
Reena Banerjee

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The organisation
A group of social activists having an objective to work for women empowerment and child
rights formed Nav Srishti. It is a Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO),
registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 on August 03, 1994 at New Delhi and
under Foreign Contribution
Regulation Act 1976 and Income
Tax (IT) Exemption Act 1961.
General Body is comprised of 14
people who manage resources
and provide guidance and
support. GB elects Executive
Committee comprised of seven
members to look after day-to-
day functioning.
There is an Advisory Board that
provides ideological, academic
and strategic support on various
issues. It is comprised of medical
doctors, social experts and persons working in the field of latest technologies, media
communications, teaching aids and experts working on various issues. We have promoted a
core team involving our team members. We believe that building a good, effective team is
vital and the team structure will influence the way the larger team behaves. With the aim to
promote a collaborative team, where individuals share knowledge, co-operate, support
each other and are motivated to achieve the team's goals, we have promoted a core team
involving our team members. The whole concept and composition of this team is a step
forward towards organization’s policy to promote transparency, build leadership qualities
and cohesiveness among the larger team and at the same time increase our own
effectiveness and efficiency and enable the organization to achieve its strategic goals.
The Core team assists in implementing the organization’s human resource policy and
suggests steps for approval by the General body, initiates activities supporting the
organization’s policy in general and provides strategic support to the organization. Core
team reviews the progress of the organization in regard with ideological development,
program implementation, financial management, coordination & cohesiveness among team,
administrative improvement and other related issues. It also suggests the necessary steps to
be taken considering the other staffs of the organization and how they fit into the picture.
There are 15 members in this team lead by a convener. This team constitutes of
organization’s staff working at different levels such as at grassroots level as well as those
who are in managerial capacities. The team meets once in every quarter and sometimes
Governing Body Executive committee
Ms. Anu Jha Ms. Anu Jha – President
Ms. Rama Pal Ms. Anjali Sinha-Vice -President
Ms. Sangeeta Ms. Reena Banerjee – Secretary
Ms. Anjali Sinha Ms. Sangeeta– Treasurer
Ms. Tripti Sarkar Ms. Vinita – Member
Mr. Veer Singh Chauhan Ms. Tripti Sarkar – Member
Ms. Reena Banerjee Mr. Raju Verma – Member
Ms. Vinita
Ms. Nirmal Kaur Advisory Board
Ms. Rajni Poonam Dr. Dipti Mehrotra
Mr. Raju Verma Col. (Rtd.) G S Grover
Ms. Saroj Singh Adv. Vivek Aggarwal
Ms. Sarmishtha Banerjee

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even more frequently as the situation arises for a collective approach and assessment. The
various roles in the team depend on the nature of the assignments such as developing
modules, resolving staff conflicts as well as provide guidance to larger team in their roles
and responsibilities.
Vision
Enhance the capacities and skills of underprivileged and marginalized individuals /
communities, especially women and children so that they could become self-dependent and
live a dignified and respectful life.
Objectives
The organization is playing a pivotal role in the task of building a democratic, secular and
just society with its limited resources and capacities. The major objective is to improve
overall women and child right scenario to pave the way for a dignified life to them. Besides
we aim to help and enable weaker sections of society to raise voice for their socioeconomic
development. Moreover we strive to exchange collaboration with state and national level
civil society organizations working on similar objectives. The organization is fully dedicated
to achieving its objectives promoting gender equality, secularism, transparency and
democratic values in its functioning.
Approach:
Nav Srishti believes that working on grassroots level alone will not help much to solve the
problems in long-term manner. There is a need to work for changes in policies and programs
too. Keeping this in mind, Nav Srishti is working at both levels. On one hand we are working
at local level to solve local problems with active involvement of women and local
community along with youth, adolescent and children while on the other hand Nav Srishti is
working for changes in policies and program through advocacy and networking with other
stakeholders. We are promoting community groups at local level that will own the process
and work for the development of their area. We have done it successfully in Nangloi where
CBOs are working very effectively.
Ethical Values
We have imbibed the ideas and values that help us in performing our role more effectively
and emerge as a credible organization. We have been more accountable and transparent in
our work. We have placed human rights at very high level in all the programmes. We have
developed a responsible team protecting confidentiality of the people (wherever required)
and giving respect to others. We have been committed and dedicated towards the cause we
are working for. We have also promoted collectiveness among the team and encouraged
gender parity. We have worked for marginalized people irrespective of their caste, religion,
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The Team:
We have a team of more than one hundred fulltime/part-time committed workers and
volunteers who are dedicated to work for women, children and other underprivileged
sections of the society. We have majority of women workers in our team. Entire team is very
much sensitive on the issues related to gender equality and child rights. We have motivated
local women so that a permanent resource at local level is promoted. Any person can
contribute financially/non-financially. One can also donate material/equipments /furniture/
literature etc. Any person can volunteer her/his services at our centers according to area of
interest and competency.
Work Area and the People:
We initiated our efforts in 1994 from Nangloi, in West Delhi. During last two decades we
have expanded our reach in and around Delhi. We are working intensively with marginalized
sections of the society. The majority of people are migrants from various parts of the
country. These people have been living in pathetic condition. Women atrocities, women &
child health and education, illiteracy particularly among girls, poor hygienic conditions,
gender inequality, domestic violence and child safety are major challenges among these
communities. Scarcity of water, poor sanitation, inadequate education and health services
are other areas of concern. The population consists of daily-wageworkers and casual
laborers. Presently we are working in
four districts (south, north, north-
west and west) in Delhi. Besides we
are working in Faridabad in Haryana.
We are working with Crisis
Intervention Cell (DCW) to provide
immediate and long term relief to the
rape victims in 16 police stations of
Outer District in Delhi. We have
reached more than 60000 families
(more than 350000 persons) through
our intensive and extensive efforts.
Thrust Areas: We have decided to work on some key issues to achieve the goal of
developing a democratic and just society. We have taken education, health, women
empowerment, child rights and vocational skills development as core issues and community
mobilization, networking and advocacy as major part of our methodology.
Miles to go……… Though our efforts have resulted in a significant change in the life of many
marginalized people, but we are well aware that there are many in need and still a long
journey is to be completed……. !
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Programmes and their Impact
Nav Srishti has been implementing different programmes in community with the support of
partners, government and civil society organizations. A summary of our efforts and
achievements during the year is given here-
With the support of Plan India, we have implemented a Child Centric Community
Development Program in resettlement colonies of Metro Vihar, Holambi Kalan.
Approximate population of this project area is 34,800 out of which, 49% are females. There
are nine schools (1 Government school and 08 MCD Primary schools) and two Primary
Health Centers. 23% of children are out of school. Approximately 53% children are fully
immunized. In consultation with children and area members, we have set out following
programs in our work area-
Sponsorship:
We have covered 1380 children under sponsorship programme (Assigned- 1240,
Unassigned- 41, Submitted- 80, Pooled- 19) out of which 403 (28%) are boys while 977
(72%) are girls. We have intervened towards community development through sponsorship
a child from weaker family. The processes in this regard are grouped into five key areas as
Sponsorship Growth, Production and Dispatch of family profiles (FAMPs), Sponsored child
Cancellations, Replacements and Sponsor Discontinuations, Management of Sponsorship
Transactions and Communications Production and Tracking. We have adopted an approach
based on following principles and strategy.
Total 1380 children have been enrolled in sponsorship process where 94 % of the children
have participated in different programs such as awareness on health, sanitation, education,
child protection and rights, disaster and safety issues in the community. We orient the
sponsors about the child protection policy, procedures and the entire scenario. We expect
that visitors follow the guidelines while meeting with sponsored child and his/her family.
We have got great success in various dimensions of child development as intuitional
Principles:
 Children at the center
 Guided by human rights
principles and standards
 Responsibility and accountability
 Gender equality and participation
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Strategies:
 Anchoring programs in the
community
 Engaging corporate
 People centric advocacy
 Working in partnership for
greater impact
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deliveries, birth registration; harassment with children, early childhood care, positive
discipline in schools and awareness in their rights.
Child Protection & Participation
We have worked to improve the situation of child protection and child participation giving
priority on following points-
 To improve knowledge, attitude and practice among children, parents on child
abuse, female feticide, child marriages and gender based violence
 Promote community based child protection and its effective integration into the
state/ national child protection system
 To improve child protection legislation and policies
These efforts have helped to make the community more sincere and aware regarding the
safety of children in the area.
Major Interventions:
Networking with different government and non government organizations such as SJPU,
CWC, CHILD LINE, Health department etc have been increased to ensure child protection.
Reporting for assault and different types of abuses has been substantially increased due to
our interventions in the project area. Strengthening of Bal Suraksha Dal on different aspects
of legal literacy and counseling measures have been major focus during the year. Total 199
cases have been reported to police stations
so far on child abuses.
Creative sessions for children such as paper
craft, choreography, dance and Nukkad
Natak have been organized where children
had opportunities to express their feelings
and abilities; total 16 children linked to
receive compensation from government
institutions under POCSO Act. One child
has got 380,000/- amount as compensation
with the help of Nav Srishti.
Community Based Mechanism:
A day-long state level consultation was organized at India International Center on 11th
June
2013. Major objectives of workshop was to take stock of current efforts and experiences to
build stronger child protection systems at state level and to provide opportunities for
networking with an aim to build regional partnerships committed to strengthening systems
and formulate effective strategies and promising practices of how to engage children and
communities in systems strengthening work. Besides it aimed to identify risks and
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concerns. Moreover to raise awareness about child rights, child vulnerability and child
protection services and enhance mobilization within communities around child protection
concerns and child rights was also
an objective.
In this consultation from different
Ms. Kamla Lekhwani (CWC
Chairperson from Avantika), Mr. K.
V. Sareen (Chairperson DCPU),
Bharti Sharma (known social
worker), Anant Asthana (Lawyer –
High Court), Sanjay Joshi (Director
Minda Bal Gram) and Dr. Neelima
Pandey from “Plan India” gave their
suggestions. After the consultation
DCPU recognized the Bal Suraksha Dal for the safety network.
Consultation on Missing Children
We have organized a consultation on missing children involving all major stakeholders at
India International Center- New Delhi on 27 December 2013 with the objective to share
concern on the issues related to missing children and its reasons with different stakeholder
of statutory bodies, civil society and direct beneficiaries and define appropriate framework
to deal with the challenge.
Ms. Reena Banerjee welcomed all participants and shared that missing children is a big
challenge in Delhi as still 13 children go missing per day. She categorized the reason behind
the issues and emphasized that 34% of children left their home due to violation, 17% lost
their way, 8% victim of elopement, 4% went to relatives’ place, 3% kidnapped & abducted
and 2% went missing for other reasons. Online data of missing children is also available on
Zipnet. The consultation led to some positive steps to raise the voice on the issue.

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Parents of 5 missing children agreed to move court through DLSA and filed habeas corpus
case. Court has considered it seriously and police produced 4 children out of 5 cases before
court within six months though they were missing for long time.
We sent the cases of missing children to DCPCR and they sought status report from Police.
As a result Police started working on “Pehchaan” drive in community. DCPCR launched “KHOJ”
drive in which DCPCR would tap information regarding missing children from all sources and
circulate the same along with photographs to all children homes in Delhi for immediate action.
A network of approximately 45
children`s homes in Delhi has been
created and in case the child is
found in one of the Home, DCPCR
will take appropriate steps to
identify and rehabilitate the
children with his or her family as per
law. Number of DD entries of
missing children is reduced and
percentage of FIR is increased.
State government decided to formulate Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) for missing
children which is now in final stage. Government showing its sincerity on the issue has
appointed 13 ACP rank officers as SJPU and 335 JWOs. Police calls Nav Srishti as resource
organization in Outer Delhi to make awareness program schools in protection issue. Many
print and electronic media have given due importance on the issue.
Health
Main objective of the programme is to Increase access to information and capacity building
to exhibit responsive health seeking behavior and system strengthening mechanism for
Sexual Reproductive Health and to Improve maternal health by enabling women to access
knowledge and quality health services
To fulfill the objective we formed the 40 mothers groups in which 825 mothers are the
members. During the current financial year, we have organised monthly sessions with
mothers groups, Saas Bahu Jalsa, growth monitoring of children, Eligible couple meeting and
Swasthya Mela on quarterly basis. The specific days like health days, breastfeeding week
and world AIDS day were also celebrated.
To identify the malnutrition status among the children of Bal Pratinidhi Parivar we
celebrated the Shishu Swasthya Mahina”. We have done growth monitoring of 2000
children of the age group of 0-5 years and awareness sessions with mothers on nutritious

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food. Health checkup of the children was done and counseling was done by the doctor.
Severe malnourished children were referred to hospital for the treatment.
Saas Bahu Jalsa was organized with mothers & elder caregivers at AWCs to discuss on birth
planning and preparedness, essential immunization, infant feeding practices & child care,
demonstration of different complementary food, ARI, etc. The awareness events on birth
planning was organized, in which the eligible couples got the information on spacing, family
planning, role of males in child rearing etc (to include demonstration of different modes of
family planning).
We also involved the local PHC and hospital and district health society to improve the health
facilities in the area. Besides we have conducted different programmes that have made
community people aware about the reproductive health. It has resulted in the increased
number of institutional deliveries and timely immunization among children.
WASH
Under the WASH component the objective is to facilitate the availability of water and
sanitation facilities in preschool, primary and secondary schools for all girls and boys and to
support all families to improve their hygienic practices including disposal of human and
other waste and enable children and communities to access safe drinking water supply by
making them aware about government schemes, policies and provisions.
Total nine WASH monitoring committees were formed in each school during the year. The
children conducted day-to-day monitoring of the WASH infrastructure such as ensuring
running water in toilet, maintenance of toilet, availability of soap for hand washing etc
through WASH monitoring chart. We have worked to sensitize and build the capacity of
school staff (teaching and non-teaching staff), children and their parents towards WASH
interventions (good hygienic practices) and changes in their behavior.
We identified teachers as ‘WASH champions’ and built their capacity in hygiene promotion
techniques with children in 9 schools of Metro Vihar phase-1 and phase-2. In addition to
children, the teachers discussed hygiene education and other issues with the SMC/ PTA
members. We have constructed rain water harvesting system, recharge pit and dustbins in
one MCD primary school. Three Swachhta Samitis (community wash committee) on WASH
issues were formed. 75 members trained on quality of services, water quality and
community based monitoring and repaired and maintained two community toilets reducing
open defecation.
One street theatre group of 16 youth has been trained on technical skills of street theatre.
We have celebrated the specific days in schools as well as in community to spread
awareness on WASH like Global Hand Washing Day (15th Oct), World Toilet Day (19th Nov),
World Water Day (22nd
March) and World Environment Day (5th
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activities like the drawing competition, film show, quiz, demonstration, open discussion,
debates and street play etc.
Household Economy & Security (HES):
The objective of the programmer is to promote access to formal financial services especially
to women through community managed microfinance program, prepare young men and
women to get formal employment or self-employment through market oriented vocational,
business development and life-skills training and increase children’s and youths’ access to
food to meet their dietary needs for a healthy life.
We have formed 30 WSGs in which 650 women are the members. We formed 27 Youth
groups for youth involvement and 526 youths are members of these groups to fulfill the
above said objective.
We organized training programmes on micro-finance, skill development, gender & nutrition
and group dynamics for the capacity building of these groups. Total 8 SHGs were formed in
which total 120 women are members. These SHGs have their account at bank with the total
savings of Rs. 256520. The members of SHG groups started their own work through the
internal loaning.
Awareness on Food security
We consolidated the information on Food
Security Act 2013 and disseminated
information through small pamphlet/
booklet in the community. Week long
campaign was organised on PDS. Local
youths led campaign that includes
identification of cases of errors, collation
and presentation of community PDS
report cards to local government through
Heading towards self reliance:
Kamla (changed name) is a house wife and lives along with her husband and five
children in Metro Vihar. Family gross income is not enough to match their daily family
needs. Her husband works in a factory and supplies locally made mithi supari items. She
got basic understanding of benefits and functioning of Self Help Groups during process
of formation of SHG in 2012 and thereafter joined Chhaya SHG group. She started saving
100 /PM and took loan of Rs 2000 to purchase raw materials for paper cup (Dona)
making. Now, she sells paper cups in the local market and able to earn approximately
Rs. 1000 per month. She is helping her children for their education with her earnings.

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community meetings, street theatre screenings & interactions with PDS department etc.
The orientation session for women, adolescent girls and youth groups were held on gender
issues, nutrition education, food distribution at household level etc. Teammates also
motivated people to make new ration card to avail benefit under government schemes.
Celebrations of Specific Days Team celebrated special days such as National Youth Day,
International Women Day etc to increase
community participation ensuring active
involvement of women and youth.
Gender issues
With the involvement of youths and
adolescents, monthly safety walk has
been organized. Mapping of the
vulnerable and risk zone has been
organized with the help of mobile app
“Safety Pin”.
Building Resilient Societies
The objective of the program is to reduce vulnerability of the communities from hazards
with special emphasis on building a culture of disaster risk reduction among children and
community members. Some of the activities that are done as follows:
Vulnerability analysis of 9 schools and schools development plan has been developed in
Holambi Kalan Metro Vihar area. Orientation of SMC /school principals / teachers for 9
intervention schools on disaster risk management, child protection and education in
emergencies have been also done. Disaster preparedness committees were formed in 9
Schools and their capacity building has been done on first aid, fire and disaster
preparedness drills etc. After vulnerability analysis, an organization “SEED” prepared
mitigation plan for Aanganwadi and local
schools in Metro Vihar area to be
considered as a Model in the community.
We organized street plays on disaster in
collaboration with DDMA, at community
level as well as in schools so that
awareness can be improved among
community members. Safety-week has
been organized quarterly to improve
understanding about the disaster risk in
the community. Demonstrations and quiz
programme were also organized to involve communities for preparedness for any disaster.

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Education and ECCD
Our program covers 8 MCD schools and 39 Aanganwadi centers in Metro Vihar I & II and
Metro Khurd area. Program goal is to facilitate all growing children to complete 10 years of
quality education. It also aims to improve awareness on care giving practices for children in
0-3 years for their holistic development and enhanced ECCD services and school readiness
amongst children in 3-6 years. We have worked to achieve this goal by community based
programming for improved access to education and increased transition to higher levels of
education. We have provided required support to schools that would enable improved
learning environment and classroom transactions. Besides efforts were made to link schools
to government schemes and institutions and build capacities of ECCD, key PU functionaries
on essential home based care.
We have worked to enhance awareness amongst community based groups and parents on
essential home based care for pregnant mothers and children. Besides we have worked to
educate and encourage parents to get births registered and access birth certificates as right
of every newborn. Efforts have been made to build capacities of ECCD workers to
implement pre-school curriculum provided by the ICDS department of their state and
enhance understanding of ECCD functionaries on the importance of school readiness and
ensure smooth transition of children to formal school. We have also ensured enrolment and
retention of children in 3-6 years at the ECCD centers for school readiness and smooth
transition of children to primary school.
Outcome
Bal Sadan was successfully formed in schools and school teacher /principal participated in
the monthly Bal Sadan meeting and helped to develop positive atmosphere in school to
reduce corporal punishment. Identification of non-school going/dropout children was done
and interactive counseling provided at door step to ensure enrollment of dropout children.
As a component of BALA, child friendly
environment has been created in two
schools of project operational area.
Orientation meeting was conducted with
Women’s Group leaders on RTE act and
SMC role and responsibility .This activity
was useful to reduce the droop out ratio
and improving quality education at school
level. This has been done as per RTE act.
District level monitoring visit has been
also done where DEO visited the school
and monitored ongoing work.

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Total 109 children were enrolled in school in this year. These children were dropouts and
deprived of quality essential education. Total 790 sponsored children attended regular
school whereas total 400 young children attended Aanganwadi center for optimal physical,
psychosocial and cognitive development. In this process, 39 Aanganwadi workers have been
oriented on positive discipline. Orientations of two formed Aanganwadi Sahayta Samooh
have been done on development milestones, ICDS etc. Regular awareness drive has been in
the project operational area on RTE, quality education, positive discipline, ICDS scheme and
school enrollment (Dakhila Abhiyan).
Healthy Future for Delhi Dwellers;
The programme is aimed towards ensuring quality of drinking water through promoting
low-cost technique in this regard. The project is implemented with the objective to develop
a sustainable and replicable model to getting safe drinking water to those who lack
sufficient access to it and to make the community aware on water quality (water
contaminations, diseases occurred due to using contaminated water as drinking water and
how we can make it drinkable).
Before initiation the programme
situational analysis was done and
sample of different sources of drinking
water were collected to know the
quality of drinking water. It was found
that water is not safe for the drinking
purpose. For raising the awareness in
the community we conducted
different activities like puppet-show,
street-play, Gali meetings, filter
demonstration, rallies and community
Melas.
Achievement:
One “Entrepreneur Group” has been formed in the community to promote water filter. For
the sustainability “Entrepreneur Group” has been converted into SHG group. Tulip filter
introduced in the community during the different awareness campaigns. SHG members
started to sell the filter. Home based techniques of water purification practices like boiling,
adding chlorine and purchase filtered water cane sold by private water suppliers have been
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We have continued to work on young health programme with the support of “Plan India” at
Holambi Kalan, Metro Vihar, Phase I & II, North West District New Delhi-82. The programme
aims to make a meaningful difference to the health and well-being of marginalized and
disadvantaged adolescent girls and boys by helping them to make informed choices to
protect their health, now and in the future. A team of five persons has looked after the
activities carried out under the programme.
Main objective of the programme has been capacity building and support for adolescents by
providing relevant information, knowledge and skill on lifestyles and better choices that will
help enhance responsive health seeking behavior and to build community understanding
and engagement in key adolescent health and protection issues. Besides it has an objective
to improve awareness level and access to youth-friendly healthcare systems and services
addressing the immediate needs of the community in issues related to health care.
The programme mainly covers adolescents and youths and their families along with other
community people. The programme has reached more than 4700 (1826 community people
and 2913 youths) through mass awareness, community meetings, Health Information
Centre (HIC) activities and health Melas (fairs). Major activities carried out under the
programme and their impact is given here-
Mass Awareness
Total 22 mass awareness activities (16 street plays, 1 video show, 3 rallies, health talk, 1
health camp) covering more than 2800 people (1363 Community People and 1471 Youths)
conducted.. Most of the adolescents came to know about Health Information Centre (HIC)
through rallies, street-plays and health talks, and since then they are hooked to the project.
These mass awareness activities disseminated information on Young Health Programme
thematic areas by employing effective and engaging mediums.
Event on Various Issues
Some major events (T.B Day, Teachers Day, Health Day and Sadbhawna Divas) conducted
during the year reaching more than 1300 persons (96 Community People and 1235 Youths).
Large numbers of young people participated during events celebration and eventually came
close to Young Health programme. It provided young people an appropriate platform to
participate and promote young peoples' health as agenda point and provide a safe place for
them to be positively engaged in the community. We observed range of activities such as
debates, painting, essay writing, cultural activities and creative or arts based activities.
Community Meetings
Total 26 community meetings carried out during the year reaching 574 people (367
Community people and 207 Youths). The objective of these meetings was to sensitize the
community on issues, which are very critical for young people’s health. During these
meetings the emphasis was on the role that community members could play in improving
young people’s health. Community people shared their issues and concerns and clarified all
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their doubts. All these initiatives helped in creating conducive environment to make them
an agent of change for Young Health Program. As a result of regular community meeting,
parents attended meetings and encouraged children to access HIC.
Referral Services
Under the AFHS (Adolescent Friendly Health Services) clinic, number of patients increased.
Medical Officer also referred the case to District Hospital when needed. Total 65 cases were
referred to health services by peer educators, community members and YHP staff.
Sanitation Trainings
Two sanitation trainings carried out in the year. RWA members, community leaders,
community people and young people participated in these trainings. These programs helped
the community people to know the good hygiene practice and motivated them for adopting
the right approach.
Stakeholders Meetings
Meetings were carried out with various stakeholders. Government officials from Malaria
Department, Delhi Jal Board and MCD participated in these meetings. We involved
traditional as well as modern health practitioners, religious leaders, political and social/
caste leaders and teachers in these meetings. They educated on how to act collectively & be
prepared during epidemic seasons of dengue or malaria. Similarly the stigmas related to TB
and appropriate treatment of TB with regular monitoring of default cases were pushed to
end the spread of the disease.
One meeting with Delhi Police helped to clarify the reservations and apprehensions of the
community people. Around 60 young people participated and shared their concerns in this
meeting. In the wake of gender based violence and its impact on the Health Information
Centre (HIC) attendance, the YHP team had gone beyond and organized community
meetings with Delhi Police in order to discuss the security issues and restore confidence
amongst mothers and their daughters on their safety at the HIC and in the community. The
meetings witnessed active participation of young girls and their mothers. The programme
was well appreciated and we have
decided to keep on the training girls in
self-defense.
IEC Materials
Various IEC materials developed and
were communicated through many
channels to increase awareness and
assess the knowledge of different peers
and community people about various
health issues and behaviors. Such
material has been very helpful in
conveying the message in an attractive
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Peer Educators; Playing Their Role
During the year 292 young people (150
Male & 146 Female) were trained in
Refresh Peer Educators training (PEs).
Peer educators are major stakeholders
and played very pivotal role among the
community and peer circle. Peers
shared the challenges they were facing.
Many peers shared experiences and
tried to know how they could influence
the community people regarding
health/ hygiene issue. The peer
educator refresher trainings had a
stronger impact on young people’s
understanding on key thematic issues of young health program (YHP).
Peer education is also associated with efforts to prevent tobacco, alcohol and other drug
use among young people. Peer educators played effective role for young adolescents by
promoting healthy behavior, helping to create and reinforce social norms that support safer
behaviors, and also serve as an accessible health education resource both inside and outside
the classroom. 40 peer educators were trained (Male 20 & Female 20) in group counseling.
The counseling session emphasized on providing group members with opportunities to
express their own feelings and attitudes.
Health Information Centre
As a major component of the Health Information Centre’s consultation and outreach
offerings we have provided psycho educational learning experiences for the peer educator
of the community. Peer Educators are devoted to teaching skills that helped young people
to reduce the potential for distressful life experience and to resolve stressful situations
more quickly should they arise.
These counseling sessions offered an opportunity for young people to freely voice out the
issues and concerns like substance use, anxiety and stress, and its associated risks and
possible effects in an open and safe environment and thereby helping young people to
enjoy health and development. During the counseling session the counselor went deep into
the problems and tried to shake the inner-self young people about substance abuse. The
counseling sessions were highly appreciated by young people, teachers and principal.
Counseling sessions have really helped young people who were using harmful substances.
During the sessions young people shared the reasons behind their choices which included:
peer pressure, imitating film stars and iconic figures, experimentation, easy availability and
experiencing manhood. During the session the counselor talked about the protective factors
like family, friends, PEs and school as places that they can look for support from. Counselor
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Health Information Centre
We enrolled 40 students to Excel InfoTech (Computer Education centre) for the computer
class with English speaking course. Duration of this course is three months. This course is a
part of capacity building and their livelihoods. The impact of the computer and English
speaking education is very apparent as children are accessing computers and are gradually
learning English. The most heartening thing is that technical education (computers) has
recently become a major focus in teaching and learning enhancement, which is rightly
acknowledged by young people.
Teacher Orientation
Two government teacher orientation
programs held in the work area
involving 78 teachers. The orientation
was focused on developing thorough
understanding of 5 training modules
of Young Health Program (YHP) viz.
needs of young people. The
orientation also focused on the fact
that school is one of the very critical
protecting institutions, which can
shape the carrier of young people and
make them a responsible citizen. It is, therefore, very important that they are aware about
these facts and play their crucial role as the drivers of change.
The outcomes of the training sessions with teachers were that they had a greater
understanding of adolescent health issues. Some teachers requested that we should also
arrange counseling sessions with children who are using harmful substances. The counseling
sessions were carried out in school for the identified children who are using various forms of
substances, which were widely appreciated by children, teachers and school principal.
Healthcare Sensitization
We sensitized the Healthcare providers on YHP thematic areas (menstrual hygiene, Sexual
and reproductive health (SRH), Water and Sanitation (WASH), which includes Aanganwadi
workers & Helpers, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANMs), Accredited Social Health Activist
(ASHA), Lady Health Visitor (LHVs). Total 71 healthcare providers were sensitized in the 3
meetings. These trainings helped the healthcare providers to develop good functional
relationship between YHP staff and Government service providers and our team has helped
young people to access government schemes and services like SABLA, Adolescent Sexual
and Reproductive Health (ARSH) etc.
The healthcare provider’s sensitization program has helped to fill gaps in their knowledge
and skills on adolescent health, especially for girls. The outcome has been that healthcare
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the referral routes to the government SABLA programme (empowerment of adolescent girls
10-18 years).
Delhi Government Dispensaries effectively providing special health services to the
adolescents on dedicated time and days (Tuesdays and Saturdays). These service providers
also take sessions with young people on physical, mental and social well being, and these
young people refer their friends to the health care facility.
We identified 15 anemic girls. We linked them with Government ICDS program (SABLA). In
this scheme Aanganwadi worker provides the supplementary nutrition to the girl. As a result
Aanganwadi Workers/ICDS workers they have provided free supplementary nutrition to
these girls to attain better health. There is a tangible change in their health. Now these girls
are regular member of Health Information Centre and facilitate sessions with other girls.
Under the school based activity, we organized health and sanitation programme at Sr. Sec.
School, B- Block, Holambi Kalan. 200 Sanitation Kits had been distributed after screening
tests. After learning about the significance of sanitation and personal hygiene they started
following some good habits like- 6 steps of hand washing, cleaning and cutting nails, using
soap after the toilet and before having meals etc.
Meena D/o Mr. Arun, Class: - 10th
, Age:-16
Meena came to HIC with her friend Reena. In the starting she was shy and felt
uncomfortable. She saw that many girls reading the books and talking confidently.
She took the book and started reading. Her friend Reena introduced her to YHP
staff. On that time she did not talk too much. She used to come to HIC regularly,
attended the session and learnt attentively. She learnt many things related to her
health like white discharge, menstruation etc. She had many misconceptions but
day by day she was getting clarity.
One day she shared with YHP staff that her parents were willing to marry her
while she wanted to study further. She cried and said that she would commit
suicide if she was married forcibly. YHP staff went to her home and tried to
convince her parents not to go for her marriage and let her study. But her parents
were not convinced. At the end of the month, YHP staff organized a community
meeting. The agenda of this meeting was side effects of early child marriage.
Seeing the presentation through audio-visual inputs Meena’s parents realized that
it was not good for her health. Our team also told that it was not good and illegal
as well. After these efforts her parents agreed and told that they would carry on
her study. Now Meena is happy and thank YHP team that with their efforts she
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We have continued our effort on Child Rights and Community Development programme
supported by Child Rights and You (CRY) since 1998. A team of six full time and two part
time persons is looking after the activities carried under the programme. The programme
covers families from Gosain Community at Nangloi in West Delhi district and Banjara
Community at Prem Nagar block -B and, Holambi Kalan in North West district.
The programme reaches to more than five thousand people. Priority is given to children.
The programme aims to capacity building of community to raise their voice to ensure child
rights. We have organized various programme/activities to achieve the goal defined under
the project. A summary of the programmes is given here-
Community Meetings
We have organized total 147
community meetings during the year.
It includes 61 community meetings at
Holambi Kalan, 86 community
meetings at Nangloi and Prem Nagar
area. Community members, in good
numbers participated in these
meetings. We have discussed on
sanitation, education, School
Management Committee (SMC),
malnutrition, ICDS, PDS, Immunization
of women and children, institutional delivery etc in these meetings.
Children Group Meetings
During the period we have organized 42 children group meetings/activitIES at Holambi
Kalan, Nangloi and Prem Nagar and discussed on many issues related to child rights focusing
on right to participation.
Workshops with Aanganwadi Workers
We have organized 4 workshops with Aanganwadi workers and community on malnutrition
and role and responsibility of Aanganwadi workers at Nangloi and Holambi Kalan. We have
also organized two workshops on RTE/SMC with parents/VKS members in Holambi Kalan.
Growth Monitoring of Children
Growth monitored of 879 children (up to 6 years) in Holambi Kalan and Nangloi. During this
process we have identified 183 malnourished children in intervention area. We have done
counseling of their parents and linked these children to the ICDS centre, PHC and Hospital.
With the result a positive change is observed in their health.
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Stakeholders Sensitization
We have organized 6 police sensitization programs in Outer Delhi district on issue of missing
children and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). Total 115 police personnel participated in these
programs. We have also shared about Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) as per directions
of Honorable Delhi High Court. We have organized one community interface with support of
DCPCR in Outer Delhi district (High alarming police station Aman Vihar) at Chaudhary Baldev
Singh Sr. Secondary School, Karan Vihar, Delhi. Total 65 parents, police personnel, member
of DCPCR, Juvenile officers and representatives of other like-minded groups participated in
these meetings and presented their views.
Immunization Tracking:
We have monitored 81 children’s immunization and mobilized their parents for complete
their children’s immunization. We have also discussed with Asha worker and PHC workers
for complete immunization as per norms. During the period 79 children (42 boys and 37
girls) were fully immunized while 45 children were under process.
ANC and Safe Delivery:
We have supported 132 pregnant women in Nangloi to adopt safe delivery mode (20
institution delivery and 112 trained midwives) and complete of immunization as per norms
to all women. We have also taken help from Asha and Aanganwadi workers in this regard.
We have helped 100% children (50 boys and 40 girls) in getting birth certificate. Out of total
39 births this year in Holambi Kalan, 30 have adopted institutional deliveries while 96 out of
122 children have completed their immunization. 75 out of 122 children received their birth
certificate.
We have supported 9 children (6 boys and 3 girls) in getting readmission in school and 4
children admitted in private school under EWS category as per RTE act. We have enrolled 34
children as per RTE norms (17 boys and 17 girls) of Banjara Community in MCD School.
These children are first generation learner. Similarly we have enrolled as per RTE norms 51
children (31 boys and 20 girls) of Gosain Community in MCD School.
We have organized meetings with parents on SMC and encouraged to write demand letters
for involve them in process of selection of SMC members. We have written 30 demand
letters for formation of SMCs in Government and MCD Schools.
Demand for Sanitation and Community Toilets: -
we have filed 6 demand letters for better sanitation services in the resettlement colony,
Holambi Kalan and submitted to CM office, Councilors office and DC office. We have also
approached other networks and like-minded NGOs to raise the voice more strongly. We
have participated with Efficor, Sugandh, AV Baliga Memorial Trust, CSI, Metro Vihar Vikas
Samiti, Phase-I and Jan Garib Kalyan Samiti (CBO), Phase-II demanding better sanitation and
community toilets at Holambi Kalan. We have submitted demand letters to CM of Delhi for
developing these lanes. After our regular community meetings and meetings with DUSIB, in
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Awareness on CSA
We have organized 18 Community
meetings on CSA in Outer District as
it is very high alarming area. More
than 300 community people
participated in these meetings.
They were made aware about the
situation and precautionary
measures. We came across 389
cases of CSA in 15 Police stations of
Outer District out of which 240
cases were related to the children in 0-18 age group while 149 cases were related to adults.
Total 177 cases were found fake while 272 cases are under process at Court. It is
noteworthy that 100% FIR were lodged in these cases. CSA cases lodged as per POCSO Act
2012 in age group of 0 to 18 years. During this period we have organized 5 orientation
programs in schools on the issue of CSA. 2500 girl students participated in these programs.
Advocacy on Missing Children
We have done advocacy on missing children tracking with government, CBO and like-
minded NGO. We held 12 community meetings with community people and parents of
missing children. More than 170 people participated in these meetings. We came to know
about 30 missing children (26 girls and 4 boys). We have promptly worked on these cases
and recovered 15 missing children (13 girls and 2 boys) with the help of police.
Nutritious Status of the Children
We have worked on improving nutritious status of the children. 15 Severe Acute Malnutrition
(SAM) children have recovered to moderate level and 12 Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM)
children have recovered to normal condition. 8 SAM children were referred to NRC at Hindu
Rao Hospital and 2 SAM children were admitted in NRC for better treatment.
Nisha (Name changed) age 2.3 years is living with her parents Pawan and Seema. Her family
migrated from Mankapur, Gonda, UP for better livelihood 4 years ago. Nisha was born at
hospital and fully immunized by support of Nav Srishti team. But her weight was very low, so we
observed her weight regularly and found that she had SAM condition.
We linked this child to the Aanganwadi Centre and Asha for her proper growth monitoring. Then
we liked this child to the local PHC and nearest government hospital (Satyavadi Raja Harish
Chander Hospital) but there was no improvement. After discussion with Aanganwadi worker
and her supervisor, Nisha was referred to local PHC then the local PHC again referred to the
Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre at Hindu Rao Hospital for her better treatment. After
assessment of her heath, the doctor of NRC admitted this child in NRC for 15 days. During the
treatment period the hospital made all necessary examinations to know the exact reason
behind the health status of this child and confirmed SAM case. Her mother and father also
attended counseling session in hospital and now Nisha’s health is better.

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Our efforts have been ongoing with the programme on “Bringing Health Care to the
Doorstep” in 10 slum clusters of North Delhi (Nand Lal Camp, K-Block (MIG flat & Lucky Park
Jahangirpuri, G-Block Jahangirpuri, Bengali Basti-G-Block Jahangirpuri, H2-Block Jahangir
Puri, Sarai, Bharola, Lal Bagh-1, Lal Bagh-2 and Jailorwala Bagh”. “Save the Children India”
has been providing continued support to the programme since June 2010.
A team of seven full-time and 10 part-time persons have looked after the programme. The
programme aims to improve the health, nutrition and hygiene of vulnerable children and
women living in ten slum clusters in Delhi’s North district. Main objective of the programme
is to increase the use of Maternal Newborn Childhood Health and Nutrition (MNCHN)
services and to increase awareness and improve practice of MNCHN, water and sanitation
and hygiene behavior. Besides it focuses on to strengthen government and community-
based systems to deliver quality MNCHN services. Priority is given to health care of pregnant
women, lactating mothers, children up to two years and adolescent girls.
We are working with one lakh people since June 2010. Total 24,405 people covered through
OPD services under Mobile Health Clinics (MHU Van). (children up to 5yrs – 6,759, children 5
to 18 yrs–5,443, male – 110 and 1078 children (up to 5 years) treated for diarrhea, 49
children (up to 5yrs.) treated for pneumonia, 635 cases referred to health institutions for
specific health facilities (Registration for institutional delivery, Birth registration, Childhood
illness, gynecology related complications and other critical diseases). Besides 1953 children
(up to 2 yrs) covered through growth monitoring sessions, 1,035 pregnant women got
facilities under this project and also linkage with Dispensary / health centre and Hospitals.
 539 out of total 653 deliveries
were institutionalized by project
team.
 68 women and adolescent girls
visited MHU Van for Hb Test. It
could be done after taking
sessions & meeting as well as
counseling on Anemia.
 13,754 people covered through
counseling sessions on various
issues related to health.
 2899 people covered through “Street Plays” on the issue of “Exclusive Breast Feeding”.
These street-plays were held during the celebration of “Breast Feeding Week” in August
2013 and “World Water Day” during the month of March 2014. These street-plays held
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in ten intervention slum clusters. 293 children/youths joined drawing competition
during the celebration of World Water Day in March 2014.
Members of community group called Community Cohesive Action Group (CCAG) and Slum
Health and Sanitation Team (SHAST) trained through three trainings on various topics
related to health and sanitation.
We organized training for 26 frontline health workers (ASHA/ANM and Aanganwadi
Workers). 15 CHVs & 5 other persons working under project participated in three trainings
held on the issue of “MNCHN”.
Celebration of Brest Feeding Week
Ten street-plays held on “Exclusive
Breast Feeding” during 5-7 August
2014 during the celebration of breast
feeding week. Street plays were
performed by the team of “Sandesh
Communication Group” during 5, 6 &
7 August 2013. We have generated
awareness among local people on
importance of exclusive
breastfeeding through street-plays,
delivered messages for majority of
community women & adolescent
girls and male also. We reached more
than 1500 community people
through these street-plays.
Global Hand Wash Day
Global Hand Wash Day awareness
programme was organized during the
period of 17th
to 19th
October 2013 in
entire work area and MCD Primary
School–K & H Block, Jahangirpuri. We
educated the people demonstrating
hand washing in each cluster and also organized drawing competition on “Hand Wash” at
two MCD Primary Schools covering 455 children (335 in the community and 120 at school)
Poster making
We conducted poster making competitions on 28-29 March 2014, with the children from 10
clusters. This event was held to raise awareness about the water crisis and to offer local
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agents within the community. Through this
event we tried to sensitize these active change
agents towards the necessity for clean drinking
water as well as to prepare them for demanding
their right to water and sanitation.
Nearly 290 children actively participated in this
programme and expressed their views through
the pictures which were looking so realistic on
the canvas and having a tangible impact on
everyone who saw them.
World Water Day
On 25th
and 26th
March-2014, Ten street plays
held in all intervention areas to raise awareness
on saving water and health & hygiene. One
street play held in each slum. Nearly 1300 people from 10 slum clusters covered through
these street plays. These street-
plays performed by the team of
“Sugandh Natya Mach”
Significant Achievements
Average 82.54% institutional
deliveries held during this period.
Breast feeding within an hour of
birth is ensured in more than 96%
births. It is noteworthy that 96%
mothers/newborn received PNC visit
within 48 hours of birth. It is
noteworthy that 105 children
recovered from severe to moderate and 373 moderate to normal status due to our
continuous efforts like GMP, one to one counseling and linkage with AWC. Around 82%
mother adopted exclusive breast feeding up to first six months to their children during this
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With the support of “Save the Children” this project is being implemented in 9 slum clusters
in north district of Delhi covering approximately 90,000 populations. Goal of the project is to
improve rights to survival and health for children living in urban slums of Delhi with
following objectives:
 Improve capacity of community to strengthen accountability mechanisms at the
community level to hold duty bearers accountable on delivering health services in
targeted 9 slum clusters of Delhi.
 To generate evidence on the ground to influence the service providers for pro-poor
health services through advocacy, community voices, public support and media
outreach and to establish linkages of community groups with district and state level
advocacy forums to raise voice on gaps. Beneficiary group for this specific project is
women especially in reproductive age.
Major Activities
State level consultation held with key stakeholders to identify MNCHN issues and plan for
advocating filling the gaps and hold
“Public Hearing” at state level to highlight
MNCHN issues.
Worked for media engagement at state
level to orient them on MNCHN issues and
encourage them to highlight the issues.
Organised public hearings at zone and
district level to voice community health
and nutrition and celebrate special events
/days (breast feeding week, pneumonia
day, hand washing day, etc.)
Strengthen the capacities of local people and CBO members on use of RTI so that they can
ensure quality health services at community level and promotion and capacity building of
local champions to prepare them to be the voice of children at relevant platforms
Significant Achievements:
The facilitation and capacity building of the target community have brought in many
changes in the community that are countable. In connotation to the changes that can be
well observed in their living conditions, health and sanitation scenario, the most motivating
and satisfying is the boost in their confidence level, the sense among them that they also
count in the system where there is almost no existence for the people living in utmost
deprived conditions. These changes which gave much delight to their lives are an indication
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of what we can achieve through
people centric advocacy. It was well
planned and matched to meet with
their immediate needs and keeping
them at front in order to raise their
confidence level and add value to the
sustainability part of such community
interventions as shared here:
The MLA acted upon the request and
ordered for laying pipeline for
drinking water supply in the K- block,
Lakhi Park – Jahangirpuri area from
his LAD fund. Now the work is
completed and the community is getting regular supply of drinking water at their home.
More than 50 Community group members met Ward Councilor with a written request to
complete the construction of CTC in their area which was pending for quite a few months.
Due to this the open defecation in the area was increased. The councilor ordered for
immediate completion of the
pending work and the construction
has almost completed.
The Principals of all the 8 MCD
schools in the intervention area
agreed to include Hand Wash
practice during the Physical
education sessions in their school.
Speedy implementation of KSY in all
the Aanganwadi centers under
Jahangirpuri Project has begun.
ASHA workers have been deployed
in Lal Bagh area and the process of opening 25 new Aanganwadi centers have been initiated
by the department out of which 7 centers are opened. Severe malnourished children are
now being referred by the dispensary to NRC for better treatment and so far 7 children from
the intervention area are treated. After years long struggle the residents of Nandlal camp
got a community toilet constructed by DUSIB. Improvement in Immunization rate in the
area is observed. The sanitation scenario has improved in the slums and waste disposal
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No case of child diarrhea has been reported from the intervention area during last one year.
A health monitoring committee has been formed in Jahangirpuri area to monitor the quality
of health services provided to the community including time monitoring and epidemic
control. Total 1057 persons (Men,
Women & children) have been
benefited through these activities
including trainings, Health-Day
programs, meetings, interface and
other direct community meetings.
The facilities and services which are
resumed after various advocacy
initiatives have reached to approx.
20000 peoples living in the project
intervention areas.
Sarita w/o Sharavan aged 22 years is a resident of AWC No. 41, Nand Lal Camp. She is living
in this slum for more than 10 years with her parents. She was married 4 years ago and her
husband also lives in the same slum. She has two sons 2.5 yrs and 9 months old. During
home visits our CHV found that both children haven’t gone for vaccination so far. She shared
that her husband did not allow vaccination as he believed that it was unnecessary.
Follow-up visits were made regularly but we could not motivate her family. CHV shared this
case with Aanganwadi Worker as well as helper (Rupa and Babita) and it was decided that
they will visit jointly and try to counsel them. CHV along with Aanganwadi worker visited her
home and motivated for vaccination of their children and also informed about date of the
visit of vaccination Van on 6 July 2013. During interaction she was agreed for it but on the
given date she did not turn-up. CHV again visited her home and informed about the visit of
Vaccination Van which was same day. But she did not bring her children for vaccination.
In same month CHV met a family which has a child (13 yrs old) which is differently able. In
same month CHV along with Aanganwadi worker, CHV interacted with her husband as well
as Shweta. CHV shared an example of that case also told that these are cause of lack of
immunization, Due to lack of immunization it may happen to any child. We also met her
husband with that family. Later her husband assured us that he will ask her wife for
vaccination of children. Due to these efforts Shweta came in Immunization session along
with both children for vaccination of them. Both of her children got vaccination when
Immunization Van came to the community. On that day Shweta also asked about due date of
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We have continued our work for Strengthening Collective Voice for Child Rights in K, K1 and
I Blocks in Sangam Vihar. “Childreach India International” has supported the initiative. A
team of four persons (2 full-time and 2 part-time) have looked after day-to-day functioning.
Project has a major objective to mobilize local people to realize the right to education and
other related issues related to their development. We have focused on generating
awareness on provisions of RTE Act 2009, state rules, to ensure quality education for
children in the age group of 6 to 14 years. .
We have worked with all stakeholders including community people, schoolteachers, people
representatives and concerned authorities, child right commissions etc. We have reached
more than 80000 people in three blocks (K, K1 and I) in Sangam Vihar
Major activities
We felt that if children, community and stakeholders are brought together through any
event or gathering and if the
things were taken up with a
positive way, then we will have a
far better outcome in totality.
Significant Achievements
After completing primary
education 465 students of I Block
MCD Boys School were denied
admission by the J Block Senior
School and were subsequently
transferred to Tuglakabad Senior
School. We advocated for a feeder school at reasonable distance as per RTE Act 2009. All
the 465 students didn’t take their Transfer Certificate and supported this initiative along
with the family members and teachers of the I Block MCD School.
Local people were also shocked with the development. We had to work at various levels but
it was good that we could succeed in making a dent in the situation. After this incidence the
community people have showed great faith upon Nav Srishti. Sitting Councilor, Parents,
school management have good coordination with Nav Srishti. Now our community group
women are given priority while constituting SMCs. Some women are selected as member
whom we made aware about RTE.
We, on behalf of the community placed a Deputation before the Lt. Governor and Education
Director in this regard. Further we persuaded this issue through media and the matter was
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published in the 23rd
March, 2014 edition of Dainik Jagaran. As a result of these steps, we
got success and the Education Director has initiated an investigation in this issue.
Capacity Building Programmes
 Teammates attended meetings of the South Delhi RTE Forum and National RTE Forum.
 Teammates attended the training programme organized by PLAN on 11th
and 12th
November 13 on the issue of
child protection.
 Teammates attended three days
SMC training programme
 Teammates attended a
programme along with thirteen
children on children manifesto
organized by “Nine Is Mine”.
 Teammates attended three days
teachers training program
organized by Katha.
Recognizing the Contribution
We held annual meet of the
students, community people and
other stakeholders as we completed
two years of journey.
We have experienced this in our
annual programme dated 29th
March, 2014. Mr. Paul from
Childreach International UK, Mr.
Sreenath Mishra Member of
Childreach International, Mr. Naresh
Chaudhary Country Manager of Childreach India; Ms. Neeru Chaudhary, Head Programme
Manager of Childreach India; sitting Councilor Ms. Kalpana Jha; Inspector of School;
Principal of C Block Boys Sr. Sec School, I Block MCD Primary School Principals both shift, Mr.
Karan Tyagi President of PIHR, Mr. Zuber Khan from Sakshi and Ms. Reena Banerjee
Secretary of Nav Srishti were present in this programme. Thus we have recognized
contribution of each and every individual. We conveyed sincere thanks for their support in
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We have been running family counseling centre at Neb Sarai since 2008 with the support of
Central Social Welfare Board. The programme aims to help the women suffering from
domestic violence, dowry demand, sexual harassment, maintenance, seeking divorce and
other family disputes. A team of three persons (two fulltime counselors and one part-time
office bearer) looks after the programme. The programme covers Neb Sarai and Maidan
Garhi area. Counselors provide necessary help and guidance to concerned couple and their
families and try to solve their problem outside the court.
Domestic violence has become a
serious challenge and need to be dealt
strongly. It is noteworthy that women
have broken their silence and come
forward seeking justice and demanding
action against their husband/family
members. Women have shown courage to come forward and complain against the injustice
with them. We have realized that this initiative has minimized suffering of the women and
paved the way towards a peaceful and happy living. We have observed that more women
have come forward to get justice. This has also helped in improving overall scenario of
violence against women.
Major Activities
We have organized
counseling sessions to
resolve the disputes and help
the victim to get justice.
Besides we have held
community meetings,
meeting with police staff and
FCC members. We have
conducted awareness camps
to make the local people
aware on this issue. We have
found that this initiative has minimized suffering of the people and saved their time and
energy. We have also worked to make the community aware regarding the programme
through community meetings, information dissemination through leaflet and putting display
boards at important places, we have also informed police station about the FCC. Police also
refer the case if feel deem fit for counseling.
Sr. No. Details Number
1 Community Meeting 31
2 Police Thana Meeting 16
3 F.C.C Members Meeting 06
4 Awareness Camp 29
54%
9%
7%
2%
7%
2%
1%
18%
Issue wise details of the cases
DomesticViolence
EconomicProblem
Mentally Harassment
Sexual Harassment
Alcoholism Problem
Dowry
Live-inrelation
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Advisory Committee- There is
an advisory committee to help
the family counseling centre
team. It is comprised of seven
members including three
representatives from Nav
Srishti, one ICDS worker, one
legal expert, one medical expert
and one police representative.
The committee meets on
quarterly basis and discusses
the matters came for the counseling and the action taken on them.
Capacity Building
A two-day counselor training
programme was organized by
Delhi Social Welfare Board on
21st
and 22nd
January 2014 at
YMCA auditorium. Dr. Sanjay
Bhatt from Delhi social work
school was the resource
person. Ms. Jyoti Shukla and
Mr. K. P. Singh attended the
program.
Significant Achievements
We have given our services to
126 cases registered during
this year. Out of which 82
cases were successfully
resolved, 33 cases referred to
DCW/DLSA/ Protection Officer
and two complainants did not
turn up. Families and victim
women have found the
programme very useful as
they have been able to
resolve their dispute outside the court without any hurdle. FCC keep follow-up in every case
in post reconcile of case. We have also worked to make the community aware regarding the
programme through community meetings.
65%7%
26%
2%
Intervention details of the cases
Solved
Pending
Referred
Closed

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Gender Resource Centre is an initiative of the Department of Women and Child
Development, NCT of Delhi. Nav Srishti has been implementing the GRC programme since
2008 and has achieved second position in meritorious implementation of the programme at
state level in year 2009. There is a team of 9 fulltime persons who look after the
implementation of the programme.
Major goal of the programme is to reach out to the unreached people. It focuses on
providing all necessary information and other services to these people so that they can avail
the benefits under various schemes. Main objectives of the programmes are as follows -
 Single window structure for facilitation
 Public private community partnership Model
 Empowerment of women
 Awareness generation for better participation
 Accountability to the people
 Simplification of process
 Accessibility of vulnerable people
 Rationalization of welfare schemes
Beneficiary Community
Project covers the villages namely Neb Sarai, Maidan Garhi, Rajpur Khurd and Chhattarpur.
Priority is given to vulnerable women and poor families especially those who have been left
out of the purview of existing welfare schemes either because of the lack of knowledge
about welfare entitlement or because they could not prove their right to it for lack of
documentary proof. We have reached to approximately 20000 families. Major activities
carried out under the programme are given here-
Nutrition Demonstration Camp
We have also organized 12 nutrition awareness camps during the year and educated more
than 379 people on this issue. Marginalized sections of society have less knowledge for
food, nutrition and hygiene. This is also a major factor for their illness and short life span.
Objective of nutrition camps was to sensitize women and their family members regarding
nutritional needs and inculcate healthy eating habits through easy to cook, tasty and
affordable recipes and to address problem of malnutrition in the community.
Health Camps (Thematic camps)
It is deep rooted in our culture that man is the key person in the family. Women give high
priority to male members of the family and low priority to their own health. They give more
importance to male members of their family. As a result normally their health condition is
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found week. We have organized 6 thematic camps on giving priority to health of women and
children. Total 1567 beneficiaries covered through these camps.
We organized 24 clinical camps during the year for women and children where we provided
free check-up, medicine and referral services. We have organized 6 camps during the year
and served around 1326 people.
Education
We have also motivated 53
children and 48 Adults to restart
their education from the
beneficiary community enrolling
with regular schools, open school
and NFE centers. We are also
running remedial classes to
prevent dropouts of school going
children.
Vocational Training
201 beneficiaries completed the course of vocational training and skill development for
women to the GRC- SK activities for promoting better livelihood. We have imparted training
in two trades namely Beauty culture and tailoring. Every year two batches are selected for
each course. After six month an evaluation test is conducted by JAN SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN
(recognized by government) and eligible beneficiaries were given valid certificate. We also
organized awareness sessions for these batches for their personality/perspective
development. We discussed on such as importance of education, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
legal services, pre-marital counseling, good health and hygiene, our rights and duties,
women related laws and gender biased in society. It is noteworthy that 80% girls are either
self-employed or they are doing job after complete the course.
Public Meeting (Awaj Uthao)
A public meeting was organized on 7th
February 2014 at Harijan Chaupal, Neb Sarai. More
than 350 persons having majority of women and girls attended the programme. Main
objective of the meeting was raising voices on women’s safety issues to make it the issue of
the community and mobilizing wide support of community for actions towards building safe
and inclusive cities, free of violence against women.
Representatives from various stake holders such as Mr. Pradeep (Head constable), Mr.
Dalbir Singh (ASI), Mrs. Promila Rana Saharawat (Advocate), Mr. Anand Dhankar (Pradhan of
Neb Sarai village) and all the Asha workers, Aanganwadi workers joined the programme. Mr.
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Coordinator of the GRC programme welcomed all the guests and participants. She talked
about the objective of the “Awaaz Uthao” campaign.
The programme started with an auspicious song saath Chahiye which was performed by all
the members of the Nav Srishti Staff and the Group Members of the “Awaaz Uthao
campaign“. Mrs. Reena Banerjee (Chief functionary of Nav Srishti) welcomed the guests and
gave a brief introduction of Nav Srishti. A brief sharing about the “Awaaz Uthao” campaign
was given by Coordinator of the campaign.
A Nukkad Natak on the issue of crime against women in the public was performed by Mahak
group. Mr. Anand Dhankar shared his views on community’s safety and also advised them to
take necessary steps which are helpful for their safety. Mrs. Nirmal Kaur gave thanks to him
and then Mr. Harsh, a group member from Maidan Garhi community, also shared his views
about the “Awaaz Uthao” programme.
Mr. Pradeep (Head Constable at Neb Sarai Police Station) provided some information about
the police supporting the programme.
After that the community people lead
by Mrs. Beermati (active member of
group) took oath with all the
participants to do something about
crime against women. Vote of thanks
was given by Mrs. Reena Banerjee. In
the end of the rally an effigy of all
crimes such as rape, gender
discrimination, eve teasing etc. was lit
on fire by Mrs. Reena Banerjee.
Self Help groups (SHG)
This is the major part of empowerment of women. SHG members are also oriented in
decision making processes. We have worked with seven SHGs having 90 members during
the year. Regular meetings were organized for these members to develop their perspective
on micro-finance and socio-economic condition of women. These members were also
oriented on the issues related to their health, education, nutrition and basic development.
These groups have made a total saving of Rs. 43250/- and provided loan worth Rs. 37500/-
to its members during the year.
Legal Support Program
Legal awareness and counseling session is one of the components of the women
empowerment intervention programme. We have organized 36 awareness sessions under
GRC/SK. Issue discussed in sessions were Dowry, Right to information (RTI), Hindu marriage
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on rights they have for their protection from police. We have reached around 650 people
through these sessions. Besides we have counseled with community members to resolve
their disputes. We have helped to resolve 36 cases through counseling
Information Centre (Help Desk)
A help-desk (Information centre) is made at the GRC/ SK under the care of help-desk
councilor, who provided information regarding government welfare schemes and
programmes to the venerable people coming to help-desk. Total 9512 beneficiaries were
covered during the year. We have responded to more than 2400 inquiries / applications
during the period.
Water-Sanitation-Hygiene Awareness
Water, sanitation and hygiene are very important for healthy life of every person. So we
organized awareness sessions on these issues regularly. We also celebrated important days
such as, global hand Wash day, Malaria Day.
Capacity Building Programme
Team members working with the programme attended the training programme organized
by PMU on Para legal workers on 26-28 Feb-2014.
Basic Literacy Assessment
We organized a Basic Literacy Assessment under Saakshar Bharat Mission on 9th
March 2014
with the support of Mission Convergence. A total number of 35 women and girls completed
the assessment of basic literacy at our centre in Neb Sarai. It took place under the
supervision of the Nav Srishti team, comprising of Ms. Nirmal Kaur (Superintendent), Ms.
Preeti and Ms. Rita (Invigilators), Ms. Birvati (Observer) and Ms. Lena and Ms. Gitti
(Volunteers). After one year of studying in Nav Srishti’s Adult Education Program the women
and girl were proud to show
what they have learned. They
were given literacy certificate by
the National Institute of Open
Schooling after passing the
exam.
International Girl Child Day
We celebrated International Girl
child day on 27/09/2013 at GRC
centre from 2pm to 5pm at Neb
Sarai with the 26 participants.
Girls were very happy to know about that day is celebrated for them. First introduction of
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female feticide and gender discrimination. After this we organized a painting competition
that day. Mostly girls were interested to draw the picture related to above issues but some
students were interested to write slogans. In last girls made very meaningful paintings and
slogans.
Exposure Visit for SHG Members
We organized an exposure visit for 35 SHG members on 5/03/2014 to the Institute for
Learning, Culture and Arts, which is associated with the Samarpan Foundation. This
Foundation is transforming women’s lives with skill trainings in tailoring at Kishangarh
village.
Samarpan Foundation’s team members proudly shared about their work and took our team
to their workplace where they have been manufacturing export orders for last two years.
The women who have mostly been working as maids earlier got an opportunity now to earn
money through this work. Furthermore Samarpan Foundation runs a crèche for the working
women’s children and younger siblings. Our SHG members were profoundly impressed by
this program and the opportunities it offers to the women. They are now considering
establishing a similar program in their community.
Achievements
 We have helped 135 beneficiaries to be enrolled under Swaran Jayanti Shari Rojgar
Yojana (SJSRY) for employment.
 35 Women and girls are involved in income generating activities after completing the
course of tailoring and beauty culture.
 201 girls become independent and self conscious
 101 children and Adults covered under education programme. It is noteworthy that
35 children enrolled in NFE programme out of which 20 children mainstreamed in
Formal school
 157 people were made aware about health and Hygiene behavior under global hand-
wash program.
 35 women and girls appeared in exam under basic literacy programme, 18 children
enrolled in remedial programme. Besides 13 women and girls are enrolled in Level
“A” that is equal to standard 3
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We have continued our work with “Liz Helps” running educational support classes for the
children from Gosain community near Nangloi in West District of Delhi. Efforts are made to
intensify the educational support for the Gosain community. A team of five people (one full-
time and four part-time) implements the programme.
The major goal of the initiative is to ensure quality education to all Gosain children and
promote a pro-education behavior among them. Major objective of the programme is to
help weaker students, especially girls, through bridge school. Besides the programme aims
to provide support the children who are attending any private school in their locality.
Additionally, the children who are not going to school anymore, but want to take courses
were offered informal additional classes (non-formal-education). These classes are mainly
addressed to young women who were forced to stop their schooling and had to go for
begging. We have covered more than 2000 persons in Gosain community.
We held 4 exposure visits for 228 Gosain community children (63 boys and 165 girls). We
started with Museum, Tara Mandal, India Gate, Red Fort; Lotus Temple and ended at Zoo.
Children enjoyed full day having vast entertainment.
In this duration we held 24 community meetings with the children and parents on the issue
of regular checking of school homework and bagging of their children. We informed the
community people regarding children tour and got the permission for the tour. We
generated awareness on Right to Education Act at community level and also discussed on
the food habits of the children and nutritious food. We also educated parents about
nutritional values of different food items. We also educated the parents on the nutritious
need of the children. Parents became more aware on education, gender, child marriage,
child begging, personal hygiene and healthy food. They assured that they would work on
these issues.
Achievements
We have linked 53 (26 boys and 27 girls) children with NFE and support class. Out of 53 we
have enrolled 19 children (10 boys and 9 girls) in formal school.
We have provided REC tuition class for 87 children (2 boys and 85 girls) from Gosain
community. We have run bridge class for 19 girls from Gosain community. We have run
stitching classes for 33 girls from Gosain community
We have reached more than 1500 people with our direct interventions. There are some
social barriers that have adverse impact on life of children particularly the girls as many girls
being stopped by parents after puberty to come to centre. Besides, girls are not allowed by
parents for higher study. Parents give less importance to education of their children. Still
children escape from class and go for begging on special days (Saturday and Tuesday).
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Happy Moments for Children
An exposure visit for the children from Liz-Helps and Tech-Mahindra Foundation programme
was organized. Children got opportunity
to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Qutub Minar; the tallest Minar in India.
They did not only learn about history, but
also had a lot of fun! We arranged an
exposure visit on 21st
March 2014 for 49
children enrolled at education centers.
The children were between the age group
of 10 years to 15 years. The objective of
this visit was to encourage the children to
learn while enjoying and gain knowledge
about the development in technology as well as experience the procedures followed during
telecast of Television programs. During this one day visit the children were taken to Delhi
Door Darshan Kendra at Mandi House, New Delhi to see the process of production of
various programs of Door Darshan and its journey till date.
The children were very excited to see all
the sets developed for various programs.
This was their first visit of such kind. Later
the children visited the Famous set
of “Fourth Umpire”, very often seen on
Door Darshan National Channel during any
cricket match. They showed lot of
enthusiasm and curiosity while seeing the
different recording rooms and production
sets. They were also taken to the Live
News recording room where recording of
English News bulletin was going on. The
control room was also an attraction for
the children with numerous TV sets
everywhere and showing different
pictures at the same time.
The children were very excited when they
found themselves on the television screen
while the Door Darshan technician showed them how the technicians and News Anchor
perform live recording. On the way to home, children thanked Nav Srishti for giving them
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Mahila Panchayat has been promoted and supported by Delhi Commission for Women.
Mahila Panchayat is an innovative and collective approach for community participation in
dispute redressal. In this program community women are identified and these women
volunteer become Mahila Panchayat members. It is an initiative taken up by the Delhi
Commission for Women for legal empowerment of women and for distress redressal at the
community level. Groups of community women, identified by NGOs, form a Panchayat in
their area, take up local disputes, counsel the two parties and assist in reducing violence in
their locality.
We have been running Mahila Panchayat since 2003. Presently we are running three Mahila
Panchayat at Nangloi, Holambi Kalan and Bharola. We have three full-time and two part-
time workers to implement the programme. We have covered more than 3 lakh people
through these Panchayats. The Mahila Panchayat registers cases from women in distress
and making them aware of their rights and solving cases at community level. Major activities
carried under the programme are given here-
Community Awareness Meetings
We have organized 140 community awareness meetings in Holambi Kalan, Nangloi and
Bharola. In these meetings more than 1600 people participated and discussed about laws
related to women safety.
Mahila Panchayat Meetings
We have organized 131 Mahila Panchayat meetings in Holambi Kalan, Prem Nagar and
Bharola. We presented case situation before the MP members and they discussed on these
Mahila Panchayat
Shabnam lived with her family at Nangloi, Delhi. She was married to Juber 5 years ago.
Some days later she found that her husband was not doing any job and using alcohol. So
she was facing many challenges for surviving her family/children. On 2nd
July 2013 she
came to Mahila Panchayat office, Nangloi and told about her problem. She told us that
her husband was not working and using drug and beating her. We registered her
complaint and issued an information letter to Juber for counseling. After one week he
came to office with his father. During the process we found that Shabnam was also on
fault for not caring to her child, not cooking food, etc.
We have conducted counseling session for Shabnam and her husband. After our
counseling both the party agreed to live without quarrel. Juber agreed to work at private
company and Shabnam also promised to care her baby and Juber. We have followed up
this case on 25-11-2013 and found that both were living without any tension. Shabnam
told us that Juber was working in a private company and would not beat Shabnam. She
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cases. They counseled both parties for
redressal of grievances at local level.
After their intervention 64% cases
have solved at community level.
Women Day Celebrations
We have celebrated women’s day at
Holambi Kalan, Nangloi and Bharola in
the month of March, 2014 with the
support of DCW. Approximately 400
community women and stakeholders
participated in these programs. We
have organized one workshop in the
month of August, 2013 for MP
member regarding regal status, case
handling process and other women
related issues.
Major Achievements
We have registered 134 new cases at
all three Panchayats (Holambi Kalan-
52, Nangloi-60 and Bharola-22) during
this year. We have solved total 96
cases (64% of total cases) at
community level (Holambi Kalan-48, Nangloi-40 and Bharola-8). Total 37 cases have been
referred to other government agencies and 18 cases still pending.
Suman (name change) age 20 years is living with her parents at Delhi. After her intermediate
her family done her engagement with Bipin, who is living in Sangam Vihar, Delhi and his
relative are working with police. But some days later, they withdrew the engagement due to
dowry demand. Suman’s father and other relatives came to Mahila Panchayat office on
dated 30-4-2013 and filed a complaint against Bipin and demanded her expenditure and
jewellery returned. After counseling of Suman we have issued an information letter to Bipin
and called him for discussion. Bipin did not come but some police person and advocate
argued with Mahila Panchayat staff and asking legal status of MP team.
We have discussed this issue before Delhi Commission for Women and as per their guidance
we filed a written complaint at Shahabad Dairy police station. After legal/police pressure
Bipin and his family came to police station on dated 25-5-2013 and returned all jewellery
with written apology letter to Suman. They also paid the expenditure occurred during
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We have carried out our work as a representative NGO with Crisis Intervention Centre (CIC)
Programme with 15 police stations of Outer District of Delhi. The initiative is supported by
Delhi Commission for Women. It is noteworthy that we have been working since March
2008 with this programme and helped many victim girls / women. A team of two women
have been working under this programme. It is mandatory that only women would be
counselor under the programme.
Crisis Intervention Centers (CICs) set up in each district work in close coordination with
important functionaries i.e. the Police, Doctors/Psychologists, NGOs, Lawyers of Rape Crisis
Cell at Delhi Women Commission and NGOs to ensure that justice is made to the victim. The
CAW Cell of the Delhi Police of the district is responsible for supervising such cases and to
refer these cases to the CIC Centers set up in each district.
Two Counselors of the NGO are designated for the concerned district. They are informed by
the police or victim or family or others. Counselors contact the victims and their families
whenever a case is reported, provides counseling, accompanies the victims to the police
station, hospital or shelter home
& co-ordinates with police,
doctors/ psychologist for helping
the victim and her family in
managing the crisis. The NGO ties
up with the Commission to
provide other needs to the victim
and her family.
The DCW is the nodal agency for
all the CICs. The Commission
monitors the cases as & when
required and also guides the
functioning of CICs at periodic
intervals. Quarterly meeting are held by the Commission to review the functioning of the
CICs, which are attended by the police officials and NGOs. Even DCW calls meeting with
police officials and medical officers to discuss the smooth running of CIC and minimize the
challenges faced by victims.
It is also taken care to provide financial assistance to the minor victim and her family to take
care of the nutritional needs. Besides the programme has an objective to provide support
services to the police and help in rehabilitation of the victim. We have helped all victim
women and girls in the operational area of 15 police stations in Outer district.
Crisis Intervention Centre
Ms. Reena Banerjee with Smt. Barkha Shukla Singh
(Chairperson DCW) and Ms. Geeta Sagar (Ex
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Major activities
Our teammates have attended the all CIC calls regarding rape and abuse in 15 police
stations of the outer district of Delhi and supported the victims in 15 police stations as per
direction given by the court. We have also worked to sensitize the police on this issue.
During the year we have received total 389 cases of CIC in 15 police stations of the outer
district of Delhi. Out of which 240 cases were related to girls below 18 years and 149 cases
were related to adults. 177 cases were closed while 209 cases are under trial. In three cases
the accused have been punished and three victims have received financial support provided
by DLSA as per direction given by the court.
It is also noteworthy that 100% FIR are registered in these police stations in CSA cases and
the CSA cases are filed under POCSO Act 2012 in case the victim is a minor.
We have faced many challenges while dealing with the cases. Sometime the alleged victim
deviate from her statement due
to various reasons and we have
to work hard to counsel her. On
the other hand sometime
family is not interested to file a
case with the police due to
various reasons. We also try to
motivate them. It is also
observed that some actors do
not have desired sensitivity
towards the victim. We have
also found that in many cases doctor were not cooperative during MLC and had a
discouraging attitude towards the victim. We had to intervene in all such situations.
45%
53%
1%1%
Details of the cases dealt under CIC
Case closed
Under Process at
court
Accused punished
by court
Financial support
to rape victim
No one has the right to threaten
the health, education and well being of
the children by involving them in illegal
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We have continued implementing reading Room program in South and North Zone with the
support of “Room to Read” India Trust, New Delhi. During this year we have worked with 57
MCD Primary Schools covering more than 25000 Children. Major goal of the programme is
to promote literacy and the habit of reading in children. Main objectives of the programme
can be defined as given here-
 Increase children’s community member’s access to library resources at local school.
 To mobilize the community about the importance of library
 Generate awareness regarding the importance of library in the study of children
 Increase community access to library resource
 Increase literacy awareness among children and communities
 Increase the integration of library resources and activities into children’s learning
environments.
 Restore importance of library as one important component in study of a child.
 Sensitize community and other stakeholders and mobilize resources from
government to improve educational system for the library.
 Sustain libraries in Schools.
Major Activities Carried Out Under the Programme
Summer Camp
Summer Camp Activity was organized in 3 schools in North Zone of Delhi. This camp was
initiated by a ribbon cutting ceremony by School HM Ms. Anju Sareen and Nav Srishti
Secretary Ms. Reena Banerjee. This programme was attended by around 110 participants
(40 parents and 70 children). During the period of this summer camp various activities like
book reading, newspaper reading, drawing, poem recitation, story writing and songs singing
were there for children. The
children were happy that there
were various activities for them
and the joy could be seen on their
faces.
ILD Celebration
We have organized the
programme on 11th
& 12th
September 2013 at MCD Primary
School Lado Sarai Girls & MCD
Primary School Naraina E-Block
celebrating International Literacy Day. It was a collective programme where students from
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nearby six schools joined the programme at both places. Deputy Director of Education Ms.
Pushpa Rani was the Chief Guest. Ms. Reena Banerjee, Secretary Nav Srishti and Mr. Suman
(Programme Officer, Room to Read) and School H.M Ms. Nasreen and Ms. Anju Sareen were
among the other panelists. Seventy students from six schools participated in four activities
(story writing, book reading, poem telling & drawing). Four groups were made for all four
activities. Students started program
with book reading and poem telling
with action. On the other side
students were busy with drawing and
writing. Teachers too participated in
“Kancha Daud” and enjoyed much.
The prizes were given to all children
by guests present in the celebration.
In the end guests share their views
about the programme and
appreciated Nav Srishti’s effort. Nav
Srishti team thanked everyone for
their support and participation.
CMC Workshops
There are Child Management
Committees (CMCs) at class level in
all schools we are working with.
We organized CMC Workshops
from 2/9/2013 to 30/9/2013 in 25
schools of South Zone. All CMC
members participated in these
Workshops. The resource person,
programme coordinator and
monitors worked to orient the CMC
members on some important topics related to CMC.
Points for Discussion
Main points for discussion were as objectives of CMC, basic knowledge on CMC, role of CMC
members and group work for CMC. In group work CMC students wrote about their roles and
responsibilities and in detail that how they were helping in managing the libraries. CMC
objectives were discussed and all the doubts and questions were answered to clear the
doubts in their minds. The CMC students were told that they can teach poems and other
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functioning of their school library. Children were of the opinion that effective CMC can help
in running library program in sustainable way.
Capacity Building Programmes
A one day training programme for coordinators and monitors was organized on 29th
October
2013 at Indian Social Institute, Lodi road. Mr. Pawan from Rajasthan was the resource
person. Mr. Suman and Mr. Bhagwan Adhikari from Room to Read also joined the
programme and gave their valuable
inputs. Eight team members working
with the programme attended the
training.
There was a discussion on various
topics including good coach, coaching
in program, visit procedure,
conducting school visits, filling
observation format and how to
interact with people especially when
giving feedback.
Monitors & Coordinator Training
Four day training for monitors and
coordinators on 27-30 December 2013
was organized at NMCD Shiv Nagar
School Karol Bagh. Mr. Prabhat from
Rajasthan was the resource person.
Mr. Suman from “Room to Read” also
joined the programme and gave his
inputs. Six monitors and two
coordinators from Nav Srishti attended
the programme. The main points
covered in the training were story and
poem telling, daily diary, case study,
success story and how to connect special children with the library program. Participants
shared their observation that story and poem develops reading habits in the children. It
helps in increase in vocabulary, children less hesitate in reading books, children remember
things for long time, increase in imagination power, creates an enjoyable, listening and
understanding power, develops self confidence, writing skills, cultural development and
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Daily diary should cover our daily activities, our daily planning, challenges, reviews and
achievements. In case study we have to find out problems and the solutions for it.
Discussion about magazine also took place in training programme. This training was
important to improve the skill and competency of the team.
Achievements
The programme has helped the children to increase their reading habits and improved their
performance at their study. Their involvement in CMCs has learnt them to take a
responsibility and grow as a responsible
citizen. Teachers do realize that Reading
Room Program is good for developing
children’s interest towards their study.
There are many teachers who have helped
our team and assured for their sustained
support towards the program.
 It is noteworthy that 98% schools own
reading room program.
 Teachers/HM appreciated our
program and shared the progress of children with authorities.
 Education officials gave full support to
our program and cooperated in
conducting Teacher/HM training and
meeting.
 There are thousands of children who
are ready to demonstrate their
development at any platform.
 In 95% schools CMC groups are well
trained and actively involved in issuing
and maintaining books.
We have worked with 57 Schools in South
and North Zone under Reading Room Programme. More than 12000 Children improved
their reading and writing skills. Cooperation with the school is a major part that contributes
positively to the success of the Reading Room Programme.
Educational Environment in schools has improved and children groups are promoted to
ensure proper functioning of libraries. Active involvement of teacher in the programme has
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We have continued our efforts on child right and women empowerment in Nangloi and
Prem Nagar area with the support of Tech Mahindra Foundation. A team of seven persons
including two full-time and five part-time members looks after various activities under the
programme. The programme has a goal to ensure right to education to deprived slum
children in Nangloi and Prem Nagar areas through integration of support system and
responsive community action.
Main objective of the programme is to spread awareness and motivate parents in work area
on importance of children’s education and to facilitate and develop a model of child friendly
education system and to create interest amongst the children towards formal education
system and facilitate their process of joyful learning. Besides the programme has an
objective to create a participatory model of community schooling through integrating the
existing education / school and support systems. Major beneficiaries of the programme are
women and children in the work area. The programme has benefitted approximately 8000
families. We have organized various activities under the project to achieve the above
mentioned goal. It includes-
 Running education centers and providing education material to girls
 Orientation meetings for girls, community people and parents
 Teacher training, reference material development and regular teacher meetings
 Developing coordination with Head Masters/ Schoolteachers
 Special events with children and life-skill training for women and adolescent girls
 Coordination with local stakeholders
 Basic computer skills training for identified girls
 Promote dropout girls to complete secondary education through NIOS
 Capacity building of local CBOs in problem identification and self resolving of
problems
 Advocacy through interface meetings
Achievements
We could link 200 needy and dropout
girls with our centers and they are
availing quality education on regular
basis. Besides, 50 students have joined
bridge classes. We have motivated the
community towards promoting
education for girl children, educating
them on provisions under RTE Act and
admissions under EWS through regular
meetings and development information
centers. We Conducted 19 meetings and
reached 285 community peoples through these meetings. The community advocacy groups
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created pressure on Delhi Jal Board for supply of water and now 4 water tankers are
providing services regularly.
Through the meetings we indentified 37 children between the age group 6 – 14 years and
linked them with special classes. We motivated and convinced 40 parents for sending their
children to school. These children were out of school. We conducted 6 special event
programs to promote participation and develop leadership qualities within the children.
Total 200 children participated in those events. 50 adolescent girls participated in the life-
skills training and are more aware about HIV, care of pregnant women etc. We have
conducted meetings to discuss various issues in the community with school principals,
sitting MLA, sitting Ward Councilor, official from Delhi Jal Board, Aanganwadi workers and
local Gram Pradhans.
We have organized five street-plays to
create mass awareness on the issue of
RTE and women rights. We reached
approximately 900 people through these
street-plays. Total 49 children linked with
support classes. An exposure visit
conducted for women on International
Women Day. Forty local women
participated in exposure visit.
We held exposure visit for children to
increase knowledge and understanding
through exposure in best practices. They
were taken to Door Darshan Kendra at Mandi House. Forty nine children joined the
exposure visit. One more exposure visit was organized for the children. During the visit the
children visited lotus temple, Lal Kila, India Gate, etc. Four CBOs have been formed and
actively working for community. Due to their efforts 6 water tankers have been started in
the community. Four women have been selected as members in School Management
Committee in MCD School Prem Nagar and Nangloi.
Twenty five girls appeared in final exam for class 10th
under NIOS. Their results are awaited.
10 dropout children have been enrolled in 5th
standard in government school through
special class. We got thirty three children enrolled in MCD School in class 1. Fifteen girls got
self-defense training through Delhi Police program. More than 250 women and children
have been directly benefited and approximately 2600 other persons from the community
availed the benefits through our DICs. There is still a lot of mistaken belief lying within the
community regarding education, which restricts the children and girls from going to school.
Although our intervention and activities have been of much help in bringing about some
amount of change in their thoughts but there is still lot to be done in a well planned manner
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This is an initiative to promote a social atmosphere in Shramik Vihar and Etmadpur villages
in Faridabad district. The programme is supported by Vijaya Gujral Foundation.
Major Objectives of the programme has been providing education to deprived children and
imparting vocational training to potential women and girls so that they become financially
independent. Besides there was an objective to make community aware and sensitive on
gender equity, women empowerment and other related issues.
Approach
We have adopted a comprehensive approach to achieve the project goal. We have worked
with all major stakeholders like women /girls, community and local administration to
increase their level of awareness. We have wqorked to deal with the situation focused on
following points-
 To promote community ownership towards the project initiatives ensuring their active
involvement that will ensure sustainability of our interventions and develop
coordination among various stakeholders.
 Develop life-skills among potential women and girls so that they can avail all the
opportunities to improve their life. For this, we will select the occupations that are easily
manageable and need reasonable amount to start.
 Running vocational training and education programmes
 Promoting women friendly atmosphere in administrative institutions particularly police
regarding their behavior, sensitivity, attitude, response and cooperation in case of
women atrocities
Women and Girls Education
We have worked to educate
deprived children focusing on
girls between the age group 3
to 6 and 6 to 12 years. There is
one Balwadi and one NFE
centers at Etmadpur covering
50 children. Local girls have
been working as teacher at
these centers.
We have also worked to improve various skills of the children in the classrooms. The
activities such as drawing, storytelling, small essay writing etc. are organized on a weekly
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basis. We have provided teaching and learning aids to ensure quality education and proper
functioning of the centers. We have developed good rapport with local government
teachers and other progressive people and mobilized reference books and other material
with their support. Total 30 Children got admission in government school at Etmadpur. We
are also working to develop a framework to assess the overall progress including the
educational as well as attitudinal, behavioral and values so that we could measure the
impact of our efforts. We have also worked to sensitize the parents particularly the mothers
on education and other related issues.
Child- Friendly Classroom and Assessment:
The classroom decoration and child-friendly ambience of the class has been an important
part of the teacher training. At the end of every month a monthly test is conducted in the
presence of the staff member. The assessment paper is set for students. On the basis of the
performance of each student in the test, strategies are designed to address the deficiencies
and accelerate the progress and growth in the students.
Vocational Skills Development
We are running one training
centers for potential women/
girls at Shramik Vihar. Local
women/ girls joined the center
and learnt about tailoring. Total
30 women/girls have been
trained this year. Ms. Anita Devi
is working as trainer. We have
divided courses into three
months, six months and one-
year diploma. In the session
2014-2015 under tailoring and fashion designing 20 students received one year diploma
certificate, 10 students received six months certificate course.
Overall outcome
The children who were admitted to the centre have been well cared for and groomed in
terms of developing interest in education, nurturing reading habits and inculcating good and
healthy practices preparing them for the purpose of mainstreaming them into the school. It
has resulted in positive changes in their attitude as now many parents are sincere about
progress of their children. Parents are also sharing problems of their children and taking
care of their study and are more careful about children’s cleanliness, sanitation and
personal hygiene. Now they send their children timely to education centers and also have a
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In order to provide immediate relief
to women in distress, the 24-hour
Mobile Helpline Van was flagged off
in July 2013 by Smt. Sheila Dixit,
(Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi)
and Ms. Barkha Shukla Singh,
(Chairperson, Delhi Commission for
Women).
The Van was outsourced to Nav
Srishti for Outer and North West
Districts and is on 24X7 services with
the help of three counselors who can
be contacted on the provided
number by women in distress at any
time during the day or night.
The 24-hour mobile helpline has
provided relief to women of Delhi in
cases which are of varied types.
While a large number of calls are
from women who are victims of
domestic violence, the counselors
have also rescued women who have
been abandoned by their families
and given them shelter in various
shelter homes in Delhi.
In many cases woman are rescued
from the street and later sent for
shelter and care at the shelter home
for the destitute at AIWC. A brief
report of the services provided by
Nav Srishti so far is shown through
the charts.
Status of the calls
received out of 304
Counselling
Referredto other
agencies
Total Site visits
Rescue and
Shelter
114
7
41
12 18 12
0
20
40
60
80
100
120 Category of cases
Categoryof cases
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We have initiated a child help-line with the support of Childline India Foundation. The
programme is implemented in the
area surrounding Shramik Vihar
Sector 30, Faridabad, Haryana (in the
outskirt area of Faridabad District).
The programme has just started in
end of March 14 and will take time to
make its impact. Goal of the project is
to ensure that India moves
increasingly towards becoming a
child-friendly nation, ensuring the
rights and protection of all children. It
also aims that CHILDLINE reaches out
to every child in need and ensure their rights and protection.
Major Objectives of the programme is to ensure the practice of the highest levels of child
protection standards in CHILDLINE (CIF and CHILDLINE partner organizations) to ensure a
well defined and practiced reporting mechanism for child protection violations time bound
redressal system. It also has an objective to ensure assessment and management of child
protection risk in CHILDLINE spaces and to create consciousness and awareness about child
protection.
Approach
 Children are citizens and rights-
holders, the dignity, liberty and
freedom of every child must be
respected.
 The best interests of the child must
remain in focus in all matters that
affect or concern the child.
 Children have the right to freedom
of expression.
 Children have the right to participate
in decision concerning them.
 A Child’s right to privacy and confidentiality must be respected within an overall
consciousness and awareness of child protection requirements.
 Zero tolerance of any form of abuse of any child whether direct or indirect.
 Child protection is the responsibility of all of us.
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Team Selection
We have completed the process of selecting team members (Programme Coordinator, Team
Members, Volunteer and Counselor) in the March 2014. We have also worked to find local
people giving for other responsibilities giving priority to women and child.
Major activities
Sincere efforts have been made to mobilize local people and CHILDLINE 1098 service
regarding the programmes carried out under the project. We have organized community
level meetings during reporting period. We have discussed about problems of children,
emergency response, face to face counseling, and restoration of children to their homes,
referral to other organizations for shelter, education, vocational training, accessing health
care services and other multiple support activities.
Nav Srishti is looking for sustainable change in community in context of child rights and
women empowerment. We have found that to some extent we are going in right direction.
Today we have many community groups for instance Children Groups, Child Protection
Groups, Missing Children Parents Groups, Youth Groups; Community Cohesive Action Group
(CCAG), Slum Health and Sanitation Team (SHAST) and Mahila Panchayats, SHG’s and CBOs
that are more aware and gradually developed as change agents in community. Our team has
worked hard to make them aware about their rights and the agencies they can approach in
case of any violation. We have made them aware about administrative system and
processes so that they can raise their voice. We are glad to see that these efforts have given
tremendous results. Nav Srishti Task Force is working for protection of children across Delhi
and Faridabad.
Women groups in Neb Sarai, Holambi Kalan and Prem Nagar have worked for women who
are victim of domestic violence. Women group keep regular follow –ups even after the issue
is resolved. They refer the complicated cases to other concerned agencies and help the
victim women at police station and court.
In Jahangirpuri, we have a group working on health. This group is working for monitoring
government health services in their area and water and sanitation situation. They have
raised their voice for safe drinking water as we got the water tested in Jahangirpuri and
found that it was contaminated due to pipeline leakage. MCD has taken immediate call and
provided solution to the community.
Active involvement of local people at every level and developing cohesiveness and making
them aware regarding their rights and duties as a citizen is the way to achieve the goal of
sustainable development. We hope we would have more and stronger community group as
a social resource to work for betterment of marginalized sections of society.
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Some impediments that make the things harder
There has been some sort of challenges that had an adverse impact on the efforts made
under various programmes. We have
observed that migration of family
from working area to another place
due to urbanization or livelihood
search leave us empty hand as we
lose the beneficiary. Financial crunch
also makes difficult smooth function
of the programmes and creates gap
that hamper the process and impact.
Unwillingness of some influential
stakeholders also has an adverse
impact as their cooperation is very
crucial in dealing with some issues.
Perspective development and Capacity building of the team has also been a big challenge to
deal with some ideological issues like gender discrimination, superstitions, belief system of
various communities etc.
We are associated with state and national networks Alliance for People Rights (APR), NEEV
Forces, NAFRE People Movement and other like-minded organizations on the issue of Right
to Education, ECCDE and other pro-people issues. Ms. Reena Banerjee is presently working
as Convener of Alliance for People Rights (APR).
Demanding Safety for Children “Awaaz”
We organized a protest on the issue
of missing children on 23rd
April
2013 at Delhi Police Head Quarter.
Various NGOs, representatives from
Alliance for Peoples’ Rights (APR)
and Missing children’s parents
joined the protest. A good number
of media personnel were also there
to cover the protest.
Formally, the protest has been
started by the Nav Srishti Director,
Mrs. Reena Banerjee. She welcomed all the protesters and shared her concern on the issue
of missing children in Delhi and what action has been taken by the Delhi police. India’s
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capital Delhi has highest numbers of missing children. What’s more, the country has no
central data on the number of children missing, or what has happened to them. As many as
14 kids go missing in the Capital daily, which is eight per cent of the total number at national
level. Protesters shared their view and demanded effective and speedy action in this regard.
Plan and SARD, organized an exposure visit on 7th
to 9th
January 2013 to Rishi Valley
Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER) to get firsthand knowledge on multi-grade,
multi-level modes of teaching for addressing quality component in education for enhanced
learning and quality completion. The team was comprised of MCD officials, representatives
from Plan and SARD and DSO Partner chief functionaries. On behalf of Nav Srishti Ms. Reena
Banerjee, Secretary joined the visit.
Rishi Valley Education Centre is run by Krishnamurti Foundation, India. It is located in a
sheltered valley in the interior of rural Andhra Pradesh, about 15km from the nearest town,
Madanapalle, and about 125 km north-east of Bangalore. REC consists of RIVER (Rishi Valley
Institute for Educational Resources), a residential Middle School for students from the
immediate neighborhood and twelve ‘Satellite Schools’. While two ‘Satellite Schools’, and
the Middle School are located on REC’s 14-acre campus, the other ten ‘Satellite Schools’ are
located in nearby hamlets. Aims of the Programme at REC are-
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 To promote quality education
 To train teachers and teacher trainers in a multi-grade, multi-level methodology
(MGML) through modules and instructional materials.
 Ensure community participation for better school governance and ensure enrolment
 To create green spaces around the school campus for the conservation of bio-
diversity in general and medicinal plants in particular and creating awareness on
health, nutrition and sanitation
Since in municipal schools children from diverse background and of different ability get
admissions, there is a need to capacitate the duty bearers on above issues wherein they can
further translate this with their teachers and implementers in the field of education. REC has
done pioneering work in capacity building of teachers and has several instructional
materials on MGML which can be used in other situations as well. The visit has been very
useful and we incorporated the learning of the visit in the programme to improve the
quality of education in the work area.
Since June – 2013, we (Nav Srishti) are providing consultancy to “Aga Khan Foundation”
(AKF) on the issue of “Health and Sanitation”. Through this we are providing support to
strengthen Mohalla Health and Sanitation Committee” (MHSC). As resource organisation we
have paid monthly visits in Nizamuddin Area and conducted 3 days meetings with all groups.
We also conducted quarterly 3 days training in presence of team of AKF. All logistic
arrangements for meetings, training were taken care by AKF. Reena Banerjee, Mr. Ram
Kishore Mahawar and Ms. Anuradha have worked as resource person. Core issues of the
initiative were women empowerment and child rights. Major objectives of the programme
were as -
 Educate MHSC members on
policies, program, schemes and
norms as well as concerned
departments.
 Develop understanding on Urban
Local Bodies (ULBs), Right Based
Approach (RBA) and Advocacy
tools like RTI, Correspondence
with Departments and
Documentation
 To empower MHSCs to work with
key service providers related to Maternal Health, Newborn care, Child Health and
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 Capacity building on monitoring and evaluation for effective implementation of
schemes/program.
We covered eight localities namely Khusro Nagar, Kot Mohalla, Nizam Nagar, Musafir Khana,
Dildar Nagar, Gali Gadriyan, Kali Masjid and Qureshi Masjid reaching around 1500 families.
We facilitated the discussion on immunization of children, institutional delivery, child
growth monitoring & breast feeding, anganwadi services, personal hygiene, referral
mechanism, birth registration, child protection, PDS (Ration card & F.P.S.), pension (old age,
widow & disability), electricity, education, demand for ASHA worker, visit of ANM and
Awareness on sanitations. As a result today many groups start to work themselves very
confidently.
We lost our President Shahjahan
Aapa in a tragic accident near
Nangloi railway track on 27th
September 2013. It was a great loss
to organisation and voluntary sector
as her contribution to bring the issue
of women atrocities to fore-front
was immense. We will be guided by
her devotion and passion towards
the cause of deprived women.
Mr. Naresh Kumar, Mr. Susheel
Kumar and Ms. Anjali (all from
IGNOU) have worked with us as
volunteers for different period and
helped us in various ways. Ms.
Kanchan Saini and Ms. Bhawana
Verma (Department of Social Work) worked as volunteer for ten days (3-13 March 2014).
Mrs. Seema from Amity University was with us for a period of 30 days as volunteer and
helped our team in improving quality of their work. She also learnt a lot from our work.
Brigitte Hohlweger and Lena Dorfschmidt, both from Germany have been with us for almost
a year (24th
August 2013 to 31 August 2014) as volunteer. They were very downtrodden and
cooperative in nature. They also learnt a lot from our work and helped our team members
in developing various skills.
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We have received financial support and other inputs from various institutes and individuals
in form of cash and kind that have helped us in contributing towards marginalized people.
We are thankful to support organizations {Central Social Welfare Department, Child Rights &
You (CRY), Child Line India Foundation, Childreach India, Commission for Women, Delhi
Social Welfare Board, Department of Social Welfare, Liz Help, Plan India, Room to Read,
Samajik Suvidha Sangam (GRC), Save the Children, Tech Mahindra Foundation and Vijaya
Gujral Foundation for their valuable support. We are thankful to Ms. Nargis Panchapakesan
for her continuous contribution in memory of her beloved son Sharad Panchapakesan. It has
helped us to contribute towards development of the marginalized sections of the society.
We have received Rs. 30858268.00
during financial year 2013-14. We
have received Rs. 6055905.00 as
national grant and Rs. 21659679.00 as
foreign grant. A sum of Rs.
2138317.00 was received as donation
in cash/kind while an amount of Rs.
1004367.00 was received from other
sources. Total expenditure for the
financial year 2013-14 has been Rs. 29857988.00. It includes the expenditure on various
programmes organized by organization and as salary expenses for the coordinating team.
We have ensured optimum utilization of our resources in the interest of our beneficiary
communities.
20%
70%
7%
3%
Financial status for year 2013-14
National Grant-
in-Aid
Foreign Grant-in-
Aid
Donation in
cash/kind
Other receipts
You can break down a woman temporarily but a real woman will always pick
up the pieces, rebuild herself and come back even stronger than ever.
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My name is Rukhsana and I live at Neb Sarai. I enrolled at parlor
course run by Nav Srishti and later also got to know about the free-of-
cost adult education which I am pursuing now. When I enrolled at
parlor course in Nav Srishti, I didn’t know reading and writing Hindi
very well and I could not speak English. I learnt reading and writing
and also attended English class which was taught by foreign
volunteers. I soon became one of the best students in English class. I
took the “Open Basic Education Exam” and received the certificate. This made me very
happy. I became very proficient in reading and writing. My teacher Preeti noticed that I was
very interested to get more education and therefore admitted me in 8th
class in the open
school NIOS. Now I am preparing myself for the 8th
class exam. I learnt so much that next to
my studies I also give tuition. Doing so, I myself repeat the subjects and thereby become
more proficient. I owe it to Nav Srishti that today I am able to do this work. Thanks to Nav
Srishti; I am also motivated to go on studying and teaching. My future goals are to go on
studying, standing on my own feet and supporting my family economically.
My name is Anita. I did the six-month parlor course in Nav Srishti. I
got many benefits from this. Some years ago my husband left me.
This made me facing many problems in daily life. Fortunately I came
to know that there is a NGO in Neb Sarai that provides free-of-cost
education to women and children. I went there and talked to a
teacher who told me about the parlor course. I got admitted and
learnt very well. Presently I am working at a beauty parlor. I also
became busy working in my neighborhood. This enables me to cover
my personal expenses. I am very happy to stand on my own feet. I will always be grateful to
Nav Srishti for opening these possibilities to me.
Faizan
Eighteen month-old Faizan used to weigh just 6.4 Kgs that was below normal. Faizan was born
underweight (1.4 Kgs). His father, Aashu works as daily wage labour, which isn’t sufficient to
support his family of seven members. “Faizan was born a weak child and he used to cry a lot,”
says his mother. Post-delivery, Kausar’s health deteriorated due to lack of adequate nutritious
food and care. As a result, she could not breastfeed Faizan. This had a direct impact on him and
as the months followed, he became severely malnourished. He became susceptible to many
diseases including diarrhea. This caused severe malnutrition in Faizan.
Faizan was referred to the nearest Aanganwadi for registering as malnourished child and avail
the facility of double nutrition supplements. Aanganwadi worker refused to register Faizan as
SAM child. However, she agreed to provide the double nutrition supplements to Faizan’s
mother. Faizan was admitted at Nutrition Rehabilitation Center (NRC) at Wada Hindu Rao
Hospital for a better treatment. With proper care and support received at the NRC, Faizan’s
weight increased to 8.6 Kgs within two weeks. Faizan is now leading a healthy life. His parents
are very happy and much more careful towards their children.
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Appeal
You can support $30 for a child for a month: Your money will help with her tuition, uniform,
text books and registration in open school.
You can support $100 for a woman for a month: Your donation will help her get vocational
training, linkage with government schemes, and seed money for a small business, life-skill
training, gender and self defense training.
You can support $500 for a community center for a month: Your money will support a safe
space for women and children to share stories, campaign, reading library books, discuss
domestic violence related problems and develop community people as whistle blower for
women and child safety, trainer/legal expert charges, emergency support like medical, food
clothing, travel cost for sexual and domestic violence victim, missing children, etc.! Consider
making a tax deductible U/s 80G of Income Tax Act 1961.
These efforts can help thousands of women and children to change their life
Learn more at www.navsrishti.org
Please make tax-deductable donations online or send a cheque/demand draft payable at
Delhi in favor of “Nav Srishti”
Indian Saving A/C no. 10341659642, IFSC: SBIN0008442
FCRA Saving A/C no. 10690100017291, IFSC: UCBA0001069
Contact No. 011- 65432002
Head office: - 306/3, Neb Sarai Village, (Near Holly Chowk) IGNOU Road, New Delhi-110068,