Indian Development Foundation (IDF) is a non-profit organization that provides education to underprivileged children in India. It runs several programs, including Bal Gurukuls which provides basic education to children in rural and urban areas. The Student Leadership Program (SLP) fosters skills in leadership, teamwork, personality development, and career guidance for students in grades 8-10. The intern was part of the SLP, which involves social ambassadors from colleges conducting a 3-month, 12 session program for underprivileged students.

1. INDIAN DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATION
(STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM)
PGDM 151701274
BATCH:2015-17
Biki Kumar Gupta
Email Id: biki.g@itm.edu
NGO INTERNSHIP REPORT
(OCT 5-OCT 17)
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NGO GUIDE:MalikaRamachandra
Contact : 9820052766
Email Id: idfslp@gmail.com
FACULTY GUIDE : Bhavika Thakkar
Contact : 022-33835619
Email Id : bhavikat @itm.edu
Contact no: 7045869060

2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
India is a country with more than one billion people, and just one-third of them can read. Rapidly
growing size of population, shortages of teachers, books, and basic facilities, and insufficient
public funds to cover education costs are some of the nation’s toughest challenges. This is where
Children in India are facing the basic challenges. According to a study, more than 30% of
educational funds are allocated towards higher education, leaving the primary education in
India in sway.
For the underprivileged people in India, education is perceived as a high-priced luxury, and
this negative outlook continues on with every new generation.
As a charity for child rights, Indian Development Foundation has been providing
education to marginalized children in poor rural and urban communities through
various programs:
 Bal Gurukuls, its flagship program, is an after school programme, providing basic
education to the underprivileged children, both urban and rural areas.
 Student Leadership Program (SLP) – It’s a program for fostering skills in the areas of
Leadership, Teamwork, Personality Development and Behavioral traits and providing
career guidance to underprivileged students between grade 8th-10th.
 I was under the Student leadership program of IDF which is a 3 month(12 session)
program and is run by involving Social Ambassadors from Corporate
sector/Colleges/Universities.
 In SLP ,
 Appeals to volunteers-Mentors
 Volunteers Involvement - 2 hours on every Saturdays
 Training of volunteers to Mentors
 People who can volunteer for this programs:
 Teachers
 Executives from Corporate
 Home-makers
 Retirees
 Those with passion to teach soft-skills/ leadership skills.
 The team of SLP was divided into three groups i.e., Corporate, Societies & Schools.
 I was under the team of school and in this we again sub divided the group into two i.e.,
Mumbai & Navi Mumbai according to our convenience.

3. CONTENTS
IDF BOARD OF TRUSTEES...........................................................................................................2
HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF INDIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.....................................5
VISION ANDMISSION OF IDF......................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................9
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME - Student Leadership Programme (SLP)........................................10
COMMENCEMENT OF THE PROJECT WORK ........................................................................12
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................12
RECOMMENDATIONS................................................................................................................20
LEARNINGS ACCUMULATED....................................................................................................21
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................22
IDF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Dr. A. R.K. Pillai, Founder President
(Humanist and Social Scientist)
idfark@gmail.com

4. Mr. N. R .Parashuraman,
Vice-President
(Director, Media(Retd.))
Dr. H. Sudarshan,
Member
(Hon. Sec. VGKK– BR Hills)
Wg.Cdr. S.Balasubramanian
Treasurer
(Retired IAF)
Dr. A. P. Jayaraman
Member
(Nuclear and ManagementScientist)
Mr. J. R. Dhanaseelan
Member
(Retd. Central Govt. Officer)
Mr. SanatN. Surti
Member
(Senior Art Director)
Mr. K. Venkatesh
Member
(Senior EngineerConsultant)

5. Mr. Aunali Rupani
Member
(Mentor, Financial Research)
Mr. Sumesh E. S.
Member
(Partner, CA Firm)
Dr. Hari Vasudevan
Member
(Educationist)
Dr. Dinesh Jain
Member
(Medical Consultant)
Dr. GeethaMohan
Member
(Educationist)
Mr. Priyadarshan N. Shete
Secretary
(Info Tech Consultant)
Dr. C.N.N. Nair
Member
(Ex-Gen.Manager- VSNL)

6. HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF INDIAN
DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
India had an estimated 4 million leprosy cases in 1982 with a prevalence rate of
57 per 10,000 populations. Severaldistricts werehyper endemic and endemic for
leprosy. With the active work of the Union Health Ministry, State Health
Ministries, Municipalities and National and InternationalNGOs, somestates have
already eliminated leprosy by now, with prevalence less than 1 per 10,000
population by March 2005. India has achieved the leprosy elimination status
(Elimination status means achieving the prevalencerate of less than 1 patient per
10,000 populations) Consequentto the drastic reduction of leprosy cases in India
and leprosy elimination in severalstates, it was felt expedient by the Board of
Trustees to diversify and rechristen Indian Leprosy Foundation as Indian
Development Foundation (IDF). Proposals weremadeto Govt. and the Charity
Commissioner, Mumbaihas approved the changeof name and the diversified
roles. Thus, IDF came into existence on 1stApril 2005.
In responseto the national call by our former Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi
to NGOs and public-spirited people to take up leprosy elimination work, Dr. A. R.
K. Pillai, the Founder President, gathered a few Samaritans and founded Indian
Leprosy Foundation. The Foundation was registered as a Charitable Trust under
the Societies Registration Act of 1860 and Bombay Public Trusts Act of 1950. The
important purposefor which Foundation was formed is summarized below:
 To be a national NGO with focus on leprosy/TB elimination work
 To be a self-supporting NGO.
 To be supported by willing and voluntary donations fromthe public.
 To shareits major resources with leprosy/TB/ education Projects by giving
annual grants to network with NGOs/Projects.
 To strengthen awareness aboutleprosy/TB through its own staff and
volunteer teams, use mass communication channels and erasesocial
stigma.

7.  To work hand in hand with Union and state health authorities and
Municipal Corporations
IDF has over 100 Associateleprosy/TB Projects spread over the country and they
do all aspects of treatment and rehabilitation free of costand without any
discrimination whatsoever.
IDF Our Field Teams and Volunteer teams have been focusing on schools, colleges
and community groups to give leprosy awareness talks.
VISION AND MISSION OF IDF
Vision:
To work towards creating a better India which provides basic health, education
and empowermentto every citizen.
Mission:
To be a Knowledge/Execution Partner of Schools, NGOs, Corporate, and
Governmentagencies for development programmes across India.
IDF inNutshell
 Indian Development Foundation (Formerly Indian Leprosy Foundation) was
established as a Charitable Public Trustand Society with the Charity
Commissioner, Mumbai– 1984. Eventhough wehad a humble startwith
no office, staff members or resources wemoved forward with the
confidence in the goodness of our people.

8.  Trustees – to work as models- no compensation whatsoever for their social
contributions.
 IDF is a self-reliant NGO in India. IDF has never soughtnor taken any Govt.
Grant or supportfrommajor Foreign Donor Agencies so far. The objectives
of the Foundation are managed through public donations received from
various sources.
 IDF’s has stood thetest of time with own communication strategies based
on sound Management Principles and Practices involving common people
for Health Awareness and monetary support.
 IDF has grown into a leading NGO in the Health Sector in India, thanks to
the dedicated services of its teams.
 IDF works hand in hand with Central and State Governments and Municipal
Corporations for National Leprosy Elimination Programmeand TB Control
Programme.
 IDF involves lakhs of students and citizens for leprosy/TB awareness-cum-
resourcemobilization. The School Teams havetheir pride of place. IDF has
given opportunity to every citizen to participate in this national
humanitarian effort.
 IDF has over a 100 AssociateHospitals and Projects scattered all over India
handling different aspects of leprosy/TB treatment, care, surgery,
rehabilitation and the like. All services are free to the citizens withoutany
discrimination.
 IDF uses Mass Communication Medium such as Media Channels with great
advantage.
 Sharing is our sacred policy - IDF gives away substantialamounts as Grants
every year to leprosy. TB/ education projects, out of the donations received
fromgeneral public.

9.  IDF has received National and InternationalAwards for its exemplary
services. Itis one of the largest networking and self-reliant NGOs in India
and has raised a large number of qualified, efficient Social Marketing
Executives and Managers in India.
 IDF sponsors a good number of deserving students.
 IDF runs BalGurukuls/ Empowerments programmes in India.
 IDF is a proud Partner of StopTB Partnership of WHO and the Partnership
TB Care and Control of India.
 IDF has launched `Clean India Movement’ and has adopted Asia’s second
biggest slumin Mumbai, Malwani as a Model Projectfor Clean-up Drive
under the title `My Malwani – Mast Malwani’
 IDF launched `Sarva SakhiSwabhiman - A women empowerment
programmewhich will include primary education, vocationaltraining, skill
development and financial literacy.
 IDF Profilehas been accepted by UN -DESA Civil Society Systemand UN-
DESA Events Management System.
 IDF - Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and
Social Council since 2012.
 IDF offers socialinternship programmes to students fromvarious
Universities/Institutes/Colleges in India and also a couple of students from
international areas.
 IDF partners with InternationalBaccalaureate schools for their CAS
programmes
IDF vision is to work towards a better India which provides for basic health,
education and empowerment for every citizen. To supportthe Government
actively in its Vision 2020 programme.
In line with this commitment, we haveadopted a mission statement which aims

10. at the following
E: Establish IDF Gurukuls/EmpowermentSchools to provide basic education
M: Mobilize resources fromthe society for the community development
programmes
P: Providesupportbasefor designated health activities
O: Organizeruraland tribal development programmes
W: Women empowermentprogramme
E: Empowering the youth by Youth EmpowermentSeries (YES) programmes
R: Rekindle social and scientific temper in the society.
M: Mediate and assistGovernmentin implementing developmental programmes.
E: Enhance corporatesocial responsibility initiatives
N: Nurtureawareness among the masses and providelinkage to health care
facilities.
T: Target poverty alleviation programme
INTRODUCTION
We conducted a 2 week NGO Internship with Indian DevelopmentFoundation
(formerly known as Indian Leprosy Foundation) which deals with these mentioned
purposes:
 To be a national NGO with focus on leprosy/TB elimination work.
 To be a self-supporting NGO.
 To be supported by willing and voluntary donations fromthe public.
 To shareits major resources with leprosy/TB/ education Projects by giving
annual grants to network with NGOs/Projects.

11.  To strengthen awareness aboutleprosy/TB through its own staff and
volunteer teams, use mass communication channels and erasesocial
stigma.
 To work hand in hand with Union and state health authorities and
Municipal Corporations
We were assigned to the SLP program, thatis, the Student Leadership Programof
IDF which is for helping less and under privileged students of government and
private schools in various slums of Mumbai and Navi-Mumbai by providing
vocational classes regarding development of soft skills, public hygiene, and basic
health care. Our 14 days assignmentwas to get volunteers fromvarious corporate
houses and housing societies and also getting approvalfromthe schools to
schedule the classes for the same.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME - Student Leadership Programme (SLP)
Student days are the most important partof upbringing in one’s life. The syllabus/
activities which are important aspect of the curriculum leave a vacuum for the
development of certain qualities. These qualities form to be very influential in
framing the personality of the student and demands equal share of concentration
and efforts.
Indian Development Foundation (IDF) has been constantly supporting and striving
for the development of the students. On the same lines, IDF has developed a
training programme focused on the basics and qualitative skill development. The
course will focus on the development of the student’s traits which would lead
them to be an informed and improved individual.
The students would be trained by the corporate employees/ PG students and

12. Trainers who have volunteered for the SLP. IDF will train the volunteers who will
be called as Mentors. Project SLP is an offering by IDF for student development
and there is no financial implication of any sort.
Each class of 40-50 students will have 3 Mentors as their trainers.
Contents for SLP
Mentioned below are some of the topics to be covered for the SLP training:
 Personalswotanalysis
 Personality development
 Time management skills
 Handling fear/anxiety
 Building confidence
 Handling rejection / defeat
 Goal setting
 Anger management
 Health & Hygiene
 Public Speaking / Communication skills
 Emotional development
 Overcoming stubbornness
 Positive thinking
 Positive attitude
 General Knowledge

13.  Leadership skills
COMMENCEMENT OF THE PROJECT WORK
Student Project Activities:-
Descriptionof the Project Theme &Area:-
5th October 2015 , around 90 students from ITMkharghar who gotan
opportunity to work with IDF. Thestudents weredivided into 3 departments:
Fund raising, Resourceallocation Student Leadership program. I was under
Student Leadership Programand our guide Mrs. Malika Ramachandran briefed us
about the areas to be worked on. The main focus was to visit schools and
corporates and to get them convinceto be a part of IDF and to get volunteers for
training 8th standard students on soft skills, personalhygiene, personality
development etc . The student leadership program(SLP) aims at fostering skills in
the areas of leadership, teamwork, personality and behavioral traits and providing
career guidance to underprivileged students of standard 8th. This is a three
month programand is run by involving volunteers from corporate, college,
universities and educated housewives who would be teaching these students
every Saturday for two hours in their nearby BMC schools or any private schoolin
the slumareas.
The various activities undertaken was donein two parts , i.e firstsix days was visit
to corporates , and then followed by the visitto various societies. Firstly visitto
corporates,
the team of corporates, wedivided into two groups consisting of four member
each, and also the region was divided ie: Mumbai & Navi Mumbai. The first
corporate, which was DHFL. The Branch Manager received us well, we described
about our ngo ,the work it does, and asked for volunteers .To our surprisethe
manger gave us a positivefeedback, he told that he would ask his employees to
volunteer , and would take out some time to sharehis experience . Now we were
confident and fromthere it was no looking back, we visited around twelve to

14. fifteen corporates houses, somegreeted us well, somewere given false reaction,
some wereinterested.

15. After this After the successfulvisits to various corporatehouses, now it was our
turn to visit the various schools , societies , to gather as much of voluntaries for
our SLP program,Wedecided to target the societies in kharghar. Theexperience
was a mixed one. Firstly it was difficult to enter the societies, as we needed prior
permissions fromthe person concern.

19. Some allowed us, some directly showed us the door. After convincing them we
visited somesocieties, we targeted the housewives, somewereinterested, and
some needed to ask their husbands first. Somewerenot even ready to listen.
The retired people, genuinely showed interest , also willing to sharetheir
experiences. But due to the unviability of bmc schools near to the location ,many
refused as well. Now the youth, they werewilling to cooperate and was ready to
providetheir services.
The following are the details of the volunteers
Name of the
person
Name of the
society
Wing Contact no.
Mrs. Aziz Fatma Kendriya vihar C-4 -
Nidhi makar Hard rock
chambers
A 9904414232
Mrs. Bhattacharya Hard rock
chambers
A 9869706934
Mrs. Mahalaxmi Hard rock
chambers
A 022-27743595
Mr. raj Hard rock
chambers
A 9930286597
Mrs. Anjali
handique
Hard rock
chambers
A 9987543364
Mr. K.
satyanarayana
Hard rock
chambers
A 7738268743
Mr. Abhishake Hard rock
chambers
A -
Mr. Chatterjee Aramarcade A 9619236481
Mrs. Sheetal A. Aramarcade B 9594589697
Mrs.Reshma k. Aramarcade B 9594589697
Mrs. Sapna Dubey Pushpa residency A 9323444468

20. Mrs. Nafisa Singh Kendriya vihar AH-3 9920562670
Mrs. Anita
Prashant
Kendriya vihar BH-3 8976897836
Mrs. Affie Thomas Kendriya vihar BH-2 8097215159
Mr. akshay
choudhary
Kendriya vihar AH-2 8108830018
LEARNINGS AND EXPERIENCE
 People are not ready to listen.
 The SLP programduration ,i.e 3 months, people were not ready to commit
this long.
 The unavailability of bmc schools near to their location was another hurdle.
 The retired persons werethe one to cooperate the most.
 Most of the housewives weredependent on their husband and didn’twant
to make any commitment before consulting with them.
 This 14 days gaveme a brief exposureto meet with various people, it was
an enriching experience and yes I would continue to work towards IDF goals
and ideals, and would take a more active part in this ngo , in the coming
future.
CONCLUSION
To conclude we had a great opportunity to work with IDF in this projectas we
learned a great deal about how we should interact with the various authorities
and also we learned a lot about how an NGO works and deliver to the society but

21. the mostimpactful lesson of all was how various people react to the social cause
and how we can change the perception of people to do their part for the benefit
of society even if they are rigid to help financially by using other resources such as
their time and their knowledge.
For two weeks we wereon field getting contacts of the volunteers who are ready
to help the NGO in its programmes. TheNGO’s visionary direction being so clear
and focused and our knowledgeof new CSRpolicy governed by the New
Companies Act, 2013 helped us a lot at those crucial moments when we had to
explain people why they should do this.
The fact that one can potentially work for a large NGO with programs and delivery
in a large number of countries in different parts of the world gives us the
opportunity to see how our particular approaches to business work in different
contexts.
NGOs supporta sustainability-related major; a sustainability-related NGO can
help a studentadd a component of sustainability to a major in any field.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Indian Development Foundation haveshown light to many budding NGOs on the
path of social welfareby strictly following its principles and guidelines and abiding
by them throughout, also having complete transparency in its financial
accountability. Indian DevelopmentFoundation has provided alternative ways to
providefor the well-being and development of the country in the sphere of:
 Education,
 Women development and empowerment, and
 Health & hygiene

22. After the complete eradication of Leprosy fromthe country Indian Development
Foundation have done exceedingly well in all the fronts it have worked with or
without governmentand private funding.
For Recommendation we want to provideour only feedback that we feel the NGO
should focus more upon, that is,
As Social Ambassador designation wewere provided very liberal work
environmentwhich devaluated the potential output wecould have given if the
briefing done would have been very precise and the work environmentwould
have been more corporateoriented and also there should have been a regular
check on the progress of the work report. We provided with the weekly report, it
would have been better if a review on thosereports have been provided to us so
that we could learn from our mistakes and re-strategies accordingly.
One other thing that we would like to recommend is that if the operational wing
of the NGO would have been working better and effectively (not just
communicating) then we would have been able to cover more area of operational
activities as the activities then could have been planned in a time consuming
manner. The leadership should have been given in the hand of the guide instead
of an individual student.
Regardless of this the internship provided by Indian Development Foundation
helped us in learning a lot and having a lifetime experience on how things are
done in a Non-GovernmentOrganization.
LEARNINGS ACCUMULATED

23. 1. Effective use of government resources- Even though NGO stands for non-
governmentorganization but let me make one thing very clear maximum
things NGO do with the supportof governmentonly. They don’t havemuch
resources and esp. authority to execute anything independently. Government
systemis considered to be disorganized and slow. But, as you will have to work
in government system slowly you will learn to use its resources effectively. You
will know about governmentpolicies, plans and methods more or equivalent
to any governmentemployee.
2. Work for a cause- In an NGO you get a higher aim, you will learn that if you
want money you will have to work for a cause. Unless you give results, you will
not earn anything. NGO proves that you can work for money and social
welfare both at same point of time.
3. Negotiation- Remember, every argumenthas three sides- your side, my side
and the right side. Good negotiators always focus on the rightside of the
argument. You will learn to convince people without annoying them.
4. Control on your personal ego- If any governmentemployee will show you
tantrums you will learn to control yourself becauseyou will realize that getting
medicine for a sick person is more important than anything else.
5. Leading without authority- In an NGO you don’thave any direct authority in
the system. You have to do everything with the cooperation of others. Then
you meet your real self. Then you realize how competent you are.
REFERENCES
http://www.idf.org.in/idf-slp.html

24. http://www.google.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-hYxDhx8I
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