CONSOLIDATED REPORT

The student visited three different organizations for his institutional visits work on
the broader areas of education, health and livelihood. Besides the student worker
also had the opportunity of getting some insights into the various other
organizations visited by his classmates. The organizations visited by the student
were;

1. Meljol(education):- an organization working for the development of citizenship

skills among the children by focusing on their rights and responsibilities and
provides the opportunity to build themselves in a right way to adjust in the
society. Important financial education is also provided to the children. the
organization also tries to bridge the gap between the children’s from the
privileged families with the ones from the underprivileged families by giving
them tine and space to interact among each other in a common platform.
2. Integrated Child Development Scheme, mankhud project (health):- it is a
programme run by the govt. of India in collaboration with the state Govts. Of
the country. It is a programme run parallely throughout the country. The main
vision and mission of the scheme is to eradicate malnutrition and mortality of
childrens ranging from 0-6 years of age. The project is running all the
schemes under this scheme and playing a very important role in keeping the
children’s and mothers of the area in a proper health condition.
3. MAVIM (livelihood):- it is a govt. aided organization working for the
empowerment of women through the promotion of SHGs. The organization
plays an all-round role in bringing about the complete and effective change
into the life of the marginalized women from the lowest stratum of the society
by providing them the needed platform to express their problems and also to
fight for their removal. The organization also provides different employment
opportunities to the women by giving them various life skill training. The
organization also monitors the progress of the SHGs through the help of the
sahayoginis and different outreach officials.

Besides visiting these three organizations the student discussed about the
different areas of work carried out by the various organizations. The list of the
organizations visited under the various headings was as follows:-

1. EDUCATION.
• Bal Kalyan Nagri:- it is a govt. run organization which is an orphanage
home where children below the age of 16 yrs are given shelter and
looked after. The children are also provided both formal and non-
formal education.
• Doorstep:- it is an organization working for the welfare of the street
children’s. The org. provides the street children with education
facilities by giving them evening classes after making them interested
in earning education inorder to live a more dignified life.
 • BIDM (Bombay Institute of The Deaf and Mute) :-the organization
works for the providing of equality of opportunities to the students by
understanding themselves and their disability. Education from calss
nursery to class ten are provided to children in both hindi, Marathi or
English mediums.
• Special cell for Child labour:- it is a govt. project working for the rescue
of childrens below 14 yrs from hazardous works and giving them
education.
2. HEALTH.
• SION HOSPITAL:- It is a Govt. hospital where there is a medical and
psychiatric social work department. It provides special professional
services to the mentally charged populace who are seeking their
service.
• Urban Health Centre:- it is a primary health centre which works in
collaboration with BMC and an Hospital.
• All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:- this pioneer
institute is commited to providing rehabilitation services to persons in
all categories of locomotor and associated disabilities.
• Kripa:- “together we can make a change”. It works with people afflicted
with chemical dependency and HIV infection.
3. LIVELIHOOD.
• PRAYAS:- it is an organization working on the neglected, street and
marginalized street childrens, youths and womens in more then 5
states of the country.
• SATHI:- it is an organization working with the homeless youths of the
streets of Mumbai. It works in mainstreaming them by assisting in
whatever possible ways such as giving them training in economic
activities and also formal education to the interested youths.
• KOSHISH:- it is an organization working for the deaf population. It tries
to inculcate in the target group the confidence and ways to overcome
hurdles and integrate into the society.

The Students overview on the whole process:- the student from the exposures to
the various organizations and the various orientation and also the discussions with
the accompanying faculties and also the classmates was able to have a somewhat
clear picture of the whole social scenario on the broader areas of education, health
and livelihood. The student worker also understood how these problems were
leading to all the mayhem prevailing in our country as to a great extent if a person
doesn’t have the means of livelihood he would not be able to earn enough to look
for his own health and also his families health and would also not be able to provide
the requires education to his childrens. The student could gather firsthand
experience of the different types of interventions carried out by the different
organizations in the similar fields but through different perspectives, or how
different needs are met through a single form of intervention. The student also
found out that there was a cyclic relation between all these social problems which
needed to be looked upon on a very serious scale. The interventions should be very
much intensive and the whole mechanisms of looking into these areas should be
based on a very professional standard it should not be like someone doing charity
for the other marginalized people. It is the right of every individual in our country to
have all the reach to health, education and livelihood, so a proper mechanism
should be there to look into the root cause of all this problems. Only when the
problem of livelihood is erased from the society can we expect of health for all and
also education for all. But the student also has the understanding that the problems
of health, education has different dimensions to themselves as there are different
forms of health and educational needs such as mental health, vocational education,
non-formal education etc which all contributes to the upliftment of the marginalized
section of the community.