We received 16 grant applications -- 13 for Direct Service Delivery and three for Capacity Building. Following the Grant Selection Committee recommendations, seven organizations were selected for funding - all for Direct Service Delivery.
Profiles of REACH India's Mumbai NGO Grantees:
| 1. | Avehi Abacus [Direct Service grantee] |
| Avehi-Abacus will focus on 900 plus municipal schools across the city with the aim of developing children’s skills in thinking; helping them analyze and make choices; and emphasizing values that will help them live and work together in a spirit of understanding and harmony. With this goal in mind, the organization will implement a three-year foundation course package “Sangati” which comprises a series of six teaching-learning kits with interlinked themes for classes 5 to 7.
The project envisages reaching approximately two lakh beneficiaries by training around 5000 municipal school teachers (classes 5 to 7) and supervisory staff during the project period. |
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| 2. | Door Step School [Direct Service grantee] |
| Door Step School will expand its ongoing community-based study classes under the REACH India project. The study centers will work with 300 vulnerable children in the slums of one ward (A) in the city; classes will be conducted to ensure that the children from the community who have enrolled in the local municipal school (classes 1 to 4) are integrated into the formal school system and complete schooling. More to come |
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| 3. | Shelter Don Bosco [Direct Service grantee] |
| The NGO will run educational centers for 1500 street and slum children aged between five and 14 years who are either out of school or in school, but at risk of dropping out. Geographical areas of coverage include Wadala, Sewri and Mahim. Under this program, Shelter Don Bosco will run a residential facility for street children who will then be enrolled and retained in formal schools; pavement classes for out-of-school slum children; and tutorial classes for in-school children to help them continue in school and for dropouts to enable them to re-enroll in school. More to come |
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| 4. | Sahaara Charitable Society [Direct Service grantee] |
| Sahaara Charitable Society’s project focuses on balwadis for slum children; tutorial support for children (aged six to 14 years) in remand homes who are enrolled in government schools; and teacher training. The NGO also plans to track children leaving the remand homes to ensure that they enroll into, and then remain, in formal schools. The project proposes to reach more than 3000 children through its interventions. More to come |
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| 5. | Save the Children [Direct Service grantee] |
| Save the Children proposes to run balwadis and remedial study centers for slum children in the community as well as in municipal schools in two wards (H and E) in the city. The project also envisages working with children with learning disabilities, and training teachers to identify and provide extra tutorial support to such children. The program will reach out to more than 7200 children directly and about 30,000 children indirectly. More to come |
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| 6. | Ummeed [Direct Service grantee] |
| Ummeed proposes to work with one NGO each year and assist them in working with children with emotional and behavioral issues to ensure that the children are completely integrated into the schools or educational centers. Ummeed will also train the NGOs to make them self-sufficient in dealing with children with developmental disabilities and emotional problems. The project will directly impact 204 children by the end of the project period. More to come |