सावली ही अहमदनगर स्थित सेवाभावी प्रकल्प आहे. गेली तेवीस वर्ष आई वडील नसलेली, निराधार, आत्महत्याग्रस्त शेतकऱ्यांची, एक पालक असलेल्या मुलांची घरासारखी योग्य काळजी घेण्यात यावी यासाठी मनापासून दर्जेदार सेवांमार्फत प्रयत्नशील आहे. आज पर्यंत जवळजवळ १,५०० (एक हजार पाचशे ) निराधार मुलं, मुली सावली मधून उत्तम नागरिक होऊन बाहेर पडले आहेत.
आमच्या कामाचे कौतुक आत्ता पर्यंत कवी प्रवीण दवणे, गप्पाष्टककार संजय उपाध्ये, ज्येष्ठ विचारवंत साहेबराव अवारे, गांधीवादी डॉ . सुगण बरंठ, लेखक हेरंब कुलकर्णी, अनिकेत आमटे, स्वयं टॉक संस्थापक अनिल काळे, हेमा काळे, अलका मांडके, रश्मी भातखळकर, विश्वास नांगरे, कृष्ण प्रकाश, जिल्हाधिकारी राहुल द्विवेदी, आयुक्त पंकज जावळे, आल्हाद काशीकर, मनीष पुराणिक, विजय तांबे, अभिनेते चिन्मय मांडलेकर, प्रकाश धोत्रे, शास्त्रज्ञ जयंत नारळीकर, पत्रकार महेंद्र मुंजाळ, उद्योजक दीपक घैसास, प्रभाकर गाणू परिवार, राजेंद्र जोशी, मुंबई, अविनाश सावजी, छायाताई फिरोदिया, पोपटराव पवार, स्माईल फौंडॆशन, मुंबई तसेच अहमदनगर मधील पत्रकार मित्र, सामाजिक, राजकीय-सांस्कृतिक क्षेत्रातील पाच हजाराहून अधिक प्रतिष्ठीत व्यक्तींनीकेले आहे. जेंव्हा गरज पडेल तेंव्हा आर्थिक मदतही केली आहे.
अनेक आव्हानं झेलत आज सावली निराधार मुलांसाठी एक उत्तम सेवा करणारी संस्था असून एक मुलांचं हक्काचं, प्रेमाचं घर म्हणून नावारूपाला आली आहे. आव्हाने ही सतत येणारी प्रक्रिया आहे. सरकारी नियमांचे पालन करणे हे अजून एक आव्हान आहे. या नियमांनुसार सावलीला आत्ताची जागा खूप कमी पडत आहे. सरकारी नियमानुसार सध्याची संख्या व मुलांसाठी प्रयोगशील शिक्षण देण्यासाठी सावलीला आता दुसऱ्या व मोठ्या जागेत जाणे अनिवार्य झाले आहे.
या साठीचा प्रामाणिक प्रयत्न म्हणून सावली आता मोठ्या जागेत निराधार, एक पालक, स्थलांतरीत कुटुंबातील मुलांसाठी योग्य व्यवस्था करत आहे. पण लोक सहभागाशिवाय हे अशक्य आहे. हा सहभाग मुख्यत्वे या क्षणी देणगी या स्वरूपातील आहे. पुढच्या टप्प्यात बांधकाम स्वरूपाचा आहे.
गेली तेवीस वर्ष लोकांनी दाखवलेला विश्वास आज पर्यंत शेकडो मुलांना आनंदी, समृद्ध आयुष्य देऊ शकला याचा आनंद आहे. आपल्याच आर्थिक सहयोगाने पुढील काळात हजारो गरीब निराधार मुलांना उत्तम दर्जाचे शिक्षण, दर्जेदार सुविधा मिळणार आहे याचा विश्वास आम्ही आपणास देत आहोत.आम्ही सावलीचे मुख्य विश्वस्त म्हणून सावलीला देणगीच्या रूपात मदत करावी हे आव्हान करत आहे. हे करण्याआधी सध्या सावलीच्या जागेस भेट देऊन, आत्ता पर्यंतचा प्रवास लक्षात घेऊन मग योग्य निर्णय वाचकांनी घ्यावा ही नम्र विनंती. 🙏
आपले स्नेहांकित नितेश बनसोडे, प्रदीप जोशी, विनोद गांधी सावली परिवार, अहमदनगर
संपूर्ण अंदाजपत्रकासह तपशीलवार प्रकल्प प्रस्ताव येथे पहा.
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The review and reports on Education System and Schooling, particularly in the Rural Areas of India, concludes that Schooling is not equal to Learning with majority of the students lacking Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) that refers to children’s ability to read with meaning and solve basic math problems by the end of Class 3. These, as the terminology suggests, are critical gateway skills that form the foundation for children on which they build their lives.
This is the picture of the Schools having reasonable infrastructure, prescribed number of teachers to some extent and having enough school time to complete the curriculum for a specific standard and move ahead in the next year. Also being in the area that is accessible, visible and reviewable, such schools are bound to follow bare minimum code-of-conduct benefiting its students, to the least if not the most.
All said and done, the situation of all Urban, Rural Schools at all levels is ought to improve, no doubt and the appropriate measures to enhance the ‘learning’ of the children to make them rational and responsible citizens of the country is imperative, indeed. This still could said to be a comparatively ‘good’ picture in Urban areas, may be ‘not so good’ or ‘bad’ in the rural areas, but do you have any idea of the ‘ugly’ picture of this when it comes to the discontinued, inferior schooling, let alone the learning, of the sugarcane migrant worker’s children?
UNICEF report focused on Maharashtra’s migration-affected children has a recommendation for such children’s education that states, ‘The state can collaborate with CSOs and employers to set up systems for on-site schools in areas where migrants live on worksites, especially in peri-urban or rural locations far from regular schools.’
Jidnyasa Charitable Trust is one such organization that is helping these migrant children continue their education and provide them the basic necessities they are deprived of. Daan Utsav is the Campaign with a goal of raising INR 30 Lakh to support this cause. Timing to support this campaign couldn’t be better as this is the time of the year when the migrant workers are taken to the Sugarcane fields and made to stay there for almost half the year.
Check out all the links and credentials above to contribute to this Daan Utsav that has sworn to sweeten the bitter lives of children of sugarcane workers who toil to add sweet to our privileged life-style enabling the notions like… ‘Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye…’
“I feel… that it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, – a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
The Maharashtra state cabinet approved the proposal to have corporate houses, as well as individual donors and social organizations to adopt government-run schools for a period of five or ten years. The initiative, announced by School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar, is aimed at using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds of business establishments to improve school infrastructure and facilities. The companies are be incentivized by letting them attach their name to the school’s existing name. The government also hopes that healthy competition among corporates and their adopted schools will prove to be beneficial to the state’s public education sector.
The Snehalaya English Medium School in Ahmednagar has been credited with rewriting the narrative for marginalized communities in semi-rural India. With 25 per cent of the school’s students being HIV and an even higher number being children of sex workers, the school’s students face systemic discrimination. The school overcame initial challenges in recruiting students who did not come from these disadvantaged backgrounds by connecting with village leaders who hosted meetings with parents to openly discuss and allay their concerns.
‘Besides bringing this change through affordable and quality education, Snehalaya English Medium School believes in empowering students beyond the classroom, enabling them to learn from change-makers, international volunteers, teachers, leaders, and social workers, inspiring them to become socially aware and accepting’, notes the World’s Best School Prizes established in 2022 by T4 Education to share the best practices of schools around the world that are transforming the lives of their students and making a real difference to their communities.
If Snehalaya English Medium School wins the World’s Best School Prize for Overcoming Adversity, it says it will use the prize to further expand its education programme, enabling more children to benefit from their unique approach to education, promoting inclusivity and breaking down stigmas associated with HIV/AIDS and sex work.
In 2035 it would be 200 years to ‘Minute on Indian Education’ by Macaulay that changed the course of history. The rulers have tried to ‘educate’ us for years and we are yet to learn the lesson, it seems! Culture and Intent is what matters, infrastructure and Content are always secondary when it comes to education which is meant to build capacities of generations. While trying to secure CSR support, organizations must be mindful of the fact that they are there to do what governments can’t and markets won’t do. Finding the synergy is one thing, being obliged is completely different!
Although writing a full-fledged CSR [or any other] Funding Proposal is an exhaustive and lengthy task that will need meticulous planning, organized effort, and plenty of time; there are few pointers that can help put together a concept note to initiate the fund requirement discussion.
Context setting goes a long way in making the reader interested in your story and therefore a brief intro of your endeavor is essential. This should include, who are you, what you intend to do, why you intend to do it and what is your action plan in form of objectives, strategy, and processes.
Secondly, it is equally important to establish the need of your intervention / project supported by validated data – preferably figures and statistics – to strengthen you case. It is great to share primary data but in case of secondary data, providing the source of information makes your case authentic.
Third subsequent part should describe the beneficiaries with their demographics including numbers, categories, classification, etc. to offer clear understanding of the reader about the receiving side stakeholders of the project as far as the contribution to sustainable development is concerned.
The beneficiaries’ part should have a link to the Global SDGs and the Schedule VII activities of the India’s CSR Act under Sec 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. This helps the reader to find the strategic connect of the intervention with the prescribed Global as well as Local Development Goals.
Next extremely important part of the document is Budget. No matter how innovative or game changing any idea can be, as the conventional wisdom has it – the proof is in the pudding! It takes resources to realize the vision and an overview, at least, of the project outlay makes the abstract more concrete.
Last but not the least, the Proof of Concept in form of Case studies, Testimonials and Impact stories that would advocate the capability and competency of the proposer to plan, execute, govern, and sustain the initiative even after the initial handholding, financial support, helps to get the buy-in.
These are the fundamental components of the initial pitching and any supporting documents like baseline survey, process diagram, implementation plan could be a great booster if provided along with the pitching or can be prepared and kept ready for the next phase of – Project Proposal. [Watch this place!]
To sum it up, there are 5 basic questions to be answered to put together a concept note:
Who are you? – brief about the organization.
Why the intervention is necessary? – need assessment.
Who would be benefited by this intervention? – beneficiary profile.
What is required? – the budget.
Why you should be preferred? – capability, competency, and sustainability.
Indeed, it’s a proud moment for all of us as a Zilla Parishad School Teacher in a small place wins a prestigious award – the Global Teacher Prize 2020 – recognizing his efforts of promoting girls’ education and triggering a quick-response (QR) coded textbook revolution in India. The impact of his interventions has been that there are now no teenage marriages in the village and 100 per cent attendance of girls at the school.
DisaleSir was selected from over 12,000 applicants and nominees from approximately 140 countries; however what needs to be celebrated more than the Award itself is the Teacher’s response to it! This gem of a person has decided to share half the amount of his prize money with the other Nine finalists – the first time in the Global Teacher Prize’s six-year history that the winner has shared the prize money with other finalists – and the remaining amount will be used to start new innovative education projects and creative methods of teaching-learning for students… can you think of a better innovation?
I believe that if I share my prize money with nine teachers, I can scale up their work. They should continue their work and we can reach out and lighten the lives of many students…”
– Sir Ranjitsingh Disale – A Primary Zilla Parishad School Teacher in Paritewadi village in Solapur district and Awardee of Global Teacher Prize 2020
How many businesses can you remember or think of who would willingly declare that they have earned a profit beyond their projected calculations and hence would offer a handsome dividend, at least to their workforce, let alone the stakeholders? Huh…? Every now and then, don’t we see corporates with ‘Education’ as their ‘Focus Area’ trying hard to plan even their CSR spending to their own advantage – one way or other?
If we can have just 1% of the humanity with Sir Ranjitsingh Disale’s attitude, aptitude, temperament and tendency, half of the New Age Challenges would cease to exist and no CSR would be required, ever… believe me!
If the entire concept of Sustainable Development and CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility could be narrowed down to 2 simple phrases that even a kid will understand, those would be – ‘CHANGE EVERYTHING’ and ‘LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND!’, I believe!
“Our short film ‘Message From the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ has been nominated for an Emmy award, in the category of Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion. It’s an incredible honor for a film that started off with a simple question: what if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like?” – Avi Lewis – Strategic Director @ The Leap informs me in a message. You can read his full message HERE and watch the film that has been already watched 12 Million times, to support the Cause!
And while you are at it, try to understand the Coronavirus Capitalism chronology
‘This crisis — like earlier ones — could well be the catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to the most workers, wiping out small family savings and shuttering small businesses. But as this video shows, many are already pushing back — and that story hasn’t been written yet…!’
कधी वेळेअभावी, कधी साधनांच्या कमतरतेमुळे, कधी आवश्यक तेवढ्या चिकाटी अभावी कधी निव्वळ अनास्थेने तर कधी निखळ आणि ओतप्रोत भरून आलेल्या कंटाळ्यामुळे ज्या अनेक छोट्या छोट्या गोष्टी करायच्या राहून जातात त्या किती जाणीवा समृद्ध करणाऱ्या आणि आत्मिक अनुभूती बरोबरच उत्कट आनंद देणाऱ्या असू शकतात याची पक्व प्रचीती म्हणजे आयुष्य! त्याशिवायच का कुणीसं म्हणून ठेवलय, ‘लाईफ इज व्हॉट हॅपन्स टू यू व्हाईल यू आर बिझी मेकिंग अदर प्लॅन्स…’ आज हे तत्वचिंतन (फिलॉसोफी, यू नो!) आठवण्याचं कारण म्हणजे अनेक वर्षांपासून, म्हणजे नितेशच्या पहिल्या भेटीपासून, ‘सावली’ला भेट देण्याचं भिजत पडलेलं घोंगड परवाच्या मुहूर्तावर पाण्यातून बाहेर पडून उन्हं बघतं झालं, तो योग!
‘वाचाल तर वाचाल’ हा संस्कारक्षम वयातला मनावर खोलवर रुजलेला संस्कार, सभोवताली त्याला पोषक वातावरण आणि ‘दिसामाजी काहीतरी ते लिहावे। प्रसंगी अखंडित वाचीत जावे।।’ हा समर्थांचा सार्थ उपदेश यामुळे आम्हाला वाचनाचे व्यसन जडले. आयुष्यातील या पहिल्याच हितकर व्यसनाला कधीही मुक्तांगणची गरज लागली नाही, उलट त्याच्या नवनवीन पातळ्यांवर अधिकाधिक मोठ्या ग्रंथभांडाराचा परिचय होत गेला, जगणे समृद्ध होत गेले. रोजची वर्तमानपत्रे, मासिके, दिवाळी अंक, कथा-कवितासंग्रह, कादंबऱ्या, चरित्रे, व्यक्तिचित्रे, प्रवासवर्णने, ललित, स्फुटं आणि छापून आलेला जवजवळ प्रत्येक शब्द वाचण्याची अनावर ओढ आम्हाला वाचक करती झाली.
Dr. Abhijit Sonawane sworn the Title of ‘Doctor for Beggars’ by choice and honored it by his deeds. I respect him with great regard not just for offering free-of-cost on-the-spot treatment to Beggars all over Pune city, or developing a personal bond with each and every one of them, or for having the enthusiasm to write about his humane experiences in most eloquent manner at wee hours after a hard day of slogging, no doubt all these things are incredible and deserve accolade; what I admire most about him is his intrinsic vision behind his kind acts of humanity – giving the beggars an identity, a real job and a purpose to lead a life of dignity! And his unwavering belief that ‘begging is a crime that is not punishable but curable and needs counseling not punishment’, is as profound as his cause and undertaking. He and his diligent team of few of his friends and well-wishers who support him every now and then at challenging times and situations [and thereby feature in his posts often] are doing their best to rehabilitate the beggars and refrain them from begging.
While offering Capacity Building and CSR Consultancy to various elements of society that are in community development practices, I often come across the inadequate and insufficient understanding, or should I say misinterpretation, of CSR by and large. I have organized many workshops to impart the real meaning of CSR for its intent and content and anything that needs to be carried out under its head, however it seems to be a general practice to give a title of ‘CSR Project’ to any endeavor or undertaking to make it seem like one without actually having any intent or strategy, let alone the effort or impact, in place to give it at least a flavor of being a social project.
Yesterday we witnessed an Idea that can change the way underprivileged people can cook their meals with literally zero fuel. Apart from providing a smoke-free wholesome cooking experience, this Stove can make an Impact in conserving the Environment in a big way with its optimized Thermal Efficiency that uses only the dry-wood in form of Twigs that become the dust or go to the landfill, otherwise. No Tree Cutting, No Coal Extraction from Mines, No Petroleum Refinery… just a walk around under the sky beneath the trees and you find the ‘fuel’ for your family meal! It doesn’t get any Economical or Eco-friendly than this, we believe!
Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora announced the Schedule of Lok Sabha Election 2019, according to which polling for electing 552 Members of Parliament as People’s Representative to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha will commence on 11th of April and results would be declared on 23rd of May 2019. It’s exactly one month to go and a lot can happen in this decisive month that could be the longest one in the history of Independent India! With the Code-of-conduct in effect, political parties will take their respective courses to make most of it in their own shrewd ways that they have mastered throughout the years of independence. And what should WE do, except for checking out the dates of polling in our constituency and plan a holiday around those, that is? No, I am not going to sermon about the value of our vote and all that, because if we don’t make it our highest priority to choose what we and our future generations should get, or left with, to be precise, why I, or anyone else, should care? I am assuming that the largest democracy of the world has evolved enough to understand the value of a vote and making most of it; if it hasn’t, it doesn’t deserve to be a Democracy in first place. Period!
A friend active in a Fort Restoration Group once shared an experience of how he appealed to the people visiting the fort on that day to support the cause of Fort Restoration generously, how they started to contribute instantaneously and voluntarily and how this contributing small amounts gathered momentum to collect a sizable sum as the day progressed from morning to evening. ‘Crowd-funding’ doesn’t get any simpler. If you are new to the concept of ‘Crowd-funding’ and want to know more about it, this small incidence can provide you enough knowledge to get going and let us fragment it into smaller pieces, just like my good old wise friend did on that particular day, at that particular place.
The CSR Act is in force since 1 Apr 2014 in India. First High Level Committee to review it was set up on 3 Feb 2015 under the Chairmanship of Anil Bajaj. This committee submitted its report on 22 Sept 2015 and one of its recommendations was to have a review after first 3 years of this legislation being in force.
Apart from many sensitization workshops MCA reportedly organized nationwide, National CSR Awards since year 2017 and National CSR Portal launched on 19 Jan 2018 are the outcomes of the recommendations of this review reports.
धर्मादाय सह आयुक्त तथा सार्वजनिक न्यास नोंदणी कार्यालय, पुणे यांच्या वतीने दि. २३ ऑक्टोबर २०१७ रोजी ‘न्यास नोंदणी रद्द करणेबाबतची चौकशीची जाहीर नोटीस’ प्रसारित करण्यात आली आणि या मोहिमेअंतर्गत सुमारे १००० संस्थांना चौकशीस सामोरे जाऊन कारवाईस तोंड द्यावे लागले हे आपण २ नोव्हेंबर २०१७ रोजी इथेच वाचले होते. आजच्या ताज्या बातमीनुसार याच मोहिमेच्या पुढच्या टप्प्यात तब्बल १ लाख २९ हजार ६५२ संस्थांना निष्क्रिय ठरविण्यात आले असून त्यांची नोंदणी रद्द करण्यात आली आहे. यातील पुणे विभागातील १३ हजार ८३० संस्था निष्क्रिय ठरल्या. या अतिशय गंभीर आणि महत्वाच्या विषयाबद्दल वेळोवेळी जाणीवजागृती करून आणि आपल्या संस्थेच्या व्यवस्थापनात व्यावसायिकतेचा अंतर्भाव करण्याबद्दल सतत आग्रह धरूनही असे का घडावे याचा थोडा मुळात जाऊन उहापोह केल्यास काय आढळते?
आज आपण सी एस आर – कॉर्पोरेट सोशल रिस्पॉन्सीबिलीटी अर्थात उद्योगांचे सामाजिक उत्तरदायित्व म्हणजे नेमके काय याची मुलभूत संकल्पना आणि तिचा आपल्या देशाच्या संदर्भात झालेला विस्तार मुळापासून जाणून घेवू या.
The Voluntary activities undertaken by companies to operate in an Economically, Socially and Environmentally Sustainable manner Beyond the minimum required by law.
Beginning in 1996, the non government organization Pratham [First or Foremost in English] has worked with children in thousands of villages and urban slums across India. For much of this period, the focus of this work has been on helping children master basic skills in reading and arithmetic. Pratham’s long experience of working with children suggested that although children were in school, they were not learning well. Continue reading “Learning…!”→
Hon. Shri. Shivkumar Dige, Charity Commissioner, Maharashtra State, has ordered cancellation of registration of all those Charitable Organization that have failed to furnish their updates required as compliance to carry out their activities as charitable not-for-profit establishments. List of all such NGOs is published on the web-portal of Charity Commissioner [Download here]Continue reading “[High] Alert…?”→
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