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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Social Awareness Program

Smile Foundation

Submitted By:

Sheenu Jain , 44B

MBA(IB), 2014-16


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Social Awareness Program, IIFT,

Sheenu Jain (44B)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 2

1.1

Mission .................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Vision ....................................................................................................................................... 2

1.3 Work Statement ...................................................................................................................... 2

1.4 Programs run by Smile Foundation ......................................................................................... 3

2 Mission Education ........................................................................................................................... 3

Objectives................................................................................................................................ 3

2.2 Components ............................................................................................................................ 4

2.3 Implementation Methodology ......................................................................... ....................... 5

2.4 Outcomes ................................................................................................................................ 6

3 STeP(Smile Twin e-Learning Program) ............................................................................................ 6

4 Swabhiman(A Girl Child and Wo men Empo werment Initiative) .................................................... 7

5 Smile on Wheels.............................................................................................................................. 7

6 Project Undertaken ......................................................................................................................... 9

7 Learnings ....................................................................................................................................... 9

8 Sample Report............................................................................................................................. 10

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Social Awareness Program, IIFT,Sheenu Jain (44B)

1. Introduction

Smile Foundation was founded by four friends in 2002 with an aim to work for the

betterment of the society. Smile Foundation reaches out to over 1 million underprivileged

children, youth & women through various Development projects across India with

presence in the states of Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar

Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,

Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Goa, Kerala,

Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur. The organization is the fastest growing Indian

non-profit in terms of beneficiaries and reach. More than 162 grassroot level projects

have been undertaken by Smile in partnership with over 100 corporates.

1.1 Mission

The mission of Smile Foundation is to empower underprivileged children and youth

through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood

programmes. Smile Foundation is to deploy best possible methodology and technology

for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good

governance. To link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development

initiatives; also to sensitize privileged children, youth and citizens in general to promote

Civic Driven Change.

1.2 Vision

Work as a catalyst in bringing sustainable change in the lives of underprivilegedchildren, youth and women, with a life-cycle approach of development

Enable the civil society across the world to engage proactively in the change process

through the philosophy of civic driven change

Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and

technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organisation

1.3 Work Statement

To pursue the most critical development indices like child education, innovative

healthcare, livelihood, and women empowerment to achieve large scale penetration

and highest Social Return on Investment (SROI)

To engage SVP(Social Venture Philanthropy) model by working hand in hand with

grassroots organisations , building their capacities, giving strategic directions, sharing

resources and knowledge, upgrading technology with the aim to achieve scalability,

accountability, sustainability and leadership

To promote and practice good governance in every sphere of its activities

and inculcate the same among the grassroots partners; to build trust and

credibility with all stakeholders

To source and implement suitable technology of relevance across its operations for

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optimization of management and operation bandwidth

To form alliances with the government, national and international institutions, bilateral

and multilateral organisations to share resources and knowledge, and to complement

and supplement the efforts of these institutions

To engage the corporate sector in the welfare initiatives by linking their businesscompetitiveness and social contributions, wherever befitting, to make the engagementsustainable

To link business necessity with critical development indices in alignment with

Smile Foundation agenda and expand programme coverage in the rural outreachto achieve integrated social development

To sensitize the privileged citizens including opinion makers, mass media and to

encourage them to participate in the civic driven change through various forms of

engagement

To promote and imbibe social sensibility among youth and privileged children to help

them emerge as responsible citizens and also participate in Civic Driven Change

To develop a management bandwidth which can, not only support the broad vision ofthe organization, but also will strive for excellence, innovation and institution building

1.4 Programs run by Smile Foundation

Smile Foundations runs the following programs-

1.

Mission Education

2. STeP

3.

Swabhiman

4. Smile on Wheels

2 Mission EducationMission Education (ME) is the flag ship program of Smile Foundation which began itsintervention in the year 2003. The journey till date is as follows:

Number projects - 54

Number of states covered - 25

Beneficiaries mainstreamed in Education Centers 16,500 Total number of beneficiaries (cumulative figures) 36,109

Objectives

To promote and catalyze universal education among underprivileged children

particularly in rural/semi urban areas, create the process to embrace these children into

mainstream in a sustained manner, strengthen their abilities to cope up with the formal

education system, facilitate them to emerge as productive assets, and set the

foundation for nation building.

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To provide Bridge Course &/or Remedial Education to children who are either

drop outs or non - school going or children who are weak in studies and are not able to

cope up with the studies in schools (06-16 years) of the proposed villages/communities

To mainstream BRIDGE COURSE children in the formal school in the subsequentsession

To Nurture children (06-16 years) of Mission Education by:

a. Emphasizing on overall development

b. Training them to prepare them for the Competitive World

c.

Helping them to live their life with Independence and Dignity

To create goodwill in the community by greater involvement of the local inhabitants in

the whole process of project implementation

Optimum mobilization of the local community, by providing quality education to thechildren, fulfilling basic health care needs of locals, creating awareness about relevantsocial issues and paving the way towards sustainable development.

2.2

Components

The Mission Education centres have the following components:

Community mobilization, its involvement and general awareness generation is the first steptowards initiation of this project.

Admission of children for Bridge Course and/or remedial education, and thus catering to the needs

of these children in the age group of 6-16.

Bridge Education to non-school going children in the identified location, majority being first

generation learners; and school drop outs.

The remedial education is provided to children who are weak in subjects likeMathematics, Science, and English so that they can maintain the pace in the formalschools.

The Mission Education centres also have medical facility which provides medical aid to the

beneficiaries.

The Mission Education centres provide healthy and nutritious food.

The centres also conduct exposure trips/excursion for the enrolled children.

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Extracurricular activities such as celebration of Labour Day, Birthdays, Care takers day, Dress

Code day etc. are regularly organized The centres have a reasonable size room/hall with a Verandah (open space).

Necessary educational materials, kits and scientific tools including computers for easy learning are

made available to the beneficiaries.

Developing linkages with the local formal schools and mobilization of the villagers are the

additional responsibilities of the teachers.

Orientation Workshop for the Teachers for BRIDGE COURSE centre to introduce them to the

project & child centred learning and defines their roles & responsibilities.

The orientation workshop is followed by Course Content Orientation Workshop for teachers tointroduce them to all the basic subjects proposed to be taught at the centres.

On the basis of need assessment survey subsequent training workshops is also conducted.

Academically preparing children for admission in formal schools.

Mainstreaming of BRIDGE COURSE students in formal schools after a year.

Periodic performance is evaluated for all the beneficiaries

Annual day celebrations at the Mission Education centre by organizing sports andcultural events.

Community is invited to see their children graduating to formal schools

2.3 Implementation Methodology

STEP I

Enrolment: - Identify children in the age group of 06-16 years for Bridge Course and/orremedial education.

STEP II

Persistence: - Integrate most of the identified children to BRIDGE COURSE and/orRemedial Education centre of Mission Education run by the organization.

STEP III

Transition: To make every possible effort to transfer or integrate children to formal schools

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from Mission Education BRIDGE COURSE centres.

STEP IV

Retention: To make regular and periodical follow-ups programmes to ensure beneficiarysretention in the Mission Education educational system

2.4 Outcomes

Reduction in the drop outs and increase in the enrolment in the Mission Educationcentre.

Increase in confidence amongst all the beneficiaries towards working for better qualityof life.

Greater sensitization of the community on issues related to Mission Education centrefor their children.

Enhancement of Mission Education schooling qualities. This shall lead to increase in

retention of these under privileged children. Integration/mainstreaming of the targeted children (06-16 yrs) into Formal Schools

from the core targeted beneficiaries.

Through qualitative method reinforcement sustainability of Mission Education centre

shall be achieved, and this shall not only mean their basic literacy but also overall

personality development.

From the cultural point of view it will promote values of a rural, agricultural, secular,democratic consumer society amongst the beneficiaries.

Mission Education has its presence in various cities and villages of India . A few of theminclude Delhi NCR, Gurgaon, NOIDA, Faridabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Jhansi,Allahabad, Dehradun., Roorkee, Haridwar, Siliguri, Kolkata, Howrah, Darjeeling, Kamrup.Guwahati, Imphal, Go a, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur, Subarnapur, Sonepur,Behrampur, Bolangir, Angul, Puri, Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Chennai, Madurai,Thiruvallur, Bhilai, Raipur, Raigarh, Bangalore, Bengaluru, Mangalore, Bijapur,Ahmedabad, Gandhi Nagar, Paldi, Mehsana, H immat Nagar, Ratlam, Bhopal, Ranchi,Vaishali, Patna, Jaipur, Bhilwara, Virat Nagar, Alwar, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nagpur,Trivandrum or Thiruvanthapuram, Kozhikode, Kochi, Ernakulum, to name a few.

3 STeP(Smile Twin e-Learning Program)

Smile Twin E- learning Programme (STeP) is such an initiative of Smile Foundation that

aims at creating a pool of young and independent people, from the marginalized section,

through skill enhancement in tandem with market requirements. It is an effort towards

bridging the gap between demand and supply of skilled manpower in the fast emerging

services and retail sectors of modern India.

This national level programme trains the urban underprivileged adolescent youth in EnglishProficiency, Basic Computer Education and Soft Skills for enhancing their prospects ofemployment in the fast expanding retail, hospitality and BPO sectors.

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The program was started in the year 2007 and has, till date, trained over 9000 youth andplaced over 7500 among them.6 months of intense training in Basic computers, Englishproficiency,

Personality development and Industry specialized training is given to make the youthemployable.

4 Swabhiman(A Girl Child and Women Empowerment Initiative)

Swabhiman is an initiative of Smile Foundation that has been working, with a bifocal

approach, for the sustainable development of underprivileged women and girls. Initiated in

the year 2005, the programme was by and large conceptualized in accordance with the goals

and objectives enshrined in the National policy for the empowerment of Women, and was

overall mandated to create processes and environment for women and adolescent girls at the

grassroots to realise their optimum potential in all facets of societal living and situations. The

programme is specifically aimed at realization of both individual and collective self-esteem

and inner strength for marginalised and socially excluded women and adolescent girls

through innovative community practices.

The programme identifies adolescent girls and women from the community and developing

them into Change Agents, who in turn actively contribute to the community mobilization

process. Select Change Agents are then developed into Master Trainers who can advocate

and sensitize women and girls regularly. Swabhiman works towards its objective of all round

development of women and girls, through the following interventions:-

Educational Support

Providing Reproductive Health and Child Health Services

Male Involvement & Attitudinal and Behavioural Changes

Imparting Life Skill Education

Networking and Convergence Support

Sensitization of privileged Women and Youth

The programme has benefitted over 150,000 women and girls since inception.

5 Smile on Wheels

Smile on wheels is a unique mobile hospital program that seeks to address problems ofmobility, accessibility and availability of primary health care with a special focus on childrenand women, in urban slums and remote rural areas.

Started in 2006

Fully equipped mobile hospital with ECG, X-Ray and Path lab facilities

Dedicated skilled manpower

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Presently 15 SoW in 10 states of India, reaching out to more than a million people

Centralized monitory system

GE Healthcare - Modern Medicare Award in 2007 for its Innovative Mobile HealthDelivery System

The Smile on Wheels programme at present has 12 operational projects running in 11locations covering 172 slums with the population of 10.67 lakh in 9 states of the country.Since inception in 2006 this programme has directly benefitted 4,78,923 beneficiaries.

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6 Project Undertaken

During the authors association with Smile Foundation, she was involved with the Mission

Education .She was responsible for making reports for different educational centres supported

by Mission Education.

My learningBeing a fresher, this was my first stint as a professional in the working environment. After

understanding the work done in Smile Foundation and Mission Education specifically, I

realized that NGO is not only about teaching and spending time with poor and

underprivileged children, but it is also about organizing, planning and coordinating. Mission

Education serves as link between the donors and their centers.

During my internship, I made desk appraisal reports and field appraisal reports for the

Mission Education centres like Vidyaniketan and Gramin Vikas Samiti. In the desk

Appraisal reports, I documented the project background, their goals, objective and the

indicators needed for monitoring the project.

During my last week, I made quarterly reports for various centres like IUCT, Jupiter

Academy, Sevadham and Orysed where I got to know the teaching methodologies adopted in

the classrooms, the healthcare facility and nutrition provided to the children, the various

exposure trips and other celebration events organized for the children. I also read about many

case stories where due to intervention and persuasion of the NGO, many parents startedsending their children to the schools. I feel really relieved that in this materialistic world,

there still exists some organization who is working for the upliftment of the society.

I would like to thank my mentors Ms Richa and Ms Natasha who supported me during my

internship and taught me how to improve wherever I made mistakes in carrying out the

assigned work.


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Mission Education Centre

JUPITER ACADEMY

Quarterly Report Oct14 - Dec14

Name of the Implementing Partner: Jupiter Academy

Project Area/Location: Takrohi, Indira Nagar, Lucknow

No. of Children Reached:260

Key Project Activities

Classroom Teaching Learning Process

Mission Education schools focus on interactive learning.

There is a healthy two way communication between

students and teachers which in turn helps the students in

a positive way. Teachers promote peer learning and this

helps students in the school to retain their learning, thus

giving better results during examinations. Moreover,

teachers give more emphasis on weaker students and

tries building a learning conducive environment for thestudents.

Student and teacher ratio at the Mission Education centre is 30:1 so as to maintain the equilibrium

of learning. Their way of teaching is more students friendly as they use play way method to teach

their primary students.

Assessment and Examinat ion of students

Periodic assessment is important as this is

a medium for students to demonstrate

their understanding of different subjects.

However, feedback of these assessments

is equally important as it helps to

determine the success of the programme

as well as helps in formulating new plans

and goals for them. The Mission

Education centre conducted the half

yearly examination for the present

academic year from 18th November 2014

to 28th November 2014.

The under mentioned table provides the assessment result details:


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Class Grade A (80%

and above)

Grade B (60 %

to 79%)

Grade C (40%

to 59%)

Grade D

(Below 40%)

Total

Pre- Primary 30 29 37 6 102

I 7 9 11 5 32

II 5 7 9 8 29

III 17 11 7 5 40

IV 5 9 4 1 19

V 3 6 5 1 15

VI 2 3 4 1 10

VII 4 6 3 0 13

Total 73 80 80 27 260

Nutr it ion Support

Having nutritious food is as important as gaining education,

and thus Mission Education Centre makes sure that the

children at their centre have access to nutritious food at least

thrice a week. This not only assists in improving childrens

health condition but also helps in retaining the students in

the project area.

Nutrition support in the form of Germinated Grains, Fruit

chaat are given to students and timely feedback is taken from

the parents to continuously improve this system. Apart from

providing food, students are also taught good healthy habits like washing hands before eating and it

is made sure that these habits are well inculcated.

Parent Teacher Meeting

Parent-Teacher meeting is a routine program that helps the teacher as well as the parents to know

each other well and also to discuss the ways in which an all round development criteria can be set up

for the child. Mission Education centre assures

periodic PTMs to be conducted to actively involve

the parents in the students academic

performances. The Mission Education centre

conducted Parent Teacher meetings on 15th

October, 17th November and 15th December 2014.

Around 96% parents attended all the threemeetings.

Health Programme

Better healthis central to human happiness and

well-being. To promote this, Mission Education centre conducted health checkup

on 13th

December 2014. This aim of the health checkup was to make students

aware of the eye diseases and to check if any student was suffering from any

ailment. The medical camp was supervised by Dr Rajeev Pandey MBBS, MD

working in Vivekanand Polyclinic. Out of 248 children that he checked, 7 children

were suffering from night blindness. Apart from this, 70 children were suffering

from cold and cough, out of which 15 children were severely affected.


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Teacher Training

It is important to provide teachers with the necessary training so that they become more effective in

imparting knowledge as well as develop attitude and behavior to perform well in the classroom. The

Mission Education centre in Lucknow organised two Teacher Trainings on 18th November 2014 and

24th December 2014 respectively. A total of 14 teachers each participated in this programme. The

main agenda for the November meeting was to prepare examination papers and to train them aboutnew Mathematics kit.

Exposure visit s

The exposure visit program aims to enhance students knowledge through exposure to different

areas which in turn helps them to broaden their perspectives and thus facilitates learning.

Visit to Aurovindo Park A total of 134 students headed by 7 teachers went to Aurovindo Park on 11th

November 2014. The children were excited to see the lush green garden with colorful flowers. They

also learnt about different plant species as told by the head gardener of the park. This visit has given

them a chance to see the nature very closely and also served as a great learning experience.

Extracurricular activit ies, Celebrat ions and events

Celebrations and extracurricular activities have an important part in the lives of children. . The

Mission Education centre assures to organize these special moments for the teachers and children .

Gandhi Jayanti- On 2nd

October, Principal of the school narrates the history of India and the role

Mahatma Gandhi played in the independence struggle of India. This helped in developing the

patriotic feeling among the students. They also told the students about the importance of cleanliness

and how Gandhi used to promote the habit of keeping their surroundings clean and neat.

World AIDS Day Jupiter Academy organized a rally on 1st

December 2014 which was flagged off by

Mr. Sandeep Bhatnagar on the occasion of World AIDS Day

and spread awareness about the disease. . In this rally the

children motivated people about how fight with this deadly

diseases by posters and pamphlets.


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The children also participated in a quiz Bharat ko Jano which was organized by a reputed school of

Lucknow wherein two students from their centre, Muskan and Azad have reached in final rounds.

Childrens Day Bal Divas was celebrated with full pomp and show. Students organised Bal Mela on

this occasion and there was immense excitement not only among them but also among their

parents.

Stories of change

Neha

Neha, is a student of class IV who has been studying in Mission Education Centre for

the past five years. Her father Mr. Ram Dayal is a daily labour and mother is a

housewife. Their economic condition was poor and hence Neha and her other

sisters and brothers were not able to go to schools. It was because of Ngo intervention, their hardwork and efforts that her parents were convinced in sending their children to the school.

Neha is very much interested in maths, science and computer. She wants to be teacher on day. She

is very hardworking and a bright student who constantly tries to improve and excel.

Her mother now understands the importance of education and is a constant motivation to Neha. She

often attends parent-teacher meeting and medical camps. She also encourages her neighbors to

enroll their wards in our centre.

Tatsat Gupta

Tatsat Gupta is studying in class III in the Mission Education Centre. He is the

only son of a daily wage earner Mr Jitendra. He joined the centre when he was

in pre-primary. His mother is very supportive and constantly encourages him in

his studies.

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