At the outset we would like to thank our community members, donors, and likeminded people to be with us in this journey of brining about smiles to the persons intervening into. It has been a professional practice for NSWS team and board members, that year after year they carry out extensive research on various social problems and scans the areas affected with these problems during its field operations, since we want to have a ubiquitous presence.
Accordingly, NSWS predisposed to implement and facilitates versatile programmes, activities to improve the quality of the life styles of the people in their operational areas. With a thorough research findings and its analysis, NSWS evolves with a concrete strategy to handle a variety of issues that aim at a wide-ranged, long-term impact on social developmental activities and devised the road map to achieve the set objectives’ for the community. And this year it was not a different case.
From the bottom of our heart we profusely thank each and everyone who have in whatsoever way contributed to the progress of the activities. Firstly we would like to thank all the stakeholders without whose support we would have not been able to implement the activities successfully, to the institutional and individual donors, whose contribution year of year is commendable without their resource support we would have not gone anywhere we are. To all the team members of NSWS whose dedication and commitment reflects our own one. There relentless persuasion with unquestionable ensnared inclination to serve the society, and sharing the board members dream has made our task easier to serve the society. Our vision to confiscate un-equality and to bring about human excellence would not be possible, without the support these innumerable and valuable contributions. This particular document presents the progress of activities for the annual year 2016-2017, the key achievements, stake holders reached, services provided, impact created, financial status of the organization and future plans we envision for the target population.
NSWS is a not-for-profit; Indian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered in the year 2005 under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Public Societies Registration Act, 1350 Fasli (Act of 1350F). It is a Voluntary development organization working to restore comprehensive development for the vulnerable and marginalized communities. Subsequently, it has complied with all the Statuary Compliances acquiring certificates such as 12A, 80G certificates under Income Tax for tax exemptions, FCRA certificate issued by Ministry of Home Affairs enabling the organization to receive foreign grants.
NSWS is formed by likeminded young medical and professional social workers working to create high standard of living for vulnerable and marginalized communities. Executive Boards versatility is enriched through the presence of Medical Doctors, social workers, financial experts, medical professionals and local community ensuring holistic approach to cater to all kinds of social development activities for all spheres of life. It firmly believes that the any desires change in the lives of underprivileged children will come only when more and more privileged people participate proactively in finding a solution to the problem. Presently, it is operating in 4 districts of Telangana state namely Hyderabad, Medchal, Rangareddy, Jangaon and Warangal Districts.
In the pursuit to achieve our vision, organization has been striving hard to reach the unreached through its various programmes, this document illustrates the kind of work we have put in the financial year 2016 - 17, and in a snapshot we were able to continue all the programmes implemented from the previous years with additions few additions.
True to the spirit of humanity and on par with its vision, NSWS implements and facilitates versatile programmes, activities to improve the quality of the lives of the people in their operational areas. After through situational assessment analysis with the community in the operational areas, the organisation evolved with a concrete strategy to handle a variety of issues that aim at a wide-ranged, long-term impact on social developmental activities and devised the road map to achieve the set objectives’ for the community. Few notable impact oriented programmes carried out are:
Mission Education programme is taken up to ensure that all the children, school drop outs go to school and excel in academics, imbibe morals and ethics, engage themselves in sports, arts and culture etc. NSWS ensured that around 200 children are meaningfully engaged to ensure leading a healthy and value based life style. It always strived to restore parity and sanity among the lives of community, with a special focus on children, who are the future of the nation. In this pursuit we have taken up facilitation activities like construction toilets class rooms and water tanks for the center operated by the orphan children. Through this programme the objective of promotion of children’s proper development is achieved. Since, these children are orphans, destitute, street and platform children, provision of proper rehabilitation with quality education, teaching of life skills, vocational guidance and survival rights has enabled the children to lead a self respected life and provided a pathway for their sustenance of independent life. The programme touched the lives of 250 Children at Velmuavada mandal of Jagityal District. They were provided with quality education in a non-formal way and vocational skill for self-sustenance, in a safe space.
The aftermath of urbanization is unwarranted migration Telangana has seen a lot of inflow migration from different states, with larger number following from Odisha and Maharashtra states. Resulting in loss of valuable basic needs and denying children from continuum of education. Thus from 2014 it has been running a special residential care center for boys at Seethapalmandi village for the school dropout children. The center’s main focus is to bridge the gap between education and readmitting the children into mainstream schools for their continuum of quality education.
Title of the project:Special Residential Care Center for Orphan Children
Aims & Objectives:The project objective is to abolish child labor and support the continuum of education to the orphans.
Supported by:Individual Donors
NSWS has set a target to eliminate the child labor, the target population is of children below 14 years of age working in establishments. It started this orphan center and identified school dropout children in the vicinity areas, and thereafter, provides them free food, accommodation, care, remedial education at the residential orphan center. After proper counseling these children were mainstreamed and repatriate child labor into regular schooling. A wide range of activities is taken up at the Home. The children are provided with food, shelter and clothing and an arrangement has been made with Lotus Hospitals for the conducting monthly health checkups. The children are regularly counseled on education and Behavioural Communication Change. The children’s latent skills are identified and nurtured and they are involved in cultural and other recreational activities. A sense of discipline has been instilled among them through adherence to a pre-set timetable. Most of them belong to the downtrodden Scheduled Caste community and hail from below poverty line families. It has successfully mainstreamed 20 children into the government schools.
Since its inception, the organization and its team members have put loads of efforts through meticulous planning, feedback from donors and children revealed several encouraging changes in the lives of children which we are happy & proud to share with you. There have been notable changes in the children’s situation at home:
The reason being it has noticed too much of ostracism and discrimination from the normal society, especially among the children going to schools, the culture of silence surrounding school dropouts in many schools has made many of these children face stigma, preventing them from participating fully in school and instilling fear, anxiety, worry and low self- esteem. NSWS is committed to improve the health, education, self-esteem and image of the school dropout children
To break this vicious circle, it is dedicated itself to serve those marginalized children. Accordingly, through its board members actively involved in motivating the slum dwellers, migrant labours to send their children to schools. Since, only education can instill high moral and ethics in the future citizens. Wherever we operated it ensured that mass meetings would be conducted and parents would be enhanced their knowledge levels on importance of education. Not only that, it advocates with local schools to give admission to the children who had gaps in their education. We also sensitized various business establishments not to engage children into the work, since it is against the law. NSWS is very proud of this initiative and its achievement has many parents started sending their children to schools, government and private schools started taking these children into their schools and business establishments have stopped recruiting them for work.