Women and Youth
Women and Youth
Children's Education
Children's Education
Vulnerable communities
Vulnerable communities
Project Saksham - Tailoring Skills Training & Enabling Livelihood
Project Saksham - Tailoring Skills Training & Enabling Livelihood
Project Saksham - Tailoring Skills Training & Enabling Livelihood
Launched in October 2016 in partnership with IDFC First Bank, as part of its CSR initiative, project Saksham is an advanced tailoring internship to facilitate the transition of underprivileged women to entrepreneurs or major livelihood earners.
In its sixth year, the syllabus has been developed with garment manufacturing companies, who have a great need for such skilled workers, and perceive a huge void of skill required for their industry. The internship has been designed in a ‘learn and earn’ format and is imparted in physical centres as well as in online classes. The women are trained and prepped to earn income during and after the 12 week training program through available job-work opportunities.
At the end of their training, women are connected with garment manufacturing companies to use their expertise to fulfill orders from home or in factories. ACT and IDFC First Bank have also dedicated parts of their Saksham centres in Jogeshwari West, Mahakali Caves and Vashi Village to graduates of Saksham, so that those without the space or facilities at home can generate livelihoods through garment partnerships facilitated by ACT.
Launched in October 2016 in partnership with IDFC First Bank, as part of its CSR initiative, project Saksham is an advanced tailoring internship to facilitate the transition of underprivileged women to entrepreneurs or major livelihood earners.
In its sixth year, the syllabus has been developed with garment manufacturing companies, who have a great need for such skilled workers, and perceive a huge void of skill required for their industry. The internship has been designed in a ‘learn and earn’ format and is imparted in physical centres as well as in online classes. The women are trained and prepped to earn income during and after the 12 week training program through available job-work opportunities.
At the end of their training, women are connected with garment manufacturing companies to use their expertise to fulfill orders from home or in factories. ACT and IDFC First Bank have also dedicated parts of their Saksham centres in Jogeshwari West, Mahakali Caves and Vashi Village to graduates of Saksham, so that those without the space or facilities at home can generate livelihoods through garment partnerships facilitated by ACT.
Project Donna – Income Generation Support to Women
Project Donna – Income Generation Support to Women
Project Donna – Income Generation Support to Women
On November 2018, ACT launched Project Donna sponsored by Fondazione Pianoterra focusing on creating income generation opportunities through Stitching, Handwork and Embroidery for women trained in tailoring skills. This is an innovative approach to link artisans to various garment manufacturers and is based on the partnership between ACT and 2nd Innings Handicrafts Pvt Ltd, a social enterprise that owns and runs the lifestyle brand I was a Sari.
The objective of this project is to upgrade the lives of female artisans from the underserved communities and to make them financially self-reliant. ACT artisans are not only skilled but confident, and their average monthly income has increased over 80% since the time they connected with Project Donna. They now lead their lives with dignity and take pride in the work they do within Project Donna.
In our fourth year of Donna, ACT has created a safe space for women, within a professional garment factory type environment, where beneficiaries turned artisans earn livelihoods by stitching, embroidery and handwork activities and become specialized and deliver quality products to garment partners.
On November 2018, ACT launched Project Donna sponsored by Fondazione Pianoterra focusing on creating income generation opportunities through Stitching, Handwork and Embroidery for women trained in tailoring skills. This is an innovative approach to link artisans to various garment manufacturers and is based on the partnership between ACT and 2nd Innings Handicrafts Pvt Ltd, a social enterprise that owns and runs the lifestyle brand I was a Sari.
The objective of this project is to upgrade the lives of female artisans from the underserved communities and to make them financially self-reliant. ACT artisans are not only skilled but confident, and their average monthly income has increased over 80% since the time they connected with Project Donna. They now lead their lives with dignity and take pride in the work they do within Project Donna.
In our fourth year of Donna, ACT has created a safe space for women, within a professional garment factory type environment, where beneficiaries turned artisans earn livelihoods by stitching, embroidery and handwork activities and become specialized and deliver quality products to garment partners.
Project Samruddhi - Training Adivasi Women to Become Self-Sufficient Earners
Project Samruddhi - Training Adivasi Women to Become Self-Sufficient Earners
Project Samruddhi - Training Adivasi Women to Become Self-Sufficient Earners
Launched in January 2018, project Samruddhi aims to develop, train and empower Adivasi women of the neglected border villages between Maharashtra and Gujarat, in Dadra Nagar Haveli (DNH). Women in these communities traditionally have few earning opportunities and have suffered exploitation at the hands of employers. We have seen considerable increases in the women’s earnings, in some cases to Rs. 15,000 per month, which gives stability and certainty for them throughout the year. Our aspiration is that these economically empowered women can transform their society from the inside, ensuring their children’s education and developing their communities by participating in village decisions.
Launched in January 2018, project Samruddhi aims to develop, train and empower Adivasi women of the neglected border villages between Maharashtra and Gujarat, in Dadra Nagar Haveli (DNH). Women in these communities traditionally have few earning opportunities and have suffered exploitation at the hands of employers. We have seen considerable increases in the women’s earnings, in some cases to Rs. 15,000 per month, which gives stability and certainty for them throughout the year. Our aspiration is that these economically empowered women can transform their society from the inside, ensuring their children’s education and developing their communities by participating in village decisions.
Project WASH Awareness Programme - Empowerment of rural women and girls by enabling access to clean water and sanitation
Project WASH Awareness Programme - Empowerment of rural women and girls by enabling access to clean water and sanitation
ACT joined hands with Water.org as implementation partner for WASH Awareness program in August 2019. Water.org is a global non-profit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world. It helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. The partnership aims to empower people in need with these life-changing resources – giving women hope, children health and families a bright future.
In our third year, ACT has successfully connected more than thirty thousand women in rural households across 8 states of India with the help of field project coordinators. We continue to spread awareness and education on clean water, sanitation and hygiene benefits, which has become even more crucial in post Covid times.
ACT joined hands with Water.org as implementation partner for WASH Awareness program in August 2019. Water.org is a global non-profit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world. It helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. The partnership aims to empower people in need with these life-changing resources – giving women hope, children health and families a bright future.
In our third year, ACT has successfully connected more than thirty thousand women in rural households across 8 states of India with the help of field project coordinators. We continue to spread awareness and education on clean water, sanitation and hygiene benefits, which has become even more crucial in post Covid times.
Project WASH Awareness Programme - Empowerment of rural women and girls by enabling access to clean water and sanitation
ACT joined hands with Water.org as implementation partner for WASH Awareness program in August 2019. Water.org is a global non-profit organization working to bring water and sanitation to the world. It helps people get access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing, such as small loans. The partnership aims to empower people in need with these life-changing resources – giving women hope, children health and families a bright future.
In our third year, ACT has successfully connected more than thirty thousand women in rural households across 8 states of India with the help of field project coordinators. We continue to spread awareness and education on clean water, sanitation and hygiene benefits, which has become even more crucial in post Covid times.
Project Study Buddy – One-to-one Free Tutorship
Project Study Buddy – One-to-one Free Tutorship
The Study Buddy project is a unique after-school study support program and is currently being run at three ACT community centers. College students are enrolled to help tutor poor and needy school students on a one-to-one basis, especially in the core and critical subjects of English, Mathematics, Science and Computers. Volunteers teach the beneficiary children after school, twice or thrice a week for 1 to 2 hours, and help to improve their scholastic performance. Volunteers who successfully complete the minimum hours of service are awarded volunteer certificates.
The Study Buddy project is a unique after-school study support program and is currently being run at three ACT community centers. College students are enrolled to help tutor poor and needy school students on a one-to-one basis, especially in the core and critical subjects of English, Mathematics, Science and Computers. Volunteers teach the beneficiary children after school, twice or thrice a week for 1 to 2 hours, and help to improve their scholastic performance. Volunteers who successfully complete the minimum hours of service are awarded volunteer certificates.
Project Study Buddy – One-to-one Free Tutorship
The Study Buddy project is a unique after-school study support program and is currently being run at three ACT community centers. College students are enrolled to help tutor poor and needy school students on a one-to-one basis, especially in the core and critical subjects of English, Mathematics, Science and Computers. Volunteers teach the beneficiary children after school, twice or thrice a week for 1 to 2 hours, and help to improve their scholastic performance. Volunteers who successfully complete the minimum hours of service are awarded volunteer certificates.
Project Nanhi Balika - Sponsoring Girl Child Education
Project Nanhi Balika - Sponsoring Girl Child Education
ACT supports education for under-privileged girls from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. Education of girls lifts not only the individual but also her family, community and society.
We invite donors to use their fortunate ability to create smiles and make a difference by supporting a girl child’s school education and help fulfil her dreams. This ACT of grace and compassion will most certainly change her world and improve the gender equality ratio and status of girls in our society. This sponsorship can also be made as a thoughtful gift to friends and relatives, and as a unique birthday or wedding or any other memorable favour to guests. We urge you to help us raise funds for this much needed girls’ education empowerment initiative.
ACT supports education for under-privileged girls from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. Education of girls lifts not only the individual but also her family, community and society.
We invite donors to use their fortunate ability to create smiles and make a difference by supporting a girl child’s school education and help fulfil her dreams. This ACT of grace and compassion will most certainly change her world and improve the gender equality ratio and status of girls in our society. This sponsorship can also be made as a thoughtful gift to friends and relatives, and as a unique birthday or wedding or any other memorable favour to guests. We urge you to help us raise funds for this much needed girls’ education empowerment initiative.
Project Nanhi Balika - Sponsoring Girl Child Education
ACT supports education for under-privileged girls from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. Education of girls lifts not only the individual but also her family, community and society.
We invite donors to use their fortunate ability to create smiles and make a difference by supporting a girl child’s school education and help fulfil her dreams. This ACT of grace and compassion will most certainly change her world and improve the gender equality ratio and status of girls in our society. This sponsorship can also be made as a thoughtful gift to friends and relatives, and as a unique birthday or wedding or any other memorable favour to guests. We urge you to help us raise funds for this much needed girls’ education empowerment initiative.
Project Sakshartaa – Remedial education support for vulnerable children
Project Sakshartaa – Remedial education support for vulnerable children
ACT works on strengthening capacity for education for vulnerable children from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. After-school remedial classes have been conducted over the past few years in 13 centres across 15 most vulnerable villages in Dadra Nagar Haveli and in slum communities of Mumbai.
ACT works on strengthening capacity for education for vulnerable children from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. After-school remedial classes have been conducted over the past few years in 13 centres across 15 most vulnerable villages in Dadra Nagar Haveli and in slum communities of Mumbai.
Project Sakshartaa – Remedial education support for vulnerable children
ACT works on strengthening capacity for education for vulnerable children from Std. 1 to 12 as well as professional graduate and post-graduate courses to empower them with the self-confidence and intelligence required to ensure better lives for themselves. After-school remedial classes have been conducted over the past few years in 13 centres across 15 most vulnerable villages in Dadra Nagar Haveli and in slum communities of Mumbai.
Project Nanhe Kadam – Early Childhood Development & Disabilities support to vulnerable children of ages between 0 – 6 years
Project Nanhe Kadam – Early Childhood Development & Disabilities support to vulnerable children of ages between 0 – 6 years
ACT started working in Dadra Nagar Haveli among underserved adivasi communities in the year 2017. Women empowerment project Samruddhi and children’s after school project Sakshartaa were doing well bringing financial empowerment to women and education support to children. In 2018, we invited knowledge partner- Ummeed CDC and jointly, we observed that there were gaps and certain social and systematic issues that needed to be addressed urgently if children and their families needed to benefit long term from the work that ACT was doing in the community. After doing an intensive need-based assessments, we came to prioritise on early childhood which needed to be addressed if we aimed for a deep rooted impact in the community.
We started working with children of ages between 0 – 6 years of age in order to address early delays and disabilities which is rampant in DNH because of lack of resources and parental education on child development. We have trained 4 members from the community to become Child Development Aides (CDA). More than 590 children and families have been impacted by the interventions promoting early childhood development and therapeutic support to delayed or disabled children, close to their homes.
ACT started working in Dadra Nagar Haveli among underserved adivasi communities in the year 2017. Women empowerment project Samruddhi and children’s after school project Sakshartaa were doing well bringing financial empowerment to women and education support to children. In 2018, we invited knowledge partner- Ummeed CDC and jointly, we observed that there were gaps and certain social and systematic issues that needed to be addressed urgently if children and their families needed to benefit long term from the work that ACT was doing in the community. After doing an intensive need-based assessments, we came to prioritise on early childhood which needed to be addressed if we aimed for a deep rooted impact in the community.
We started working with children of ages between 0 – 6 years of age in order to address early delays and disabilities which is rampant in DNH because of lack of resources and parental education on child development. We have trained 4 members from the community to become Child Development Aides (CDA). More than 590 children and families have been impacted by the interventions promoting early childhood development and therapeutic support to delayed or disabled children, close to their homes.
Project Nanhe Kadam – Early Childhood Development & Disabilities support to vulnerable children of ages between 0 – 6 years
ACT started working in Dadra Nagar Haveli among underserved adivasi communities in the year 2017. Women empowerment project Samruddhi and children’s after school project Sakshartaa were doing well bringing financial empowerment to women and education support to children. In 2018, we invited knowledge partner- Ummeed CDC and jointly, we observed that there were gaps and certain social and systematic issues that needed to be addressed urgently if children and their families needed to benefit long term from the work that ACT was doing in the community. After doing an intensive need-based assessments, we came to prioritise on early childhood which needed to be addressed if we aimed for a deep rooted impact in the community.
We started working with children of ages between 0 – 6 years of age in order to address early delays and disabilities which is rampant in DNH because of lack of resources and parental education on child development. We have trained 4 members from the community to become Child Development Aides (CDA). More than 590 children and families have been impacted by the interventions promoting early childhood development and therapeutic support to delayed or disabled children, close to their homes.
Project Mehek – Community Mental Health and Emotional Well-being of the children, youth and women of DNH
Project Mehek – Community Mental Health and Emotional Well-being of the children, youth and women of DNH
The tribal communities of Dadra & Nagar Haveli are affected by severe hardships. Theirs is a 5000-year-old legacy and they are cut off from the mainstream as they are ‘shy of contact’. In the last few years, this union territory has become a hub of factories. The indigenous people are landowners and nature lovers and are conflicted with industrialization because it means economic prosperity, job opportunities and progress on one hand and loss of land, pollution, and change in lifestyle adversely impacting the social fabric of the ethnic people on the other hand.
Children, youth and women in this region are the most vulnerable and are afflicted by violence, poverty and alcoholism and have been cut off from development and progress. They face significant gender inequality and have been identified as being highly oppressed and distressed due to lack of education, social issues and lack of livelihood opportunities.
In collaboration with knowledge partner-Ummeed’s Community Mental Health Expert team, we trained 13 adivasi members from the community to address the mental health issues of mothers, children and families. To date, we have connected with over 1000 adivasi families and spent collectively more than 10,000 hours in building relationships of trust, creating emotional safe spaces for the children, youth and women, spreading awareness on mental health, sensitizing the masses and facilitating linkages or referrals to the government’s specialized care services.
The tribal communities of Dadra & Nagar Haveli are affected by severe hardships. Theirs is a 5000-year-old legacy and they are cut off from the mainstream as they are ‘shy of contact’. In the last few years, this union territory has become a hub of factories. The indigenous people are landowners and nature lovers and are conflicted with industrialization because it means economic prosperity, job opportunities and progress on one hand and loss of land, pollution, and change in lifestyle adversely impacting the social fabric of the ethnic people on the other hand.
Children, youth and women in this region are the most vulnerable and are afflicted by violence, poverty and alcoholism and have been cut off from development and progress. They face significant gender inequality and have been identified as being highly oppressed and distressed due to lack of education, social issues and lack of livelihood opportunities.
In collaboration with knowledge partner-Ummeed’s Community Mental Health Expert team, we trained 13 adivasi members from the community to address the mental health issues of mothers, children and families. To date, we have connected with over 1000 adivasi families and spent collectively more than 10,000 hours in building relationships of trust, creating emotional safe spaces for the children, youth and women, spreading awareness on mental health, sensitizing the masses and facilitating linkages or referrals to the government’s specialized care services.
Project Mehek – Community Mental Health and Emotional Well-being of the children, youth and women of DNH
The tribal communities of Dadra & Nagar Haveli are affected by severe hardships. Theirs is a 5000-year-old legacy and they are cut off from the mainstream as they are ‘shy of contact’. In the last few years, this union territory has become a hub of factories. The indigenous people are landowners and nature lovers and are conflicted with industrialization because it means economic prosperity, job opportunities and progress on one hand and loss of land, pollution, and change in lifestyle adversely impacting the social fabric of the ethnic people on the other hand.
Children, youth and women in this region are the most vulnerable and are afflicted by violence, poverty and alcoholism and have been cut off from development and progress. They face significant gender inequality and have been identified as being highly oppressed and distressed due to lack of education, social issues and lack of livelihood opportunities.
In collaboration with knowledge partner-Ummeed’s Community Mental Health Expert team, we trained 13 adivasi members from the community to address the mental health issues of mothers, children and families. To date, we have connected with over 1000 adivasi families and spent collectively more than 10,000 hours in building relationships of trust, creating emotional safe spaces for the children, youth and women, spreading awareness on mental health, sensitizing the masses and facilitating linkages or referrals to the government’s specialized care services.