Nipun

According to the Financial Express, only 15% of young graduates passing out of colleges are employable and the rest are unemployable, hence the purpose of NIPUN vocational project is to provide them vocational trainings to the underprivileged youth for job placement. NIPUN provides trainings to these underprivileged youth of West Delhi in English proficiency, Basic Computer Education and soft skills for enhancing their prospects of employment in the fast expanding retail, hospitality and BPO sectors. Apart from that NIPUN is also providing trainings in Health, Beauty Culture and Dress Designing especially to the adolescent girls.

NIPUN's primary mission is gender equality, ensuring women's socio-economic, cultural, and political parity. It maintains gender balance with 50% female participation in programmes. NIPUN supports and empowers women facing diverse challenges. Collaborating with the Delhi Commission for Women, it runs an innovative initiative in Meera Bagh's JJ Clusters. Achievements include registering 1,256 domestic violence cases, resolving 212 favorably, offering consistent counseling on safety, harassment, and forming 25 community groups. These efforts create lasting impact, addressing women's multifaceted issues and fostering vital connections.

NIPUN's primary focus is empowering differently-abled individuals for dignified lives through healthcare, education, and counselling support. It promotes inclusivity by raising awareness about the rights of the differently-abled, fostering social integration, and equalizing opportunities via community-based programmes.
Its Special Education Center in the JJ Cluster of Bengali Camp serves children with various disabilities, including intellectual challenges, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, hearing and speech impairments, muscular dystrophy, and more. Services include community awareness, special and vocational education, parental counselling, and recreational activities, mainly benefiting children from nearby slum areas.

More than 1500 children are regularly attending our Pre-School, Remedial Education and Non Formal Education centers of NIPUN situated at various locations in Delhi. These children belong from the poor socioeconomic sector of our society and mostly are 1st generation learners. Most of the parents of these children are daily wage labourers, rickshaw puller, drivers, factory worker, domestic servant, security guard etc. Priority is not given by their parents in Education, we in NIPUN provide group and individual counseling sessions to motivate them and provide valuable information about the importance of Education.

NIPUN is providing health services to the underprivileged children, youth and community people. The objectives of our Health programmes are to provide accessible and affordable health care to the children attending remedial, pre-school and non formal education centres of NIPUN, through routine health check-ups and special health camps, to increase the level of knowledge, attitude and skills of the mothers of the target children for reproductive and child health, communicable diseases, RTI/STI/HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, nutrition and other major infections and diseases, to develop a proper health seeking behavior among people from the target locations through behavior change communication programme and to strengthen the existing health care system in the target communities through linkages with government hospitals and dispensaries through organizing series of community awareness programmes, providing trainings to staff on health issues, organizing regular and special (specific issues like, eye, dental, skin, etc) health checkup camps in the community, life skill trainings for adolescent children, cleanliness drives, rallies, etc. NIPUN is also providing weekly eye screening programme for the elderly person with the support of Dr. R.P.Center, AIIMS.

With the support of Delhi State AIDS Control Society and NACO, NIPUN is running a Targeted Intervention project for Transgender community at Kapashera and its adjoining area in South West Dist of Delhi and in Batala at Gurdaspur, Punjab with the support of PSACS. Our TI project provides regular services like providing condoms, lubes, linking with services such as HIV testing at ICTCs, linkages with TB programme, ART programme and other social activity programmes. Health Camp based approach and project based clinics is being organized for providing STI services to the HRGs. Behavior change program is also being conducted by understanding and assessment of individuals and group practices, which may possess risk to HIV infection. One to one sessions and group discussions are also conducted by the Outreach workers and Peer Educators for awareness generations.

The NIPUN Creches programme was originally started for the children of domestic servant, maid & construction workers residing at J.J. Clusters/Constructing Site is inhabited by the poor and marginalized families most of whom have migrated from the neighbouring states in search of some employment. Casual labour, domestic services, rickshaw pullers and petty trading are among the major sources of livelihood. Both of the parents usually go for work to meet both ends of the family. The children do not receive due attention. In any case education is not their priority. The children are left at home at the mercy of Almighty during the day hours when the parents go out for work. Frequently, the children have to do without food till the mothers comes back home to cook the evening meal. The elder children look after the young children but they themselves are usually young enough to need constant care themselves. Security, especially for the girls are one more issue that they face while they are