About
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Headquarters
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Since
2001
The Magic Bus India Foundation helps the next generation to come out of the poverty cycle by helping them to finish their secondary education, which t Read morehereby, delays the age of their marriage. It further helps them to learn new skills. It is trying to address various problems concerning adolescents and young people. For example, there are only about 3 out of 10 adolescents that have a higher secondary qualification, only 4 out of 10 youths have the skills required for employment, and a striking number of 3 girls out of every 10 girls are married before they reach 18 years. With its constant efforts, Magic Bus has been successful in achieving positive results. As compared to the national average of 40% of girls dropping out of school, only 5% of the girls under the Magic Bus programme drop out by Grade 8. Also, approximately 70% of girls don't marry up to the age of 18 whereas, for those under the Magic Bus programme, about 95% do not marry. It has also been successful in achieving a 70% job placement rate. It has also been awarded the Best Livelihood Approach award at ET Now’s World CSR Day Congress & Awards, (2020), ‘Excellent NGO of the Year' Award by the CMAI Association of India (2019), Founder, Matthew Spacie got featured in the ScooNews Magazine as Top Education Influencer in the country (2018) and was awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Business Standard in 2017. Magic Bus was also awarded ET Now Leadership Award for its work in Education & Learning (2018) and was awarded Sports Illustrated, Special Award for Services to Sports in 2017.
Issue
Children and youth from poor and underserved communities do not have access to quality education and job opportunities leading them to be poor forever.
Action
Magic Bus imparts education to poor children and motivates them to complete higher secondary through Its educational interventions aimed at preparing them for their future. It also skills and equips poor youth with employable skills, connecting them to the world of opportunities and ensuring a source of income for them.
Demographies Served
Cause Area
Impact
Magic Bus India Foundation has impacted and reached 400000 children, 35000 young people in 22 States, 81 Districts, 1363 schools through 50 livelihood centres impacting 1961 Communities, creating 5500 community youth leaders in 7 entrepreneurship incubation centres.
Programs
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Childhood to Livelihood Approach
This is a programme intended for children between twelve to eighteen years of age. Magic Bus prepares these children and young people to be successful in life and come out of poverty.
It motivates young people and children to act against issues like early marriage and child labour, to go ahead and complete secondary education successfully. Its livelihood programme then equips them and connects them to appropriate opportunities.
The programme features life skills education, education enhancement, employability skills education, livelihood connect and community connect.
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Youth Skilling Programme
Magic Bus through its Youth Skilling Programme ventures to equip poor youth with 21st-century skills of teamwork, communication, problem-solving, managing self and work readiness.
The programme offers skills through experiential learning, mentoring and activity-based learning. The candidates preferred for training are from eighteen to twenty-five years whose family income does not exceed one lakh twenty thousand Rupees in a year and who have completed their matriculation or higher secondary.
Training is conducted for a period of three months at the Magic Bus livelihood centre and results in job placements, enabling the youth to bring their families out of poverty.
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Adolescent Education Programme
Focuses on teaching life skills to students enabling them to complete their secondary education. It empowers them to break away from malpractices like child marriage and labour.
The programme delivers education in an improved way through activity-based life-skills sessions, academic support, imparting knowledge in the space of financial literacy, career, digital citizenship and sexual and reproductive health and also involves the key players in the education ecosystem to ensure support for the child’s future.
Impact Metrics
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Impacted Youth for Skilling and Livelihood Programmes
Year-wise Metrics- 2018-19 10000
- 2019-20 23177
- 2020-21 400000
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Supported Adolescents for Lifeskills and Growing Up Issues
Year-wise Metrics- 2018-19 381000
- 2019-20 410973
- 2020-21 90000
Leadership Team
Demographics & Structure
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No. of Employees
100+
M&E
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Internal, External Assessors
No
Policies
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Ethics and Transparency Policies
No
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Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy
No
Political & Religious Declarations
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On Affiliation if any
No
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On Deployment Bias if any
No
Registration Details
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PAN Card
AAATC2665F
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Registration ID
U91110MH2001NPL130853
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VO ID / Darpan ID
MH/2017/0166776
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12A
DIT(E)/ITO(HQ)(E)/CN-2/2011-12
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80G
DIT(E)/MC/80G/412/2008/2008-09
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FCRA
083781026
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CSR Registration Number
Not Available
Location
Other Details
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Type & Sub Type
Non-profit
Section 8 (formerly Section 25)
Website
Financial Details
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2017-18
IncomeRs.871,702,164ExpensesRs.833,324,932Admin ExpensesRs.106,839,578Program ExpensesRs.726,485,354Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2018-19
IncomeRs.872,907,646ExpensesRs.885,581,674Admin ExpensesRs.135,405,382Program ExpensesRs.750,176,292Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2019-20
IncomeRs.966,555,005ExpensesRs.956,102,361Admin ExpensesRs.143,097,428Program ExpensesRs.813,004,933Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2020-21
IncomeRs.961,683,815ExpensesRs.855,067,081Admin ExpensesRs.130,015,000Program ExpensesRs.725,052,081Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2021-22
IncomeRs.1,125,000,000ExpensesRs.1,053,300,000Admin ExpensesRs.106,000,000Program ExpensesRs.947,300,000Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it. -
2022-23
IncomeRs.1,412,593,000ExpensesRs.1,348,500,000Admin ExpensesRs.218,090,000Program ExpensesRs.1,130,410,000Tip: Click on any value above to exclude it.