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Shelter Associates

A leading European furnishing brand has donated 9,000m of high quality linen (worth Rs 53 Lacs) to Shelter Associates Shelter Associates is collaborating with E-Coexist to convert the linen into bedsheet and pillow-cover sets for orphanages and homeless shelters across Pune this Diwali. Can you help us by sponsoring the stitching and packaging costs at just Rs 100 per kit? We have 3,000 kits = Rs 3 Lacs. Low-income women from Awhalwadi will do this work with devotion and care, and will deeply appreciate your support. Every small contribution counts.Pledge your support, donate now!

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Shelter Associates (SA) <a href="https://shelter-associates.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Shelter (shelter-associates.org)</a>, a registered NGO started by architects and urban planners in Pune, has been providing low-cost housing and sanitation solutions in urban slums of a few cities in Maharashtra for the last 30 years. SA makes use of data and technology to design innovative solutions to transform the lives of the urban poor. Through its core initiative called One Home One Toilet (OHOT), SA has facilitated over 26,000 individual toilets for 1 lakh 50 thousand people living in informal settlements of seven cities of Maharashtra, vastly reducing open defecation in those areas. The highlight of SA’s initiatives is the creation of spatial data through the use of Geographic Information System (GlS), remote sensing technology and household-level granular data which has immensely helped the Local Urban Bodies (ULB) to identify critical gaps in the delivery of sanitation and other essential services like provision and validation of metered water connections, electricity, waste management etc. This has also helped the ULB leverage our data for additional budgetary provisions for drainage lines in most of the slums, has helped ULBs to strengthen the local governance for solid waste management, identify potential beneficiaries for the essential services and increase ULBs revenue. SA has been making valuable contributions by putting usable quality ‘DATA’ in the public domain. This spatial data is validated and linked to ULBs’ websites of various cities for data sharing and its utility for various departments and development partners, developing micro plans for various departments etc.We conduct regular sanitation awareness campaigns to encourage community participation in public sanitation. In 2021, we began vaccination drives with support from ULBs to make Covid vaccines available to underserved, unreachable communities. We have vaccinated over 18,000 individuals so far. Through our menstrual hygiene workshops, we have educated 1,500 young women on safe and environment-friendly practices.   To ensure that essential services reach people living in difficult-to-access/ crowded slums, SA makes innovative use of the Google Plus Codes providing a unique digital locational address to every house and infrastructure in selected slums allowing better access to essential services and doorstep deliveries. The Plus Codes also help the local government to provide services like COVID-19 vaccination, water, sanitation, electricity, etc to every household accurately. Here is a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mapping-indias-slums/av-57527767" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">(Link)</a> to news covered by dw.com featuring SA’s use of Plus codes.SA Co-founder and Executive Director Ms Pratima Joshi have been recently honoured by Forbes India as one of the most powerful women in India in their W-power list 2021 (<a href="https://www.lokmat.com/sakhi/inspirational/salute-work-neighborhood-meet-image-punes-joshina-who-got-place-list-powerful-women-forbes-a741/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">News link</a>) for her innovative use of Google Plus codes for delivering essential services to unreachable communities. SA is also the only Indian recipient of the Google Earth Hero award, Dasra Giving Circle, and ‘Best Practices Award for Low-Cost Sanitation solutions from HUDCO, and Times network’s “Digital Social Innovation award, ‘Swacch’ award from the PMC and NASSCOM award in the environment category.

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