"My son used to kick me when he was in my womb. Why make an issue when he kicked me in my old age?" reasons a very forgiving Shakti Dasi. The widow travelled 2300 kms from Tripura to Vrindavan after her only son violently beat her with a burning plank of wood and broke her knee one evening. She had to leave behind the business she had built with her husband who had died a few years back. Shakti ended up on the streets of Brindavan begging for food and shelter. But when Winnie Singh of Maitri saw Shakti in a frail state in tattered clothes, she brought her to the shelter home where Shakti gets food, care and medicines. What more, with Maitri’s intervention, Shakti reconciled with her son - and daughter-in-law, and now travels home to Tripura twice a year to spend time with her grandchildren. But she is not leaving Maitri, as this has become her family.Not every elderly widow who comes to Vrindavan after being abandoned by her family gets as lucky as Shakti. Many of them often end up living a lonely life and begging to survive on the streets. Maitri aspires to take care of every widow in need of help.<img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/ce101369-528c-4d37-bc1d-1118b9925af3.jpg" />Maitri’s Project Jeevan to the rescueAbandoned, elderly widows are the amongst the most vulnerable in India. After being thrown out of their often abandoned by their own children and are forced to beg for food and shelter. “Through Project Jeevan, Maitri houses aging widow mothers in two ashrams in Vrindavan and Radhakund (Mathura), providing them with wellness and well-being. The programme also reaches out to widow mothers beyond the ashrams with fruit, milk and healthcare services,” explains Winnie Singh, co-founder and executive director, Maitri India.Save homeless elderly widows from begging on the streetsMost widows who make their way to Vrindavan are abandoned by their families, often after years of abuse. They come here hoping they will spend the rest of their days in prayer and devotion. But most live in impoverished conditions on the streets and in dingy rooms. Since poor living conditions often cause a wide range of health ailments, including respiratory infections and chronic conditions, Maitri comes to their rescue through its Project Jeevan.The project aims to:<ul><li>Provide meals leading to improved health and wellbeing</li><li>Make physical and mental health services accessible</li><li>Offer necessary quality aged care and assisted living support</li><li>Increase awareness on and engagement around the struggles of abandoned widow mothers</li></ul><img src="https://cfstatic.give.do/1abfb906-563b-4747-85b8-8af2071a2856.jpg" />Project Jeevan needs your support to help those in need of food, healthcare and well-being. Donate now.“Maitri urgently needs your support to provide food, clothing and healthcare to sustain these widow mothers who are prone to more illnesses as they age,” appeals Winnie.Maitri believes in a woman’s right to dignity in life and death, more so a mother. Our help will enable Maitri to save hundreds of abandoned widows from a life of begging, and restore the respect, dignity, and identity they deserve.

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In the dark and dingy alleys of red light areas, injustice, pain and suffering run rampant. And the worst affected are the children who grow up in red-light areas and are subjected to constant abuse and violence. “The sight of a 12-year-old girl being gang-raped by a group of men near a house l haunts me to this date. I was filled with anguish and resolved to do something,” says Girish Kulkarni who has made it his life’s mission to rescue children from red light areas and give them a safe and secure childhood. In the last 3 decades Girish has saved over 1100 girls from a life of abuse in red-light areas, giving them a loving home, education and medical care. He has further supported over 20,000 children with a better life.Sadly, 250 of the children rescued from abuse and exploitation are HIV positive. The high cost of medication has left Girish struggling for funds. Your support can help him provide these children with the care and upbringing they need. Donate now.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). A movement to protect vulnerable children“Growing up in Ahmednagar, the experiences I had as a child witnessing the horrors of sex trade defined the path of my life. I had even seen my friend’s 15-year-old sister and 70-year-old grandmother being forced to do sex work for the price of a cup of tea”, recalls Girish. “I started by merely feeding and teaching children of sex workers initially with the intention of giving them some respite from the horrors of life of abuse in red-light areas. Gradually more and more mothers started coming to me and asked me to take their children away, even if it was just for a couple of hours,” he further adds.The work that Girish started in his youth gradually grew to become a movement, with many more joining his cause. His NGO Snehalaya to date has transformed the lives of millions. Girish’s work is crucial for the survival and safety of vulnerable children of sex workers. Snehalaya is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public and your support can strengthen his mission to save children most in need. Donate generously.The horrors of life in red light areas“The cruelty and abuse that children as young as 6 or 7 years of age face is something that I can’t explain in words. Young daughters of sex workers are made to watch their mothers being raped, are brutally assaulted and forced into sex work. No child deserves to grow like this, Girish says in anguish.Sad reality of life for children growing up in red light areas is that they are deprived of even the most basic needs like proper food, safety and education. Moreover, a majority of children rescued by Girish are diagnosed HIV positive. The task of securing medication, providing them quality education and much needed nutrition is one that requires constant support from donors. Moreover, the increase in healthcare cost has left Girish struggling to keep his home for children going. But your support can enable him to give his children a loving environment and save many more who still remain trapped behind closed doors.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Snehalaya give hundreds of children rescued from red-light areas a life away from violence and abuse.

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“They insert a candle in the vagina, fingers are inserted (in the vagina) and tortured, and if children don’t relent even then, they put chilli powder so that children will say “yes” because of the burning of the skin… There are teeth marks on their bodies, and their vaginal parts are burnt. When children stay in these conditions, it is painful even to hear,” says Lalitha SA of Society for Participatory Integrated Development (SPID), in course of talking about many heart-rending stories of trafficked children in red-light areas.In over three decades, the SPID led by Lalitha, has saved over 3000 children from the red-light areas, many from clutches of sex trafficking.Sadly, many more children need to be rescued and in need of a loving home. But Lalitha needs our support to carry on the mission, to move out of her small facility so that she can rescue more children, house them in a permanent location and give them all the love they deserve. Your support can help her give these children the care and upbringing they need. Donate now.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India).A movement to protect vulnerable childrenAs a social worker, Lalitha has worked for decades in GB Road, the red-light area of Delhi and helped many women escape the clutches of being forced into sex. But it was the exploitation of children, many of them hardly ten or twelve or even less. The SPID has focused on rescuing such children and giving them a new life.Lalitha plays a vital role in the survival and safety of vulnerable children in the red light areas. As SPID is almost entirely dependent on donations from the public, we can support and strengthen SPID’s mission to save children. Donate generously.Donation to SPID’s fundraiser on Give.do“I have limited funds and very limited space, and if I had the funds, I would be able to rescue many more children and provide them with more comfort. With folded hands, I plead with you that you help us with funds in large numbers and support us in providing us children with a decent life. Become a part of the mission,” pleads LalithaDonate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help Lalitha give hundreds of children rescued from brothels a life away from violence and abuse.NGO's 80G number: AADAS3217RF20212NGO's 12A number: AADAS3217RE20214

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CHORD is a Non- Profit and Non-Political (Tax-exempt entity under Sec 80G/12A of IT Act) Relief and Development Organization. Right from our humble beginnings in 1998 to this day CHORD has successfully rescued and empowered with education, counseling, and care, over 16300 underprivileged children, trained over 6300 young men and women in employable Skills and has touched lives of tens of thousands through its awareness and sensitization workshops. Our imperative to empower with education and training, the lives and plight of the underprivileged continues, with help from volunteers, students, professionals, and socially conscious citizens and together we hope that the contribution to our less fortunate friends keeps growing as we do.Vision<ul><li>Ensuring every child is in school and learning with dignity…</li><li>Every young man/woman trained in skills…</li><li>Every community is progressing and vibrant…</li></ul>MissionTo implement a robust, replicable and sustainable three-fold community development model to eradicate child labour and alleviate poverty by educating children, training the youth in employable skills, sensitizing the society and empowering the community.Goal: To make the target area child labour free by 2024 by rescuing, educating and empowering 7000 working or school drop-out children and train 7000 young men and women in skills through child centric community development initiatives.Core Areas of Operation: Elimination of Child labour, Education, Child Rights Advocacy, Women Empowerment and Livelihoods/ Skill Development

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BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT:In the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the month of January 2020 it is very obvious to pronounce that the year 2020 has been one of the most bizarre and catastrophic years in the history of mankind. It had severely affected the way we live and breathe hereafter. Life will never be the same again Post Covid-19. The worst hit are the economies world over. The economic fall out of this dreadful Covid-19 Virus is disastrous to say the least, No one has ever predicted the scale and magnitude of the monumental human and economic loss and negative impact of the Corona induced National Lock downs observed globally. Job loss is the most severe immediate impact of COVID-19 crisis while lower economic growth and rise in inequality would be the long-term effects, according to a survey by the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE). The online survey was conducted on 520 ISLE members in the last week of May.The preliminary results showed that loss of employment was considered as the most severe immediate impact of the crisis while lower economic growth and rise in inequality were probable long-term.As per the survey, the immediate policy priorities suggested were protection of workers and families, short-term employment creation and income transfers to affected workers-Economic Times,11 July 2020.The immediate and pressing task on hand for our nation is short term job creation. This has been necessitated not just by job losses but also displacement of work force on account of migrants leaving their jobs and migrating back to their home states.The urgency of the situation is is further reinforced by the fact that even before the arrival of Covid-19 Pandemic number of job seekers registered with employment exchanges in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are 31 lakh of which a dismal 57 per cent (18 lakh) do not have any skills.There is a common misconception that unemployment rates can be attributed only to the lack of employment opportunities. While it remains a primary cause, ‘Lack of Skill’ among educated and uneducated youth is also seen as a daunting problem in our economy. It is further worsened by an educational environment that focuses more on development with regard to academic prowess rather than on honing specific skills in students. In order to address the lack of skill the following points needs to be taken into consideration.Of the current work force in these states it is estimated that 86% of the total work force remains unskilled. According to this NSDC Report during the period of 2012-22 the incremental demand supply gap of manpower in across all sectors is expected to be 36.7 laks with excess of demand for skilled and semi-skilled work force and excess supply of minimally skilled work force.Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of any country. The economy becomes more productive, innovative and competitive through the existence of more skilled human potential. The level of employment, its composition and the growth in employment opportunities are the critical indicators of the process of development in any economy. Increasing pace of globalization and technological changes provide both challenges and growing opportunities for economic expansion and job creation. In taking advantage of these opportunities as well as in minimizing the social costs and dislocation, which the transition to a more open economy entails, the level and quality of skills that a nation possess are becoming critical factors. Countries with higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.CHORD’s Intervention in the Skill Development sector and Mandate FY 2020-21In the last Ten years despite overwhelming odds of serving at the grassroots and crippling daily setbacks and challenges CHORD had trained and provided sustainable livelihood opportunity over 7000 young people in the short-term employable trades it had mastered over the years.Having gained invaluable expertise over the years and having put together a committed work force and decent network at the grassroots CHORD proposes to train another 500 unemployed youth/displaced/migrants in the year 2020-21 with same commitment and dedication with the sole aim of nudging disadvantaged communities towards progress and prosperity500 Youth will be trained in skills and placed in Telangana and AP state under this project 
 ACTION PLAN:Our immediate and pressing task on hand is Developing job worthiness among unemployed youth rendered job less by the Lock downs/Covid-19 victims.Creating free access to employable skill training in job oriented courses for those without any skill is vital to our mission.Ensuring long term employment for vulnerable women and men through skill based training and counselling are fundamental objectives of this project.Providing Skill centers as a potential employment opportunity and creating awareness about the relevance of skill training in current job environment are critical to our effort.The following activities will be carried out meticulously by by our team in fulfilling the objectives of this mission.SURVEY AND ENROLLMENT: •       Surveying the target area (slums and villages) for identifying jobless migrants and youth who are unemployed.•       Identifying and enrolling youth from among the survey list.•       Counsel the youth and community on the merits of skill training.•       To complete admission process as per CHORD norms.•       Provide all physical infrastructure facilities required and to ensure that the target of the program is achieved.HIRING TRAINERS AND DESIGNING CURRICULUM: •       Obtain regular curriculum and customize it with a vibrant and simple complementary addition to create efficient and interactive training programs.•       Recruit experienced personnel with skill and expertise (Trained staff, trained Lecturers, resource people to support and counsel students).•       Prepare time tables, class schedules, exam and practical schedules.•       Review the academic and practical performance quarterly.MONITORING AND REVIEW: •       Ensure systems and processes are in place for optimal utilization of resources in achieving the desired results.•       Ensure smooth flow of the college as per the institute norms and ensure good attendance of the students.•       To conduct periodical exams, practicals and unit tests to enhance the learning ability of the students from time to time.PLACEMENTS AND EXPOSURE TO PROFESSIONAL FIELD: •       Networking: Identify suitable neighborhood colleges for exchange programs and Goodwill/educational tours for exposure•       Documentation and Research.•       Assimilate information to the media on the positive developments.•       Arrange placement facilities in consultation with the concerned industry.Plan ahead for the next academic year to scale the operations as per the market needs.The target group will be trained in the following tradesVulnerable youth (men and women) from Below Poverty Line families in the age group of 18-35 enrolled from slums and poor neighborhood slums/villages. Trade-wise strength of the youth trained is as follows<ol><li>Tailoring (Textile Designing/Embroidery &amp; Zig-Zag) : 250</li><li>Motor Driving : 100</li><li>Computers : 50</li><li>Retail Marketing : 50</li><li>Security Guard : 50</li></ol>Total : 500Areas of operations:1.CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center- ShakthiEnclave, BollaramVillage,JinnaramMandal,Ranga Reddy District, Telangana2. CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center-BalaiahNagar,KukatpallyQuthubullapur,Rangareddy District Hyderabad,Telangana3. CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center- Bachupally,Medchal District Hyderabad-500049,Telangana4.CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center-NTR Nagar, KukatpallyQuthubullapur ,Rangareddy District ,Hyderabad,Telangana5. CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center- Kandhi Village Sanga Reddy District Hyderabad,Telangana6. CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center- Ramarajulanka,Mallikipuram,East Godavari District,Andhra Pradesh7.CHORD-Skill Bharath Training Center- Narsapuram,West Godavari District,Andhra Pradesh 
 Measurable Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators ( Outputs)Qualitative: To give a dignified future to this vulnerable section of the society by giving them a realistic skill training that imparts them technical education and job proficiency that guarantees a livelihood opportunity. The program will have an impact on the following stake holders:Dependents of the Beneficiaries: The project will surely impact the families of the beneficiaries motivating them to contribute to the change in their social and economic status.Targeted community: The beneficiaries will serve as role models for other community members to follow.Peer group: The program is sure to create dialogue among peer groups regarding the advantages of skill training thereby providing positive encouragement and motivation to those youths who are on the verge of dropping out. Program emulating: Best practices can be replicated by other NGOs to educate rural Youth. Quantitative: Typically, our trainees have so far found employment in the following manner1.Computer trainees: Found jobs as data entry operators and Tele-calling executives2.Driving: Trainees have found jobs as Cab drivers/School Bus Drivers/Water Tankers/Private Drivers etc3. Tailoring: Found jobs in Apparel park and Jobs in SPRIHA (our Social enterprise) and many have become entrepreneurs4.Retail Marketing : Have found jobs in local Malls and Shopping complexes5.Security Guards :Will have found jobs in Malls/Shops/Residential complexes etc.Since there are many such success stories based on our experience we can commit with some degree of confidence to the following percentage of placement or entrepreneurial opportunitiesCHORD’s experience in working with communities in dismal conditions, mobilizing beneficiaries and ground staff and achieving targeted numbers is monumental evidence of our prowess in conducting skill training programs.The following aspects that speak of C’s earned advantages are factors that ensure a guaranteed impact:<ul><li>CHORD’s impeccable work with skill training over the last six years is testament to the organization’s sincere quest toward enabling Indian youth toward sustained growth.</li><li>Our well-established alliances and civil society network continue to support us aiding and helping us overcome local challenges.</li><li>Our child centric development model helps us connect better with the families and increases our personal outreach in the communities.</li><li>Multi stakeholder partnership employed by CHORD yields the desired holistic outcome.</li><li>Our supportive infrastructure and timely completion of projects helps instil unceasing faith of the donors.</li><li>Well documented donor involvement in the progress of the program motivates the donor and his beneficiary toward more growth.</li><li>Manpower resources employed carry many years of knowledge and expertise.</li></ul>INDICATORS:                                                               <ul><li>At least 95% of the enrolled 500 students to complete the course</li><li>At least 70% of the 500 students to be placed in jobs or start their own enterprises</li><li>At least 10% of the trainees to become entrepreneurs</li><li>No. of youth finding employment as a result of the skill training is ideal to gauge the outreach and impact of the program.</li></ul>              Producing ----skilled and job ready young men/women will be the key aim of this exercise.

Skill Bharath- Livelihoods And Skill Development Project

The pandemic has affected children from marginalised tribes, especially girls, who are unable to get access to education in Telangana. CHORD is providing education and dry ration to 500 Vulnerable Girl children belonging to Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribes and or Backward classes, minority communities (and their families), identified and rescued from streets, rural peripherals and slums in collaboration with the Departments of Labor, Police, and Education, of Government of Telangana. By contributing ₹1,500, you can support one such girl child and her family. WHAT IS OUR PROJECT ALL ABOUT?Girl Child Education:Girl child is the future of every nation and India is no exception. The status of the girl child is the key to achieving women’s equality and dignity which is, in many ways, a litmus test of the maturity of a society. Girls are to be the future mothers, besides future policy makers and leaders. Jawaharlal Nehru once said “To awaken the people it is the women who should be awakened first. Once she is on the move the family moves …the Nation moves”.Current Status of Girl Child in India<ul><li>Sex ratio in the 0-6 Years age group has fallen to an all-time low of 914 girls to 1000 boys</li><li>One in three girls die in the first year of life and one in four do not live to celebrate their fifteenth birthday</li><li> Two out of five girls are malnourished and every second adolescent girl is anemic</li><li> Six out of ten girls are child brides and four out of ten have their first child before they are 18 years old</li><li>vIndia ranks 113 out of 135 countries as per World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2011</li><li>With more than one-third of its population below 18 years, India has the largest young population in the world.</li><li>Only 35% of births is registered, impacting name and nationality.</li><li>One out of 16 children die before they attain the age of 1, and one out of 11 die before they are 5 years old.</li><li> 35% of the developing world’s low-birth-weight babies are born in India.</li><li> 40% of child malnutrition in the developing world sin India.</li><li> Out of every 100 children, 19 continue to be out of school.</li><li> Of every 100 children who enroll, 70 drop out by the time they reach the secondary level.</li><li>Of every 100 children who drop out of school, 66 are girls.</li><li>65% of girls in India are married by the age of 18 and become mothers soon after.</li><li> India is home to the highest number of child laborers in the world. India has the world’s largest number of sexually abused children, with a child below 16 raped every 155th minute, a child below 10 every 13th hour, and at least one in every 10 children sexually abused at any point in time.</li><li> According to UNDP Human Development Report (2014), on educational indicators a measure of how many years of schooling a child is expected to receive, if prevailing enrollment patterns continue. India’s average is 11.7. The world average is 12.2 years, while the developed countries average 16.3 years. Among the BRICS countries, India's average is the least. Currently, Indians of 25 years or more have received just 4.4 years of schooling on average, compared to a global average of 7.7 years.</li><li> HDR 2014 introduces a gender development index (GDI) for the first time, which measures gender development gaps among 148 countries. While the overall gender gap is an 8% deficit for women, the income gap is shockingly high — per capita income for men is more than double that of women.</li></ul> 
 WHAT WE DO TO EDUCATE GIRL CHILDREN?Quality Education:A Girl child needs a good education. Education is imperative for the growth, development, and advancement of society. Education levels the playing field and enables a Girl Child to compete fairly across gender.Identity, Dignity, and Opportunity:Education exposes a girl child to opportunities and helps develop her skills. It expands her mental horizons to grow and proser as rightful citizen of our Nation. Education provides girls with the all-important identity and equips them with the right amount of dignity to compete and avail career opportunities the system offers. to A girl child needs to be mentored and taught the proper values that will improve her self-worth. A girl child needs to be provided for, cared for, cherished and loved. A girl child needs to be affirmed repeatedly that she is priceless. Parents, care-givers, governments and the society at large owe her these responsibilities.Goal:Educate and empower Girl child for sustainable Education, Health, Livelihoods, Life skills and Leadership from among the urban under privileged community by promoting bridge schools, regular girl’s community neighborhood schools and skill training centers.CHORD strives to rescue, educate and empower 500 working Girl children every year through their bridge schools, formal schools and skill training centers in Hyderabad surrounding districts Telangana, India. The challenge is to break the cyclic life pattern of working and school dropout children in the slums through innovative remedial school education program developed by the organization that takes the child to its logical end through formal and vocational education. The program provides a holistic and flexible learning opportunity to children and also lays emphasis on supporting children in their early adulthood stage and strives to empower the students by making up for lost education and rebuilding a learning foundation, integrating the child into main stream education and enabling the child toward a sturdy development plan through guidance and care.CHORD are currently is running a bridge schools that cater to the educational needs of 500 urban deprived and slum girl children.Field facts of this concept           <ul><li> About 500 girl children will be the direct beneficiary of the project and 500 families will be indirectly benefitted during the course of the project.</li><li>Our target group are urban under privileged families and girl children from those families. The girl children are always busy for homestead work with their mothers to learn the basics of homestead work.</li><li> The mother is interested to engage her daughter in homestead work, rather than their education.</li><li>The maximum girls are engaged in homestead work at slums in the target areas of operation where CHORD has been trying to mitigate the gender based educational disparities.</li><li> The girl children are migrated from their villages by the family force, and lack of food, cloths, entertainment and also effect of Urbanization. The migrated family is being settled in slums with family because they are victim of displacement etc. They are living in the small houses looking for job opportunity in slums.</li><li> The child labour, particularly, girls are regularly socially, physically, mentally tortured by their profiteer/employer.</li><li> Real empowerment of the girl child is only possible through education. Low levels of educational attainment coupled with familial and social neglect has inhibited their growth potential.</li><li>Variation in literacy of male and female is evident. Girls are still deprived of primary education, due to several factors such as inaccessibility of primary education, household duties, early marriage, early girl child bearing, gender bias associated drudgery, other socio-cultural factors such as parents’ perception, that education is more beneficial for sons.</li><li>A large proportion of school age girls remain outside the school system due to important factors explained largely by low access of females to education system in the traditional value system play a greater premium on male than the female.</li><li>Since resources are scarce, parents decide to send boys to school in preference to girls.</li><li>Acute poverty has proved to be a barrier to girls’ education.</li></ul>EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 TIMES:DIGITAL /ONLINE EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR-2021-22We have adopted Hybrid model of education (Online and Offline) since April 2020 to ensure that the girls’ educational momentum is not curtailed and they continue to receive the fruits of learning that will propel them towards a brighter future. Our methodology is as follows.<ul><li> Conducting zoom /Google meet/WhatsApp  virtual classes from Jr.KG To X class in 9:00 AM -12:30 PM (Monday To Saturday) as part of our E-Learning Hybrid model of education in the current Pandemic Scenario</li><li>Monitoring Government TV lessons schedules from class 6th to 10th in the afternoon session daily three subjects in each class. Chapter-wise Works sheets will be sent to class Pre-KG To V class and also lesson wise videos and content in PDF (Ravi Publications: Enlighten Series)</li><li> VI – X CLASS works sheets (State Syllabus) downloaded from the school education department website of Telangana State.</li><li>Conducting oral tests after completion of every lesson/chapter.</li><li>We will conduct slip tests in online weekly once (Every Saturday) and Exam question papers will send in student’s WhatsApp groups.</li><li>Evaluation of exam papers in online from class Pre-KG To 9th class.</li><li>Evaluation of exam papers in offline for class 10th. Students will send their answer sheets with their Parents...</li><li>Conducting all exams of FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS (FAs) and SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT S (SAs) as per Govt. Schedule.</li><li>Based on online students present we will maintain attendance Registers.</li></ul>Justification for the Project:CHORD conducts door-to-door surveys and enrolls poor and BPL family girl children for education and vocational classes. Apart from that meeting with parents, women’s group members and community leaders will be organized to take their views on the selection process of such girl childrenThe program ensures that the following intrinsic and fundamental benefits are passed on to children justifying the amounts invested on children.CHORD prides itself on providing the following facilities and amenities as imperatives that need to be provided to children not as a privilege, but as a right given that India is a willing signatory of UN Convention that has mandated and bestowed upon children these imperatives as a Right.1. Food and Nutrition: Highly nutritious, fresh, and warm food provided as per the Dietary standards by now distributing food essentials (Rice, Dal, Oil , Vegetables, and Pulses) through this project2. Water and Sanitation: Potable, clean and purified water provided in clean and serene surroundings.3. Education and Development: Quality education on par with corporate schools imparted by trained and qualified faculty.4. Livelihood Opportunity: Life Skill training is provided as part of children’s curriculum to prepare children towards a livelihood opportunity in the future.Budget: Item Distributed per family of each Girl Child: (Rice 15Kg, 2KgDall, 250 Gms, Chili powder, 1Kg Onions,Vegetables and 2 Dettol Soaps)Relief Package per family per monthSl.NO Particulars Amount in Rs1. Rice (16kgs @Rs.45/- each Kg per family) 720.002. Dhal (2 kg @Rs.138/- per family) 276.003. Cooking Oil (1 Kg) 155.004. Onions (1 Kg) 30.005. Chilli Powder ( 250 grams) 50.006. Vegetables 85.007. Dettol Soaps, Masks, and Sanitizer 150.008. Administration Cost(Travel, packing and Miscellanies Expenses) 34.00Total investment per family 1500.00 
 PROJECT AREA: Kukatpally and Serlingampally Urban Revenue Mandals of Ranga Reddy district, Telangana abutting the city of Hyderabad.TARGET GROUP500 Vulnerable Girl children belonging to Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribes and or Backward classes, minority communities (and their families), identified and rescued from streets, rural peripherals and slums in collaboration with the Departments of Labor, Police, and Education, of Government of Telangana.Social ImpactCHORD through this campaign enables community ownership through the following initiatives.<ul><li>The project will END HUNGER among GIRL CHILDREN by providing them food essentials on one hand and ensuring their educational pursuits are continued through our Hybrid model of education(Online and Offline)</li><li> Ensuring girl children are protected with right food and covid-19 care kits</li><li>Reduce the rate of Child labor significantly by 10%in one year</li><li> Contribute towards increasing the literacy rate of the target area</li><li>Recruit and Train qualified teachers and volunteers</li><li>Facilitate Community Enrolment and Collaboration Plans</li><li> Improving Learning Outcomes Via Teachers and Volunteers.</li><li>Creating Girl Leaders</li><li>Establishing strong and replicable community-based development model</li><li>Empowering mothers through Skill training program to enable them to become livelihood earners.</li><li>Immediately with the help of END HUNGER-FEED THE GIRL CHILD program we will be not only preserving the lives of these children but also ensure their physical growth and mental development by providing them food essentials for the next three months </li></ul>

End Hunger- Feed The Project

Child labour is on the rise due to poverty, inequality, illiteracy, parental apathy and lack of government policies which makes families desperate for whatever meagre salary a child can obtain. According to statistics, 62% of child labour is stimulated by parents of impoverished families. India has the highest number of child labourers in the world, a 12.4 million and the state of Telangana has 0.60 million working children. Ranga Reddy District has 47170 children employed. In urban RR District, Telangana, just three municipalities Balanagar, Serilingampally and Qutbullapur employ 8965 children as per our survey. This number however does not include domestic child workers. If domestic children are included this number will be more than double as per an unofficial estimate. 
 Chord follows a rehabilitation process to turn these child labourers into productive citizens of society. To begin with, we conduct survey to identify the areas where child labourers are abundant followed by rescuing and motivating them about the importance of education. We focus on remedial classes for these children along with teacher recruitment, training and curriculum development. By encouraging them to participate in extracurricular activities, we transform their personalities completely. All our efforts bear fruit when we are able to mainstream them. To get them successfully enrolled in formal schools is our ultimate motive. 
 The benefits arising out of our program covers not only the children but also their families and the society as a whole. We produce 420 first generation literates every year. These children are motivated to pursue high school education. This plays an immense role in curbing trafficking of children into bonded labour /domestic labour and flesh trade. It also provides dignity and identity to socially oppressed and under privileged children. Ultimately, the community is sensitized about the importance of formal education.

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Across India, 90 percent of its workforce is from the informal labor sector. As per the 2017-2018 survey of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), there are 37.4 million home-based workers in India. Post Covid-19, the mode of gainful employment has undergone significant changes, especially within the informal sector. Domestic work, street vending, construction work are trades where physical presence at the workplace is paramount, in the absence of which wages cannot be earned. The luxury of working from home and maintaining physical distancing is not the perks of informal work. Only specific forms of work such as garment manufacturing, stitching, embroidery, beedi rollers allow informal workers to work from home. But often such informal workers are housed in informal settlements with poor basic infrastructure services, and live-in poor health and hygienic conditions which adds to their existing socio-economic problems. Hyderabad’s largest slums placed at the heart of the city are like monumental reminders of the alarming state of urban poverty in growing cities. The overly populated slums due to spontaneous migration and urban congestion house a large number of people comprising of various communities, majorly representing SC/ST/BC and minority communities. Most of the people in these slums barely make any money as they are seasonal construction workers, domestic workers, laborers, and work odd jobs. Women especially living in these pathetic conditions depend on menial jobs like domestic servants and seasonal unskilled construction workers. So, CHORD has come up with a community development project that focuses on rescuing and educating child laborers and training vulnerable women towards sustainable livelihood opportunities.  
 CHORD plans to provide immediate relief and also initiate urgent financial support and sourcing the modes for income generation for the community members. We propose the following verticals Relief and Rehabilitation:As a part of early relief, CHORD plans to provide monthly Food ration kits and care kits. There are pregnant women, aged members, and children categories, hence based on the family-based checklist, CHORD plans to organize the distribution of the family-wise food ration kits. We have realized that Covid-19 has devastated the lives of the poor and the marginalized. As such the migrant laborers desperately need food and care kits support for at least twelve months until their lives are rebuilt and they readapt to alternate livelihoods and normalcy is restored to the economy. On the basis of our decade-old engagement with slum communities, we have chosen families predominantly representing migrant families to reach out with twelve months requirement of Dry ration kits and care kits to sustain their families. Re-adaptation:As a part of the sustenance planning, CHORD proposes to distribute means for earning (MFE) tools such as sewing machines, ironing boxes, and pushcarts for immediate livelihoods generation. The rapidly changing needs for skills due to the COVID-19 crisis and recession made it difficult to adapt to market trends. So, we are laying immense focus on immediate alternate sources of livelihood for the community members as it is also the felt need of the community members. With the backend support of CHORD for supply chain needs and also a source for work contracts for the individual home-based entrepreneurs, we plan to distribute sewing machines to the slum community women trained as tailors in CHORD skill centers and also plan to distribute ironing boxes, Street vending carts, sanitizer sprays, home plumbing tool kits, and electrical work tool kits.Re-Building lives through Skill-Based TrainingBased on the Post Covid-19 situations, CHORD has made a field assessment and also plans to work on re-building the lives of community members with a focus on alternate and immediate replaceable skills for employment/self-employment. We have also observed that real-time tracking of health, food, and livelihood conditions re-building support is necessary for the poor. The focus of this step is to bring intrinsic growth and development in the slums of Hyderabad through a multi-pronged approach - economically empowering women, providing remedial education for children, and sensitizing the entire community on issues like gender equity, child rights, women empowerment, etc. The goal set is not about a one-dimensional change that manages to metered measured targets but to change the intrinsic nature, the cyclic pattern of family poverty and children being forced into labor by widening the periphery of gain and transforming the very factor that triggers poverty and a labor relapse in children i.e., Parents and Community. CHORD believes that it would be very effective to Re-Build the lives of the newly affected Post Covid families and especially vulnerable women through skill-based training and empowerment. 
 The outreach of this program would cover a wide array of backward communities that are usually rare recipients of development opportunities and aid. The fisherman community, dhobi community, barber community, scavenger community, agricultural laborers, landless laborers, slum dwellers, backward Sikh communities in urban pockets, and the weaver community would be benefitted through this initiative as we plan to distribute ration kits, tools for means for earning (MFE), create free access to employable skill training in job-oriented courses in the short term and ensure sustainable employment for vulnerable women through skill-based training, counseling.