Target Group: 260 women, 175 children and 1500 community members from underprivileged families
Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development and education in Banaswadi slum, Bangalore city has been working on preparing children from the underprivileged slum community for formal education and offers education support for school dropouts. As part of its capacity building activity, the programme offers the women from the community certificate training course on community health, childcare and preschool education. In addition, the programme sensitises the community members on health and hygiene matters.

Target Group: 360 women wage laborers and 40 male youth members
Synopsis:The aim of this programme is to improve the economic and social conditions of women wage labourers from 20 villages of Chollanayakanahalli Panchayat area, South Taluk, Bangalore. The programme provides training to self help group members on organizational management and links them up with banking institutions for credit support. To provide economic assistance to the villagers, the programme encourages the young men in the villages to manage their natural resources judiciously.

Target Group: 700 rural women members from 6 SHG Federations
Synopsis:This programme is working in 7 villages in Ranibennur & Byadagi taluka, Haveri district, Bangalore. It is creating livelihood opportunities for the rural based poor women in these villages. The focus is on training them to form self help groups and encourage them for micro finance activities. The programme also conducts sessions on health and hygiene and gender equity for them. It links the women with the Government programmes and involves the members in the grama sabha activities of the village.

Target Group: Entire community of 750 marginalized families

Synopsis:This programme in Hirekerur taluka of Haveri District, Bangalore aims to improve the lives of marginal and small farmers in 7 villages from 2 grama panchayats. The programme sensitizes the local community on natural resource management and encourages these small and marginal farmers to increase their productivity, conserve the health of the soil and contribute to the overall development of the village. It promotes community participation in tree planting, tank desiltation and in the National Rural Employment Gaurantee Act (NREGA) programme.

Target Group: 10025 community members and 30 children from underprivileged families
Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development and education in the slums of Indira Nagar, MGR Nagar & Periyar Nagar, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu addresses the waste management and sanitary issue of this underprivileged community. In order to improve the quality of life of the community, the project educates the rag pickers and the community about proper domestic waste management practices and the negative impact of improper waste disposal on their health. The programme also conducts non-formal education classes for rag picking children and children of rag picking families. 

Target Group: 825 rural children  

Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development and education is catering to the poor and needy children in the age group of 5-14 years from 5 villages in Suviseshapuram, Tirunelveli, a few kilometres away from Kanyakumari. The programme aims at providing children education through their 9 tuition and 4 day care centres. The children are trained to be on par with their peers. To equip the adolescent children and young girls  with vocational skills, the programme provides them with a six month training course in garment making.

Target Group: 100 marginalized men farmers – community members
Synopsis:This programme works in 5 villages in Faridabad district of Haryana with small and marginalized farmers whose small agricultural lands suffers from soil infertility and water shortage. Due to this the agricultural produce on their meagre land is poor, leading them into further poverty. The programme aims at strengthening of livelihood capabilities of these marginalized groups by making them aware of the techniques of organic farming. The project aims to show them that through organic farming, the soil becomes fertile, water is conserved and this yields in quality agricultural produce. The project encourages the local youth who have been trained in organic farming to form self help groups and set up organic farming based micro enterprise.

Target Group: 28 female prison inmates
Synopsis:This programme is working with some female inmates of Tihar Jail, Delhi. The programme imparts training and skills in weaving to the inmates in order to make them financially independent. The weaving activity provides the women with a way for self expression. The programme also provides socio-psychological support through counseling and group discussions. With the help of the prison doctors and prison authorities, the programme monitors the health of the prisoner-trainees. It also celebrates major festivals with the inmates. Even after they get released from the prison, the women find support from the programme team.   

Target Group: 70 vulnerable women
Synopsis:This programme in Madanpur Khadar, Delhi provides services ranging from preventive to rehabilitative to victims of rape and sexual abuse, especially minors. The programme provides immediate medical help, registering a First Information Report (FIR), medical examination and legal support in the initial stages so that the victim gets justice. To help the victim come out of their trauma, regular counseling and rehabilitation (economic and shelter) is also provided. The programme also helps resolve cases of domestic violence, dowry related issues, family disputes, etc. As part of its preventive work, it creates awareness about child sexual abuse and rape and suggests preventive measures for them in the slums of Delhi. Through workshops and film shows, the programme educates the community on different legal issues related to children and women. 

Target Group: empowerment activity for 1125 women, 200 children and 400 mine workers
Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development, education and health in 15 villages in Bansipaharpur, Roopbas and Bayana of Bharatpur District, Rajasthan provides health, economic rehabilitation and education to mine workers families. Bharatpur is highly dominated by sandstone quarries carved out of the Aravalli Hills. Due to the high mortality rate prevalent for stone mineworkers, these villages are locally known as "widow villages". The programme aims at providing economic rehabilitation to the widows and other underprivileged women first by the formation of self-help groups and then by including various income generating activities like cash crop cultivation, practice of husbandry, dona-patta (paper plate making), tufted carpets, muda making and setting up grocery shops. The project encourages the widows to go for insurance and widow pension schemes. It also works on vaccination of livestock and insurance of goats. 
To meet the health needs of the villagers, the programme conducts health camps every year. These camps ensure the extension of DOTS (Direct Observation Treatment Services)/RNTCP scheme and screening for other prevalent diseases, sputum testing and treatment of TB patients. The project motivates the mine workers to use cloth masks when they are in the mines as this will safe guard their health.
The programme supports three remedial centres for low level learners in government schools.

Target Group: 400 visually impaired
Synopsis:This programme in Hauz Khas, Delhi is a platform and a resource cell for the visually impaired. People can call/visit this resource cell for information, advice and guidance on eye defects and blindness. The programme reaches out to people, helping them and their families to understand the concerns of those who are visually impaired regarding areas of education, careers, employment, legal rights, discrimination, training and technology for them. Through the services of a counselor, professional guidance is given to those accessing the website or the help desk and connecting them with professionals and organizations that can provide help.

Target Group: entire tribal community of 2800 people
Synopsis:This programme is working for the poor tribal communities (Mina’s and Bhil’s) in Maitali and Sarkankopcha villages of Dungarpur, southern Rajasthan. The tribal communities are agrarian based. Agriculture is rain fed (dependent on the erratic rainfalls) and people cultivate on the hillock steps, which is resulting in rapid soil erosion.  In both the villages there are very few alternate water sources like wells for the irrigation of crops. Water scarcity, low agriculture development, food insufficiency, mismanagement of the forests, low and unstable income flow, unemployment, ineffective or non-existent local systems in the villages are the major concerns of the programme. 

To solve the problem of water scarcity and food insufficiency, the project encourages these communities, through a participative approach, to adopt soil and water conservation measures by planting trees, digging of and refilling trenches, constructing well recharging pits and nala bunds and small check dams and going in for crop rotation. The project hopes that through these measures, the tribal community of the Mina’s and Bhil’s will be able to provide enough employment for its members and this will result in a stable income for the family.

Target Group: 33 aged people
Synopsis:This residential programme in Narsapur village, which is few kms. outside the city of Hyderabad provides the aged with shelter, medical and health care. The members of the home are involved in activities such as supervision, account keeping, gardening and kitchen work. The aged members participate in yoga exercises regularly. In the twilight years of their life, the aged are able to lead a life of dignity and peace

Target Group: 70 adolescent girls and young women from underprivileged families 
Synopsis:This programme in Kisan Nagar, Karimnagar, (rural) and Amberpet, Hyderabad, (urban) provides intensive vocational training in tailoring and embroidery to underprivileged adolescent girls and young women, who were engaged in domestic jobs. The girls and young women, from below the poverty line, come from these slum areas and are mostly school dropouts. On completion of the training the girls and young women are able to stitch their own clothes and this provides some savings to the family. Some of them take work orders from members in the community and the income earned from this work helps in supporting their family.         

Target Group: 45 mentally challenged young women
Synopsis:This programme in Trimulgherry, Secunderabad provides assistance and rehabilitation to destitute mentally challenged adolescent girls and boys and young adults. The programme trains them to live, work and learn in Group Homes which are single unit houses taken on rent in various residential localities. By living in these group homes, the young women learn to integrate into society. The programme conducts vocational training activities in screen-printing and vegetable packaging work. Through the vocational training activity the programme inculcates work habit, time concept and behaviour management in these young adults

Target Group: 70 rural women
Synopsis:The poor rural women folk in Mamudpur, Sibdashpur Panchayat area and Chandigarh Panchayat area near Kolkata are engaged in agriculture, goat rearing, pig rearing, and house dairy, but in their traditional method. This results in the women not earning sufficient income from it. In order to build the capabilities of these poor women, the programme organizes skill development training for the women in vermin compost production technology and goat rearing. After the training, the women are able to use scientific methods and earn sufficient income to sustain their family.

Target Group: entire community of 1550 members

Synopsis:This programme aims to create employment opportunities and ensure food security among the marginalized families through the promotion of pisciculture and rain water harvesting systems in four villages under Bhawanpur II block in Purba Medinipur district, Kolkata. The programme will provide capacity building activities for the marginalized farmers in organic farming, pisciculture, sustainable practice in cultivation, rain water storage, soil health and pest management which will lead to food security and better nutritional status of the families.

Target Group: 15 aged women
Synopsis:This programme provides an abode to unmarried aged women, aged widows / aunts and even mothers who do not find shelter in nuclear families. The programme provides a home to these women in Tollygunge, Kolkata. Aged women who are acutely distressed following the demise of their husbands and are left with no financial source and elderly women who have been abandoned by their husbands with no members of her immediate or extended family to look after them are taken care of in this home. In most cases, these women are devoid of any financial or psychological support from their immediate family. All the needs of these women, viz. food, clothing, shelter, medicines and hygiene requirements are met by the home. In the twilight years of their life, the women find solace and peace here.

Target Group: 65 mentally challenged children, youth and adults
Synopsis:This programme in the C.P.Tank area, Mumbai runs a school for children, youth and adults with multiple challenges / disabilities. The school imparts basic education, general knowledge, physical and mental development activities and self care so that the children learn to perform their daily living activities. As part of its vocational training programme, the project conducts training in weaving, file making, screen printing, block printing, sewing and fancy work. The aim of the vocational training activity is to make the mentally challenged children and youth learn a skill so that they can be rehabilitated and become economically independent to some extent. The programme also has an early intervention centre for providing therapy for children below age five.

Target Group: income generation programme for 100 women, education for 580 children and health for the entire community of 1215 members
Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development, education and health in the slums of Turbhe, Navi Mumbai is a holistic programme which provides education to underprivileged children, vocational training to the youth and women and organizes health awareness sessions and camps for the people in the community. The primary focus of the programme is education and thus they run balwadis for children under the age of 6 years and study classes for children attending formal schools till standard 12. On completion of balwadi education, the programme enrolls the children in regular schools. Children who are slow learners and may drop out of schools subsequently are provided coaching through support classes. Those who have never been to school are enrolled in the non-formal classes and brought on par and admitted into formal schools. The programme has also networked with a private school which conducts classes for 50 underprivileged children after the school hours are over. It also conducts vocational courses in computer for the youth and school drop outs with the basic aim of providing livelihood opportunities. For the adolescent girls and women, the programme conducts short three to six months skill training programme in tailoring, candle making, jewellery making, embroidery, soap and disinfectant making.
The programme, in collaboration with the Primary Health Centre, conducts regular health awareness camps for the community. It motivates the families to get their children immunized against diseases. The programme also conducts trainings for the women on women’s health issues, nutrition education and on the importance of educating children.

Target Group: 950 victimized women
Synopsis:This programme reaches out to very poor women who are in distress. They face problems of domestic violence or marital discord or dowry harassment or custody of children or alcoholism or adultery. The programme provides them with counseling services, legal aid and rehabilitation through reconciliation with the family or job placement or temporary shelter or judicial separation/divorce. To create awareness about the status of women, this programme is working with 17 communities in Vasai (inclusive of one adolescent group) and with 2 communities in Thane. The communities are provided training in leadership roles, family life education, gender sensitization, personality development, health and hygiene, etc. The project is also working in the Thane Civil Hospital, Thane district where cases of burns, rape, domestic violence, attempted suicide, etc.are admitted. The programme provides guidance, counseling and legal assistance to the victim and their family

Target Group: 175 marginalized women
Synopsis:In 1999, 10 underprivileged marginalized women infected and affected by HIV got together and decided to help them self become economically independent. This project in Gandhigram school, Juhu and Pant Nagar BMC school 3, Ghatkopar aims at improving the economic and health status of the HIV affected women. The women work as educators for vocational training activities, hold meetings on various health issues and provide social intervention for the other affected women in the community. The women are involved in income generating activities like making decorative diyas, rakhis, greeting cards, etc. For the youth of the area, the programme conducts vocational training courses in tailoring, beautician and English speaking. During the duration of the course, the project conducts awareness programmes on financial and banking investments and procedures, reproductive and child health, women’s development, etc.

Target Group: 80 aged persons
Synopsis:This programme situated at Taloja on the outskirts of Mumbai, is a home for the poor and destitute aged. It provides them free accommodation. The programme is having a positive impact on the lives of the aged by providing for their social, medical, psychological, recreational and spiritual needs. A doctor provides medical services to the aged three times a week. The recreational room is equipped with television and board games. Bhajan and prayer sessions are also held regularly

Target Group: 45 children who are orphans / abandoned, etc.
Synopsis:This programme in Vasai, Thane district and Malad, Mumbai is a residential care home for the underprivileged children who are either orphans, abandoned or destitute children and youth and destitute elderly. The programme lends it support to them by meeting their educational, health and shelter needs. The younger children are taught the balwadi / pre-school lessons in the home. The older children are sent to nearby schools. Because of the care and support provided by the project, the children show remarkable improvements in their education and are also able to exhibit special talents in dance, music, drawing, etc.

Target Group: 100 village community members and 4000 children
Synopsis:In the Konkan region of Maharashtra, there is sloping land which has shallow soil and beneath it are hard rocks. The villages in this belt receive torrential rains during the monsoons which result in overflowing of wells. But once the rains are over, the meagre underground water lasts for just a few months resulting in water sources drying up and villagers facing severe scarcity. This integrated programme on community development and education in Raighad and Bhiwandi promotes community based rain water harvesting system. The concept is introduced through the school education system in the villages, through village level meetings and other programmes like paani yaatras, etc. This makes the community members aware and alert through organized information, education and communication strategies. This in turn helps in facilitating village development, through villager to villager process. Through the involvement and shraamdaan (voluntary labor) of the villagers, the rain water is conserved through the conversion of water holes into wells, cordoning of springs, excavation of ponds, roof top water harvesting structures, etc. These structures help provide the water scarce villagers with surface water and they also help in recharging the ground water.
The programme introduces the concepts of rain water harvesting, water and health, water and sanitation, water and afforestation, water and agriculture in primary schools through organized activity based learning. The programme also focuses on facilitating village development through child to parent, child to village processes.  

Target Group: 75 vulnerable women 
Synopsis:This programme at Chembur, Mumbai provides rehabilitation to vulnerable women coming from impoverished families. The women are either those who are released from prison and have no where to go, or rescued from sexually exploitative situations, or destitute women vulnerable to crime and prostitution. Since these women lack vocational skills and educational qualifications, the project offers them education, vocational training, employment and counseling services. The women are encouraged to attend literacy and education classes and complete their education through the National Open School programme. The vocational skills provided to these women are in embroidery, jewellery making, tailoring, painting, mehndi design and handicraft. A few of the women are placed in the NGO sector. The counseling services re-train these women in socially adaptive behaviour. The women are being trained to re-integrate themselves in the mainstream of society

Target Group: 3750 tribal community members
Synopsis:This programme has identified 25 tribal villages in Shahapur taluka, Thane district, Maharashtra and aims at improving their lives by providing them with basic amenities like water, health care and education. The programme focuses on building the capacities of these tribal women, many of whom are below the poverty line, by organizing income generating courses for them in agarbatti making, fancy leather and rexine goods, chalk and candle making, leaf plate and cup making, detergent, phenyl and liquid soap making, masala making, organic farming or vegetable growing. Through these trainings the project hopes to enhance the income level of these women.

Target Group: 100 elderly people
Synopsis:This programme runs a centre at Lower Parel, Mumbai for the aged members from underprivileged families. In order to enrich the lives of the elderly, who feel lonely and depressed, the programme provides opportunities for growth and self expression. It provides need based services like diabetics check up, ENT check up, eye check up, dental check up, skin check up, physiotherapy, yoga classes, etc. for them. Recreational activities like screening of movies, celebration of festivals, picnics are also organized for them. Home visits are made and medical assistance is provided to the elderly who are home bound due to age and ailments and are not able to come to the centre.

Target Group: 40 children who are mentally challenged or suffering from multiple handicaps and the rural community 
Synopsis:This programme offers services for the complete education, care, treatment and training of those children and adults who are mentally challenged and suffering from multiple handicaps. To provide early intervention and rehabilitation to such children in rural areas, the programme through its integrated approach to community development and education has initiated a school with pre-vocational training near Nasik, Maharashtra. The project reaches out to 14 villages in and near their Deolali centre through camps to detect mental handicap and multiple disabilities in children at an early stage, evaluate the extent of the problem, provide for interventional therapies like speech therapy, physiotherapy, etc. In these camps the project team suggests rehabilitative measures to the poor families, like either home bound training or special schooling or vocational skill training for the children. 

Target Group: 250 women prison inmates and 50 children
Synopsis:This integrated programme on community development and education works with the small but critically poor and vulnerable community of women inmates and their children in Yerawada jail, Pune. The women are behind bars and their children (below age 6) are staying with them. The programme conducts literacy classes for the women and provides skill training to them in card making and embroidery work. Regular counseling sessions are also conducted for these inmates. Since the children below the age of six stay with their mothers in the prison premises, the programme runs a day care centre and balwadi classes for them just outside the Yerawada female prison. In this way the child is in a safe environment during the day and also receives pre-school education. The children are provided with a nutritious meal along with the basic studies. There is a doctor who visits the centre every fortnight and recommends tonics, etc. The programme ensures that the young children are immunized as required.