Target Group: 175 children and 260 women and 1500 community members from underprivileged families
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education and community development 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: 19 specially challenged children
Synopsis: This programme in Viveknagar, Bangalore offers special education in keeping with the syllabus prescribed by the National Institute for Mental Health to children suffering from Down's Syndrome. Along with special education, the programme provides speech therapy, physiotherapy, dental care and pre-vocational training so as to help them become independent.
The programme's outreach activity identifies, assesses and ensures the reach of special education to places where there are no special schools. Through this outreach aspect, the programme offers early intervention support to new born babies (6 months to 3 years) with Down’s syndrome by assisting them to build their body tone, motor action and stimulate learning ability. The programme also provides home management training to the older group (14 years and above) and skill training in tailoring.

Target Group: 63 specially challenged children
Synopsis: The aim of this programme in Basavanagudi, Bangalore is to mainstream the trainable mentally challenged child by imparting comprehensive training and offering counseling and guidance to the parents. The project is creating awareness among the general public about disability, its causes, rehabilitation procedures and preventive measures and providing pointers about the normal development of a child from 0-12 months of age. The project seeks the participation of the general public in the rehabilitation process of children with mental retardation and multiple disabilities. The programme also offers infant stimulation training to children with developmental disabilities.

Target Group: 82 visually impaired children
Synopsis: This residential programme in Yelahanka, Bangalore provides free education and skill training to children who are visually impaired in the age group 4-17 years. For the overall integrated development of the children, they are taught through Braille and are also trained in computer education by using the JAWS software. The programme focuses on the holistic growth of these children by providing training in art, music, drama, spoken English, yoga, sports and physical education. As part of its pre-vocational activity the programme provides training in bag making, flower making, making pen stands, wall hangings, table mats and water and fabric painting.

Target Group: 18 children with multiple disabilities
Synopsis: This programme in Jeevan Bima Nagar, Bangalore is reaching out to those suffering from multiple disabilities like those who are blind and deaf, blind and autistic, blind and mentally challenged and blind with cerebral palsy. The programme aims at rehabilitating children and young adults, to learn to communicate, be able to function independently and learn simple self help skills. The programme is both home and centre based and reaches out to children and parents by focusing on sensory and motor skill development, early intervention, skill based activities, Braille learning and social interaction through the services of a psychotherapist, physiotherapist, autism therapist and vocational instructor.

Target Group: 150 children
Synopsis: This programme in Kothanur, Bangalore rural district is working with the underprivileged families (scheduled caste and backward castes) living in 10 stone quarries itself. The families live in temporary shelters which lack basic amenities and without access to educational and primary medical care and other facilities. To provide educational and medical assistance to the community, the project conducts pre-school classes for the children and dispensary services to the community

Target Group: 100 tribal children and health coverage for 6350 members in tribal hamlets
Synopsis: School drop outs, child labour, the neglected girl child and children from the tribal communities of the Paniya, the Kurumbas and the Kattunayakas in the Gudalur block, Pandalur Taluk of the Nilgiri district, Tamil Nadu attend the two bridge school programmes run by this project. The age group of these children is from 4-18 years. The bridge school classes focus on getting the children back into the formal school programme. Mid-day meal is provided to the children attending the bridge school. The project also conducts sports activities, drawing competitions and cultural programmes for them. Motivational and awareness programmes are also conducted for the parents and the community on the importance of education. 
The programme has an integrated approach to education and health and hence, provides medical care through the detection of sickle cell anemia (the gene of this disease is restricted amongst the tribes) as this will help in preventing heamatic disorders faced by them.

Target Group: 30 children and 10025 community members from underprivileged families.
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education and community development in the slums of Indira Nagar, MGR Nagar & Periyar Nagar, 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 programme aims to educate rag pickers and other members of the community about proper domestic waste management practices and the negative impact of improper waste disposal on their health. The project 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 education and community development is catering to the poor and needy children in the age group of 5-14 years from 5 villages in Suviseshapuram, Tirunelveli close to Kanyakumari. The programme aims at providing education for children through their 9 tuition and 4 day care centres. These children are trained to be at par with their peers. To equip adolescents and young women with vocational skills, the programme provides them with a six-month training course in garment making.

Target Group: 35 children of under-trial prisoners
Synopsis: To promote and enable the children of women prisoners of Tihar jail no.6A in Delhi, this integrated programme on education and community development provides residential education facilities to the children through various formal schools. The programme counselors regularly visit the schools where these children are studying and interact with the school authorities and hostel wardens on the progress of the child. Parent teacher meetings and health check ups form an integral component of this programme. The children participate in celebrations of some of the major festivals. The programme also arranges for children in the residential schools to meet their siblings who are in other schools.
To continue the bond between the mother and the child, the programme conducts regular prison visits for the children, who can meet their mothers who are serving their sentence in jail. When any of the inmates is released from prison, the programme team members meet the ‘released from prison’ parent of the child at their home. In this home visit, the staff members teach the released parent the role of a parent who can once again become a role model for their child. 

Target Group: 900 underprivileged children
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education and health provides holistic development through need based educational interventions with underprivileged children of 4-8 years of age in the re-settlement slums of Holambi Kalan and Bawana in Delhi. The schools are conducted in the lanes inside the slum area and are known as “galli schools”.  30 galli schools provide pre-school education to the children along with extra curricular activities like library classes, music and sports competitions and exposure visits. Health care plays an important part of this programme. The parents are involved in the activities of the galli schools through regular parent teacher meetings. In these meetings, the issue about the child’s performance and their care at home are discussed. Children with behavioral problems are provided regular counseling. The programme tries to mainstream children into the formal educational set up. It also involves few of the slum community members to be a part of the ‘slum school committee’. To help this committee in performing their role, the programme conducts training sessions for them on various developmental issues concerning children and the community in general. Prevention of drug abuse, counseling, drug de-addiction and rehabilitation are some of the other areas of work of the organization.

Target Group: 165 underprivileged children
Synopsis: This programme in the Kanak Durga basti at R.K.Puram is involved in imparting education to underprivileged children in the age group of 4-14 years. The programme provides access to these children for non-formal and balwadi (pre-school) education through its 6 non-formal education centres and 2 balwadi classes. The programme focuses on mainstreaming the children in formal government schools. The children participate in drawing, essay writing, debate and sports competitions.  The children are also taken on educational tours. The programme celebrates national and regional festivals. Monthly parent teacher meetings are conducted to know the progress of the child. As part of their vocational training programme, the youth are provided with typing and computer skills, tailoring and embroidery classes.

Target Group: 300 orphan and underprivileged children   
Synopsis: This education programme in the village of Vazidpur, Noida provides formal education to orphaned, abandoned children and also to underprivileged children from the rural areas. Apart from education, the programme provides food, shelter and health care facilities to these children. Besides regular teaching, the programme uses innovative, activity based methods to teach subjects like mathematics and science. The children are encouraged to participate in inter school debate, quiz and sports competitions, debates, quiz competitions, sports. The programme also provides training in computer education, tailoring, cookery, embroidery and clay modeling.

Target Group: 200 children, empowerment activity for 1125 women and 400 mine workers
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education, community development and health in 15 villages in Bansipaharpur, Roopbas and Bayana Blocks of Bharatpur District in Rajasthan provides education on health and economic rehabilitation to the families of mine workers. Bharatpur is highly dominated by sandstone quarries carved out of the Aravalli Hills. Due to the high mortality rate prevalent, 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 within them, like cash crop cultivation, practice of goatry, dona-patta (paper plate making), tufted carpet making, muda making and setting up of grocery shops. It also encourages the widows to go in for insurance and widow pension schemes and simultaneously works on insurance of goats vaccination of livestock. 
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 for TB patients. The project motivates the mine workers to use cloth masks when they are in the mines and the importance of the same.
The programme supports three remedial centres for low level learners in government schools.

Target Group: 19 children and adults with multiple disabilities
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education and health in East Delhi is providing specialized day care services to the severely multi disabled children and adults in the age group of 7-32 years. The specialized day care services offered are physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and special education. The children are divided into three groups – stimulation group, nursery group and non-formal education group. The special education syllabus is prepared according to the nature and extent of disability of each child.
The initiative to start this service for special children near their homes was a collective effort of the parents of these children. The parents are actively involved in all the activities including the regular day to day activities. A parent is present once a week at the centre and is involved in the activities with the children.

Target Group: 118 children with hearing impairment and 42 normal children
Synopsis: This programme in Srinagar Colony, Hyderabad runs a school for the education and rehabilitation of the underprivileged hearing impaired (approx.65%) and deprived children. To improve the academic skills of children between age group of 3-18 years, the programme provides pre-school education through play way, speech and language skills. To improve the listening skills, the programme provides auditory training with the use of hearing aids. The mothers are trained in speech and language therapy so that they can understand and help their children at home. The focus of the programme is to integrate the child into the normal environment.

Target Group: 150 child laborers
Synopsis: This residential transit school in Kukatpally, Hyderabad is working in the area of rescuing, rehabilitating and relocating underprivileged children who work as child laborers. The project provides them with bridge school education, skill development training and health care. To restore the self-esteem and dignity of these children, the programme integrates them with other normal children in the transit school. One of the key components of the programme is creating awareness in the community on the issue of child labor. The programme also conducts workshops in the villages to educate the rural people and persuade them towards a concerted, conscious and collective community action against the social menace of child labor.

Target Group: 65 orphan / destitute girls
Synopsis: This programme in Vijaynagar, Hyderabad runs a rehabilitation home for girls who are orphans or children of destitute / widowed mothers. The programme provides for their education in formal schools. To help the girls in their studies, the programme conducts evening tuition classes for them. Counseling, medical check up and recreation form an integral part of this project. The girls who are attending colleges are imparted training in typing/computers/tailoring, as this will increase their prospects towards better job placement.

Target Group: 500 children in difficult circumstances
Synopsis: This transit home programme in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad caters to children on the streets and in other difficult circumstances (child labor, child beggars, children involved in rag-picking). The transit home provides them shelter and health care facilities. The programme works at three levels – to rescue, to rehabilitate and to mainstream the children. It rescues vulnerable children through its mobile rescue teams. Then the children are rehabilitated in the transit homes and sent to attend bridge school education. They then mainstream those attending the bridge school classes into the formal education system. Some children who show an inclination for vocational training are reintegrated into the society through job guaranteed vocational training programmes. Children who have families willing to take them back are repatriated to their families.

Target Group: 105 mentally challenged children
Synopsis: This programme in East Maredpally, Secunderabad runs a residential cum day school for the mentally challenged children, in the age group of 3-18 years and adults between 18 to 53 years. The project provides special education to the ones who are either challenged with different degrees of mild, moderate, severe and profound. Apart from that it focuses on developing self-help, social and domestic skills in these people. Adolescent children are trained in vocational activities at their aata making, candle making and envelope making units. These activities also help develop their fine and gross motor skills.

Target Group: 344 children from underprivileged families
Synopsis: The main focus of this programme is to impart non-formal education to the underprivileged children residing in Kalighat, Kolkata and bring them on par and admit them into formal schools. The children are mainly from the streets and the red light areas of Kalighat and its adjoining areas. The programme also provides remedial coaching classes to school going children between classes I to X with the intention to reduce drop outs and ensure retention of students in the formal schools. The children in the non-formal and remedial classes are provided with mid-day meals, uniforms, pre-vocational training, cultural and health support. Regular parent teacher meetings are held to know the progress of the child. The project annually arranges a teachers training programme where the teachers learn new teaching concepts.    

Target Group: 45 adivasi children
Synopsis: The pre-primary school run by this programme is situated in Kutubpur village, Hooghly district, Kolkata. Kutubpur is an extremely remote backward village with no proper drinking water, lack of health and infrastructural facilities, illiteracy is rampant and the nearest government school is 2-3 kms.away. The village comprises of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other minority communities. The children are provided free education till class one. The programme also provides these children with nutrition and school uniforms. Physical training, games and recreation form an integral part of this programme. Free health check ups are also conducted for new mothers and children.   

Target Group: education for 580 children, community development work for 100 women and health for the entire community of 1215 members
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education, community development 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 organization is on 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 project enrolls the children in regular schools. Children who are slow learners and may drop out of schools are subsequently provided coaching through support classes. Those who have never been to school are enrolled in the non-formal classes and brought on par with other students 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. The organization 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, embroidery, candle making, jewelry making, 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 training for women on issues, health and nutrition education and on the importance of educating children.

Target Group: 230 tribal and village children
Synopsis: This education programme for the tribal and village children in six government schools in Bhopoli, rural Palghar, Thane district, is for students in standards VIII, IX & X. The project provides extra coaching class support to these children in the three main subjects, viz. Mathematics, English & Science. Children are given uniforms and other school necessities to ensure that they do not drop out of school. Study tours and cultural programmes are also arranged for the same. Students in standard X are given information on vocational courses and higher educational opportunities available to them.

Target Group: 450 tribal children
Synopsis: This programme runs 3 balwadi centres in the tribal villages of Kalmacha Ponda, Barik Payri and Patachepani, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai and 5 centres in a few tribal villages in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra which provide pre-school preparation to the tribal children. On completion of their pre-school education, they are enrolled into the Municipal schools. To prevent drop outs at the school level, the programme also conducts study classes as a tuition / support facility. Parents meeting and teachers training programmes are a regular activity of the programme.

Target Group: 100 underprivileged children
Synopsis: This programme in Sai Nagar, Mumbai, provides education for children between the age group of 4 -12 years. The children come from below poverty line and reside in slums. The programme runs a Day Care Centre that looks after the educational needs of the children, provides a safe shelter where the children can spend a large part of their day and looks into their health and nutritional needs as well. After a year in this centre, the children are enrolled in Municipal schools. Parent teacher meetings are held every month to follow the progress of the child.

Target Group: 195 children of construction workers
Synopsis: This programme runs an integrated day care centre and education programme for the vulnerable children of migrant construction workers at Mazgaon site, Mumbai. The children at this centre are between the ages of a few months to 14 years. Children from a few months to 3 years are placed in crèches. Those in the bracket of 3 to 6 attend pre-school classes. Those above 6 years and who are not in any school, attend the non-formal education programme. Those who go to regular schools attend the study/tuition classes at the centre. Apart from educational support, the children are provided with nutritive, mid day meal. Those who are weak are provided with a special diet. A qualified doctor pays weekly visit to the centre. Vitamin A dose is given twice a year to all the children who are under five years of age. In terms of preventive care, the project holds meetings, street plays and campaigns on health and social issues like TB, aids, cancer, population control, child abuse, etc. By creating awareness amongst parents, the programme encourages them to go in for timely treatment when required and for preventive care.

Target Group: 4000 children and 100 village community members
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. As the rains are over, the meager underground water lasts for just a few months resulting in water sources drying up and villagers facing severe scarcity. In order to introduce the concept of rain water harvesting to these poor villagers who are affected with water scarcity, this integrated programme on community development and education in Raighad and Bhiwandi promotes community based rain water harvesting system. The concept of rain water harvesting 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, alert and become citizens, 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: 300 underprivileged children
Synopsis: This programme at Walkeshwar, Mumbai runs non-formal education and tuition classes for the underprivileged street and slum children in its vicinity. The non-formal classes are for school drop outs and street children. The tuition classes are for those children who are attending formal schools and help them with all subjects. The project also looks into the medical, health and nutritional needs of these children. Children in standard IX & X are provided with career counseling. The programme also conducts leadership and talent development sessions for these children.

Target Group: 40 children who are mentally challenged or suffering from multiple handicaps and the rural community 
Synopsis: This society at Sewri, Mumbai was formed in 1944. It 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 project through its integrated approach to education and community development has initiated a school with pre-vocational training at Deolali, Nasik district. The programme 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 interventional therapies like speech therapy, physiotherapy, etc. In these camps the project team suggests rehabilitative measures to the poor families, like home bound training, special schooling or vocational skill training. 

Target Group: 125 children of migrant construction workers

Synopsis: The core objective of this programme in Aundh, Pune is to provide education to poor children of migrant construction workers in the age group of 3-14 years. The programme is conducted at 5 construction sites. Children attending balwadi classes are prepared to join the schools. Those attending the non-formal education classes are drop outs being trained to rejoin schools. Study classes are conducted for children attending regular schools to ensure that they do not drop out.

Target Group: 260 village school children
Synopsis: This programme in Bhimashankar district, Pune is working towards instilling in school children of class VIII the knowledge and appreciation of their rich natural biodiversity. The programme encourages them to understand the importance of harmonious co-existence between humans and wildlife and create awareness on the issues of wildlife and sanctuaries. The programme uses relevant and local educational material in the local language to conduct workshops for these children and based on this awareness, the community is encouraged to preserve their natural biodiversity

Target Group: 50 children and 250 women prison inmates
Synopsis: This integrated programme on education and community development 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 project 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 project 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 project ensures that the young children are immunized as required. 

Target Group: 50 children from vulnerable circumstances
Synopsis: This programme in Navi Peth, Pune provides care for the children of commercial sex workers. Children of these commercial sex workers are exposed to situations which are harmful for their growth and development. Therefore to provide them a conducive environment to grow in, the programme runs a day and night care shelter for children between the age group of 0-14 years in the red light area. They are provided education and health care for their overall development. With the consent of the mother, the programme also enrolls children into boarding school.