What We do :-

Programs

1. Day Care centre

At present seven day care centers are running in near by villages and in 2 tribal villages .

To provide a healthy environment to the children of 0 to 5 years and motivate the children to enroll in formal schools-

v Learn and practice hygiene

v Prayers, Story telling, games, songs, craft, skits and exposure.

v Creative expression through clay molding, Origami, painting, skit etc.

v Each center keeps a health record of every child.

v Parent and teacher meeting.

v Special teaching for the baby sitters

2. Women’s Programme

Safe motherhood :- Deep day centers considers that healthy mother makes healthy children. So programs are arranged related to maternal and child health.Educating village women regarding health and other needs- every month women meetings are conducted in each village, to impart knowledge on nutrition, health and hygiene, common dieses, first aid and home nursing, child care Rights of a woman in family and society

Vaccination and Health checkup :- Once in a month there is monthly clinic arranged in the main centre where the vaccinations are provided to women and children and health checkup is done by the doctor. Health status of the pregnant mothers and children are monitored periodically. Health cards and records are maintained by the centre.

Gender sensitization: Gender sensitization is one of our major activities in the villages. The project helps women to release their power and to prove the myths wrong that women are weaker than man. To break this oppressive system and to bring equality among men & women is our continuous effort. The thought process of women is rarely given any respect rather they are kept out of the decision making process in family, community and in the society. The power is intentionally grabbed from her even though she is the sarpanch of gram-panchayat. Her husband exercises the power. What is wrong and what is right for her is decided by the male. In this context what kind of development we expect.

Awareness building and Empowerment : Development being a transformation process for people, communities & societies from present oppressive system to a just society can not be possible without bringing a shift in individual motives to community endeavor. Therefore awareness building and capacitating people is a continuous effort. Series of awareness building programmes were undertaken in the villages to make people realize about the contemporary socio-political, economic changes our country and effect  upon poor. The basic question is asked about poverty and why we are poor? Through games, group discussion, sharing of experiences, skits the important aspects of poverty dynamics are convincingly motivate them to unite and think critically to counter these marginalizing forces. Identifying issues and to undertake actions are the future prospects of the communities.

Community Organisation : We are in the process of building women organizations in villages and they are coming out of the age old envelops to experience the beauty of being a women. We organize meeting, group discussion, Leadership training and entertainment programmes to express the feelings. The women Sarpanch are give opportunity to speak to the community which was done by her husband previously. That is the changing process and simultaneously the economic independence aspects is taken care of formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) are in the run. The strategy is to convert these SHGs to MHGs (Mutual Help Groups) to issue based Groups where women would have economic independence and decision making power. We strongly believe women are the better manager in scare resources and less corrupt.

3.  Adolescent Girls’ Program

Among the children the status of a girl is worst. Child marriage in India still prevails. Girl child goes to her husband’s place in a younger age. The organisation has been arranging short term courses for the adolescent girls to enhance their capacity to adjust and co-op with the future challenges.

v It helps young girls to discover themselves and build confidence in their abilities .

v Supports them to overcome physical and psychological problems.

v It provides knowledge about importance of balanced diet, health and hygiene, sex education, child care, home management, skill development for economic independence (e.g. tailoring, food preservation)

4.      Tomoko-san Education & Empowerment Project (TEEP)

This program is dedicated to Tomoko Watanabe (1966 to 2007) of Japan .She was in her exposure visit to Deep Bal Sewa and  Mahila Kalyan Kendra and  passed away in an road accident.

Why Girls: The situation of children in India needs attention. Especially among the children the status of girls is worst. Starting from their birth they have been treated as burden to the family and the marginalization starts in the very hour of birth. This reflects in all aspects of the girls life as her ability to make choices , continuing basic education , Scope of higher education , selection  of partners ,child bearing etc. This oppression on women not only confine to the rural area but seen very much in the all over India. Through this project , we will be working closely with the girls who left school due to poverty .  

Objectives:

v Create Role models in the community in relation to  girls

v Provide scholarship to deserving girls for higher education

v Ensuring adequate knowledge building during adolescent phase of life

v Awareness building of the  parents and community for importance of girls education 

 v Integrating other developmental aspects of children through education program  

“To value her own good opinion, a child has to feel that she is a worthwhile person. She has to have confidence in herself as an individual “