About NGO:

CSSC,a non government organization started in 1972, works in twenty slum areas around Bandra (East) to Santacruz (East), in Mumbai. "Healthy, Free and Full" life for women is the goal of CSSC and WIN project, the main programme of CSSC ,uses health clinic in the slum areas as entry point. Based on its experience of working with people at the grassroots level in Mumbai slums and inspired by Late Dr. Indumati Parikh's work since 1964, CSSC believes that women can be the best agents of social change because they have the potential to build a better future not only for themselves but also for their children and logically, their families. Project WIN (Women of India Network), launched in 2003, works towards woman's integrated development and empowerment since last 6 years through their 17 WIN Clinics where either Health or Savings group (Bachat gat) are used as an entry point.

Fund Usage:

CSSC needs fund to the tune of Rs 300000/- per year to run one WIN Clinic. We need sponsorship of 12 clinics in the next two years.

Components of WIN:

Seven Main Components of WIN are

1. Women's general and Reproductive Health
2. Child Health ,Growth monitoring and value education for kids
3. Family Planning
4. Non Formal education for women
5. Savings/Income generation/Vocational Training and skill development for women
6. Self Help Groups
7. Leadership for Sanitation & Environment in Slums

WIN has been running 20 clinics since last 6 years in slum areas. Each clinic caters to 1000 families through 2 trained Community Health Volunteers (CHVs). The health volunteers are women from the communities motivated and trained by WIN social workers and CSSC staff. The CHVs take up following activities in the community.

1. One clinic caters to 1000 families that is approximately 5000-6000 population.
2. Regular home visits- counseling to women on health and non health concerns including sanitation and environment
3. Growth monitoring of fewer than five children- regular weight checkups and filling up "Road to Health" chart. Referral to doctors for further action and counseling in needy cases, refer some kids for afterschool non formal value education to 'Blossom" in CSSC
4. Providing family planning utilities (oral pills, condoms) at their doorstep.
5. Vocational training in the community wherever feasible and in WIN central
6. Creation, Motivation and Guidance to form Self Help Groups in community, networking with other organizations for empowering the self help groups.
7. Non formal education sessions for women are conducted twice a month in each clinic area. Non formal education covers woman's rights approach in Medical and Social topics essential for any woman for a better life.
8. Estimated Expenditure of one WIN Clinic (Based on last 5 years' experience and current cost)

Impact:

One Mrs Sunita Ganage was a widow with an Education level of 8th Standard.She used to run her family of herself and her one daughter with piece rate work of making artificial necklaces. She undertook training of Balwadi teacher and worked for about 6 years or so. When she came to know about CSSC's WIN project, she undertook Health Workers' training in early 2005 for two months and joined as a Health worker in a WIN clinic in September 2005. Within a period of about one & half years she became a junior supervisor. Encouraged by promotion, she also completed her Para Professional training at Nirmala Niketan on weekends for six months.

Her in-service training continued and she got selected for a Fellowship from Centre for Leadership (CFL) UK for a period of one year which was completed even as her job in WIN was continuing. She realized the potential of taking up a house based small business in CSSC 's vocational training courses and started a business of "Sevia (vermicelli) making "and supplying to shops and houses in partnership with another woman. She also participated in some surveys conducted by CSSC and a Project of Social Mapping of Water and Sanitation facilities in slums of H/E Ward where she had to lecture and demonstrate to municipal staff. She has also organized a "Shejar Samiti" in Govt colony Bandra and has taken a contract from MCGM for cleanliness of the specified area with the help of young boys in the colony.

In May 2011, she has been taken up as an Assistant Social worker in CSSC management staff at a salary of Rs 5000/- and handles Bachat Gats (Saving groups of women under CSSC.

This is thus a classical case where a woman has tried for her life to be "Healthy, Free and Full",the main aim of CSSC-WIN.

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo136_cssc.htm

Founded Year: 1972

Cause category: Women Empowerment