About NGO:

Save The Children India is active on-ground with various programs like education, health facilities and vocational training, catering to the children and women in India. The programs benefit more than 200,000 children and women through its reach.

Along with the organization's other initiatives, Save The Children India caters to the special children from across the slums of North Mumbai. These children, who are Hearing and Mentally Impaired, get access to education in our Special Care Centre. The school has benefitted more than 21,000 children by adopting a Multi-Grade and Multi-Level Teaching and Learning pattern.

Fund Usage:

Save The Children India would be spending the funds collected through Marathon to its Education project. This project has three different sections like the Special Care Centre (for Hearing and Mentally Impaired children), Study Centre and Balwadi (pre-primary education).

Education: It runs and successfully implement Balwadis (pre-primary) schooling and Study Centres across Maharashtra, benefitting 22,196 children since the past two years. The project aims at educating the less privileged children and gives access to education and continued schooling. The program aims to literate the young citizens, and enrols them in formal government schools, ensuring continued schooling, thus reducing the number of drop-outs.

Impact:

Individual case story from our Education Project.

Deepali Kakde, is a 9 year old girl studying at Save The Children India's Study Centre at Powai, Mumbai. Deepali lives in a kuccha house with her mother, her elder brother, and maternal uncle. She lost her father four years ago. Deepali's mother is a domestic worker and earns Rs. 1,500/- a month. Her 20 year old uncle works in housekeeping and earns Rs. 3,000/- a month.

Deepali is a first generation learner. Her mother might have never seen the inside of a classroom, but has big dreams for her daughter. Deepali has no plans of letting her mother down anytime soon. She is a bright and enthusiastic learner, particularly good at sports. In the sports competition conducted by Save The Children India in December 2010, Deepali bagged several medals, and won the second prize overall.

The intervention that she receives in the Study Centre has enabled Deepali to continue her studies in which she is making good progress. In the initial assessment conducted in June 2010, she scored 72% in Language and 53.50% in Math whereas in October 2010 she scored 90% in language and 75% in Math. Deepali wishes to become a sports teacher someday; Save The Children India is determined to make it happen.

Page Url :
http://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo18_save_the_children.htm

Founded Year: 1988

Cause category: Education

Our Supporters

• Rahul Kadri
• Kadri Consultants
• Kapil Deo
• Monisha Shetty
• Sumiit Lakhutia
• Tobias Bauer
• lucia folle
• Dr Ajinath Kharat
• Dr Rajshekhar Sabbarpu
• Dr Hitesh Parikh
• Dr Gerald Mascarenhas
• Dr Thomas Abraham
• Dr Sujata Dalvi
• Dr Moushami Vartak
• Mihir Jagdish Doshi
• seema
• Sneha Shinde
• Prabhakar Ranjan
• Jonas EPP
• Ashish Kaushal
• Vinay Gopichand Yelve
• Sanjay T Mascarnis
• Terence Mark John Menzies
• Anand Laxmidas Ajgaonkar
• Rajendra Chandrakant Pawar
• Kavitha S Bhagwat
• Sandeep B Shetty
• Nitin Shankar Sawant
• Sandeep D Suvarna
• Sachin Gurunath Shirke
• Narendra Salian
• Karishma H Turakhia
• Sunil Poojary
• Viraj Keshav Rane
• Amit Murlidhar Goge
• Namita Rane
• Manish Honavar
• Prakash Shettigar
• Sarbendu Roy
• Nishigandh Vidyadhar Bhadsavle
• Nitin Maheshwari
• Taral Shah
• Paras Parikh
• Aditya Mehta