Gram Sewa Sangh Nagpur, an NGO promoting education, health, research and social welfare in India. Our NGO focuses on education for underprivileged children who are under difficult circumstances, such as child labor, children of poorest of the parents, street, runaway children and slum children. Special emphasis is given on girl education and women education, so that they and their families get empowered. Their parents are mainly working as labors in construction sites or work as auto drivers, rickshaw pullers, vegetable vendors, or domestic help.
Gram Sewa Sangh Nagpur works towards the betterment of underprivileged children. Many activities are undertaken to ensure that the underprivileged children are provided opportunities to be educated. Special emphasis is given on girl education and women education. We work towards improving the basic literacy and numeracy skills of children and provide vocational and skills training leading to job opportunities for youth from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. We not only provide them with an opportunity to learn, but a sense of dignity and purpose. We also conduct awareness programs for them. Since its establishment, more than 500 underprivileged children who are registered as well as non-registered have directly benefited from the Children Welfare Program.
In order to empower every child with education, Gram Sewa Sangh Nagpur has been providing educational material to these poor children living in slum who attend Government Schools. We provide educational material consisting of text books, notebooks, geometry box, pencils, pens, and school uniforms, clothes, shoes, school bag, lunch box. We select the candidates by personal visits to their homes to assess the family background.
We conduct various health awareness programs for children living in slums and villages. We also support the families of our project children by providing them monthly groceries and other essential things. We regularly visit their houses in the slum/villages to know about the situation they face and what are the things they
require. In winters we provide blankets/quilts to the street people and poor women of the slum/village area. Also we distribute food kits to the street people.

Appeal

Acquisition of knowledge is the first step on the path to global sustainability, prosperity and world peace. Innovation and progress too come via education, a universal right. In slum, 6-18 year age group have either never attended school or have dropped out, putting the literacy rate of the community much below the national average. Due to rising inflation and unemployment, more parents are unable to provide basic food to their children or meet their school expenses. There are others who have little money to get their children admitted to schools but can’t afford to deal with daily expenses related to studies such as necessary stationery item, school bags, etc. It is for this reason Gram Sewa Sangh Nagpur had launched Child Academy Project (A Non Formal School) for the underprivileged children living in slum. Since then, it takes on the mammoth task of distributing school kits among needy every year. It may look like one-dimensional need. But school kit means much more to a child than just a regular part of school-going activity. The school kits, which allow students to further their studies, are particularly distributed among children living in unfavorable conditions or chronic poverty. Each bag contains adequate materials for one student to study for one year. Through school kit distribution, Child Academy Project not only seeks to enable children to pursue their education but also wants to raise awareness about the lack of access to education in the society. Child Academy Schoolbag Project may not be offering the ultimate answer to all the problems of the needy students, but it is definitely a step forward to empower young children by providing them with a key tool to become learned, innovative and progressive members of a prosperous society. Child Academy school kit – which contains best possible support as per need like uniform, shoes, fee along with a good looking bag, set of pencil, eraser, rubber, sharpener, glue and pen sachets, biscuits, note pad and reading books etc. Child Academy is thankful to the supporters who are keen to reduce school dropouts in India and strengthen our educational efforts. Every year, we have supported more than 100 students by providing school kits. These school kits had been distributed among very needy students of Nagpur Slum. We are also thankful to local volunteer who helped us in reaching deserving students and prioritizing educational assistance within School Kit Program. These school kits are simply a token of our faith in those children’s potential. This is just to make them feel that they are not alone. School kit project aims to show our commitment, love and care for these poor children and give them confidence and courage to grasp each moment of development with both hands.

After COVID-19 Pandemic, most of our project targeted area have affected very badly. The life of community people has been disturbed and took them 5 years back, as they have used all their savings at the time of Covid 19 in the treatment of their love-ones. Also many of them have lost their jobs. They are now again facing poverty and still struggling to find a job and to fulfill the basic requirement of their family like (education, livelihood, food security, school education fees of their children, etc). Many of their children are unable to go school because their parents have lost their jobs. Some of them, we are supporting with the help of local resources but unable to support all of them.

We will support their families by providing groceries and nutrition for the children’s. We will also help the elders or the needy person for their medical treatment and medicines. We will also save some fund for emergency support especially in the rainy seasons because every year most of our children’s houses get damage due to heavy wind and rainfall. We will help them to recover the damages.