Saksham - Self-employment Scheme

Project Title: Motorised Sewing machine
 
Budget: Rs 10,000/-
 
Geographical Location: Shivaji Nagar (slums), Govandi
 
When: as soon as possible
 
What: to purchase ONE fall/bidding motorised sewing machine
 
Why: To provide ladies in the area with a means to execute orders they can take for their livelihood.
 
Who: Ladies in the surrounding area who have the entrepreneurship spirit but do not have the resources to invest in infrastructure.
 
How: The machine will be kept in the Adarshmay center and the ladies can come & work on the machine for free. So we the infrastructure created will be utilised by many women to become self-employed
 
Cost: Total Rs 10,000/- (ten thousand only) 7000 - motorised sewing machines. 2000 - threads and other supplies & 1000 for chair, flex banners, signboards etc.
 
Sustainability: The machine will be kept in the Adarshmay center and the ladies can come & work on the machines for free. So the infrastructure created will be utilised by many women to become self-employed.

You can donate any amount that you wish! 
Call 0-9967637282 to donate or know more

Leaders of Tomorrow Project
The project, a brainchild of Dr P N Singh was launched in 1997, Dr P N Singh established the Dr P N Singh Foundation with an initial corpus of Rs 11.5 lakhs which launched a unique, "Leaders of Tomorrow" project. Under this project a one-year leadership course is conducted for slum children studying in schools in Mumbai. Today the project is running in 47 schools all over Mumbai. The project exposes selected IX standard students from the underpriviledged sections of the society to this specially designed program so that they occupy leadership positions in different professions.

These children have a low self esteem because of the socio-economic background they come from. The idea is to enhance their self-esteem and build confidence in them by providing them training in communication skills, social values, public speaking, goal setting, time management, etc. which they would not learn in a crowded classroom or from textbooks.

This training equips them with necessary attitudes and skills, which will help them cope with challenges and move towards success in their lives.

Course Curriculum

• Self Esteem (3 Sessions): Understanding the importance of self-esteem and self-image. Learning action oriented techniques for enhancing self-esteem on a daily basis.
• Habit (2 sessions): Inculcating productive habits by conciously imbibing them into the daily schedule and eliminating the unproductive ones by recognising them.
• Concentration (3 sessions): Eliminating mind wandering, improving the power of Mental Focus by way of various exercises for the mind, such as meditation, focussing on a single dot and observing the flame of the candle at a distance.
• Memory Development (5 sessions): Remembering long notes, formulae, difficult words, historical dates, maps, diagrams and numbers through practices such as revisions, making charts and placing them at strategic locations to ensure that they stay in the regular eye-span.
• Speed Reading (3 sessions): Learning techniques to read fast without losing on comprehension.
• Communication (8 sessions): Public speaking, internal & external communication, group discussions, mock interviews, Importance of body language & influencing people.
• Creativity (2 sessions): Activating inherent creativity to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Goal Setting (2 sessions): Understanding the importance of goal-setting & developing the habit of goal-setting and taking action to achieve their goals.
• Time Management (2 sessions): Creating awareness about the values of time, using time effectively to produce results.
• Attitude (2 sessions): Programming to maintain a positive mental attitude in adversity.
• Values & Benefits (2 sessions): Understanding the power of belief, identifying limiting beliefs and eliminating them.
• Stress Management (2 sessions): Importance of relaxation and discipline, yoga, managing emotions, effectively coping with day to day stress.
• Mind Control (2 sessions): Encouraging the use of both the left & right brain, success conditioning, using creative visualization to design their life.
• Social Behaviour (2 sessions): Communal harmony, environmental education, human sexuality, gender sexuality, alcohol & drug abuse, etc.

Our trainers will take a session on the above topics once in the week for two hours. The project is run free of cost for the students and there is no cost involved to the school too! The only thing we need is co-operation fro the school in providing classroom space, and that too, once a week for two hours.

As a much needed extension to the project a "India Scholar Award" scheme was launched in 2006, by Mr Fidel Ramos, former President of Philippines. Under this scheme 2 students from those undergoing the leadership training batch are selected based on the criterion laid down and the selected students receive full financial support from tenth standard to graduation (six years).

Our "Leaders of Tomorrow" project received an international award on HR and Sustainable Development from the International Federation of Training & Development Organisations in Cairo, Egypt.

To enable your school students to benefit from this vital training, contact us to run the project in your school today!

From this year Adarshmay has approached them to expand the program in and around the Chembur area.

Our members and volunteers are always found toiling away ceaselessly, at the rather delightfully strenuous job of handling and distributing bulky sets of books on the preset days, well intimated in advance to all the students.

The main criteria selected by us is poverty/lack of proper finance for all prospective students. These attributes sadly deter several hundred students of our city from getting a proper education. So we have a wide range of students whose parents are gardeners, vegetable vendors, lower category police personnel, servants, retired casual labour mill hands, even orphans working as table cleaners in road side restaurants and other low income groups. Many belong to a single parent family – invariably a widowed mother struggling to make ends meet.

It is these students who, after having very well at the school level, approach us with a zeal to pursue a college education. Our long experience has shown that it is from these strata of society, that we get a very large number of bright toppers.

Our education system ensures that the syllabus changes atleast once in every three years in each academic class. We, on our part ensure that each time this happens, we buy a full fresh set of books to cater to the changed needs, since the existing set of books becomes rather redundant. This scenario always entails an additional expenditure of an amount in the range of Rs 65,000 to Rs 1,00,000/- practically every other year.

It is our constant struggle and endeavour to see that the additional cost enumerated above, is met through our own inter personal relationships and contacts. We do not fail in this regard and the students never go home empty-handed.

It is our fervent appeal to all our Friends, Philanthropists and Well-wishers to assist us in this humble attempt of ours to aid in imparting a decent education to the underprivileged.

Donate your books!