GiveLife Total Scholarship

Beneficiary children are identified from Govt. run schools and privately run

schools for poor children, or in rural areas. From Vth Std till XII level.

Academic criteria for selection is 50% mark score in the previous school year.

Socio-economic criteria in the order of selection priority are:

children without both parents

children without either of the parent.

Destitute children.

If the parents are ill and can& 39;t work.

Children of single mothers.

If the household monthly income is less than Rs. 3000.

What does GiveLife Total Scholarship provide?

1. The basic requirements of textbooks, notebooks, tuition fee and uniforms.
2. Special breakfast as nutritional support.
3. Annual health check up.
4. Weekend camps with an annually planned program of motivational training, health and hygiene, spoken English, value awareness, Talent expression and development.
5. Special camps before public exams.
6. Career guidance programs
7. Option for training in theatre and music.

Implementation Chain:
The GiveLife Child - Local school mentor-volunteering external mentor-social worker-local community-State & Civil society support agencies-project coordinator-Central office-Trustees.

Measuring Change:
This is the most critical component, done in a two way process. The child has to evaluate herself/himself every month and the mentor will evaluate, measure and record development of the child once in six months.

The measurable references are:

Academic.

Nutrition.

Overall health.

Overall grooming.

General hygiene.

Punctuality.

Social graces.

Value awareness.

Interpersonal interaction.

General communication skills.

Spoken English.

General knowledge.

Leadership quality.

Memory skills.

Civic responsibilities.

Media evaluation.

Eco awareness.

Human rights, Child rights, Civil rights.

Culture awareness.

What does it Cost?

It costs per annum Rs. 2500 to GiveLife to a single child, which includes administrative expenses as well.

Impact:

Medium term intervention of arresting child labour, trafficking in children, delinquency - substance abuse and anti social behaviour
Long term results of poverty alleviation, empowered youth and social equity.
Fulfilling the national mandate of Right to Education.

Present Beneficiaries : 13600.
Vision for 2010 : 25000.

In India only 7% of the relevant age group enters higher education. And for the poor ithas become extremely unaffordable with huge donations and capitation fee. Radical policy level intervention by the State only can alter this scenario. But until then GiveLife joins many individual efforts to support poor students to pursue collegiate and technical education.

In partnership with the Loyola College Outreach program we currently support 700 youth, mostly from the slum dwellings of Chennai. The level of support ranges from Rs. 2000 to Rs. 15000 depending on the branch of study pursued by the student.

Most satisfying though is the fact that at present, among the 700 beneficiaries 5 of them pursue medical education and all of them passed out from Chennai Corporation run schools.

Vision:

* To support 5000 youth by 2010,
* To support the efforts of National knowledge society commission through advocacy to expand and reform our education system to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to enter the world of higher education.

At present the project is Chennai specific. It is estimated there are around 75000 migrant construction workers in Chennai, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar and rural Tamil Nadu. Their children have no access to education and are generally vulnerable to disease and abuse.

What we do?

* Transit school in huge construction locations.
* The builder provides the space. We take responsibility for personnel and teaching.
* It is Activity based learning.
* Nutritional lunch is provided.
* Periodic health check up

VISION OF THE PROJECT

The major objective of the project is to ensure safe and healthy motherhood and enable the child to acquire its right to birth and healthy living.

OBJECTIVES

* To provide medical assistance to prenatal and postnatal mothers and child by regular medical checkups.
* Ensure nutritional needs for prenatal and postnatal mothers by providing them nutritional package.
* To educate pregnant mothers through regular workshops on aspects to be followed during pregnancy.
* Educate mothers to understand the special nutritional needs of new born, notably the value of breastfeeding and the importance of introducing suitable complementary foods at the right age.
* Protecting children from infection, by such measures as immunization against common childhood diseases and provision of safe water and sanitation.
* Ensuring that children receive quality care when they fall ill.

PACKAGE OF SERVICES

Medical Checkups:

* Through the project a general medical checkup assessing weight, BP, Hemoglobin, Diabetics, malnutrition and deficiency will be organized.
* With the results of the above mentioned test the women will meet the gynecologist for further checkup.
* The necessary intervention as suggested by the doctors will be organized for them.

Nutritional Package:

* A training session emphasizing the need and significance of nutritious food will be organized.
* A nutritional package addressing the nutritional deficiencies like iodine, iron, zinc and vitamin A will be provided.

Regular workshops:

* Regular workshops for pregnant and lactating mothers emphasizing on

Immunization, nutritional needs and myths and misconception related to pregnancy will be addressed.

* Sessions on nurturing new born explaining on breastfeeding, supplementary food at the right age and continuous feeding during diarrhea.
* Classes emphasizing on immunization against common childhood diseases like measles, polio, etc.
* Inputs on diarrhea prevention and management, recognizing dehydration, correcting dehydration with home made solutions (ORS), hygiene and sanitation.
* Providing awareness on HIV/AIDS and its prevention measures.
Referral Services:

•· Proper referral services will be provided for pregnant mothers and new born during emergency.

We successfully experimented the project at Alamathi a village in Thiruvallur district.

It is a small village in Thiruvallur district, Ponneri taluk, and Cholavaram blocks. The village has 336 families in which 263 belong to schedule caste and 63 families are from backward class. The total population is around 1474 in which 1200 belong to schedule cast and 274 are from backward class. The men population is around 731 and female population is 743. Children population from 0-5 year are 102 in number.

Reason for Working in the Village:

Malnutrition is prevalent in the village among women and children. The major factors contributing to it are their food patterns, lack of nutritional awareness, lack of awareness on the facilities available around them, and their accessibility towards them and occupational pattern. Anemia is also largely present among women.

Job melas in the Districts, Rural Areas

This remarkable initiative in partnership with "Vazhikatti" has given tremendous results. Salient features are:

•· More than 3000 rural youth have found jobs through this initiative in the last 12 months.
•· It has made profound connect between corporate-industrial houses and the job seeking rural youth.
•· In the process we also have designed programs to generally enhance the employability skills and profile of the rural job seekers.

Some milestones......
Job Mela in Vellore

Received CV-s : 530
Short listed for interview : 480
Selected for job : 420
Participating Companies : 20
Job Mela in Perambur

Received CV-s : 600
Short listed for interview : 550
Selected for job : 250
Participating Companies : 25
Job Mela in Kariyapatti

Received CV-s : 3500
Short listed for interview : 3450
Selected for job : 1300
Participating Companies : 60
The Process. How we do.

1. Public communication through media, road shows and other social touch points. Simultaneously preliminary information about the initiative is sent to various companies, corporate and industrial houses inviting them to participate.
2. The Processing of the CV and initial interview of the candidate by our team.
3. Shortlisting the candidates eligible to appear for interview with the clients. And forwarding the same to prospective clients.
4. Evaluating the inadequacies of other candidates and develop programs and strategies to help them.
5. Job mela.
6. Programs and processes to help those who were not selected.

The Cost:

* We do not take any fee either from the candidate or client.
* It takes between Rs. 5-7 lacs to organize one job mela in a district.

Vision:

* To organize job melas in every district.
* To improve coordination between State and Central agencies working for employment generation.
* To stabilize the partnership with Corporate-industrial houses to make it a national project.
* To work jointly with the State agencies and Corporate houses to organize short programs that will increase the HR and employability potential of qualified rural youth.