Saath Charitable Trust

Creating Inclusive SocietiesMember of Credibility Alliance

Member of Give India

FCRA RegisteredIncome Tax Exemption under 80G

Registration No. E-7257

Presentation

• Part I• Programmes

• Part II• Governance • Finance• Communication Systems

Our Mission

Saath’s mission is to utilize market-based strategies to create inclusive

societies by empowering India’s urban and rural poor.

SAATH’s PROGRAMMES

Saath works with youth, women, children, disabled

80% from vulnerable families5% minority households

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT APPROACHReach out and impact to over 3,00,000 Households and individuals in Gujarat and Rajasthan

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Saath Programs

Sector Saath Programmes Geographical Coverage

Livelihood Umeed, Udaan, Urmila Vadodara, Mehsana, Patan, Bharuch, Rajkot, Banaskantha, Kheda, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Sirohi, Nagaur, Barmer, Banswara, Ahmedabad

Urban Governance URCs, CBOs Ahmedabad

Microfinance Saath Cooperative Society Ahmedabad

Health & Education RCH, ICDS, Balghars , Child Friendly Spaces

Ahmedabad

Human Rights Child Rights for Change Ahmedabad

Development Youth development, Rural livelihood projects,

Rajkot, Surendranagar, Jamnagar, Ahmedabad

Relief & Rehabilitation Post earthquake rehabilitation and relief in Kutch, Rapar, Khadir 2001Relief & Rehabilitation post communal riots 2002, Porbandar-Samakhiali Road project

Kutch, Ahmedabad, Porbandar, Rajkot

Infrastructure Development Slum Networking, Slum Electrification, Affordable Housing Scheme

Ahmedabad

Employability•Co- Investment•Partnerships•Self-Sustaining Model •Post-Placement Support•E-Module Pilot•Outreach•Bottom up Approach

Umeed/Udaan (2005)

• Geographical Coverage: 2 States – Gujarat, Rajasthan

• No. of centres: 57• Youth Enrolled: 29, 110• Trades: 15• 60:40 (M:F)• School/College Dropouts, unemployed/Under-

employed youth, Displaced communities, Disabled, Migrants

Courses • Customer Relations & Sales (CRS)• IT Enabled Services (ITES)• Hospitality• Electrical• Communicative English• Business Process Outsourcing• Bed side Patient Attendant (BSPA)• Logistics• Automobile Mechanism• Home Manager• White Goods Services (WGS)• Office Administration

• Computer Hardware• Desktop Publishing• Digital Imagery• Tally Account Assistant• Retail Management•Beauty Parlour and Mehendi Design• IT Hardware & Networking

EmployersMultinational and Pan-Indian Companies State wide/local

Bajaj allianz Subhiksha Retail US PizzaBharti AXA Reliance Fresh Unicorn Investment

Yamaha Reliance Telecom Europa InnMc Donalds Big Bazaar Marshal Trading

Dominos Pizza Pantaloons Imperial PalaceTata AIG Life Café Coffee Day Jay Kay Motors

Pizza Hut Mas Finance Rupali StudioICICI Bank Tata Indicom Bhavani Hospital

Mahindra & Mahindra Maruti Courier Medisurge HospitalNirma India Infoline Ras Resort

Kotak Mahindra Pizza Corner Gunjan GraphicsTVS Motors Religare Securities Maniratnam OrnamentsBharti Airtel Holiday INN Rangoli Printers

Vodafone Max Retail Iscon MallEureka Forbes More Retail Gallops Mall

Taj Group of Hotels Metro R3 MallSahara Life DTDC Courier & Cargo Dev Arc Mall

Baskin Robbins Navjivan Therapy CenterHindustan Lever Shreeji Infotech

ICICI Finance Divya Bhaskar Call Center Solutions Voice tell Infocom Hotel Le Meridian Baroda IT Association Om Marketing

Urmila Home Manager (2004)

• 185 Clients• 200 Home Managers• Average income of home managers = Rs. 3000• Franchise System Making of a Home ManagerMaking of a Home Manager

Police Clearance

Training lasting 40 days

On the job training

Health Clearance

Induction

Fire Safety First Aid Security Household Appliances

Personality Development

Communication Grooming Housekeeping

Final Placement

Local Urban Governance•Co- Investment•Linkages•Self-Sustaining Model •Community Support•State and National Level Recognition

Role of URC

FacilitationDirectly

Urban poor Government

and AMC Services/ Market

Increase access

Increase access

Urban Resource Centre (2007)

Inquiries Linkage Income

Total 27,381 5,770 3,25,916

3 URCS – Juhapura, Vasna, BehrampuraOut reach: 75,000 HH

Government Institutes Private Sector/Corporate

NGOs

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Collector office Urban Health Centre Social Welfare Department T.B. Control Society Reproductive and child health

society Municipal schools & Municipal

Board Integrated Child Development

Scheme department Food & Supply department Public

Distribution system Census and Election Department

MIT, Poverty Action Lab

Centre for Environment Planning and Technology

( CEPT) Blind Peoples

Association IIM, Ahmedabad Handicap international Gujarat Vidhyapith B.M. institute for

Mental Heath Cancer Hospital

Adani Energy Ltd. Bank of Baroda State Bank of India Torrent power SEWA Bank Tata AIG

Home manager Apang Manav Mandal Aajivaka Bureau Umeed Topcare, House

Keeping Services Centre for Social

justice Lions Club Drishti Media Sakhi credit

Cooperative society Ekta credit

Cooperative society

Community Based OrganisationsSince 1994

• Ekta Yuvak Mandal• Sakhi Mahila Mandal • Sankalp Mitra Mandal• Partners in all Saath programs

Micro Finance (2002)•The Saath Savings & Credit Cooperative Society Ltd. – Merger 2010•Savings and Credit•Loans – Consumption, Asset, Productive, Education•Compulsory and Voluntary Savings

•Branches: 6 •Members: 12,370•Joint Liability Groups: •Total Cumulative savings: Rs. 2,17,41,176 •Loan Outstanding (JLG): Rs. 2,31,52,379•Recovery percentage: 97.09

•Once a loan is repaid, can move onto 2nd, 3rd, 4th cycles of loans

•Same repayment process continues until loan is repaid

•Once a loan is repaid, can move onto 2nd, 3rd, 4th cycles of loans

•Same repayment process continues until loan is repaid

•Fill out application

•Provide proof of address & photo ID

•Pay membership fees, purchase 1 share (Rs 50)

•Fill out application

•Provide proof of address & photo ID

•Pay membership fees, purchase 1 share (Rs 50)

•Must deposit Rs 100/- per month

•Must do so for the life of the A/c, must save at least 6 months before becoming an eligible loan candidate

•Must deposit Rs 100/- per month

•Must do so for the life of the A/c, must save at least 6 months before becoming an eligible loan candidate

•Must follow monthly repayment schedule

•Cycle continues until loan is repaid

•Must follow monthly repayment schedule

•Cycle continues until loan is repaid

•Form a JLG (4-6 members)

•Loan appraisal

•Receive loan amount

•Form a JLG (4-6 members)

•Loan appraisal

•Receive loan amount

Becoming a member Compulsory Savings Loan Process

Repayment ProcessAdditional Loans

Development & Research

• Partnerships – PPP Model• Need Based• Pilots • Rights based

Child Rights (2009)• 120 Villages in Viramgam and

Dholka• Child Groups Established: 240• 120 Child Protection

Committees, aanganwadis,VEC • Strengthening 240 – SHGs • Out reach: 30,000 HH• 144 children returned to

regular school

Rural Projects (2006)Surendranagar initiated in 2006 in collaboration with NIFT• Coverage: 20 villages;Target populations: patola, tangaliya and khadi

artisans• Set up 155 producer groups• SUVAS Federation with 110 member groups , Set up Raw Material BanksRajkot• Water harvesting tanks built for 150 HHMaliya• 1 Rural Resource Centre, 3 Jan Seva Krishi Kendra for farmers• R.O. Plant in Khakreji for 2000 families• Check-dam built in Khakreji benefits 25 farmers

• Livelihood Trainings: 72, in 3 blocks reaching out to 2006 people Soap Making, Salt Workers, Patola weaving, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry,

Weaving, Motor Repairing and Automobile Training

Aazad Youth Groups (2008)

• Youth Development – Leadership, Citizenships, confidence building

• 126 Youth from 6 areas – Behrampura, Shahpur, Juhapura, Dariyapur, Vasna, Odhav

• Linked 41 youth with education, employment and microfinance … so far.

Internships and Volunteers

Community Video Unit (2006)

• 14 Video Magazines on issues of ration, education, domestic violence, tobacco use, folklore, manual scavenging in urban areas, employment etc.

Screenings Outreach

495 Night screenings 77,693

1716 Community Day screenings

31,747

73 Galli Galli Sim Sim screenings ( film on nutrition)

12,288

Relief and Rehabilitation• Relief and Rehabilitation of 2,204

households in 17 villages in Khadir and in Rapar town (2001)

• Rehabilitation, reconciliation through psycho-social care, counseling, interface and common programmes in post-communal riots affected Juhapura, Ahmedabad in 2002

• Porbandar-Samakhiali Road project (Porbandar-3 , Rajkot-8, Kutch-1) rehabilitated 336 HH (2004)

Research and Policy Initiatives

• Nominee: Member of Advisory Committee to Gujarat Government on Urban Poverty, 2008

• URCs recognised by JNNURM as models for local urban governance

• Draft State Slum Policy• Studies/surveys with/for CMF, IFMR, Harvard

University, CEPT, DBS, Independent researches

Basic Needs

• Partnerships• PPP Model• Co-Investment• Ownership• Community Driven

Health & Education

• 7 Balghars: 677 children (Since 2002)• Jeevandan: 2, 30, 000 (2005-2009)• RCH: 10, 000 households (Paldi and Vasna)• T.B. Dot Centres: 1000 patients • 3 Child Friendly Spaces: 105 child labourers

(2008)• ICDS/ Anganwadis: 191 reached out to 6500

children per anganwadi (From 2004-2008)

Slum Upgradation (2001)• First project of it’s kind – PPP model• 2,419 households in Pravin-nagar Guptanagar• Rs. 18,00,000 collected from the slum

dwellers• Included in Gujarat State Slum Policy Draft

Saath’s Slum Netwokring Project Areas

Slum Electrification Project (2002)

• Resident’s contribution: Rs. 72, 80,000 • Pilot Phase: 1000 HH – 2002• Larger Pilot: 4000 HH – 2003• Pilots demonstrated slum residents as a viable BoP

market• SEP scaled up all across Ahmedabad 85% slums

electrified today

Saath Recognized• Member of the Credibility Alliance• Member of Give India, World Charity Alliance• Selected as Accenture South Asian Network’s Charity of the Year 2010-11• Udaan supported by Microsoft (India) Corporation Pvt. Ltd. awarded

eRajasthan Awards 2009, Digital Learning – Private Sector Initiative of the Year• Recipient of the Indian Social Entrepreneur 2009 by Schwab Foundation,

UNDP and CII• Recognised and Profiled in 2009 by CII as one of the 50 NGOs in Gujarat to

collaborate with• Awarded The Nagrikta Puraskar in 2004 by the Ahmedabad Management

Association• Finalist for Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award – 2007 Constituted by

UNDP, CII, Schwab and Khemka Foundation • Listed amongst 50 “Pioneers of Change” by India Today in July 2008• Ashoka Fellowship, September 2008

Donors

• Government – GUDM, RMoL, AMC,CSPC• International – AIF, Save the Children, Paul

Hamlyn, Cord Aid, USAID, Oxfam, Wadhwani Foundation, Care India

• Corporate – Microsoft, HDFC• National NGOs – CII, Deep Foundation

GOVERNANCE

Governance Structure

Roles

FINANCE

FinanceProgramme

BudgetsProgramme

Budgets

Finance Committee

Finance Committee

Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees

COMMUNICATIONS

Know more about Saath

Communication Systems

Internal • Board Meetings• Programme Monthly

meetings• Strategic Monthly Meetings• Finance Committee

meetings• Web – based

communication• Annual Report

External• Reporting -

monthly/quarterly/annually• ASAN Newsletter• Media Articles• Social Networking presence

– Facebook, Twitter, Ammado, Jaago re

• Saath Blog• Direct mailers• Annual Report

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