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Holding HandsA CSR Newsletter | Issue #5 | 2015

News and Events Education Health New InitiativeWomen Empowerment VolunteeringForbes Foundation

NEWS AND EVENTS

FROM FORBES FOUNDATION

NEW INITIATIVEEDUCATIONFree Eye Check Up CampWomen’s Day Celebration

WOMEN EMPOWERMENTCafeteria Snacks

Social Venture Partners

Warhale Welding School Wheat and Rice Bucket Challenege

VOLUNTEERINGSport’s Day Celebration

HEALTHBlood Check Up camp

CONTENTS


Free Eye Check Up Camp

Women’s Day Celebration

On the occasion of International Women’s Day and second

anniversary of SMC II, a Free Eye check up camp was organized

for Vasuli and nearby villages. For the promotion of the eye camp,

pamphlets were circulated to the Sarpanch of Vasuli, Bhamboli, Warhale

gaon, Savardari and Koregaon villages. They were very pleased with this

event.

The day started by a small inaugural function at 9.30 am at SMC II.

Prominent people were present at the inauguration.

In the camp, a total of 120 patients were examined. Amongst these, 10

patients were diagnosed for cataract (from these 4 were operated free of

cost at Nayan Eye Hospital ), 40 patients were given free spectacles while

57 patients were given free medicines .

The camp was successful and very

helpful to the community. Sarpanch

of villages have requested for another

camp.

We celebrated Women’s day on 10th March with the Chakan

ladies who make news paper bags. The idea to celebrate

this event with these ladies came from the Marriott Hotel.

Marriott Hotel donates us lots of old news papers every month for

this project.

Mr Aniket Madkaikar, Manager Marriott Hotel told us that their staff

wants to celebrate Women’s day with these ladies and they want to

spend some time with them. So we planned the event on 10th March.

The HR manager along with the Marriott staff came

to Vasuli phata village to meet the women. After

the introduction session we briefed them about

the project and gave the background of the

ladies. Some ladies shared their experience

of doing this work and how it helped them to

earn income. The staff wanted to learn how to

make the bags so our ladies showed them the

demonstration of the bags making.

Marriott people also had got lunch

boxes for all of us from Marriott. So

we all had lunch together. After this

we felicitated the Marriott staff.

We also felicitated our ladies as

it was a Women’s day. Overall

it was a fun event and everyone

enjoyed it as it was a short and

sweet event.


NEWS AND EVENTS


FROM FORBES FOUNDATIONSocial Venture Partners

A recent grantee of our Foundation is Social

Venture Partners, Pune chapter.

Social Venture Partners India was established in

2012 in Bangalore, with the focused purpose of creating

sustainable livelihoods; SVP members engage with

NGOs in their own cities, which helps to increase their

societal impact.

In just under two years, SVP Bangalore has over 90

committed partners and in June 2014 the Pune SVP

chapter emerged. “We have over two dozen engaged

partners with their hearts in the right place, a galaxy

of high quality NGOs in the livelihood space to choose

from and with the first three worthy NGOs and their lead

partners identified and the funds beginning to flow to the

benefit of the community, we believe that we are just at

the first or second milestone of a very long journey,” says

Ganesh Natarajan, convenor of the Pune chapter.

Our Foundation was one of the first few to join hands

with SVP; currently SVP Pune has zeroed in on 3 NGOs

in the city to walk shoulder to shoulder with. These

organizations are Jagruti Seva Sanstha, Anjuman-i-

Isalam and Ekansh.

SVP Pune is committed to help scale up the ‘Nurse Aide

Training programme’ wherein high school dropouts from

the city’s slum dwellings will be trained and placed as

Nurse aides in various small and large hospitals in the

city.

JAGRUTI Seva Sanstha has been successfully running

the Nurse Aide programme for 7 years and SVP Pune

has just powered their new programme that began on

November 3, 2014. Jagruti as the name suggests, strives

for ‘awakening’ of the underprivileged towards new

knowledge, better skills, values and attitudes.

Jagruti makes efforts to empower the poor and needy

with education, vocational training and healthcare

with focus on women and children, support education

and self - development programmes for slum children;

surveys of slums reveal that most of the parents are

illiterate and they work as labourers or as household

help.

The rate of school dropouts is very high amongst their

children. Girls, in particular, when they fail at school

examinations, are married off at an early age. Therefore

‘JAGRUTI’ conducts support education classes with no

fees from 1st to 10th standard to arrest school dropouts.

Very bright and needy students receive support for

higher education, including hostel arrangements for girls.

Programmes are conducted for all-round development

of the children to imbibe good values, habits and skills

in them. Jagruti tries to achieve this by providing library

and reading room facilities, conducting hobby classes

arranging educational visits, arranging lectures and

presentations by social workers, scientists and doctors.

The Nurse Aide programme enrolls girls and women of

16 years of age and above with a minimum qualification

of 7th standard. The course has in-classroom training for

three months after which the girls are placed at various

hospitals for an internship of 3 months where they get

to learn the practical aspects of training. They also start

earning as they are then eligible for a stipend. Upon

completion of training, the girls are placed as assistants

to nurses at various medical establishments across the

city.

The same programme will be implemented by Anjuman-

i-Islam as well beginning January 2015. By the end of

the calendar year 2015, SVP hopes to have created

livelihoods in the healthcare segment for over 100 young

women through this programme.


EDUCATIONWarhale Welding School

T he first vocational training course of basic welding was started by us at Warhale, Chakan. The training partner for

this course were Bharatiya Technical Institute’s Nandkishore Jagdale Industrial Training centre. This is a government

recognized private ITI based in Nigdi. It was a full time course for the youth in the neighbouring villages who have been

dropped out of school. The day was split into theory classes in the morning and practicals post lunch. Total twelve students

from five villages completed the course successfully.

We are hopeful that the students will be gainfully employed soon.

Blood Check Up camp

I n the Community Outreach Programme our Community Health Workers organized two blood check up camps for women

in Bopkhel and Morwadi community. Total 180 women from both these community were tested for anemia and blood group

also was checked. The women who had blood count less than 10 were counselled for making dietary changes.

They were also given iron and Folic acid tablets with the Doctor’s advice.

Under the Child Development Project 130 children from Kasarwadi and Dapodi were tested for anemia and the mothers of the

anemic children were counselled. The children were tested with the help of our own hospital Shehernaz Medicare Centre.


HEALTH


WOMEN EMPOWERMENTCafeteria Snacks

A t our Kasarwadi factory we have cafeteria for our members

where members can come and enjoy the snacks items

whenever they feel hungry. In this cafeteria we have a

counter for our community ladies where they can come and sell

the snacks. There was a demand from our members to have

some home made snacks in the cafeteria. So we started this

counter.

There are two ladies working in this counter. One in the morning

shift from 9 to 11.30 and another in the afternoon shift from 4 to

6.30 pm. These ladies make snacks at home and bring it here

to sell. We have provided electric hot plate to them so that they

can serve hot breakfast to the members. We have also provided

them the cutlery to serve the snacks. They bring some delicious and

nutritious snacks which attracts our people to buy from them. We check

the quality and the quantity of the snacks. We also check the cleanliness

of the counter and give instruction to them whenever needed.

They bring variety of snacks specially those snacks which our members don’t get in the canteen

like Thalipeeth, Dhokala, Variety of Parathas etc. In the after noon they bring snacks like Bhel,

Pani Puri, dahi Puri, Boiled Sweet corns, fruits etc. In summer they bring juices also. They get

very good response from our members. The total sale for the month for both the shifts comes to

approximately Rs 25000 to Rs 30000. Each lady earns approx. Rs 7000 per month.


NEW INITIATIVEWheat and Rice Bucket Challenge

W e planned a food grain collection drive for lesser known

and relatively small residential set ups with the help of

FM Members. The activity was named as Rice

and Wheat Bucket challenge where each participants

spread the message of donation with other

memebers.

On the annual day, 20th February, a

stall was set up where members can

come and donate rupees worth a

kg of rice or wheat for one / two

residential institutes. Members

can walk up to the stall and

make a cash payment. Later

the drive was continued in the

office premises also.

All the foodgrains collected from

donated amount was been given

to desirable institutions in Pune.


VOLUNTEERINGSport’s Day Celebration

A Sports Day was planned for the students who come to the Forbes Marshall’s Community Center in

the month of February. The event was organized at Gyan Raj school ground where students from

Standard 5th to 10th had participated in different games.

The students were thrilled and whole heartedly participated in various games like Lemon and Spoon, Three

Legged Race, Musical paper, Kabbadi and many more. The students were then served snacks after the fun

filled activities.

Many members from Forbes Marshall volunteered to conduct the activity and enjoyed the games along with

the students.

The activity helped us to share the message amongst the students about the importance of achieving

success through hard work and team work.

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