PROJECT TEAM

Town Enrichment Action Movement in Gurgaon is aimed at helping families of out of school children. The project proposes mobilising into cooperative action for elimination of child labour diverse sections of Gurgaon's civil society through organising them into an action committee called TEAM committee. The long term objective of the project is the establishment of a demonstration scale direction for adopting a strategy for drawing all Gurgaon children into a compulsory education programme. The project is guided by the philosophy that children out of school are all child labour or potentially so it will work for:
* Enrolment of all children below 14 years into school.
* Provision of a platform for local NGOs and industry to join hands in providing meaningful skills training to older school dropouts.
* Provision of support in facilitation completion of high school through National Open School system of the government of India for those desiring to do so.
* Creation of mass awareness of the rights of all children to education and development and the laws currently in force in this regard applicable for employers.
* Provision of support for activities to train and skill mothers of the children / women to access micro-credit facilities would continue towards not just sustaining loss of wages of their wards engaged as child workers, but enhancing family incomes.
*Provision of preventive and curative health services for children with a view to cut down an absence from school due to sickness.
*Creation of 'school space' and 'teaching faculty' to addressed the needs of all newly mobilised children seeking school admission.
*The project is being implemented by SNS Foundation and is supported by the British High Commission and United Nations Development Programme in Delhi. IEMSD is collaborating in organising awareness campaigns through workshops, seminars etc.

SNS Foundation, Gurgaon based NGO sponsored by the Anand Group, has been engaged in activities for supporting development of excluded communities, particularly children and women. As a policy the Foundation is committed to bringing all its work within human rights centered approach. Thus focus areas for the foundation are both children's education and supporting activities that facilitate the process of social capital development in which the most excluded members of our society i.e. women can make more informed choices about life and living. The institute for Environmental management and Social Development has been established by highly motivated professionals to provide world class education and training in the vital fields of management of environment, crisis and disaster, social development an voluntary organisation , for which little has been done in the country. The idea is to influence these related fields through a facility of international standards under one roof, for education, training, research and reorientation. It is sought to prepare a cadre of management men and women to handle matters of environment, crises and disaster situations in a professional manner, and contribute to sustainable development.