ASHWINI CHARITABLE TRUST Key Issues and
Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements
Operational Districts:
Operational States:
AchieveMents: 1. 26 children who joined the trust when they were in primary or middle school have joined mainstream jobs. The nurturing environment at ACT has motivated 4 of our Alumni to pursue post-graduation.
2. We have changed the mindset of over 300 underprivileged families about the value of holistic education ensuring that the child develops character and life skills while providing all the facilities to be successful in academic life.
3.We follow the Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences model. Accordingly, we encourage the children to participate in activities designed around all the different intelligences. They have participated and won many honors in events conducted by associations and corporate houses.
4.Over 5000 volunteers have contributed their time and effort towards educating and empowering our children. On average our volunteers contribute between 13000 and 17000 hours annually.
5. The in-house mentoring program ensures that every college going student supported by the trust mentors primary school children and every alumnus pays it forward by engaging in volunteering activities at the trust.
6. Over the years volunteers from corporate companies have enrolled in our mentoring programs that impart employability skills to our children. This includes but is not limited to resume writing, computer literacy, designing and delivering presentations, advanced internet usage, group discussions and teamwork ethics with strict timelines.
7. We have a Mothers Empowerment Program which encourages the mothers of the children to learn various skills like cooking, home maintenance, basket weaving and tailoring. This program was developed with a vision to establish a self-help group.
8.ÃÂ Every year we create several occasions when the children celebrate happy memories of their childhood like birthdays, festivals, day trips and longer excursions. This inculcates in them the feeling that poverty is but an accident of birth and their childhood was unaffected by this.
9. Every year since 2012, 25 children have been introduced to the English language, another 25 have graduated to become independent readers and 50 children have graduated to the reading club program where they read for pleasure.
10. The children have been sensitized to people less fortunate than them through site visits to old age homes for the poor and associations for physically challenged children.
11.ÃÂ The children have been sensitized to current environmental issues and have worked towards advocating the same in the neighborhood.
12.ÃÂ As part of our financial inclusion intervention, we have opened over 300 bank accounts for the children. Each child who is supported by the trust has a bank account with the mother as the natural guardian. The mothers are encouraged to deposit money every month which helps the family to move away from unorganized saving options. This action empowered the mother to save her salary for the mutual growth of herself and her children.
