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• Sub urban-4 areas
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• Block - 3 
• Zone -3

MOTTO
Towards a new horizon............

VISION                                                                                                                       
Holistic Development of the childhood & all the oppressed for a just & equitable society.

GOALS
Prevention of destitution and withdrawal of the children from the street life & labour and their placement into the National main Stream.

OBJECTIVES
Provision of shelter, Nutrition, Individual and Community based health care, Sanitation and Hygiene, Child rights, Education, recreational facilities, personality development and protection against abuse and exploitation.

STRATEGY
To build the Capacity of the government, non government Organizations and the community at large. To realize the rights of the child and the Juvenile Justice Act 1986. Getting the participation and Contributions of the Community, other Institutions , NGO's and the government sector.

CATEGORY
Runaway, Abandoned, Handicapped, Vagrant, Rag Pickers, Vendors, Bone Collectors, Helpers in wine shops, Road side shops, Steel polishing, Chappell cottage industries, Leather goods, Fabrication ,Plastic molding, Mechanical shop, Cycle shop, Bonded labourers and Rural child labour.

TOTAL NO.OF TARGET GROUPS 4892 Children and 880 Women

• Balwadi Children (0-5) Years - 1688 
• School Going Children (6-14) Years- 1725
• Working Children (6-14) Years - 377
• Dropout Children (6-14) Years - 78
• School Going Children (15-18) Years- 415
• Working Children (15 - 18) Years - 503
• Dropout Children ( 15-18)Years - 106

TYPE OF FAMILIES TYPE OF FAMILIES

• Pavements Dwellers
• Slum dwellers
• seasonal migrants
• Construction Workers
• Unorganized workers
• Coolie workers
• bonded labourers.

STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS 
40 staffs and 4 volunteers
18 Employees [HMP]

ACTIVITIES/ REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES/ REHABILITATION
Home placement, short stay home, Shelter care, Shelter referral, Counselling, Hostel Placement, Non formal education, Supplementary education, school enrolment, Balwadi, Programmes for teachers, Owners, Parents Meeting, PTA Meetings, Educational Spot visit, Medical camp, Referral, Health Education, Vocational Trainings, job placement, Campaigns, Personality Development trainings, Formation of People's groups women sangam, Children's Club, Youth Wing & LMC, Celebrations, media coverage, Street play. Networks for lobbying & advocacy, Co-operatives

SUSTAINABLE GROUPS IN THE NGO 
LMC-11, Women Sangam groups-82, Children's Clubs-25

RECYCLE HMP UNIT RECYCLE HMP UNIT
Recycle Hand Made Paper Production Training unit, Eco-friendly. Sustainability of JEEVA Jyothi. Job Opportunity for youth

JEEVA JYOTHI PUBLICATIONS
Child voice - English, BI Annual issue. [Local to international]
Makkal Seidhi - Tamil, Bi- monthly issue.[CBO's]
FINANCIAL SOURCES
International Donors, Central and State government, Local contributions from individuals and groups.

NATURE OF ORGANISATION

• Non Profitable & secular
• Ethics & value based. CHARACTERS OF THE ORGANISATION
• Volunteerism
• Dedication and commitment
• Sacrifice
• Honesty
• Transparency

FOCUS / SPECIAL ATTENTION

• Awareness building among working, street children and women.
• Developing volunteerism in the area
• Gender balance
• Sustainable development of the people and the NGO
• Research work with publication of books
• Developing co-operatives
• Rehabilitation of Bonded labourers.
•  Focus on difficult children
• Developing adolescent into constructive youth.
• Environmental and spiritual sustainability

Contact Address :-
Jeeva Jyothi
58, Chinnakulandai Main Street
Maduma Nagar, Perumbur
Chennai- 600011
Contact person : Mr. Susai Raj
Email : jyothij@vsnl.com 
For more information click at www.jeevajyothi.org

MAHILA DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Muzaffarpur, India)
MDC is a non governmental organisation registred under society Registration Act, 1860. Mr. Param Hans Prasad Singh, Servodaya Activist, founded it. He was associated with Sarvodaya movement under the leadership of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain in Bihar. His contributution was also in the anti Nazal Movement in Mushahari block in the leadership of J.P. He worked with the landless farmers of Muzaffarpur. In the late 1980's he concentrated his work in Muzaffarpur and founded Mahila Development Centre. Then started to work under Mahila Development Center in the red light area of Chaturbhuj Asthan, Muzaffarpur.
Vision and Mission
MDC is set up to enable the empowerment through economic and social development of women of poor families and rehabilitation of commercial sex workers and their children.

Goals
MDC aims at empowerment of resource less women and children through awareness generation programmes, leadership development and livelihood and income generation programmes by forming self-sustainable groups and rehabilitation of commercial sex worker and their children.

Objectives

• Rehabilitation of commercial sex workers and their children
• To expedite welfare programmes of children of red light area and street children.
• To implement rural development programmes for the uplift of the weaker sections of the
  society.
• To expidite social welfare prgrammes.
• To conduct or sponsor vocational training programmes.
•  To improve rural women's individual and group leadership and decision making. 

Contact Address:-
Rambagh Chowk
Muzaffarpur
Bihar - 842001
Contact person : Mr. Param Hans Prasad Singh
Email : mdc_2003@yahoo.co.in 

MAYURBHANJ JOINT CITIZEN CENTRE (Kolkata, India)

Year of foundation : 9th December 1994.

Project area
KMC Ward no. 75to 80 (Borough - IX)
133 TO 138(Borough - XV)
Binpur Block in West Midnapore District

Target group
Children especially under privileged children, child labourers, single migrant working children, women and youth.

Background of the organisation
A high density population, urban disorganization, relative overall stagnation in terms of per capita income subsistence agricultural and disintegrated structure of production apparatus represent a complex social problem. In this situation a group of young people are imbued with social consciousness, working at the local grass root level branded themselves together to form a team of social worker in order to devote their time and energy in eradicating the obstacles from the path of development of human resource, social, economic exploitation and irregularity in different spheres of life.
The movement was launched in 1992 under the banner of Mayurbhanj Joint Citizen center (MJCC)

Mission
To organize urban and rural communities, especially the poor ones, to enhance their condition through self help programmes. While carrying out these activities MJCC put emphasis on three basic principles- participation, enabling and development.

Organisation's structure
MJCC is run by a Governing Body of individuals drawn from various fields. The office bearers are selected from these members. The Secretary is empowered to monitor the activities and is accountable to the Executive Committee. A team of development personnel gives time for the purpose of Planning and monitoring the programmes.
The society is non-political, secular, non-profit making and is registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act.
MJCC grew out of youth committed to the cause of children and other vulnerable groups comprising of workers. They are young and committed team which has built good faith in the community through its work. They work primarily with the aid of fund from the community. MJCC is also involved in raising awareness about issues such as HIV/AIDS, Child Rights, Consumer's rights etc.
MJCC maintains very good relationship with the local administration and the Police. MJCC has worked with UNICEF from 1994 to 2001 in the field of non-formal education and mainstreaming support to the street children and Child laborers.
MJCC is presently working with 1400 disadvantaged children with the support of state and central governments, Save the Children (UK) AND Nehru Yuba Kendra (GOI).

Contact Address :-
Mayurbhanj Joint Citizen Centre
39, Mominpur Road, Kolkata - 700 023
Contact person : Mr. S.M. Yusuf
Email: mjcc01@usa.com 

LEH NUTRITION PROJECT, LADAKH, JAMMU & KASHMIR              

Leh Nutrition Project was set up in Ladakh by the Save the Children Fund (UK) in 1979 as a supplementary nutrition project in selected areas of Leh particularly in the south of Indus river and some remote villages in the trans-singela area. The organization rapidly marched towards an integrated approach in supplementing government programmes in education, health (allopathic and traditional), women's development, rural development, social education and wildlife focusing the remote and neglected difficult areas. Its innovation in skill development and capacity building through vocational training and workshops of the rural women folk, unemployed educated and uneducated youth brought high laurels to LNP.

When the socio-economy of a particular target area and sustainability of the infrastructure and programmes so followed were seen perceptually to a certain satisfying level, LNP redirected its resources to other needy areas. By the year 1996 in 17 years, LNP withdrew its activities from 45 villages followed by major restructuring in consequent to fresh situation analysis if the area and the organisation.

LNP its now involved in :

Child Focused/Activities
Inspired by the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, LNP works for Child participation through adult sensitisation and awareness on child right besides development of children's knowledge and skills through trainings, workshop and theatres at villages, Block and District level events. 30 children's committees for village Development (CCVD) are formed on democratic norms in Leh District championing rights of children to a happy, healthy and secure childhood towards a better would for today and for the future. Children's participation in all decision making processes and development concerning their lives right from the grass-root level is thrust area and the CCVDs work for better environment around them through beautification and sanitation interventions besides work on protection of cultural heritage sites.

Strengthening ICDS
Better early childhood care, pre-school education, better nutrition to children and maternal health care inherent in the Government Integrated Child Development Scheme have extremely vast scope of further effective improvements. Therefore, LNP is piloting 30 anganwadi Centres and forwarding towards LEH District in due course. Training of Anganwadi Workers and Community participation in running of Anganwadi Centres are the main thrust areas. We work on Development of Local tools, teaching aids and dietary pattern suited to Ladakh atmosphere and are the field where research and analyses are going on. LNP is also nodal Anganwadi Training Centre Appointed by J & K Government for Ladakh.

Community school
The situation of Ladakh villages and smaller hamlets are scattered in an area of 57,000 sq. kms and are dotted all around with variance of distances ranging 3 to 60 kms from each other. An isolated hamlet having less than 15 children for school roll do not fit under Government norms to get a Govt. school for them but their children cant be deprived off their child rights. Therefore, LNP opened 16 community schools for such small hamlets since 1979 of which 8 have been taken over by the Govt. by now and the remaining 8 are still being piloted by LNP. This programme is tended to be joint venture of the community, Govt and LNP by arranging teacher and training, teaching aids and school building.

HIV/AIDS
LNP is pioneering agency working on HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. Now it is focussing towards increased awareness and safer sexual behaviors through comprehensive education on basic biology of human reproduction and the meaning and physiology of adolescence thereby making young people understand STDS, and HIV/AIDS in better way with changed behavior and informed and mature way. More than 3,000 community leaders and students have so far been organised in workshops and other events in the field.

Watershed Development Programme
98% population of Leh District is traditionally engaged in agriculture activities. Activities in 36 Watershed areas through LNP as programme implementing agency of Government of India since 1996 are having miraculous impact in the over-all economic improvements of the village community. Construction of contour Dams at the source to stock winter run off water for summer farming has increased soil moisture and spring recharged besides availability of abundant water to the farmers.

Passive Solar Architecture
A semi-nomadic population of 1248 souls belonging to 241households living in a very remote and isolated pocket of Durbuk Block in Leh District has peculiar problems. To improve their living conditions 85 smokeless chullahs were distributed, 10 Green Houses, 10 houses retrofitting, 16 Compost Pits, 24 Trench cultivation and 8 Lambing Sheds were constructed for deserving households and locations. These interventions will improve their poor housing conditions, more survival of livestock, better health status and more skill development in handicrafts.

Development of Pashmina Goats project
Pashmina wool is produced in Ladakh only in India that too in Changthang plateau in the north east area of Ladakh. LNP strives to increase pashmina production, which is possible through inducting goats from non-pashmina growing pockets to pashmina growing area.

So far 260 such goats have been inducted and distributed to the deserving poor nomads in Changthang by LNP covering 52 families @ 5 goats each duly insured with corporate insurance company.