| Postal Address |
A/1, Prince of Wales Drive, Pune -411001, Maharashtra, India |
| Street Address |
Mohadji Shinde Road or Hadapsar Road, Pune - 411001 |
| Tel |
+91-20-6332921 |
| Fax |
+91-20-6820367 |
| E-mail |
searchmc@hotmail.com / Subhashsmc2000@yahoo.com |
| Web Address |
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| Year Established |
1989 |
| Contacts |
Rev. Subhash Chandorikar, Director - SEARCH |
| Mission |
To serve and develop marginal people of the backward community.
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| Geographical area of operations |
Maharashtra State in India (Pune, Khed Manchar, Nanded and Latur Districts)
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| Issues area of operations |
- Empowering Dalit women
- Land development
- Serving to old age women
- School drop out children and children making boot polish
- HIV/AIDS education and caring to transport workers
- Protect environment and tree planting
- Community Health and Mobile service
- Documentation and publication
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| Activities |
- Empowering Dalit Women: We have provided leadership training to 50 women
from 20 villages, we have cluster level meetings combining ¾
villages. We have organized women's groups. Some of them have been
registered under the charity commissioner's office. We have encouraged them to
form SHG (Self Help Group for micro-credit schemes), exposed programmes
for model projects, co-operative schemes, also we have given loans for
goat and buffalo growing for income sources. Furthermore, seminars and
workshop are organized for Human rights issues, atrocities on women, rape,
facilitating government's development schemes, protesting against dowry
and abortion of girl child.
- Serving Old age women : We have 35 women at the Day Care
Centre. We give one time meal, library facilities, medical checkup,
counseling. Furthermore, we have school programmes for students and
teachers. We educate need and programmes to serve old age people. We
are raising funds for income giving schemes.
- Boot Polish Making Children : Children suppose to spend time in
school but due to family problems, broken family relations and poor
children are engage in boot polish making. So we have tuition class,
establishing good relation between parents, community. Also preventing
bad habits i.e smoking, drinking, sex, chewing tobacco and eating in
roadside hotels.
- HIV/AIDS Education and caring ministry : We have AIDS information
pamphlets, we distribute posters, distribute condom and counseling for
AIDS infected patients. Furthermore, we do try to raise funds for
dependent, specially widow and orphan children, conduct seminars for
religious priest, social workers and transport workers
- Environment and Tree planting : Each year with different theme
we arrange NEAC - (National Environment Awareness Campaign) to conduct
seminars for villages, organize rally with school children. Also,
tribal land is under development, protecting trees.
- Community Health Education and Mobile Service : Through public
awareness we give health education on different diseases, telling them
to use clean water and mental health. However handling First Aid
programmes.
- Documentation and Publication : Regularly we do collect
information from Newspaper, magazine, we publish some good programmes
in magazine. The same information is being used by activists and
research students.
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| Affiliation(s) |
Indian National Social Action Forum (INSAF); SAFWI - Social Action Forum of Western India (SAFWI); Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI); International Christian AIDS Network (ICAN); CANA - Christian AIDS Network Association (CANA)
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| Dissemination |
SEARCH organisation brochure; Community Education Information and charts; HIV AIDS posters, Charts, pamphlets; Reports and educational material; Booklets and paper cuttings
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| Target Audience |
- Dalit women (untouchable low caste community) . Landless labourers, migrant workers.
- Transport workers, commercial sex workers, road side labourers, tourist for AIDS mission.
- Tribal community who are illiterate.
- School dropout children specially boot polish makers.
- Men and women over and above 60 years old specially dalit women.
- Slum dwellers for community health.
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| Additional Information |
Support to small NGO: We do extend support to small
grassroot level NGO for writing project proposals, reports, audit and
formulating programmes. We share news and views of achievements and
problems.
Capacity Building: In order to strengthen
beneficiaries we do have a program of fundraising through foreign
funding but being small NGO and infrastructure it is very difficult to
raise funds. Office facilities are inadequate, modern fast
communication equipments are not with us (Computer, fax, internet and
others). Even some of the programme we are running without funds.
Progress: Since we are working in rural area with
Dalit and tribal community. It is difficult to get immediate
result. Also, we are not able to link between local to global
levels. So it is difficult to find out resources and remarkable
achievements. Yet we are proud that we have established good rapport
with beneficiaries and government offices.
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