Project Pahal Multipurpose Social Services Organisation

Campaign Story

About the project

Project PAHAL works in Gurgaon, a city which has seen rapid urbanization since the nineties. With increase in urbanization Gurgaon witnessed an inflow of huge numbers of migrants. This impacted the adjacent villages as well. Though Gurgaon as a district has excelled in the field of education, it still has a gap of more than 13% when comparing female to male literacy. This shows that the society is still lagging behind to address the issues of gender discrimination. The quality of education in the government school is also a major concern.

Making a difference

CRY America’s Project PAHAL is working towards ensuring children from age 6 to 18 years are attending school and have access to quality education. The focus is on the evolution of children’s collectives and youth collectives as child protection leaders through theater in education and sports activities. The key activities taking place under the project are capacity building of the child protection committee members on roles and responsibility, conducting awareness campaign on child labor and child marriage and mothly meeting of children and adolescent collectives.

Action during COVID times

● Meeting conducted with Chief Medical officer regarding creating awareness on COVID vaccination and addressing vaccine hesitance
● Training of partners on capturing COVID vaccination data from communities and preparing due list

The way forward

● Linking all eligible children with health and ICDS systems to ensure key health and nutrition services- especially routine immunization.
● Operating Child Activity Center (CAC) to provide remedial support to the children
● Tracking of children between the age group of 6-14 and ensure that they are enrolled in school
● Formation of support groups in the communities and capacity building of these groups
● Capacity building of the children and adolescent collectives on child rights and reporting mechanism of child right issues

Project Impact

children who are either dropout or never been to school enrolled in CAC

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Children who are either dropout or never been to school enrolled in CAC

children were provided with education support through distribution of books and stationery

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Children were provided with education support through distribution of books and stationery

members of the child protection committees were sensitized on the roles and responsibilities of the Child Protection Committee

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Members of the child protection committees were sensitized on the roles and responsibilities of the Child Protection Committee

children groups formed in 3 project villages with 45 members

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Children groups formed in 3 project villages with 45 members

adolescent groups formed in 3 project villages with 30 girls

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Adolescent groups formed in 3 project villages with 30 girls

Last Year’s Grant Disbursed: $9,945

Current Year’s Approved Grant

Administration$1,753

Education$4,191

Protection$4,191

Total Budget$10,135

Story of a child saved from dropping out

Priyanshu a 14-year old child lives in Garaitpurbass. His family migrated from Rajasthan in search of livelihood. His father works for a private company and his mother is a homemaker.

Priyanshu’s father’s income was not enough to run the family and his mother couldn’t help much because of her ill health. As the family was struggling to meet their daily needs, Priyanshu’s education was ignored.

CRY America projects came across Priyanshu during the home visits.The team counseled the family and convinced the parents to send him to the Child Activity Center. During the entry level assessment, it was found that due to the gap in studies, Priyanshu had forgotten everything he had learnt in Grade 6, when he was last in school.

To help him get his confidence back, he was first provided with support to regain the basic concepts of language and mathematics and then after a month he was enrolled in grade 7 in a government school.

Priyanshu is now happy in school and also participates in the activities at the center. His parents are also happy to see a huge difference in their son. They are proud of the way he participates in every activity and enjoys doing everything he does in school!

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