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VIPLA FOUNDATION (SAVE THE CHILDREN INDIA)

  022-26520601
  https://www.viplafoundation.org/
  Ritu.chandwani@viplafoundation.org
Founded in 1988 by late Mrs. Vipula Kadri, over the last 36 years we have relentlessly worked towards the enrichment of the lives of underpriviliged children and women. Save The Children India now known as Vipla Foundation has reached out to 5,89,318 beneficiaries in the areas of Education, Inclusion, Early Childhood Care and Women Empowerment.

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This year we seek your support to provide Quality Education to children from marginalised communities through the following interventions:

Early Childhood Care and Education: Over the past 36 years, Vipla Foundation has set up Balwadis and supported Anganwadis across Maharashtra and Delhi. Having built our expertise in this space, we can further expand our reach of Community Balwadis and also train multiple other Balwadi and Anganwadi Teachers to ensure every child has access to quality early education.

Patang Remedial Education Program: Our Patang study centers with multigrade and multi-level classrooms will provide children with focused teacher support to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.

Special Care Centre: In India, a child born with special needs is destined for a life of dependency especially those from underserved communities who have no access to resources that can address the needs of the specially-abled. Through the Special Care Center, Vipla Foundation will provide quality education and holistic development to the hearing impaired and intellectually disabled children from economically disadvantaged communities. We offer a holistic academic curriculum, vocational training, and extra-curricular activities besides focusing on their socio-emotional and nutritional needs.

With your support, we can help vulnerable children learn, grow and flourish.

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Fund Utilization in 2024

Total funds raised in 2024 - INR 4436096
Project NameEconomic Independence for Reducing Vulnerability to Gender-Based Violence through Market-Oriented Skills Training Interventions
Amount Utilized (INR)500000
Project DescriptionThe core focus of the proposed project is to provide Employability Skill Training in Marketable vocations to young women in the age group of 18-30 along with other important skills, particularly soft-skill and Digital literacy. Vipla Foundation partners with renowned technical organisations to provide support for the Training of Trainers and provide government-recognised National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Sector Skills Council (SSC) certification to successful candidates.
The organisation sees this as a solution not only for economic independence but also for helping their families rise above the vicious circle of intergenerational poverty and exploitation.
LocationsPune > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesIncome > Skilling & vocational training
Beneficiary GroupWomen
Beneficiary Description50 young women from marginalised slum communities around Pune (Pimpri Chinchwad) in the age group of 18-30 years.
ImpactVipla Foundation has been providing employability-oriented skills training to young women since the year 2009. The courses are short- and medium-term modules (45 days to 120 days) short-term livelihood program meant for the unemployed urban young women between the ages of 18-30 years, from underprivileged families. Most of the young women who are part of the program are the ones who have dropped out of formal education early, have no or limited skills to find formal employment and or are victims of gender-based violence.
The Proposed project aims to provide employability skills training to 50 young women from slums around Pune over 4 months and ensure that 70% of candidates are successfully placed on the job.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Mobilisation and orientation from urban communities around Pune 75 young women
2 Placement of trained candidates suitable to their skills. 70% placement with an average starting salary of Rs. 10,000 per month.
3 Equipping beneficiaries with critical life skills and confident decision-making in order to exercise their rights on issues affecting them
4 Increasing the income of beneficiaries through job placement/self-employment and post-placement support.
Project NamePatang Remedial Education Programme
Amount Utilized (INR)1825000
Project DescriptionVipla Foundation's Patang Remedial Education program operates in both communities and schools in Mumbai, Thane, Pune, and Delhi. It aims to support school education and effectively minimize student attrition. It does this by creating a remedial education support model functioning within schools and in the community. It is one of the few models of remedial education in India which runs within school hours inside the school premises or after school hours in the community-based centres. This acts as a support system for schools where constant interaction with and feedback from schools becomes possible. The proposed project aims at leveraging the existing partnership of the Vipla Foundation to address learning gaps among children studying in seven schools, most specifically in Math and Language for the children in standard 2nd– 6th in Mumbai and Thane.
LocationsThane > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > Remedial education
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary Description300 children between the age group of 7-14 years, who are at risk of dropping out of school. These children come from disadvantaged communities and most of them lag behind in grade level competencies and need specialized input to reach the grade level competency.
Impact1. Achievement of foundational learning outcomes and reduce learning gaps by providing access to Remedial Learning Interventions for primary grade children in urban slum localities of Mumbai and Thane
2. Students at high risk of dropping out in schools in primary grades with low learning levels complete a minimum of one year of a remedial education program to cope better with their grade level learning and achieve foundational learning outcomes.
3. Children will attend the Patang remedial centres before and after school hours to reduce their learning gap.
4. Parents and community members support children's learning at home and after school to maintain the continuity of learning beyond the school boundaries.
5. To train and mentor community teachers in remedial education so that they can reduce the widened learning gaps among elementary grade students caused due to closure of schools during covid-19.
6. To sensitize the community teachers about the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of the students and to upskill them with the knowledge, skills, and attitude to effectively tackle the socio-emotional challenges faced by children.
7. To enable teachers to help elementary grade children re-adjust to school
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Conduct a diagnostic test to identify students in school at high risk of dropping out by assessing their current level of learning. Not Applicable
2 Enroll students falling in the lowermost levels of learning as identified in the diagnostic test . 60 students each of our 7 centres.
3 Enroll at risk of drop-out children and children took admission through RTE, from each school. Not Applicable
4 Run Patang Remedial classes for 2 batches of 30 students each per centre for 6 days a week Not Applicable
5 Run periodic teacher training sessions on curriculum and pedagogy for remedial teachers to be effective in their classes Not Applicable
6 Conduct monthly co-curricular activities with students in the Patang remedial education centres. Not Applicable
Project NameQuality Education
Amount Utilized (INR)313000
Project DescriptionThe project activities helped in –
• ensuring quality education for children from marginalised communities.
• building strong foundational literacy and numeracy skills among pre-school children, and support the primary schools to better serve the children facing difficulty in basic reading and numeric skills.
• Creating and improving learning environment for children and adolescents to attain age-appropriate learning outcomes.
• Developing among children and adolescents the ability to express freely and think critically.
• Having meaningful and democratic participation in the governance of education institutions, community and school level protective environment for children and adolescents.
LocationsPune > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > Teacher training,Education > Remedial education
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Others
Beneficiary Description• 17427 children of age group of 3 to 14 years of marginalised communities located in Pimpri Chinchwad area from 50 project intervention schools. • 270 teachers from 50 schools including Heads of the schools, science and Mathematics teachers, Balwadi Teachers and supervisors and 13 Shikshan Doot who are teachers from the communities running Community Learning Centres. • 2378 Parents were reached. They are parents of children in 50 project schools who participated in parent – teacher’s meetings, were reached through home visits and / or representatives of School Management Committees or Sakhi Savitri Samittees.
Impact1. Children (3-14 years) have access to quality pre-primary and primary education with their School Readiness Assessment being 71 % for Balwadi children. Also, 3 children made efforts to submit their projects for Inspire Manak award and one got selected to district level
2. 50 Balwadi teachers practised child friendly pedagogy/teaching methods and their average score increased from 64% in September 2023 to 93% in April 2024.
3. Members of children parliament/ change maker group demonstrated knowledge & skills to collaborate with peer & adult stakeholders (SMC’s, WCPC’s, Education Dept) in problem solving by forming groups to address menstrual issues, healthy eating habits, safety of children.
4. 42 SMCs are functional with 37 having active participation of parents in school administration and decision-making.
5. WCPC and 5 Sakhi Savitri Committees’ is established.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Support centres – Provides academic support to children who need remedial education to address the learning gaps. This program was run in 20 schools for 1018 children of 2nd to 7th grade.
2 Community Learning Centres – provide academic support to the children in the community. This was run across 13 communities for 366 children
3 Training of Pre-school teachers – The training focused on teaching-learning practices for pre-school teachers and about skills and attitude required while working with pre-school children. 48 Balwadi Teachers and 6 Balwadi supervisors participated in the training.
4 Meetings with Pre-school childrens’ parents - Small parent workshops were conducted and topics like health and nutrition were discussed. These parent meetings are conducted once in every two months
5 Training and handholding of teachers for ERAC methodology of teaching-learning which includes demonstration lessons and lesson planning. 30 teachers of 10 schools attended this activity.
6 SMAK – Science and Mathematics Application of Knowledge : The purpose of this initiative is to support teachers in developing scientific attitude and get over the fear of mathematics. This initiative was conducted with 4371 children of 6th and 7th grade.
Project NameQuality Education
Amount Utilized (INR)500000
Project DescriptionThe project entailed activities to ensure that all children in the age group of 7 to 12 years achieve foundational learning outcomes appropriate to their grade levels.
During this project we:
1. Conducted a diagnostic assessment to identify students in school at high risk of dropping out by assessing their current level of learning.
2. Enrolled 30 students falling in the lowermost levels of learning as identified in the diagnostic test for each center.
3. Conducted Patang Remedial classes for a batch of 30 students per center for 6 days a week.
4. Ran periodic teacher training sessions on curriculum and pedagogy for remedial teachers to be effective in their classes. (On an annual basis)
5. Conducted monthly extra-curricular activities for children at Patang centers.
LocationsThane > Maharashtra (MH),Mumbai suburban > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > Remedial education
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary DescriptionThere were 300 children in the age group of 7 - 12 years having their learning level below the grade level learning outcomes.
Impact1. The enrolled students are continuing to learn in the remedial class and progressing smoothly.
2. Students have continuously started to work on the workbooks after each Patang Remedial Education class within the classroom.
3. Teachers and mentors attended training in the months of June, October and November which addressed the capacity building of the Patang teachers and mentors in terms of curriculum and pedagogical aspects of remedial teaching.
4. A monthly teacher-mentor and program team meeting was conducted in October, November and December to discuss the challenges and way forward for the program to run effectively.
5. In the month of November and December, all the students in the Patang Remedial Centres participated in the Drawing and Rangoli competition with great enthusiasm.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Summer camp was conducted which included activities like Story making, Picture talk, Self-information, Games, Exercise, and Yoga were conducted. 320 students participated in it.
2 Baseline Exam was conducted in all centres 300 students enrolled in the exams.
3 Conducted Annual Day in all 5 Centers. A total of 58 students took part in the Dance Activity.
4 Elocution competition - students took part and prepared their speeches by themselves. In total 250 students took part in Elocution Competition.
Project NameAnti Human Trafficking Initiative
Amount Utilized (INR)1298096
Project DescriptionVipla foundation adopts internationally acclaimed 5 P approach of Policy, Prosecution, Protection, Prevention and Partnership to addressing trafficking and engages with communities, survivors and system.
Vipla Foundation offers skills training and formal economy placement support to over 3500 women annually in customer centric trades like BPO, Retail, Sales, Beauty and Wellness, Paramedical Trades etc. The interventions aim at 70 % placement of trained and certified candidates.
Under the proposed project, Vipla Foundation provided Employability skills training to 100 Women in Nagpur in the trade of Beauty and wellness and ensuring that 70% are earning income using the skills. Most women have taken-up job after the completion of the training and about 22 have started their own enterprises.
The intervention ‘Strengthening Community Based Protection Measures for Children At-Risk to Violence including Trafficking’. focuses on piloting a field-based intervention in across 30 villages in Nagpur districts of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra aimed at strengthening and capacity building of child protection mechanisms at the village, block, and district level to identify, prevent, report, and act on child protections concerns and incidences in their respective geographies.
LocationsNagpur > Maharashtra (MH),Mumbai City > Maharashtra (MH),Pune > Maharashtra (MH),Thane > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesPublic Safety > Protection from Exploitation & abuse
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Women
Beneficiary DescriptionThe details of beneficiaries for different programs are as follows: 1. Skilling interventions: Young women in the age group of 18-30 living in low socio-economic urban and rural communities in Nagpur. 2. Community interventions for protection of children: The interventions were carried out with over 1000+ Adolescents and 300 village level stakeholders, particularly members of Child Protection Committees. 3. Legal support and capacity building of systemic stakeholders: 70 women and children victims of violence staying in the government run shelter homes in Maharashtra.
ImpactThe TMM Funds Supported following interventions;
1. Skilling interventions for 100 young women in Nagpur
2. Community interventions for protection of children through community prevention efforts in 30 villages of Nagpur District
3. Legal support and capacity building of systemic stakeholders on addressing gender-based violence to 70 women and children victims of violence
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Skilling interventions: This includes understanding communities and career aspiration among women, on-boarding and training of project staff, setting up of skills training centres, identification and affiliation with industry recognized certifications partners, community mobilization, employability skills training, assessments, examinations and certifications, placements, post placement follow-up. 3500 women annually
2 Community interventions for protection of children: This includes community survey, shortlisting of villages, meeting with community stakeholders, formation and training of VCPC, formation of adolescent groups, training of gender, life skills, coordination meetings with stakeholders. 1000 + adolescents and 300 village level stakeholders.
3 Legal support and capacity building of systemic stakeholders: This includes meeting with the government shelter home authorities, weekly activities and life skills sessions in the shelter homes, counselling sessions with victims, analysis of legal support needs, case based legal assistance to survivors 70 women and children

Fund Utilization in 2023

Total funds raised in 2023 - INR 5894238
Project NameQuality Education
Amount Utilized (INR)500000
Project DescriptionSchool Transformation Program (STP):
Creating access to Quality Education for the children and adolescents to ensure their dignity and wellbeing.

Community Balwadi Program: Vipla Foundation has designed and demonstrated a robust Pre-primary (Balwadi) program for children between 3-6 years. Given the situation in the identified slums, Vipla Foundation proposes to implement its proven “Pre- primary” program through Balwadis under the project.
LocationsPune > Maharashtra (MH),Mumbai City > Maharashtra (MH),Mumbai suburban > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation ,Education > Early childhood learning
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary DescriptionSchool Transformation Program (STP): (6-8) Grade Students Community Balwadi Program: 0-8 years Children
ImpactSchool Transformation Program (STP):
Transforming schools into intensive learning spaces
Build a strong teacher training model for Balwadi and Primary teachers

Community Balwadi Program:
Standardization of quality teaching learning practices in the Balwadi classroom
Holistic development of children through developmentally appropriate teaching practices and improved conceptual knowledge and skills

Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Capacity Building of STCI team School Transformation Program (STP)- Cost per Beneficiary: 2048.98
2 Capacity building of School teachers Community Balwadi Program -Cost per Beneficiary: 192.55
3 On-field observation, continuous mentoring, and feedback for teachers
4 Distribution of Classroom Materials
Project NameProviding quality education to special children from the Special Care Center
Amount Utilized (INR)949500
Project DescriptionSpecial Care Centre is a school for Hearing Impaired (HI) and Intellectually Disabled (ID) children. These special children are from marginalized society. Our goal is to make these children self- reliant, confident and responsible citizen by providing them quality education using the special teaching techniques, activities according to the disability and level of the children towards their holistic development.
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Persons with Disabilities
Beneficiary Description4-20 Age Group Hearing Impaired 4-20 Age Group Intellectually Disabled
ImpactBetter Speech and language skills amongst students
Improved Socio-Emotional skills of students
Building of Leadership Skills amongst students
Enhancement of self confidence amongst students
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 The Centre houses a school which offers disadvantaged children a holistic academic curriculum and numerous extra-curricular activities. Special Care Center : Cost per Beneficiary: 14.19
2 All incoming students are assessed for their hearing and speech skills by an audiologist and speech therapist and intellectually disabled are sent for psychological evaluation, after which appropriate weekly therapy sessions and individualized educational programmes are planned, designed and implemented.
Project NamePatang Remedial Education Programme
Amount Utilized (INR)732000
Project DescriptionThe Project aims to support school education and effectively minimize student attrition. It does this by creating a remedial education support model functioning within schools and in the community. It is one of the few models of remedial education in India which runs within school hours inside the school premises or after school hours in the community-based centres. This acts as a support system for schools where constant interaction with and feedback from schools becomes possible.
Locations Delhi (DL)
CausesEducation ,Education > Remedial education
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary Description2nd Std to 6th Std Students
ImpactAchievement of foundational learning outcomes and reduce learning gaps by providing access to Remedial Learning Interventions for primary grade children in urban slum localities.
Students at high risk of dropping out in schools in primary grades with low learning levels complete a minimum of one year of a remedial education programme to cope better with their grade level learning and achieve foundational learning outcomes.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Conducting Diagnostic Tests: Conduct a diagnostic test to identify students in school at high risk of dropping out by assessing their current level of learning. Patang Remedial Education Programme - Cost per Beneficiary: 399:21
2 Remedial Classes: Run Patang Remedial classes for 2 batches of 30 students each per centre for 6 days a week
Project NameDigitizing Patang Centres
Amount Utilized (INR)1885750
Project DescriptionPatang programme has over the years successfully helped children improve their educational
outcomes with the support of worksheets and other tools that the teachers use, the use of audio-visual tools
will help children to better understand concepts and it will help teachers engage with the children better.
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation > Remedial education
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary DescriptionStandard 1st to 7th Students
ImpactStudents will be able to progress faster from their current level to their desired grade level.
Students will be able to have multimodal learning experiences that are more engaging.
Teachers will be able to manage children of different grade levels in a more efficient manner.
Remedial teachers will have better expertise in managing digital infrastructure to support the education
of students and develop 21st-century teaching skills.
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Provide basic digital infrastructure to support the remedial education in Patang study centres to reduce the gap between their current level of learning and their grade level learning expectations in Language and Math. Digitizing Patang Centres - Cost per Beneficiary: 399:21
2 To provide a better learning balance in the Multigrade Multilevel (MGML) remedial classroom setup
Project NameQuality Education
Amount Utilized (INR)500000
Project DescriptionSchool Transformation Program (STP):
Creating access to Quality Education for the children and adolescents to ensure their dignity and wellbeing.
LocationsPune > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation
Beneficiary GroupChildren
Beneficiary Description(6-8 )Grade Students
ImpactTransforming schools into intensive learning spaces
Build a strong teacher training model for Balwadi and Primary teachers
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Capacity Building of STCI team School Transformation Program (STP) - Cost per Beneficiary: 2048.98
2 Capacity building of School teachers
Project NameProviding quality education to special children from the Special Care Center
Amount Utilized (INR)313000
Project DescriptionSpecial Care Centre is a school for Hearing Impaired (HI) and Intellectually Disabled (ID) children. These special children are from marginalized society. Our goal is to make these children self- reliant, confident and responsible citizen by providing them quality education using the special teaching techniques, activities according to the disability and level of the children towards their holistic development.
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Persons with Disabilities
Beneficiary Description4-20 Age Group Hearing Impaired 4-20 Age Group Intellectually Disabled
ImpactBetter Speech and language skills amongst students
Improved Socio-Emotional skills of students
Building of Leadership Skills amongst students
Enhancement of self confidence amongst students
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 The Centre houses a school which offers disadvantaged children a holistic academic curriculum and numerous extra-curricular activities. Special Care Centre - Cost per Beneficiary: 14.19
2 All incoming students are assessed for their hearing and speech skills by an audiologist and speech therapist and intellectually disabled are sent for psychological evaluation, after which appropriate weekly therapy sessions and individualized educational programmes are planned, designed and implemented.
Project NameQuality Education
Amount Utilized (INR)1013988
Project DescriptionSchool Transformation Program (STP):
Creating access to Quality Education for the children and adolescents to ensure their dignity and wellbeing.

Community Balwadi Program: Vipla Foundation has designed and demonstrated a robust Pre-primary (Balwadi) program for children between 3-6 years. Given the situation in the identified slums, Vipla Foundation proposes to implement its proven “Pre- primary” program through Balwadis under the project.

Dhvani Early Intervention Program: Dhvani program provides timely & valuable treatment to children with hearing loss. With an aim of providing quality service to the young hearing-impaired children, the focus has been early diagnosis and intervention so as to reduce trauma in these children
LocationsMumbai City > Maharashtra (MH),Mumbai suburban > Maharashtra (MH)
CausesEducation ,Education > Early childhood learning
Beneficiary GroupChildren,Persons with Disabilities
Beneficiary DescriptionSchool Transformation Program (STP): (6-8) Grade Students Community Balwadi Program: 0-8 years Children Dhvani Early Intervention Program: 0-6 years Children
Impactchool Transformation Program (STP):
Transforming schools into intensive learning spaces
Build a strong teacher training model for Balwadi and Primary teachers

Community Balwadi Program:
Standardization of quality teaching learning practices in the Balwadi classroom
Holistic development of children through developmentally appropriate teaching practices and improved conceptual knowledge and skills

Dhvani Early Intervention Program:
Parents have a better understanding of hearing loss and the approaches needed to support children with hearing loss
Age-appropriate speech and language skills
Activities Conducted
NoActivity / Item / BeneficiariesQuantity / Number, if applicable
1 Capacity Building of STCI team School Transformation Program (STP)- Cost per Beneficiary: 2048.98
2 Capacity building of School teachers Community Balwadi Program: Cost per Beneficiary: 192.55
3 On-field observation, continuous mentoring, and feedback for teachers Dhvani Early Intervention Program: Cost per Beneficiary: 93.59
4 Distribution of Classroom Materials
5 Audiological & Therapeutic Services
6 Parental Guidance & Counseling


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