1. Train and Educate Adolescents with Community Help (TEACH) run by ABHAS Primary Steward: Nikhil Ravi

2. Project Description  Location: Tughlakabad, Delhi  Area (urban/rural): Urban  Primary focus: Girls  Project type: Non-Formal Educational Centers  Amount requested (US$): 15215  Purpose of funding request: Expansion of current project, operating expenses, linking to income-generation

3. Project Goals  Current Condition of Beneficiaries  Average monthly family income: Rs 2200/month  Female literacy rate: 42% (male: 70%)  Lot of girls drop out of school  Support family income  Take care of younger siblings  Short-Term Objectives  Mainstream drop out girls  Help never enrolled girls complete basic education  Capacity building through vocational and life skills programs  5-Year Vision  Develop a replicable model for the empowerment of adolescent girls  Address social/developmental needs of adolescent girls  Partner with other organizations and expand program to other slums in Delhi

4. Project Background/Impact  Funded for last 2 years by Asha Stanford  Successes/Impact Thus Far  Girls Interest Center opened with funding from Asha  Classes to link drop out girls with National Inst. of Open Schooling (NIOS) – 50 girls  Vocational training – cushion making, appliqué work – 150 girls  Computer center – training in MS Office, multimedia educational CDs  Challenges  Poverty levels in community  Lack of awareness, backward thinking of parents  Lack of basic health/sanitation facilities  Only 2 MCD schools catering to over 2000 students

5. Organization Description  Action Beyond Help and Support (ABHAS)  Mission Statement: Empower women and adolescents by promoting their partnerships so as to help them lead a better quality of life by addressing critical issues of Education, Gender and Health  Founded: Oct 2002  Projects/activities  Based in Kachi colony, Tughlakabad, and Kotla village, Delhi  Reached out to more than 1200 children through  15 learning centers under govt’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan  Scholarship program providing academic support to girls  Children’s community library  Early Childhood Care And Development Centres for 3 to 6 year old children

6. Existing Infrastructure/Facilities  Staff  Full-time workers from ABHAS – 5-8  Teachers hired for different programs such as  Linking drop out girls with NIOS (funded by Asha)  Computer center (funded by Asha)  Tailoring (funded by Asha)  Learning centers  Infrastructure  One Girls Interest Center in the colony (funded by Asha)

7. Curriculum/Pedagogy  Curriculum Currently Used  NIOS approved curriculum for the program linking drop out girls with them  Computer center: Govt. approved Certificate course in computers  Vocational training: Accredited with Jan Shiskha Sansthan, Ministry of HRD  Teacher/Student Ratio  NIOS: Currently about 1:25  Computer center: Each batch – about 1:15  Tailoring work: Each batch – about 1:15

8. Expected Outcomes/What After?  Expected outcomes  Linking girls dropped out from school get a high school degree through the NIOS system, access to higher education  Income generations for girls learning vocational skills, higher self-esteem  Develop education model to meet the needs of underprivileged adolescent girls living in urban slum communities  Address social/developmental needs of adolescent girls  Increased understanding on the rights of the girl child, women issues and laws.  Measures of Success  No. of girls enrolled for basic literacy, vocational trainings, and life skills development.  No. of girls identified and linked with open school  Performance of these girls in exams  Perception of families and the community

9. Original Budget Proposed for 2007  One more Girls Interest Center set up  Additional NIOS instructor  New center for beauty culture and fashion designing  Salaries for  Instructors for beauty culture and fashion designing  Full time, teaching 3 batches with about 15 girls each  Existing instructors for NIOS, cutting/tailoring, computers  Training in Basic life skills and child rights  Administration  Total: $14670

10. Changes to Original Budget Proposal  Based on questions raised at project presentation at Stanford  Attaining self-sustainability  Form self-help groups for girls receiving vocational training  Train them in processing orders, quality control, marketing  Girls Interest Center also organized as placement cell to link  Tailoring courses with with export houses in Okhla Ind. Area  Beauty culture programs with beauty parlors nearby  Full-time coordinator for this  User fee from community once placement cell becomes functional  Cancelled plans for fashion designing course

11. Budget for Requested Funding: NIOS Program S.No.ParticularsABHAS Contribution Community contribution Requested Amount (Rs.) 1.Two Girls Interest Centres Existing centre Rent x @ Rs 7000 x 12 months (Recurring) New centre for Beauty culture @Rs 3000 x12 1,20,000 2.Linking drop outs with National Open School (One time) 37 Adolescents x @ Rs 1500 (Examination fees, Course Material, Reference books, special tuition) in a year. 55,500 3.2 NIOS Instructor @ 4500 x 2 x12 month 1,08,000

12. Budget for Requested Funding: Vocational Training 1.Salary of the instructor – Beauty culture @ 5000x12 Rs. 150 per month by students for raw material and exam fee. 60,000 2.Salary of instructor – Cutting and tailoring @ 4000x12 Rs 35 per month 48,000 3.Computer Instructor @6000 x 12 months Computer lab with 6 computers and their AMC 72,000 4.Set up cost for Vocational courses and Maintenance 20, 00012,000 5.Linking the vocational training to income generation program Salary of the co-ordinator @8000 x 12 months 96,000

13. Budget for Requested Funding: Others 1.Training in Basic life skills 100 adolescents (4 groups) (One time) Trainer @ Rs 5000 per group x 4groups Training venue and IEC materials -5000 25000 2.Training in Child rights Trainer @ 5000 per group x 4 groups Training venue and IEC materials -5000 25000 3.Administration Accountant part time Local Travel Stationery/Photocopy Telephone/fax Audit fee Documentation/Report writing (Total cost is 8 % of the project ) 48000 Total Amount in Rs 6,69,500 Amount in Dollars @ Rs 44 $15,215

14. Other Funding Sources  This program primarily funded by Asha-Stanford  Other programs funded by  Government of India’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: 15 learning centers  Room to Read, India: Girl’s scholarship program  USAID funded Reach India prog: Educational centers  HPS social welfare foundation: Community library  India Sponsor Foundation: Self-help group program  Plans for self-sufficiency  Major part of this proposal is focused on attaining self-sustainability  Coordinator to link girls with income generating opportunities  Organize Girls Interest Center as placement cell for jobs

15. Site Visit Report  Site visit conducted: 8 th January 2007  Visited Girls Interest Center at Kachi colony in Tughlakabad  Significant progress since project start  Girls taking classes for NIOS all highly enthusiastic about classes  Some girls taking classes in vocational skills already doing tailoring/mending work etc in their community  Teachers and ABHAS workers appear to be very sincere in their efforts  Interaction between ABHAS workers/teachers and the beneficiaries very positive  Increase in level of confidence and self-esteem

16. Site Visit Report ABHAS Girls Interest Center in Kacchi colony, Tughlakabad

17. Site Visit Report NIOS class in Girls Interest Center

18. Site Visit Report Cutting/ tailoring class in Girls Interest Center

19. Site Visit Report Outside the local MCD school

20. Site Visit Report Income disparity in the colony – a typical house as compared to the house of the local MLA

21. Site Visit Report Nearby school where ABHAS has a library program

22. Site Visit Report Lasting images…..

23. SWOT Analysis Strengths/Opportunities  ABHAS is well established by now in the community  Basic infrastructure has been set up  Work so far has really affected the community positively  Sincere and qualified group of workers  Focus also on developing holistic life skills, education about child rights, creating awareness in the community  Work done based on research and surveys conducted in the community  Clear and realistic plan for the future Weaknesses/Risks  Still many families resistant to sending girls to school  Backward thinking still very prevalent  Basic health/sanitation problems in the community  Local government representative not actively supportive, though no opposition  ABHAS core team still quite small

24. Steward Recommendation  Recommend funding the project for the next year in partnership with Asha-Silicon Valley  Advise ABHAS to try, in the coming year, to look out for other sources of funding  Tie-ups with other NGOs  Try to garner local governmental support  Focus on creating more awareness in the community so that the community can step forward to take up more of the costs  Keep a close track on the implementation of the income generation scheme, and the work of the coordinator for the same  Quarterly progress reports to monitor progress