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Category Archive: Focus areas
To “Help People in Need”, Svechha has chosen different focus area to work with.
1) Education
Svechha has chosen to work in the education area because 1/4th of the world’s uneducated are from India. It is proven that education can bring in a social change by facilitating the following.
• Increases agricultural productivity & reduces malnutrition
• Raises productivity and income
• Promotes economic growth
Improves health and reduces HIV/AIDS
Svechha works in the following areas of education.
Sponsor education for poor kids and orphans
setup education infrastructure like libraries and school building
special training to the disabled kids to make them self-sufficient
2) Health Care
The economic development of any country brings along with it many health problems. India has growing number of health problems like obesity, increase in cancer, heart problems, diabetics including childhood diabetics.
Svechha works in the following areas in the health care among others.
Awareness campaigns on Cancer, blood and eye donation
Personal health care awareness
Sponsoring poor patients medical expenses
Rehabilitation programmes
3) Old Age Care
Today there are 77 million old people in India. This number is likely to rise to 177 million by 2025. 40% of the old live below poverty line. 58 per cent of females and 45 per cent of males in rural areas were fully dependent whereas in urban areas, these percentages were 64 and 46 respectively.
Old age people are helpless and disabled to even work at that age. So, we can help them lead a graceful life at that stage of their life.
Svechha is supporting one old age home in Hyderabad, India at present.
4) Village Development
Svechha offers help in village development activities either financially or by offering volunteer’s time. These can be setting up water purifying plants, connecting agricultual reserach with the farmers etc.
Svechha is also working in “Electrification of remote tribal villages” by offering them solar powered home lights.
5) Social Responsibility
Svechha is planning to work towards increasing awareness on civic responsibilities like responsible driving etc.
Fund Raising Events
To raise funds required to work in our focus areas, Svechha organizes events to raise funds.This contains details about the field work done by Svechha volunteers as well as the fund-raising events.
Apr
02
Cycling for Nature at Bharti Vidya Bhawan School, New Delhi
Introduction: This workshop is for school students who would like to be introduced to everyday ways of environment protection through bicycling. This is part of our campaign Cycle for Nature. In this workshop series, participants are taught about cycling from basics to introduction to adventure biking with a strong focus on practical benefits of cycling …
Apr
02
TEACHERS: Encourage kids to cycle to school
If more of your pupils cycled to school everyone would benefit: the children themselves, the wider school community and the population as a whole. Making kids fitter Nationally, 50 per cent of children get less than the recommended one hour a day of moderate physical activity. Nearly a quarter of primary school children are overweight …
Mar
29
Cycling for Nature
Introduction: This workshop is for Schools(Why?)/Companies who would like to help create awareness for environment protection among the Students/Employees. In this workshop, participants are taught about cycling from basics to introduction to adventure biking with a strong focus on practical benefits of cycling to individuals. (Why cycling?) Who can attend: Open to people of all …
Mar
09
Bicycle and Cycling FAQs
Basic Maintenance Where should I oil my bike and how often? How can I stop brake squeal? What is the wee rubber tube found in some puncture outfits? Bike Lights and the Law What is the law regarding bike lights? About Bike Helmets Why does my 5 year old helmet probably need replaced? What are …
Mar
01
Why Cycle?
There are nearly as many reasons for cycling as there are cyclists. If you are thinking of leaving the car keys behind, but suddenly develop a severe case of procrastination every time someone mentions a bike, we are here to gently educate you and answer any questions you may have as a potential cyclist. Cycling …
Jan
29
Blood Donation:Thalassemia patients
Hi All, We visited Indo-American cancer Institute on republic day, distributed the food sponsored by Mrs.Krishna Mohan, to poor patients in the dormitory and the ones staying in the traffic island. We could see that it was much needed to them, they started eating as soon as we gave. Pediatric ward was heart breaking as …
Nov
29
Environment
Svechha has chosen to work in the area of creating awareness for environment preservation. It is proven that India can play a crucial role in solving its own as well as world’s environment problems. Svechha is presently running following campaigns among school children for the same. As we believe, childhood is the best time to …