Youth Venture

Shailaja Kasare and Manisha Adhar are working on encouraging young girls in their respective communities to take up academic and vocational guidance courses. They held a day long program recently to take the girls in their communities for a fun day out. After a morning of exploring the woods and games, they had an expert address them on different options for girls who have dropped out from schools.

Name: Tayappa
Venture Name: ‘The Garbage Program.’
Venture Description: Tayappa is creating awareness about the importance of keeping the community clean with the help of street plays and posters at popular festivals. Being a slum dweller and seeing tons of garbage around his place everyday he wants to educate people about the effects of non-scientific methods of disposing garbage and mobilize and educate the community to embrace modern methods of garbage segregation and disposal.

Name: Ramesh Joshi
Venture Name: ‘Ashayein.’
Venture Description: Ramesh wants the children who are leaving on the streets near his home to have access to basic education.He strongly believes that lack of education is the root cause of all problems. He conducts classes with the children twice a week and also encourages them to explore their other talents and skills.

Name: Ansari Masrud Sanjurali
Venture Name: ’Aashiyana.’
Venture Description: Masrud wants to build a youth group in Mankhud to work with social issues in and around his area. Mankhud, being a newly rehabilitated place, he believes that a youth group will help bring the people in the community together and also help people in settling down to theri new homes faster. This he also believes will be a strong deterent to the increasing levels of crimes in Mankhud.

Name: Geeta Koli
Venture Name: ‘Girl’s Education.’
Venture Description: The community where Geeta stays believes that there is no need to send the girl child to school as their destiny is to marry and taking care of the house. Geeta’s mission is to transform this attitude. Being the only girl in her community to have gone to school,she believes that educating a girl is equivalent to educating the whole family, thus benefiting all.

Name: Sumit Gade
Venture Name: ‘Pragati.’
Venture Description: Summit wishes to work with young children admitted in hospitals, engaging them in games and activites and thus helping them to deal with their illness with a smile.He believes that the childrens hospitals need to be made fun and child friendly.Using puppet shows and songs, he wants to make sure the kids enjoy their stay in hospitals, eat medicines without throwing tantrums and go home back smiling.

Name: Ashok Rathod
Venture Name: ‘Magic star.’
Venture Description: Ashok Rathod, is building an activity group in his community, where people can share their problems, express opinions on various issues, etc; through their common passion- football. As most of the people living in his community come from difficult backgrounds, he wants to build a community spirit around it. He wants to use football to build rapport and encourgage children in his community to go to school

Name: Vijay Johare
Venture Name: Jagriti
Venture Description: Vijay wants to work with young people and their families encouraging them and the key players in their life to look at education not as an option, but as a necessity. He started by undertaking a survey to understand how many children in his community go to school and is currently work with parents, and in particular mothers, to ensure all children in his community attend school.