Service initiatives at DAIS Supporting NGOs
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Advitya is an NGO that has been changing lives since August 2000. It is a vocational centre that provides constructive occupation through creative work to mentally challenged adults. The individuals at Advitya are those who are unable to continue in other special institutes due to their age or the need for special individual attention.
Since 2007 July, DAIS students have collaborated with ADVITYA and planned a varied range of activities to engage these differently abled individuals and gifted minds. These aim to explore their creative talents further and provide space for entertainment and joy as well. Some of the activities the first year IB students plan for them are short plays, music, dance and craft, interesting games, Antakshari and Dumb Charades, painting etc.
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Aarmbh is an initiative of DAIS service in which students visit visit DR.Ernest BorgesMemorial Home which is a temporary shelter for children and their families who are receiving treatment at the Tata cancer hospital. The students set up board games as well as other activities during the afternoon sessions. They also raise fund in the annual CAS Fete for the children of the home.
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Muktangan, an initiative of Paragon Charitable Trust and working in close partnership with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai aims to create a model offering sustainable, community-based, low-cost, high-quality, inclusive, child–centred English medium education to the economically disadvantaged sections of society by training and employing community- members as teachers.
As a part of corporate social responsibility, in partnership with the Municipal Corporation, the organization also attempts to provide mid-day meals along with the schooling. DAIS has been working with Muktangan from 2005 and our IB students engage with Grade 2/ 3/4 students to teach them co-curricular skills through play, music, dance, activities on better communication, sports and craft. Along with this, they try to develop a personal rapport.
- Muktangan - 2022-23
- Muktangan - 2021-22
- Muktangan - 2020-21
- Muktangan - 2019-20
- Muktangan - 2018-19
- Muktangan - 2017-18
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- Muktangan - Eye Camp
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The Jai Vakeel Foundation and Research Center provides holistic services delivered by well-trained staff through a nationally recognized curriculum and an engaged parent body. This curriculum includes languages, math, environmental studies, art, yoga and activities of daily living.
The foundation aims to deliver a physical, social and cultural environment compatible to greater learning and growth for individuals with intellectual disability.
It started from their home educating and providing therapy to a few children to today, a two-acre campus in Sewri - Mumbai along with 2 rural branches in Pune and Nashik district. Today, they are the largest and oldest non-profit serving the intellectually differently abled.
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This is a Mumbai-based Section 8, 12 A and 80 G accredited, not for profit organisation. They started as a platform for concerned and conscious citizens of Mumbai who can spare their time and resources for the betterment of school going children from neighboring slums. Today, students enroll into their programs starting from Grade 2 and are tutored, mentored and guided through to Grade 12
Their Key Programme is the Free Learning Centre Project enables citizens to offer a range of experiences to school-goers from slums in the neighbourhood. Currently it operates in 20 centres and 40 batches across Mumbai.
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About WSD
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What is WSD ?
We are a non-profit trust dedicated to helping street dogs. The trust was set up in 1985 and is registered as a charitable trust under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950
We are recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of Indi
Since 1989 we have been carrying out a mass sterilisation programme for street dogs, following the recommendations of the World Health Organisation on rabies eradication and dog population control. We also conduct an on-site first aid and vaccination programme, education and awareness programme and put up abandoned pets and pariahs fora doption.
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Toybank believes that investing in the mental development of at-risk children through early childhood development programs ensures that they have the right stimulation and nurturing for a better perspective towards life in their adulthood.
Toybank's approach is to develop programs and initiatives particularly focusing on the behavioural and mental growth of at-risk children in their most impressionable years of life.
Toybank collaborates with institutions in Urban and Rural India by setting up Play Centres within their premises and conducts Educational Play Sessions, Team building Activities and other Development Workshops at these libraries through morally correct Board Games and Toys.
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Village project 2019-20- With a view to make the ongoing social service project an integral part of the programme of study, all students of Class 11 actively take part in the DAIS Service Project ‘Empowering Rural India’. Each student will make one trip to the village at Kumbarghar near Pali or a new village which the school is working on. The students will work on the various infrastructure and educational activities being carried out in the village. This year the core group have constructed a few houses, made mud bricks, painted the school building and interacted with the village children. They also helped the farmers in the farming work during their weekly visits. The next step would be setting up communication facility in the village school for starting the online teaching program.
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Over the past year, we have worked very closely with Learning Space Foundation and assisting the students with their spoken English skills. In our sessions with Learning Space Foundation we interact with rural students from the village of Palghar, Maharashtra.
Our objective is to teach them spoken English so they can easily communicate and mitigate their language barrier. We started by teaching them the easier topics needed for colloquial communication like how to communicate with their close friends and family. We then taught them more complex topics such as holidays, picnics, pets, festivals and much more. We taught them a wide variety of vocabulary and helped them with their grammatical and syntactical skills in the English language. The sessions so far have been great. The students, although have little prior knowledge of English, are eager learners and their undying enthusiasm is very inspiring for us and drives us to put our best foot forward for our sessions with Learning Space Foundation every week. The students are very interactive and engaging and keep us motivated to engage wholly in the sessions with them.
In the following sessions, we plan to touch upon more complex topics such as global warming and other complex issues that are gaining importance in the world today.
This was a great experience since it not only gave us the unparalleled joy of teaching someone, but it also made us realize that through this initiative we are making a difference in their lives in a small way. Through little changes, we can make global differences. Overall, we learned a lot from this experience and look forward to interacting with these children more.
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