Vidhayak Sansad

District

Palghar

States

Maharashtra

It conducts training programmes empowering the underprivileged community members to make them aware of their human rights and protect them against any such violations.

The training helps these communities to know about their individual rights, how the legal system functions and how to go about fighting for their rights without resorting to violence.

District

Palghar

States

Maharashtra

Vidhayak Sansad’s women empowerment programme fights to remove discrimination and abuse against women. Its Mahila Thingi(Women’s Spark) initiative organises women into groups and creates awareness of their rights guiding them on how to secure them.

It provides them with basic knowledge about policing, laws and governance and also works to connect the women to Government welfare schemes and organise them into self-help groups to gain access to micro finances.

District

Thane

Palghar

States

Maharashtra

Its education programmes aim to reach children who have no access to proper schooling. Through its Bal Sanghatana, Mahatma Phule Education Guarantee Scheme and Vasti School Scheme the organisation conducts classes and play centres in nearby villages, helps provide education to children of migrant workers and also provides residential education to children from remote areas of the State.

The organisation also operates residential schools, especially for girls from poverty-stricken minority tribes who are sent to work rather than study.

District

Palghar

States

Maharashtra

This programme seeks to supplement Government schemes already being implemented in the Mokhada block. It strives to connect the underprivileged to Government run employment guarantee schemes so that seasonal migration is avoided.

It also works alongside public delivery systems, health agencies and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to reduce the cases of malnutrition.

District

Palghar

States

Maharashtra

It works to rehabilitate bonded labourers who have claimed back their lives from the clutches of corrupt landlords by organising them into cooperative farms, setting up a revolving credit fund and bringing in experts to tender relevant advice.

It managed to secure forest land and water for needy tribal families to live and flourish. To reduce the migration of tribals the organisation is organising them into groups, assisting them to avail benefits of government-designed schemes, helping them with a selection of crops, availability of markets and providing training to farmers.