Youth Programmes
Boarding Facility for Tribal Children
The boarding facility at Vishwa Mandal Sevashram began with the intention of providing accommodation to those children who are enrolled in various schools in Shirpur. Most of the villages in shirpur are quite far from Shirpur, it is a hassle to travel back and forth for school. Due to this many students dropped out of schools.
VMS recognize this issue of hectic travel conditions being one of main reasons of children dropping out of the schools. Therefore VMS started a boarding facility specially catering to male tribal students from class V to X. These students are enrolled in the nearby schools in Shirpur with many being PALAS students as well.
The boarding facilities availed at VMS is quite structured and based on the principle of discipline & hardwork. The children are expected to serve their own food, wash their clothes and study together daily after dinner. The elder children tutor younger children fostering a relation of brotherhood among them.
Facilities Available at VMS :
Meals ( three times a day)
School Stationery
Music classes
Computer classes
Spoken English training
Study Camp
Youth festival
Education
People's Action for Literacy and Self-help (PALAS)
· Community Mobilisation
Lok Manch
Through Lok Manch program, SVMS has been instrumental to empower and educate tribal about their rights and government schemes including Right to Education, Right to food and other women & children development schemes. Over 45 villages covering 500 families from Shirpur taluka have benefitted from this program.
LOK MANCH engages in two types of policy engagement
(a) for proper implementation of existing policies and laws a
(b) for demanding new policies, amendments in existing laws and for new laws.
The focus is on accessing entitlements enumerated in the National Right to food Act (NFSA),ducational scholarships for the dalit and tribal communities through the Scheduled Caste Sub
Plan (SCSP) and the Tribal Sub Plan (TSP), household and community schemes available under Water Sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and other State and Central government welfare schemes.
· To educate people about their rights and living life with dignity, we do Nukkad Nataks
· Participation of individual is necessary in community development process and we believe in Making CChange Through Collective Leadership.