Firstly, apologies are in place for the delay in posting here. Hopefully, such delays won’t happen again. Anyway, to give a quick round-up of the activities since our last post:
- The semiweekly outreach programmes in Dharavi mentioned earlier have now become a daily feature. Shield is encouraging more and more adolescents and underprivileged children to join vocational training courses run by us.
- Talking of courses, these vocational training exercises are now offered at highly subsidised rates of Rs.100/- The material needed for the stitching/mehendi work is provided by Shield. This is a collaborative endeavour with the Jan Shikshan Sanstha.
- As for new work in progress, Shield is conducting a rapid survey of residential institutions and facilities such as transit accommodation homes for women, observation homes, orphanages and juvenile delinquent homes in Mumbai. The purpose of this survey is need assessment and avenues for activities for NGOs like Shield. Ten such facilities have been surveyed mainly along the Sion-Trombay highway.
There is some good news in the offing, but that will have to wait till another post!
