Serve the Needy,
Identify the root causes of their sufferings, and
Endeavour to lead them towards self-sufficiency.
Since 2010 Koshish-Milap Trust serves slum population in Vadodara by providing them highly subsidized quality primary education and basic healthcare. Also, a separate website is developed for knowledge sharing platform for the Indian NGOs.
Basic Philosophy
- All trustees work voluntarily without any monetary reward.
- Trustees get involved in actual work in addition to administration.
- Maintain quality of work by involvement in projects, keeping transparency and regular evaluation.
- Low administrative expense around 15% of total expense.
Activities
Empowering Slum Children Through Quality Education:
Providing a formal education support to the primary school (KG-5th grade) going children of Mujmahuda slum. Our strategies include: facility within slum, smaller class size, personal attention, extensive use of teaching aids, emphasis on conceptual understanding, exposing to various reading materials, educational tours, teacher’s training and parent meetings. Bright and needy students are sponsored to private schools. Our success is seen in many of our students becoming rank holders and their dropout rate is reduced. Read more…
Healthcare for slum population:
Providing highly subsidized quality healthcare to the Mujmahuda slum population through outpatient clinic. Clinic is operated within slum. Medicines for common diseases (such as infections, pain, skin diseases, acidity, depression, diabetes, blood pressure, asthma, etc) are dispensed from the clinic. Patients are also counseled for preventive healthy lifestyle. We also distribute subsidized, energy efficient and less polluting wood stoves among slum families. Read more…
Knowledge Sharing Platform for Indian NGOs (www.novoi.org):
This platform is intended to serve NGOs, volunteers, interns, donors and professionals interested in social work. It intends to provide an opportunity to share their experiences, facilitate multiplication of good work, minimize repetition of mistakes or duplication of efforts and strive for collective efforts. Like Wikipedia, it is free and open for interactive contribution. Read more…
Vocational Training:
The Basic Training Program was developed by two retired technical professionals, Mr. C.K. Shah and Mr. Biren Nayak in 2021. It is designed to provide basic technical skill to the young students so that they can repair electric, plumbing and solar appliances as well as can do plumbing jobs. The program can also help individuals to get self-employment or find a job as Electrical/Plumbing Assistant. Read more…
Most of website photos by Krishna Luhar