Disha Society for Rural and Urban Community Development
NGO Details :
Name : Disha Society for Rural and Urban Community Development
Chief Functionary : Shobhana Radhakrishna
Chairman : Dr Zaheeruddin
Secretary : Ravi Chopra
Treasurer : Shobhana Radhakrishna
Umbrella/Parent Organization : AARUTHAL FOUNDATION
First Registration Details :
Unique Id of VO/NGO : DL/2009/0006151
Registered With : Registrar of Societies
Type of NGO : Society
Registration No : S 23467
City of Registration : New Delhi
State of Registration : Delhi
Date of Registration : 10-10-1992
FCRA Details :
FCRA Registration no. : 231650748
Sector/ Key Issues :
Key Issues : Art & Culture, Children, Dalit Upliftment, Drinking Water, Education & Literacy, Environment & Forests, Health & Family Welfare, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Legal Awareness & Aid, Labour & Employment, Micro Finance (SHGs), Nutrition, Panchayati Raj, Right to Information & Advocacy, Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation, Science & Technology, Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Vocational Training, Water Resources, Women’s Development & Empowerment, Youth Affairs
Operational Area-States :
Bihar, Delhi
Operational Area-District :
Gaya, South Delhi, South West Delhi, West Delhi
Details of Achievements :
Major Activities/Achievements : DISHA works for equitable and quality education of underprivileged children so that a lasting social change based on social justice and democratic principals take place. DISHA is involved in innovative educational endeavour for 5500 children with great horizontal expansion. DISHA has been holding alternative educational classes for non school going and school going children and addressing the aspect of improving quality of 1600 student learning in municipal primary schools in Delhi. DISHA has undertaken activities for empowerment of 6800 poor women by organizing them into 525 Self Help Groups, building their social and economic assets, enhancing their status in their communities, helped them in getting entitlements in government schemes ,training them in micro credit, finance, legal literacy, reproductive health, functional literacy and raising awareness of their rights. This has been done for effective implementation and sustainability of the program and participation in governance. DISHA has trained 6480 frontline health workers from public and private sectors along with adolescents and youth by building their capacities in interpersonal communication skills and use of small media for Reproductive Health and AIDS programmes. DISHA has been working with commercial sex workers and intravenous drug users by providing counselling and raising awareness on various aspects of AIDS. DISHA has installed 425 rainwater harvesting structures in individual households in villages of Bodhgaya block in Bihar in order to catch the rainfall and to fulfil the water requirements at individual and community levels throughout the year. Excess water is recharged through channels into the ground for ground water recharge. DISHA has also taken up community water management by repairing Ahars, reviving and repairing defunct wells and installing hand pumps. DISHA has imparted 1500 women, youth and children skill training in the informal sector for productive employment to poor women and youth in trades like beauty culture, agarbatti and candle making, making paper bags, envelops, book binding , cutting and tailoring, photography, hand and machine knitting, grinding of ophthalmic lens and frame making, computers, motor winding, making of surgical bandages, household linen, electronic transformers, audio speakers, bakery and food preservation, mushroom cultivation, weaving. DISHA develops communication strategies, uses folk arts and traditional media like puppetry, street theatre, magic shows, multimedia events, events, melas, camps and implements these activities to educate, create an enabling environment and increase demand for services. DISHA has designed strategies, low cost communication material and training modules. DISHA has empowered more than 1865 woman to participate in the governance process, overcome social exclusion; provide means to make themselves heard especially by government for realizing their entitlements for an improved quality of life. Sixteen women have won panchayat election in Bihar and are occupying various posts
Contact Details :
Address : Disha Society for Rural and Urban Community Development , Flat 88, Pocket 13, Block C 4 B, Janakpuri, New Delhi 110058 [codepeople-post-map]
City : New Delhi
State : Delhi
Telephone : 011-25533204
Mobile No : 9810078620
E-mail : dishai@bol.net.in
Website Url : http://www.dishaindia.org
Fax : 011-25529118