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Seasonal migration is a major reality across the Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Families migrate every year from districts such as Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Nanded and Jalna in search of work. Many of these families travel to other districts for sugarcane cutting and daily wage labour, while others move to cities like Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur and Sangli, and even to neighbouring states such as Karnataka and Telangana. For most families, migration is not a choice but a way to survive.

This continuous movement has a direct impact on children and women. Children's education gets disrupted year after year, many fall behind or drop out of school, and the risks of child labour and early marriage increase. Access to health, nutrition, and safety becomes uncertain, and children grow up without stable support systems. Since this cycle repeats every year, the impact becomes long-term and keeps families in a situation of ongoing vulnerability.

At Sankalp Manav Vikas Sanstha, migration is at the centre of our work. We work with families in source areas of Marathwada, stay connected during the migration period through community coordination, and also support them in destination areas including urban and semi-urban locations. This approach helps ensure that children continue their education, remain safe, and receive consistent support at every stage, even in the context of migration.

At the same time, we also work towards reducing distress migration by strengthening local opportunities and support systems so that families are not forced to migrate every year.

If migration is not addressed, children continue to lose out on education year after year. By working on migration as a core issue, we are not only supporting families in the present but also breaking the cycle of vulnerability for the next generation.

Our Key Interventions / Work

1. Education Support for Children

We run Digital Learning and Creativity Centres in migration-prone areas to ensure children continue learning even when their parents migrate.

Children receive:

  • Remedial education (basic literacy and numeracy)
  • Digital learning exposure
  • Creative activities
  • Sports and physical development
  • Advocacy for seasonal hostels

2. Child Protection: Preventing Child Marriage and Child Labour

Migration increases the risk of children entering labour or getting married early.

We work with families and communities to:

  • Identify at-risk children
  • Provide counselling and awareness
  • Support families to keep children in education
  • Link with local systems for protection

These centres act as safe spaces for children.

3. Working with Communities

Strong community support is important to protect children.

We engage with:

  • Parents and caregivers
  • School teachers, School Management Committees and Village Child Protection Committee (VCPC)
  • Anganwadi and ASHA workers
  • Local leaders and community groups

This helps create a safety net around children.

4. Health and Nutrition Support

Migration often disrupts access to basic health and nutrition, especially for children and women.

We work to:

  • Promote regular health check-ups and referrals
  • Support access to Anganwadi and local health services
  • Create awareness on nutrition, hygiene, and adolescent health
  • Ensure children and families are linked to available government services

5. Supporting Youth, Women and Livelihoods

Migration is driven by lack of stable income.

We support women through:

  • Skill training (such as tailoring, beautician, electrician, etc.)
  • Income generation opportunities
  • Production centre linkages
  • Work-from-home opportunities

This helps reduce distress migration over time.

6. Urban Support for Migrant Families

In cities like Navi Mumbai and Raigad, we work with migrant and low-income communities to:

  • Support children's education
  • Provide skill-building opportunities
  • Strengthen community systems

Director's view

'The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.'

Keeping the above in mind, we at Sankalp has always focussed on the vision. It was challenging to work with the communities and govt. officials during the covid pandemic. However, with the support of the entire team the process of implementation was eased out.

The team has always worked towards providing education and protection to youth and women of the underprivileged communities and have tried to benefit them with the all the Governmental facilities. Skill development programmes, providing protection kits, conducting awareness campaigns, etc have always been on the priority list for Sankalp.


The second wave of covid was more devastating. The people were helpless, the small farmers, single women, daily workers, landless labourers could not get employment. Survival of livelihood was the biggest question. So we decided to support them by providing essential food grains along with providing the basic protection kit which included sanitizer, masks and hand wash, soap etc.


I am proud of our team, who dared to go in the villages and made door to door visits and discussed with the children, women and men in the families about the problems faced by them. They not only provided them the advice and psychological support but also identified their basic needs and asked us to support them.


Once again, I really appreciate the dedicated work of our team members who worked hard and made this thing happen while involving representatives of Mahila Mandal, youth groups, groups of adolescent girls and 72 community-based village level monitoring committees and the children and youth.

Sudhakar Kshirsagar,
Executive Director,
Sankalp Manav Vikas Sanstha

Our Areas of work

We try and enhance the under privileged community of women and children by providing them

Education

  • Identification of school dropouts and children out of school to sustain them in the mainstream of education.
  • Stop migrant Children and enrollment in school through seasonal hostels.
  • Sensitization of School management Committees, Parents, teachers on proper implementation of Right to Education Act.

Health

  • Capacity Building and behavior change of Community regarding Health and Nutrition.
  • Community Awareness in NHM and provide various health services to children and women through various activities and program.
  • Capacity building and co-ordination with Government Heath functionaries to reach out to the needy women and children.
  • Working in co-ordination with ICDS functionaries for eradication of malnutrition among the Children.

Migration

  • Identification of potential migrant families before migration every year through survey.
  • Advocacy to get migration certificate from local governance authorities.
  • Efforts to stop migrating children and continue them in the school.
  • Legal support to migrant sugar cane cutters regarding economical and sexual exploitation, physical and mental atrocities from contractors and land holders at working site.
  • Capacity building of potential local leaders through training workshops.

Livelihood

  • Basic skill training program for semi-literate, school dropouts and child labor in Mumbai like retail management, basic computer education, English speaking and personality development.
  • Placements for Trained youth in various government and private institutions.
  • Sensitization of youth and women on various social security schemes and entitlements which are available for rural and urban needy communities.