Sankalp Manav Vikas Sanstha
Established in 1992, Sankalp is a not for profit organisation focusing on empowerment and socio-economic development of the underprivileged communities in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
Our main focus has been women, children, youth and small and marginal farmers spread across Parbhani, Jalna, Aurangabad and Latur District regions of Maharashtra.
Sankalp has always emphasised on empowerment of women with the help of Self-help groups and entrepreneurship development programme. Leveraging the various facilities provided by the Government, Sankalp has always strived to empower it’s community members, strengthening capacities of volunteers, local leaders and staff members.
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
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.