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• Children  with  learning  difficulties  due  to  poor  school  infrastructure  and  low  living  standards • Communities  in  rural  or  less  serviced  areas  as  well  as  slums  in  urban  centers • Youth  having  low  social  and  economic status  in  urban  areas A  few  of  the  projects  are  as  follows: 1.  Project  Name:  Solar  Chirag The main  objective  of  the  project  is  to  impart  skills  of  making  solar-based  lamps  for  marginalized  women.  It  aims  at  training  women  and  children  in  the  slums  of  Delhi  to  make  solar  lamps  using  waste material  like  plastic  bottles;  bamboo  sticks  etc.  through  simple  color  coding.  In  slums,  where  electricity  is  hardly  available,  these  lamps  can  help  children  in  studying  after  dark  and  also  can  be  used  to  light  up  the  dark  streets  making  the  slum  colonies  safer.  The  project  also  aims  to  disseminate  knowledge  about  solar  energy  use  as  well  as  channelizing  the  handmade,  reasonably  priced  solar  products  into  urban  markets  thereby  focus  is  on  creating  women  solar  entrepreneurs. 2.  Project  Name:  Youth  for  SPLASH The  main  objective  is  to  spread  awareness  regarding Water  Sanitation  and  Hygiene  (WaSH)  related  issues  and  possible  interventions  by  community  themselves  to  reduce  disease  burden.  SPLASH  is  an  acronym  for  Strengthening  People’s  Life:  Accentuating  on  Sanitation  and  Hygiene.  This  project  aims  to  develop  and  promote  integrated  participatory  approaches  by  addressing  water  quality,  sanitation  facilities  and  hygiene  behaviors  to  create  healthy  homes.  It  seeks  to  benefit  more  than  2,000  women  and  children  in  urban  slums  of  Delhi.  Through  awareness  campaigns,  training  programs,  door  to  door  interaction, mobilization  of  students  from  nearby  schools  and  colleges  and  collaborating  with  NGOs  having  similar  goals,  the  project  reaches  out  to  550  children  in  slums  conducting  sessions  on WaSH.  It  also  has  an  outreach  of  1,000  youth  through  social  media  pages  of  youth  for  SPLASH  on  issues  of  water  and  sanitation. 3.  Project  Name:  Flashback One  of  an  unique  kind,  this  project  aims  to  bring  back  the  values  of  sustainability  which  were  a  part  of  life  two  generations  back and  uplifting  the  situation  at  old  age  homes;  by  connecting  children  and  youth  to  the  elderly.  It  revolves  around  connecting  the  bridge  between  the  generations  to  inculcate  values  of  sustainability  in  the  very  existence  of  people,  as  it  used  to  be  two  generations  back.  This  is  done  through  plantation  drives  at  old  age  homes,  plantation  of  organic  kitchen  gardens,  collection  of  magazines,  books,  and  to  form  a  library  in  these  homes.  The  project  has  been  able  to  reach  to more  than  650  people  up  to  now. 4.  Project  Name:  #Enviroz The  main  aim  is  to  create  a  platform  for  internship  and  employment  opportunities  in  the  field  of  environment  and  spread  positive  stories  happing  in  the  environmental  arena.  It  aims  at  spreading  positive  news  about  the  environment  through  online media  platform  which  will  also  attract  experienced  and  skilled  manpower.  The  project  has  covered  50  inspiring  stories  of  people  working  in  this  sector  thereby,  bringing  a  positive  change  in  the  society. 5.  Project  Name:  Directing  Discourse Keeping  the  SDG  Goal  4  in  mind,  this project’s  main  objective  is  to  bring  back  the  importance  and  cultural  relevance  of  historical  monuments  in  Delhi.  It  also  aims  to  promote  citizens  to  visit  these  places  and  make  them  ‘cool’  hangout  zones.  Delhi  being  one  of  the  metropolitan  cities  with  a  high  concentration  of 210 Proceedings  of  the  International  Conference  on  Climate  Change,  Biodiversity  and  Ecosystem  Services  for  the Sustainable  Development  Goals  (SDGs):  Policy  and  Practice  27-29  June  2016,  Cha-am,  Phetchaburi,  Thailand


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