• 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
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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