AROH Foundation

Empowering the Less Privileged

………………….a ray of hope

Our Vision

A world
where people
live in dignity
and security
and there are
equal opportunities
for all.
Empowering People…
Empowering Communities…

Empowering the Nation…

Beginning of AROH

Started in 2000

With Focus on Research

Research, Strategy Planning and

Capacity building for Programmes
Gender and Education
Programmes
 Early Childhood care
 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
 Secondary Education
 Higher Education
 UNGEI
 Gender sensitisation
 Sex ratio aspects
 Women’s Empowerment
 SAARC’s Regional Capacity Building
programmes
Reaching out to the grassroots

In 2004-05,
grassroots community
interventions were started in
AROH Foundation
 Gainful Employment,
Better Micro Enterprises, and Better
Schooling Marketing Assistance Sanitation
& Education and
Opportunities Environment

Equal
Sustainable Opportunities
Livelihoods for
and Objectives Income
Self Reliance Generation

Better Use of
Maternal and Multidisciplinary Indigenous
Child Health Skills and Vocational & renewable
Resources
Training
 Our Approach
Government
Government Organisations
Organisations
Grassroots
Research
International Interventions Corporates
Planning For
Development
Organisations Monitoring Community PSUs
& Evaluation Empowerment
Multilaterals International
Organisations
Research
Institutions NGOs
Volunteers

Two Pronged Approach

We have
12
Programmes
which are our
Building Blocks
for Community
Empowerment
These are the
specific initiatives
that have been
designed by us for
overall community
development
which sometimes
overlap and are
complimentary.
 Udaan
our flagship programme

Empowerment for Skills and Vocation

 Vocation Handmade Mushroom Medicinal Forming
& Skills Paper Unit Farming plants SHGs

Extension Activities in the Communities

Nodal Training
Traditional Skills for Resource
Production Market Driven Skills
Illiterate and less educated
for out of school and
Cutting and Tailoring, &
unemployed youth in
Dress making, Soft Toys Marketing trades like IT, Hospitality,
Block Printing, Handicrafts Centre Retail, Repairs & Maintenance
Paper Products at NOIDA

Basic
Life
Computer
Skills
English Skills
Speaking
Products made by our beneficiaries
 School Achcha Hai
For Better Schooling Opportunities
Provide better facilities in existing
schools

Books and stationery to needy

learners

Scholarships and freeships to needy

students

Coaching to poor students

Programmes that encourage and

bring out talents in disadvantaged
kids
 Greeting cards made by
our less privileged children
 Padho Aur Badho
NFE & outreach for
Out-of-school and dropouts

Padho Aur Badho

aims to bring out-of-
school children,
especially girls into
the fold of education
by providing non-
formal education and
equivalency classes
 Kuchch Naya Karein
innovative livelihood options
This programme is specially
designed to explore and
develop innovative means of
livelihood like audiography/
videography,
Promoting indigenous
talent/resources and
developing innovative crafts,
etc, also form a component of
this initiative.
 Sabke Liye Kaam
placement and self enterprise

Sabke Liye Kaam provides

gainful employment
opportunities for the
beneficiaries.
Corporate tie ups are made
for placement
Self employment is
encouraged by providing
technical knowhow and
microcredit.
Maa-Bachcha Dono Swasth
Maternal and Child Health

Maa-Bachcha Dono Swasth

realises the importance of
Maternal and Child Health
and works towards
securing the same through
its efforts like:
1. RCH Camps
2. Vaccinations
 Sabka Swasthya
Health for All

Sabka Swasthya promotes better

health for all in the community by
providing:
• Health camps
• Health hubs / Vaccinations
 Kuchh Alag Takneek
Innovative Use of Resources

Kuchh Alag Takneek devises

innovative use of resources such
as non-conventional energy, to
meet the shortage of fuel and
electricity. This includes:
• Biogas plants
• Solar energy devices
 Shilp aur Shipkaar
Handicrafts Promotion and Artisans Rehabilitation

Shilp Aur Shilpkaar is the

programme designed to promote
and revive indigenous
handicrafts and to rehabilitate the
artisans. The interventions under
this include:
• Crafts Melas
• Making of SHGs
• Design workshops
• Imparting and enhancing skills
Saaf aur Haraa Bharaa
Clean and Green Environment

Saaf Aur Haraa Bharaa

is the endeavour
designed for cleanliness,
hygiene, sanitation and
pollution control within
the communities.
Interventions are:
• Cleanliness Drives
• Awareness Exercises
• Tree Plantations
• Nature Walks
• Emission Control
Measures
 Milkar Chalein
Making SHGs and Cooperatives

Milkar Chalein promotes

formation self-helps
groups for all activities to
be taken up for community
development. This is
important to bring
empowerment and
sustainability in the project.
Karavan Saath Ho
Spirit of Volunteerism
The programme tries to
involve the civil society and
create social responsibility to
offer voluntary help for the
welfare of the underprivileged.
We motivate all sections of
people, both in India and
abroad to seek voluntary help
for our projects.
• Young Soldiers Project
• Overseas Volunteers Project
 Organogram of AROH

President

Project Director
Project Director Project Director Patrons and
Governing Body Vocational
Health Resources Advisors
Training

Sr. Project
Project Manager Project Manager Project manager
Vice President Manager Think Tank
Health Volunteers fundraising
(UIVT)

Project Project
Training Project Coordinator Volunteer Technical
Secretary Coordinator Coordinator
(UIVT)
Staff Health Coordinator
Funding Advisors

Executive Field Project

Animators
Committeee Supervisors Advisors
 Area’s Covered

Delhi and NCR Uttar Pradesh

All parts of Delhi, Ghaziabad
NOIDA, Greater GB Nagar
NOIDA Bulandshahar

Haryana Rajasthan
Gurgaon, Alwar, Bhiwadi,
Rohtak, Sonepat, Jaipur, Barmer
Bahadurgarh
Regd Off: Delhi
HO: NOIDA
Community Projects:
Delhi, UP, Haryana,
Rajasthan
Research Projects:
All India
 Our efforts in
Vocational and Skills Training
for
Livelihood and Income
Generation
 Surveys and Studies UCC
UCC
Vocational Training Baseline
Survey
Capacity Building
UIVT UCC Identification
Networking At of
NOIDA Beneficiaries
Career Counseling
Nodal STRC Training
Placements UCC
Networking
Monitoring of UCCs
UCC Placements
Admin & Management
UCC Reporting
Resource Management

UCC: UDAAN Community Centre

UDAAN Institute of Vocational Training
(UIVT)
 UIVT is a dedicated unit carved out
from AROH Foundation with an
objective to cover the poorest and
the most marginalized within the
slums / rural population in Delhi,
U.P., Haryana and Rajasthan for
livelihood empowerment.
UDAAN Institute of Vocational Training
(UIVT)
 UIVT aims to reduce social and
economic vulnerability for livelihood
consolidation through market-driven
skills training modules that enable
skills upgradation to match
contemporary market requirements.
UDAAN Institute of Vocational Training
(UIVT)

 UIVT acts as Micro Finance Institute

(MFI) and provides loan component to
the members of Self-Help Group for
micro business enterprises as
facilitating agency.
UDAAN Institute of Vocational Training
(UIVT)

 UIVT conducts training programmes

and links the beneficiary to production
& marketing activities to enable
Income Generation for improving
family income .
UDAAN Institute of Vocational Training
(UIVT)

 UIVT conducts surveys, collects &

preserves data on socio-economic issues
as an input to review and reflect on
programmes and policies .
Vocational Training at UDAAN NOIDA

Running vocational courses at UIVT for the

underprivileged in 20 market-driven trades for the past
3 years.

In collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Foundation, Smile

Foundation, Jan Shikshan Sansthan GB Nagar and
Rotary Club NOIDA.

Total beneficiaries about 2000 in three years.

Placement/self employment opportunities have been

generated for the passouts.
 AROH in Delhi
Vocational Training
programmes under UDAAN
•Computer Literacy
•Retail
•Hospitality
•English Speaking
•Fashion Designing
•Beauty Culture
•Office Management
•Bamboo Kutir Products
AROH in Delhi

At present AROH
is running
7 NFE centres
Health & Nutrition
Coverage:
programmes for Women
NFE for
& Children
Self-Help Groups for
250 out-of-
school children &
women empowerment to
skill training for
grow to 50 nos. with
support from NABARD 600 youth &
women in a year
AROH in Uttar Pradesh

Vocational Training
programmes under UDAAN
•Computer Literacy
•Retail
•Hospitality
•English Speaking
•Fashion Designing
•Beauty Culture
•Office Management
AROH in UP

At present in UP AROH
is running
10 NFE centres
Health & Nutrition
Coverage:
programmes for Women
NFE for
& Children
Self-Help Groups for
300 out-of-
school children &
women empowerment to
skill training for
grow to 50 nos. with
support from NABARD 800 youth &
women in a year
AROH in Rajasthan

Vocational Training
programmes under UDAAN

•Cutting and Tailoring

•Beauty Culture
•Soft toy making
AROH in Rajasthan

At present AROH
is running
3 NFE centres
Health & Nutrition
Coverage:
programmes for Women
NFE for
& Children
Self-Help Groups for
100 out-of-
school children &
women empowerment to
skill training for
grow to 12 nos.
350 youth &
women
 AROH in Haryana

Vocational Training
programmes under UDAAN

•Computer Training
•Cutting and Tailoring
•Embroidery
•Beauty Culture
•Soft toy making
AROH in Haryana

At present in AROH
is running
4 NFE centres
HIV Awareness
programmes for Women

5 Self-Help Groups for

women empowerment
Coverage: skill training for 250
Youth & Women, self help groups
with women & adult literacy.
Advantage
AROH
An eminent and reputed think tank for
effective planning and guidance

A qualified and professional pool of experts

to carry on the implementation works

Dedicated functionaries at field level to

ensure success of the projects

Community and Stake holders supporting

the project
 Optimisation of resources
 The projects are generally run from the Community Centres.
 With a single programme manager, multiple activities are
designed.
 The Gram Pradhans are the active participants in the
projects.
 Community Participation in the project ensures the
accountability and success. Trainers are trained within the
community.
 Volunteers and youth councils are made within the
community
 Utilization of agro waste and indigenous resources
Replicability and sustainability

The project works on a holistic approach and offers

sustainable livelihood solutions to all groups/sections
in the community, i.e. the unemployed youth, illiterate
and landless and those with backyards and small left-
over land holdings.
It is a demand and supply model - works out its
strategies around the demand of the industries.
 Our Partners in Action
 We see ourselves as
Facilitators for the Community Development

 We work in synergy and with support of the:

 Government of India and PSUs for welfare schemes.
 Corporates for support under their CSR agenda.
 Foreign and multilateral funders for our community’s needs.
 Civil Society to draw on the strength of responsible citizens and
youth. We have a volunteer programme where we welcome all
Indian and overseas volunteers.
 Other NGOs for networking and optimization of resources.
 Some Ongoing vocational Training Projects in Collaboration

Twin e-learning for Adolescent Youths from Smile Foundation

Underprivileged society
Delhi LABS Dr. Reddys
Foundation
Socio-Economic Empowerment of Marginalized youth & Rotary Club , Noida
Women through Vocational Training
Skill Development Initiatives (SDI) in Computer NABARD
Applications
Skills Training Center for generating livelihood ONGC
opportunities to underprivileged youth and women in the
slums of East Delhi
To set up a Handmade Paper Production and Training Moserbear
Unit to enhance the skills of rural women and youth and
to generate better income opportunities for the
Dallopura village of East Delhi.
Socio-Economic Empowerment of Deprived Youth and TATA Power
Women through Vocational Training in the Villages of
Gautam Budh Nagar District of Uttar Pradesh
 ICSSR

Karmayog National Literacy

Mission

Our Partners
 Credentials and Registrations
 AROH Foundation is registered under Section 21 of the
Societies Registration Act, 1860 vide R. No. S 40061 in
August 2001

 AROH is registered with Home Ministry under the

FCRA to receive contributions from foreign donor
agencies

 AROH has the 80G registration to pass on the benefit

to you in terms of income tax saved

 AROH is exempted under the 12A of Income Tax Act

1960
For more details, please visit our website
www.aroh.in

Head Office:
F-52, Sector 8, NOIDA 210 301
Registered Office:
338, Than Singh Nagar,
Anand Parbat, New Delhi 110 005
Phone: 0120-3088070-079 (10 lines), 9811046517
E mail: arohfoundation@gmail.com
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