Projects

(MSM-TG)TI Project

Transgender community in India has been existing on the outskirts of the society. Shunned by people, they are object of ridicule, mockery and exploitation. They have no access to basic facilities and are discriminated in every sphere of life. Navnirman Samaj Vikas Kendra has a vision to create a society where there is no discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, gender and region. In line with this vision of minimizing the existing disparity, we worked with 1200 transgender in Malwani area from 2008 to 2012, to make them aware of their health, basic rights and responsibilities.
The purpose of creating awareness was to also empower them to understand better and solve the problems of their community as a group. Once sustainable in 2012, the project was handed to them. Today this group is functioning under the name of Triveni Samaj Vikas Kendra.

Art and Craft Project

In 1996, NSVK started Art and Crafts workshop to help needy women from the community. Women with a flair for craft got daily wages through this platform.
NSVK had an export unit which was based on fair trade model where we used to manufacture bottle bags. The products were exported to Switzerland. In total, from 1996 to 2014, more than 500 women were trained in arts and crafts and 700 adolescent girls and women were taught sewing.
In 2001, our colleague Sanjida Malik who used to manage this workshop were trained to created her own organization SM Creative and the unit was handed over to her.
In 2004, City Bank announced an award for women social entrepreneur. In which Sanjida was selected from NSVK out of 100 institutions in Mumbai. NSVK was felicitated with an award by Hon’ble fiancé minister P. Chidambaram in Delhi.

Education Project

The objective of this project was to bring underprivileged children into the mainstream education. Through this project we were running tuition classes for dropout prevention, non-formal education classes, etc. The focus was on children who were slow in studies or school dropouts. These children were taught and prepared to the levels of enrollment into schools as per their age, for further education.
From 1998 to 2004 we were instrumental in bringing 9000 underprivileged children into the education mainstream in Maharashtra. Further, teachers who were working with us as teachers were trained to manage their tuition classes on their own and the program was handed over to them.

Migrant Total Intervention Project

The Migrant Total Intervention Project was launched with MDACS in December, 2008 in Malwani area of Malad.
Workers from different states migrate to work in Mumbai to meet their financial needs or to become financially independent. They come alone due to insufficient money and lack of proper accommodation. Therefore, they often go to sex workers to fulfill their sexual needs. This makes them more prone to contracting HIV or STIs.
From 2008 to 2012, a total of 10,000 workers were screened for HIV and STIs by NSVK team. Out of which 250 workers were found to be HIV infected. They were sent to Siddhartha Hospital and Nair Hospital for treatment.

Mutual Fund Health Project

We have provided health insurance and other health care facilities to slum population who do not have protection of mainstream healthcare insurance sector.
The project was implemented from 2012 to 2016 with a total enrollment of 2500 beneficiaries.
The aim was to provide health facilities to families of 2500 beneficiaries. They were provided funds through insurance for various treatments. Accordingly, 2500 partners were provided health facility through health camp, discount through tie ups with hospitals or clinics. Almost 300 partners were helped under this project.