Education provides children with opportunities to escape poverty, gain a voice in their community and experience a better quality of life. But worldwide, more than 2 Thousand children are unable to attend school.

The curriculum is planned on the monthly basis. Children are taught alphabetic, numbers, names of fruits, flowers trees. The learning is made joyful through storytelling, action songs and use of teaching aids etc. For the motor development children are encouraged to make articles of clay. Various extra curriculum activities are organized to develop the hidden talents of children. The principle of ‘Leaning by Doing’ holds a lot of importance at this stage. The children are given opportunity to collect the items such as leaves, flowers from their immediate surrounding thereby ensuring the application of knowledge the children lean in the balwadies.

At present children are able to identify names of fruits, plants, animals, numbers, alphabetic, phonetics. Children are able to do pronunciation small words in English. Children can write number from 1 to 50, and sing many nursery rhymes such as Rain on the green grass, Sonu Monu, Row -row -row the boat, two little hands. ‘Children are running to school instead of walking to school’! as a result attendance of children is also very regular.

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Liberating Women from violence became operational in 2000 is a multi dimensional approach to provide aid, support, prevention and eradication of all types of violence against women. It also envisages accountability of perpetrators who indulge in violence against women. The project is being implemented in three Talukas of Osmanabad district viz. Omerga, Lohara and Kallam and Nilanga Taluka of Latur district of Maharashtra. The women’s self help groups (Micro-credit Groups) are actively and openly supporting the initiatives of the organization. A lot of people are visiting the office of our organization seeking guidance/assistance or support.

Under this programme we are forming SHGs. Women SHG members showing their various types of Income Generation Activities like goat rearing, provision store and buffalo rearing etc. Existing SHG’s are being strengthen and new ones are being added. Regular monthly meetings, Members and leaders training etc helped in attendance, regular saving, repayment, record keeping, accounting and transparent democratic approach helped in strengthening and sustaining the SHGs.

This project is directed to provide housing, education and socio-economic development of children of HIV/AIDS parents, mostly orphans from the nearby hamlets and red-light areas of Omerga City, Osmanabad district, Maharashtra State. Proper care, mingled with love and affection, systematic learning geared to a rigorous time-table focused on the integral growth of the children is the preferred mode at Vatsalya where a total of 30 orphan/single parent children are being brought up to take up the responsibilities of their personal, vocational and future life. It comprises separate dormitories for girls and boys with proper arrangement for washing, and toilets etc. Besides this there is provision for living place for a warden. There is a Mini Computer Lab for children.

A new project initiated in 2002. SVS opened Balwadis at 4 various Bastis and Tandas in Omerga Taluka The 4 Balwadis in the slum pockets of Omerga continued to provide elementary education for the poor dalit and lamani children. The teaching pattern and curriculum continued to be the same as had been followed in previous years. This year, a total of 63 children (40 girls and 23 boys) have gained from the 4 balwadis which continued to be run at Hanuman Nagar, Kale Plot, Juni Peth (the slum pockets at Omerga) and at Mahar lamani Tanda.

A defining feature of the Balwadis has been the introduction of young minds to the English language. All the teachers along with Project Coordinator and Director have being trained through seminars conducted by TDSS at Ishwari Center, Phulgaon.

Under this project we are organizing PRI and Leadership Trainings for women in 4 Talukas. Trainings were given to batches of 35 – 40 women on subjects ranging from – Laws Pertaining to Panchayats, Provisions for women in Panchayats. 73rd amendment, Powers and responsibilities of Panchayats, 3 Tier Panchayatiraj System, Schemes for backward castes, Schemes for women’s development, provisions for educational development of children etc.

Basic objective behind this is establishing an effective training and support mechanism for women and men in rural areas to allow them to develop technological capacity within their villages. This is to be interactive and developed around issues of concern within the locality.