For the next five years she was the Legal Officer for Asia and the Pacific at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva.Ī strong advocate of Human Rights, the fact that prevalent laws, both International and Indian did not filter down to society’s most vulnerable deeply disturbed her. She championed the cause of women’s rights at SNDT Women’s University before moving to Thailand where she worked with the Union for Civil Liberty. Resulting in loss of livelihoods for many and resulting in lack of access to food, housing, health care facilities and other necessities.įormer Legal Officer for Asia and the Pacific, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Geneva, Switzerlandĭilbur trained as a lawyer and spent her early years practicing law in the Bombay High Court.
We will also be distributing clothes and sandals as part of humanitarian aid to our marginalised communities in Mumbai and Igatpuri who have been adversely affecteddue to the pandemic and the resulting lockdowns. With your support, we will continue providing ration kits to our children and their families thereby ensuring that the families have nutritious food to eat to help build immunity and stay healthy in the midst of a pandemic. My children also received books and stationery and they are very excited to continue learning.” – Parent They have provided us with dry ration kits with which we are able to eat healthy and nutritious food. Aseema has been our ray of hope since the pandemic began. We are unable to ask friends, neighbours or relatives for help as everyone is affected by this situation. My father works as a ward boy at Hinduja hospital but his income is not enough to sustain our family of six. But when the lockdown was announced, I lost my job. And started working as a domestic servant to make ends meet. “After my husband died a few years ago, I returned to my parents house. 1800 families and nearly 10,000 people in each round. Till date, we have concluded 5 rounds of dry grocery kits distribution, reaching out to approx. Our social workers along with School Management Committee (SMC) members set up efficient supply chains in light of lockdown restrictions. With support from our donors, we were able to provide dry grocery kits to all our children in Mumbai and Igatpuri.Įach kit comprises of 25 kgs of provisions including rice, pulses, sugar, salt, oil, soap, etc. We then raised funds through our campaign ‘Together, We Can!’. In March 2020, we started with identifying 600 families who were in dire need of food supplies and basic household items. With your continued support, we will be strengthening our IT infrastructure in the next academic year by providing smartphones, laptops and accessories to many more of our students and teachers. I would also like to thank my school for helping me to enhance my knowledge.” – Pranita Mogare, Student at Aseema I would like to thank all my teachers for helping me & clarifying my doubts. I did not miss my school as much because I got to see my teachers through live classes on Google Meet.
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They also taught us how to use Google Forms. They began online classes through WhatsApp and later through Google Meet. “Learning was always fun for me and I liked to study but due to this pandemic I felt I would not get an opportunity to learn further but, my school made it possible for me.
We have also strengthened our back-end IT infrastructure by providing laptops, tabs and computersthereby benefitting 106teachers. In a phased manner, with the support from our donors we were able to distributesmartphones, laptops, accessories and data packs benefitting more than1300 students from Pre-Primary to Standard X in Mumbai and Igatpuri.
We distributed stationery kits containing text books, notebooks, art and craft materials and stationery items twice during the year. In order to achieve the task of conducting remote learning classes we introduced our “Back to School” campaign to purchase devices for our students and teachers. To overcome this barrier, we decided to start virtual classes. However, since education institutes were shut, it was difficult for teachers to contact the students. In June 2020, when the academic year started, we wanted to ensure that our children were engaged and that their learning continues.
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