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Aspire - Facilitate and empower local communities to   partnered with Head Held High for helping the unemployed
              seek functional education and skills to enable sustainable   gain skills that would help them in getting a meaningful
              socio-economic development                           employment.
              Education                                            During the year, more than 2,000 youth were trained on different
                                                                   vocational skills which would help them get employment or
              Education programs at all locations have been taken based on
                                                                   start their own enterprises.
              the need of the area with a target of zero drop-out of students
              at all levels of education starting from pre-primary education.      Conserve - Maintain ecological balance and conserve
              The focus has been to improve quality of education in schools,   natural resources through participatory approach for
              provide scholarship support to meritorious students, provide   environmental sustainability
              basic infrastructure support to schools, imparting bridge
                                                                   Bio-diversity conservation program continued at Mithapur
              courses and provide required coaching support to youth for
                                                                   with projects like recovery of coral reef, conservation of whale
              their academic and professional growth.
                                                                   shark, mangrove plantation, rejuvenating indigenous flora and
              During the reporting year, education programs like E-Library,   fauna, biodiversity conservation and environmental education
              Learning Enhancement Program (LEP),  Teacher training,   initiatives.                                 Integrated Report
              Scholarships, Child learning and Improvement Program, SNDT
                                                                   The whale shark project at Mithapur focuses on habitat study
              (Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University)
                                                                   and research on migratory pattern and breeding biology of this
              center, Career resource center, Shala Pravesh Utsav, Adult
                                                                   fish.
              Literacy classes, Residential Summer Camp on Spoken English
              and Personality Development, project for primary school      During the year, 30 Whale Sharks caught accidentally in the
              children with Sir Ratan Tata Trust were implemented, benefiting   fishing nets along the Saurashtra coast were rescued and
              more than 3,500 children across the three sites.     released taking the total rescue figure since the inception of
                                                                   the campaign to 720. In Mithapur, Babrala and Haldia, TCL is
              A separate initiative “Learning And Migration Program (LAMP)”   also working with the Eco Clubs in schools to raise awareness
              is being carried out in seven districts of Gujarat for the migratory   on environment conservation.
              population. The program is run in partnership with American
              India Foundation which with the help of implementing NGOs      Land development program and  Water management and
                                                                   conservation like Mission Jal and drip irrigation were also
              is working closely with community and government schools
              to strengthen school governance system and quality of   carried out at Babrala and Mithapur. In Uttar Pradesh, 2,410
              education.                                           acres of land was reclaimed with the help of laser leveling and   Statutory Reports
                                                                   deep ploughing.
              Learning Enrichment Program (‘LEP’) and Learning Resource
              Centre (‘LRC’) are two important components of the LAMP      TCL continued promoting the energy efficient cook stoves in
              program in which innovative models of teachings have been   Haldia and constructed 600 units. In Mithapur, 21 solar lights
              adopted for teaching. There has been improvement in learning   have been installed on streets.
              outcomes of more than 5,000 children who participated in the      Nurture - improve the health status of community through
              LEP and LRC classes.                                 preventive and curative measures
              Vocational Skills                                    Health Care
              TCSRD is running the skill development program in Mithapur,      Improving health of rural community is an important part of
              Babrala, Haldia and Sriperumbudur to train unemployed   TCL overall strategy. This year, 36,784 patients were supported
              youth and facilitate in their employment or entrepreneurship   with counseling and treatment in Mithapur, Babrala and Haldia.
              development.                                         Eye camps were organized at Babrala, Haldia and Mithapur
              The vocational skill training includes mobile repairing,   to address the issue of vision problems. During the camps,
              computer repairing, electrical fittings, AC/refrigerator repairing,   1,584 people underwent eye check-up and were provided
              etc.                                                 with spectacles and 265 patients were supported for cataract   Financial Statements
                                                                   operation.
              There are specially designed training for women like tailoring,
              beautician course and nursing.  TCSRD has tied up with      Nutrition – Women & Child Health
              Construction Skill Training Institute (CSTI) (L&T) for providing      TCL in Babrala, has been facilitating government run health
              industrial trainings like bar bending, masonry, electrical   program in the rural communities like Janani Suraksha Yojna
              fittings and carpentry and with CIPET for training on Machine   especially targeting women and child health. Prime importance
              Operation in Plastic Processing.  TCL is also supporting  Tata   is given to vaccination of pregnant women, children (0-10)
              Strive Centre for running skill development centre at Aligarh.  years and adolescent girls.  To reduce Maternal and Infant
              This year TCL introduced mobilisation meetings, pre and post   Mortality Rate, Mobile Health services have been provided in
              training counseling and Achievement & Motivation Training   40 villages of Gunnour Tehsil. 15,243 women and children were
              (AMT) in all its training programs. The training also included   given vaccination during the year.
              component of soft skills for overall personality development      TCL has started an ambitious program on malnutrition in Dharni
              and  entrepreneurship  development  for  developing  (Amravati, Maharashtra) and Pati (Barwani, Madhya Pradesh)
              entrepreneurship skills among youth.  This year,  TCL also   with the objective to decrease Infant Mortality Rate (‘IMR’) and

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