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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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