HIV/AIDS CARE AND SUPPORT PROJECT
Navjeevan Seva Mandal is a voluntary social service organization registered an NGO with the Government of India in 1984. NSM strives to bring happiness and God’s image in the face of the vulnerable and deprived human beings particularly the children and women who live in remote forest, rural and slums in India. NSM serves for the total transformation of the target community through education, nutrition health care and spiritual nature to children; vocational training and self employment schemes for the youth and awareness creation, community based organization, micro credit, income generation activities, enhancement for the community as a whole. NSM working in 10 states in India (Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Orissa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Silvassa and Tamil Nadu) we are handling 61 various project in the community development.
VISION:- Raising future leaders and to bring forth hope for the vulnerable, thereby restoring the image of god in them!
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MissionNSM Endeavour for the total transformation of the target population across the country through child care, health care spiritual care, youth development, leadership development, women empowerment and rehabilitation services.
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Project Activities
Home Based Care Program
Home based program is an important intervention especially who are the people living with HIV/AIDS in Delhi. Families were very happy to be visited by the peer Group counselors counseling and regular house visit by the peer group counselor and staffs during their crisis. Because the regular house visit gives more energy and hope to the families that there people to take care in their crisis. The counselors and staffs have brought more hope to the families and children. Life skill education teaching and training to the families and children group bring the hope and confident among the PLHA families to promote their life.
- · Health and medical care for the needy PLHA and CLHA
- · Reduce the social stigma and discrimination
- · Psycho socio support
- · Reducing their stress and conflicts through Counseling
- · Life skill education for Behavior Change
Educational and institutional program
We are taking special care to the infected and affected children’s education and those who are not having both and single parents by the causes of the HIV/AIDS. In this kind of orphan and semi orphan child we have given their life security through the education. As well as help to develop their physical and psychological.
There are 483 children both affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and they are getting education support, nutritional support partly based on their needs. Under this program we are providing full educational support to the 28 orphan and semi orphan children. The children are studying well in different institution and they are well growing physically and spiritually.
Details of the children and name of the institution
| S.No | Name of the Institution | Male | Female | Total | HIV status |
| 1 | Victoria girls hostel |
| 4 | 4 | Negative |
| 2 | Asha deep foundation | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 Boy positive |
| 3 | YWAM-Inter Mission | 4 |
| 4 | 4 Boys positive |
| 4 | Hostel in Dawarka | 5 | 2 | 7 | Negative |
| 5 | Prem Dham in Nazafagarh | 1 |
| 1 | Negative |
| 6 | Deepalaya in Guragoan |
| 2 | 2 | Negative |
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| Total | 13 | 15 | 28 |
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Rehabilitation
Under the rehabilitation activities we are giving special initiative to the children for their health and education. The special program is that to provide the nutritional supplement to the PLHA and CLHA those who are having CD4 count less than 250 to improve their immune system that leads to reduce the opportunistic of infection. Moreover project is providing the basic supplements such as ration, food materials to the families who are suffered economically and hospitalized more than two weeks.
Empowerment
The project is helping directly to the PLHA families through the economical and social educational development of the target community in slum area for their Self reliance and betterment. Basically the people are facing lot of social discrimination and suppression from the society due to HIV/AIDS. So, NSM take initiative to strengthen socially, economically through regular teaching and training to the community based organization and micro credit activities.
The activities namely
- · Economical Empowerment
- · Social Empowerment
- · Capacity Building
Economical empowerment
- Ø vocational training to the widows and the school dropouts
- Ø Income generation activity
- Ø Micro credit loan
Social empowerment
- v Self Help Group farming for the HIV/AIDS infected people
- v Youth club farming in the particular target group with their peer.
- v Child parliament
Capacity Building
- · Training to the HIV/AIDS infected for the life improvement
- § Life Skill education to the youth
Networking
This project especially the PLHA families and affected/infected children are needed the support in all the aspect of their life such as security, medical treatment, financial assistance, spiritual strength, love and care so that they may live long and take care of their children well and also the project is helping to the children’s education, nutrition supplements, vocational training micro credit loan to strengthen their business and assist to getting some of the government welfare schemes for the poor community. So that the NSM having good relationship with the various organization
Net Working of the Organization
- ü Educational and vocational training institution in all over India
- ü Banks and private finance institution in Delhi
- ü Non Government organization Net work with in India and some other countries
- ü Local Government bodies and national Government bodies
- ü Faith Based organization and church in India
Advocacy
NSM have taken special care for the community development and empowerment of the weaker section particularly the children and women. We are organizing Lot of social tolerant activities based on humanity with the society support and the community participation as per follows.
- · World AIDS day celebration
- · Sensitizing the community for Child Rights and Child protection
- · Organizing Rally along with other CBO’s
Special Event
- · Christmas celebration with PLHA families
- · Children Days celebration
- · Sports Competition
- · Medical Camps
- · Vocational Bible School
Achievements
- · Lot of the Youth have changed their behavior from intake of tobacco
- · Economical standard of the PLHA has improving through SHG
- · School dropout’s life has ensured through the Vocational Training
- · Nine youth club have functioning well under the NSM
- · Last year 37 children has completed their school education with the support of the NSM
- · Children from Six PLHA Families brought back to the regular schooling
- · Last year 419 children have received the educational support from NSM
- · There are 242 children regularly participate in our ten child parliament
