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Collaborative Training with Industry Certification

Skill Development
The collaborative training with industry certification programme includes two-wheeler technician training, electrician training and plumber training. The content for these two to three-month-long courses are designed by sectoral leaders, which are also the certifying organisations in most cases. Readmore

Female-Centric Training

Skill Development
ANAND’s staunch belief in women’s empowerment determines its efforts towards providing skill development opportunities to young girls and women. Consequently, SNSF has designed and developed a large number of female-centric courses in areas like apparel-making, ITeS, beauty care, nursing and teaching. Readmore

Training for the Speech and Hearing-Impaired (SHI)

Skill Development
These courses were started at the behest of SNSF’s long-term funding partner, the American India Foundation and focus on developing skills, which enhance the employability of speech and hearing-impaired youth.Readmore

Basic Factory Operator Course to Operations and Maintenance

Skill Development
The basic factory operator course for operations and maintenance is designed to train youth in operating machines, such as lathes, drills and mills. Started in collaboration with MSMEs, this three-month course also includes six weeks of hands-on training, out of which four weeks are payable. Several companies accepting interns under this programme are ANAND vendors, who have participated in the VSME programme. Often, the companies hire interns once they complete their training, which ensures a placement rate of >90% for programme graduates.Readmore

MEDHAVI

Education
MEDHAVI scholarship scheme brings together ANAND’s aspiration of employing a large number of women on the shopfloor and the CSR agenda of promoting education and skill development. The scheme is named after the Hindi word for an intelligent person who has the ability to think, understand, and learn things quickly and well.Readmore

Helping Choose Livelihood Options

Education
SNSF is now developing programmes for orienting children to choose their livelihood options as they grow. Career counselling workshops have been conducted for Class XI and XII students across the schools adopted in Parwanoo and Gurugram.Readmore

Global Alliances

Health and Hygiene
In 1999, Nike, GAP, the International Youth Foundation and the World Bank created an innovative partnership called the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities (GA), with an aim to address complex labour issues in the global manufacturing workplace. Readmore

Remedial Coaching for Academically-Weak Students

Education
Students who are not able to cope with classroom learning often fall behind their peers. A lack of adequate coaching or guidance at home as well as at school, exacerbates this issue. SNSF provides remedial coaching to such students so as to ensure equitable academic development.Readmore

Trained and Inspired Teachers

Education
To ensure effective and impactful remedial coaching, SNSF ensures that the teachers are adequately trained for the programme. They undergo courses in multiple components such as use of ASER assessment tools, a key skill to identify the right students for coaching.Readmore

Adequate School Physical Infrastructure

Education
Most Government schools in the country lack proper infrastructure, impacting students. SNSF lays emphasis on infrastructure development a key component of its education initiatives.Readmore

Exposure Visits, Extra Curricular Activities

Education
Experiential learning creates lasting impressions and helps students better understand the concepts and facts learnt by them. As a means to this end, SNSF organises routine exposure visits or excursions for students of Class VIII and above.Readmore

Developing Coping Skill for Healthy Living

Education
Life skills help individuals adapt effectively to and deal with the challenges of daily life. As a means to this end, SNSF has been conducting life skill education sessions for the students of Class VIII to XII. Readmore

Creating and Maintaining Green Environs

Community Conservation
SNSF creates and maintains green environs in the most unlikely of locations, i.e., industrial clusters. SNSF maintains parks in significant numbers for the public, including factory workers, in Parwanoo and Gurugram.Readmore

Augmentation of Farm Income

Community Conservation
In recent times, investments have also been made in innovative agro-projects.Readmore

Life Enrichment

Health and Hygiene
The project titled ‘Life Enrichment’ focused on developing a ‘Life First’ culture in the corporate world as against the commonly prevalent ‘Profit First’ ethos.Readmore

Field NGO for Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)

Health and Hygiene
SNSF’s Nashik unit functioned as a community-based organisation for Mother NGO and Godavari Foundation between 2006 and 2009. Readmore

Partnership with District/State AIDS Control Societies (SDACS/DACS)

Health and Hygiene
The 2000s saw numerous branches of SNS Foundation forge ties with State/District AIDS Control Societies (SACS/DACS) and other organisations to fight the HIV threat.Readmore

Partnership with District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Nashik

Community Conservation
DRDA, the district level organisation representing the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), government of India, oversees the project Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY). SNSF Nashik reached out to 172 villages forming 240 SHGs and 100 SHGs in the tribal blocks of Peth and Trimbakeshwar, respectively, over a seven-year period (2005-13). Readmore

Project Jivica

Community Conservation
SNSF undertook a project with Heifer International (2005-08) for the rehabilitation of Tsunami-affected villages in Thigyagvelli panchayat, Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu. Readmore

Project Neeraja

Community Conservation
Paucity of time has severely impeded the progress of women belonging to indigenous communities residing in the Nashik district. With four to 16 hours per day spent doing daily chores, especially fetching water, women were unable to find the time to engage in any enterprisal activities.Readmore

Livestock Health

Community Conservation
SNSF also focuses on improving the parameters of rural life, which directly influence financial considerations. Readmore

Prevention of Parent-To-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS

Health and Hygiene
The Project Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission (PPCT) of HIV/AIDS was a unique collaborative effort between SNS Foundation, Parwanoo and the Delhi-based NGO MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child to curb the rapidly-spreading HIV infection in the early-2000s. Readmore

Partnership with NABARD

Community Conservation
NABARD has been SNSF’s partner in promoting rural development through microfinance across Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. SNSF’s Parwanoo unit brought ~4,000 women (200 SHGs) of Dharampur block under the microfinance fold over the years between 2002 and 2008. Readmore

Mobile Health Services

Health and Hygiene
Delivering healthcare services using mobile vans has been an important component of SNS Foundation’s interventions in this realm. All three vans owned by SNS Foundation have been gifted by Anand’s joint venture partner, Henkel. Readmore

Mahila Bala Utthan

Community Conservation
SNSF took its first steps in the rural development with a focus on the upliftment of women and girls. A partnership initiative of SNSF and Bechtel Foundation that ran from 2001 to 2004, Mahila Bala Utthan was aimed at the holistic village development by uplifting women and girls. Readmore

Mother NGO for Reproductive & Child Health (RCH)

Health and Hygiene
In 1999, the SNS Foundation signed one of its most prestigious projects, Mother NGO for RCH, with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. As an integral part of this project, SNS Foundation’s Parwanoo branch became responsible for building capacities of eight community-based organisations.Readmore

Project Nayandeep

Health and Hygiene
Project Nayandeep (‘nayan’ meaning eyes and ‘deep’ meaning an oil lamp), SNS Foundation’s first public-private partnership, also marked a strategic shift in the functioning of the organisation - from conducting one-off charitable activities to implementing projects with well-defined purposes.Readmore

SUJÁN Sher Bagh, Ranthambhore

Community Conservation
Community conservation efforts were launched in SUJÁN Sher Bagh in 2018, with specific interventions designed for the villages of Kutalpura Maliyan and Sherpur-Khiljipur. These efforts will be driven through engagements with a local government school with ~184 students. Readmore

SUJÁN JAWAI, Jawai Bandh

Community Conservation
The launch of JAWAI in 2014 brought with it the opportunity to engage with local communities in amore holistic manner. The presence of five villages – Perwa, Jivda, Meeno Ki Dhanee, Sena and Biselpur and some hamlets around these villages – in close vicinity made it the largest location in which the SNS Foundation carried out its activities.Readmore

SUJÁN The Serai, Bherwa

Community Conservation
In 2009, SNSF took its first steps in community conservation with the setting up of operations of SUJÁN the Serai in the Bherwa village of Jaisalmer. Over the years, this village has formed the foundation for SNSF’s foray into community conservation. Readmore