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Springdales is owned and run by the Springdales Education Society, a Charitable and Educational Trust registered in May 1956. It is the legal entity for the school and is responsible for its financial stability and the building of its assets as well as its ethos and philosophy. Its present Chairperson is the founder Principal of the school, Mrs Rajni Kumar, who is ably assisted by the Honorary Secretary Mrs P Loomba, and the members of the Governing body. (full text).

Current Status: The school is today a member of the National Progressive Schools’ Conference and is considered one of Delhi’s leading schools. The principal of the Dhaula Kuan branch is Dr. Jypti Bose and the principal of the Pusa Road branch is Mrs. Ameeta Mulla Wattal. The Pusa Road branch is the oldest and largest of the three branches, while the Kirti Nagar branch provides education only up till the fifth standard. Children from the Kirti Nagar branch move to the Pusa Road branch on entering sixth standard. (full text).
Vision of Education: At Springdales, education is looked upon as a holistic learning experience, helping each child to develop those attributes and qualities of heart, head and hand which will make him/her a self-reliant citizen and a fine human being, socially aware and humanistic, compassionate and kind, having pride in his country and belief in the concept of international brotherhood and peace, a person ready to work as an agency of change for building a more socially just and equitable society. (full text).

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Homepage in Hindi, and in english language.

National Bal Bhavan is a Children’s paradise – a place where children irrespective of their caste, creed, status and sex, can choose activities of their liking as per their age, and thereby enhance their creative potential. National Bal Bhavan is committed to children belonging to lower strata of Society and children of special needs.

Objectives;
The Bal Bhavan Philosophy;
Programmes and theme based Workshops;
Publications;
Contact. Telephone No.: 91-11-23235422, Fax: 91-11-23231158

National Training Resource Centre NTRC: … The National Training Resource Centre (NTRC) of National Bal Bhavan is a resource centre for imparting training to adults, teachers, teacher trainees and child educators both from the formal and non-formal systems of education … (full text).

… Bal Bhavan pays special attention to children of deprived section. … (full text).

About: The National Bal Bhavan from its humble beginning in a tin shed at Turkman Gate in 1956, has progressed by leaps and bounds to attain the status of an Institution which has contributed significantly to supplement and complement the formal system of education through its multi-dimensional activities at the Head Quarters.

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ETI, 36 Jeeva Street, Bethaniapuram, Madurai 625 016, India. Tel: 00 91 452 610 965. ETI has no Website. ETI is an NGO.

The Organisation aims and activities: ETI works towards assisting young children for the benefit of their welfare, development, future self dependency and self-sufficiency. This is done by conducting social welfare programmes and campaigning for children’s rights particularly in the area of child labour.

Organisation mandate: Provide training or education on child rights, Research child rights, Undertake legal casework on behalf of children, Work directly with children, Work in partnership with organisations.

Areas of expertise: Child labour and working children, Children and citizenship, Children and education, Children and health, Children living with HIV/AIDS, Children with disabilities, Children without parental care, Children working and living on the street, Reporting to and monitoring the CRC.

Contact: Dr. Jaya Arunachalam, 55, Bhimasena Garden Street, Mylapore, Chennai-600 004, India. Phone Number: 91-44-24992853 / 2499 3937, Fax: +91-44-24992853, write to.

Working Women’s Forum WWF was born out of an activist’s commitment that the poor are entitled to their rights, in terms of organised social platform, access to credit, education, health care and all the other basic services. The Forum entrusts key responsibilities of the organisation and its administration to poor women, by selecting and training internal cadres from neighbourhood communities.

About: Working Women’s Forum was born out of an activist’s commitment that the poor are entitled to their rights, in terms of organised social platform, access to credit, education, health care and all the other basic services. The suffering of the poor especially women in extreme poverty and squalor led to the initiation of WWF in the year 1978, taking responsibility to relieve them from hunger, indebtedness and invisibility. Forum’s several initiatives not only strive to address the economic/social problems that confront poor women but soon manifested into an alternate development model.

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