Deepak Foundation

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Deepak Foundation
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legal form Non-governmental organization (NGO)
founding 1982
founder CK Mehta
Seat Vadodara ( Gujarati : વડોદરા , Vaḍodarā ; formerly Baroda )
main emphasis Rural development, motherhood, childhood
method Development of infrastructure, education
people CK Mehta, Archana Joshi
owner CK metha
Employees 400
Website deepakfoundation.org

The Deepak Foundation is an Indian non-governmental organization founded in 1981 by CK Mehta with headquarters in Vadodara ( Gujarati : વડોદરા , Vaḍodarā ; formerly Baroda ). The organization provides development aid in the rural underdeveloped areas in the municipality of Vadodara. The main concern is to strengthen these underprivileged areas by building a livelihood base and an intact health system.

Almost 400 professional full-time employees, 35% of them women, work in 22 stations and, in cooperation with many other volunteers, reach 1.9 million people.

The activity consists of many different projects, the most important of which are the Safe Motherhood & Child Survival Project (SMCS) and the Kawant Livelihood Project (KALP) .

Ambitions

"The Deepak Foundation's vision is a world that is free of distress, disease, deprivation and exploitation. Our focus is the woman and the child: they are the vehicles through which the future can be determined and changed. "

- CK Mehta : The Healing Touch - annual report 2008 - 2009

In order to approach this “vision”, the organization has set itself four main goals that must be achieved:

  1. promoting practices that promote safe motherhood and childhood
  2. Make health services and preschool education accessible
  3. ensuring a sustainable livelihood for underprivileged and marginalized communities
  4. Civil protection

history

The suffering caused by a flood in 1981 prompted CK Mehta, the later founder and current chairman, to become socially active.

The first project was a hospital in Nandesari (an undeveloped industrial area in the Vadodara district). In 1982, an ambulance transport system was integrated to curb the very high death rate on the way to the hospital. This covered 30 rural villages in 1982. The 'Deepak Group of Companies', an association of industrial companies, has now also provided financial support.

In the early 1990s the organization began to care more about the quality of life for women. This included microcredits for widows and the introduction of cooperative milk processing. The immigration of many workers to the industrial area made HIV screening necessary in the late 1990s.

From 2004 the organization worked increasingly with the regional government. The Safe Motherhood & Child Survival Project (SMCS) was launched in 2005 with a large number of individual measures. In 2009 the large-scale Kawant Livelihood Project (KALP) started to cover all livelihood issues in underdeveloped areas.

Today the organization makes a significant contribution to the development of the Vadodara district. The work reaches almost 2 million people in 1,548 villages.

Projects

Projects include Deepak Medical Foundation Hospital (DMF) , Pre-School Education & Care , Integrated Child Development Services , Sexual Health and HIV / AIDS awareness or Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation .

Safe Motherhood & Child Survival (SMCS)

The SMCS project was launched in 2005 and runs in close cooperation with the regional authorities. It includes a wide variety of projects and institutions. Key components are:

  1. Formation and strengthening of health centers in the underdeveloped villages
  2. Education from many recognized health activists (ASHAs) and trained obstetricians (TTBAs)
  3. an ambulance system and two mobile hospitals
  4. Documentation and precautionary care for pregnant women and newborns

Kawant Livelihood Project (KALP)

The KALP-Project started in 2009 and comprises a package of measures to build livelihoods in Kawant (one of the least developed areas in India) and the surrounding area. These can be roughly divided into the following points:

  1. Promote agriculture
  2. Create jobs through knowledge expansion and microcredits
  3. Reduction of emigration by building social communities
  4. Promote sustainability and nature's need for regeneration