NGOs in Mysore

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Ashadayaka Seva Trust(R)

Ashadayaka Seva Trust was established in the year 2003 with the main objective of Eradicating Child Labor and providing rehabilitation for the destitute children. So far the Trust has been able to rehabilitate 33 children who were deserted by their parents and those who had no parents. Most of these children lived by begging.

Activities

* Identifying and bringing the destitute children to the 'Rehabilitation Home'
* Educating the parents about the need of education for their children
* Conducting Summer Camp for Slum dwelling Children and Child Labor and driving them a point about the need of educaton

Additional Details from www.ashadayaka.org

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Divya Deepa Charitable Trust

Divyadeepa is a Mysore based non profit organization working for the betterment of physically, emotionally, economically and socially challenged children. It has been started with an aim to transform deprived kids into self-reliant citizens of the country by giving them food, shelter, care, love, empathy & quality education.

Divyadeepa also works in the field of youth and women empowerment, rural development and environmental awareness.

Additional Details from www.divyadeepatrust.org

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Karuna Trust

It has been working with the National Insurance Company to put in place a community healthcare insurance scheme that enables the poor to have effective access to the government healthcare system in rural areas. Though public healthcare is free, it has remained out of reach of a number of the poor. Falling ill, for the class that lives on a daily basis, hand-to-mouth, could mean loss of livelihood. For the daily-wagers a day out of work means a day without bread. So they delay seeking healthcare, entailing hospitalization, till they can carry on no longer . Thus forced into a hospital, they get into debt to sustain themselves.

The insurance scheme devised by Karuna Trust offers a subsistence allowance of Rs.50 a day for a max. of 25 days of hospitalization in a year. Besides, a beneficiary is entitled to reimbursement of up to Rs.50 a day on medicines not dispensed at the government hospital. Bharathi Ghanashyam has written (see Deccan Herald, Spectrum, Feb. 28) about the functioning of this innovative insurance scheme at T Narasipura taliuk of Mysore district.

Additional details from www.karunatrust.org

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Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

The year was 1984. A group of young medical students at the Mysore Medical College (in Karnataka State , India ) were starting to feel that the career in medicine they dreamt of pursuing was very different from the practice of medicine around them. They believed they had in them to make a difference and make a positive impact on the lives of the poor & the marginalized. And so, they started the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM, for short), with initial assets of high ideals and all the positive benefits of inexperience.

SVYM's principle area of operation is the Heggadadevanakote Taluk in Mysore District of Karnataka, India. Here it has various institution-based and community based Health and Education projects and also undertakes several Community Development Initiatives, catering to a populace of about 300,000 comprising both tribals and non-tribals. The reach of these activities also extend to the neighbouring Taluks, namely Hunsur, Nanjangud and Gundlupet.

The emblem of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement symbolizes the organization in letter and spirit, reflecting its basic tenet of 'Serving God in Man', as propounded by Swami Vivekananda.

Additional Details from www.svym.net

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