SAMVADA: Empowering Disadvantaged Youth for An Inclusive & Sustainable Society

www.samvada.net

We know that for youth from marginalised communities it’s a long and rough road ahead as the odds are stacked against them – glass ceilings of caste & class make it hard to figure out who they are, and which way to go.

At Samvada, we believe that when young people are empowered with appropriate Values, Self awareness,Societal perspectives and Life-skills

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they will re-negotiate their relationships,

work options, political affiliations

and lifestyle choices

towards a plural and just society.

Achievements 1990-2010

Developed a unique pedagogy for youth sensitization, curriculum and training designs for a range of interdisciplinary courses

Designed a strategy to promote inclusion by working with disadvantaged youth

Collaborated with a wide range of NGOs, Educational institutions, Social Movements

Gained credibility as an organization that has academic rigor. perspectives, skills, integrity backed by management and governance

Established Baduku college for Life Skills & Alternative Livelihoods= a unique college where classrooms are farmers’ fields, forests, slums. And roof- tops!

Today we have an excellent staff team of 23 highly competent and committed people who design and deliver courses and workshops keeping youth mentoring as the core.

Reached out to over 1,20,00 youth

Helped over 4000 young people to rethink “development” & “justice”, secularism, gender & sexuality, caste and feudalism- creatively using discussion, film, theatre, art, sports, music, treks and exposures to provide knowledge and change values

Created spaces to for 256 youth leaders to change self and society, through fellowships and intensive leadership building

Trained and mentored 242 youth for socially relevant / sustainable livelihoods – child care, organic farming, rain water harvesting etc

Trained 24 teachers, 22 counselors and 20 youth workers to enhance their understanding of youth & their role in social change

Trained 21 disadvantaged youth in Journalism for Peace & Dev

Conducted an E-Seminar for working Journalists on Reporting Peace and Conflict in South Asia

Helped over 300 youth from govt. schools and colleges build a career path through Jiva Career Counseling Workshops

Our students re-union 2006 : Sharing & Celebrating their Life Journeys

This re-affirmed our belief that if one wants to improve the world - working with young people and

involving them in that process is the only way forward.

Game 4Change 2005

Journalism Course2010

Mission 2011-2020 Establishing Samvada as a Resource Organisation

for Youth Work.

• Reaching Out to 50,000 disadvantaged youth through 3 Youth Resource Centres

• • Working intensely with 2500 youth through workshops,

exposures & self reflection processes

• Building sustainable livelihoods with 500 youth through courses & post training support in social enterprise/livelihood building

• Mentoring 500 youth as leaders/livelihood influencers; nurturing their skills/capacities to influence and motivate others

• Training 500 youth to work as youth facilitators, counselors and teachers to build their capacities and commitment to youth empowerment social change

• Creating interdisciplinary knowledge, developing curricula and training models for youth work

• Equipping 20 NGOs/Educational Institutions to develop comptenecies for youth sensitisation work

• Influencing 5 professions that impact youth

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2011-2020YSL youth sensitisation & Leadership building

Building Youth Work

BYW through training and fellowship support to youth workers

Youth social enterprise

YSE Promoting social enterprises with youth

Training & Mentoring

Supported byKnowledge managementCapacity Building of staff

Networking & collaborations

Impact assessment SystemsStrategic Management &

Governance

Social Enterprises being PromotedCommunity Eco Tourism

• Training Tribal youth on adventure tourism

• Building on Indigenous & Local Knowledge, culture and Eco systems

• Enterprise Building in Partnership with youth group

• Conservation awareness and adventure for consumers

• Profit sharing with community• Income generation for Samvada

activities

Farmer Consumer Collective

• Training & mentoring 80 young farmers in organic & sustainable agriculture

• Enjoyable & Educative Farm visits for 300 consumers

• Formation of collective with 100 farmers & consumers as owners

• Establishment of systems for booking, delivery, pricing, quality control and profit sharing

• Farmers financial viability & health of consumers, workers and the EARTH

Baduku College Campus: An appeal

We have now leased 2.25 acres of land near Bangalore and intend to use ½ an acre for setting up a low cost eco friendly campus for Baduku College. The rest of the land will be developed as a demo organic farm and produce will be used in our hostel or sold to generate income for Samvada.

Developing the farm and construction of campus will cost Rs 18 Lakhs. We appeal to you to donate a towards a building fund for Samvada and help us become a sustainable organization.

Samvada’s programmes are supported by grants from 3 institutional donors in 2-3 year project cycles . Our annual requirement of funds is currently 1.60 crores.

While our long term donors continue to support most of our activities, after 21 years we still have ZERO reserves and NO corpus. Braving the vagaries of funding has meant taking risks while initiating new programmes, retaining staff and reaching out to new students.

We own no land or buildings and work from 5 rented premises for our 3 Youth Resource Centres, office and training house. It has also meant shifting from one rented house to another and not allowing our fragility to come in the way of institutional growth.

We also need supportFor the eco tourism enterprise

• Clients- interested in nature adventures

• Financial Support for Setting up Base Camp & Business Development- Rs 9.5 Lakhs

• Feedback and referrals• Learning opportunities• Marketing channels

• For the Farmer-Consumer Co

• Consumers interested in organic food and committed to working with farmers

• Institutional/Corporate bulk buyers

• Financial support for farmers training and setting up supply chain Rs 15.3 Lakhs

• Feedback for continual improvement

The base camp site

If you would like to contribute to our Social Enterprises and Building Fund……

All contributions big or small, in hundreds or in thousands , are to us precious gestures of your

goodwill and solidarity.

Kindly make donations through Bank Transfers

For Contributions from Outside India,

Name of the FCRA Bank Account : SamvadaName of the Bank : Canara Bank

Branch Name : Langford Town Branch, No.10, Oshaggnessey Road, Bangalore - 560 025Our Account: SB A/c - 04241010-14439Bank IFSC number -CNRB0000424Currency INR [Indian National Rupees]

For Indian DonationsName of the account is 'Samvada‘Indian Overseas BankS B A/c No. 026801000012197Address: Residency Road Branch, Bangalore.IFSC Code ;IOBA0000268

Contributors will be eligible for 80G Tax exemptions and will receive our Annual Reports, Audited Statements along with a note on how their contributions have been utilised.

And of course you are welcome to visit, take part in our events and interact with students.

For those who contribute Rs 20,000 and above, your names will be mentioned in a stone plaque at the Baduku Campus

For those who contribute Rs.30,000 and above, you and your family will be entitled to 2 nights stay at the Eco Camp Site each year from 2012-2015.

For those who wish to contribute towards specific activities, kindly specify.