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BOSCONET
Nation Building since 1906 by rebuilding the lives of poorest through resilient innovations
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights;
That among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” - Thomas Jefferson
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Who Are We
Inequity is a defining issue of our modern society and India has been
providing focused thrust in reducing inequity in education, health and livelihoods of
its vast marginalized groups including youth, children and women in order to enable
them to share the fruits of country’s growth and progress; the disproportionate
inequalities, disparities and isolation suffered by the marginalized has consistently
received special attention in successive Governments. At Bosconet, we apply equity
in all of our interventions; we assess not just to see whether the services reach the
beneficiaries but also to ascertain “Who is it reaching?” and “Who is being ignored?”
and ensure the poorest are able to obtain developmental benefits.
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Our Core Values:
At Bosconet, conglomerate of worldwide Don Bosco Institutions,
we follow a successful social development and service delivery model
which has been enriching and transforming the lives of millions of
poor youth; a unique model inspired by its founder’s mission, it
generates development with fairness while elevating hearts by the
presence of unconditional commitment towards upliftment of poor
youth.
Value of Equity :
Nature begets us with ‘inequalities’ because man- made culture
have thrived on it. Therefore humans need to be treated not just with
equality but with equity ie fairness, as well. The weak, the vulnerable
and the mediocre amongst us need complementary support,
ingenuous thought leadership and an environment that is life-
affirming in order to grow, embrace and enjoy the consummate
fullness of life.
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begins by involving the beneficiaries at the levels of planning,
strategizing, service delivery, review and mid course correction and
scale up. The outcome of such approach is joint accountability,
transparency in governance and sustainability.
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Our Vision:
We envision a society where all have access to resources and
opportunities with equity, living empowered life and build a harmonious nation as
productive citizens.
Our Mission:
We are committed to providing the poorest women, youth and children
with access to quality solutions in education, livelihoods, health, water and
sanitation; in all our processes, we diligently seek out, improve and apply validated
sustainable technologies and social reengineering to produce outcomes that fulfill
needs and aspirations of the people under our care.
What we do
Reaching every last man or woman….
We currently serve 2.4 lakh students annually in our Don Bosco Schools ; over 60,341
girls are given education, 55,000 benefited from livelihood training, 24,8788 youth were
trained in sustainable livelihoods, 1,50,000 women underwent rights awareness and leadership
capacity building, 54,675 youth were trained in conservation of ecosystem, 45,000 street
children are rehabilitated and 64,928 missing children were rescued.
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Equity centric Formal Education for the Poorest:
The mounting cost of education in recent years has eaten into a major part of the
household budget. Lack of education accentuates the vicious cycle of poverty. An ASSOCHAM
survey showed that 65 per cent of parents spend more than half of their take-home pay on their
children's education, while the annual income of an average family has not risen.
Aim:
The purpose of this program is to assist the socially and economically marginalised children to
pursue their academic education, which might be truncated due to economic, social and or other
constraints/barriers. Keeping higher education affordable and accessible for the marginalised
community is the primary objective of this project.
Approach:
This is executed in two ways: (1) Providing education in our schools and colleges (2) Educational
scholarship for higher education. A ll over India Don Bosco runs over 257 schools (primary,
middle, high schools, and higher secondary schools), 43 colleges, and a full-fledged university
(Assam Don Bosco University).
Most of these institutions are strategically located in rural locations for easy
approach for the rural children and youth. We have boarding homes for the students
from remote locations. Availability of boarding and location of our institutions have
greatly contributed towards increasing the literacy of first-generation graduates in rural
locations. At Don Bosco schools we empower the young. We identify their capabilities
and convert their creative energies into market-relevant skills to achieve great things for
the society.
Children from the rural background, with illiterate or less-educated parents
exhibit lower learning skill and academic performance. Sustained lower academic
performance results in dropping out from school. To prevent this, special coaching
classes are conducted after the school hours in the village itself. This special coaching
has significantly contributed towards the improvement in their learning skill and
reduction in school dropout. In order to motivate these children, free notebooks
and educational materials are distributed and competitions are organized to nurture
their leadership skills and self esteem.
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Access to opportunities for the poor youth for undergoing technical skill training
is provided by Don Bosco institutions ; entry barriers for course admission in terms of
age, quantitative marks scored are relaxed and poor youth from marginalized groups are
encouraged to prepare for employability.
A im: To improve the earning potential of youth through employment oriented skill
training.
Poor young people, even though have adequate basic academic qualification
and eligibility to sit for such high-profile recruitment examinations, could not afford
private coaching to improve their performance in competitive examinations and
interview.
Poor educated youth often lack preparedness in terms of their employment-related skills
and other soft skills.
Aim:
To empower the youth, especially the poor and the marginalized to improve
their employability skills; improve their recruitment prospects by coaching them for
competitive examinations.
Approach:
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Career guidance activities include organizing seminars on career opportunities,
employability skills, publication of books and brochures on career guidance for students
and teachers, individual job placement guidance, organising career guidance
exhibitions, organizing recruitment drives, training youth in employability skills,
coaching for competitive examinations, entrepreneurial skills training and guidance, job
information network services and job search services {with local industries and business
centres).
Access to credit is provided to the marginalized women and her family, often
through self help groups to enhance their livelihoods and meet their family credit needs
marriage, purchase of assets.
The young people are organized and trained to promote and protect the
ecosystem through Natural Farming and Tree planting to address climate change and
soil degradation. They are trained not to exploit the nature in its essence. The young
people are guided to find solutions for their socio economic problems, motivated to
embark on efforts that will sustain them for life, directed to choose means and methods
that do not affect the society; they are counseled to make right decision in life, trained to
work in collaboration with all, skilled to earn a living, empowered to make change and
transform the society.
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Rescue & Rehabilitation of Children-at-Risk
Aim:
Rescue, protection, and rehabilitation of street children, child labours and
school dropouts to ensure these children a productive life with cherishing childhood and
education for their holistic development are the objectives of children-at-risk
intervention.
Approach:
Don Bosco runs 46 shelters and children homes across India to protect
children-at-risk. In many States, Don Bosco is a strategic partner of and nodal agency
for "Child line" (with toll free contact numbers) and has established contact centres in
prominent locations in major cities to apprehend run-away children and working
children.
These children are brought to our shelter homes, we provide them protection,
food, clothing and healthcare. Information about these street children is shared with
other like minded organizations and government departments for speedy rehabilitation.
Those who are interested in continuing their education or to learn vocational skills are
provided free accommodation, food, healthcare and education & skill training. Children
who are above 18 years of age are assisted for job placements.
Periodically our field staff visit towns and villages and identify working children
and school-dropouts among the marginalized and poor families. These children are
provided free bridge course, books and stationery and those who are from remote
locations are provided free boarding. Those who pass successfully are re-enrolled in
regular academic institutions.
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THE ROAD MAP: 2018-2023
Restoring Dignity of Women in India’s Poor Rural Communities
Clean Water, Education and Livelihoods
Leveraging resilient innovations
From Israel’s water technology, Solar Power to
Nanotechnology, Machine Learning, AI, and Cloud Computing,
we at Bosconet flow with change to empower the poor
People generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the
very idea of a change. It is this spirit of lethargy that needs be replaced by the proactive spirit.
Otherwise degeneration gains the upper hand and the whole humanity is led astray by the reactionary
forces. Such a state of affairs leads to stagnation and paralysis in human progress.
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they need. At Bosconet we neither rest on our laurels nor do we wallow in status quo.
We aspire for change. We thrive in chaos. We create momentum and sustain it; because
we know we can innovate scalable utilities and livelihoods for the poor.
The World Health Organization estimates that 117,000 Indian children
under the age of five died in 2015 from diarrheal diseases caused by unimproved
sanitation and hygiene. An estimated 6% of India’s GDP is lost due to poor sanitation,
amounting to an annual loss of Rs. 2.4 trillion, or nearly US$54 billion. In addition,
chronic diarrhea hinders effectiveness of life-saving vaccines.
Indian women and girls face shame, loss of dignity and safety risk with no toilets
at their homes, communities and schools. Recent survey indicates that 66% of the girls
in India manage their period outside or in an open field due to the absence of a
household toilet, while 23% of girls drop out of school for the same reason.
We believe water is life. It helps people rise out of poverty, to protect and save
human lives. Access to safe water has the potential to convert time spent into time
saved, when it's available nearby and not miles away.
How We Do:
Bosconet Innovation Incubation And Social Entrepreneurship Cell (
BISEC) : Exploring Resilient Innovations
BOSCONET INNOVATION INCUBATION AND SOCIAL
ENTEREPRENURESHIP CELL (BISEC) is actively involved in seed funding,
networking, mentoring and monitoring services for our in-house projects of
Development Offices across 29 States in India. We are exploring, reviewing and
implementing resilient innovations to address rural poverty among underserved
habitations in India. It uses the tool of Participatory Action Research ( PAR) to validate
effectiveness of intervention. The thrust areas include: Education, Health, Water,
Sanitation, and livelihoods, Community-Managed Models and Digital Financial
Inclusion and Rights Empowerment. Every prospective project is assessed and
scrutinized by this cell before being taken up for further planning and forming strategic
alliances with CSR partners and eventual execution.
Here are few innovations, being explored by BISEC, related to solar technology,
Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud computing to
address needs of the poor including water, sanitation and livelihoods. They are
being investigated at BISEC to understand its efficacy in terms of performance, cost,
durability, cultural acceptance and social norms and scalability.
The world may be full of water, but usable water for humans is not free. The costs
of the human water cycle are enormous and the poor and their women are the most
affected by water scarcity.
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This economically viable and culturally acceptable system could supply enough water to
meet the needs of a village of 2,000 to 5,000 people.
Nano solar membrane distillation system, Developed at Rice University's Center for
Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT),
Indian women living in remote habitations face water crisis because of delay in
repairs, maintenance of broken pumps used for drinking water; the delay is further
complicated because of lack of timely information about levels of ground water under
each hand pump. When there is no water available through the pump, they have to walk
to several miles to fetch water.
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Experts have developed sensors like those in smart phones to attach to the pump
handles on rural wells to monitor groundwater and speed up repairs of broken pumps
faster. These accelerometer and gyroscope sensors record the up-and-down motion of
the pump handles.
The system uses machine learning to predict the depth of water in the well. How
the pump handles move and vibrate reveals whether the water is coming from a deep or
a shallow source, helping to predict how much remains underground. The process is
accelerated by using the cloud.
One hundred percent waterless and chemical-free, this toilet model can be easily
installed in rural parts of India. The solar powered fan runs continuously and dries the
excreta completely. The dried excreta is used as manure, as part of sanitation value
chain. This model is low maintenance, saves water and is an advanced model of
composting toilets.
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SaTo Safe Toilet:
The SaTo is a low cost innovation designed for poor households and it comes with many
variants to suit different conditions.
The SaTo pan model uses a simple trap door design that forms a water seal at the
bottom of a pan set into a cement slab over the pit. The water seal reduces transmission
of disease by insects, reduces odor and reduces the volume of water needed to flush.
Certain SATO models are tailored for areas where concrete is not widely used in the
construction of toilets, while another is intended for places where a seat is culturally
preferred to a squat toilet. More than 1 million units are already in use around the
world, benefitting about 5 million people.
The bricks for the toilets are made out of thermocol sandwich bricks. Once the
structure of thermocol is laid as per the design, it is coated with concrete cement. The
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process of preparing the structure takes us two hours and to dry cement coating it
takes four more hours. This low cost toilet is portable and durable.
Organic produce is the demand of the up-markets in cities. With male members
of the rural India migrating to cities, the women are engaged in agriculture. The main
purpose is to promote women entrepreneurship to energize the economy of local
communities and to help create food security, family nutritional sufficiency and income
opportunities.
SMILE women are trained to grow organic produce; to develop vermin compost,
natural fertilizers using cow dung and farm waste; to use biological pest control and
disease management. Using fragmented land, women groups are encouraged to grow
vegetables like cauliflower, brinjal, tomato and chilli. The SMILE model provides
balanced nutrition to the families and their beloved little ones while yielding income
from sale of organic produce… what else you need.
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Where We Are:
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan DON BOSCO DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY,, MUMBAI
Assam, Meghalaya
Bosco Reachout, Guwahathi
Sri Lanka
DBDO Development office , Colombo
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Organizations and is accountable for every rupee invested.
In 2017, 93 % of BOSCONET’S total funds raised were utilized towards Programme Cost
that benefit children, youth, and communities in need and 7% was utilized towards
Administrative Cost.
The funding received by BOSCONET is subject to tax benefits under sectioin 80G of
Income Tax of India.
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Stories of Transformation:
“My village falls in drought prone zone. Now my life has changed
after the Don Bosco’s integral watershed project implementation
in my village.”
Become part of
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…The Next Generation Social Entrepreneurs in Bharat
Companies and businesses from various industries contribute to BOSCONET’s
initiatives to bring equity based development to poor youth, children and women and help
them rise out of poverty. As a BOSCONET PARTNER, you can provide funding to support an
ongoing or new programme all over India. You funding initiative would be diligently aligned
with your corporate objectives leveraging your brand positioning and brand equity.
Come, be part of Bosconet, the next generation social entrepreneurs in the land of
Bharat. For further discussion, speak to our Corporate Relationship Manager: Ms Pooja Goel
@ 84xxyy00765 .
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Nation Building since 1906 by rebuilding the lives of poorest through resilient innovations
SPCI House- Don Bosco, B-33, Street No. 7, DashrathPuri, PalamDabri road, New Delhi-110045
Phone: 91 11 25390585 Email : csr@bosconet.com