TILJALA SHED

TILJALA SOCIETY FOR HUMAN AND

EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Submitted by :

Sunil Choudhury

Sec-C Roll - 159

“It’s not how much we give but
how much love we put into giving”
 Mission
Empowerment of the most marginalized especially
women and children that promotes cohesive peoples
action to enable them to assert and realize their

Vision
Tiljala SHED envisions a society where the most
marginalized communities are free from all forms of
exploitation to live a life of dignity, equality, justice, and
peace
 Values
Relevance
Learning and adaptive organization, responsive to the changing
social, economic, political, and environmental background
s
Positive Thinking
We believe that change is necessary and possible and We
believe that Tiljala SHED is an effective agent of change
Upholding Human Rights
Strives to defend and promote the human rights of all
beneficiaries across all our programs
Teamwork
Work collectively, sharing responsibility and skills, to achieve
the optimum outcomes for our beneficiaries
Accountability
We are committed to delivering results and ensuring full
accountability
Transparency
Make internal and external stakeholders aware of the organization's
overall functioning
Professional Approach
Fosters a professional attitude- high ethical standards, team work, loyalty,
and honesty and ensures professional management, promoting quality and
competence, accepting challenges, and building capacity
Integrity
Conduct ourselves honorably in all our actions with truthfulness
and respect
Inclusion
Ensure that the beneficiaries are stakeholders in their own development,
Inclusive in programs and policies and Embrace diversity in the workplace
and field in which demonstrate mutual respect
Hard work
We go beyond the call of duty to achieve our organization's vision
and mission
 Organization Hierarchy
Governing Body

s
Executive Director

Global Director Fundraising Finance and Admin Manager Program Manager

Corporate Liaison Manager Accountant Cashier Admin

PCs
Assistant

Associate Director Fundraising

Driver Housekeeping
 Board of Directors
Mr. SK Naushad President
Vice President Mr. Md. Mohiuddin

Md. Tauseefur Members

Rahman
President

Mr. Pervez Ms. Uma Ms. Reshma Ms. Subhra

Jt. Secretary Mr. SK Rizvi Pandey Ahmed Banerjee
Naushad

(Retired Govt. Officer)

Mr. Md. Shafkat
• Mr.
Ms.Md.
AnitaAlamgir
Das (Roy) Alam Treasurer
Ms. Anita Das (Roy)
 Our Team

Chanchal Giri
Parveen Choudhury

Ayesha Bibi
 Origin
Slowly and steadily
Tiljala SHED
expanded its areas of
operation to other
parts of Kolkata
where people are
suffering from
vulnerability and
hardships

1987 1993 1994 Late 1990s

Tiljala SHED was created
by a handful of youth from
Tiljala realizing the needs of
the people living with
misery, suffering, and
hardship in their day-to-day
fight for survival, struggle,
identity, and dignity
Tiljala SHED was formally Tiljala SHED was government granted a proposal
registered successful in obtaining on rehabilitation of street
FCRA and other legal children from the Ministry of
registrations in the following Social Justice &
years. All legal compliances Empowerment, Govt. India and
are up to date and reflected anti-child labor program,
in public domain supported by Ministry of
Labor, Govt. of India
 Brief About Tiljala SHED
➢ Non-religious, non-political grass root level non-government developmental organization

➢ Works for the underprivileged and marginalized people of Kolkata especially the Rag Pickers community

➢ Helps empowering and transforming the Rag Pickers from the life in rags into a kingdom of sunshine

➢ Works hand in hand with communities which are vulnerable and marginalized

➢ Currently running 5 educational learning centres across its operational areas

➢ Offers special remedial classes for children from 6 to 18 years of age and evening classes for the students of class VI to X

➢ Serves directly more than 600 children currently, indirectly around 500 children.

➢ Till now, Tiljala Shed has reached around 21,500 families since its inception

➢ Has an Exclusive Female Football team who has participated in various events and won accolades

➢ Involves its children in various sports, other extra-curricular activities, arts and crafts to keep them busy and to make them understand their potentials

➢ Impart Business Development Training to the beneficiaries on how to run successful businesses

➢ Works strongly for the betterment of lives of women and run women empowerment programs through educational projects which has ultimately brought change
in the life of the women (Example: Beauty training & empowerment centre at Tiljala)

➢ Runs the Gyan Azhar Library for destitute girls since 2008 where girls can come and borrow books and can browse computer with internet

➢ Recently completed 100-day training in skill building for young girls and women who were victims of domestic violence and disadvantage backgrounds
 USP of Tiljala SHED

Tiljala SHED biggest strength is that most of the staff are It is easily accessible to the beneficiaries
recruited from among the beneficiaries which makes its work Any beneficiary can meet the Head of the organization with prior
easily accessible to the grassroots appointment and their problems are resolved at a fast pace
 Goals

To rehabilitate rag pickers and To rehabilitate high risk rag

other urban poor engaged in pickers, homeless, and underage
hazardous employment into working children through
mainstream institutional care

To develop a culture that will create an To increase participation of women

environment where education becomes and youths in leadership and decision
a primary goal and a possibility for the making in households, their
marginalized communities, and national levels
Major Initiatives and Contribution to Society
Sponsorship Programs for Destitute Girls

• AIDOS : Italian Association for Women in development, an

organization based in Rome has been supporting the Sponsorship
program for destitute girls since 1995

• This program provides full scholarship support including toiletries

to the girl child and family maintenance assistance so that the
family keep sending the child at school

• This program has created a massive impact with majority of the

girls now studying in school in the local area where the program
was implemented

• The family invested in the other girl’s education who was not
supported unlike her sister

• It also helped to change the stereotype mindset of the people

• When the program started the local people were averse to teach the
girl child and rampant early marriage was practiced in the area

• This program had ripple effects and majority of the girls are now
educated in the area with boys lagging behind the girls
Major Initiatives and Contribution to Society
Gyan Azhar Library

• The Gyan Azhar Library is a ray of hope for the girls

living in the Tiljala slums
• Girls from nearby slums and squatters visit the library
• Even girls from far areas come as the library Is equipped
with few thousand books with computers and internet
• The library opens its door in July 2008 and since then
the girls have grown in number
• The girls also use their indoor games facility and
exchange of information with peers
• The idea for creating such a library was to ensure a safe
and secure place to girls
• The current membership strength is over 800 and
increasing day by day but due to lack of proper infra-
structure, the library is unable to expand and upgrade the
facilities
• The library program is supported by AIDOS- Italian
Association for Women in development, an
organization based in Rome
 Major Initiatives and Contribution to Society
Institutional Care Home (Shelter Homes) for vulnerable children

Open Shelter Home for vulnerable children

With three contact points and one Open Shelter at Park Circus, Tiljala SHED has been
running this program since the inception of the program. 38 children come every day and
15 children sleep during the night. This is a temporary home for the children. The children
are produced before the CWC (Child Welfare Committee) and then are kept in our home.
CWC finds a permanent solution for the children and until then it remains under the care
of the organization. Starting from food, education, sports everything is provided to the
children. There are around 100 children who gets support from the contact points daily.
The program is supported by Ministry of Women and Child, Govt. of West Bengal.

Aasra Sadan-Children’s Home for Rag Pickers & Other vulnerable families

Aasra Sadan was built by the strong support of Misereor and Indien Kinderilfe. Children of
rag pickers and from other vulnerable families are staying for the past 6 years. Children
from difficult circumstances are kept in this home and sent to the nearby government
school in the village. Tiljala SHED also has classrooms in the hostel where they are taught
in the morning and in the evening by our trained teachers. These children need special
attention and extra classes to cope with their respective standards of their class. The
children are also involved in gardening, indoor and outdoor games, hand work, etc.
Counselling and group work helped children reduced the violence in which they were
indulged in the previous years of their life. These children are now very hopeful of a
brighter future. They visit their homes during festivals. We have medical camp for children
once a month for their health progress.
 Major Initiatives and Contribution to Society
Beauty Training & Empowerment Centre

• The Beauty Training and empowerment center for girls opened in

April 2017 with the support from Godrej

• The objective of the program is to make them self-independent so that

they get respect in the family

• Four months training module and advance training courses are

prepared by Godrej for the girls to prepare them work in professional
beauty parlors

• Partnered with few beauty salons who can give them internship and
later jobs

• Currently the beauty training center is partially supported by IT

Company Concentrix

• Currently the seventh and Eighth batch are going on and have
completed 6 batches in total

• The classes are held from Monday to Friday in two shifts, each shift
consisting of 4 hours
Major Initiatives and Contribution to Society
Rights and Entitlements Program

• Facilitated the creation of Association of Rag Pickers of Calcutta

(ARP) which is a registered legal entity and the only such association
for the entire rag pickers community in West Bengal

• Due to the efforts of Tiljala SHED and other NGOs working together
in this sector that has push the government to include the Rag Pickers
in the State Assisted Scheme of Provident fund for Unorganized
workers (SASPFUW)

• Rag picking was included as a profession along with other professions

in the list of unorganized work

• Due to Tiljala SHED’s & ARP’s joint intervention that the school
authorities now take due care and treat them at par with other children

• Under this program Tiljala SHED works for all those rag pickers and
other vulnerable communities who have been deprived of legal
entitlements and documents and are not recognized by the local
government

• Bringing Rag pickers and other Vulnerable families in the mainstream

society is also one of the goals of this program
 Programs and Activities
Waste Collection

Objectives

• Ensuring livelihood for rag pickers in waste management.

• Networking with corporates, schools, universities, housing complex, retail
outlets, restaurants etc.
• Revenue generation
• Increased income for the rag pickers through waste management and other
vocations

Changes in the economic setting of the project

• The Corporate Waste collection though has added on to the income of Rag
Pickers but they are still intermittent
• The inclusion of Rag Pickers to full time employment is still a major challenge

Changes in the political setting of the project

Liaison with the Labor Commissioner’s office for the inclusion of Rag Pickers in
the State Assisted Scheme of Provident Fund for Unorganized
Workers(SASPFUW) is accomplished.
 Programs and Activities
Child Protection

Objectives

• Child Protection is a new initiative under the rag pickers project

• Main objective of under Child Protection program is to protect and educate families
of various forms of abuse, atrocities, and exploitation
• So far shielded 90% of all children of the rag picking families for such abuses and
atrocities

Program Overview

• All staff associated were given intensive training on Child Protection

• Child Protection Committees (safety-net) were formed in all five areas of our
intervention. This Committee consisted of 10 to 12 women from the rag picker community

• There are five such groups in five areas comprising of six to ten members each
• Their primary function is to
– Intervene
– Prevent
– Report: All cases of Child Abuse to child protection agencies (CHILDLINE and the
Police). There is a Second Officer specially deputed for this job in every Police Stations

• The total number of child club members has reached 275

 Programs and Activities
Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS)
Open shelters for Children -in- need in urban and semi-urban areas

• To contribute to the improvement and welfare of children in difficult circumstances

• Reduction of vulnerabilities to the situation that leads to abuse, neglect, exploitation, abandonment
and separation of children

Program Overview Open shelters for children in need in urban areas

• The Open Shelter started operating from 1st April 2011 at 52, Tiljala Road
• The age group of the children is from 6yrs to 18 yrs
• Project Area: Park Circus, Topsia, Christopher Road
• The target group is any vulnerable child in need of care and protection
• The focus is particularly on beggars, street and working children, rag
pickers, small vendors, street performers, deserted, trafficked and runaway
children
These shelter homes shall offer day and night shelter facilities to children in
need of support service for a temporary period, while efforts are made to
rehabilitate them. These open shelters, run by both NGOs and state
governments/UTs, do not provide permanent residential facilities for children
but complement the existing institutional care facilities.
Facilities Available

• Special Coaching for students after school hour

Through ICPS, the Ministry of Women and Child Development envisages to
carve out a broad and comprehensive framework for child protection in the
Eleventh plan and set the foundation for creating a shielding protective
environment for children
• Nutritious food four times a day
• Regular Health check-up
• Supply of educational kits
• Provision of basic facilities like water, sanitation, clean toilets, sleeping beds,
lockers for children to keep their belongings etc.
• We give new clothes to children three times during the intervention
• Special attention is given to proper Counseling of the traumatized children and kids
• belonging to separated parents
• Vocational training programs like computers coaching
• Sports and excursion, participation in cultural and competitive programmes for
their all-round development
 Programs and Activities
Kolkata National Child Labor Project (KNCLP)

• National Child Labor Project, supported by the Ministry of Labor Government of India through Child Labor rehabilitation
society headed by Labor Commissioner Government of West Bengal
• Tiljala Shed has been running a project involving 50 child labors (male and female) at Narkeldanga Shanties

Facilities Provided Major Challenges

• Four-hour educational support program, coaching, bridge courses, and
remedial classes. Children are taught in class groups of I, II, III, IV, V
etc. Most of the children are attending Government and Corporation
schools
• Mid-day meal provided to all the children supplied by Sarva Siksha
Mission, under Government of West Bengal
• Educational kits and stationery provided to all the children, some under
Government support and from additional resources mobilized from
corporates and individuals
• Art, craft and vocational training provided as per the needs and interest
of the children
• Mainstreaming and sustainability of education up to class X (first
recognized qualification from the Government)
• A stipend of Rs.400/- per child per month transferred directly in the
bank account of the children
• Provision of Sanitation, water, and other basic services to children with
the help of State and Central Government Schemes
• Creative activities and link with other allied schemes on entitlements
provided to the children
• Opening bank accounts for the children has been a challenging task for th
organization due to technical and bureaucratic formalities
• Entitlements for the children and their parents like ration card, voter car
Aadhar card, BPL card and other schemes launched by the Government f
the very poor families has been a great challenge in this project
• Teachers and guardians have formed a group and taken up issues with ke
players in the relevant departments of the Government for undertakin
remedial measures
• There are many challenges faced by special needs children in the locality
linking with State and Central Government schemes
• For the marginalized population of India, unemployment and globalizatio
have surged child labor, child abuse and various forms of exploitation of th
children, especially young girls
• We are prepared to tackle these challenges with strength for a sha
reduction and prevention of child labor in the coming future
 Achievements
• 60% of 352 families increasing their income by 35 to 40%. They now have
access to basic amenities like healthcare, education, electricity, nutritious
food and clothing. We succeeded in providing vocational training in
computers/beauty resulting in economic empowerment

• 84 Credit Interest Groups(CIG) were formed with 547 members in

different areas in and around Kolkata

• We succeeded in providing a business loan to 547 beneficiaries

• Trade/Businesses included rickshaw/van pulling, establishment of tea shops,

preparing and selling snacks, road side hotels, establishing shops for
selling fish and chicken

• People also engaged themselves in establishing carts for selling vegetables,

fruit, scrap, garments, chappal, jeweler or cosmetics, tailoring, making
bags etc.

• Loan amount disbursement stood at a marvelous, Rs. 1,03,66,004 from

various sources

• A revolving saving group fund, RGF (Revolving Group Fund) created by

the members were able to save Rs. 77,50,558 till Dec 2019
 Current Challenges
• Illiteracy and lack of primary education among beneficiaries
of Tiljala SHED

• Number of adolescents dropping out from school which

prohibits Tiljala SHED to link them to Vocational
Institutions

• These students were unable to meet the criteria set by the

Vocational Institutions

• Women who are incapable of reporting on profit and loss in

business and other expenses due to inexperience, illiteracy
and lack of proper guidance

• The low recovery rate of grants disbursed which were given

to beneficiaries (Initially it was 40% but now reached
98.24%). This is the major challenge due to above
mentioned factors
 Future Plans
➢Livelihood -Income Generating Program (soft loans for establishing and expansion of business including consumption loan)
➢Skill Development & Training Program (Beauty Parlor, Stitching, beads bag making, business development training, etc.)
➢Education & Child Protection (from primary to Higher Secondary Level)
➢Rights & Entitlements (Availing all basic rights including various schemes from the govt., identity and recognition and all
such legal entitlements)
➢Community Library cum Multipurpose Centre for destitute girls
➢Institutional care home for disadvantaged children (boys) (Institutional care Home-Aasra Sadan to be converted into JJ Home
with government support. Government will run the home once another floor is added to the current structure)
➢Survival Strategies: Emergency Food and Medicine
➢Capacity Building of Project staff and beneficiaries
➢Resource Mobilization & Networking: Fund raising, networking, communication, promotional videos, interviews, websites,
brand building, types of fundraising: online & offline, institutional & corporate funding.
➢Research, Study & Documentation
 Projects Assigned by NGO
➢Annual Report for the NGO
➢Sales and Marketing( Promotion Activity ) of the NGO
➢Redesign the RAG pickers program inline with new Government rule
➢Presentation on the work and progress done by the NGO
➢Organizational journey of the NGO
➢Presentation on Educational program that the NGO has initiated
➢Video on Child protection program
➢Field visit of areas and slums which are taken supported by the NGO
➢Taking interviews of children and families living in the slums
➢Taking interviews of workers in a beauty parlour, which is supported by the NGO