Khwabgah is a holistic educational development project for the most vulnerable children in partnership with the Education Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Khwabgah was born in 2012 in the slums of Taimur Nagar to restore the dignity and nurture aspirations and dreams of underprivileged children.
This was an initiative to help children dream and develop self-confidence and capabilities. Khwabgah Centres provide a safe environment for children to grow and learn by focusing on education, health, nutrition and life skills.
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What We Do
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Academic Improvement– use innovative, child friendly and creative tools for enhancing student engagement and learning -
Life skills development – equip students with information and skills to lead a safe and healthy life -
Co-curricular activities – promote holistic development through art, music and sports -
Academic support – provide educational kits, learning material, mobile phones etc. -
Infrastructure upgradation and maintenance of the school
Our Trainings
- Life Skills
- Growing Up
- Responsible Behaviour
- Substance Abuse
- Peer Pressure and Bullying
- Child Sexual Abuse
- HIV/AIDS
- Gender Sensitization
- Safe Touch and Unsafe Touch
- Nutrition
- Health and Hygiene
- Bullying
- HIV/AIDS and Sexual health
- Stress Management
- Gender Sensitization and POSH
- POCSO Awareness
Our Reach
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Over 8735 children have benefitted from the Khwabgah initiative -
Khwabgah’s community outreach program has reached out to over 3.6 lakh underprivileged people -
The Foundation has worked with and brought about change in 6 schools -
Currently over 4500 children are directly receiving the benefits of our services
Our Impact
57% – 16% – Reduced the number of children in the ‘underperforming category’ from 57% at the beginning of the session to 16% by the end of the academic year
1st & 2nd – The schools have secured 1st and 2nd position at the Zonal-level sports competitions
3130 – The schools in Jasola have won the award for the highest enrollment in the district because of our interventions. The current enrollment for the two schools is 3130
No.1 – The school in Jasola was awarded the Best School Award by erstwhile SDMC
⇑ – Parents are transferring their children from private schools to our schools resulting in high demand and over crowding
A Snapshot
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- Sports Day in MCD School Jasola
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- MCF Academic Facilitators teaching in MCD School Jasola Boy
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- Bag and Educational Kit Distribution to celebrate 25 years of MCF
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- Mr Modi Distributing Mobile Phones to Students of MCD School, Jasola
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- Activity with students at MCD School, Noor Nagar
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- Book Distribution at Khwabgah, Jasola
KHWABGAH
Khwabgah was born in the slums of Taimur Nagar in 2012, to nurture aspirations and accord dignity to underprivileged children. It is the lives of these children that Khwabgah wanted to focus on. We dedicated ourselves to mainstreaming these children by rescuing them from human trafficking and other adversities. We wanted to provide them with a safe environment, where their talents could be encouraged and their true selves could thrive. For this, we decided to collaborate with the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
In 2015, thus, Khwabgah transitioned into a formal and institutionalized framework through partnership with four SDMC for an intensive and extensive engagement, to improve the quality of education, which was critical to mainstreaming these children.
Location of Khwabgah Projects : Slums of South Delhi
We partner with
- Women and men in the communities
- MCD/local schools
- Hospitals
- Local dispensaries
- NGOs
- Community Leaders/Pradhans and Police
We address
- Educational Issues
- Empowerment Issues
- Socio-economic Issues
- Health & Nutrition Issues
- Community Issues
We Promote
- Education & Extra Curricular Activities
- Healthy Living
- Developing Life Skills & Leadership
- Community Participation & Action
What do we do?
Facilitate positive changes in the lives of underprivileged children through multipronged activities.
We nurture creativity through
Theatre, Art & Crafts, Sports, Dance, Music, Library Facilities, Exposure Visits & Capacity Building Workshops.
We work with:
Children living under difficult circumstances (4 years and above) specially rag pickers and out of school children.
Khwabgah Impact
Our Educational & Health Programmes have helped:
Improvement in health & nutritional status
- Weight & Height Gain
- Improved retention
- Better sanitary habits
- Stronger immunity
Behavioral Change
- More confident, decisive and independent
- Improvement in team work
- Decrease in aggression and other antisocial activities
- Helpful, respectful, punctual and disciplined
Educational Improvement
- Drop out rate and absenteeism substantially down
- 90% of children have shown improvement in school
- Families taking interest in ward welfare
- 70% children pursue co-curricular activities
Leadership & Community Service
- Campaigns on hygiene, literacy & gender equality
- Majority of the children now attend school
- Improved civic services
- Community pressure groups
