Smile Foundation India

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Smile Foundation India

• covering miles with Smile

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Smile Foundation - A Brief

• Smile Foundation is a National Level Development
  Organization reaching out to 1 lakh
  underprivileged children youth through 110
  innovative projects on education, healthcare and
  livelihood in 21 states of India
• Founded in 2002
• Group of like minded professionals from fields of
  Management Finance

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Smile in 4 words

• Children
• Education
• Health
• Livelihood

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Genesis

• Why Children?
• Why Education?
• Why Health?
• Why Livelihood projects?

• Future of our nation
• Breaks the vicious cycle of Illiteracy Poverty
  Illiteracy
• Critical aspect of Human life Necessary for
  conducive atmosphere
• Lack of suitable Marketable skills among
  underprivileged
• Inability to get Gainful Employment
• Vicious cycle of Poverty not Breaking

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Smiles Working Model

• Social Venture Philanthropy (SVP)
• Provide seed capital for operations
• Venture capital for expansion
• Monitor the project closely on Accountability,
  Scalability, Sustainability
• Handhold the project till it becomes
  self-sustainable
• Exit Policy

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Present Scenario in India

• Scene at the top
• 53 billionaires, highest in Asia.
• 4th highest in Asia behind USA (469), Russia (87)
  and Germany (59)
• Among worlds ten richest, 4 are Indians

• Scene at the bottom
• 17 million children work as child labourers
• 35 million children do not attend school
• More than 50 children are malnourished

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Some Important Facts

• India has the highest child population of the
  world (
• India should be highest source of Manpower for
  the world in future
• Are we nurturing our children to shoulder this
  onerous responsibility?

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The Way Forward

• Societal development is a peoples issue and not
  just the governments or NGOs concern.
• Act for the welfare of Children

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Smiles Programmes
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Mission Education

• Smile supports 41 NGO partners across various
  states of India providing Non-formal education,
  Remedial Education to underserved children
• These children eventually get mainstreamed into
  formal system of education post 5th class.

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Smile on Wheels

• An outreach mobile health care programme for
  those who either cannot afford healthcare
  facilities or those who do not have access to
  healthcare facilities
• Operational in 7 locations Delhi, Chennai,
  Hyderabad, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Cuttack, Bhilai
• Health check up organized in identified
  communities in a cycle of 25 days
• Reached out to 5 lakh beneficiaries
• Fully Air conditioned Mobile vans equipped with
  X-ray machines, Dark room, Examination Table, ECG
  Machine, Autoclave, First aid kit, Diagnostic kit
  for blood, urine and stool tests, Medicines
  supported by a team of medical and paramedical
  staff

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Smile On Wheels
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Smile Twin e Learning

• Specialized training to impart marketable skills
  to unemployed under-served youth with basic level
  of education (10th or 12th) for gainful
  employment
• Duration of course 6 months
• Eligibility 10th pass and at-least 17 years of
  age at the time of enrolment
• Curriculum English speaking and writing
  abilities, Basic computer skills as per the
  Microsoft Unlimited Potential curriculum, Soft
  skills, Personality Development
• Target Industries Retail, Hospitality Service
  
• Placements Out of 1129 trained beneficiaries 900
  placed in organizations like Café Coffee Day,
  Chroma, Westside stores etc.

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Swabhiman
Aimed to restore self- respect dignity to Girl
Child and Women.
Outreach Approx. One lakh under-privileged
population residing in slums and urban-rural
hinterland of Delhi
Today we have a wide network of 10 Community
Educators 40 Swabhiman Health Volunteers and
15 Male Youth Group who have trained 10,000
adolescents girls
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Why Smile need partners in progress?

• Resources needed to
• To augment the ambit of its programmes
• Extend the benefit to larger number of
  beneficiaries
• Improve the quality of its programmes through
  value additions e.g. Linking up all the centres
  through video-conferencing for better project
  monitoring, adding more facilities in its mobile
  health vans etc.

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Why a corporate should join hands with Smile?

• Smile practices due Dilligence Good governance
• Accountability, Scalability Sustainability are
  the key features of Smiles programmes Projects
• Internal External auditing of all the
  ptrogrammes projects done on a regular basis
• Unlike othe NGOs, Smile does not ask for 100
  Funding support. Seeks partnership in its
  programmes projects.
• 100 utilization of funds in programme
  activities. Smile does not use a part of funds
  received for meeting its admin. Expenses

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Know More About Smile
For details on Smile programme activities
please log on to www.smilefoundationindia.org ww
w.smileglobal.org
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Whom to contact for collaboration Please call Ms
Nilima Sil, Smile CSR Cell, Ph 91 11
41354565/ 66 Ext- 219 Email csr.north_at_smilefound
ationindia.org