Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha (MGVS)

MGVS believes strongly in people’s participation in all its interventions at every stage, whether it is planning, implementation, evaluation or monitoring.

Major programs of MGVS are:

• Healthcare: Its main focus area is HIV/ AIDs control and conducts many programs in this area. Through community events, activities for promoting condom usage, integrated counselling, testing, STD support. MGVS’s Shelter home provides home base care to children affected by HIV and orphans. They get food, healthcare, education and clothing at the shelter. Under the Tobacco Control Program it aims to reduce incidence of smoking in Aurangabad and conducts awareness sessions, rallies, advocacy meets and workshops highlighting the ill effects of tobacco. MGVS also runs a community health center in areas of primary health care, antenatal and post-natal care, immunizations etc. for rural women and children.
• Environment: MGVS has implemented 13,538 hectares of water harvesting structured area for protective irrigation, created awareness about water purity and safety in several villages. Toilets for households were constructed too.
• Education: The Ankur Project of MGVS promotes early childhood education and early childhood care. This initiative works with children below the age of 6, pregnant women and adolescent girls. Free services are provided which include sessions on childhood care and development, preschool education, school readiness skills for mainstream education.
• Poverty Relief Program: MGVS has set up two night care shelter homes for beggars in Aurangabad with the help of Municipal Corporation of Aurangabad. Almost 180 beggars take shelter in these centers on a regular basis where they are provided services like medical care, counselling on drugs de-addiction, mats, beds, toilet and bathroom facility, etc.
• Women Empowerment: Vocational training was imparted to 430 rural women and girls from 60 villages of Aurangabad district with the aim of self -employment. They were trained for beauty parlors, dairy and milk products, bio-waste management, TV repairing and maintenance, electric motor rewinding, cutting and tailoring.