Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO)

Their services are as follows:

• Education: RSSO started a non-formal education system for children on the streets, ‘Railway Platform Schools’ for vulnerable kids who were not able to attend school due to adverse situations. After enrolling into the Platform Schools the students then get mainstreamed into proper schools with the help of the organization. There are Inclusive Education Programs, Play School/ Balwadis, Creches, Remedial Education focusing on three main subjects- English, Math and Odia provided by RSSO.
• Vocational Training: To contribute to the development of society by gradually eliminating unemployment through provision of employability skills, RSSO started the SMART Training Centre with the support of Tech Mahindra Foundation. Unemployed youth are provided with three months training on Quality computer skills, Yuva English, and Skills for personality development which includes employment professionalism, team work, facing job challenges, setting up and meeting goals.
• Water & Sanitation: With the help of the organization’s Alternative Schools they have reached out to beneficiaries for issues like water scarcity and unsanitary living conditions. So far, they enabled safe drinking water facilities, infrastructure for rainwater harvesting, sustainable toilets, etc.
• Children and Women: RSSO also provides legal services to needy women through their Women Helpline and to children referred by Childline. Children are provided with nutrition, healthcare and immunization.
• Others: Some of the other activities carried out by the NGO involve- HIV Awareness Campagins, Open Shelters for displaced boy and girls in distress, alliance with PACT & Shakti for Child Protection from child trafficking, hazardous work and abuse in four slums of Bhubaneshwar.