Empowering Minds - Society for Research & Development

EM’s initiatives include:

• Education: Empowering Minds is empowering young children through inclusive education which is imparted both as formal and non-formal classes. Children in the age group of 4-16 years are educated in schools based out of Ghaziabad. To motivate and enhance a student’s character, these schools conduct personality development classes and extra-curricular activities apart from traditional educational programs. The school is equipped with facilities such as library art and craft, music and sports to build children according to the present day needs. Besides these, life skills education, workshop on personal hygiene for adolescent girls, counselling & guidance, house visits and parent meetings are also carried out. Children are taken for school picnics and all major festivals too are celebrated. ABV has started providing mid-day snacks (snacks and fruits) as it was observed that many children could not focus due to lack of eating breakfast.
• Mental Health Awareness: Camps are conducted to make people conscious of Hemophilia health issues and bleeding disorders. These awareness drives are carried out in schools, educational institutions, melas (fairs), etc. Individuals affected with life threatening diseases like hemophilia are provided with psychosocial support by Expert clinical Psychologists and social workers through workshops. Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Program is an innovative peer-to-peer skills training program to introduce parents to the tools for handling the realities of raising a child with a bleeding disorder. Awareness sessions and workshops on HIV/AIDs too are conducted.
• Vocational training: Adolescent girls and married women from the community are trained in stitching, tailoring, and beautician courses. Some women from the initial batches have started earning a livelihood by working from home. The life skill training is inbuilt in the vocational skill building program. Girls are given classes on personal health and hygiene under Project Triya.