A movement Of people helping people

We believe that, whatever happens in life, no one should be held back from reaching their potential. The Human Safety Net is a global movement of people helping people.Our mission is to unlock the potential of people living in vulnerable circumstances, so that they can transform the lives of their families and communities.

Our Programs

As part of the program under 'The Human Safety Net', We have been focusing on For Families' component and are working with children and engaging them in activities that help them develop their social, emotional and cognitive intelligence. The program extensively works with parents where workshops are conducted for them as the role of parents in early years is most significant as the provider of 'nurturing care.' The workshops conducted include sensitisation, awareness generation, practical demonstration and problem solving. The content of the workshops is reviewed keeping in mind inputs received during the health camps.

The program is also concentrating on upgrading existing Anganwadi centres. It is spread across 80 Anganwadi centres in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. The aim of the project is to have a widespread impact on each centre ensuring holistic development of the child. This include refurbishment, wall painting, provision of storage space, upgrading kitchen facilities, providing mats, weighing scale, sanitation, utensils, water purifier, etc. Along with upgradation, stimulating and relevant education material is also prepared and shared with the Anganwadi centres. The material should be displayed / stored in a manner that makes it accessible to the children. This would encourage children to develop independence in work, learn to make decisions and choices and learn sharing of material

The activities concentrate on improving regular attendance and reducing dropout rates by executing activities among children that work on their language skills and cognitive development. The project also focuses on improving community participation by implementing workshops for parents and caregivers thereby improving their knowledge on various subjects and addressing issues like poor nutrition, pre-school education etc. The impact howsoever from the project has been increased attendance among children, increased capacities of Anganwadi Workers (AWW), structured learning approach and participation from parents and caregivers.

The program with an aim to lay a strong foundation of nurturing care between the parents and children and benefits about 6000+ beneficiaries in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.

Activities covered under the programme are:-

Upgrading anganwadi infrastructure &
teaching learning material

Under this project, upgradation of infrastructure will include refurbishment, wall painting, provision of storage space, upgrading kitchen facilities, providing mats, weighing scale, sanitation, utensils, water purifier, etc. Through this project, a set of good quality educational material will be supplied to the Anganwadi centre. This material will aim to address multiple areas of the child's development - Physical Development, Language Development, Socio-Emotional Development and Cognitive Development.

Maternal and child health camps

The program will focus on conducting health camps aiming to reach all the mothers and children benefitting from the program. The objective of the camp is to identify key health challenges faced by the women and children and work towards the overall improvement of their health

Educational support through a trained
facilitator

This project works to support the Anganwadi workers with a trained resource who will guide and structure the learning opportunities for children.

Capacity building of anganwadi workers

Through the project, the Anganwadi workers would receive training in food safety and hygiene, addressing needs of children at risk of malnutrition and early childhood education.

Nutrition support for children

A concentrated effort will be made to alleviate malnutrition in the Anganwadi centres. An assessment of nutrition status of the children will be done through anthropometric measures. Children who are identified as underweight or undernourished will be tracked and monitored separately. Parents and anganwadi workers will be trained in identifying the needs of these children and addressing nutrition through low cost measures

Parenting workshops & meetings

Parenting workshops are organised in all the centres over a period with an aim to reach out to all the households.

Door to door outreach

In addition to the parenting workshops, the project team will conduct home visits and door to door interaction with the families. This will give the team a chance to observe parent and child interaction in their home environment and provide individualised inputs and support to the parent.

Community gatherings

Twice a year, community gatherings would be organized with the objective of creating mass awareness and developing an ecosystem that supports ECCD.

Mental wellness of mothers

FGII focuses on mental health of parents to improve relationship between parent and child. Main focus of work would be to assess the mental health of would be mothers and mothers who are already a part of the program. Monthly mother club meetings will be conducted to closely look and comprehend the mental health status of the mothers. Recreational activities like yoga, meditation, stress management camps, Counselling sessions and Regular workshops and awareness sessions on dealing with taboo attached with mental health, understanding signs & symptoms etc.

*Anganwadi Centres are rural child care centres in India

*Anganwadi Workers are community based front line workers of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)

*Integrated Child Development Services is a government programme in India which provides food, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their mothers