Project Name
Urban Resilience Project in Delhi
Project Location
India
Project Natures
- Urban and Rural Development
- Livelihood Development
Project Objectives
- Providing vocational skills training to teenagers to help them find jobs or become self-employed
- Providing alternative employment opportunities for middle-aged people with financial difficulties
- Teaching disadvantaged poor families their right to social and access to basic health care
- Giving children access to non-formal education
Beneficiaries
Children, young people and adults from underprivileged families
No. of Beneficiaries
3,699
Key Activities
Conducting community baseline surveys
- Developing community awareness and advocacy activities, with a particular focus on people with disabilities and widows, to raise awareness and sensitise the community to the availability of resources
- Supporting the development of income generation activities and providing vocational skills training to enable beneficiaries to start a home-based business
- Engaging young people trained in vocational training and entrepreneurial development as ‘partners.’
- Form community-based organisations to serve the community and hold regular coordination meetings with NGOs and government staff
Project Period
Apr 2021 to Mar 2024
Expenses
Approx. HK$1,232,400
Impact Story
Sabir is 38 years old and lives in the Seemapuri slum with his wife and three children, and is severely disabled due to polio. With his own mobility problems, his wife’s partial disability and the pressure of basic living expenses and the cost of his children’s education, Sabir’s life is very difficult. He uses his limited mobility to pull a rickshaw and do petty trading every day to support his family, and his income is barely enough to cover his daily expenses.
Our front line staff got to know Sabir during a community visit and learned about the plight of his family. They found that Sabir was eligible to apply for the small business fund of the project, so they encouraged him to apply. After Sabir applied, he was granted funding in March 2020. He can expand his small business. Sabir’s daily income has thus increased by 15-20% compared to before.
Sabir is now not only able to meet the basic expenses of his family, but he is also able to pay off his debts and redeem his wife’s precious earrings. ‘I have been ashamed that my wife’s earrings have been in the custody of someone else because of financial constraints, but now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief,’ Sabir said.
Partner Information
Partner Name
The Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR)
Year of establishment
1967
The Year Our Partnership Started
1993
Partner's Mission
- Influencing and educating for good governance.
- Promoting community transformation.
- Engaging in social action responsibility through convergence and collaboration.
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