Smile
Foundation in Brief
Smile
Foundation
Smile Foundation is a national level
development organization reaching out to more than
1 Lakh underprivileged children through various education
and health care projects across 21 states of India.
Social
Venture Philanthropy
Smile follows the model of Social
Venture Philanthropy, an idea successful in the business
world as venture capitalism. Smile identifies, handholds
and build capacities of genuine grassroots NGOs to
achieve scalability and sustainability with a deep
sense of accountability among the non-profits.
Credibility
& Governance
Smile promotes and encourages good
governance to achieve credibility and accountability
in the development sector. Smile endorses Credibility
Alliances norms.
Smile has comprehensive MIS and internal
audit systems.
CSR
& Alliances
Smile Foundation has the privilege
of getting support from more than 70 corporate institutions
besides about 20 national and international institutions
in course of its journey so far.
A few of the organosations, supporting
Smile, include Microsoft Corporation, UPS Inc. USA,
HDFC, HSBC, XANSA, Suzlon Energy, Sandwood Infratech,
ASSOCHAM, CII, CVENT, Canara Bank, NCWCDO –
Canada, to name a few.
Mission
Education
Smile has supported more than 150
basic welfare initiatives in last five year. About
40 basic child education and health care projects
are operational at present.
Smile
on Wheels
Smile on Wheels is a mobile health
care programme which aims to take comprehensive health
care services (preventive, promotive and curative)
for the most underprivileged population in remote
rural areas and urban slums.
At present, the project is reaching
out to 1.5 lakh needy people directly from 200 villages,
with a total population of 5.7 lakh, across 6 states
of India.
Smile Twin e-Learning
Project
This is an innovative employability
programme focusing on underprivileged youth. They
get trainings in skills like English proficiency,
computer operations and personality development etc.
which are in tandem with job market requirement mainly
in retail and service industries.
At present, 38 centres are operational
in 16 Indian states. Smile plans to cover 50,000 youth
in next 5 years.
Students from Smile Twin e-Learning
projects have already been employed with companies
like Café Coffee Day, Westside Stores and Chroma.
Swabhiman:
for Health & Empowerment of the Girl Child
Swabhiman, meaning self respect in
Hindi, is health and empowerment programme for the
girl child. In Delhi alone, it is reaching out to
around 80,000 population. After the success of Swabhiman
since 2005, Smile aims to make Swabhiman a national
phenomenon.
Special
Interventions
Smile Foundation, apart from its
regular programmes, has been taking up four special
interventions for reaching out to the most deserving
children in difficult circumstances. It include Disaster
Management, Individual Support Programme [ISP], Health
with Smile, and You Can Make A Difference [YCMD].
Smile has covered more than 20,000
children directly through its special interventions.
Our
Outlook
Smile Foundation strives to reach
out to 1.5 million children over a span of five years
through sustainable and accountable development initiatives;
and thus emerge as a development organization of international
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