Category: Community Led Advocacy

Saraniya vas, Narol access to housing

Saraniya Vas is alocality of 350 Saraniya community (de-notified tribe) living 60-70 years in makeshift kind of houses. Women are engaged in waste picking work while male folk used to roam around and sharpen the knives and scissors. Some young people go for catering services and labour work in nearby transport industry. Education level is […]

Sheelaben Tulsibhai Saranya facilitates the process of securing Income Certificates for 20 poor families

Many residents of Saranyavas, Narol, a colony of the DNT community Saranya, have been deprived of their entitlements as they never got their income certificates issued. After this issue was brought up by the leaders and committee members in the community meeting held on the 15th of June, 2022, the (APF) project staff of CfD […]

Safety is a word they never heard of: The Saranya women of Jashodanagar

It has been only a few decades since the Saranyas, a Nomadic community originally from Rajasthan, started settling down. The Saryana Vas in Jashodanagar is one of their settlements, highly crowded, with 350 odd households living in extremely poor housing and inadequate amenities. This settlement is situated next to the GIDC and the Punitnagar Railway […]

Child Help Desk (Child-line 1098)

Title Child Help Desk (Childline 1098) Event Date September 2016 to August 2017 Place Kalupur railways Station in Ahmedabad Categories Help Desk CfD started Child Help Desk at Kalupur Railways Station in Ahmedabad City in collaboration with Childline India Foundation in 2016. This project is a joint venture of Ministry of Women and Child Development and […]