Community Outreach

Initiatives

Description

National Service Scheme

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a central scheme under the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India. Its primary goal is to develop the personality of student volunteers through active participation in community service, fostering sensitivity, responsibility, and an awareness of India's socio-economic realities. Some national-level programmes that IHE NSS volunteers participate in include Swachhta Pakhwada, Meri Maati-Mera Desh, Health and Medical Checkups and Cancer Awareness Camps.

NSS IHE community outreach initiatives include flood relief camps, Food distribution drives, collaboration with community networks for sanitary pad distribution, blood donation, awareness and social advocacy on contemporary concerns on girl child, disability and road safety.

Public Health Nutrition Outreach

Empowering Urban Women through Literacy

'The Each one Enable one'for Home Science students is dedicated to imparting functional literacy to disadvantaged adolescent girls and women who have never had the opportunity to attend school. Utilizing literacy primers from the Jamia Literacy Resource Centre, this initiative is supported by faculty from Home Science as part of Development Communication, Extension, and Journalism.Beyond literacy, women also receive needs-based skill training aimed at enhancing their personal and professional lives, often boosting their income-earning potential.

Digital Literacy Training Programme

Considering the need especially for women to be digitally literate since women from the lower socio-economic strata have lower levels of education and low/no opportunities for receiving any kind of training. In 2019, the digital literacy training program was launched by the department of DCEJ. Ever since, more than 140 women have been receiving digital skill training every year by the final year students. Over 140 women were trained in digital literacy in 2021–22. The curriculum includes needs assessment, application selection, training, and instruction utilizing a 100-hour digital literacy module based on a research project funded by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, GOI).

Creating Resource Centres in Schools

Elementary education students at our institution actively participate in pedagogical training by establishing resource centres in nearby MCD schools. Each year, approximately 10 of these centres are established, enriching educational resources and fostering interactive learning environments.

As part of their curriculum, students engage in mandatory internship programmes within government primary schools, gaining practical teaching experience and making meaningful contributions to the neighbouring school community.

Aarambh Child Development Centre

Nestled in the heart of Hauz Khas, our center provides child care and preschool services to neighbouring families and communities. We conduct parent seminars and guidance sessions to support family involvement in early childhood education. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the center adapted by offering online sessions for children, ensuring continued learning and engagement.

In Focus Students Societies @ IHE

CDF

Connecting Dreams Foundation (CDF) aims to address the SDG-based challenges through entrepreneurial action and youth participation. CDF is working largely to utilize the potential of the youth and directing it towards activities that will lead to inclusive social development, enabling the achievement of SDGs. As part of our ongoing project "Sambhav," CDF IHE collaborated with the National Association for the Blind (NAB).

ENACTUS

Enactus IHE, through its community outreach initiatives, is actively contributing towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth by the United Nations. Project Ahar addresses SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) by repurposing surplus whey to create nutritious drinks, project Lehar aligns with SDGs 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation). Enactus promotes gender equality initiatives and educational programmes.

SOPAAN

Sopaan, a student volunteer group of Enabling unit and Equal Opportunity Cell, dedicated to spreading awareness and sensitization regarding matters related to disability and discrimination. Through different activities, this group intends to undertake advocacy on discrimination, inequality and marginalization at institutional as well as social level. workshops for students as well as non-teaching staff of college.

MAITRI

A club on menstrual health and hygiene conducted outreach activities that includes Newspaper Donation Drive to facilitate disposal of sanitary napkins, Storytelling cum Participatory Video Making, Visit to the NGO Goonj, to learn about the production of environment friendly reusable pads are made from waste cloth, Workshop in collaboration with Saukhyam on Menstrual Health and Hygiene

VOICES

The Mental Health Society began with the vision of providing a forum for individuals to share and learn from each other’s experiences and provide emotionally safe spaces. The mission was to connect people and provide opportunities to share their voices and opinions and more importantly share their feelings related to mental health with a perspective to decrease the stigma connected with this and break the stereotypes.

PRAKRITI 

The main focus of the club is to empower the students to participate and take up meaningful environment-related activities or projects for a sustainable future. Some outreach initiatives of Eco club include awareness action on Air and Water Pollution, plantations drive and activities on management of waste.