ORGANIZATION RECORD

 

Location: India

Website: http://www.smsfoundation.org/

Mission: Our mission is to strengthen community-led development initiatives to achieve positive social, economic, and environmental change across rural India

Year Founded: 1999

Preferred method of contact: Stay tuned

Project Information:

• Availability for Summer 2017: Sehgal Foundation can host and facilitate 2 Nourish groups during one summer. Currently partnering with UF and NC State/Vanderbilt.
• Future Project Ideas: Sehgal Foundation seeks to expand its Life Skills Education Program for adolescent girls to more villages in rural India. The program would provide technical skills training, including stitching skills, as well as a 4-5 month curriculum on life skills, including reproductive health education, communication skills building and more. Nourish students would help establish this program in 1-3 villages through participating in meetings with local government officials and parents and through facilitating some sessions for attendees. The purpose of the program is to increase the ability for adolescent females to participate in the governance and community where they live.
• Skills:
  • Experience/coursework pertaining to gender studies or gender inequity
  • Knowledge of health (specifically relating to adolescent females and development)
  • Education and other skills
  • It is helpful to read Sehgal Foundation’s book(s) for more information before the project.
• Accommodations: On Sehgal Foundation complex
• Reported Cost to Interns:
  • Program in-country costs (reported by partner): $130 per student per travel day, to cover travel and food
  • Average Total costs (reported by interns – includes airfare, accommodation, visas, vaccinations, spending money, etc. : $2,025
  • Range of reported intern total costs: $1,600-$2,500

 

Partnership History:

• Summer 2016
  • Chapters: North Carolina State and Vanderbilt
    • Project: Mentored young girls and empowered them through literacy and vocational skills, training them to read, write and sew.
    • Investment: $4,000
    • Project team: 3 interns
  • Chapter: University of Florida
    • Project: Promoted sanitation and hygiene awareness, and facilitate the implementation of toilets in two rural villages in the Mewat District of India.
    • Investment: $4,000
    • Project team: 3 interns
    • Project Blogs

• Summer 2015
  • Chapter(s): University of Tennessee-Knoxville and University of Florida
  • Project: The students worked with the women village council members and members of the village health, sanitation, and nutrition committees to implement a project focused on sanitation and toilet construction. They also created informational and educational materials to spread awareness about the campaign and related issues.
  • Investment: $4,000
  • Project team: 5 interns

Media

University of Florida 2016