Annual Report 2016-17 i Annual Report 2016 -17 ii Contents • Executive Summary 3 • About MMC 5 Vision 5 Mission 5 History 5 Our Approach 5 • Our Children 8 Children Reached 8 Migration 9 Length of Stay 9 Linguistic Diversity 9 • Education 10 Enrolment of Children in Schools 10 Strengthening and Enhancing Our Education Programme 13 • Health & Nutrition 18 Health 18 Nutrition 22 • Community Outreach 27 Interactions with the Community 27 Facilitation of the Resources for the Community 29 Interactions with Youth 30 • Training 31 Bal Palika Training 31 Bal Vikas Sahyog Training 33 Puppet Workshops 33 • Our Partners 34 Government 34 Non-profit Organisations 34 Hospitals 35 Builders & Contractors 35 1 • Organisational Development 36 Institutional Strengthening Initiatives 36 Building Capacities of Staff 37 • Travel 38 National 38 International 39 • Governance 40 Our Board 40 Details of Board Meetings 40 • Financials 41 Income & Expenditure Account 41 Abridged Balance Sheet 42 Receipts & Payments 43 Auditors, Legal Advisor & Bankers 44 Registrations 44 Salaries & Benefits 45 • Volunteers 46 Friends of MMC 46 Social Media 46 • Supporters 47 Donations: Individuals 49 Donations & Earmarked Grants: Organisations, Trusts & Foundations 49 Donations & Earmarked Grants: Corporates 50 Donations in Kind 50 • Centres Operated 51 Photographs: Front Cover - Mumbai Mobile Creches & Back Cover - Ms. Shweta Agarwal, Mr. Navin Umaid Chaudhary and Ms. Cornelia Rummel 2 Executive Summary Dear Friends, to parents and the community, benefitting over 9000 people on a wide range of socio- With the close of the financial year 2016-17, economic issues. We further strengthened Mumbai Mobile Creches has completed 44 the quality of our Bal Palika Training years of successfully providing comprehensive programme by creating visual media for care for the children of migrant workers instruction. Additionally, we conducted four who live on construction sites in Mumbai workshops on early childhood development, and its surrounding areas. This year we library programme, puppetry, and the ran twenty Day Care Centres, four Care thematic approach that benefited fifteen other on Wheels – Mobile Bus Centres, eleven organisations. Child Care Centres, and five special projects. We reached a total of 4,132 children with Last year, twenty states of India were an average of 1347 children every month. represented at our centres. Our education Among our greatest triumphs, this year is the programme celebrated this cultural diversity expansion of our builder-partnered Child of migrant communities and our annual book Care Centre model, having eleven centres, week this year was themed ‘Lok Kathayen’, since the launch of this initiative three years or ‘Folk Tales’. We organised our second ago. This extension is part of our effort to annual puppet exhibition on the theme of make construction companies more aware and ‘Ghar Humara Sabse Pyaara’ (Our Beloved responsible towards their workers. We also Home). It was attended by over 900 people. piloted a Community Outreach Programme Our expertise of making puppets out of waste model on three construction sites. material was much lauded during the puppet shows we put up during the exhibition. We are This year has brought some new and exciting happy to inform you that our children won an additions to our programmes. While our award for their art exhibit at the Kala Ghoda health, nutrition and education initiatives Art Festival. continued to facilitate the optimal growth of our children, we hosted our first ever annual In order to ensure early identification and health week designed to intensify outreach on intervention of developmental delays, we health, hygiene and nutrition; to maximise screened children aged six years and younger community participation in public and and provided special attention to those personal health issues affecting them. We also in need. Through the ‘Swasth Bachpan’ organised our first health exhibition, ‘Behind initiative, our teachers congratulated parents the Walls: The Hidden Life of Children on on their children’s health improvements, Construction Sites,’ exposing the challenges ensuring parents would be involved more than our children face to wider audiences. In our ever in their children’s well-being. We trained nutrition programme, we increased fruit a batch of twenty-four women to become servings to our children to five times a week child caregivers and continued to provide and continued to provide eggs six times a refresher training for government and private week. Our teachers used newly developed preschool teachers reaching 98 participants lokdoot scripts to intensify the outreach this year. 3 Our teachers manifest amazing vigour in Freiburg, Germany, for their generous support. their work and we recognise the importance None of this could have been possible of keeping them regularly updated with without our team of teachers, other staff information and skills that meet professional members and volunteers, who have worked standards. We continued our investments tirelessly towards successful implementation in training our teachers to build their of our programmes. I am grateful to the instructional capacities and to equip Board, for their incredible insights and them to meet the needs of our children constant support of our initiatives. more effectively. First aid and fire safety certifications are desirable for day-care As another year comes to a close, we reflect teachers. So, even though getting our teachers on the great strides that we have made as an certified was expensive, we made sure this was organisation and look forward to the coming done because the safety and welfare of our years of hard work and innovation on behalf children is our top priority. We enhanced the of migrant communities throughout Mumbai, capacity of our teachers for the efficient use so that one day every child will have the of technology through computer training and benefit of quality education and a safe, happy English language instruction. childhood. We presented our initiatives and impact at Sincerely, several national and international forums in an effort to continue increasing the visibility of Vrishali Pispati the migrant construction workers’ community. Chief Executive Furthermore, we organised a consultative discussion, ‘Childcare for the Vulnerable Young’, which was attended by various non- profits. We are extremely fortunate to have supporters who believe in our cause. I would like to thank: Asha For Education, Chevron Phillips Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd, Child Vikaas International, Coface India Credit Management Services Pvt. Ltd., Concern India Foundation, Genesis Charitable Trust, GiveIndia, Global Giving Foundation, H.T. Parekh Foundation, Impact Foundation (India), KPMG Foundation, Medusind Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, Owens Corning (India) Pvt. Ltd., Premdhara Strom der Liebe e.V., PNB Housing Finance Ltd., Reliance Foundation, Schindler India Pvt. Ltd., Tata Capital Housing Finance Ltd., Tata Education and Development Trust, The Breadsticks Foundation, The Central Social Welfare Board, United World College of South East Asia, and Verein Mobile Krippen 4 About MMC Vision History A nurturing and happy childhood for all In 1969, Meera Mahadevan picked up children. and soothed a wailing infant on a Delhi construction site. From that spontaneous act, Mission Mobile Creches was born. The organisation branched out to Mumbai in 1972 and in To promote ‘child-friendly construction sites’, the last 44 years has reached over 100,000 where every child living on a construction children in and around the city. Since 2006, site is safe, healthy, educated, and able to Mumbai Mobile Creches has been registered enjoy their childhood. as an independent entity. Teacher Registered Child Care training as an Centre programme independent model designed entity developed 1982 2006 2014 1972 1999 2007 2017 Mobile Over 170 Started Community Creches centres run training Outreach founded in till date women from Programme Mumbai construction model site community piloted Our Approach We are the only organisation in Mumbai, which has consistently worked with construction workers’ children as its primary focus and one of the very few organisations working with children under three years. Our core work is to: • Support the intellectual, emotional and physical development of the very young child, and build a strong foundation for her/his school entry and achievement. • Free older children from the burden of childcare and help them enrol and do well in school. • Empower mothers to enter and/or stay in the workforce while their children are in our care. • Provide guidance and support to parents on children’s rights, health and care and educate them on the importance of child-friendly construction sites. We have developed early childcare programmes which can be replicated anywhere. 5 Day Care Centres Every centre under the Day Care Centre (DCC) 25 centres operated model has a crèche for children under three, a pre-primary section for three to five year olds, 2797 children and an after-school support section for children reached ages six to fourteen. The programme operates for 971 children attended six days a week and includes education, health on average every care, and four nutritious meals and snacks a month day. We help older children enrol and remain in local schools by offering supplemental academic support and providing scholarships. Care on Wheels – Mobile Bus For construction sites with space constraints 4 sites