GROUP 6

INDIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

FACULTY GUIDE PROF.SARIKA

JAIN FYMMS B

BATCH 2019-20
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PRESENTED BY:

PRIYANKA SHAKTAWAT 20191012

PAWAN HEDA 20191035

DIVYANSH HIMMATRAMKA 20191048

PRITI JHA 20191111

SHUBHAM RAJPUROHIT 20191130

PRAJWAL UPADHYAY 20191143

KOMAL LONKAR 20191153

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TABLE OF CONTENT

1.1 ORIGIN OF IDF: 3

1.2 VISION: 4
1.3 MISSION: 4
1.3 IDF AWARDS AND RECOGNITION FOR THEIR OWN
SOCIAL WORK: 4
1.4 IDF AWARDS WHICH THEY PROVIDE TO OTHER NGOS : 5
2.1 HEALTH 6
2.2 DEVELOPMENT 8
2.3 EDUCATION 11
A. STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME 11
B. IDF BAL GURUKUL 14
3 .PROJECTS TAKEN BY IDF
4. PRIMARY DATA (TELEPHONIC INTERVIEW)
5. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
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1 INTRODUCTION
In this report we are going to talk about IDF in detail on the basis of
both primary and secondary data .Primary data we have collected on
telephonic interview with IDF volunteer Shankar sir. We had asked him
some prepared question to know about IDF in detail on the basis of his
experience. We have also tried to share our experience in this report with
IDF as volunteer. Secondary data we have collected from various
platform like social media, articles, websites and blogs .In this report we
will cover how IDF was started, what are the reasons for their existence,
their vision and mission, what are their key activities performed by
them, their greatest achievements, IDF contribution to fight for COVID-
19 and important projects taken by them.

1.1 ORIGIN OF IDF: The Foundation was registered as a Charitable

Trust under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 and Bombay Public
Trusts Act of 1950. In response to the national call by our former Prime
Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi to NGOs and public-spirited people to take
up leprosy elimination work, Dr.A. R. K. Pillai, the Founder President,
gathered a few Samaritans and founded Indian Leprosy Foundation. The
important purpose for which Foundation was formed was: To be a
national NGO with focus on leprosy/ TB elimination work and to be a
self-supporting NGO.
India had an estimated 4 million leprosy cases in 1982 with a
prevalence rate of 57 per 10,000 populations. With the active work of
the Union Health Ministry, State Health Ministries, Municipalities and
National and International NGOs, some states have already eliminated
leprosy by now, with prevalence less than 1 per 10,000 population by
March 2005.
India has achieved the leprosy elimination status (Elimination status
means achieving the prevalence rate of less than 1 patient per 10,000
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populations) .Consequent to the drastic reduction of leprosy cases in

India and leprosy elimination in several states, it was felt suitable by the
Board of Trustees to diversify and renamed as Indian Leprosy
Foundation as Indian Development Foundation (IDF). Proposals were
made to Govt. and the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai has approved the
change of name and the diversified roles. Thus, IDF came into existence
on 1st April 2005. IDF is working with over 80 partners; including
governments, multilaterals, corporates and civil society organizations.
1.2 VISION: IDF vision is to create a better India which provides basic
health, education and empowerment to every citizen.
1.3 MISSION: IDF vision is to be a Knowledge/ Execution Partner of
Schools, NGOS, Corporates, and Government agencies for development
programme across India.
1.3 IDF AWARDS AND RECOGNITION FOR THEIR OWN
SOCIAL WORK:
1) "I compliment Dr. A. R. K. Pillai and his team from the Indian
Leprosy Foundation for giving out financial grants to leprosy projects
out of the funds generated by the Foundation. It's a virtue to give and the
Foundation deserves Compliments". -Mother Teresa (09/01/1993)
2) "Professor's life is dedicated to work of eradicating leprosy from
India."- The Tribune, USA (31/03/1993)
3)"Hope on the horizon."- The Hindu (03/12/2001)
4)"Instilling hope in lives of the less fortunate."- The Times of India
(03/01/2007)
5)"A soldier for society." The Indian Express (19/o5/2008)
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1.4 IDF AWARDS WHICH THEY PROVIDE TO OTHER NGOs :

1) IDF Mother Teresa Memorial Award
2) IDF Karmayogi Award
3) IDF Best Partner Award
4) IDF Dynamic Supporter Award
5) IDF CSR Award
6) IDF Social Action Award
7) IDF Social Ambassador Award
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2 .KEY FOCUS AREA

2.1 HEALTH
A. pH12 - The Dignity Project
 Menstruation and menstrual hygiene are taboo topics in India.
About 52% of the female population is of reproductive age and
most of them are menstruating every month. Besides the health
problems due to poor hygiene during menstruation, the lack or
unaffordability of facilities and appropriate sanitary products and
social stigma may push menstruating girls temporarily or
sometimes permanently out of school, having a negative impact on
their right to education.
B. #MissionOneMillion
 #MissionOneMillion under their Dignity Project is to support one
million girls and women across India for menstrual hygiene
management throughout the year.
 IDF Dignity Project is to create awareness about menstrual
hygiene and provide sanitary pads/kit for a year to the needy
students free of cost, to ensure that the needy students don't fall
short of facilities to have a happy period. The Dignity Kit
contains - sanitary pad for the whole year, undergarments, toilet
soap, detergent soap, towel and a cloth bag.
C. Health Awareness
i. Tuberculosis Awareness: TB is a killer disease and India has
about one third of patients over the world. It is estimated that there
are about 14 million TB cases in India with an annual infection rate
of 5 lakh patients and about 1000 patients dying everyday. NGOs
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and private practitioners in the National TB Control Programme is

of vital importance as a good proportion of patients seek treatment
from them. The Programme encourages participation of NGOs &
private practitioners in programme implementation.
ii. Leprosy awareness: Leprosy is a grossly misunderstood disease
over the generations. A potentially crippling disease, it is also a
visible ailment. Unlike other diseases, social stigma arising out of
fear, ignorance and superstitious beliefs create barriers in
detection, treatment and cure of leprosy. Some Important points to
remember and awareness created by IDF for elimination Leprosy
were are as follows:

 Leprosy is caused by a germ and not by curse of gods.

 A pale or red patch on the skin may be leprosy. Do consult a

Doctor.
 Leprosy is not hereditary
 Leprosy is completely curable with regular treatment.
 Leprosy is like any other disease and it is least infectious.
 Early detection and regular treatment prevent deformities and
disabilities.
 Leprosy patients can live at home and do normal work while under
regular treatment.
 Do not isolate leprosy patients. Accept them in the family and
community

D. IDF contribution to fight for COVID-19 - IDF mission

warriors:66k meals in 9 days (09-04-2020)
 Mission Warriors in Action for the Food Distribution at
Ambujwadi, Malwani, Mumbai (09-04-2020) - 10000 individuals
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received food on day 9.Thus reaching a total of 66000 meals in 9

days.
 IDF also thanks to MGL, Reliance Group, Rotary International and
Iskcon Annamitra Foundation for sponsoring meals with rhythmic
regularity. The distribution is managed by Indian Development
Foundation (IDF) with the help of Principals/ Teachers / Social
Ambassadors from Malwani who go to every family and have the
khichidi distributed through volunteers.
 IDF is also daily supplying food through (1) Community Kitchen
serving 500 meals at St Mathews School (2) Support for 2000
meals a day from Mrs. Pinkky Rajgarhiya Founder of Chingari
Shakti Foundation (3) Support for 150 meals from Mantra
Foundation (4) Support 1200 labourers at Hyderabad through
Iskcon Annapurna programme.
2.2 DEVELOPMENT

A. Women empowerment -Sarva Sakhi Swabhiman

 “If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you

educate a woman you educate an entire family”, by Mahatma
Gandhi. Though India is developing economically and
technologically by leaps and bounds, women here still continue to
be discriminated. Women too should be allowed to study and work
and should be made aware of their role in the support and safety of
their family. A large section of women in India, both in rural and
urban slums need to be educated and empowered.

 Jawaharlal Nehru said “You can tell the condition of the nation
by looking at the status of women”. As the first step, Indian
Development Foundation launched its first women empowerment
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programme at Hyderabad in collaboration with Centre for Social

Service. A group of women were presented with tailoring machine
and embroidery machine. Now the project has taken good shape
and the trained women are able to make products which can help
them to generate income for their livelihood.

 IDF in its next step is going ahead in educating the women in

urban slums, particularly parents of the children studying in IDF
Bal Gurukuls. The programme is designed to suit the home-
makers as it will help them to get acclimatized with their wards
education.
PHASE 1
- Women Education - Reading and writing in mother tongue.
- Making them understand on the importance of education and wards
performance.
- Soft skills/ mannerism/ nursing/ parenting/ basic etiquettes
- Work from home - To prepare food, chapattis, pickles, dry masala
powder, stitching, embroidery, Incense (agarbatties), candle making
etc.
- Health awareness and cleanliness drive for a hygienic living.

PHASE 2
- English speaking course
- Financial literacy (bank related and savings)
- Social awareness
- Computer skills

IDF plans to take the women empowerment course to various cities and
villages in India.
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LIST OF IDF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMMES -

PROJECT S3 IN INDIA.

1. IDF CSS NAM Women Centre, Hayat Nagar, Hyderabad.

2. Nalgonda Youth Positive Society, Nalgonda
3. Ashirwad IDF Kuttu Shikshana Kendram, Nalgonda
4. St. Thomas Marthoma Women Centre, Pathanwadi, Mumbai
5. Rajaram Sheth Women Centre, Bhandup, Mumbai
6. Prarambh Sarva Sakhi Swabhiman, Batta Basti, Jaipur
7. Sarthak Women Empowerment Centre, Ramgarh, Jaipur
8. Indira Gandhi Women Empowerment Centre, Ethumakkandi, Nilgiris
9. Ethaiman Women Empowerment Centre, Denalai, Nilgiris
10. Computer Training Centre, Somanahalli
11. Divya Gyan Women Empowerment Centre, Canacona, Goa
12. Savitribai Phule Training Centre, Sadar Block, Pakardar, Basti, UP

B. SKILL DEVELOPMENT

IDF offers the following "Skills" under its Skill Development Portfolio.
For the purpose of brevity, these skills may be classified as under:

Soft Skills: It may be defined as “Personal Attributes” that enhance an

individual's interactions, job performance and career prospects.
Employability skills: These skills have to be learned by every
employable graduate including fresher. These skills include team work,
communication, leadership, problem solving, flexibility and enthusiasm.

Life Skills: These skills are related to the head, heart, hands and health
i.e. highly personal and behavioral skills which reflect our personality
and naturally help in personality development.
IDF actively conducts trainings and workshops to make the youth more
employable. They have highly skilled trainers from different industries
and background to impart the required skill set.
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2.3 EDUCATION
A. STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
Indian Development Foundation (IDF) organizes a training workshop
for school students. The programme, Student Leadership Programme
(SLP) is a power-packed programme. 4 days of life-skill training and the
fifth day are for certificate presentation to all the students. They go to
colleges and students who have passion in teaching students join hands
with them and strengthen SLP. IDF want to encourage more people to
be volunteers so as to be part of this national movement.
The volunteers are trained in two/ three sessions and they are called
Mentors. The mentors are later assigned the task in different schools
which is co-ordinated by IDF. The school project is mostly closer to the
Mentor's location to save travel time. I Priti Jha was also part of this
project in March, 2018 during my third year Bachelor of Management
Studies. After participating in this programme I also got one year
volunteer card as IDF member .We were given training in which we
were taught how to handle fear and anger, to manage our time
efficiently, to work in team, how to face problems, how to be initiative,
how to be motivated, how to build your confidence, led by example,
help others and we were also briefed on how to give training to students
which developed a great sense of confidence within us.
This program was totally designed to benefit students: Strengthen their
Foundation, transform their life, become fearless and confident,
Contributes back to Society, become emotionally balanced and strong,
build confidence and leadership skills in them. Some of the topics
covered for the SLP training were Personal SWOT analysis, personality
development ,time management skills, handling fear/ anxiety, building
confidence, handling rejection / defeat, goal setting ,anger management,
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Health & Hygiene, Public Speaking / Communication skills, emotional

development, overcoming stubbornness, positive thinking, positive
attitude, general knowledge, leadership skills.
We started session with a small meditation called „Affirmations
Meditation „for 10 min.‟ we emphasized them to do this meditation in
every session and we told them to practice it at home too. Videos were
shown to students and lessons learnt from Video were how Initiative is
important, we should be ready to face problems and not run away from
them, we should help others and Unity is strength. We played buddy
games in which students were paired and asked to write about each other
and read it loudly so that everyone can hear clearly. This was the most
important part of the program as it was the first step towards reducing
their fear and anxiety and also the first step towards public speaking.
There were some students who hesitated and fumbled. We helped them
by encouraging them to speak.
While training activities we performed were time management games,
analyze how you spend your time daily to help you make changes and
manage your time more effectively. We used to end our sessions with
prayers. There were many more activities which were done to train
students apart from their daily curriculum.
Student days are the most important part of upbringing in one‟s life.
Indian Development Foundation (IDF) has been constantly supporting
and striving for the development of the students. For this, IDF has
developed a training programme to focus on the basics and qualitative
skill development. The course will focus on the development of the
student‟s traits which would lead them to be well-versed and informed.
IDF wants every student to be a better individual.
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B. IDF BAL GURUKUL

Education is of prime importance and it is one of the flagship
programme to education for underprivileged. IDF BAL Gurukul projects
are a success proven sustainable development model. It was started 10
years ago .IDF in its diversified objectives has included village
development and education programme into its fold. Education
programme is the growth point for village development too.
In a way, it provides an opportunity for the children to guide their
parents on what they have learnt. There are many first time school-goers
in a family. In such cases, the parents are not able to guide their wards
on education matters. There are families who with great difficulty send
their children to government schools. Those of whom are capable
monetary-wise provide their wards with tuition facilities. However, there
are still several children attending schools but do not get proper
educational guidance at home. First generation Bal Gurukuls completed
is of class X. IDF promotes right to "right education". IDF focus is on
continuous improvement .Its target is to teach 25000 students by 2022.
IDF currently has 245 Bal Gurukuls in India. Indian Development
Foundation (IDF) has found a method to remove this barrier by opening
up `Empowerment Programmes' OR `Bal Gurukuls‟ in India. From a
humble beginning of 50 students in a tribal area of Karjat in Maharashtra
and Langadiyawas village in Rajasthan, IDF now covers over 15000+
students in India under this empowerment programme/ Bal Gurukuls.
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3.PROJECTS TAKEN BY IDF

I. PROJECT AASHAAYEIN
 Project Aashayein – A Ray of Hope “is dedicated to reach-out
underprivileged kids who will be facilitated with books and
stationary materials for their education during the start of academic
year. The objective is to promote the importance of education so
that these kids do not dropout from schools and complete their
education.
 We do remember our childhood days when at the start of each
academic year, we run to the nearby shop with parents to buy new
books, textbooks, stationery. But there are countless kids who are
deprived of this basic need for their education. Can something be
done for them? Project Aashayein is the answer. Project
Aashayein was kick-started in 2014-15 supporting 77 kids and so
far reached over 20000 students. The target for 2019-20 is 25000
students.
 How company help IDF in this initiative?
1. Pledge a child for stationery kit. Each kit costs only INR.500/-
2. Donate X no. of Notebooks, X no. of Pencils, X no. of Pens.
II. MENSURAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT
PROJECT
 Although, Mensuration is a normal biological process yet beliefs
and superstitions regarding menstruation have led to a culture of
silence. Talking about menstruation is considered taboo and girls
are uncomfortable to openly discuss what is perceived as a private
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and an unclean affair in rural areas. Often, adolescent girls have no

credible source of information to educate themselves on menstrual
hygiene management.
 A study of 2013 with respect to knowledge, attitude, practices and
norms related to mensuration among adolescent girls revealed that
83% of girls were completely unprepared for first menarche
resulting their first experience of menstruation is of shame, fear,
horror, agony or sin. The study also revealed that more than 96%
of girls use cloth which is not properly washed and dried in
sunlight, resulting in repeated infections while 59% missed their
schools on account of mensuration in Vaishali and Nalanda
District (Bihar).
 IDF in partnership with UNICEF embarked a project on “
Promoting Young Adolescents Reproductive Health Initiative” to
break the culture of silence around menstruation and create an
environment which directly impacted the lives of 198911
adolescent girls by focusing upon educating them, capacity
building of 3780 Frontline workers, environment-building through
stakeholder engagement specially mothers of adolescent girls,
SHG members and Middle and high school teachers in 1049
villages in Vaishali and Nalanda district.
 The project was implemented in two phases with an intention to
reduce embarrassment around menarche, to understand the
importance of mensuration & menstrual hygiene and to promote
and maintain the behavior of using properly clean and dried in
sunlight cloth/ sanitary napkins during menstrual cycle among
adolescent girls.
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III. GIRL FIRST AN ADOLESCENT CHILD

 WHO defines health as -a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity and points out that adolescence is the period in human
growth and development that occurs after childhood and before
adulthood, from ages 10 to19.
 IDF implemented an action research project in 40 schools of 2
blocks in Patna district to test Girls .First effect on overall „quality
of life‟ in physical, psychological, social and educational domains,
a multi- arm cluster-randomized controlled action. The aim was to
demonstrate that when the girls are provided with the „Girls First‟
emotional resilience curriculum along with the health curriculum
the former will add value and show better outcomes.
 In rural Bihar, girls face high rates of gender-based violence and
are often forced to drop out of school and marry by age 14. At
present, more than 3,000 at-risk adolescent girls are completing
Girls First, a peer support-group program, empowering them to
improve their mental and physical health, prevent early marriage
and pregnancy, and advocate for their education and health rights.
 More than 3000 schoolgirls have gone through the process of 24
sessions by a well-trained program facilitators who take sessions in
facilitation mode in the schools of Maner and Bihta blocks of
Patna.
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4. PRIMARY DATA (TELEPHONIC INTERVIEW)

QUESTION ASKED TO MR SHANKAR SIR VOLUNTEER OF

IDF
1. What incident influenced you to set up this organisation?
2. What are the transparency and accountability or Governance
mechanisms in place here?
3. How do you manage and run your organisation?
4. How you manage the people/staff function over here?
5. What is your compliance record over the last 3/5 years?
6) What is your contribution to overcome this pandemic?
7) What are the key indicators by which u measure the impact?
8) What are your main project that u have taken can u tell us little about
it?
9) Who are the NGOS in the same space or in general whom you
consider as role models or benchmarks?
10.) What are the creative and innovative things that you have done in
the last 3 years?
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Ans 1: At the age of 14 Dr.A. R. K. Pillai ran away from his house.
Frustrated he stayed at Bombay Dadar station for 3 days without eating
patient affected by Leprosy helped him. That inspired him lot and he
became a big director at the age of 39. He had completed his education
from USA. Epidemic was widely spread in 1985.Leprosy was main
thing 35 years ago more than 1 million people suffered from it .He
wanted to do something to eradicate this Leprosy and he opened a NGO
with a name India Leprosy Foundation. After the eradication in 2005
this was later renamed as Indian Development Foundation (IDF) so that
they can take other activities as well. At Andheri Birla center there are
135 bed specialists for Leprosy.
Ans 2: They have Foundation day which is celebrated in every state like
Bangalore, Chennai, and Mumbai etc. whatever donation comes they
handover in front of donor which create transparency. They are
accountable due to their activities performed by them as they are the
oldest NGO in the country. They have all deduction and certificates. In
front of donor‟s accounts and audit are maintained.
Ans 3: IDF has offices in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bangalore.
Dr. Narayan is a national coordinator. There are 7 trustee altogether, 47
people working with them and have volunteer who join willingly to
serve. For example: In Student Leadership programme volunteer are
trained who further train students.
Ans 4: 80/20 people is at top level. With respect to project, account and
ground line South is handle by CEO Franklin, Pondicherry by
Sanjay Ram through field, call, target monitor, by given proper
monitor letter and PF deduction on time.
Ans 5:100 % Income Tax returns on time no issues.
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Ans 6: During these pandemic IDF is helping more than 1 lakh people
daily. They have named these as Mission Warriors who are in
action for food distribution at Ambujwadi, Malwani, Mumbai. Dry
Ration kit is distributed to 200 families/daily wage
labourers/migrants workers at St. Mathew‟s school. Dry Ration
kits include 5 kg rice,5 kg Atta(wheat flour),2 kg Daal,1 liter
cooking oil and 1 kg salt.
Ans 7: Their key indicator is their special project success which helps
them in evaluating impact. Some special project like BAL Gurukul
which is floodship programme for education, Student Leadership
Programme, provide basic amenities to widow.
Ans 8: Main projects taken by IDF are Eradication of Leprocy,Bal
Gurukul,StudentLeadershipPrograme,Youth leadership Programme
,Personal hygiene 12 for girls and Karwa Swach Abhiyan.
Ans 9:According to Shankar sir Pratham NGO who work for quality
education to the under privileged in India,Acharya Vinova Bhave
NGO they are role model for Lepracy,municipal school teachers
who engage classroom can be the benchmark for IDF as they are
in same line.
Ans10:Some of the creative and innovative project done by IDF are :

 P-H 12 personal in which 500 pads for 1 year was distributed and
they have done tie up with organizations who distribute pads.
 Waste To Knowledge (WTK)-this was one of the novel idea in
which they created awareness not to throw newspaper .IDF will
collect these newspaper & sell and collected money will be used
to educate students in Bal Gurukul.
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 E-Waste collection- monitor, keyboards and other electronic

gadgets were collected which can be reused and recycled by other
organizations.

5. CONCLUSION

 To conclude we had a great opportunity to know about IDF in

detail .In this project we learned a great deal about how we should
interact with the various authorities and also we learned a lot
about how an NGO works and deliver to the society but the most
impactful lesson of all was how various people react to the social
cause and how we can change the perception of people to do their
part for the benefit of society even if they are rigid to help
financially by using other resources such as their time and their
knowledge.
 The NGO‟s visionary direction being so clear and focused and our
knowledge of new CSR helped us to study in detail. The fact that
one can potentially work for a large NGO with programs and
delivery in a large number of countries in different parts of the
world gives us the opportunity to see how our particular
approaches to business work in different contexts. NGOs support
a sustainability-related major; a sustainability-related NGO can
help a student add a component of sustainability to a major in any
field.
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REFERENCEES

 http://www.idf.org.in/
 https://www.fueladream.com/home/campaign/8859
 http://idfngo.org/otherpage.php?page_code_no=10
 http://www.idf.org.in/skill-development.html
 https://www.facebook.com/223971560970231/posts/3188584
227842268/?substory_index=0&app=fbl
 IDF Shankar Sir- +91 98920 99900