SEVA BHARATHI

VAIDEHI KISHORI VIKAS YOJANA

Meenalakshmi. VA & Shreya Ronanki

www.sevabharathi.org
contact@sevabharathi.org
 Seva Bharathi is a not-for-profit organization that came into existence in 1989. It is
working on providing education, health, social equity, and empowerment to
the needy. With over 50,000 volunteers and 2400 service activities, Seva Bharathi
has successfully grown into an expansive network across Telangana.

OUR MISSION IS TO CHANNELISE EFFORTS INTO ORGANIZED MOVEMENT TO

COMBAT POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND ILLITERACY

- Seva Bharathi

In 2005, Seva Bharathi launched the Vaidehi Kishori Vikas Yojana to work for the
physical and mental upliftment of adolescent girls. . Since 2014, it has expanded to
several districts of Telangana by setting up adolescent development centers,
health care Basthis and more. It presently consists of 231 centers and 163 Basthis
in 46 villages.

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 PROJECT
KISHORI VIKAS

ABOUT
231
VIKAS CENTERS
The Kishori Vikas project started in the
year 2005 with an aim to educate
adolescent girls of marginalized groups
by educating them and providing them
with vocational training as well as
informing them about culture and
health. The Kishori Vikas team works 46
VILLAGES
with a selected number of slums across
Telangana. A Nirvahik, who is a student/
teacher/ homemaker from the particular
group is selected to mentor the girls in
their area. Community centers are
established in these areas and the
Nirvahiks support the girl students in
their education, vocational training, and
163
BASTHIS
raise their cultural and health awareness
for around 2.5 hours per day. Centers
also appoint Paryaveshiks (monitors of
centers) and Samavayakartha (co-
ordinators) Presently, The KVK team has
successfully managed to set up 130
Kishori Vikas centers across Telangana, 5775
with 231 Nirvahiks, 39 Paryaveshiks, and KISHORIS
15 Samavayakarthas.

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 PROJECT
KISHORI VIKAS

CATEGORIES HYDERABAD SECUNDERABAD CYBERABAD

AREAS
97 38 48

BASTHIS 16 39 48

KV CENTERS
107 44 80

M.MANDAL
20 9 3

B.CENTER
3 2 1

T.V. CENTER
4 3 1

B.S CENTER
98 40 38

Where K.V. center - Kishori Vikas Kendra; B.S. center - Bala Samskara Kendra; M.
Mandal - Matru Mandals; B. center - Bhajana Mandals; T.V. center - Taruni Vikas Kendra

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 CHALLENGES IN
2020
2020 has been a particularly challenging year because of the reduced mobility of team
members, volunteers, and more. Not only has a need for health awareness shot up, but
students have also been forcibly pushed into distance education as the only option of
schooling, many independent workers have lost jobs and their means of livelihood and it
has been an overall difficult year for all communities. However, these effects hit especially
hard on the disadvantaged groups who lack the information and resources to maintain
their families. However, the KVK team adapted to the restrictions that came with the
pandemic and were able to reach over 4934 families in 158 locations in the year 2020.

5775+ Kishoris
educated
through online sessions

285+ volunteers
1456+ masks and 65+
participated in the
sanistisers distributed
program

2425+ families with 650+ food packets

ration kits distributed

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 HEALTH

The Vaidehi Kishori Vikas Yojana has worked with gynecologists to provide health
advice to adolescent girls along with teaching them basic treatments and home
remedies to treat mild sicknesses like fever, cough, headache, diarrhea, and
vomiting. This helps make them self-sufficient and benefits their families as well
by allowing them to treat minor ailments by themselves. Besides these, doctors
from Gandhi Hospital, Apollo hospital, and more have set up camps for them as a
place to conduct tests and prescribe treatments for other health issues. KVK has
also acquired 71 trained yoga teachers with certificates provided by the Telangana
State Government. These teachers, by conducting free yoga classes in their local
areas have also been financially supported.

2020 was a particularly challenging year due to the pandemic. The KVK team
extended support to the underprivileged communities by distributing various
safety kits, medicines, and health advice as needed. During the period of March
2020 - September 2020, more than 700 safety kits were distributed to women for
personal hygiene at the Bollaram and Shaikpet slum areas with the help of NASCO
and Vivekananda Foundation. A preventive Covid-19 homeopathy medicine was
also distributed at Hyderabad, Secundrabad, Cyberabad, and Rangareddy clusters
by volunteers to about 31,460 families. The medicine successfully reached
1,55,000 individuals. The KVK team also conducts monthly health camps called
Basthis for free in several areas. Down below are some photos of patients and
volunteers at the Basthi at MG Nagar, Shaikpet Nala.

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 EDUCATION

The KVK team works towards educating

adolescent girls from underprivileged
communities where education is always the
second priority. Especially when it comes to
females, families are not encouraged to
educate their daughters for countless reasons.
Poverty, cultural norms, a lack of safety, and
extreme discrimination of girls in formal
education discourage families from schooling
them.

The wide gap between the literacy rates of females and males in India is a deep sociological
problem. The KVK project tackles this issue by setting up centers in various marginalized
communities and educating adolescent girls (school-going as well as dropouts) in various
disciplines. They pick a mentor (called Nirvahik) from the particular community and set up a
center to help these 10-18-year-old girls with their education for about 2.5 hours a day. Even
during the pandemic, the Kishori Vikas volunteers conducted online reading, speaking,
writing, and art & craft sessions for around 5775 adolescent girls. More than 70 young
volunteers also participated in a 15-day entrepreneurship development program conducted
by CIMSME which aimed to help women develop skills to enter the entrepreneurial field.

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 VOCATIONAL
TRAINING

With an aim to empower women by reinforcing their position in society, The Kishori
Vikas project also provides vocational training to girls from the slums and low-income
areas. They are trained in hand embroidery, loom work, textiles, and making
decorations like candles, glass, jewelry, and more. Vocational training is an essential
part of the Kishori Vikas project because it directly tackles the issue of making young
women financially independent. Particularly in lower-income areas, young girls are not
formally educated, lack awareness on basic life skills, and are pushed into early
marriages, thereby making them even more vulnerable and financially dependent on
others. Teaching these young girls the ways of the world and guiding them to earn for
themselves in the future and protect themselves from oppression is crucial for their
prosperity and for enhancing the quality of life of such communities in the generations
to come.

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 CULTURE

Culture is an important part of the Kishori Vikas program as it plays a role in the
personality development of the Kishoris. Educating them through slokas, poems, songs,
and art helps instill certain moral and ethical values in them. Kishoris are also trained in
Karate (Niyuddha) which is a helpful skill for self-defense.

Several festivals like Diwali, Independence Day, and more are celebrated through dance
performances, skits, and other cultural activities. Through these events, girls learn the
importance of values such as teamwork, discipline, cooperation, and more. Participation
in extracurricular activities can help a great deal in the all-round development of a child
and prepare them for situations in the real world.

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 INSPIRING
STORIES

1.TEJITHA'S STORY
Tejitha is a Kishori from the Laxmiguda KVK center.
She is an avid artist who started learning drawing all
by herself from a young age. Unfortunately, since the
age of 10 Tejitha began to have problems with her
eyesight and completely lost her eyesight when she
was in Grade 10. A girl who used to sincerely attend
all her classes at the center could no more do so.
Furthermore, her family’s financial situation did not
allow them to get her help at a hospital. Tejitha had
lost her mother in a gas accident and her father had
to provide for all five of his children. Aware of their
helpless situation, the Kishori Vikas team financially
aided Tejitha’s eye operation. Tejitha has now
regained her eyesight and is doing well again.

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 INSPIRING
STORIES

Krishnaveni from Shaikpet, Hyderabad

is a 19-year old is a half-orphan with 5
sisters. Once she finished her
intermediate studies, she started to
work full-time as a maid along with her
mother. Last year, Krishnaveni contacted
the Kishori Vikas team to work as a
volunteer. Seeing her skills and love for
education, the team immediately
admitted Krishnaveni at Ambedkar
University to do an open degree.

Akhila, a Kishori Vikas volunteer is a 19-

year-old who works at 3 diagnostic
centers as a helper. She spends all the
salary she earns to purchase medicines
for her mother. Akhila’s mother suffers
from kidney failure and is a dialysis
patient. Despite Akhila’s hard work, her
meager income made it difficult for her
to meet her monthly expenses on
medicines. The KVK team supported her
by purchasing one month’s requirement
of her mother’s medicines.

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 INSPIRING
STORIES

Kishori Shireesha could not walk without

support from others since childhood.
Despite her mother's efforts to make her
walk by herself, she could not succeed.
Shireesha received surgery in Tirupati for
her leg but it failed to improve her
condition.

Both of Sireesha's parents were fruit

vendors and lacked the knowledge and
financial means to help their daughter. The
KVK team got Sireesha tested and got her
artificial leg support to help her practice
walking by herself. Today, 12-year-old
Shireesha's condition is improving day by
day.

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 INSPIRING
STORIES

Sandhya, a pregnant woman, was to be

admitted to the hospital for her delivery
but could not purchase her required
medicines due to the Covid-19
lockdown. Her husband, who worked as
a mason, also struggled to make ends
meet during these tough times. Nirvahik
Dhanyashree from MG Nagar Kishori
center came forward and supported
Sandhya in obtaining her medicines.

KVK volunteers went ahead in search of

extending support to at least one family in
need per volunteer during these difficult
Paryaveshik Sruthi went the extra mile to
times. More than 23 families were
supported, and the activity even helped support those who could not access
reach twin children and little babies whose hospitals during the pandemic by
parents were unable to provide milk. personally providing them with medicines.

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https://kishoryvikas.blogspot.com/

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