THE MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA

FACULTY OF LAW

A Report On

NGO INTERNSHIP
AT
A RAY OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST

SUBMITTED BY:
MIHIR PAWAR
PRN: 8021034395
SR NO: 146

FY LLB II SEMESTER

1 Academic Year: 2021 – 2022

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 A Ray of Hope Charitable Trust

Certificate of Internship

June 10, 2022

TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN

This is to certify that Mihir Pawar has completed his internship as a

‘Volunteer’ with A Ray of Hope Charitable Trust, Pune from 10th May, 2022
to 10th June, 2022.

He efficiently contributed to the work and was found to be hard working keen
to learn and ready to accept responsibilities.

We wish him “All the Best” for his future endeavors.

For,
A Ray of Hope Charitable Trust

Er. Sanjay Kumar

President
REG: MH/224/2020/PUNE
PAN.NO: AAHTA8428R
Tel – 9730255167
www.arayofhope.org.in
Phule Colony, Near Datta Mandir, Beside Madhu Pushpa Society, Wakad, Pune: 411057
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The internship opportunity I had with “A RAY OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST” was
a great chance for learning and professional development. Therefore, I consider myself a
very lucky individual as I was provided with an opportunity to be a part of it. I am also
grateful for having a chance to meet so many wonderful people and professionals who led
me through this internship period. I would like to express my sincere thanks towards
volunteer researchers who devoted their time and knowledge in the implementation of
this project. Nevertheless, I express my gratitude toward my family and colleagues for
their kind co-operation and encouragement which helped me in completion of this
project. Bearing in mind previous I am using this opportunity to express my deepest
gratitude and special thanks to the founder of “A RAY OF HOPE CHARITABLE
TRUST” ‘Er Sanjay Kumar’ who in spite of being extraordinarily busy with his duties,
took time out to hear, guide and keep me on the correct path and allowing me to carry out
my project at their esteemed organization and extending during the training.

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 INDEX
PAGE
NO.

1.Introduction about the NGO 05

2.Objectives of the organization 08

3. Daily schedule and Day to day work undertaken 09

4.Law relating study done 11

5.Experience undertaken & Conclusion 13

6.References 14

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 1.Introduction About The NGO

A Non-Government Organization is the term commonly used for the organization that
is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for profit business. Usually set up
by ordinary citizens, NGOs may be funded by government, foundation, business, or
private persons. Some avoid formal funding all together and are primarily by
volunteers. NGOs are highly diverse group A Non-Governmental Organization is the
term commonly used for an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a
conventional for profit business. Usually set up by ordinary citizens, NGOs may be
funded by government, foundations, businesses, or private persons. Some avoid formal
funding altogether and are primarily by volunteers. NGOs are highly diverse groups of
organizations engaged in a wide range of activities, and take different forms in
different parts of the world.

Non-Government Organizations (NGO), voluntary group of individuals or

organizations, usually not affiliated with any government, which is formed to provide
services or to advocate a public policy. Although some NGOs are for-profit
corporations, the vast majority are non-profit organization. Some NGOs, particularly
based in authoritarian countries, may be created or controlled by governments. By most
definitions, political parties and criminal or violent guerrilla organizations are not
considered NGOs. The issues addressed by NGOs run the gamut of human concerns,
and the scope of their activities may be local, national, or international. Some NGOs
fulfill quasi-governmental functions for ethnic groups that lack a state of their own.
NGOs may be financed by private donations, international organizations, government,
or a combination of these.

NGOs have existed for centuries; indeed, in 1910 some 130 international groups
organized a coordinating body called the Union of International Associations. The term
non-governmental organization was coined at about the time of the founding of the
United Nations in 1945 to distinguish private organizations from intergovernmental
organizations. Most NGOs are small, grassroot organizations not formally affiliated
with any international body, though they may receive some international funding for
local programs.

ESTIMATION: It is estimated that 40000 NGO are working internationally and more
than 1 million are in India only.

OBJECTIVE: Main objectives for making NGO are to reduce poverty, increase
employment and support to poor children. Not only that a NGO also works for the poor
and illiterate to provide justice to them and maintain their rights

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ROLE: Consumer who buys the product of a company, it is his right to choose the right
product at right price.

Similarly, for the welfare and the social justice, it is the right of every citizen to get social
justice.

It has to even ensure proper food, place to live, place for waste, etc. through social
welfare projects. It even ensures rights of the citizens as well as of the government.

LEGAL STATUS: NGO has legal status under following

laws:

1. Society Registration Act, 1860

It is a central act for registering not-for-profit organization. Any seven person who
subscribe to Memorandum of Association and register themselves for non-profit
motive and mutually agree to serve the society can register a society.

EXAMPLE: BalVikasDhara – New Delhi

2. Public Charitable Trust Act (enacted individually by states)

It does not contain any centralized act but states enact Public Charitable Trust Act for
establishing a NGO under public trust. Different states have different rules for such
trusts which are in accordance of the particular state and other rules prevailing. Such
NGO can only be formed by enacting the act. A NGO can register itself in a particular
state and can operate its functioning in different states.

3. Indian Trust Act, 1882 (for private trusts)

This act is formulated for private trusts. It is a centralized act for the country. The
NGOs formed under such private trusts does not get any tax benefit or subsidy from
the government.

4. Companies Act, 2013

Under section:8 of the new Companies’ Act,2013 provides provisions for establishing
a NGO under the act. The NGO neither gets a tax benefit nor any subsidy, not only
that it has to fulfill many requirements and provisions mentioned in the act.

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5. Co-operative Credit Societies Act, 1904

The NGO formed under this act is regarded as instruments to mobilize and aggregate
community effort to eliminate layers of middlemen in any supply chain. As word itself
suggests it is a group of people gathered with co-operation and understanding to serve
the society and its credit.

Thus, this a brief about who a NGO works in India, its legal status and goals, the
purpose of its establishment and the act under which it is established.

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 2.Objectives
This NGO work towards the betterment of humanity and help in providing assistance
to victims suffering from human rights violation
 To educate the children in a certain manner so that they can be better citizens of
the country.
 To provide modern amenities to needful students.
 To promote sanitation.
 To break the taboo regarding menstruation in the rural areas.
 To help the socially backward to design a good future.
 To provide medical facilities to the needful.
 To organize forums, seminars, camps etc. for spreading awareness among and
between the people of rural areas.

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 3.Daily schedule and Day to day work undertaken

 Day – 1: The very first day of my internship began in the morning at 9:00am is
started with introductory session, wherein Mr Sanjay Kumar chairman of NGO,
personally introduced himself, and asked me about myself and my college
education, and some random questions about basic interest about the topic.
Basically it was an orientation about myself and the NGO.

 Day – 2: The second day of my training was Orientation Day where our training
coordinator Mr Sanjay Kumar introduced us to the people working with the
organization and the different functions of the NGO, and our responsibility to the
society.

 Day – 3: On the third day sir informed me about the serious situation regarding
the lack of technology in the rural areas, as well as the ways the organization
manages to help the needful. As the resources were scarce the task was difficult and
it kept all the volunteers on their feet.

 Day – 4: On the fourth day we were finally able to approach the subjects (Kids),
we were expected to help the children understand the technology, and how to
operate the devices which were provided to them. It was not as easy as expected,
the kids took a lot of time to understand the functions of a basic smart phone.

 Day - 5: On the fifth day we had a seminar for the children, where we tried to
explain them how it was important for them to get their basic education. Our
founder also contributed immensely in this task. Rather than having a typical boring
seminar we focused on making it more interactive where the seminar was
accompanied by some team building exercises and a ton of games. The seminar
continued for two days and it worked as a reward for all the children.

 Day - 7: On the seventh day, we figured it was important to enlighten the parents
of these children, thus we decided to have a seminar with the parents of these
children, and wherein we tried to explain them why was it important to equip the
children with these smart phones and the importance of education.

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 Day -8: On the eighth day we had a session with the students where we helped them to
focus on their strong subjects and tried to analyse the students individual potential.

 Day -9: On the ninth day we decided to keep an aptitude test for the students, to
determine their interests in different subjects, the screening helped in the examining
the potential of each student.

 Day -10: On the tenth day we decided to talk on physical hygiene for both men as
well as women, we also tried to talk about menstruation and tried to clear the taboo
regarding it.

 Day -11-15: These five days were important as we decided to let the people know
about or NGO’s and we were able to gain some new volunteers as well as some
donation, basically we decided to do marketing for our NGO.

 Day -16-20: On Leave [Due to illness]

 Day -21-24: These four days I studied case law. As the case were been given to me
for studying and to relate that issue while doing NGO work. I was given the case law
related to human right violation.

 Remaining Days: During these days we made three-day trip to pune as it is main
center of the Ngo. The founder invited us to the program as it was for the celebration of
new center. We enjoyed there a lot, I was able to meet people of different states and
came to know about how to deal with same problems with different prespective. Some
known personality from pune also attended the program and they also donated huge
amount to NGO after seeing the work of NGO. On 27th I returned to Ahmedabad, that
day we were given holiday by team leader because everyone were exhausted from the
trip. Next day again routine work started. This way time period of internship came to an
end.

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 5.Law Related Study Undertaken

The law relating studying was majorly related to human rights and its violation. Human
rights on which I studied are as follows -:
• Right to Education
• Right to Protection from all sort of violence
• Right to Survival
• Right to Adequate standard of living
• Right to Water, sanitation and hygiene

 What is Human Right Violation?

A human rights violation is the disallowance of the freedom of thought and
movement to which all humans legally have a right. While individuals can violate
these rights, the leadership or government of civilization most often belittles
marginalized persons. This, in turn, places these people in the cycle of poverty
and oppression.

 Right to Education-: Right to education means that education is fundamental

right of every individual and it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that
individuals are able to exercise their right. Article 21-A of the constitution of
India lays down the rules and regulation to be followed to ensure the right to
education.

 Right to Protection from all sort of violence-: The right to protection of families
and children means that the government should adopt special measures to protect
children. It also means the best interest of the child should be taken into account
in all actions affecting a child. This right also include protection to women from
all sort of violence.

 Right to Survival-: The principle of survival and development can only be

implemented in a holistic manner as it requires a conjunctive reading with all
other rights and provisions of the CRC such as guiding principles and substantive
rights (“rights to health, adequate nutrition, social security, an adequate standard
of living, a healthy and safe environment, education and play (arts. 24, 27, 28, 29
and 31)”) (Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2006). For the purposes of
Article 6, the right to survival should be interpreted to oblige states to take all
appropriate positive as well as negative measures that will contribute to the
survival of a child. This means that states are obliged to not only refrain from
arbitrary deprivation of life, but also to implement active measures to take
preventative steps “to prolong the life of the children” (OHCHR, 2007).

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 Right to Adequate standard of living-: The right to an adequate standard of
living requires, at a minimum, that everyone shall enjoy the necessary subsistence
rights: adequate food and nutrition, clothing, housing and the necessary
conditions of care when required. The essential point is that everyone shall be
able, without shame and without unreasonable obstacles, to be a full participant in
ordinary, everyday interaction with other people. Thus, people should be able to
enjoy their basic needs in conditions of dignity. No one should have to live in
conditions whereby the only way to satisfy their needs is by degrading themselves
or depriving themselves of their basic freedoms, such as through begging,
prostitution or forced labour. In purely material terms, an adequate standard of
living implies living above the poverty line of the society concerned, which
according to the World Bank includes two elements: ‘The expenditure necessary
to buy a minimum standard of nutrition and other basic necessities and a further
amount that varies from country to country, reflecting the cost of participating in
the everyday life of society.’ ICESCR General Comment 12 finds that what is
‘adequate’ ‘is to a large extent determined by prevailing social, economic,
cultural, climatic, ecological and other conditions.

 Right to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene-: Water is the basic need for the
survival of human being and is part of the right to life and human rights as
enshrined in article 21 of the constitution of India and the right to healthy
environment to sustainable development are fundamental human rights implicit in
right to life. Right to sanitation and hygiene is a part of fundamental right to life.
Right to sanitation, like various other rights, is a derivative of right to life
enshrined under Article 21.

 Article 21: Protection of life and personal liberty- No person shall be

deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure
established by law. and expressly included in Article 21, it came into being
by judicial interpretation of the Article. The Supreme Court and High
Courts have consistently held that right to sanitation is a part and parcel of
Article 21 and the Article encompasses within it the right to sanitation as
right to life can never be achieved in kits true meaning and spirit without
sanitation and hygiene.

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 6.Experience Undertaken & Conclusion

The 30 days I spent working with my NGO, brought massive changes in my life, I was
able to connect with people of different age groups at the same time, the on field
internship gave me practice of how to deal with problems and how to explain those
problems to the less learned. I was able to brush up my communication skills and
convincing skills all together. I even realized the value of technology and the importance
of money throughout the internship. The internship also changed my perspective on
education as well as I was able to use my knowledge to help and cater to the needs of the
needful.

These different experiences have somehow helped me in forming a better personality and
also gave rise to my confidence.

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 7.REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/
https://www.smilefoundationindia.org
https://legislative.gov.in/
https://nhrc.nic.in
https://www.unicef.org
https://www.humanium.org
https://link.springer.com
https://www.oxamindia.org
https://www.humanrightscaeers.com

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