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Academic year 2010-11
Collaborations and Extension Activities
  • Haath Mein Sehat (HMS) – An ongoing project on Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation in collaboration with Engineers for Sustainable Development, Centre for Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation, University of California, Berkley was carried on in the Bombay Municipal School at Lower Parel (adopted by the NGO Muktangan). Sachita, Yoshita, Praneeta, Amar, Varun, Larissa, Felix, Yashvi, Rushabh coordinated the programme. Same programme was also continued at Ganesh Vidya Mandir, Dharavi by Radha S, Barkha N, Pooja Shah, Puja Iyer and others.
  • Hygiene Awareness Day – was celebrated in collaboration with Barclays Bank as a part of ‘Make a Difference’ Project under the Corporate Social Responsibility Programme of Barclays Bank on 23rd October, 2010. Special demonstrations with the help of charts and action song made the programme interesting for the children of the Bombay Municipal School in collaboration with the intervention of the NGO Muktangan. Mr Gururaj Rao & Ms Henna from Barclays Bank coordinated the programme. The College received an appreciation letter from Muktangan.
  • Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) – Mr Joel Gibbs & Mr Abdul Karim were conferred their Youth Research Fellowship & completed an inter-college group research project on ‘The lives of rickshawalas in Mumbai’ which received financial assistance of Rs 60000/-. Asha Gala conducted an orientation for the new aspirants of the College, who wish to apply for PUKAR Youth Research Fellowship on 21st February, 2011.
  • An Exhibition and Social Marketing of the products made by the KK Vocational Rehabilitation Centre of the V D Indian Society for the Mentally retarded, Malad in August, 2010.
  • Sale of Flags made by the mentally challenged children on the occasion of Independence Day. The project was sponsored by Hi Tech Family Enrichment Foundation; Economics Association received the Appreciation Certificate from the foundation.
  • Child Adoption Meet:  A child adoption meet was organized in collaboration with People’s Group For Child Adoption in India(CGPAI), a voluntary organization working for the cause of Child Adoption, on Saturday 30th April,2011 under the guidance of Prof. Asha Gala. The participants of the Meet were adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, volunteers, NGO’s like Catalyst to Social Action(CSA), adoption specialists etc.
    The Meet focused on discussing key hurdles related to the process of adoption and strategies to overcome the same. The issues specially related to parenting, legal procedures, foster care, single parent adoption, turn around timeliness were also discussed. A support group for awareness was created. Sharing of experiences by Prof. Shama Iyer (Adoptive mother), Dr. Priyansh, Mrs. Brinda (A professional social worker) and CSA official were eye openers to participants. The Meet was co-ordinated  by Ms. Megha Gupta, a meritorious ex- student of Economics (2000-2001 batch). The Meet was listed in the EVENTS, Mumbai Mirror 30th April 2011.


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