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There are 2 million children living in orphanages and street shelters

95% enrolment 72% of them drop out before class 10 90% of them dont make it to college

Class 5 and below

6 to 8

9 & 10

11 & 12

College Employ ment

Towards employment

What they have

A Govt. School education Healthy food to eat Clothes to wear Place to stay

What they need

A positive learning ecosystem Parental support Positive role models Communicative skills Career awareness

Schools play 20% role in a childs development. The community one grows up in plays 60% role. -- Diane Ravitch, historian of education

What is MAD? MAD is a platform that empowers youth to become change leaders to make positive social impact and create self-sustaining communities.

MAD enables the community to provide a positive learning ecosystem for the children, thereby providing that 60%
Class 5 and below 6 to 8 9 & 10 11 & 12 College Employ ment
7 Computer Project 8 Scholarships Project

Towards employment
1 2 3 4 5 6 Mentoring Project

English Project Library Project

Career Awareness Project Subjects Project Extracurriculars Project

Current* intervention
Communicative English Project 4000 children in 23 cities Career Awareness Project 3200 children in 18 cities Piloting Library Project and Subjects project

Vision 2015
Partner with 200 orphanages / shelter homes across 40 cities in India To bring all children in a shelter home under different MAD programmes as per suitability

Active

Pilot

Future

Projects in MAD : The Communicative English Project

What?
2-hour classes twice a week; 5 year course 2+2 MAD volunteers work with 10-12 children (each class) Tied up with the Cambridge University Press for syllabus and

curriculum

Why?
Improves confidence Knowledge of English helps child pursue higher education English as an enabler in organized corporate sector job Likelihood of employability increased by 400%

Impact measurement?
MAD conducts periodic and year-end assessments to track progress Standardized ESOL tests

Page from the Cambridge students book

A MAD English class in progress

Projects in MAD : Career Awareness Project

What?
Field Visits: To give them exposure to the real job by the real people

who are doing it

Camps: Developing soft skills that will help them compete in the real

world

Why?
Aspiration give them a reason to believe in pursuing education Role models they can relate to

Impact assessment?
Reduced attrition as they move from Class 6 to Class 10

Visit to the AMET Majesty, the luxury cruiser in Cochin

Planetarium visit in Delhi

Origami workshop in Mumbai

Visit to the printing press in Delhi

Projects in MAD : Library project

Why?
Build a positive reading environment in the shelter

homes allows them embrace the magic of reading.

Reading expands horizons for children

What?
Build a cozy reading corner in the shelter home 2 hour sessions per week 2 volunteers assigned to 10 children [1:5 ratio] Partnered with Hippocampus for reading hour content

Impact measurement?
As the child builds his reading skills, he is promoted to the

next reading level.

Projects in MAD : Dream Camp

What?
Dream camp is a 3 day out-bound finale to our academic

year, where sessions imparting life skills and inspiration are conducted for the children.

Why?
Dream camps let our children develop skills, explore their

strengths, overcome their weakness, discuss challenges

Provide the best days of my life experience for our

children.

Outcomes?
Educational sessions working with simple circuits,

designing robots, creating computer apps

Adventure rock climbing, bungee jumping Confidence building meet role models, public speaking

Link : www.striking.ly/dreamcamp

The result

Provide them with quality teachers Deliver skills that guarantee employability Role models they can relate to Holistic career awareness

The change happens: The vicious cycle is broken

Vision and Mission

MAD VISION : THE END GOAL
ONE DAY EVERY CHILD WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND PURSUE THEIR PASSION

MAD MISSION: THE PATH WE CHOOSE

MAD IS A PLATFORM THAT EMPOWERS YOUTH TO BECOME CHANGE LEADERS WHO DRIVE POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT AND CREATE SELF SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES

What our VISION looks like?

Innovation How we scale

I-Hub is a platform for MAD volunteers to take ownership of the organization and give innovative solutions for the challenges they face on a day to day basis. Kind of ideas : process improvement, project improvement, new fundraising ideas, new project ideas 4 stages of I-Hub

Research
A detailed research on your project idea including talking to your stakeholders & leading organizations in this space

Test
Once you have fully researched on your project idea, it is time to test it with a limited set of children or volunteers within your city

Pilot
The Pilot phase will be expanding the idea across a maximum of 5 cities, each different in characteristic. This stage will also document the key processes required to scale an idea

Rollout
Once your idea has been successfully piloted and the key processes have been laid out, the idea is now ready to be implemented across all 23 MAD cities.

For more info, visit : https://www.striking.ly/ihub

Footprint INDIA
Chandigarh Delhi Gwalior Ahmedabad Mumbai Pune Hyderabad Guntur Vijaywada Mysore Chennai Mangalore Vellore Coimbatore Cochin Trivandrum Vizag Lucknow Dehradun

Geographic footprint - June 2012

North Circle 11 cities South Circle 12 cities

Total 23 cities

Bhopal
Nagpur

Kolkata

Impact to date:
Total No of Volunteers 1900 Total of Kids in MAD 4000 No. of Cities 23 No of shelter homes across India 85 No. Of placement activities 300+

Bengaluru

Success Stories
Thanks for MAD. You gave me this wonderful opportunity. I never thought that my life going to change like this.:) thanks for everybody This testimonial was given by Jobish. He was one of the first kids in MADs English program. Last year , we prepared him for the community college scholarship exam. He passed the exam, cleared the interview taken by US consulate and now he is pursuing his higher studies in US. Story published in IYF Blog: http://www.youthactionnet.org/index.php?fuse=showblogdetails&blogid=3093

Merson, who was one of MAD's first students

back in Cochin, surprises Fellows at the South Leadership Circle 2.0. All of 21, Merson gushed on about his life in the army, what he has learned about life and his time with MAD. He was one of the first kids to select science in the history of his shelter home, after a visit to the naval base.

MAD Legacy

1. Michelle Obamas favourite Indian NGO 2. Global Winner of The Ashoka Staples Youth Social Entre-preneur Award. 3. Winner of InDiya Shine Awards, 2009 4. Selected as Nobel Laureate 2009-10 for Karamveer Pu-raskar 5. Winner of the Youth Actionnet Award awarded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate 6. Selected by Dasra as an NGO capable of expanding 10 times in the next 5 years 7. Winner of the world summit youth award, Austria 2012 8. 1st runner up in Mahindra Spark the Rise, 2012 9. Featured in CNBC Young Turks, Sept 2012

Give MAD a chance!

Contact Us:
Rajesh Varghese
Director Corporate Relations Phone: +91- 9008998414 Email: rajesh@makeadiff.in

Samarth Agarwal
CEO, Friends of MAD Phone: +91- 98116 83092 Email: samarth@makeadiff.in

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