Joint Operation for Social Help

Project Brief: Helping school dropout girls with education of 10- 12 grade and provide vocational training. Use RTI to understand and review the different schemes and projects of the Delhi Government for elementary education.
Project Type: Relief & Rehabilitation (description)
Primary Focus: emergencies (description)

Secondary Focus: girls

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Silicon Valley
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Shaibal Dutta
Project Partner(s): Uday Gosain
Other Contacts: Amit Sharma
Project Address: , 405, F, Pocket II, Phase I,Mayur Vihar,Delhi,
Delhi  110091
Tel: 01143042669
Stewarding Chapter: Silicon Valley
Nov 2024Silicon ValleyUSD 6028
Mar 2024Silicon ValleyUSD 6152
Mar 2023Silicon ValleyUSD 3871
Aug 2022Silicon ValleyUSD 4028
Aug 2021Silicon ValleyUSD 5139
Jul 2021Silicon ValleyUSD 2494
Jun 2020Silicon ValleyUSD 1664
Apr 2020Silicon ValleyUSD 3296

Total = $32672

Joint Operation for Social Help (JOSH) works with urban poor communities and youth on the issue of education in the resettlement colonies and slums of Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri in East Delhi. For the past 16 years JOSH has gained immense knowledge and relevant experience in highlighting issues and challenges faced by the most vulnerable and marginalized section of society.
JOSH is working with girls who have been forced to leave school and dropped out of education due to various family and social pressures. The aim is to give them another chance to live their lives and become financially independent.
To use RTI to understand and review the different schemes and projects of the Government for elementary education. Under this different budget allocation for these schemes and
program will be studied. Develop understanding of the functioning of Government run MCD Schools (Municipal
Corporation of Delhi), the recruitment process, the decision making procedure and all such details of operation of these schools. To assess the quality of delivery of education in these schools. The research to culminate into advocacy and campaigning on the emerged understanding of how MCD schools can operate efficiently and deliver better quality of education.
JOSH (Joint Operation for Social Help) was conceived as an idea, a movement, a philosophy, and a way of life. It aims to provide youth of present generation a platform that can provide opportunities for political, social and environmental activism.

Objectives of JOSH

To mobilize youth on matters relating to national and international importance. This also includes creating sensitivity on important social, economic and environmental issues.

To create a network of universities, colleges and other youth groups and to develop linkages among them.

To develop better inter-linkages among students, young professionals and youth from slums, such that all come together on a single platform for sharing, learning, and acting for change.

To promote use of the Right to Information Act 2005, among students and communities, as a tool of strengthening democracy and to promote transparency and accountability in various areas of public importance.

To provide opportunities to youth of interaction with eminent personalities from various walks of life and to provide them with behavioural experiences with an aim to bring out there enabling capacities.