Ongoing Projects

Save Water Project

An initiative by SOSVA with the help of TATA Chemicals, SOSVA volunteers started this project with visiting 15 schools both underprivileged and regular schools across Mumbai to create awareness about how to save water. This project was highly appreciated and SOSVA continued to conduct these sessions as Save water for the regular schools and safe water for the underprivileged schools.

Sagar Shala

SOSVA’s unique educational project, Sagar Shala which was started in the coastal areas of Kutch District of Gujrat for providing informal primary education to the children of marginalized communities engaged primarily in fishing activities around Mundra and Bhadreshwar. Most of the beneficiary children are the first generation in their families to receive education. Children are educated in temporary structures on the beachfront by volunteer-teachers. Their attendance in these classes is accepted by the regular Govt. schools at the places of their permanent residence. The project is supported by Moving Schools Denmark.These children regularly take part in various extra-curricular activities and have won several awards at both the district as well as the state level in inter-school drama competitions Donations received are also being out to good use. along with the 25 tablets from Donor Matte, Karin and Jemi.The entire project is guided by its founder governing council member Devendrabhai Kandolkar.

Yoga Project

SOSVA was brought on board by Sab Ka Mangal Ho (SKMH) Group to manage their biggest CSR project of 2018 ‘Yoga in Orphanages’. The vision was to make yoga accessible to maximum underprivileged orphans. SOSVA began working on the same. Yoga was practiced in all the orphanages and schools and it was a huge success all over Mumbai, Pune, Goa and recently Gujrat. Online yoga sessions were also conducted in March’2020.More than 300 children religiously participated from various schools and orphanages. District level and State level competitions were conducted by Pune district yoga and fitness institute on 18th & 19th september’2021 and 25th & 26th September.2021. 18 children had participated in this competition. Out of which 8 Children were selected for the state level who received group-wise prizes along with medals and Certificates. Out of 8 children 2 children were selected for national level competition. Some of our children also got a chance to perform yoga with the Prime Minister Shree. Narendra Modi on account of International Yoga Day, this program was conducted in the Palace of Mysore.

Menstruation Hygiene

Women’s health and hygiene have been one of the key concerns over the years across the world. The awareness on menstrual hygiene and usage of sanitary napkins is very low in the underprivileged section. A study was recently conducted in randomly selected six coeducational government senior secondary (up to class 12th) schools in India. It reveals that menstruation affects school life in many ways. 65.5% of girls were of the view that it affected their daily activities in school. About 12% of the adolescent girls missed class tests or examinations during menstruation and 58.5% were unable to participate in sports. Project ‘Menstrual Hygiene’ is a unique initiative that was launched by SOSVA in 2018 with the primary objective of bringing about change in the attitude and practices about menstruation among adolescent girls in the age group of 10-18 years and also for their mothers. SOSVA has conducted workshops on ‘Menstrual Health and Hygiene’ for 235 girls in the underprivileged schools of Pune & Mumbai. Our vision is to reach out to a maximum number of adolescent girls by involving corporate bodies and individuals in the program. ‘Menstruation hygiene’ continues being the focus area.

Notebook-textbook, stationery, and toy donation:

SOSVA has been actively involved in the note book donation drives since many years. We raise funds and then distribute note books to the organisations for the under privileged and every year more than 1000 notebooks are donated. SOSVA has also started textbook and toy library for the under privileged organisations across Mumbai wherein the children use the textbooks and toys in rotation. A proper record of the items is maintained and regular reports for the same are sent to all our generous donors. SOSVA also helps the organisations in procuring stationery so that the children don’t have any hurdles in their education.

Daan Utsav

The joy of giving week is celebrated worldwide every year in the month of October, SOSVA also actively participates in Daan Utsav in partner with Give India. Hundreds of our volunteers get together and raise funds for the causes supported by us.