Ms. Nilam Sawhney (Secretary), Ms. Upma Srivastava (Additional Secretary), Mr. Surendra Singh (Joint Secretary) and Mr. Khagesh Garg (Director), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), Govt. of India visited SPYM's Targeted Intervention sites and Integrated Rehabilitation Center for Addicts (IRCA) for Homeless in Kotla Mubarakpur Centre.
Society for Promotion of Youth & Masses (SPYM) is going to initiate "Prevention of drug among children" programme with the help of Chandigarh police. The purpose of initiating such programme is to assure that children are sensitized at an early age regarding substance abuse.
Visits
Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive Director, SPYM conducted a session on "Prevention of Drugs among Children" organized by the Hon'ble High Court of Jammu & Kashmir in Srinagar.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive Director, SPYM, conducted a Session on 'Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse' in Jorhat (Assam) in order to sensitize the mass regarding substance abuse.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive Director, SPYM presented on “Therapeutic Community Models in India” at the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC) conference held in Bangkok.
Homeless Women Collective
Collective of Homeless women is an initiative taken up by SPYM that creates solutions to complex issues arising from homelessness, social violence and social disadvantage. The main focus is to respond the needs of people living in distress. The initiative is mainly set to help homeless women lead a life with dignity, the collective of homeless women group reaches out to homeless women on the streets, brings them to shelter homes and imparts skill-based training so that they can earn their livelihood.
The main idea of the initiative is to form a network of homeless women so that they can help each other and other homeless women.
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Training and Capacity Building
SPYM conducted a gender audit workshop in partnership with PLAN India to assess how much gender equality there is in the books published by NCERT. Mr Anurag Kundu, member, Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), inaugurated the workshop.