THE YOUNG CITIZEN OF INDIA CHARITABLE TRUST
Mehsana, Gujarat, India
About us
The Young Citizen of India Charitable Trust is a voluntary organization, established in 1997. The main aim of the organization is to improve the quality of life of the people of the Mehsana, District of Gujarat. Activities primarily focused on health, education, HIV prevention, water and sanitaion, economic empowerment of women and promoting Gender equity.
Organization has more than 20 years of experience in working on issue of decling sex ratio and pormoting gender equality. It aslo has a experince of working in urban slums and rural areas of Mehsana. Most of the projects were implemented in partnership with accedemic institutions, youth netwroks(Nehru Yuva Kendra, National Service Scheme), various government departments and media.
Young Citizen has worked across Public Health, Education, women empowerment, and employment, women and child development and covered more than 200 villages, 100 Colleges in the district and surrounding areas.
Young Citizen was involved in women, and child health, new born care and reached to around 50000 Sarpanch, Newly Married Couple, Teachers, Aaganwadi workers, and ASHAs.
Financial support have been received from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare UNFPA, GSACS, District health Society, NABARD, WASMO, SSNNL, GWEDC, ONGC etc.
Organsation has recived various awards for excellent perfomance in the area of TB, HIV AIDs and improving girl child sex ratio.
The orgnization has experienced and enthusiastic young Team. Its founder is a member of 14 commitees at distrct leevl such as Red Ribbon Committee of the North Gujarat University PCPNDT Advisory Committee in Mehsana district since 2004.
Causes we work on
- Children & Youth
- Education
- Skill Development & Livelihood
- Water & Sanitation
- Women
Awards won
- 1) Star Achiever of the year of 2009
- for top Performance in Young Citizen of India Charitable Trust
- to Mehsana. 1st December 2009
- World Aids day
- Gujarat State Aids Control Society
- Ahmedabad. 2)Award of Excellence Year 2008-2009 Young Citizen of India Mehsana for Integrated Rural HIV/AIDS Programme (IRHAP) National Aids Control Programme. Gujarat State Aids Control Society
- Health & Family Welfare Department Gujarat State. 3)Giants Group Mehsana AIDS awareness by the excellent performance of the Award for the year 2011. 4)Excellent Performance in decreasing the proportion of girls in the District Health office and the district collector’s office has been honored by the organization. 5)HIV CARE and SUPPORT in regard mehsana Network of people Living with HIV/AIDS to help People affected by hiv in recognition of the excellent performance of the organization has been well come.
Why work with us
The activities of the Young Citizen commenced in Mehsana district in 1997 with research work in the slums and villages of the Mehsana City and district. Health is the Chief indicator of human development and hence the emphasis was laid to bring down mother/child mortality ratio to a considerable level. The data was collected, primarily, from slums of the city area of Mehsana. The Young Citizen is working in the area of social service with focus on the local issues of that area. The research carried out by the organization does not restrict only up to understanding the societies or establishing a theory. It would be our Endeavour to include the present social issues in our study and to solve them to create a model work and reach up to the policy makers, administrators and the social activists.-
Website
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Joined12th Feb, 2019
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Employees Involved30
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Volunteers Working with us20
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NGO URLhttp://youngcitizenmensana.in
Contact Details
- 16, VITTHAL PARK SOCIETY, PART - II, OPP. URBAN BANK, MAL GODOWN ROAD, MEHSANA : 384 002
- 9825438600
- youngcitizen_mehsana@yahoo.com