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About the Organisation
This section gives a brief idea about the organisation. Please check the Pics & Docs tab for latest documents.
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We plan to complete phase two of our campus extension project, refurbishing the existing buildings and providing sports and play areas as well as a "dream garden" which the girls have helped design.
With a new leadership team in place, we are refreshing our key policies in safeguarding and child protection.
We are expanding our engagement with corporates to further enhance our job readiness programmes to provide opportunities for teh girls
To continue to nurture and resource each Baale Mane girl child to lead an independent and self-sustaining adult life.
To continue to fundraise for our Campus Extension Project, which will allow us to cater for up to 20 more girl children through infrastructural improvements.
To continue to develop and perfect our safeguarding, child protection and care planning structures, ultimately creating a model of sustainable change which can be easily replicated by other NGOs.
To enhance and further develop our job readiness programmes for our older girls in collaboration with a number of corporate organisations
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We have continued to receive support from the Shadhika Foundation, who support our independence and transition programs.We have further developed these programmes. We have also received support from The Kiran Anjali Project for teh education of our high school age girls.
The first phase of our campus expansion project has been completed.
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We are pleased to report that all of the girls
this year did well in their exams and passed
from one year to the next. We are proud of
all their hard work, particularly the girls who
completed their 2nd PUC and have begun
further education courses in the city. We
also have some girls who graduated from university this year and have successfully found jobs.
One girl who graduatewith a BA degree in History, Economics and
Sociology is now working with a start-up
organisation called Mudfingers. Another has
also completed her BA and is working in an
accounting firm doing data entry.
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We have initiated a job readiness programme with EY which our college girls are participating in. This is having significant impact in preparing our girls for a role in the formal economy.
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To donate, please visit Small Change [Opens in a new window]
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Certified by GuideStar India for Advanced Level- GuideStar India Gold. Valid till 31-Dec-2017. To know current certification status, please visit GuideStar India List of Certified NGOs [Opens in a new window]
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The idea for the Baale emerged from a survey of children living in the streets, conducted in around 2000. After realizing the seriousness and degree of exploitation faced by these girls, Paraspara Trust established a small home for street girl children initially with the support of a Canada development fund. Subsequently, Action Aid India, the international anti-poverty agency, provided operational funding for The Baale, with a strategy of reducing funding as the Baale would build its own capacity for long term sustainability.
From 2002 the Baale operated from a one acre site in the village of Silvapura, about 25 kilometres from Bangalore city centre. The building was poorly constructed, having been adapted from a workshop built for silk weaving. The original lease expired in May 2007 and the rapid expansion of the city of Bangalore meant that it had significant development potential which the landlord wanted to exploit. The lease was extended for a 12 month period but an urgent long term solution had to be found if the Baale was to develop from a project to a sustainable model. This would require a new strategy and a long term funding model.
In response to these challenges, Chris Harrison, who had first visited the Silvapura Baale in 2004, decided to register The Friends of Baale Mane Gopalapura in the UK to support The Baale. A new trust, The Baale Mane Trust was also established in India with the intention of taking over the operation of the Baale from Paraspara, and land in Gopalapura was acquired partially through a gift from Paraspara and KC Venkatesh.
In September 2008, the girls relocated to their new home in Gopalapura.
Today, the home is well established and although there is more that we plan to do to enhance our physical infrastructure, the primary focus of our team of 10 staff and the trustees in India and the UK is the welfare and development of the girls in our care.
We have also worked through the creative talents of our girls to bring an enhanced understanding of issues around child rights to the middle classes in Bangalore, positively impacting the opportunities for future generations of children.
The next ambition of the Baale Mane is to establish a collaborative approach to nurturing and resourcing the children of Bangalore, through an initiaivite called, Together We Can. This initative has been developed by the Baale Mane UK Trustees, with the assistance of a number of other government and NGO partners.
The Baale Mane (Baale Mane means “Girls’ home”) at Gopalapura is a home situated on the outskirts of the city of Bangalore, India, for around 60 girls between the ages of 6 and 18. We provide these girl children with a safe and happy living environment, educational opportunity and life-skills and creativity programmes.
We welcome and support girls of all faiths and we do not discriminate on the grounds of caste or creed.
Founded in 2001 by Paraspara Trust, a NGO dedicated to the eradication of the child labour system, and now governed by The Baale Mane Trust, the home provides shelter and a loving home for girls. Some are orphans or have a single parent who is unable to care for them, and many have been rescued from domestic service. Others have been found homeless in the streets by volunteers or have been given shelter having been arrested by the police when living on the streets.
Where possible, the aim of our home is to reunite the girls with their family but where this is neither possible nor desirable, the girls are given long term care and protection at the Baale. Our ambition is to nurture and resource the girls for a self-sustaining adult life.
Education is at the heart of our approach. All of our girls attend local government or state aided schools as well as receiving extra tuition at the Baale. Girls in 7th standard and above attend English medium school if they come to the Baale early enough and are judged to have the ability to thrive in this environment.
We place great emphasis on the all-round development of our girls and have a strong focus on the arts as a means of self-expression. Dance, drama and other forms of creative expression are an important part of life at the Baale.
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AABTB4740M
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We are currently looking for local, long-term volunteers and also international volunteers for the following roles:
- web design
- branding and graphic design
- fundraising and event management
- social media
- data entry
If you are interested in any of these opportunities, or have any other ideas about what you could do to benefit Baale Mane, please get in touch via: info@baalemane.org
Please note, we are only taking international volunteers that are over 21 years of age and with specific skill sets. (03.06.15)
Unfortunately, there are no vacancies at the moment. We will update this page once there are opportunities available. (18:12:18)
Please note: Only organisations with FCRA registration are eligible to receive foreign contributions.
If the organisation has mentioned the URL of a website for online donations/ further details, please copy the link into a separate browser window.We are currently fundraising for the following 3 areas:
1. Phase 2 of our Campus Extension Project, an infrastructural improvement to the Baale Mane home. Phase 1, a new block with a new kitchen and dining room, yoga pavillion and general meeting room was completed in November 2018. Phase 2 will include the refurbishment and repurposing of our existing buildings and a sports area, play area and garden
2. Running costs of Baale Mane, keeping the girl children fed, clothed, happy and involved.
3. Education - it costs 8000 Rs (£80) for one girl child to go to English Medium school for one year.
For more information about donations and running costs at Baale Mane, please visit: www.baalemane.org/donate or email info@baalemane.org (03.06.15)
Please note: Only organisations with FCRA registration are eligible to receive foreign contributions.
Please check with the organisation about delivery, logistics, payment of duty, etc. before dispatch.
If the organisation has mentioned the URL of a website for further details, please copy the link into a separate browser window.Please refer to our website. www.baalemane.org.We are always grateful for new or nearly new in kind donations, and for general food provisions. However, please ask first.
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