Chetana Empowerment Foundation

Chetana's Vision:

To provide culturally competent, holistic, and wellness focused services that promote youth and adolescence social-emotional development, Avert the rise of mental health challenges and address social emotional problems like addiction that currently exist.

Mission:

● Promoting Mental Wellness and impart Value Education to school students.

● Making schools tobacco free and counselling the addicted students (Preventive Healthcare)

● Undertaking the financial liability pertaining to food, shelter and education to the needy and scholar students from deprived class, who deserve to be supported in their endeavor for pursuing higher education.

CEF is working in the following way,

1. Higher Education for deprived students:

To continue their education journey and ensure a good career, Chetana Empowerment Foundation is providing mass, merit, and excellence scholarships to needy students respectively for their Higher Education.

Project Chetana Jeevan Nirman:

This year, CEF adopted 30 students in Chetana Jeevan Nirman scheme (Living, Food, and Education). CEF has a dream to adopt 30 more Students in the next two years. We have adopted these students from farmers or workers or orphan and they must be from below poverty line and who are very talented and scholar students who get more than 85% in 10th Std. Poor and Needy students in the community.

Students who aim higher in education, Children of labors and workers.

We are not only providing them food, living and education but also grooming their personality through moral education. We are striving to make these children as responsible citizens by imparting the art of living and value-based education. Creating a treasure trove of valuable youth in the future for the country is the main focus of Chetana. This will make the youth free from addiction, of good characters and capable of taking moral responsibility.

Project - Value Education: (Empower Child through Living Values)

Chetana Empowerment Foundation is deeply rooted in imparting the ‘Value Education’ to school going students effectively. We have been actively working to enrich students with Value Education as a national priority since 2012.

CEF is mainly trying to address the problem of diminishing values among the school’s students (adolescents) as well as in teachers; mainly resulting in increase in problems like participation in criminal activities, addictions, excessive usage of gadgets etc. While each generation of children seems to get smarter, their emotional and social skills seem to be plummeting.

Value Education is the solution for all types of the problems. Value erosion can be stopped only by molding the minds of the children and young. In India, education today is going through stresses and strains. It is a big social challenge for the entire society.

Hence, Chetana Empowerment Foundation has undertaken a task of Prevention, Awareness and Counseling in the domain of ‘Value Education’.

• Since last 7 years through Awareness program of De-addiction, have reached more than 60000 people including school children and industrial workers.

• For the current Academic Year 2022-23, CEF have surveyed 13 ZP schools of Kaygaon village and its nearby villages from which 5 ZP Schools have been adopted to implement the ‘Value Education’ program along with innovative and simplified syllabus of English and Mathematics subjects designed by our subject experts through which 584 students from Std 1st to 7th will benefitted.

• On 21st February 2023, CEF received the permission from CEO of Aurangabad Zilla Parishad to implement the Value Education Program in all ZP Schools (12000+) of Aurangabad District.

2. De-addiction:

Chetana is working independently in an addiction awareness program particularly in tobacco-free schools for four years in schools, industries, and the slum area.

Chetana has designed 90 minutes program through the following methods in schools to give our message regarding the ill effects of tobacco and other addictions to school-going children which create a significant impact at a tender age.

a) De-addiction awareness program and camps which includes message-oriented drama (Street- play),

b) Counseling through documentary film,

c) Meditation for self- determination,

d) Oath,

e) One to one counseling from experts,

f) lecture series and value-based programs and

g) Experience sharing.

3. Mental Wellness:

One of the core areas where CEF is working is Mental Wellness. Wellness is a relatively new paradigm in health care, and the subject of mental wellness is newer still. The study of characteristics that make up mental health is called positive psychology.

According to the World Health Organization, mental wellness is defined as “A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.”

CEF is working in Mental Wellness since last 6 years through awareness and training programs.

CEF is conducting:

1. Life Management Skills for students and Emotional Intelligence Camp for Teachers and Professionals.

2. Positive Parenting for parents,

3. Stress Management Program for Corporates.

On 12th June 2021 CEF has designed and launched ‘Empower चेतना’ webinar series (300 Webinars) of two unique sessions through which people will be able to identify their stress and get simple yet efficient tools and techniques.

As CEF has its own premises to conduct these all program.

An Emotional Intelligent person is better able to cope with stress, adapt to change, communicate effectively, work well as a team and they are generally more confident in making appropriate decisions.

In the last 12 years of CEF journey so far.

 Total Events Conducted: 1027 +

 Impacted through De-addiction and Digital Awareness (Screen Addiction) program: 76,900+

 Total Beneficiaries through ‘Mental Wellness’ (Awareness, Group Therapy and Personal Counselling) programs: 73,600+ individuals

 Implementing a module of 50 Living Values in 23 + schools and covering Schools of Aurangabad and Ahmedabad.

 Implementing 'Value Education' program in 9 ZP Schools of Kaygaon from June 2022 and benefitted 1500+ students.

 Conducted Online webinar series of ‘Empower Chetana’ with ZP schools’ teachers: 327+ webinars and benefitted 25,546 + teachers.

 Cultivated 1700 plants on the barren land and created ‘Dense Forest’ by planting 500 plants.

 CEF has 20+ Experts and Trainers team associated with us who are experienced professionals of Value Education, Child Psychologists, Trainers, and Counsellors.

We consider ourselves fortunate to have positively influenced 2,67,400+ lives of children and adults through various approaches such as direct engagement, partnerships, sensitization programs, awareness campaigns, group therapy, and counselling.

Recently, CEF's "Peace Initiative" stood out among over 400 organizations worldwide and on 7th November 2023 it was showcased at the prestigious ‘World Forum for Democracy-2023’ in Strasbourg, France. CEF was the only organization from India to represent this initiative.

To work more efficiently in the social sector, CEF wishes to expand its work at a larger level and reach extensively. For this, CEF needs generous supporters and contributors for our various activities of community development for the greater impact and social change. To achieve this, CEF has developed a range of innovative projects ready for implementation.

• Chetana Vidya Sahayta 'A Scholarship program for underprivileged students after Std 10th & 12th for Higher Education'

• Value Education Project, 'Empower Child through Living Values '

• Chetana Jeevan Nirman, 'Super 30’-A residential program after Std 10th for needy and scholar students from rural areas.

• Digital Wellness Project, 'Emotional Wellness through Digital Wellness' Use Screen Wisely

The 'Value Education Project' is being implemented online too and enabling CEF to reach 250,000+ students and their teachers annually.

CEF provides the following services to the community absolutely free.

• Conducts Awareness Webinars online on Mental Wellness for Free,

• Counselling for mental wellness to needy one.

• Conducts and perform ‘Street Act Play’ on de-addictions to aware community regarding addiction (digital, tobacco, etc) and its ill effects.

• Organizing ‘Sanskar Shivir’ for ZP School students.

• Youth Camp and Career Guidance Program for College Students.

• Through CEF’s Chetana Jeevan Nirman project, supporting for higher education after grade 10 to rural children in the serene rural ambience who cannot otherwise access or afford it.

• ‘Counselling Helpline’ for Mental wellbeing is opening soon this year to provide counselling over telephone at free of charge.

Chetana wish to expand its work under environment, hence requesting you to please offer us an opportunity to work more under the environment objective.

We would like to emphasize that CEF holds all the necessary registrations, including 12A, 80G, FCRA, and CSR 1, which are updated and renewed. These registrations ensure that we meet the legal requirements for receiving funds and demonstrate our commitment to transparency and accountability. Furthermore, we have successfully implemented CSR projects for over 7 years, accumulating valuable experience and expertise in managing such initiatives.