Education
500 is the current number of students supported in all our projects and your CSR Educational Commitment for the less privileged can be offered through St. Catherine of Siena.We stand to educate, Heal and Empower through long term and committed support for the children, orphans, street, slums and destitute.
Sports Education
Sports clubbed with education were rewarding with many slum students who happened to be in addiction and violence owing to the peer pressure in the slums. Annual 10 days Sports Workshop which cater to over 250 students with the support of coaches, mentors. social workers and councellors have empowered many students to say NO to violence and addiction. Importance of education and playing sports is encouraged to stay fit and to say NO to any form of bad influences and behavior.
Health and Hygiene
Hundred students are supported in the tribal village in Murbad, Thane district through our Village Centre with an emphasis to give support to the remote areas where there is no organisational support.You can help us to identify and start more centres which run educational and health initiatives through mobile vans or mobile buses.Educational programmes through one village one teacher concept also implemented to bring sustainability.
Counselling and Life-skill
Mental and Emotional health make the changes visible in children coming from disturbed backgrounds. Regular interventional programs are conducted with children to make them dependable and to remove or reduce the vulnerability of abuses (substance, physical, sexual etc.) this long term support gives students to focus on their goals, achieve it and settle as a happy person – helping them to come out of the cycle of absuse.
Youth Empowerment
The purpose driven Youth development creates successful and happy youngsters for the society.The many success stories of St. Catherine of Siena revolve on this powerful development of Youth energy transforming into valuable resources in the larger story of nation building. Along with funding, you also can get involved in training the youngsters in our Mentoring Program.
Women Empowerment
Women find it difficult to make the two ends meet; empowered women not. Distressed, sick abused women who come to St. Catherine are given a space to get empowered alongwith their children. Thus the biggest change starts with the women for a better life. reaching out to them with our Happy Home activities has been rewarding and it creates happy mothers who often had forgotten their existence in a deprived atmosphere.
Arts and Healing
Learning the Performing or visual arts for children has always been a happy memory for them. Children from deprived background look for this opportunity in search of proving their hidden or ignored skills due to their substandard living. At the same time experiencing arts become a healing activity which connects to their inner soul—giving child a new image of an artist. Professional artists are employed to help children and if you are a professional who is ready to volunteer or mentor, you are always welcome.
Tribal Initiatives
Hundred students are supported in the tribal village in the Murbad, Thane District through our Village Centre with an emphasis to give support to the remote areas where there is no organisational support. You can help us to identify and start more centres which runs educational and health initiatives through mobile vans or mobile buses. Educational programmes through one village one teacher concept also implemented to bring sustainability.
Shelter and Clothing
Safe sheltered space make children happier; it provides the much needed trusted and loving space for them to move away from many fears; the fear of hunger, fear of violence, fear of loss or death to name a few .Orphanage or shelter home management provided professionally makes a big difference in their life, giving a very good foundation to become a better person.
Infrastructure
Maintenance of existing infrastructure, adding more facilities to equip the centre to meet the challenges or Creating a basic infrastructure in a new place is always a big challenge. Your CSR investment in this area acts as the change maker for any of our actitvities since upgraded infrastructure brings dignity and respect to the population who benefit the services from it .New shelters, school building, computer room, workrooms hygienic toilets, school buses are always needed.
Founding a New Centre
You are always welcome to make things happen in a BIG WAY. You can completely sponsor a centre to come up in a remote or in a city space.Together we can make it bigger, better brighter and with pure CSR initiative and involvement without boundries.
Art Lovers
Our Institution has an Art Gallery where paintings of artists are displayed. The objective of this art Gallery is to raise funds for our Children from our school. Children also display their talents in the form of paintings. The sale proceeds from the paintings is used for childrens education. Children are encouraged to express their creativity through art which also acts as a healing space.
Annual FundRaising
An event held by St. Catherine of Siena Orphanage, to generate funds for our various activities, up-keep and maintenance of our two buildings, vz. Sadhana Hall and Aquinas Hall, improve infrastructure for better living conditions for the children. This year for 2020-2021 our target is to generate NETT 25 (twenty five) lacs for which sponsors are needed as Charity Ambassadors, Event Management Companies, Celebrities, CSR Sponsors, F&B sponsors and Press Media.
Tata Mumbai Marathon
Individuals and Corporates can support us through the participation in Tata Mumbai Marathon . You can sponsor the children individually to run in the marathon. Tata Mumbai Marathon happens every year in 3rd Sunday of January.