ASPIRE INDIA FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The goal of the organization is to promote the development of education, economy, health, medical systems, community participation, human rights, skills, vocational training, and life skills for disadvantaged communities and groups. This will be accomplished through the adoption of institutional, rights-based, and community-based approaches to the organization's work. To achieve this goal, the organization will initiate, execute, implement, promote, facilitate, aid, and assist activities related to the development of the above-mentioned areas. The organization will also collaborate with its team, seek assistance from partners, networks, and other development players, and implement projects, programs, seminars, workshops, and other interventions to increase awareness, capacity building, and support for the poor communities and groups. The organization will also engage in advocacy, campaigns, research, monitoring, and evaluation to facilitate the implementation of these activities. The aim is to provide appropriate awareness, capacity building, and support to the poor communities and groups. In pursuit of its objectives, the organization will undertake all other lawful activities considered necessary for the advancement of its goals. However, the organization will not use its funds to support or enforce regulations or restrictions that would make it a trade union.
About This Cause
Aspire India Foundation (AI Foundation) is a charitable (not-for-profit) organization registered as of 1st May, 2017 under section-8 of the Company’s Act, 2013 . The organization has 12A (tax exemption) and 80G (tax rebate) approvals from the Income Tax Department of India. It is also registered for CSR activities and on Government of India's Darpan portal. Its founding Directors are Ms. Naaz Khair, Ms. Yasmeen Shaikh and Ms. Suman. All the three Directors have long years of experience of working in the social sector. With sustainability in view, AI Foundation focuses on involving the community, and beneficiaries in planning, implementing and monitoring project activities. AI Foundation started with work among female youth in a slum cluster (Janta Mazdoor Colony) and a resettlement colony (Welcome Colony) of Shahdara district of Delhi. Several meetings took place with young women. In 2019-20, the female youth of Janta Mazdoor Colony participated in AI Foundation’s training and meetings to help them design a girls’ empowerment project that would address their educational, security and work issues. The exercise helped AI Foundation in understanding the issues of young women in the slums, while it helped the young women analyse their own problems. A poor student from Azim Premji University, who is also a resident of Janta Mazdoor Colony, and who had participated in this training, was taken as an intern of AI Foundation to prepare a girls’ project proposal for girls of Janta Mazdoor Colony. At Welcome Colony, several motivational and counselling meetings have taken place with female youth on a range of issues. They have also been sensitized on self-help groups. These interactions with the youth encouraged a 12th pass girl, Sania, the daughter of a puncture repair Mechanic aspire/express her dream to study law! She is now nearing completion of her BALLB (5-year integrated law course after class 12) course. Nathani Charitable Trust based in Mumbai funded her course fees for a few years. The fee payment was made directly to the law college. AI Foundation has been handholding Sania, coordinating financial support for her from external agencies/persons. While school education is where education stops for young boys and girls in urban poor areas of Delhi/NCR, Sania has become a role model for the youth of the local area that she comes from, inspiring other young people to study beyond school education. In 2021-22, AI Foundation, along with two other local NGOs (Vision India Welfare Trust and Sir Syyed Educational and Social Welfare Society) started an educational program by the name of ‘Mission Law Education’. 25 underprivileged boys and girls took admission in BA LLB and LLB courses. The vision of this program is to increase the participation of diverse communities in the judiciary. Over the course of implementing the program, AI Foundation has gathered valuable insights in terms of higher education needs of the youth from urban poor areas. The path to higher education is full of challenges for underprivileged communities, especially girls from these communities. Patriarchy, dominance of private players in higher education, high course fees in private colleges, document issues (at the time of applying for scholarship) and other scholarship related issues, distance of the college from the habitation, commercialization of higher education, etc., are issues young boys and girls aspiring for higher education are faced with. About the Mission Law Education Program: The program outline of the Mission Law Education program outlines the program target, criteria for selection of underprivileged children for admission into law course, the program strategy and activities, the implementing agencies, and the fund requirement. Program Target & Selection Criteria: Target for the year 2021-22: Enrolment of 100 deserving students into 3 and 5-year law courses (Direct Admission). Eligibility: Marks in 12th / Graduation exams- 50%. The criteria for selection of students from Urban poor areas of NCR (National Capital Region) under Mission Law Education includes: They must come from families behind in educational status and income. Parent’s consent and support/cooperation will be very important as it will ensure successful completion of the course by the student. Further, selected students will have to give an undertaking that they will not drop out of the course mid-way and would face penalty if they do. Program Strategy: Mission Law Education promises a fruitful experience to students that enrol in identified law colleges/institutes through it. The responsibility of Mission Law Education does not end with enrolling the students, it begins from here. Each student supported to take admission in an identified law college by Mission Law Education will be hand-held till s/he completes the law course and is registered with the Bar Council of India. In addition to providing academic support, Mission Law Education will also organize soft skills development program for the students and Juniorship under senior lawyers over the period of their law studies. Broad Strategies: • MOU with colleges. • Networking with NGOs, local bodies, community-based institutions, school managements, lawyers, social activists, academics and concerned government agencies. • Student and community participation • Fund-raising Activities: Admission, Follow-up, Academic Support and Soft Skills development training • Sensitization and Counselling of Parents and Students • Identification/Selection of students for admission into law course • Monitoring of students enrolled in colleges and Universities • Weekly support classes for enrolled students • Regular seminars and debate programs for enrolled students • Spoken English training • Legal drafting training • BCI Registration • Legal Placement/Juniorship • Leveraging private and government resources Implementing Agencies: Currently, the implementing agencies are Aspire India Foundation and Vision India Welfare Trust. Selection of Colleges: These were private colleges that agreed to lower their course fees for underprivileged students identified by Mission Law Education. The annual course fees that a private college affiliated to Chaudhary Charan Singh University can charge for BALLB/LLB course from students is RS 38000/-. Some private colleges charge annual course fees in lakhs from students for pursuing a law degree. Mission Law Education was successful in negotiating an annual law course fee of RS 25000/- at a few colleges. Not only this, the selected law colleges also agreed to the condition set by Mission Law Education that initially the students would pay only RS 5000/- + RS 120/- (registration fee), given their economic status, and secure admission in the college/institute. Thereafter, they would apply for Government Scholarship, which is of RS 25000/-. And, when the scholarship comes, the student would pay the remaining course fee amount i.e., RS 20,000/-. Mission Law Education would raise funds to pay semester examination fees, etc., of the students. Seminars and Talks are an essential part of the Mission Law Education Program. Details of talks organized so far include: 1) Talk on “Participation of Underprivileged Children in Higher Education” was delivered online by Kundan Kumar of the SocioLegalLiterary organization on 11th September, 2021. 2) Talk by Advocate Anastasia Gill, Ex member Delhi Minorities Commission on Human Rights on 20th March, 2022. 3) Talk by Mr. Saleem Baig on Right to Information on 20th March, 2022 4) Interaction between Ms. Firdos Khan, Delhi Commission for Women and Mission Law Education Students on 19th May, 2022. 5) Talk by Advocate Zakir Choudhury, Saharanpur, on building a successful legal career and social activism, on 18th March, 2023 6) Talk by Dr. Vinay Kumar, Dy Manager, Rajbhasha, MMTC (Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India) on student activism, on 18th March, 2023 7) Motivational Talk by Professor Arman Ansari, Delhi University, on 18th March, 2023 Under the Book Bank activity, students return old semester books to Mission Law Education. These books are then given to new students. The students of the new session 2022-2023 were given law books of the first semester from the book bank. The book bank maintains books returned by the old students. Pro Bono examination preparation classes by well-known advocates are organized for students of BALLB and LLB. Mission Law Education believes in the involvement of students in all its activities. The students must participate in the program and own the program. They have to take responsibility for the successful implementation of the program including excelling academically, developing communication and leadership skills and spreading the message of Mission Law Education in communities low on legal awareness.