Foundation For Human Horizon - USA a tissian initiative
Deelip..... ....leaving tomm for geneva/
I would like to be part of this group.
I am Deelip Mhaske, MPSW alumini of TISS.
I started the foundation for human horizon with help of TISS , IIT and
IIPS professors help.
we are able to start our funding office in Amsterdum Netherland,
Hungary, Brazil, London, Germany and now its turn of USA.
Currently Foundation For Human Horizon is active in slums and villages
of India specifically focused on Maharashatra.
some of the news articles you can view on www.paybacktosociety.blogspot.com
As like IIT ALumini are coming forward to paying back to society, we
all TISSians need to come forward to paying back to society
constructivly and aggresivly.
currently i am in Philadelphia and can be reach on 215 704 9861 or
advd...@gmail.com
Social worker takes road less travelled to NY
Deelip Mhaske has been nominated
by the WHO for Jonathan Mann Award
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By:V Narayan Powai .
A Kandivli resident is among 39 people worldwide nominated by the
World Health Organisation (WHO) in New York to receive the Jonathan
Mann Award in May 2006.
The award, which is sponsored by the Association Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud, Doctors of the World and the Global Health Council, is given
every year to an outstanding practitioner of health and human rights.
Deelip Muske, 27, who is pursuing a masters in philosophy with the
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) at Powai, is being recognised for his work to
rehabilitate more than 80,000 families, who became homeless after the
Damu Nagar slums were demolished in 2001.
Mhaske will be the first Indian to get this honour. The award will be
presented at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington on June 1.
"My sister and I came to Mumbai in 1996 from Jalna village, a place in
Bhatepur district, to pursue higher studies," he said. "After coming
to Mumbai, we applied for LLB studies at the Government Law College,
and we stayed at Damu Nagar slums. My research subjects include health-
related issues, human rights and poverty," he said.
After getting his law degree in 2001, Muske went on to get a masters
degree in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. "I
am involved in policy-making on developmental issues of landless
farmers at the state level, and would like to make the policy
applicable throughout the country," he said.
"Education and health are my two passions," he said. "I am trying to
inspire a generation which, 10 years from now, will fight to change
the system. I am preparing 100 volunteers, who will teach slum
children."
Sangeeta, Muskes sister, a lawyer who practices in the Bombay High
Court, said, "I am proud to be known as Deelips sister. He has
overcome many obstacles after we lost our home."
A Ramanathan, head of the Department for Humanities, IIT, said, "I am
his guide for the philosophy project. I was thrilled to hear he has
been nominated for his work in health and land reforms."
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Rich at heart, this IIT-ian serves poor
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Publication:Times Of India Mumbai;
Date:Oct 15, 2006;
Section:Times City;
Page Number:2
Rich at heart, this IIT-ian serves poor
Sabrina Buckwalter TNN Mumbai: The Damunagur slums in Kandivili
provide shelter to sweepers, maids, trash collectors, rickshaw drivers
and a 28-year-old man with a Master's degree from Tata Institute of
Social Sciences and another from IIT in Powai. It's a place Deelip
Mhaske calls home three nights a week. He hops from hut to hut,
sleeping on borrowed beds of families that he calls friends. It's a
deliberate decision for Mhaske, who could have been making Rs 90,000 a
month as a researcher for the World Health Organisation, but he turned
it down as moving to Geneva, Switzerland would have taken him far from
the people that need his help most. Sleeping only a few hours a night,
Mhaske crams his days full of social service to at least five slums
serving upto 4.5 lakh people. Providing assistance to these people is
his full-time career. His round-the-clock job comprises activities
like organising medical camps, setting up slum schools, providing
legal advice and career guidance, overseeing support groups for women,
running a street theatre called "Theatres Without Borders'' and
assisting in the Indo-Hungarian Education Project, an initiative
that's seen the education of 12 Damunagar girls, completely sponsored
all the way to college. Mhaske hasn't strayed far from his roots,
growing up without electricity or toilet. The son of a poor landless
farmer, he was raised in the Bhatapuri village in the Jalna district
that has seen upto a hundred farmer suicides. Despite the fact that
lucrative jobs are within his reach today, he has not fallen to the
temptation. Money, he says, "is better spent on helping those in the
slums than on rent.'' And time spent at a nine to five job in a cushy
firm would deny him the intimate day-to-day slum interaction he
cherishes-whether it's bandaging a bloody cricket wound or clapping
for the street theatre performance that he helped organise. With no
employment income, he funds his ventures through a bank loan that he
plans to replay through odd academic assignments. He uses that money
to pay the teachers in the slums, purchase medical supplies used in
the bi-monthly camps, subsidise the rental and electricity bills of
the dimly lit rooms in the slums, and a bit on himself too. The
doctors, do-gooders and other random people that show up to help in
the various initiatives Mhaske has arranged, donate their time and
services on a volunteer basis. Bono Abraham Benoit, who spent three
hours dispensing medicines at the camp on Tuesday, says he does it
because he believes in what Mhaske is doing. "When I met Deelip and
saw for myself how he was helping all these people, it drew me in. I'd
helped out other organisations but wasn't inspired by their work,'' he
says. Mhaske is drawing admirers from every place he has set his foot
in. "What I like about him is that he likes to take up challenges,
even those that are controversial. He is a person with a position.
Above all he is a very good organiser,'' says Suryakant Waghmore,
assistant professor at TISS. Though grants and charitable money are
available, Mhaske points out that it's not too easy to obtain them. He
says that organisations are hesitant to give money to a oneman social
force. "They'd rather give it to a more established organisation, one
that has a business plan in place,'' says Mhaske, without any grimace
on his face. In fact, it was Mhaske's idea to hold the medical camp
specifically on Tuesday because it was how he wanted to spend his 28th
birthday. The hard work seems to have taken its toll with crow's feet
and a receding hairline creeping prematurely into Mhaske's simple
looks. With only the clothes in his brandless backpack most days, he's
constantly on the move. He stores his real possessions at his sister's
home-a place he rarely visits. ALL FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED:
Deelip Mhaske with children from the Damunagur slums
bala.satk...@aide-et-action.org
Le mardi 6 March 2007 02:31:42 UTC + 5: 30, Deelip ..... a écrit:
Dear All,I would like to be part of this group.
I am Deelip Mhaske, MPSW alumini of TISS.
I started the foundation for human horizon with help of TISS , IIT and
IIPS professors help.we are able to start our funding office in Amsterdum Netherland,
Hungary, Brazil, London, Germany and now its turn of USA.Currently Foundation For Human Horizon is active in slums and villages
of India specifically focused on Maharashatra.some of the news articles you can view on www.paybacktosociety.blogspot.com
As like IIT ALumini are coming forward to paying back to society, we
all TISSians need to come forward to paying back to society
constructivly and aggresivly.currently i am in Philadelphia and can be reach on 215 704 9861 oradvd...@gmail.com
Social worker takes road less travelled to NY
Deelip Mhaske has been nominated
by the WHO for Jonathan Mann Awardhttp://digital.dnaindia.com/showstory.aspx?queryed=15&querypage=5&boxid=31344018&parentid=13385&eddate=Mar%2028%202006%2012:00AM
By: V Narayan Powai.
Rich at heart, this IIT-ian serves poorhttp://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA2LzEwLzE1I0FyMDAyMDA=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom