Founded 2010 Area served India | Location Varanasi, India Method Project Implementation | |
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Type Registered NGO with Government of India Focus Education, Healthcare, Ending poverty | ||
The Dove Foundation (Dove India or the Dove India) is the largest youth led Non Profit Organization based in the Uttar Pradesh the most populous state of India. Founded in the year 2010, it is registered with the Government of India under the Societies Registration Act of India. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Youth". The primary aims of the foundation are, nationally, to provide quality healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, to expand educational and employment opportunities to the youth and young people. The foundation, based in Varanasii, Uttar Pradesh. The founding member of the Dove include Mr.Abhinav Singh who is also the first ever recipient of the prestigious United Nations 'Special Youth Fellowship'[2]
The Dove aims at empowering the community to take the ownership of the programs which are being run for them . This also helps in sustaining the program once the program is completed. The Dove Foundation received the Mtv Staying Alive Foundation Award of December 2010 for Project Aarambh. Aarambh is being supported by Mtv and Staying Alive Foundation, UK. Project 'Aarambh' is dedicated towards building the knowledge and capacity on HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Health of highly marginalized and socially excluded community of bi-cycle rickshaw pullers in India. It is estimated that there are around 8 million rickshaw pullers are in India.
The Dove Foundation started "Youth Education Program" in January 2011 which is an initiative by The Dove Foundation to strengthen the national health status of India. YEP-2011 is aimed towards building the knowledge and capacities of the adolescent and the youth towards Life Style Diseases and HIV/AIDS. The foundation has been also actively working International platforms and was part of the 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia & Pacific, beside country level advocacy in India the foundation worked as a part of the Youth Committee of the congress for holding the youth events.[3] The Foundation is also part of the Melbourne Youth Force which will be overseeing the youth program for the International AIDS Conference 2014, Melbourne, Australia. [4]
The Dove is also working towards provision of equitable and quality healthcare across rural India with a high emphasis on urban slums population in the country.
Dove also contributed in the development of UNAIDS 'New Generation Leadership Strategy' through holding offline discussion forums with youth and young people across India. The Dove Foundation has been awarded the Best Social Entrepreneurship award by The Christ University, Bangalore, India for the year 2013 at the 12th Annual Entrepreneurship meet of Christ University. [5]