By Anju Wadhwa | Project Head
“Education is the most Powerful Weapon which you can use to change the World.” - Nelson Mandela
There can be no lasting peace or social development without education. This is the bedrock on which DVET has built its priority programme to provide education to disadvantaged women.
Our Vision
Our founders Mr. Diwan Chand Virmani and Mr. Jawala Das Virmani had a vision to help in transforming the lives of the underprivileged section of our society by providing them an education.
Mission
Our Mission is to bring Happiness & Joy in the lives of the Disadvantaged and Marginalized section of society.
Over time we were able to build the Dhanpatmal Virmani Senior Secondary School, the Virmani Public School, a number of scholarship funds, a Vocational Training center and the Women’s Literacy and Empowerment Program.
“VIRMANI TRUST IS WORKING TO EMPOWER WOMEN FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.”
Since 2004, Women Literacy Program provides free education to illiterate adult women with the help of Computer Based Functional Literacy Software (a computer module developed by Tata Consultancy Services) in several centers set up in slums across Delhi/NCR and Uttrakhand. It assists to enable them to gain self respect and confidence, to manage financial issues, to read newspapers, hoardings and report cards of their children.
Stationary and Other essentials:-
We provide Stationary, Post literacy kit, News papers, an old donated computer to run CBFL program, a blackboard at every women literacy center for the beneficiaries.
“Economic empowerment of women strengthens families and societies.”
“Self Help Groups facilitate economic self sufficiency”
Virmani Trust along with Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited runs Self Help Groups at different Women Literacy Centers where a group of 15-20 women is formed. These women deposit a small amount of money in bank and later they can take a loan for initiating self employment at a nominal interest as per their needs.
This scheme has been of immense benefit to the poor women living in the slums.
In addition to these projects, our generous donor Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited appoints the literate women of our centers as their Brand Ambassadors in different J.J. clusters and provides them employment.
Women Brand Ambassadors move door to door creating awareness about safety issues from electric wires and make people get benefitted from Drug De-Addiction Camps and Mobile Dispensaries.
An Earn While Learn (EWL) Programme in which the women who make the defaulter residents pay their old electric outstanding dues and install regular meters in place of illegal connections are paid an honorarium.
Dhanpatmal Virmani Education Trust and Management Society is a not for profit organization and is supported by donations from the Virmani Family, Friends and Corporations like Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, BSES(BRPL/BYPL) and ATS Green. The generous support of our donors and sponsors has enabled us to teach approx. 40,000 women to read and write HINDI, ARITHMETIC, and a VOCATION during the last eleven years.
After opening 361 centers teaching 21,780 women annually in Delhi, we have ventured to Uttrakhand and have opened 05 centers teaching 75 women annually. Our target is to teach 30,000 women by the end of this year.
It fills us with pride & joy that illiterate women taught at our centers are now able to read the bus numbers, use a telephone, read newspapers as well as their children’s report card. They are able to attend their children’s school meetings.
We are looking for contributions for all these efforts and would be grateful for your continuous support to enable us to carry them forward.
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