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WMBN Foundation is a national level development organization with its welfare projects spread across India.

India has about 11 million children living on the streets and 14 million children working as labours. Only 60% of children have access to education despite having a national policy on compulsory elementary education. The time to take collective as well as individual responsibility to remedy the current situation is here. Right now!

WMBN Foundation was established in the year 2002

WMBN Foundation’s mission is to empower underprivileged children, youth and their families and community through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood programmes. We aim to deploy best possible methodology and technology for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good governance, to link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development initiatives and to sensitize the privileged section of society to promote Civic Driven Change.

The realization of a group of young corporate professionals, that it was their Social Responsibility to give back to the society, laid the inception of WMBN Foundation. WMBN Foundation is managed professionally by a Board of Advisors, comprising individuals from diverse backgrounds and expertise, followed by an Executive Committee and a well defined professional workforce.

Which areas does WMBN Foundation work in?

Education alone has the power to liberate people from the vicious cycle of poverty – not only in terms of earning a livelihood but also in becoming aware of the rights and freedoms that a citizen is endowed with. Thus empowering individuals and making them self-sufficient.

WMBN Foundation works under two models, namely Social Venture Philanthropy (SVP) and Outreach.

SVP: Social Venture Philanthropy (SVP) is an innovative model based on the business concept of venture capital. Under SVP, WMBN Foundation identifies, handholds and builds capacities of genuine grassroots NGOs. WMBN focuses on achieving scalability and sustainability, creating a culture of leadership and excellence and inculcating a deep sense of accountability among its partners.

While working in the remote rural areas, WMBN Foundation realized that capacities of community based organisations (CBOs) were not adequate to meet expectations of social investors. Under outreach model, WMBN Foundation implements the development interventions directly as it requires intensive and professional engagement for a wider and sustained outcome.

WMBN Foundation gets a first-hand experience on the nuances of development at the grassroots through its Outreach model and then shares the same with partner organisations

Around 70-80% funding support of the organization comes from corporates; the rest comes from PSUs, individual donors and private institutions.

WMBN Foundation’s mission is to empower underprivileged children, youth and their families and community through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood programmes. We aim to deploy best possible methodology and technology for achieving ideal SROI (social return on investment), to practice and promote good governance, to link business competitiveness of the corporate with social development initiatives and to sensitize the privileged section of society to promote Civic Driven Change.

There is a user friendly application form available on our website that an NGO can fill. Apart from that we put notices in all our internal modes of communication like our website, mailers, etc. whenever there is a requirement for a partner in any particular geographical area under our various programmes.

WMBN Foundation looks for emerging and committed grassroots organizations for reaching out to underprivileged communities. We partner with people and organizations that want to make a difference but do not have adequate knowledge and capacity to raise resources or work in a professional manner.

Children, their families and the communities are the target groups of WMBN Foundation with children at the centre stage. The organization believes that a child?s education cannot be taken care of without taking care of the family, especially the mother, and the communities they belong to.

At present WMBN Foundation is directly benefitting more than 300,000 children, youth and women through 158 welfare projects across 25 states of India.

In our journey so far, we have received immense support from numerous individuals, many private and public sector companies, development agencies, educational institutions, public figures and the mass media. One can associate with us in any of these above mentioned ways. Please visit the contact us or get involved section of our website for more information on the possible ways of being involved in our journey.

Does WMBN provide internships? If yes, ho

Interested candidates can go to contact us section of our website and write to the relevant section or department they are interesting in interning with.

Please go to our “Career” page to know more about the current openings in WMBN.

Till date WMBN Foundation has been conferred with various awards and accreditations. The major and recent ones are:

WMBN Foundation is an organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations since 2012.

• Education Excellence Award 2013 (ASSOCHAM)
• The IPE Corporate Excellence Award (NGO Excellence) 2013
• Quality initiative Mission Award 2013
• Healthcare Leadership Award
• Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award
• Barclays Bank Chairman?s Award
• GE Healthcare – Modern Medicare Excellence Award
• NTR Memorial Trust Award
• World Health Care Congress recognizes WMBN on Wheels (SoW) as the “unique delivery model” in taking healthcare to the poor

WMBN Foundation is empanelled with National CSR Hub, an initiative by the Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE), Department of Public Enterprises, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Govt. of India. We are also accredited to Development Foundation of Overseas Indians under the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Govt. of India.

You can go to Donate Now section of WMBN Foundation’s website and donate online. For other donations related queries please write to donation@WMBNfoundationindia.org

“Chanze” is a unique mode of participation promoted by WMBN Foundation, an innovative series of Corporate Gifts conceptualised, designed and produced by WMBN Foundation. These highly customisable series of corporate gifts are an opportunity to be a part of the change and bring a WMBN in the lives of thousands of destitute children and youth as all proceeds will be utilized towards funding WMBN Foundation’s various development projects. Please visit the “Shop” page on our website to see the product catalogue.

WMBN Foundation has a proper programme management system which tracks progress and does periodic analysis – both qualitative and quantitative Periodic external evaluations are also done to gauge the impact and progress of various programmes.

WMBN Foundation works for the education of underprivileged children through its Mission Education Programme which provides basic education and healthcare. For further information you can visit https://www.WMBNfoundationindia.org/education.html

Mission Education is a national level programme of WMBN Foundation with a presence in 22 states in India.

Our educational programme – Mission Education, for underprivileged children, follows the curriculum of the respective state board where the project is present and operational.

WMBN on Wheels (a mobile hospital programme) is the flagship healthcare programme of WMBN Foundation. In addition, Health with WMBN is another programme which provides urgent and specialized health services through multi specialty health camps across India.

The idea behind SoW is to take healthcare to the doorsteps of urban poor and underserved villagers in the remote rural areas and urban slums and to develop health seeking behaviour amongst them.

WMBN on Wheels provides curative, preventive and promotive healthcare services at the doorstep. Each mobile hospital is equipped with an examination table, ECG, a Calorimeter, First Aid kit, IV fluid transmission hook, Nebulizer, Centrifuge for pathological tests, Oxygen cylinders, Stretcher, small chiller cum refrigerator, public address systems among others. Each WMBN on Wheels has a qualified doctor, nurse, pharmacist, project officer, driver and a community mobilizer.

WMBN on wheels benefits 231,000 people directly in a year

At present 19 SoWs are providing healthcare in 265 remote villages and urban slums across India.

WMBN Twin e-Learning Programme (STeP) is the livelihood programme of WMBN Foundation that trains urban underprivileged youth with market-oriented job skills and makes them employable in the retail and service sector across India.

10th and 12th pass youth in the age groups of 18-25 years is the target groups of this programme.

At present there are 35 STeP centres across India.

A special 6-month curriculum is designed with emphasis on computer and English along with personality development, retail management etc. The computer course is developed and certified by Microsoft whereas rest of the curriculum is developed by International Management Institute (IMI, New Delhi)

More than 13,750 youth have been trained and 9850 have been placed in over 140 brands through STeP programme across India.

WMBN Foundation works for the girl children and women trough its national programme – Swabhiman (meaning self-respect in English).

The USP of Swabhiman is its innovative and highly effective approach named “4 S Model” which means:

Seeking Healthcare as a Behaviour
Support through Education
Support from Men through Male Involvement
Sustaining Change in the Community.

As many as 150,000 girls and women have benefited under Swabhiman programme.