About Us

Vision

DART's vision is to change the life of rural population as well as underprivileged population in urban areas for the betterment through education and awareness. To see a society with empowered people, accesses to health, education and employments and equality among the inhabitants of the communities.

A happy, healthy and creative child whose rights are protected and honoured in a society that is built on respect for dignity, justice and equity for all.

Work as a catalyst in bringing sustainable change in the lives of underprivileged children, youth and women, with a life-cycle approach of development. Enable the civil society across the world to engage proactively in the change process through the philosophy of civic driven change. Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organization.

Mission

DART is to empower underprivileged children, youth and women through relevant education, innovative healthcare and market-focused livelihood programme. DART believes that education enhances the quality of life, and skill-based education creates an efficient and skilled workforce without which economic development cannot be attained and sustained. As such DART's mission is to promote youth's advancement & empowerment by providing vocational training & computer literacy. To provide employment platform to youth in their own community as per their skills.

Belief

DART Trust believes that unless members of the civil society are involved proactively in the process of development, sustainable change will not happen. Believing in this principle of 'Civic Driven Change', DART Trust sensitises the civil society in order to make them partners in its mission.

Objectives

To provide health promotion initiatives, including information and advice to raise awareness and address stigma related to HIV and AIDS

To encourage early HIV testing, treatment and referral to local HIV /sexual, health treatment, care and support services

To set up an outreach service in resource poor areas of Delhi and neighboring

To promote evidence based programming for implementing HIV prevention, treatment and care strategies and projects. Regions for primary HIV prevention work targeting especially, young men and youth

To arrange, establish, open, run, manage, and supervise orphanages, community center and Mahila ashram, Nari Niketan.

To provide Skill education to the youth, Unemployed or school Dropout , poor and needy people, SC/ST, community weaker section.

Work for the upliftment of women, girls, under privileged people, widows, handicapped and mentally retarded person.

To arrange legal awareness and legal knowledge to the common people.

To make the common and needy people access to medical assistance.

To provide education to the general public, poor and needy children, SC/ST, community weaker section as per policy of the Govt. of India.

To help and arrange relief camps during flood fire, shortage, cyclone, and earth quake.

To open and run centers and hold classes for adult education, technical, tailoring sewing, computer centre.

Our Design and Strategy Principles

Building and maintaining a connection of empathy, dignity and valuing between the issues of the poor and the rich.

Leveraging and empowering already available resources, wisdom, time, skills and efforts of people.

Working alongside. We facilitate, nudge and empower our partners and communities environmentally and socially to infuse new life and vitality into their communities.

Being responsive. We are constantly learning, incorporating and addressing from the reality of changing communities, contexts and deepening relationships

Evolving solutions with, not for the communities we work with.

Approaching complex and interwoven challenge of poverty and discard in a human-centered and community driven way.

Equipping end users in cities and villages to thrive and evolve sustainably.

Listening deeply to our rural communities with humility, treating people with dignity and respect.

Rooting Ideas in Community. Our on ground strategies are built from the context, cultures, knowledge, wisdom, resources, needs, and aspirations of the rural communities we work with.

Principles Driven. Our reflection, decision-making and action, in the face of complexity and uncertainty is driven by our guiding principles.

Values

To focus on the receiver's dignity instead of the donor's pride.

To recognize and value the potential of local resource and traditional wisdom of people.

To promote circular economy by ensuring maximum use of each material.

To collaborate with partner organizations to increase effectiveness and scale.

To view every entity as equal stakeholder in the process of development rather than observing hierarchical relationships.

In the race of development we all are too focused on machines i.e. the big, known issues, ignoring the needles-the most important basic needs.

At DART our focus is on the needles.. i.e the small neglected needs while the world focuses on the big machines. With a large scale civic participation, it is becoming a big people's movement for development.

Management panel of DART

Sr.	Name of Employee	Designation
1	Mr. Sanjeev Kumar	Managing Trustee
2	Mr. Amit Patel	Chief Executive Office (CEO)
3	Mr.Bhuwan Kumar Bharti	Head Programme & Programme Management
4	Ms. Kavita	Finance officer
5	Ms. Pooja Rai	Head Human Resource
6	Mr. Asgar Saifi	Head Women Empowerment & Health related Programme
7	Ms. Savita	Program Manager,Women Empowerment & Health related Programme

Approach

Whilst India has experienced significant economic growth over the last 20 years, much of this wealth generation has been inequitable.

On one hand, we have a 'Shining India' with 101 billionaires, and a rich and middle class of 160 million. On the other, there is an India still struggling to earn a decent living, majority of which hails from 600 million rural population-either below or just above the poverty line. This India equates to 68.84% of the population and 1/10th of global humanity.

The fact of the matter is that, unless the condition of this vast majority of the population improves, there is little way for the country to realise its potential as a global economic powerhouse. It is therefore, the ability of India's villages to offer fulfilling lives and livelihoods to the people who live there that is integral to India's future as a global super-power.

When it comes to finding solutions for economic development, the entire focus shifts on livelihoods. Historically, Indian rural economy has been primarily driven by agriculture and therefore, the main emphasis of livelihood programs is largely around agriculture and allied activities. However, in the last few years, due to smaller and fragmented landholdings and youth migration, the focus has also shifted to skill development initiatives. In fact, some of the skill-based programs are being implemented with a collaborative approach which is quite a positive sign.

However, in the midst of significant initiatives by organisations to mitigate rural economic challenges, the question that still lingers is- are these steps sufficient to achieve sustainable development in communities.

DART, an NGO working for Youth empowerment believes that Skill education is necessary for a better life: the mean because it empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood. Most of the areas in India have lack of knowledge and resources in skill development training most of young boys and girls stop education without having any skill. Their need to get skill in some profession is acute. But, in rural conditions these facilities are not available to get such skills in short time at reasonable cost. With the support of individual donors & Govt agencies. DART conducting training classes in needy areas. Team from DART conducts survey in rural communities to identify youth in need of training through evaluation of economic condition, educational background and willingness to learn.

After enrolling required number of students, DART carries out the training program at a separate Technical wing in the campus. DART has appointed qualified and experienced technical staff. For value addition, there are regular guest lecturers from experts of the subject. At the campus there is a workshop of machineries & tools to provide practical knowledge. Apart from regular teaching aids and practical in workshop, there are also arrangements to facilitate on job training to these poor youth. After completion of training in the campus, the successful candidates referred for internship in the industries. This gives them a platform to acquire skills and make even more competent. DART has tied up with some renowned industries who has a demand for skilled workforce. After training, these students get placed on wages in the respective industries easily.

Working Model Of DART

To join people with new and enthusiastic ideas and vision to help in making India a developed Country.

To motivate youngsters of our country with novel ideas and encourage them to come forward and do something for our Country.

To provide and positive direction to youth so that they move forward on a right path.

Intensive focus on Agriculture Sector. Helping farmers in adopting sustainable agriculture and socio-economic development of Farmers.

A healthy society is the foundation of a developed country. To spread health services through community health services and to make people of India healthy and fit.

To provide basic and essential education to children below poverty line. To help illiterate ones in getting basic education.

To organize various awareness proagrams and motivational events in different areas.

To organize Health and Medical Camps, to aware people about health and nutrition. To provide medical assistance to the persons in need. To organize Blood Donations Camps.

Distribution of books, stationary, school uniform to poor children who can not go schools due to unavailability of the basic things.

Distribution of clothes to needful persons.

To help in resolving various environmental issues. Active organization and participation in plantation proagrams and other activities.

To provide skill development training to poor & needy youth.

To save drinking water. Run a movement to aware people about proper use of drinking water and ground water. Water recycling process.

To help in Making Tobacco free India.

To help in making our Society Corruption free.

To encourage people to move towards use of Ayurvedic system of medicine and to manufacture quality ayurvedic medicines, with low cost and high benefit objectives.

To work on various Plans which are beneficial for our society and are for the development of our society.