Health
Dolace Benific Foundation works towards enhancing access to quality and affordable healthcare in India. The Foundation’s ‘Health for Everyone’ motto and integrated healthcare model provides continuum of care to the most vulnerable sections of society through a network of healthcare delivery mechanisms.
Numerous health camps provide specialised care for HIV/AIDS, TB, mother and child health as well as various non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cardiac ailments, bone and joint disorders, ophthalmic conditions among others.
Education
There are significant inequalities in access to secondary education as far as income, gender, social group and geography are concerned. The capacity of the secondary schooling system needs to be significantly expanded across India.
For instance, only 16% of India’s education budget is spent on secondary education compared to 62% for primary education , Secondary education in India: Development policies, programmes and challenges. The gross enrolment rate (GER) for combined secondary and senior secondary stages (Classes IX–XII) was nearly 50% in 2009-10. Besides, not a single Indian University figures in the top 200 of the QS World University rankings.
Rural Transformation
Dolace Benific Foundation works toward enriching the lives of marginalised communities of India. It enhances livelihood opportunities and provides relevant information to help reduce risks for rural communities.
By deploying locally-relevant solutions, it enhances rural livelihoods in agriculture, and other farm and non-farm based activities. Dolace Benific Foundation makes systematic efforts to improve the quality and productivity of rural assets, leading to increased and more reliable yields. This ensures increased incomes and better capacities among the targeted communities.
Disaster Response
Dolace Benific Foundation is committed in its aim to respond to all disaster situations wherein human lives and livelihoods are jeopardised. Dolace Benific Foundation strives to assist speedily in the immediate aftermath of disasters, directly engaging with affected communities and leveraging its strengths – human resources and information technology – to efficiently and effectively provide relief and alleviate human suffering. In the event of severe and long-lasting impact, Dolace Benific Foundation may work with the communities to revive livelihoods, improve health and education, and ensure sustainable development.
Arts, Culture & Heritage
Dolace Benific Foundation is reimagining ways to protect and promote India’s priceless heritage to not only sustain but also make art and culture relevant to the younger generation. India is a land of diverse cultures and it is DBF’s endeavour to ensure that the youth appreciates and connects with its rich heritage and arts.
Sports for Development
Sports brings cultures together and bridges gaps between countries and across generations. It is recognised as an essential element of learning through physical activities and games. These activities have been a great motivator to enhance the spirit of learning and leadership, especially amongst the rural children.
With an intention to reinforce the youth of our country with the power of sportsmanship and commemorate the birthday of Hockey legend, Dhyan Chand, Dolace Benific Foundation celebrates August 29 as Sports Day annually in rural areas across states in India. The Sports Day is designed to promote and foster community connection through active participation in various games and activities organised during the event.
Urban Renewal
Urban Renewal is an initiative that encompasses massive city-modernisation in order to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in cities. The Urban Renewal initiatives of Dolace Benific Foundation strive to enrich and improve public spaces to revitalise the ageing infrastructure and also provide newer facilities.
Projects and includes construction of children’s park, walkways, jogging tracks, etc. The motive is to encourage cities to initiate steps for bringing phased improvements in community living.
Digital Empowerment
According to a World Bank report, increasing mobile penetration by a mere 10 per cent will increase per capita GDP in developing countries by 0.81 per cent. Growing mobile phone penetration in rural regions will lead to the next wave of growth in the adoption of digital technology. The opportunity is ripe for designing early-level interventions to help rural communities discover the power of the digital medium and the internet in a structured and guided manner. However, in order to achieve this, traditional societal barriers that women face, concerning exposure to technology and handling of gadgets, have to be overcome.
Under the goal of digital literacy, the Foundation will provide guided online experiences that help users discover and mine information that is most useful and relevant to their life – information that will eventually decrease the current information gap faced in the region. The Foundation is successfully nurturing a growing community of digitally-savvy women who act as proponents and torch-bearers of the digital literacy programme. Armed with the newly-acquired digital skills, these women feel liberated and acknowledge that their work has now become remunerative and satisfying.
Social Justice & Inclusion
A robust and responsive justice delivery system is an imperative for a country’s development. When justice is delayed or not served, victims are left with little hope that things will change. Changes within the justice system are complicated, systemic and interlinked and require critical attention and interventions. To ensure a sustained impact in this sector, long-term, committed interventions are necessary.
The Dolace Benific Foundation will be spearheading social change in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems in India by focusing on addressing the needs of the most marginalised sections of society. These interventions will be implemented across states in India, either directly or in partnership with state governments. The Foundation will also ask the civil society organisations to promote research and advocate policy changes.
Animal Welfare
A robust and responsive justice delivery system is an imperative for a country’s development. When justice is delayed or not served, victims are left with little hope that things will change. Changes within the justice system are complicated, systemic and interlinked and require critical attention and interventions. To ensure a sustained impact in this sector, long-term, committed interventions are necessary.
The Dolace Benific Foundation will be spearheading social change in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems in India by focusing on addressing the needs of the most marginalised sections of society. These interventions will be implemented across states in India, either directly or in partnership with state governments. The Foundation will also ask the civil society organisations to promote research and advocate policy changes.