{"id":574,"date":"2020-08-25T04:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kislayngo.in\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:51:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kislayngo.in\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/kislayngo.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_8315-scaled.jpg);min-height:600px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"has-black-background-color has-background-dim-60 wp-block-cover__gradient-background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">About Us<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull justify-text has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap justify-text has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kislay was founded in 1992 by a group of young professionals who wanted to&nbsp; address the issues of urban poverty through developing capacity of urban poor. In&nbsp; another words, the organization was founded by the grounding principle that&nbsp; \u2018community participation is key to peoples\u2019 development\u2019 and \u2018empowering the poor&nbsp; communities\u2019 especially casual workers, the women &amp; youth is essential to identify&nbsp; their problems\/issues, and mobilize community resources and motivate people to&nbsp; solve their own problems through collective action.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The vision of the Kislay is to work towards creating an exploitation and&nbsp; discrimination free society. To achieve this purpose, Kislay aims to improve the&nbsp; situations of the marginalized and poor urban communities\u2019 especially casual&nbsp; workers, women &amp; youth, by advocating their right to a life with dignity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kislay\u2019s main strategy is to build capacities &#8211; leadership, systems and human&nbsp; resources &#8211; of its Community Based Organizations which involves;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"justify-text has-normal-font-size wp-block-list\"><li><em>Enabling informal sector workers in organizing awareness campaigns for&nbsp; community mobilization against gender discrimination, child marriage,&nbsp; sexual harassment at work place &amp; domestic violence and grass root&nbsp; campaigns for fair wage, healthy working condition, regulation of&nbsp; employment &amp; other social security provisions through awareness and&nbsp; effective leaderships among workers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Facilitating informal sector workers to develop interface with state&nbsp; government, labor department for legislative protection and receiving several&nbsp; benefits.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Networking with other civil society organizations for building public opinion for&nbsp; state and national level policy environment for shelter and livelihoods security of the&nbsp; informal sector workers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Major activities of the organization:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"justify-text wp-block-list\"><li><em>Developing enabling environment &amp; support structure in communities to&nbsp; address the issues of early\/child marriage, gender discrimination at home and&nbsp; at workplace.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Empowering informal working women in Delhi slums to address structural&nbsp; forms of gender oppression and violence.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Strengthening participation of poor women in local governance by&nbsp; establishing women collectives in slum communities.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Facilitating construction and domestic workers to link them with state&nbsp; welfare boards and welfare departments for receiving social security &amp; other&nbsp; benefits.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kislayngo.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Certificate-Of-Merit-By-MCD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Certificate of Merit by MCD to KISLAY<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kislay was founded in 1992 by a group of young professionals who wanted to&nbsp; address the issues of urban poverty through developing capacity of urban poor. 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