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  Youth for Purposeful Life!!



 Vision
Poverty, food shortage, energy crisis, child deaths, global warming, unemployment..... There is no dearth
of problems. There could be many more challenges that are still unidentified. However the youth with
social commitment and professional talent needed to tackle these challenges is generally missing. How
to nurture a new generation of leadership to take up social challenges?

NIRMAN started in June 2006 as an initiative to sensitize selected youth in Maharashtra to societal
problems and to identify and nurture social change makers.

NIRMAN encourages self-search for the development of one’s life mission.

NIRMAN provides guidance, expertise and environment to inculcate self-learning so that youth can lead a deeply satisfying and
meaningful life.

Approach
NIRMAN has developed an educational process to systematically cultivate new leadership amongst the
selected students/professionals.
The educational process includes:
NIRMAN Camps
NIRMAN Fellowships
NIRMAN Samudaay


NIRMAN Camps
This is a series of 4 residential camps (each of about 7-9 days) that are organized once in every 6 months
for the selected youth. In the intermediate period, the participants get in touch with each other, carry
group activities and get further exposure to societal issues through self-initiation.


NIRMAN Fellowships
This is an advanced phase of NIRMAN process. The enriched youth who participated in the process of
NIMRAN camps and those who want to pursue a deeper and fulltime search for their life mission while
contributing to the society can enter into NIRMAN Fellowship. This is a one year process of problem
based experiential learning and identification of self through it.


NIRMAN Samudaay
Though NIRMAN was initiated primarily as an idea by SEARCH (Society for Education, Action and
Research in Community Health – www.searchgadchiroli.org) to identify and nurture social change-
makers amongst the youth, now a group of about 30 leading figures in Maharashtra are actively
contributing for the same.
The youth and these leading figures and other supporters, together form the NIRMAN Samudaay which
shares this dream – ‘of solving social problems and developing new generation of leadership’.
                                    Visit us at: http://nirman.mkcl.org