President Shernaz Vakil’s First Official Visit As President Was To The Vocational Training & Night Study Centre Earlier Last Week
Night Study Centres, a joint initiative of the Rotary Club of Bombay and Bombay YMCA, was started in 1966 in a Municipal School to support young boys and girls in their school education. NSC is a place where the students, who live in very small tenements, come to do their homework and study. Bombay YMCA’s Outreach and Development Department evolved slowly out of the concern for the poor, marginalised and vulnerable classes and has diversified from education to capacity building and promoting equal opportunity.
The NSC in south Mumbai caters to over 550 children through 16 centres. A class of 30 students is provided with teachers in the nonschooling hours between 7 to 9 pm for the ages above 8 years. RCB provides nutritional food and supplements. The students have continued to use this facility at graduation and even post-graduation level. Students who have studied at the NSC have become doctors, lawyers, IT professionals which makes our work and mission immensely satisfying as a genuine need has been fulfilled.
