The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (OISCA) - International was formed in 1961. With its Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, OISCA seeks to impact all corners of the world through advocacy, building on its effective field work at grassroots levels. OISCA has been active in the field of Environment, Education, Agriculture, Forestation and Development. OISCA International has entered the 21st century with its chapters and development mission located in two dozen countries and territories in the world.
In 1993, OISCA became the first NGO to receive the prestigious United Nations Earth Summit Award towards Global Sustainability. In 1995, OISCA became the first NGO from East and Southeast Asia to be awarded the highest ‘General’ consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. OISCA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity at COP10 on 25th October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
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OISCA North India as a branch of OISCA International was set up in 2001 with its head office in Delhi.
Today OISCA North India has projects in 5 States of North India.
OISCA India Tour is a practical, interesting, informative and intensive program. This tour offers a platform for creative experiential learning. Our programs are designed to address a wide variety of humanitarian needs and environmental issues as well understanding the ancient culture and history of India.
One of the flag projects of OISCA is Children’s Forest Program (CFP). CFP is an experiential environment learning program. CFP is a unique tree planting campaign utilizing school systems and featuring children as the main actor. Through this program the children are educated on the importance of forest and love of greenery, and eventually this circle of activity will be expanded from school level to community.
CFP is a long term program, in which children not only plant trees but also take care of them over a long period. CFP participants learn about complex interaction in nature through experience, while gaining a sense of pride and accomplishment in making positive contributions to their communities.
The Ultimate Goal of CFP is Action. Action to improve the Environment, prevent it’s degradation and sustain it’s well being. For children, Action itself becomes a powerful way of learning about the environment because it helps children to realize that their Action can make a difference and foster a sense of responsibility for their immediate action.
Involvement of children in practical experiences in real life situations offer them an opportunity to learn in, from and through the environment.
OISCA North India has implemented CFP in more than 1000 schools in New Delhi, Gautam Budh Nagar, Agra and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), Gurgaon and Faridabad (Haryana) Alwar and Jaipur (Rajasthan), Gwalior in (MP).
CFP was implemented in rural and urban schools covering both Government and Non - Government schools. Various programs were organized to raise awareness about environment protection and ecological conservation like Painting competitions, Debate competition, Paper Reading competition and Nature tours in all the 1000 schools.
Eco projects like Best out of Wastes and Say no to plastics are also organized in all the 1000 schools.
One of the objective of CFP was is to reach out to communities and also to raise awareness in communities about environment protection through programs like Rallies, Street Plays and workshops.
Such program cannot sustain without imparting training programs to teachers on CFP and waste management’s. So far around 5000 teachers have been trained by OISCA.
Seeing the success and impact of CFP in 3 Districts, Department of Forest, Government of Uttar Pradesh and JICA ( Japan International Cooperation Agency) have introduced CFP in 10 more districts. OISCA was selected by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to impart Trainings to NGO’s on programs related to environmental conservation. So far OISCA has trained 10 NGO’s.
iit’s a two years scholarship program to study at OISCA Academy at Hamamatsu, Japan. This incentives are given to those students coming from weaker economic background. IEP was introduced in 2003 and so far around 35 students have graduated from OISCA academy.
OISCA has implemented Literacy Project in two sites in the District of Gurugram, State of Haryana. Every day around 75 children’s of daily wage labourers, 25 women and 50 youth (school dropouts) attends the classes in the afternoon and evening. Milk and Fruits are provided to each and everyone attending the classes.
OISCA North India running a Tailoring and Sewing Classes for girls at Government Senior Secondary School, Village – Nathurpur, Gurugram. Around 50 girls of class 9th attend the class three day in a week. A professional Senior Teacher has been appointed for the classes.
Most of the students (girls) from Government Senior Secondary School, Village - Nathupur do not get the opportunity to continue with higher studies. Poverty and lack of awareness, lack of education are some of the reasons for not continuing with studies.
OISCA has taken an initiative to start with sewing and tailoring classes for the girls where skill is available to motivate them towards self employment. This short term training will also help these girls to become more employable, gain access to a variety of opportunity and attain financial independence.
The main objective of this project is to raise public awareness about environment both in Varanasi and Kyoto through children and their involvement in activities to promote environment conservation focusing on cleaning River Ganga.
OISCA North India has adopted W H Smith Memorial school in Varanasi . 3 students, Teacher and the Principal had visited Kyoto from Sep 11-14, 2017.
This educational trip emphasizes on learning by doing. The students did the clean up activity of Takese Gawa River and Kamo Gawa River. The students learnt and understood the ways to conserve the biodiversity near the river. They also learnt the techniques of keeping the river clean and enrich it with aquatic biodiversity. Waste Management was also studied at Takakura Elementary School. The students also learnt environment friendly method of disposal of school garbage efficiently through segregation.
Various activities like rallies, campaign and clean up activity were organized by the school by the involvement of students to raise awareness in communities to promote environment conservation, to clean River Ganga and also on waste management.
The school has adopted Janaki Ghat (banks of River Ganga) and regular cleaning up activities are organized by involving students, parents and people from communities.
Pledge by students for HOLY RIVER GANGA
This program has been designed in a systematic manner for children at the age group of 12 to 18 years. Through this program, children will witness and learn about the world’s most advanced technologies (space, electronic, and locomotive) and also the ancient and disciplined culture of Japan.
EEC was introduced in 2015 and round 150 students have participated in this program from various schools.
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