Selecting Ideas for action

After intense opportunity mapping of the whole system, we had to short list to decide the areas we wanted to take up and work on. We decided to map the impact of each opportunity against: Initial impact Impact overtime Feasibility Interest Role of design Collaboration scope Self sustainability Scalability Above is the mapped chart, […]

Design for Change Jury, Riverside School

One great opportunity that the four of us got, thanks to our mentor Praveen Nahar, was to be a part of the Jury for Design for Change, a design thinking initiative which started in India, but has now spread to over 60 countries! DFC provides a platform for school children to tell their stories of […]

Ideas, Segregation of Ideas

After an extensive research phase we had a exercise to list down ideas for possible interventions. We started out by random listing of of ideas based on our research and synthesis of it. The aim of this step 1 was to create a idea bank which could be further used individually or combined together to […]

Visit to Manav Sadhana

Established in 1995, Manav Sadhana is a non-profit organisation which works for the betterment of slums and low income communities in Ahmedabad. It is located in Ganshi Ashram. During our visit to Manav Sadhana, to visit Jagat bhai, an activist and a crucial member of the organisation, we were welcomed at the gate by children […]

Age-Socio-Economic Study

From our study, we realized that a lot of parameters lead to a child committing a crime, in order to understand the influence of these parameters , we went ahead to plot a timeline of a child as he/she progresses and at every stage how a child changes according to the various influences he/she has. […]

Visit to Children’s Home, Umerkhadi

During our visit to Mumbai, we were also able to visit the Children’s Home in Umerkhadi, Dongri. The home at Dongri is a children’s home and observation home; meaning that it houses both children in conflict with law and in need of care and protection. One of the biggest observation homes in Asia, the Umerkhadi […]

Visit to David Sassoon Industrial Home for Boys

On the first day of our visit in Mumbai, we visited the David Sassoon Industrial Home. About the Home The David Sassoon Industrial School is an institution certified as a Special Children Home under section 9 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000. It comes under the management of The Children’s […]

Visit to Observation home Mehsana, Gujarat

Mehsana Observation home for boys has both observation home and Place of safety. It was converted from a Children’s Home for children in need of care and protection (CNCP) 2 yrs back. It is a modern two storey infrastructure on the main road. It has about 50 children in conflict with law (CCL) within the […]

Visit to Khanpur Observation Home

On our quest of understanding the juvenile justice system, we now stepped into Khanpur observation home, literally across the wall of the juvenile justice board. The moment you step in its a completely different experience altogether. Khanpur observation home is a transit point for the accused juvenile. the juvenile is inside the observation home while […]

Understanding the system

From the various interactions we had with different officials, it was finally time to map out the whole system of juvenile justice system India. Finally, we had sufficient data to map out the whole system according to the power hierarchy. As we started mapping the system of juvenile justice, various stakeholders started to arise, which […]