Program areas at Gabriel Project Mumbai
Nutrition - the gpm innovative approach, "eat to learn", provides a thousand fresh, hot, nutritious meals to children learning in school, ensuring that children receive the nutritional boost that they need to thrive, while providing a powerful incentive for parents to keep their children in school.
Education - gpm operates eight schools and a computer lab for the rural poor, love2learn serving one thousand children in twenty villages around the shilonda village in western maharashta. In addition, gpm international volunteers, in partnership with jdc-entwine provide vital informal educational support for local educational programs like reap, thus offering children care and emotional support during the crucial process of literacy acquisition. Due to mass closure of schools during the covid-19 pandenic, gpm utilized various online and forms of education for the children in the love2learn education sytem
Health - gpm operates the shravan medical clinic, the first ever medical clinic in the kalwa slum. The clinic, provides services twelve thousand patients a year who previously had no access to quality medical care. Gpm also provides a mobile clinic to children in the rural areas for preventive care, vaccinations, check-ups and follow-up attention. Other health care initiatives include hygiene initiatives, safe drinking water facility and malnutrition programs. In 2020 gpm pivoted its work in health because of the covid-19 pandemic by: distributing masks and hygiene products, building four handwashing stations at rural hospitals and creating an information campaign about covid-19.
Livelihoods-gpm runs various livelhood programs in urban and rural under- served communities. These programs include: women"s empowerment collectives, farming initiatives and agricultural development projects. While some of gpm livelihood programs truncated in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic others expanded in scope. Gpms tribal threads expanded to produce tens of thousands of face-masks that were distributed to vulnerable communities