A Case Study

On
Child Education and Environmental Awareness
(Human Values and Community Outreach)

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Award of Degree of

BA Hons English

Submitted By: Supervised By:

Khushi Agarwal Dr. Vinita Soni
A0706119070 Assistant professor

Amity Institute of English Studies and Research

AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH
India
 Acknowledgement

The following case study is based on Child Education and Environmental Awareness. The success
of this case study wouldn’t have been possible without the devotional support of my faculty
coordinator, Dr. Vinita Soni. My profound gratitude to JAX Foundation for giving me the
opportunity to volunteer for their cause. I would also like to express my gratitude towards the head
of the institution, Dr. Vineeta Prasad, under whose management this project has taken place. I
would also like to extend my gratitude towards Amity University for encouraging us to volunteer
for social work. I am forever grateful to my family and peers who have supported me throughout the
course of my volunteering period.
 Table of Contents

 Part I: About the NGO, Creation of NGO, Vision and Focus, Activities, Expected
Outcomes

 Part II: Who is it for- Service and Potential Service Users, Supporters, Funders,
Volunteers, Policy Makers

 Part III: Problem Identification and Observation

 Part IV: Success stories/Sharing experience/Case Study

 Part V: Aspects of Improvement/Recommendations

 Appendix: NGO/Social Enterprise, Photos, Pamphlets, Newsletters

 Part I

About JAX Foundation:

J for Juvenescent (Being Youthful)

A for Awareness

X for Xenodochia (Hospitals for Strangers)

The JAX Foundation is an International Students Organisation including individuals from

Oxford, MIT, Columbia, Harvard University, IIT Amity University, JNU, AIIMS, Delhi University
and Other International Universities. JAX  Foundation  is working in the field of Science &
Innovation, International relations & Culture, Peace & Harmony, Human rights, Health,
Environment, Women Empowerment and Child Education, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Environment
Protection, Waste Management & Child Education, Energy, Others. The Jax Foundation is a global
non-profit health organization which believes that all people surviving with cancer have the right to
access the best medical aid, guidance, and support. Jax HealthCare Foundation is a student body
including individuals from National and International Universities who are working for the cancer
awareness and believe that all people living with cancer have the right to access the best treatment
and support. Through personalized access to services, quality training and education, we aim to help
the forbearing by providing them with the essentials and work opportunities to live their life with
utmost dignity and hope.

Jax’s services are global and multifaceted. The partnerships and associations with numerous
industries, non-governmental agencies, health care providers and various cancer organizations
across the globe help us support the masses, providing them with effective solutions for access to
treatment.
“Our vision is to have a cancer free world and outreach the masses leaving no stone left unturned,
especially the poor people who cannot afford the expensive treatment of cancer.”

Creation of JAX Foundation:

The Jax foundation has been founded by Mr. Jitendra Kumar who is currently pursuing MSc in
immunology. The founder was deeply touched by the death of a closely related kin, who was
diagnosed with Lung Cancer (Bronchogenic Carcinomas). His death struck him very hard as he
could not provide any sort of assistance to his family member. He came up with the idea of Jax
Healthcare Foundation to cease the suffering of many who were going through similar situations.
He approached his friends and together they built the pillars of the foundation. They slowly
gathered more people to help them set up the whole Jax Healthcare Foundation. The foundation
grew with his hard work and support from the members. The foundation is slowly spreading its
roots and will soon turn into an established organization if it progresses at the same pace.

Vision and Focus:

The founder gives just one advice to his co -workers never settle and that is just enough to keep up
their spirits. Since then, we have been organizing events, gathering people to support us in this
noble cause. Amity University has been a constant supporter and became the basic platform for us
to start and we gathered our volunteers who slowly spread word to other national and international
universities.

Activities:
 Hospital Visits
 Slum Visits
 School Visits
 Special School Visits
 Blood Donation Camp
 Health Awareness Program
 Tree Plantation
 Women Empowerment
 Community Health Check-up Camp
 Free Legal Aid Service
 Digital skills and Scholarship program
 International internship Program BRICS quiz, Government scheme program
Hospital Visits:
JAX Foundation has been frequently visiting the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
and other such government hospitals, to help the people in need of finance and care for a better live.
There have been many instances where the foundation has gathered donation and have financed the
medical procedures for patients lacking it. The members of JAX Healthcare and foundation have
been a part of many different Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) where we all collectively
try to help the people suffering from Oncology and its treatment.

The foundation itself tries to bring awareness among all by uploading videos and photos of the
hospitals visited. This thus helps all of us to be a part of it easily and help a person or two to live a
better and healthy life. Well, the journey with JAX continues and so does the opportunities to help
one to overcome their troubles in curing themselves. Indeed, we all have contributed to the
betterment of many people, and we wish to continue to travel on this path for long. As JAX
Healthcare and Foundation is committed to development and cure in all aspects of Cancer and its
management, we are more than happy to be a part of the great path of development of humankind
taken by the organization.

Slum Visits:
The JAX Foundation has a socio-cultural group called ‘Kalpana’ which works towards making this
society a brighter and happier place to live in. They arrange monthly medical camps, old clothes
donation drives, movie screenings, stage street plays and hold discussions on various diverse topics
in slum areas. Just one trip to the slums with them and you’ll never be the same. It’s so strange that
a place just a few kilometres from our university seems like a completely different world. There is
this strange line that divides US and THEM.

First step into those slums and it was like entering another portal. Sights such as dirty stagnant
water, clogged drains, narrow lanes, cramped houses, and heaps of garbage welcomed us. Seeing us
(maybe we seemed as strange to them as they seemed to us), the residents gathered all around us
telling us about their grievances. We tried telling them that we are just a bunch of students who can
only try making their voices be heard by the right people. Water! First problem they talked about
was of water. Being the rainy season there was standing water everywhere, spreading all kinds of
water borne diseases. People didn’t have clean drinking water. The toilets there were in pathetic
conditions. Half of them had no doors and the ones that had doors had no latches. Little kids had to
go to the roadside public toilets which are equally bad and the one decent looking public toilet in the
slums is still locked because of some government problem.
The living conditions of the houses were equally bad. A family of six people lived in a cramped
room. It was so small that you can’t even imagine how six people could possibly fit in there. Down
at the Government ration store there was a line of customers all echoing the same complaint about
how they are duped by the storekeepers. According to Government rules they are supposed to get 35
kg of wheat but get only 20 kg. Same is the story of rice, sugar, and oil rations.

The lives we all live will seem to be much better if you look at the life of a slum dweller. For the
record, a slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN -HABITAT, is a run -down area of a
city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to
the United Nations, the proportion of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to
37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, the
number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will
likely grow to 2 billion by 2030. India has a whopping 62 million slum dwellers, but it aims to be
free of shanties through a slew of schemes such as earmarking of 20 percent of developed land in all
housing projects for this category. Much has been talked and said about slum dwellers, but even
today, the slum dwellers are the poorest. The very definition of slums points at the acute drinking
water and sanitation crisis for the slum dwellers.

School Visits:
JAX came to the schools was to see how, if at all, classrooms were utilizing their kits. These kits
contain educational resources for mathematics and English classes, such as counting mats and
blocks and conversation sheets, that seem as if they should be standard in every classroom –
especially the math tools. They helped many of us learn when we were starting our primary
education, so it made us optimistic to see the students in Mundargi and Kushtagi using the same
tools so effectively.

Expected Outcomes:
Jax healthcare foundation has reached a few milestones that we are proud to report. Free healthcare
and medical facilities are made available to the underprivileged and poor cancer patients. Further
they have reached out the goal of helping the cancer patients by providing basic facilities to some
extent.
 Part II

Who is it for?
Service Users and Potential Service Users:
The Jax Foundation organizes various events to educate people about cancer and spread awareness
also to provide help and information to the underprivileged people, women and children. Through
the activities of Jax Foundation we try to bridge the gap that exists in cancer public health,
education, human resource development, cancer survivor issues etc. One such event was organised
in the slum areas of Mansarovar Park, Delhi. A drama was performed by the volunteers which
addressed the topic the hazards of smoking, followed by an active question-answer session with the
children and people present there. The volunteers also went for various hospital visits to meet the
patients suffering from cancer and helped them in every possible way. The foundation has also
raised funds for the treatment of patients below the poverty line. The Foundation comprises of
various departments dealing with office work, cultural events, counselling etc. JAX involved
different types of support and tasks which was a lot more than charity, which was, a feeling that was
felt while helping. JAX had several ways to help and manage all the duties of a caregiver to help
and coordinate with the cancer patients to provide effective care. Caring for a person with cancer
seems complex and like too much to cope with at first, depending upon the person’s need, the JAX
foundation provided different types of support such as, emotional support, help with medical care,
assist with financial issues, served as the communicator between the patient and the healthcare team.
Advisors/ Supporters/ Funders/Partners:
Dr NARAYN RISHI (Advisor, Amity University)

Dr Abhishek Srivastava (Prof. Amity University)

Dr K. Bala (Prof. Amity University)

Dr Bhaskar Sen Gupta (Heriot-Watt University, ETHOPIA)

Ms. Purnima Anand (President, BRICS Form)

Dr Devender Toor (Prof. Amity University)

Dr S.S PAI (Prof. Amity University) - Simeon J. Simoff (Dean, Western Sydney University,
Australia)

RAJKUMAR SHARMA (Virat Kohli, Coach)

Dr (Prof.) Rosario Michael Piro (Freie Universität Berlin)

Dr Balkrishna Jha ((PATNA, High Court Judge)

Student Team:
President: Sarthak Yadav

Chief Executive Officer: Ms. Nitya Sharma (PhD)

Secretory: Ms. Palak Malhotra (M.Sc.)

Director: Manish Kumar – Industry

Yash Sharma - R&D Pleza Rani

HR Executive Director: Pushpameet

PR: Vijay Bharath

Media: Tushar Singh

IT and Technical: Kriti Singhal

Administration: Mohini Agarwal

Quality Assurance: Priyanka Gupta

Marketing: Suhaib Shah

Finance & Fundraising: Smriti Sikri

R&D: Arman Farshori

IT and Technical Youth Ambassador: Ms. Sushmita Yadav (Swansea University, U.K)
FOUNDER: JITENDRA KUMAR

Part III

Problem Identification and Observation

Child Education for Underprivileged

Objectives in Education:
 To provide and spread primary, secondary & higher education by establishing and/or
collaborating with schools, colleges, institutions, libraries, research in the education field.

 To work towards the healthy golden years of the senior citizens and to organise medical
camps at various places to monitor the health of the senior citizens and children.

 To address the educational needs of the senior citizens and children and to

provide academic education, training and job oriented vocational training to specific age
groups.

 To build a place to bring about synergies between the senior citizens and children.

 To organise outreach programs focused on providing dignity to the elderly, care and
security to the elderly through volunteer effort and to provide club and recreational
facilities to the senior citizens so that they are able to spend their time in a constructive
manner.

 To provide counselling and to work towards reconciliation with family when needed and to

enable senior citizens to access benefits / services provided by the government including
old age pension, widow pension, travel discounts, legal aid and various upkeep benefits. 

 To provide support to extraordinary talented people in every field and to publish books,
charts, illustration, journals, magazines, periodicals and other publications on different
subjects, in a variety of languages for the promotion of Sunshine Society but not limited
 to.

 To work sincerely for people and humanity without any discrimination including but not
limited to colour, caste, sex, creed, religion, nationality.

 To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on the social, cultural and educational
conditions of society.

 To collaborate with other NGO's working towards similar goals.

Environmental Awareness
Objectives in Environment:

 To promote, organize, encourage study and enhance knowledge, understanding and

appreciation of nature, and the principle and practice of conservation of natural resources
among the common mass.

 To promote and maintain liaison between various disciplines of science and technology
related to environment.

 To establish and maintain contacts with various departments of State Government and
Union Government, national, regional and international organizations or any other agency
so far as these contacts are beneficial to the Society’s objectives.

 To advise the State Government, Union Government or any other organization on matters
related to environment, in the interest of public at large.

 To hold, sponsor, support or collaborate conferences, seminars, symposia, meetings,

training programmes, demonstrations, mass mobilization campaigns, popular lectures,
cultural programmes, etc to promote education and awareness on issues related to
development of natural resources and conservation of environment.

 To publish books, proceedings, journals, newsletters or bulletins and such other, as may be
found desirable to promote public interest and scientific temper in matters related to
natural resources and environment.

 It shall adopt any other transparent means, strategy or principle that might be advantageous
and beneficial to the Society’s objectives.

 To frame co-curricular and organize courses in environmental sciences at all levels of

education.

 To provide consultancy services for any project related to natural resources and
environment.
  To promote research on science, technology and environment for sustainable development.

 To do all such things, which may be necessary, incidental or constructive, to the attainment
of all or any specific objectives of the Society?

Part IV

Case Studies
Throughout the course of my volunteering period, I have conversed with several underprivileged
people in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. On one hand, interacting and observing them has made me appreciate
my privileges more. On the other hand, I have also tried my best to understand their problems.
Whilst still in a pandemic, I have tried helping people to the best of my ability.
I have interacted with Priya and Rakesh from my grandmother’s village in Saharsa district of Bihar.

Rakesh:
Rakesh had started his education late due to his financial condition and thus, is in high school.
However, he is a hardworking student who is determined to become an engineer to earn a better
livelihood for his family. As I have completed my intermediate in PCM and was preparing for JEE
Mains in 2019, I still had my books from coaching classes and school. Therefore, I donated all my
PCM books to Rakesh. I have also given him my laptop for distance learning once I purchased a
new one. I did this implementing my idea of child education and donation to needy people under the
guidance of JAX Foundation.

Priya:
Rakesh’s younger sister is Priya who is in 7th Grade. She goes to a government school in Saharsa
district. The school doesn’t have a proper infrastructure and curriculum. In fact, there are days in the
week when the students aren’t even expected to come to school. She is a curious little girl who is
willing to learn but doesn’t possess the amenities to do so. Therefore, despite being in 4th Grade,
Priya lacks certain basic educational knowledge in English Literature, English Grammar and Maths.
Therefore, I teach her those subjects whenever I am there.

Part V
JAX foundation has contributed to events around the country held to promote social work. This
organisation provides multifaceted and global services. The partnerships and associations with
numerous industries, non-governmental agencies, health care providers and various cancer
organizations across the globe help us support the masses, providing them with effective solutions
for access to treatment. I am extremely grateful that I got the chance to be a part of JAX Foundation
as it taught me to value my privileges. I have been given the chance to make my contribution to the
society. I am looking forward to volunteer more in the future.

Appendix

POSTER MAKING

SHARING ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL SUMMIT 2021 ORGANISED BY JAX
FOUNDATION ON GANDHI JAYANTI:

ATTENDING WEEKLY MEETINGS:

DISTRIBUTING FOOD AMONG THE POOR CHILDREN:
DONATING FOOD TO HOUSEHELP: