Gender Equality India Project #13979

Give trafficked girls a new future in India

by BARNAMALA EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL SOCIETY

Project Report | Nov 20, 2013
A Weekend Adventure

By HARIPADA GIRI | Project Leader

The girls took an amazing weekend trip to mukutmanipur, West Bengal,India. Not only was it a lovely get away from school and training, it was a journey into the forest lands of their country, a place most had never seen. Thanks to the generosity of a donor, we were able to stay at a hillside resort, giving the girls a chance to be pampered with special meals and amenities that most of us take for granted. The resort had so many activities for the girls, including a zip line over the forest that taught the girls about trust and the benefits of trying new things, even when it’s scary. They spent the weekend kayaking, zip lining, bicycling, playing games and we even had a bonfire with roasted marshmallows! The highlight of the weekend was a climb up Mukutmonipur Mountain to the huge and beautiful waterfall there, which is a landmark of India none had ever dreamed they would see. It was a wonderful trip filled with beauty, adventure, friendship and growth ending with one girl summing it up perfectly, saying, “this was the best time of my life.”

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Sep 9, 2013
ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013

By Haripada Giri | Secretary

Who are we? Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is a not-for-profit organization based in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Established on 13th March 2005 and registered on 8th August 2005 under West Bengal Societies Regd. Act. (1961), the Society works in various sectors in Paschim Medinipur District and many other socially and economically underdeveloped areas in West Bengal. The objective of the Society is to help the needy people to achieve and sustain a better quality of life and to strengthen their involvement, their rights and responsibility in the fast growing development of the country. Mission:- BarnamalaEducational & Cultural Society conceives the mission to thrive away gender inequality and economic deprivations of the poorest of the poor by balancing growth pattern between haves and have nuts. Vision:- To evolve a pragmatic strategy in ensuring better lives for humanity at large. To inculcate self building potentials among the poor and marginal. To encourage peoples' movement for their emancipation. To create a direct message for people in participatory development. To epitomize women a sense of belonging in the mainstream of social life Dear Friends, Hi! How are you all? 'Hope the year ended has given you some time to think and rethink about your next step of actions towards development. It's a great pleasure for me to present the Annual Report (2012-2013) to share our endeavour, achievement and impact in myriads of people centred rural development interventions carried in some disadvantaged villages of Paschim Medinipur District of the state of West Bengal keeping emphasis on the target people - the poor, the marginalized, the dalits, the socially disadvantaged, the women and the children.Studying the impact of globalization and new economic policies, extreme polarization of haves and have nots and political dichotomy oftening adversely the poor specially the rural ones and smooth functioning of NGOs, we put special thrust to combat the situation on capacity building of our target people, optional mobilization and utilization of local resources in the development of the people and the area. We have also put special emphasis on gender development, women's access to resources, responsible participation in democratic structure, formation of Self Help Groups and thereby lounch sustainable micro enterprise initiative towards self reliance of women. This year we have undertaken No. of programmes in tune with the people and of the area. We have taken a definite step to preserve tribals culture by organizing several programmes for them and we have also tried to bring synthesization of tribal culture and traditional folk culture of Bengal like Jatra, A Santal dramatic unit has been emerged as a conscanence of our effects. Moreover, I would not like to speak like a talk machine and prefer you to go through next few pages to assess and analyse what actually we have done in the context of development. I record deep appreciation for the co-operations, we have received for local self govt., different administrative functionaries and also for our own human resources and the people as all levels who shared their agonies as well as ecstasies for their commitment to develop a self reliant society in the barriers of constrains as well as hardships.We know, being a new comer in the development field we have to pass many hurdles, but that's a way of life too! Thanks. Haripada Giri Secretary Legal Status: (i) Registered under West Bengal Society Registration Act. (ii) Registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act under Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. Contact Person: Mr. Haripada Giri Contact Address: Puratanbazar P.O.- Kharagpur Dist. - Paschim Medinipur, W.B., 721 301, India Vill- Madanmohan P.O. - Changual Dist. - Paschim Medinipur, W.B., 721 301, India. Telephone Numbers: 9433417122 Website: becsindia.web.com Email ID : haripadagiri@yahoo.com becsindia@gmail.com Promotion Objectives To make the people conscious on their need, present economic policy and to capacitate them in the process of development intervention. To mobilize Dalits, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe to access their rights to decent living. To facilitate the women to have ecenal access to resources, democratic structure along with the men at all levels of the society to ensure gender justice and ecenality. To enhance and upgrade the skill of the people specially the marginalized, dalits men and women to generate income and achieve sustainable livelihood without disturbing the bio-diversity and environment. To develop system for community health emphasizing on unconventional health practices, health education, women and child health, rural sanitation and hygiene. To energysize youth power for changing present socio economic scenario of the society through various socio-cultural and economic interventions. Area of operation: Khargpur Sub-Division & Jhargram Sub-Division& Medinipur Sub-Division of Paschim Medinipur District And Barrakpur Sub- Division of North 24 District which are largely inhabited by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Clientele: The Scheduled Castes, Dalits, Scheduled Tribes, Lodhas and other ethnic groups, and other backward classes. Landless tillers, shall and marginal farmers. The women, the children, the aged and the destitute. PROMOTION OF RURAL PEOPLE CENTRED DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES The project redesigned based on earlier in depth evaluation and emerging socio-economic-political-cultural scenario, has given stress on socio-organisational capacity building, support for sustainable livelihood, women empowerment, capacity building on gender and sustainability, promotion of small groups, networking/lobbying for democratic rights etc. The efforts of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society on varied development initiatives, progress achieved and impact perceived thereon are presented underneath:- Early Childhood Education Centre: This centre at Madanmohan village of Kharagpur-ii Block has equipped children of 3-6 yrs in functional skill of development. While preprimary educations in non formal methodologies are imparted to them, their articulation abilities and communications skills are developed through dramatics, role play, rhymes, songs, dances and choreographical venture. 30 children attend the centre. Community Health Programme through homeopathic dispensary: BECS is instrumental in bringing health consciousness among tribal's and dalit populations. Through severe informal meeting, awareness camp, the dalit women and men have been given knowledge inputs on health care particularly for women and children. The organization runs one homoeopathic clinic which is regularly attended by 20-30 women and children on average. The clinic demands a magre money from the patients to sustain the project and maintain the project with medicines and other cost inputs Mothers Day:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are organize a programme on10-05-2012 Mothers Day local 75 womens and girls are present on the day at our office primisses. Vegetable cultivation training to SHG Members:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged Vegetable cultivation training programs to SHG Members . The training team of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is pool of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons who take sessions on Vegetable cultivation.The training programs held on 01-04-2012 at Panachatra village in changual GP.12no of SHG Group participate on the training programs Observe the National Important Days: To maintain our National Heritage we already celebrate the National important days as like as observation day in the previous year. We celebrate and observed the birth of World renewed poet Rabindranath Tagore on 9th May, 2012 with due respect we observed the National Days like Independence Day on 15th August, 2nd October to observe the Birth day of Mahatma Gandhi (The Father of the Nation), Children day on 14th November for paying homage to the Late First Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. We celebrated the birthday of Swami Vivekananda on 12th January as Youth Anniversary Day, 23rd and 26th January to observe the birth day of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Republic day of India. In those programme we tried to introduce the ideological concept to maintain the National Heritage, which is glorious to every citizen of India. Through the activities many men, women, children and eminent personalities and patriot like living Freedom Fighter participated, honoured the Chairs, and delivered quality lectures on that concept in the programme. Tailoring training to SHG Members:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged Tailoring training programs to SHG Members . The training team of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is pool of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons who take sessions on tailoring.The training programs held on 12-06-2012 at Kantageriya village in .3 no of SHG Group participate on the training programs Agriculture training to farmers:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged Agriculture training programs to Farmers. The training team of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is pool of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons who take sessions on Agriculture.The training programs held on 14-06-2012 at Benapur Gausala .32 Farmers participate on the training programs Awareness Generation Programme for Rural Poor Women: Women are marginalized. They don't have either bargaining power or decision making power on the choice of their own in family or community. In this era of globalization and modern technological invasion, rural women in India are still at the receiving end. This is due to several socio-economic factors. To involve women in asserting their socio-legal rights in the right perspectives a two-days legal awareness camp for 60 rural women was organized at Sirsi Village. The camp was participatory in nature with a lot of experiential sharing on women issues. The course content covered subject like women and society, Indian Constitutional and women rights, social legislation, women rights, law-protecting women from violence intimidation mechanism etc. Resource persons constituted local Panchayet members, advocate of High Court and District Court, Professor of Sociology, assured to Participants that they would get help for all problems in any situation. Food process training to women's & girls:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged Food process training programs to women's & girls . The training team of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is pool of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons who take sessions on Food process. The training programs held at Sankoa village in kharagpur-ii block.25 women's & girls participate on the training programs Blood Donation Awareness Camp:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged a Blood Donation Awareness Camp. Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are motivate to blood donor donate their blood on blood donation camp.120 young people attend this camp. Animal Health Camp: The organization have conducted 5 Health Camps at different villages of Kharagpur-II Block. The health camps have also motivated people to take care of animals and environment. The advocacy programme also impressed upon people to adopt stray companion animals and protect animals from cruelty. The outreach programme at the villages have diagnosed treated 106 cows, 7 dogs, 3 cats, , 53 goats and sheeps, 92 birds and immunized 210 animals and birds. Polio Awareness Camp:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society also arrange the polio awareness camp in various places of kharagpur Sub-Division. The society encourage the peoples that the polio drops for child is how much essential for his life. Consumer Awareness Programme: Our target village people are unaware of many things. Hence our society has organized number of awareness and motivation programmes. During this reporting period the concentration was mainly on consumer Awareness. At Gangarampur village a consumer awareness programme was organized for the benefit of our people. Totally 45 women participated in the Programme. All the women took active part in this programme. They raised many questions and doubts. The resource persons cleared all the doubts and questions meaningfully. All the participants were happy. The participants requested us to conduct many more programmes like this in the future and also in other related topics too. Eye Check up Camp: The organization has taken a noble step to hup poor people in retaining their visual strength. As per tribals and dalits do not have enough access to nutritive food, they find to loose their right.Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society has organized one eye camps at kandarpapur village in Kharagpur-II Block which has checked up 115 people, mostly women and the aged. They include also substantial numbers of tribal populations. So have not got access to knowledge inputs for their offsprings on night blindness due to vitamin A, C, D deficiency. The Programme on Independence Day Independence Day is celebrated on 15th August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. Flag-hoisting ceremonies are conducted all over the country. The Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society truly believes that helping the needy is the best celebration for this special day. Therefore, we too is going to organize the Society's biggest programme every year on 15th August A wide range of activities would be held on the Independence Day programme serving various target groups in need of help in the region. The activities are: * Blood Donation Camp:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society every year organize Blood donation camp on Independence Day 60 peoples are donated their bloods . Kharagpur Sub-Divisional Hospital Blood Bank collect the blood. The purpose of Blood Donation Camp is to help the thelasemia patient and needy patient. * Leprosy Treatment Camp:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society every year organize Leprosy treatment camp on Independence Day 2012 242 leprosy people treatment on the camp. *Distribute wheel chair, creche to Disable person:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society Distribute 6 wheel chair, 12 creche to disable person on Independence Day 2012 *Distrbute cloth to poor people:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society Distribute 500 saree,200 Dhoti shirts to poor people on Independence Day 2012 *Distribute school bag,books,khata,pen,pencil to poor students:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society Distribute 400 school bag,books,khata,pen,pencil to poor students on Independence Day 2012 *Distribute Rice cloth to Leprosy people:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society Distribute 500 kg Rice 325 cloth to leprosy people on Independence Day 2012 * Cultural Programme on Independence Day: Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society organize a cultural programme on Independence Day 2012. Students & local youth are participate School Dropout Children Awareness Camp: In order to prevent the school drop outs in our villages, we conducted a motivation programme for the parents of school going children. Totally 123 parents from fifteen villages participated in this programme. The topic covered during this programme are as follows: Education Why we should educate our children Importance of Education Education and knowledge Future and its prospects for children Educational scholarships Various courses for Higher Education Education for ALL Non-formal Education Vermin compost training programme to SHG Members:- Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society members are arranged Vermin compost training programs to SHG Members . The training team of Barnamala Educational & Cultural Society is pool of knowledgeable and experienced resource persons who take sessions on Vermin compost.The training programs held at kantageria village in kharagpur-ii block.40 SHG Members are participate on the training programs Fishery Training Programme : Those are also one the important renounces of the rural economy realizing the aspe

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