By HPPI | Communications Manager
Humana People to People India has built upon its efforts from previous years to develop new strategies and reach out to more people, bringing about a change in their lives through better access to foundation education for their children, improved means of livelihoods, access to credit for micro-enterprises, mitigating the effects of global warming and enhancing community health.
Our microfinance initiative extended its outreach to 48,000 women micro-entrepreneurs in 5 states. This was primarily possible through continued support from our partners. Our Farmers’ Clubs programme reached 2,500 farmers in Uttar Pradesh through the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) initiative. New initiatives in adoption of green energy fuels converging environmental, health and livelihood benefits were launched in Rajasthan. Under the “One Million Tree Campaign”, a million saplings were planted in over 600 locations.
Our educational projects where we aim at enabling children to build a strong learning foundation for the future are strongly under way. This envisions a 3-pronged thrust - to get all children to school, reform learning processes in schools and to imbue vision and skills in teachers to change the way children learn. The Necessary Teacher Training Programme (NeTT) reaches 20 locations across 3 States and trains more than 4,000 teachers every year, in public-private partnership with the Government. We have developed a unique and comprehensive training framework including 1,123 units of studies, courses and experiences. We have also developed a unique system for building strong learning and social orientation skills in educationally marginalised children, called the ‘Step-Up Programme’. This programme addresses a major need of our country - that of making quality education accessible in an engaging manner, and enabling the holistic growth of out of school children, paving the way for their sustainable inclusion into mainstream education. The programme has proved to be very successful with almost 4,500 children having access to quality learning every year.
HPPI has also continued to fight shoulder to shoulder with some of the poorest farmers to organise self-help groups and Farmers’ Clubs, acquire skills and knowledge and thus improve methodologies and management of crops in order to increase income and quality of life. Small scale farmers are vulnerable to global warming and climate change and HPPI, therefore, includes interventions to fight global warming and mitigate climate change. These interventions include construction and operation of biogas plants, installation of solar mini-grids, water harvesting and recharge interventions, establishment of seed banks for indigenous and drought resistant seeds and water saving cultivation methods.
We would like to thank all our partners, volunteers and patrons who donate for our causes, for making all of this possible, and look forward to the continued support and efforts in the years ahead.
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