Our Activities
Gram Nirman
Year of Commencement
July 2017
Donor
Caritas India, New Delhi
Year of Completion
June 2020
Objectives
- To develop villages into self-sufficient communities.
- To help people utilise the available government schemes for their development.
- To foster unity among themselves for village development.
- To ensure and support community-based people’s organization for development interventions.
- To build self-reliance among the people by mobilizing resources, capacity building, creating employment opportunities, increasing assets and ensuring economic security.
- To sensitize the Tribal communities towards their rights and entitlement.
- To promote sustainable livelihoods of the marginalized
Target area and people
- Gaurella Block of Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh
- Marginal and Small Holder Farmers, Landless Labours, Women SHGs, Community Leaders, PLWD, widow, old-age people.
Outcome
- Tribal communities improved access to various entitlements.
- Marginalized families have increased their income by 20% through small and marginal farmers’ organization.
- Women quorum is being full filled in Gram Sabha of Notified Village.
- 37 women SHGs made fully functional.
- 9 Legal Cell formed and made functional for solving village level issues.
- 13 Farmers group formed and made functional.
- 587 marginalized people received different benefits of entitlements from and government schemes.
- 45 families started kitchen garden.
- 21 farmers received Kisan Samridhi Yojana for NADEP pit.
- 74 old-age beneficiaries received approval of getting old-age pension.