Reviving sustainable agriculture!

MotherNgo Up Dharma Robert Downey Jrour vermi compost structures were existing in four villages of both the clusters. They were not functioning properly due to lack of information regarding importance of maintaining the earthworms in the pit. The owners of the pits were using all types of garbages in the pits which was not producing the manure as intented. Jeevikia team members instructed the farmers how to convert the compost pits to vermi compost production units. Therefore the pits have been cleared and made ready for vermi compost preparation. In the month of September seeds of vermin will be placed in the pits and it will be made functional.

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Mid Day Meal allotment to SHG@JEEVIKA DHAR

Application for getting Mid Day Meal supply to primary school children was submitted to Janpad Panchayat, Dharampuri by jeevika cluster coordinator, on behalf of Rani Laxmibai BPL SHG of Gadiya Daggad village at Dhani cluster. The application was accepted by the Janpad CEO and awarded the allotment of providing Mid Day Meal in the village school. Two SHG women will take full responsibility of storing, cooking and distributing the meal. They will be given Rs. 1000 per month remuneration for this activity.

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Fish cultivation: An innovative livelihood option!

Jeevika team members have helped to cultivate seeds of fish in the well of one of farmer club member of Naharkhodra which comes under Khurda cluster. Before intervention of Jeevika the well was used as a fish growing tank by Antarsingh individually. The other community members have not been getting fish for food from this tank. After formation of formation of farmers club they have gone through the sharing and thinking cooperatively could make possible. Then after 7 neighbor farmers have decided to cultivate fish in the concerned well. They contributed Rs. 5000 and brought seeds of fish from market and dropped in the well. They decided their own rules for fishing for food. FOR MORE ON CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA LOG ON TO www.jeevikacaritas.blogspot.com .JEEVIKA at Dhar is being implemented by IDSSS-Indore

JEEVIKA at Dhar making youth (girls) Diploma Holder in tailoring!

30 girls who have successfully completed the training course have been awarded diploma certificates on 10th August by the Bishop of Indore Diocese. These certificates have been issued by Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS), Dist.-Dhar(M.P.). JSS is a registered GO institute of M.P. which is engaged in skill building of youth is empowered to issue the certificate. It will help the candidates to find job, apply for loans and credits to start self employment activity.

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Control over fish cultivation@JEEVIKA Dhar

At Girwalpura village of Dhani ( Dhar) cluster there is a large pond which has registered patta in name of commitee of farmers club. A group of fisher men were growing fish and selling them for a long time. They were making good profit from this business. The Jeevika team members made aware of the farmers club members about the utility claim on the concerned pond. The club members decided that the village community should get the benefit of profit from their own pond.

Hence, a meeting was held with the fisher men and they were informed that a share of profit from sale of fish should be given to the leagle owner of the pond which is Girwalpura. They came to an agreement that Rs. 50000 shall be paid by the fish growers every year to the farmers club Girwalpura.

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A school of aspiring farmers by Experienced and innovative Farmers @JEEVIKA Shivpuri

This is on field activity for farmers to know about innovative, organic and technical farming practices. It's a three day activity in which we have to go with Scientists from KVK or officials from Agriculture Dept. in our 14 target villages. So that farmers will have conversation with experts. When we went to KVK to discuss about it and asked for their guidance. They Suggested name of Mr. Shri Krishna Dhakad. A 72 year old farmer from nearby village Gopalpur, who is doing organic farming since 1952 and got many awards at National, State and District level. Another reason for choosing this person is that community people are easily mingle with him and don't hesitate in asking questions to him. He also know as Desi Dadda and attached for Jeevika for last 6 months. You can also hear his experiences on Kisan Vani on Radio. he went with in our 14 villages and told farmers about how he never left organic farming practices and encourages our farmers towards this. He has given very simple and easily available solutions for any crop related problems. I will share more his experiences with us when ever we needed him and ready to provide good quality earth worms to Jeevika Organic Pits...

By GCSS-Gwalior JEEVIKA Shivpuri team

Major Achievements in the field in Aug 2013 @JEEVIKA Khandwa (being implemented by KDSSS-Khandwa)

1. 913 community members participated in gram sabha meeting.

2. 433 community members participated in gram sabha with support of Jeevika staff.

3. 219 women participated in gram sabha with support of Jeevika staff.

4. 450 farmers have received vegetable seeds from Horticulture department.

5. 33 farmers used organic medicine in their land.

6. SHG women applied for cooking food in Anganwadi during gram sabha meeting in Deolikala village.

7. Nannun Shisodiya and Aasharam Mandloyi registered in KVK, Khalwa.

8. Women applied for Aanganwadi Building at Dhana Bhuru in Deolikhurd during gram sabha with support of Jeevika staff.

9. Sakaram Patel and Kailash applied for Animal shed during gram sabha in Deolikala.

10. Numbers of farmers have started using organic manure and organic medicine in Soya been, Rise and cotton crop.

11. 26 SHG meeting have conducted in month.

12. 6 farmers club meeting have conducted in month.

13. 130 farmers aware about agriculture based scheme that run by Govt. through orientation on agriculture based scheme that run by Govt.

14. 42 community members participated in Gram Sabha Meeting Rally from Deolikala.

15. 106 community members participated in workshop on gram sabha meeting.

16. 42 community members got awareness about Gramsabha through Gramsabha Meeting Rally.

17. 23 Aanganwadi workers, Aanganwadi supervisor and ANM participated in training to all Aanganwadi workers in Deolikala and Shared about Aanganwadi functions.

18. Jeevika Staff attend 9 gram sabha meeting.

By JEEVIKA KDSSS-Khandwa team!

Now we have our own land (Ab humare paas apni Zameen hai)@JEEVIKA Shivpuri

How you feel when you are living in another person’s room for a long time and suddenly he/she says you will have to vacate room. Neemdanda community people felling same for a long time. Because land on which they are living for a long time it’s not their own land. So they decided to live on their own land but from where the land comes? After visit of Dist. Commissioners-Shivpuri visit in February month. They promised to get 25 Acres land just one Km far away from present Neemdanda village. But after 6 months they didn’t have anything.

So they decided to meet MLA and other district level officials to get their land. On 29th of August a group of 45 community people from Neemdana villages went to Shivpuri in morning and first mate MLA of Shivpuri (Makhan Lal Rathore) and submitted Gyapan to him. He assured for full and quick help. Then they went to Jila Panchayat Adhyakcha of Shivpuri (Jitendra Jain) for same problem and submitted a Gyapan to him also. Unity of villagers worked. After 2 days Patwari- Manoj Khateek and Tehseeldar went Neemdanda to show community people their new land. Almost all villagers went to that place and seen it and felt very happy and also thanked Jeevika team for standing with them. Most of them were saying that now we have our own land.

By GCSS- Gwalior-JEEVIKA team

..Caritas India JEEVIKA COMMUNITY media initiative..strengthening community journalism

Community media greetings from Caritas India JEEVIKA!

In 2013 most of survive with mobile phone, getting updates on facebook-twitter-and blogs, watching videos on youtube, daily morning before we wake have our newspaper on door, plasma/LCD TV with more than 200 plus news channels……. ….and in programmes we update our self /donors and development sector through daily reports, monthly reports, half yearly reports, annual reports and various case studies and other means of communication….

….but what about community with whom we are working? Is there something for them to updates on our programmes going with them…are we sharing some reports with them…are we making aware with them in their own villages and in other villages through our programmes what we are doing….? CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA partner at Indore (IDSSS-Indore) has found it interesting and important and initiated a concept of ‘Community Media’ from Sept 2013 onwards, where in:

•Team has developed a ‘community media team’ including community members ( from Community Based and Managed Organisation-CBMO-farmers Club and SHGs) and every month in cluster ( there are two clusters of 7-7 villages) they organise 1-2 days meeting/workshop and discuss entire happening of the month and CBMOs work as an editorial team , develop articles, share pictures, share stories of success and with JEEVIKA IDSSS-Indore team work on it and come out with a one page magzine-JEEVIKA Se Vikas ki aur…. (in Hindi)

•The above said community media paper been further financially supported by community ( 1 ruppee from CBMOS members and 5 INR prom panchayts) to meet printing expanses

•The one page community media paper been circulated to CBMOS, Panchayts, blocks, NGOS (locally working near JEEVIKA project villages) and interested community members!

What exactly this community media initiative under CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA umbrella would give back to community? • Community would be knowing all about happenings of project every month-its like sharing a monthly progress report with them in their own language-Hindi

•Community would be skilled in concept of Journalism/mass communication- and hopefully in near future we would have community reporters!

•Establishing a very transparent system of working with community , and other stake holders

•Making PRI as the part of JEEVIKA initiative

FUTURE plan: •To link this –JEEVIKA COMMUNITY MEDIA’ initiative with Makanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism ( in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh) and community would be more professionally trained on mass communication skills

•Linking with some media groups like Danik Bhaskar

•Sharing this Community Media concept with IIM-Indore (Indian Institute of Management-One of the top 6 renowned Management college in India) and link with IIM Indore alumni association for funding this initiative!

Other similar initiative by other partners in JEEVIKA are:

1. JEEVIKA Newsletter ( six monthly) by KRIPA Ujjain and Pragati Jhabua

2. NREGA Pathshala (School)-KDSSS-Khandwa and Pragati Jhabua

3. JEEVIKA Gyan (Knowledge)-JDSSS-Jabalpur

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Find attached 1st Copy of Community media initiative by IDSSS-Indore!

CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA IS A DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BY CARITAS INDIA AND CARITAS SPAIN IN 7 TRIBAL POCKETS OF MADHYA PRADESH WITH ITS 7 VALUABLE PARTNERS

World water week-and Caritas India JEEVIKA efforts in MP to make water possible!

Water is the source of life, but almost 800 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. The United Nations has declared that safe and clean drinking water is a human right. Yet almost one billion people still drink contaminated water every day"-Hindustan Uniliver Limited!

and it is said that next world war would be on water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is world water week going on... and we all know how much water is important for all of us. A report from The world Bank states that 1 in 7 people lacks access to clean drinking water-Is this not disturbing all of us? Indeed we all get disturbed with these figures but hardcore reality is that these figures are sample based , having a thorough survey may result in 1 person out of 20-25 having access to clean water..realities are different..hard and pinching!

In Madhya Pradesh situation is more worse , some of the old data ( based on Caritas India baseline status in some pockets of Madhya Pradesh) shows that out of 8 only 1 person has access to drinking water..imagine situation....no drinking wtaer...for accessing drinking water walk up to average 2.2 kms......at some places instances been noticed for drinking sewage water...yes things are difficult....and with these difficult situation Caritas India with its JEEVIKA programme intervened in Madhya Pradesh in Oct 2012 and some of the key areas covered for water-Drinking are as:

In Ujjain Prastav in Gram Sabha , than to member of Parliament and then now in 2 villages safe drinking water is available-( Copies attached)

In Shehore with shram daan ( by community) revived non-working hand pump- and now about 65 households have access to to safe drinking wtaer ( Watch fim on it @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIWoGLzzA4)

In Khandwa Prastav ( application) by CBMOs ( Community Based & Manged Organisations) for drinking water in 3 panchayts -approved In Shivpuri revived non-working handpump through Prastav in Gram Panchayt by CBMOs and jow access to 60 household village of Shehriyas tribes

In Umariya community trained on converting unsafe water to safe water ( http://jeevikacaritas.blogspot.in/2013/08/making-drinking-water-possible-jeevika.html & )

In Indore-SHGs submitted letter to local MLA for drinking water (http://jeevikacaritas.blogspot.in/2013/07/application-on-water-scarcity-submitted.html)

In Jhabuwa on about 40 well community worked on recharging ( through shramdaan) Overall in total about 2100 ( with an error of 7-10%) families i.e. have now access to drinking water through CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA endevours !

CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA is a development initiative by caritas India with support from Caritas Spain in 7 tribal pockets of Madhya Pradesh. For more on this log on to www.jeevikacaritas.blogspot.com

Lets Join hands of Caritas India to stop any war.....on...water........and make things possible!