Enabling of physically disabled towards new horizon of bright future…….@JEEVIKA Ujjain

One of the new initiatives taken by the Jeevika Ujjain is formation of group for the disabled people. Staff members knitted a networked with the ADEO of Ujjain Janpad Mr. Kushwah and got the information about various schemes and provisions for this type of disabled community. According to the information given by ADEO, we can form a disabled members group of minimum 5 members. And through the group, they will be provided benefits and approval by Zila panchayat to start subsidize loan up to 50% which conducive to get or establish their own IGP units. So the staff met those disabled people personally and convinced them. With this aim groups were formed in two villages namely Baskehdi and Bodani. The name of this group is (Sankalp SHG, Baskhedi) (Vishwas SHG Bodani). They started Rs.100/- per month as individual saving.

Major achievements in JEEVIKA in Oct 2013 @Kripa Ujjain

•2 groups were formed by the staff for the physically handicapped people at Bodani and Baskhedi and each of group consists of 5 members and the main aim of forming the groups was to link them with the government schemes and empower them.

• 18 IGP units were either started or expanded taking loan Rs. 64420/- from SHGs.

•3 SHGs were linked with Bank in this month.

•One Farmer’s club and one SHG started seed banking at Bodani and Baskhedi villages. They have collected the 130kgs soyabeen seed.

•Three Nadep pits were constructed to start the organic farming with the help of Jeevika project.

•75 household members took part in Gramsabha meeting in Harniyakhedi and Utesra villages.

•During the Gram-sabha meeting at Harniyakhedi the participants asked the clarification about the previous gram-sabha meeting.

•One house hold member from Badrkha, Mrs. Mehrajbee Mubarik received first installment Rs. 35000/- under Indira aawas yojna which was sanctioned last month for starting the construction of the house under the scheme.

•Three youth got NO DUES certificate with effort of cluster coordinator from the bank to get loans under the scheme of Mukhyamantri yuva swarojgar Yojna to start their self employments.

•Two applications had been submitted to Janpanth Panchayath during this reporting period for the government scheme like Widow Pension, Old age pension and BPL.

•In order to befit the handicapped pension, one of household members opened bank account and one handicapped certificate was prepared with the help of cluster coordinator.

•31 farmers have done seed treatment before the snaring. The “Tricodarma” medicine was distributed for seed treatment by Gram-sewak ADEO expecting 25% extra yielding.

•28 farmers received subsidized seed from Gram-Sewak, ADEO from the agriculture department at Jairampura and Panvihar villages. They have received the Rs.24364/- as subsidy through the scheme.

•19 of our youth submitted their details to NRLM for the forth coming vocational training programme for youth after election. •We could collect list social Audit Committee from 11 pancchayats.

•26 house hold members submitted the application for Mukhyamantri aawas yojna at Khemasa village in this reporting month. They can get amount Rs 1740000/- from this scheme after the relaxation of code of conduct.

•1 of our household got the subsidy Rs. 17000/- for purchasing sprinkler with support of agriculture department.

•Rs.111642/- was leveraged from various government schemes like IAY, Agriculture and social security related for our targeted household farmers and community.

By JEEVIKA Kripa Ujjain team ( MPR Oct 2013)

Jeevika Impact Assessment at project villages@Jhabua

After one year completion of jeevika project, we have decided to conduct a impact assessment of jeevika project at 14 project villages. We followed following strategy for it:

Introduction of Jeevika Patal@JEEVIKA Jhabua

In project villages, it has been found that most of the farmers or community members can’t attend our all meetings, due to their personal commitments, which make them unaware about various useful information and lead them nowhere. Also very few people own TV or radio, having electricity problems, which cut-off them completely from outer world. To solve this social problem, we came up with the idea of Jeevika Patal, so that people can read useful information at Patal and take benefit from it.

Jeevika Patals have been introduced, at 5 project villages, as a communication tool. We are planning to establish it, at all 14 project villages. It will be utilized as all communication purpose, related to Jeevika activities, government schemes, PRI information cum announcements, employment news and other important activities.

Jeevika staff has been told to promote Jeevika Patal, as much as possible. We are planning to promote it at all levels, including community, government departments, PRIs, schools and other institutions. Project Coordinator Vishwa Raj Singh told to link all Jeevika Communication Platforms (VIC, MNREGA Pathshala and Jeevika Patal), so that when people know about one platform, he also become interested in other platforms and reap complete benefits from social activities. It has been promoted like a important place, so that villagers become habitual to come there, daily.

We are planning to make Jeevika Patals at each faliya of each project village. We are very careful about the location of Jeevika Patals. It has been already instructed to place Jeevika Patal at visible and crowded area, in faliya/village. It is a start for complete social mobilization, let us see when community understand its importance and become habitual of it.

For more log on to www.jeevikacaritas.blogspot.com CARITAS INDIA JEEVIKA IS A CARITAS INDIA AND CARITAS SPAIN SUPPORTED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN 7 DISTRICTS OF MADHYA PRADESH!

NREGA Pathsala!

Have you ever heard of a school for NREGA?

Something interesting happening in terms of NREGA literacy promotion in Jhabua-classes on NREGA payment, NREGA work days, NREGA type of work, NREGA worksite facilities, NREGA written application submission and NREGA as an entitlement!

Caritas India JEEVIKA brings a school for NREGA to make NREGA literacy 100% amongst rural community in Jhabua.

School se dar nahi lagta-mid day meal se dar lagta hein sahab! स्कूल से डर नही लगता-मिड दे मील से डर लगता हैसाहब!

I remember this statement came few months back when there was incident of mid-day meal accident in Bihar where in about 23 students lost their life! I read so many articles on it, so many committees formed for strengthening mid-day meal procedures and finally so many reports on mid-day meal incident! Indeed these things are important, but somewhere vital is ‘to actually work on solution for making mid-day meal healthy and systematic’

Caritas India in Bundelkhand region and in MP with some of its partner organization shared the Bihar mid-day meal accident and asked for ideas and suggestion to work on it, fortunately two partner organizations from Sagar (MVSS implementing HARIT PRAYAS project) and Indore (IDSSS implementing JEEVIKA project) took up this and started working on it with CBMOs ( Community Based & Managed Organizations-SHGs to sort-out such incidences of mid-day meals in schools and for the same through projects at both the places SHGs been taught on Mid-meal concept, importance of it and also technically trained on importance of food nutrition and food keeping!

On the other hand we also motivated SHGs to apply to get contract for operating Mid-day meal in village government schools and fortunately in both the districts 4 SHGs formed under Caritas India programmes received the contract for food preparation in school for Mid-day meals and would be starting from Oct 2013, but these all are common thing-whats going to be different with Caritas Intervention in Mid-day meal:

• Raw material ( vegetable and food grain ) would be purchased from farmers club and would be organic

• Mid-day meal must be examined every day by a committee before serving to school children

• Explanation of food menu by those who would cook food to school children once in a week

• Usage of bio-degradable materials for serving food-in the form of bio-degradable plates/bowls!

• Brief on materials used for making food would also be displayed.

Hope now students will not fear of mid day meal and will say ...school aur khane se payaer hein- स्कूल औरखाने से प्यार है! Contract of mid-day meal to SHG members would give them a good source to earn a better income on monthly basis (probably 9000-10000 per month)

For more on the caritas India initiative ( through caritas India partners and programmes) get in touch with "jeevika idss" , "Harit Prayas" haritprayassagarmp@gmail.com

By Caritas India team

Once again: together we can:@JEEVIKA SHIVPURI

As we wrote before about the strength of together we can. This is proved again by members of our youth group “Jagrati Yuva Mandal” of Kharaibhat. This village having number of families who fits under criteria of BPL families but they are not having BPL cards. Community people given number of applications in public hearing but all went in vain. Last they have given a letter to DM-Shivpuri in same concern and mention about silent protest and it happen nobody took any action on it. So finally members of youth group decided for a silent protest in front of DM office on 5th September. Members of youth group unite more villagers and 50 villagers went to Shivpuri with fully loaded tractor-trolley and reached DM office at 10 am. DM Mr. R.K. Jain and other officials were busy in pre-preparations of 6th September’s welcome of CM’s Jan Aashirwad Yatra and taking marathon meetings of officials. Community people sit there up to 5 pm. In between they are assured 2-3 times by other officials that DM will definitely take action on your application, please give us letter and go home. But they stayed their silently. At last DM sent Upper Collector to hear matter and at 5:30 pm they talked with him and submitted letter. Upper Collector wrote it to Tahseeldar for urgent action. Then all villagers went to Tehseel office given application there and got received receipt and went back to Kharaibhat. At next day Tahseeldar sent Patwari for survey of BPL cards. Patwari did survey of 64 families and process is going on.

By JEEVIKA GCSS-GWALIOR TEAM