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Women Empowerment |
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Women are always in forefront of all activities organized by SAMBANDH. Women development programmes are directed towards creating awareness and their social and economical empowerment. The condition of women in hilly areas of Uttarakhand is quite pathetic as they have to work beyond 16-18 hours a day. The hill region of Uttarakhand with difficulty agro-ecological and climatic conditions has integrated systems of farming, forestry, horticulture, and livestock and off farm activities in which contribution of women is more than 80 per cent. In spite of their major contribution in state economy their role is still subservient. Without women, it is impossible to achieve sustainable development in mountain areas. Realizing the pathetic condition of women, Sambandh has initiated a wide range of programs for their empowerment. Some of them are mentioned below: |
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Promotion of Women Self Help Groups - Sambandh has taken a giant step for promotion of women SHG movement in the Champawat district. Women are organized in a viable group and after undertaking various capacity building activities they are provided assistance for starting economic development activities. Women SHG members are saving more than Rs. 40000/- every month. |
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Promotion of Napier Grass - Women have to go distant places in the forest for collecting the fodder for animals. Realizing the difficulty of women, Sambandh has launched a programme for promotion of Napier grass, which play significant role in reducing their workload. Women are provided assistance for plantation of Napier grass in their own fields under NREGA programme. 340 SHG Members of 30 SHGs are involved in plantation of the Napier grass in their own fields. This is a crucial project aimed at reducing the drudgery of women and increasing their income. |
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Marketing Assistance for products made by Women SHG Members – To start marketing activities and generating more income for women SHG members, Sambandh has organized SHGs into Federation. Three marketing cooperative federations of SHGs have been formed in Pati Block of Champawat District for promoting products of SHG members and selling the same through outlets with the help from NABARD. Women members can sell their products directly in the market and fetch higher prices and are also protected from exploitation of middleman. This is resulting in increasing their income and they are also motivated to cultivate/make products according to market needs.
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Women Literacy Campaign – Sambandh organizes special literacy programme for women from backward rural villages. Total Literacy campaign has been launched in various villages of Pati Block. We have achieved 100% functional literacy for women in Barsi, Sirna, Pokhari, Kota, Bhokra, Banchaura, Bhakturi, Siroli, and Ramak. Name of our exclusive literacy campaign is
“ SAMPURNA SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN” |
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Awareness Generation Programme – Sambandh organize various awareness activities for making women aware and educated on social as well as economical matters. Awareness programmes for women organized regularly covering range of topics like nutrition, women rights, health & hygiene, gender equality, domestic violence, income generation etc. |
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Skill Development & Training Programmes |
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Skill and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of any country. Sambandh realizes the need of skill development and training especially for the less educated, poor, women and out of school youth. All our training programmes are directed towards empowering the society and develop their skill and knowledge so that they can become self reliant. In the area of skill development Sambandh undertakes following activities: |
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Computer Education: Sambandh has stepped into providing IT education to poor rural youth with an objective to provide them vocational education and make them employable. Two centers one at Champawat & other at Lohaghat in Champawat District are dedicatedly imparting training on various computer-operating skills to rural youth. These two centers train more than 200 people in various computer skills every year. Besides providing computer training these centres are also engaged in providing soft skill training like personality development, English Communication etc to rural youth. |
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Skill Development Training: Sambandh conducts various skill development and EDP training programmes for rural poor people. The main focus of skill development programmes remain on self-employment. Sambandh is having trainers and other required infrastructure for conducting skill development programmes. We are conducting skills development training in the areas like: |
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- Bee Keeping
- Fisheries Production
- Cultivation of Off Seasonal Vegetable & Spices
- Fruit Processing and Preservation
- Carpentry and Wooden Art
- Candle and Aggarvatti Making
- Alpana Art & Painting
- Beautician
- Cutting & Tailoring
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Skill Development & EDP Training Programmes are supported by: |
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- NABARD
- District Rural Development Agency
- Directorate of Industries, Govt. of Uttarakhand
- Fisheries Department, Govt. of Uttarakhand
- Sam Vikas Yogna, Govt. of India
- Khadi & Village Industries Commission, Govt. of India
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Career Counseling for Youth: Objective of career counseling is to provide youth counseling on various avenues available for their career and we also assess their aptitude and attitude for various options. This activity/activity primarily aims at helping young individuals to make their career bright and help them to choose a better career path. |
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Public Information Centre/Library: Sambandh has established a Public Information centre/Library at Barsi to facilitate the inflow of information for backward villagers. This centre provides most needed information related to agriculture, govt. policies and other relevant literature to the villagers, which is useful for their empowerment. The public Information Centre plays crucial role and is a unique platform for villagers to discuss their various problems and find solutions. |
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SHG Promotion and Mirco Finance: |
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Sambandh is actively involved in pioneering and promoting Self Help Groups in Uttarakhand and playing role in the SHG movement. |
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Our primary approach is to facilitate group of around 10 people belonging to the same village and sharing a common socio-economic background to form a group. These groups, commonly known as SHG, enables its members to gain their identity as individuals, while realizing – and utilizing – the immense power of mutual aid. The SHG gives them strength as collectives and provide a platform where they can access government schemes, banks and negotiate with market. |
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SHG’s as a basic unit work for the development of its members in a number of ways: provide guidance; give support and assistance to its members, give an identify and promote livelihoods among its members. Groups help them in link with other institutions to mobilize credit from mainstream financial institutions. |
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As a result of Sambandh’s efforts, an increasing number of rural families – especially women – are engaging in independent livelihood activities. These activities serve as opportunities for diversifying and enhancing their incomes. These SHG members are also taking up other activities like Vegetable cultivation, fruit plantation and goat rearing. These groups also play key role in other village development activities like watershed development and NRM. |
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With the help from Sambandh SHGs potentially play key roles in mutual help, financial intermediation, livelihood planning, and social empowerment. |
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The SHG movement is being supported by NABARD and District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) Champawat. |
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Income Generation and Poverty Alleviation |
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Sambandh is involved in undertaking various income generation and poverty alleviation activities
The key focus of this prograrmme is:
- Providing business development support and services like capacity building, training, exposure, technology for entrepreneurship development.
- Sensitizing and facilitating entrepreneurs for managing their income generation activity/activity.
- Awareness generation among people to start or expand economically viable agri-business.
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Cultivation of Off Season vegetables under Polyhouse Technology : Sambandh has been continuously taking efforts for improving economical and physical health of poor rural people. Cultivation of vegetables is highly profit oriented activity/activity which not only helpful in increasing the income but also for improving the health of people. Cultivation of Off season vegetable under polyhouse technology is being promoted by the organization in the Champawat District of Uttarakhand with the help of Food & Agriculture Organization of United Nation (UN) |
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Cultivation of Spices : The organization is playing crucial role in promoting the cultivation of spices like Turmeric, Ginger, Chili, Garlic etc., which has great potential and provides quick monetary returns to the farmer community. Farmers are provided technology for spice production through our Spices Production and Display Centre at Barsi. |
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Horticulture : Since inception Sambandh has promoted horticulture activities in Champawat district by demonstrating their market potential, training farmers in appropriate horticulture techniques, providing saplings and helping to arrange the sale of these items. The District Horticulture Department extends their help in undertaking this crucial activity/activity. This is becoming a highly profitable venture for farmers for their economic empowerment. |
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Fisheries Production: Fisheries production has potential to become income and employment generator in hilly region. Sambandh involved in providing training and technology for fisheries production as a result of which many people have started fisheries business in the Ladhiya Ghati region. |
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Bee Keeping: Sambandh promotes bee keeping and honey production in Champawat District by providing training, techniques and support for starting the honey business. |
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Compost Manure : Our organization is playing crucial role in discouraging the farmers from using chemical fertilizer and promoting making compost manure in their yards. Many villagers have started making compost manure, which is increasing their crop productivity and saving the money involved in buying the chemical fertilizer. Further they have started selling their compost manure and earning income. |
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Fruit Processing : Rural people are being motivated for starting fruit processing units and make value added products from available fruits in their garden. They are being provided training and marketing support for selling their products. |
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Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act |
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Awareness Generation : Sambandh undertakes various activities for generating awareness about Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee in villages of Champawat. Awareness is created through wall writing, distribution of booklets, Pamphlets and organizing seminar and workshop etc.
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Social Audit : Sambandh conducts social audits for MNREGA activities. We have experience team of professionals and expert for carrying out social audit activity/activity. We have conducted social audit of NREGA activities in all 283 village panchayats of Champawat District.
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Himalayan Culture & Tourism Promotion |
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The state of Uttaranchal has tremendous potential of developing tourism industry due to the beautiful landscape, religious places, trekking trails, national parks, mountain peaks and historical and archeological sites. Its largely a hilly State of India at the foothills of the Himalay mountain ranges The State is very rich in natural resources especially water and forests as it has many glaciers, rivers, forests and mountain peaks. The tourism can be developed as a major source of employment and income/revenue generation and as a pivot of the economic and social development. Realizing the important Sambandh has intervened in the areas of development of lesser known tourist destinations and organizing fairs/melas. The following two lesser known tourist destinations have be developed by Sambandh.
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Patal Rudreshwar Gupha – Sambandh has identified a mysterious cave situated at village Barsi, Pati Block of Champawat District. As a result of continuous efforts of the organization Government has paid its attention and sanctioned a huge fund for its development and preservation. Work like making pathway from road head, toilets, fields, gates, beautification of this cave has been completed. For promoting this beautiful cave every year we organize three days “Tourism Mela” at his place. Today due to the efforts of Sambandh this cave has made its place in the map of important tourist destination of Uttarakhand. |
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Aditya Dham – Sambandh has identified another potential destination, which has great potential to become an attractive tourist destination. This is a very ancient temple situated in a remote village namely Ramak. This place is near to Nainital and has a beautiful panorama. Realizing the latent tourism potential of this place Sambandh organizes three days local fair for its promotion.
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Promotion of “Hurkiya Baul” – “Hurkiya Boll” is an ancient traditional culture, which is performed in rural areas by people during agriculture cultivation. In this tradition people sing some legendry songs while working in the field in groups, which provide them entertainment while working and increases the bonds of oneness. This also improves productivity and encourages people to work in-group. This traditional culture has reached in the verge non-existent. With efforts of Sambandh Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India has sanctioned a project for the rehabilitation of Hurkiya Baul.
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Sanitation, Water and Environment Conservation |
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Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) : Sambandh has launched an intensive Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in the Ladhiya Ghati region of Champawat district in collaboration with SWAJAL for achieving 100% sanitation in these backward villages. We are engaged in construction of low cost toilets in 35 villages of district. Our volunteers provide services not only for bringing about the awareness in rural masses for the need of rural sanitation but also ensure that the rural population actually makes use of the individual latrines. As a result of efforts of organization 10 villages have achieved 100% sanitation and in other villages more than 50% work of constructing individual toilets has been completed. This is an unique achievement of organization where there were not a single toilet before starting the campaign now a revolution has taken place. Further consequent to our efforts 4 Village Panchayats of Pati Block have been awarded NIRMAL GRAM PURUSKAR by President of India for achieving 100% Sanitation in these village panchayats. Our organization has made more than 1000 individual toilets. |
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Water : We are working in a rainfed area where availability of water is not so good. Sambandh providing its services for reservation of the traditional water sources in hilly region and making people aware about rainwater and other water harvesting techniques. Sambandh has also undertaken a massive water awareness campaign in the Champawat district which covered more than 93 villages. Workshop/Seminar are conducted on regular basis for making people aware about importance of water. |
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SWAP Programme : Working for providing safe drinking water to villagers under SWAP programme of Govt. of Uttarakhand. We are working closely with SWAJAL, Jal Sansthan and Peyjal Nigam of Uttarakhand Government from pre-planning phase to implementing of scheme. Our activities include identifying the water sources, carrying out surveys, setting up village water committees and monitoring of pipeline work. |
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Environment : Environment protection is an important activity/activity of our organization. We are actively working with the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India toward awakening the community for the environment. With continuous increase in the population has created menace for the natural resources. In the backward areas of Champawat district in Uttarakhand state where people are not aware about the environment protection and they are destroying the natural resources we are making them aware about the scarce natural resources and their wise management through PAD YATRA, Awareness Campaign, Seminar and Workshop. |
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Marketing of SHG Products |
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The marketing efforts of the organization are quite beneficial for rural poor who need marketing support. In the absence of organized marketing support they are compelled to sell their products at very low price to middleman who in turn earns a huge profit. Providing Marketing Assistance to rural community in one hand are helpful in enhancing the income of rural poor people and on the other hand motivating the people to increase the production of rural thing and finally increase their income. |
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With an objective to improve the economic condition of poor and disadvantaged section of society Sambandh has taken a key initiative aimed at providing marketing support and linkages for organic products made by Self Help Group (SHG) members in Uttarakhand. This crucial activity/activity is not only aimed at providing market linkages and help in fetching maximum return for their products but also protect the poor people from exploitation of middleman. |
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To accomplish this important task Sambandh has entered into an agreement with District SHG Federation, Champawat, supported by District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Champawat for providing marketing support and linkages for selling the products made by SHG members. Our activities include creating awareness, training of SHG members for producing market oriented and better quality products, grading of products, packaging and providing assistance for selling products in attractive packaging. |
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The products are sold in the common brand name “SARAS” through outlets in local markets, haats and nearby Mandi. Most importantly Sambandh has been able to developed a market in NCR (Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ghaziabad) where these products are being sold through various outlets. |
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Products of SHG members are also being provided to people through courier in other cities of the country. The SHG members are encouraged to participate in important District, State and National level fairs for getting exposure and selling their products directly to the end consumers for realizing higher prices
For marketing of products of Self Help Groups Members, Sambandh has entered into an agreement with District |
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Publication |
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- How to form “Self Help Group?
- “Jeevan Margdarshika” - for students
- Booklet on Bee Keeping
- Booklet on “Hudkiya Baul”
- Booklet on Food Processing & Preservation
- Booklet on National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
- Booklet on Right to Information (RTI)
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