community development program.

Province

The Church of North India (United)

Diocese

Durgapur

Goal

To reach the unreached, the special children of God - tribal, dalit, woman, child. Capacitate and empower them to a dignified life with equal rights in the creation of God.

Activity

This includes: Children's and adult women's literacy work Promotion of livelihoods Livestock management Promotion and support to women self help groups Rural life based skill training, water harvesting structures for irrigation Micro entrepreneurship Rural sanitation and safe drinking water Preventive, curative and maternal (clinical) health services, including door to door health services and HIV/Aids awareness. partnership with Christian college ( diocesan) on UGC sponsored National programs. Disaster mitigation and relief work.

Outcomes

More than 1300 tribal children are completing primary education More than 200 youths and women are skilled Women's self goups are being capacitated to manage the groups activities Dry land has been brought under irrigation through water harvesting structures Door step and clinical health services have been established, including a rural health clinic in the forest Facilitation of vaccination of livestock and artificial insemination of cows; livestock health management has improved. Promotion of tribal heritage and culture Successful completion of a national seminar with theeducational institute. Improvements in rural sanitation Migrating labourers have been made aware of hiv/aids.

Strengths

Our strengths include: our emphasis on pro-poor human concern; peoples' participation in their own development; the commitment of the church/diocese and staff. Violent movements and insecurity in the forest areas continue to be a challenge.

Challenges

political unreast. illiteracy. in acccibility to govt programs and opportunities.

Main language

Bengali

Charitable funding

In kind and own means contribution in program activities and our Christmas celebration.

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