Jeevika Indore..Effective leadership

At village Chasiya and Naharkhodra of Khurda cluster there are about 200 small farming families. They were getting irrigation water for the winter crops every year, through a canal from a reservoir. Lately the canal was choked with mud and silt. So the water was diverted to other canals due to which the farmers of Jeevika target villages Chasiya and Nahakhodra were not getting it for cultivation. The farmers approached our Cluster Coordinator Mr. Kailash Dawar with this issue. He together with 20 farmers of both the villages approached the local irrigation authorities with the complaint. Having found no positive response from the ………, the Jeevika coordinator invited the local media (Naiduniya) reporter who highlighted this issue in the local news. As a result authorities from District irrigation department came to observe the problem and the canal was cleared from mud and silt with JCB machines. On the following day the water started freely flowing down to the last farmer of Naharkhodra and Chasiya village. It is a remarkable achievement of taking leadership for the benefit of the community.

Jeevika Indore...HIV/AIDS program at Dhani....

Awareness, counselling and blood testing was done on International AIDS day at HIV/AIDS prone area Panchayat)of Dhani cluster, in collaboration with Sr. Stella Director of NGO Viswas which is engaged only on HIV/AIDS prevention and Choithram Collage of Nursing, Indore. 20 Girls students of nursing collage and two experts from Viswas accompanied the team to Dhani for the function. 350 people participated in the program. The event started with the address by the Director of IDSSS (Fr. Simon Raj) and continued with the following activities:  Awareness program through Nukkad Natak was performed by nursing students.  Counselling session was done through group discussion by Viswas, nursing students and IDSSS staff.  Blood testing of 79 community members was conducted by Viswas team.  Special counselling and discussion with the family members of HIV positive cases was also carried out. The entire event was covered by the local news media.

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Jeevika Indore...obtained Soil test report....

At Girwalpura village of Dhani cluster, 10 Jeevika farmers have received their soil testing reports from agriculture department of Dharmpuri block. The reports were distributed during the annual evaluation visit by one of the members (Ms. Anjali Phillip) of governing body.

Jeevika Indore...Jeevika Kirana Shops....

At both the clusters, two members of BPL SHGs of Gadiya daggad and Banswi of Dhani and one youth member of Khurda cluster respectively were supported through inter-loaning up-to Rs. 3000 each for replenishing the shops with stationary goods of daily consumption. Whereas Mr. Pyaarsingh Ninama from Naharkhodra village has received personal loan of Rs. 50000 for establishing Kirana shop with the help of Jeevika team member. The shop keepers have already purchased the goods and started the shop successfully earning about Rs 300 per day. One shopkeeper Susheela Devsingh has already re-paid the loan to the SHG. Hence four Jeevika Kirana shops are functioning with benefiting to the target community members at both the clusters..

Jeevika Indore....Annual review visit.....

Mr. Vinod Pandey (CI Officer- Networking and Advocacy) was supposed to make the annual evaluation of IDSSS Jeevika project from 20th to 22nd November 2014. Unfortunately he couldn’t conduct the evaluation due to an accident. However, IDSSS took it seriously and went ahead with the review as per the schedule. We have approached many experts to conduct the review, but some of them were not available on the concerned dates. Finally, the team of evaluators consisting three women experts from different fields were chosen. Objectives: a. To learn the progress made by the Jeevika intervention in target villages. b. To assess the outcome and impact of various Jeevika activities among the beneficiaries. c. To make necessary up-gradation in the implementation process towards achieving the set objectives. Process: A. Formation and details of the Team: 1. Ms. Anjali Phillips : Officer UNICEF, Indore (Dhani cluster review) 2. Ms. Anita Yadav: Project Coordinator, MPRLP (Khurda cluster review) 3. Sr. Arokiyamery: Jt. Director IDSSS, Indore 4. Fr. Simon Raj: Director IDSSS, Indore 5. Fr. Cyriek Peter: Center In-charge, Khurda 6. Fr. Herman Tirkey: Center In-Charge, Dhani B. Preliminary meeting and plan of action: (schedule attached) A meeting was held at IDSSS office with the team to select villages and plan out the review schedule and ToR. C. Information regarding the review schedule was shared with the center in-charge, cluster coordinators, volunteers, local representatives, focus groups and beneficiaries. D. Logistic arrangement at local level was done by the Jeevika Coordinator and team. E. Documentation and reporting was entrusted with IDSSS team. Hence lots of events conducted during this review visit such as: 1. Observation of Suchna Kendra, Seed Bank, Vermin compost beds and meeting & sharing with SHG, FC, Jansunwai and Govt. beneficiaries at every village and 2. distribution of Solar lights and tailoring certificates 3. as well as observation of Jeevika Kirana shops, Garage and mobile repairing shop.