A Humanitarian Organization for Integrated Development &

Service to the needy rural people

Address:

Vill - Chandrashekhar Nagar, Post - Guguldih,Block-Barhat, Dist-Jamui, Bihar

Email: parivarvikas@rediffmail.comWebsite: www.parivarvikas.org

Contact No. 08002028002Forward

Our organization has completed another one financial year 2016-17. On behalf of our organization, I am happy to present our Annual Report for the year 2016-17. This year, PARIVAR VIKAS CHANDRASEKARNAGAR completed more than 27 years with its mission for the empowerment of rural needy people to participate in the development process.

Parivar Vikas is a registered organization that is constantly working towards empowerment of the needy, poor and families living below poverty line through various child development, women empowerment and community mobilization activities. Empowerment of young children, adolescents and underprivileged people has been a priority of our organization.

We believe that, Poverty eradication and development in rural areas is possible only when people come together actively and decide to work together. The environment provides the frameworks as well as the agenda, which draws people together lead them to work together and awakens their creative potentials for own development. Participatory development activates can leads an improvement in the economic condition of the people and also creates an environment which catalyzes people into a community foster improved quality of life gradually.

In the year 2016-17, we have faced numerous challenges in roll out the initiatives that did not deter us from our commitments towards the development of the vulnerable community comprising of children, women and poverty stricken people of the area.

Our methodology strongly focuses on capacity building of the target people to carry out the planned activities with their active involvement and participation. PARIVAR VIKAS collaborates with Gram Panchayats, ICDS, Health and other local services providers for the benefit of targeted people of the area.

On behalf of our organization, we would take this opportunity to express our gratitude and acknowledgement for the communities who have shown immense trust on us in supporting our cause.

I hereby acknowledge our supporting agencies specially the Child Fund India, our staff, volunteers and well-wishers who have continuously support us actively participated in all planned activities for the benefit of the target area people.

BhawanandChief Functionary

Contents

Sr. No. Subject Page No.

1. PVC at a Glance

2. Introduction3. Healthy and secured Infants (0-5 years)

4. Educated and Confident Children (6-14 years)5. Skilled and Involved Youth (15-24 years)6. Activities Related To Sponsor Relations7. Case Study

8. Acknowledgement

PVC at a Glance

Genesis:

Parivar Vikas came into existence in the year 1988 under the leadership of a social activist Mr. Bhawanand and few other likeminded people of the locality to serve the poor and needy people for their integrated development by translating the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Jay Prakash Narayan and Binovaji in action. A rural working office

of the organization started in village Chandrashekhar Nagar, near Guguldih of Barhat Block of Jamui district in the same year to work for the rural people. The organization ‘PARIVAR VIKASH’ has been registered under society registration act on 2nd December 1988. From onward the organization started its journey of development and serving the poor people of its surrounding villages. There is a history of establishment of the organization in Chandrashekhar Nagar. During the period of 1988 Chandrashekhar Nagar and its surrounding villages were mere barren pieces of land without any facilities where people can’t imagine living and settling in the area. In the year 1984 the then Revenue Minister Mr. Chandrasekhar Singh rehabilitated 84 schedule caste families on Govt. land in the village Chandrashekhar Nagar as part of Govt. rehabilitation process of landless families. But due to lack of civic facilities, barren and unproductive land, lack of education and health facilities in the area, lack of water resources and irrigation facilities the families started migrating to other place. The issue of migration is discussed by intellectual people with the organization Governing Body. Then the PARIVAR VIKAS team took it as a challenge and decided to improve the quality of life and bring the smile on the dying faces of poor community people. Since onward the organization is making its continuous effort to bring visible changes in the life of poor people through implementing various program activities. In the beginning it has started its developmental activities with the support of community people and local contribution. It was felt that in order to bring the change in the life of mass poor people it will be never be possible only from local contribution and their support. So the need was felt to find out external assistance to accelerate the growth of the needy people. In the year 1991 the organization applied for FCRA registration, and got the registration under Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India for receiving grants from International Funding Agencies for implementation of various programs. Gradually it contacted several agencies and got support from CCF-India (presently ChildFund India).Though the organization has worked with several National and International agencies so far. But the Child Fund India is continuously extending its helping hand to the organization for the integrated development of the children, community and society as a whole. During the past years it has worked with various reputed International Agencies like LWR, EZE, GTZ, CFLI, IGSSS and Govt. agencies like SSA, KVK. At present it is working with CHILDFUND INDIA, CHILD LINE, NABARD and KVK.

Vision:

Make an egalitarian society where everyone can live a dignified and respectable life.

Mission:

Develop a healthy society, where everyone will be literate, healthy and self-independent in all aspects so that they can provide better quality of life to their children.

Legal details:

Registered under Society Registration Act 21, 1860 No. 317/88-89, dated 02-12-1988

Registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) No. 031130018, dated 12-03-1991

Registered under IT Act, Section 12-A of Income Tax Act, 12A/99-2000/9120-22 Registered under IT Act, 80 G (V) / dated 08-03-2002 PAN and TAN completed as per IT Act

Target area:

JamuiDistricts 3Blocks of Jamui district 21 villages/hamlets of Jamui district

Target communities:

Schedule tribe Schedule caste (Dalit) Extreme Schedule caste (Maha Dalit) Other Backward caste (OBC) Minority (Muslim)

Child Fund India is one of our major supporting agencies which are continuously working with PARIVAR VIKAS right from very beginning since its establishment. It is working with us since last 1991 onwards. Under this a multipronged approaches are initiated to bring the positive changes in the life of children, adolescents, youths women and the poverty stricken and excluded communities like schedules case, schedule tribe and other backward caste and the physically challenged persons living below poverty line.

Under the CHILD FUND India program the focus has been given on life cycle approaches which are mentioned below:-

a. Healthy and secured infants( For 0-5 years children)b. Educated and confident children (For 6-14 years children) and c. Skilled and involved youth (For15-24 year’s adolescents and youths).

Under each life cycle stage various initiatives are taken by the organization which has brought visible changes in the life of children, adolescent, youth and community people. Its achievements and the challenges faced are stated below.

ChildFund India Project details

Date of Affiliation Date – 1 September 1991

Number of Panchayat

6

No. of villages 42

Staff Structure Project Manager - 1, Accountant -1 , MIS Coordinator – 1 , LS Coordinator - 3, SRC – 2 , CM - 5, Animator – 7

Enrolled children details Project ID -1213

Life Stage Male Female Total

LS-1 0 0 0

LS-2 114 152 266

LS-3 224 206 430

Total 338 358 696

Enrolled children details Project ID -3993

Life Stage Male Female Total

LS-1 0 0 0LS-2 171 241 412LS-3 177 168 345Total 348 409 757

Target vs. Achievement of activity and participants

Project namePhysical activity

targetAchievements so

far

Target participants for the activity

Actual participation so far

Enrolled Non Enrolled Enrolled Non enrolled

Health 118 114 1595 1521 1328 1208

Education 150 149 2864 4008 2557 4608

Livelihood 98 93 970 390 1063 401

SR 98 91 1604 152 1549 379

CDP 3993 7 7 770 0 770 0

Total 471 454 7803 6071 7267 6596

Burn Rate

Project Annual Budget Total Expenses% of Burn rate as of Jun

17

Health (ARSH) 561,453.00 610016 109

Education 1,171,228.00 1149655 98

Livelihood 1,301,368.00 1267186 97

SR Management 1,587,690.00 1505395 95

Program Support 642,965.00 658653 102

Project No. 3993 2,351,192.00 2088140 89

Total 7,615,896.00 7279045 96

Major Program Highlights during the year 2016-17

Life Stage 1: Healthy and secured Infants:

Life Skill Training of peer group Adolescent boys and girls on issue of early marriage & teenage pregnancies. During the reporting year the project has formed 20 adolescent clubs in its operational village consisting of 10-19 year .adolescent boys and girls. There are 224 Enrolled girls, 53 enrolled boys, 143 siblings and 479 non enrolled boys & 71 girls. In each village these adolescent groups are provided life skills on issue of early marriage and teenage pregnancies. They are oriented on the marriageable age and its adverse effect. Total 39 trainings are conducted covering 970 adolescent boys and girls. They also became aware how it affects their development. Adolescent boys and girls understand about it. As a result of this they are also raising voices against early marriage. They are coming forward in motivating their parents in this regard. Bindu kumari-126 member of adolescent club Pira Tanr, Pinki Kumari-401 member of Sarvodya adolescent club of Pande Thika got success in convincing their parents not to marry her in early age. Other girls also understand the issues. So a positive thinking has been started among children/youth and parents to listen the voices of their children. This has helped adolescent a lot to understand the situation of early marriage which prevent their progress and development.

Organizing Kishori Mela & International Nutritional Week with a social recognition of identified youth The Kishori Mela was organized on 28th

December, 2016 by Parivar Vikas, in association with Child Fund India and District Health Department at Chandrasekhar Nagar. The event focused on the sponsored children in the

life stage three, i.e. age group of 15-24 years. There were 505 adolescent girls and boys present including 168 enrolled boys & 106 girls. The event was

attended by many dignitaries, including two public health officers of the block, who were presided over by Sri Bhawanand Singh, founder of Parivar Vikas. Before the inauguration, Sri Bhawanand spoke about the youth, the problems that they face and how events such as Kishori Mela are important to know about those problems and find solutions for it. He officially inaugurated the mela at 10:30am.Against common perception, the youth, especially the girls attended the event in large numbers. Many stalls were

set-up in the mela, which focused upon the various problems faced by the youth during their puberty. These stalls were varied in their purposes. There was one particular stall which talked about the benefits of using sanitary napkins for girls during their menstrual cycle. They were also provided with free sanitary napkins by Govt. health department.

There were also stalls which made the youth aware about the positive effects of breast feeding and using contraception, stressing on prevention of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). The girls were also educated about the dos and don’ts during pregnancy. There were also interactive sessions amidst the event, where the participants put forth their doubts and opinions related to adolescent health, and got them cleared by the Govt. health officials. Free Tetanus shots were given by the doctors present in the mela. And finally the mela came to its conclusion and served its purpose of educating the younger mass about the various health related issues and how best to overcome it.

School health sessions with adolescent boys and girls separately. In 13 Upper Primary and High school of project operational villages, this program has been introduced and separate sessions are conducted with adolescent boys and girls. These children are made aware on importance of adolescent health in their life. 455(Boys-210 &Girls -245) adolescent children and youth of 10-19 yrs age group participated in the program. They learnt about the physical and other changes during the period. Girls are made aware on maintaining proper hygiene and use of sanitary pad during the menstrual period. They knew about RTI/STI, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other related issues. The main purpose of the program is to capacitate adolescent children and youth so that they can take right decision and change their behavior accordingly. They are encouraged to take the suggestions from their parents and stake holders. These girls are now acting as peer group in her village and encouraging others to maintain personal hygiene during the menstrual period. These girls are also using sanitary napkins and motivating others for the same.

Interaction of Community leaders, Religious leaders PRI on effect of early marriage.

During the reporting quarter one Interaction meeting with community leaders, Religious leaders, PRI members are conducted in the village Sewa on effect of early marriage in which 51 people participated. In this meeting Mukhiya(Panchayat Pradhan) Parmeshwar Pandit, Sarpanch Birendra Sharma,Deputy Mukhiya Smt. Kiran Devi,Social worker Ganesh yadav, Tulsi yadav,Ward members and community people participated. The project representative Mr. Pramod Kumar Roy explained about the status of early marriage in the community and its adverse effect on the proper development of children. All participants expressed their views on the issue of early marriage and said that like the Parivar Vikas we are also making our effort in this direction and convincing the people in this regard. All PRI members took oath to

check the early marriage from their family members first then motivate the other people in this regard. All participant decided to take the following steps in the community to reduce the cases of early marriage as it will be performed from the next month in the community at panchayat:-

Motivate parents on the adverse effect of early marriage. Protect families from the legal step of Govt. if they marry before marriageable

age Girls-18 Yrs & Boys -21 yrs. Accept invitation from those families only who marry their children at

marriageable age. We will work together to check the early marriage cases and those who marry

their children below the marriageable age will not be allowed to take the benefits from the Govt. like Mukyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojna.

We will provide opportunities to our girl children to get better education. We will make our panchayat free from early marriage.

Outreach camps for adolescents for checkup, and referrals During the reporting period 3 outreach camps are organized at village Guguguldih and Sewa with the support of PHC staff by having discussion with them. They fixed the date and accordingly adolescent children informed and participated in the program. 88 adolescent enrolled (79 girls & 16 boys) and 76 non enrolled (70 girls & 6 boys) took the benefit from it. The Govt .doctor (Dr. Himanshu Pathak) and ANM( Renu Devi,Rekha Kumari & Nilam Devi) gave necessary counseling to the children . Their check up is also done by hem .They are also provided TT and IFA to girls. They also assured adolescent to meet freely without any hesitation if they face any complication. Now adolescent girls are getting friendly services from them.

Life Stage 2 Educated and confident children

Capacity Building of AWW/BWC on pre-school education and uses of TLM

2 days capacity building training of AWW/BWW organized by the project on 13-14 Sept. 2016 at Jamui on the issue. This training was provided by Shiv Prasad Behra Zonal office. Total 50 participant including AWW/BWW of both

projects of Jamui district participated in the said training program. During the program all related aspect of ECCE and importance are shared to the participants like care of 0-5 yrs. Children, parenting ,value added services, child assessment

based on their development milestone related to physical ,mental, social development, creativity development and others. They are also sharing the 11 key indicators of ECCE. Additionally focus is given on home based and centre based care and development of children. They are also made aware about their role and

responsibility for the development of children and encouraged to develop good habits in the children related to health and hygiene practices. They were also oriented on maintaining the growth charts and assessment cards of the children. This training program has helped the AWW/BWW a lot to create joyful environment at the Anganwadi centers. So it was really very helpful for them. It has not only capacitated them but helped them to introduce new techniques to bring change in the development of children. They are providing care to the children in a better way and developed a healthy and learning environment at their centre. Children are learning freely there in joyful environment. Due to this the presence of children has been considerably increased. In 25 Anganwadi centre AWW has implemented what they have learnt during the centre.

Running Balwadi Centres 4 balwadi centers are functioning in 4 different villages namely Chandrashekhar Nagar, Kudila, Banjhulia and Jalgorba covering 100 children from enrolled and non-enrolled families. These children are mentally prepared for formal schooling and received centre based care through the project support under Child Fund India168 children linked with formal education and admitted in Primary School situated in their own village. The project staff is closely monitoring the child for their regularity at school and motivating parents for the same.

Functioning of 12 Coaching centre

12 coaching centers are running by the project in its operational 12 operational village for those children who are weak in Hindi and Mathematics subjects

studying in Grade VI-VIII. There are 292 children, out of 216 children are enrolled and their siblings & 76 Non-enrolled. There are 141 Boys and 149 Girls. Firstly meetings are conducted in those villages where we have more enrolled children and a base line survey is conducted 435 children. On the basis of criteria 292 children are selected by education volunteer who are oriented earlier. The base line statuses of 292 children are HAL-37, MAL-149 & LAL-106. The status of these children at the end

of Mar.2017 there are HAL-95, MAL-165 and LAL-32. Final evaluation of these children will be completed by end of June month.

Interaction with children, parents and teachers for better learning environment. Children are attending their school and learning their subject materials there. Sometimes they don’t get proper guidance from their teachers. A learning environment is lacking there. So there is a need to improve such environment where children can learn freely and solve their education related problem with the support of teachers freely. So the project has organized interaction meeting with teachers and parents in 20 schools with 41 teachers and 265 parents. Teachers are paying attention on the education of the children and providing necessary guidance to them. Parents are also sending their children regularly to school and closely monitoring the progress of the child. So a better learning environment has been developed at school where children are getting education joyfully and ask their teachers without any hesitation.

Organizing community meetings on child protection issues in 20 villages.Children are living in un- protective environment vulnerable to child protection issues like Child Labor, physical torture, discrimination and violation on child rights. For this there is need of sensitizing community and other stakeholders on

the issues affecting children. Keeping this into consideration the project has organized 35 community meetings with 1488 participants including 856 from enrolled families in its operational village to make them aware and how these issues are affecting our children to continue their education. Early marriage & child labor is one of biggest hurdle in the development of children. They are sensitized and making effort in ensuring child protection. So the parents and community people are thinking positively to reduce the early marriage cases in the society. Children are also motivated on the issues and encouraged to raise voice against early marriage, child labor and others. They are given child helpline no.1098 and they are using the same. Parwati Kumari d/o Ram Khelawan Sao one of active member of Jay Maa Sharde Child Club Banjhulia early marriage stopped by the member with the support of helpline and project. So the children are coming forward to raise their voice against the issues affecting them.

Developing Reading corner at Child club level 15 Child clubs has been identified for developing reading corner. For this 10 meetings are conducted with child club members in which they are oriented on importance of reading corner and how they can use it. The project has supported them with 600 books, 4 bookshelf, carpets and others. They are also capacitated on maintaining the records. At present these 4 centers are functioning effectively and benefiting to the children.

Life Stage 3 Skilled and involved youth Career counseling session with youths to identify their interest area.

After completion of 10th & 12th Board examination generally youth became unable to take the right decision about their career, which stream he/she should adopt. In such a situation they confused. Keeping this into consideration 22 career counseling sessions are organized in 10 villages participated by 160 boys and 245 girls who are enrolled under the program. Under this they are counseled to set up their future goal, identifying problems, time management, stress management for any examination, different Govt. schemes especially for higher education and employability. As a result of these counseling sessions youths adopted following courses:-a. 30 youth girls selected Beautician training course,b. 40 youth girls selected Tailoring training course,c. 10 youth boys selected Computer training course,d. 30 Youths are preparing for ITI course.e. 30 Youths are preparing for different competitive examination related to

Banking, SSC, and Railway etc.

Employable skill training to youth Employable skill training is one of most important activities during the year. The main purpose of this program was to equip the youth with desired employable skills, so that they can compete with the demand of job market and helpful for them to become self reliant. So they are supported by the project in getting such employable skills. 40 youth girls completed her tailoring course and 30 girls completed her beautician training course by the end of this month. 10 youths have completed their computer training course from Delux Computer training centre and IIT Ratanpur. The project planned to provide sewing machine to those girls who have completed her tailoring training course.

Developing information hub at 3 YRC In order to empower youth of the area the project has developed 3 youth resource centre in 3 different villages having details as mentioned:a. Dangi YRC Guguldih Total youth 25 (Enrolled 12)

b. Pragati YRC Kewal Total youth 17(Enrolled 10)c. Parivar Vikas C.Nagar Total youth 25(Enrolled 16)

Youth club members regularly attend their YRC and practice regularly for the various competitions. They interact and discuss with different issues related to their competitive examination to solve the problems. These YRC are supported with magazines and various competitive materials. They are also supported for filling form for their competitive examination.

Training of farmer’s group/SHG on vegetable production and improved farming practices. 3 trainings organized with the members of Sarvodya kisan Club Guguldih,Manjhi Baba Kisan Club Nengri Moh and Pateshwar Krishak Club Jalgorba participated by 60 farmers.30 farmers supported with vegetable seeds for vegetable cultivation.30 farmers supported with training and seeds for mushroom cultivation.30 SHG members trained on papad, sauce making, pickles making through linkages with KVK,NABARD,IFFCO and JIVIKA.

Life skills training of youths on decision making, coping, resilency, and conflict management For the development of human being life skills are very important and plays a vital role in becoming a contributing citizen of nation. Through it one can shape their life. So one training organized with 30 youths in which 24 enrolled youth participated. They are oriented on following issues:-a. Role of youth,b. Problem identification and its solution,c. Participation in decision making process,d. Coping, resiliency and conflict management.

SPONSORSHIP MANAGEMENT Parents awareness program on importance of sponsorship

The child sponsor relation is backbone of the program. If this relation will be strong then the children, their parents and community will get maximum benefit from the program. So there is a need of making children and parents aware on the importance of sponsorship to build strong relationship with the sponsors who are supporting them from far a distance. Keeping all these things into consideration the project has conducted 12 parents awareness program on importance of sponsorship in its operational village. 480 parents participated in it including 441 enrolled families and 43 none enrolled families. They are oriented on different types of communication between child and sponsor, as well as how to strengthen this relationship by their active involvement in it. As a result of this quality letters are forwarded to sponsor. Parents are also involved in it and help their children in practicing informative letters to their children.

Celebrating different event (Sponsors day Celebration & Alumni Meet, National Day, Children’s Day etc.)

In order to ensure the children’s active participation and developing sense of competition the project has organized Children’s Day on 14th Nov.2016 and Sponsor Day on 20th December 2016. Under this children are made aware on the importance of the Children’s day and Sponsor Day. They also remembered their sponsor and prayed for their happy life. Additionally several events organized by the project like letter writing competition, drawing, speech and cultural especially in singing and dancing. Best 3 participants in all events are also got prizes from the project for their performance. This has developed their sense of competition definitely which encouraged them to perform better.

Inter child club creative letter writing/drawing competition. This is one of important activity for improving the quality of letters. Under this activity children of different child club situated in nearby villages are covered at a common place to have a creative letter writing/drawing competition. During the year 10 such events are organized participated by 183 enrolled boys and 169 girls. Children learnt different types of letters and wrote as per assignment. This has helped them to develop their writing and drawing skills.

CASE STUDY OF NISHA KUMARI

Nisha enlightened her skills and follows healthy norms of adolescent health.

Chandrashekhar Nagar is one of target village of Parivar Vikas. This village is central village of our operational area. The project headquarter is situated at this village. This village is inhabited by mostly Mahadalit, other backward class community, and Harijan community people. There are 55 families living in the village. Basudeo Manjhi is one of resident of this village with his family. He has 4 daughters and 2 sons. Nisha is one of the children in the family. Her elder sister Manisha is enrolled under the program having case no. 702. She is 15 years old and studying in Grade IX. She is second among sibling. Her all brothers and sister are studying .The family is entirely dependent on labouring. So the economic condition of the family is very pitiable. But the parents are well educated and educating their children without any discrimination. On 16th August 2016 one adolescent club named ADARSH KISHORI CLUB is formed in the village consisting of 14 kishori of the village. The project Coordinator Mr. Pramod Kumar Roy and Community Mobilizer Smt. Mukti Rani helped them to form the kishori club. During the meeting adolescent girls are made aware on physical and biological changes. In addition to this they are capacitated on menstrual hygiene and how they can maintain the same. She is very active girl. She learnt a lot on this issue and also shares with neighboring girl friends. Earlier she was not aware on the

anemia, TT, IFA which is very essential for the development of adolescent girls. This was really surprising fact in the Mahadalit community where literacy level is still low girls like Nisha emerged as a role model for other girls children. In case of any difficulties she consults with Smt. Renu Devi ANM who support NISHA and provide IFA/TT periodically. She encourages other children for taking IFA to prevent anemia and TT to protect them from any type of infection during the menstrual period. Additionally she encourages using sanitary pad by purchasing from local market. She is also using the same. She is very thankful to CHILD FUND INDIA and Parivar Vikas for such a nice program by which adolescent are updating their knowledge related to adolescent health which is very essential for the development of the child.

Strong determination leads to attain the success

 

Name:-Bajrangi TantiFather’s Name:-Madan Tanti

Father’s Occupation: - Daily wagerAge: - 22 Yrs.

Qualification:-BA-I CompletedKewal is one of the village of Parivar Vikas. This village is at a distance of 3 km. from the project headquarter. Most of the villagers belongs to other backward caste community and Mahadalit called Musshar. The main sources of livelihood of the people are agriculture and laboring. This village is adopted under program implementation in 1999. Bajrangi Tanti is one of the children who enrolled under the program in 1999 having Child/Case No-991433/ 745. His father is Madan Tanti is daily wager and mother Tuhba Devi looks after household activities. His parents are illiterate. His brother Nunumani Tanti works on daily wages in Delhi. He has 3 sisters named Saraswati, Indu and Radha. Radha is studying in Grade-X and also getting educational guidance from SMART class run by the project in the village. When Bajrangi enrolled under the program he was studying in Grade-IV. He is differently able child with left eye by birth. He was very energetic and laborious child. After enrollment he got proper educational support from the project under ChildFund India program. He was keenly interested in studying. Right from the beginning though he faces problem in studying, he decided to get Govt. Job in future. So he completed his 10th Grade education in 2012 and after 2 years completed XII th Grade. In the meanwhile the project has promoted one youth club in the village named “Sahid Bhagat Singh Youth Club”. He was one of the founder members of the youth club. He developed an environment of learning in youth club by involving other youth club members. Periodical quiz and competitions organized at the center with the support of Parivar Vikas. Later on he joined Excellence youth club where youth are involved in preparation of various competitions. He appeared in Railway Recruitment Board Kolkata

Examination. He completed the same now joined in December, 2015 in Dhanbad Division in Group –D. Both Bajrangi and his parents are very grateful to ChildFund and Parivar Vikas, Excellence Youth club who helped them to fulfill his dream. He has planned to support other youth of the village so that they can get success in different jobs.

Report of Youth voice on early marriage

Youth participation and involvement in community development process is very important. So it is very essential to actively come forward to raise voices against the issues affecting them and raise the same in gram sabha meeting so that necessary action can be taken for the wellbeing of the children and community. It was a great opportunity for the youth to participate in Gram Sabha meeting on 2nd October focusing on “say no to child marriage” for this a campaign launched in its all panchayat where the project is implementing sponsorship program. Firstly the program initiated in village Banjhulia on 26/9/2016 with the Mahatma Gandhi youth club members. Total 36 youth participated in meeting including ward member Mr.Dablu Pandit of ward no-13.In the meeting broader objectives of the program are shared by LS 3 Coordinator Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sing. He asked youth about the early marriage case of Village during the last year. They replied that total 5 early marriage cases happened in my village. The Project Coordinator asked them that you have your own youth club then why club have not taken any initiation to stop this in the village. Youth club members replied that we have checked this but later on parents married their children. After this one group work is done by them on its reason:

PARIVAR VIKAS #1213

Report of Youth voice on early marriage

Youth participation and involvement in community development process is very important. So it is very

essential to actively come forward to raise voices against the issues affecting them and raise the same ingram sabha meeting so that necessary action can be taken for the wellbeing of the children andcommunity. it was a great opportunity for the youth to participate in Gram Sabha meeting on 2October focusing on “say no to child marriage” for this a campaign launched in its all panchayat wherethe project is implementing sponsorship program. Firstly the program initiated in village Banjhulia on26/9/2016 with the Mahatma Gandhi youth club members. Total 36 youth participated in meetingincluding ward member of ward no-13.In the meeting broader objectives of the program are shared byls3 coordinator Pankaj Kumar Singh he asked youth about the early marriage case of Village during theyear. They replied as 5cases and also told that we have checked this but later on parents married theirchildren. After this one group work is done by them on its reason and effect.

Following reasons :

Lack of education on parents.

Following reasons :

Lack of education on parents. Poverty Girls treated as burden. Dowry system. Added responsibilities to work.

Effect identified :

Discontinuance of education. Freedom lost. All family left. Busy life. Early pregnancy. Unhealthy life. Birth of malnourished child.

On 28th September a meeting is organized with community religious leader/ PRI representatives.On the issues to eradicate the the early marriage in the panchayat.this meeting is organized at village chandrashekhar nagar in which all Ward Member ,Sarpanch, Mukhia etc. Total 30 participated after discussion Following ideas emerged: Encouraging youth Sarpanch of poorbi guguldih panchayat speech about the situation of erly marriage in this area. Making parents aware on the effect of early marriage. Involving youth club to create awareness through rally and cultural activities and others.

Creating awairness amog panchayat representatives.

Making people aware on the Early marriage prevention act.

Preventing people to check the benefit from govt.

At the end of meeting ls3 coordinator mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh encouraged PRI members to raise their voice on the essues of early marriage case.

Similar Programs organized with youth club members in Kewal dated 29/9/2016,Guguldih dated 30/9/2016 and c.nagar dated 2/10/2016 in which details about early marriage are discussed.Pankaj Kumar singh motivating the youth leaders to raise their voice and submit a memorandum in 2nd

October gram sabha meetings.

Comments of panchayat representatives:

Mr. Yogendra Paswan ex chairman of zila parishad said that we will make our effort to eradicate early marriage in our panchayat east guguldih.

Mr. Bahadur yadav sarpanch stressed that all ward members should play active role in this direction.

Mr. Babloo yadav Panchayat mukhiya suggested to shaere in the gram sabha meeting and assure to work on reducing early marriage in panchayat.

Bhawanand jee secretary of parivar vikas Attaning the gram sabha and focus of the early marriage essue related topic discussed .

Youth involve in campaign of early marriage. 3

Taking Gift Sponsored girl youth Kajal kumari,aasha kumara andPuja kumari Recived by Mukhiya patsanda panchayat sangeeta singh and jila parishad of gidhour mr manish pandey for youth voice on early maariage campaign.

Bandana a source of inspiration of other adolescent girls.

Chhedlahi is one of the target villages of the project. It is situated at a distance of 2 KM from the project office. Bandana kumari is a resident of this village with her family. She is one of enrolled child under the project. Her case No. is 459. She belongs to other backward class community. Her father is a small farmer having very low level of land holding. They are mostly dependent on farming for their livelihood. There are 6 members in the family. The family is well aware on the importance of education. Her sister Priyanka is studying in B.A. Nisha in IX and brother Dhananjay in VIII whereas she is studying in Grade XI. Her mother is a house wife.

Bandana is very active girl. She actively participates in project activity. She came forward in forming adolescent club in the village. She is point person of Maa Saraswati adolescent Group of village. She learnt about the importance of adolescent health in the life skill training organized by the project. She motivates other girl children in maintain proper hygiene and use of sanitary pad during the menstrual period. She takes IFA & green leafy vegetable to protect her from anemia. She suggested her girl friends to take IFA to overcome from anemia. She is motivating girls not to marry before the marriageable age and come forward in solving their problems. She participated in Kishori Mela with friends like Nitu,Sindhu,Rubita,Binita and Sangita and took TT in the Mela. She also got lots of information their and not only practicing but helping others to follow the same. She has developed better relation with ICDS worker of the village and getting services properly. She is youngest in family. She actively participates in the meeting organized by the project in village as well as for adolescent group. She is very thankful to Child Fund and Parivar Vikas who enlightened her knowledge and supporting .

CASE STUDY OF BINDU KUMARI-126

Bindu opposed her early marriage and continuing her study.

Bindu is a resident of village Pira Tanr which is one of target village of the project. This village is entirely inhabited by schedule caste community i.e. Cobbler. They are mostly dependent of shoe making and repairing activity. This is only source of livelihood for them. Male people generally migrate to other province and work there as daily wage labor in shoe making unit or privately engaged in shoe repairing work in Kolkatta, Patna and other province. Whereas women stay at home, look after the children and makes bidi for family maintenance. The similar scenario can be seen with Bindu and her family. Their economic condition is not sound because they are earning from daily wage laboring. There are 6 members in the family. Her father Dashrath Ravidas is having small pieces of land and old. So he is not able to go outside for earning. Mother Rukma

Devi is a house wife and makes bidi. Her parents are illiterate but well aware about the education of the child. Her elder sisters Sarita and Arti are married and living in own house. Her brother Lalan is working on daily wages in Kerala. Bindu is a student of Grade X and enrolled under the program having case No.126.

She is youngest in family. She is one of active member of Adolescent club Pira Tanr. She actively participates in the meeting organized by the project in village as well as for adolescent group. The project has conducted training with adolescent children on the issue of early marriage and teenage pregnancies. Various related aspects are discussed in detail with them about its adverse effect. How it affects the development of any youth if s/he married on early age. Bindu understood it very well and decided not to marry till the completion of at least Grade XII education. After it she will be more than 18 yrs. Old. She also motivates other children in this regard. She will appear in Xth Board Examination in the month of Feb.2017. In the meanwhile she knew that her father is planning to marry her. So she enquired with mother to know the reality. She reacted sharply with mother that “I will not marry at this moment. It will be only possible when I will complete my 18 yrs.” Her mother passed this message to father. In the meanwhile she informed it to the project staff Mr. Pramod Kumar Roy project coordinator. He met her parents and child on this issue. He motivated them about the adverse effect of early marriage. They agreed and promised not to marry Bindu before 18 yrs. Bindu is very happy to know her parents decision and continuing her study with due interest. She is very thankful to Child Fund and Parivar Vikas for this.

The Mushroom Gram

Kewal, a small village in the district of Jamui, Bihar has 300 household which represents the perfect scenario of Rural India. Among those, one household is feather in the cap. A small house of Mohan P Kesari, which looks like ordinary façade at the first glance, but different from others at the same time.Seeds production, incubatory and cultivation is being done under the same roof. Mr. Kesari has brought the revolution which nobody ever thought about. Cultivating two types of mushroom, spreading awareness among others about Mushroom cultivation are the few but not all salient features of Kesari family.

Varsha (Case 1028), 18-years-old girl who is now ready to walk on her father’s footprints is the person which intrigues us the most. Currently the first-year student of Bachelor of Arts, she also helps her father alongside study. She also assists in household work and is doing great in her academia too. Unlike other 18-years-old girl, she is being oriented towards an independent lifestyle and becoming a person who contributes to society to her utmost capability. Varsha’s father’s income is sufficient to meet ends of both time but what makes her different is her inclination towards Mushroom cultivation. Before Mushroom farming, when Varsha was a kid, Child fund India helped her and her family throughout. Child fund india assured the sustainable development of girl at all life stages. Providing medical assistance in LS1 and providing an immense support towards her education in LS2 are few incidents where Child fund India kept supporting her.

Mr. Mohan P Kesari has studied upto second year of graduation but unavailability of funds and scarcity of resources didn’t allow him to pursue his education forward. He volunteered at Pulse Polio Campaign at KisanVikasMela and played an important role to spread awareness among people about polio. In 2008, he worked as a compounder also. The turning point in Mr. Kesari’s life came when he went to 30 days certified training of Mushroom Spawn production in PUSA, Samastipurand stayed there for six months as volunteer which helped him to transform his learning curve into an entirely different dimension. As Mr. Kesari was not able to complete his graduation, her daughter is well aware about the significance of education and with the support of Child fund India, she clearly wants to complete her studies and then would like to help his father in cultivating mushroom.

It all started when Mohan P Kesari went to Gandhi Maidan in Patna for an agricultural fair. There he saw a stall of mushrooms and got really curious about the same. He talked to the stall owners regarding the production and cultivation. Though he was hugely motivated and interested in the same but he lacked the funds and the technical

expertise to go about the production. This was the time when Child Fund India intervened. He was sent to Pusa, Samastipur for mushroom spawn production training and the training was funded by ParivarVikas. He also met the scientists from NABARD and Pusa during the KrishiVigyanMela organized at ParivarVikas annually.He was gradually exposed to the outside world and was immensely supported by PVO. Though the training in PUSA lasted only for a month he purposefully stayed there for around six months to gain as much information and knowledge of the same.At the start of this journey he could not make enough profit as the transaction cost was fairly high .He also became the laughing stock of the town as people thought what he was doing was useless and he was just wasting his time and money, but the tables did turn after a couple of years when his hardwork and support from PVO finally started to pay off. People began noticing him

and his production gradually increased. Now rather than buying seeds from PUSA (which took him a day to travel and resulted in the spoilage of seeds) he started preparing seeds at his home. This not only decreased his transaction cost but also saved him a lot of time and effort. He started the preparation of seed at home. The equipment required for the same was provided by NABARD on a condition that Mr.Kesari free mushroom

cultivation training to 500 farmers free of cost. Mr. Kesari outperformed their expectation by giving mushroom production training to 2500 (farmers free of cost).His perseverance and dedication did pay off really well as he was able to produce nearly 15 kilos of mushroom in a day.

His efforts were recognized throughout the Jamui district and his constant help to the farmers earned him quite a reputation and he was nominated for several awards. In recognition for his efforts in improving the farming standards and popularizing the mushroom cultivation he was awarded with the Prime Minister’s Award as well as other state awards from the Bihar Government. He is quite modest about his achievements but someday hopes to be able to raise the standards of the mushroom cultivation and be able to integrate button variety of mushroom which would enable him to produce for more than 8 months of the year.Mr .Keshari’s achievements have had a great influence on her daughter Varsha who hopes her father would someday receive the President’s award. Varsha has taken up the aspirations of her father and wants to take it up further under her wing. For achieving this purpose undergoing major training in this aspect.

In the beginning Mr.Keshari had a lot of financial difficulties but was ably supported in his venture by the SHG Group Kasturba SanghSahatya Group,a subsidiary of ParivarVikash who provided him with a revolving fund of Rs.7000 and linked him to UCO Bank Ratanpur who gave him a further assistance of Rs.25000 and with the help of NABARD funding he was able to acquire machinery. His frequent interactions with

farmers of the region earned him a great reputation and his work was the most significant in making Kewal popular as the Mushroom Gram (Village). His work ethics have rubbed off on Varsha who is determined to continue Mr Keshari’s work further.

As stated earlier the work of Mr. Keshari has enabled Kewal to be known as the Mushroom Gram. His work not only empowered him but the village as a whole. This is because of the

training he gave the other farmers that now many of them in the village have taken up Mushroom Cultivation. His influence has been positive on everyone in the village and many in the village including his daughter Varsha look up to him as an inspiration. The impact of this has led many to look up for alternative farming and not just depend on conventional crops. Hence Mr. Keshari has not only influenced his family by his work but rather the entire village. His work has made the village recognizable throughout the country and not only state For the immediate future Mr. Keshari wants to increase his

productivity and also his current productivity lasts for a time frame of 4 months but he wants to increase it to around 8-10 months of the year so that he has greater profits and makes the mushrooms much more available for the market. He wants to bring in a newer variety of mushroom into his farming i.e. Button varieties as it is the more popular variety but difficult to produce. So in other words he wants to increase his produce even more and want to popularize mushroom cultivation and to earn greater profits by means of clever planning and use of technology.