Support for a Safe Motherhood!!! |
Ms. Susama Jani (name changed) of Laxmipur block hails from a very remote village with no communication facilities. She was in anaemic condtion due to early marriage and she had still birth in her previous home deliveries..
The Lady Health Worker of Maa Gruha along with the ASHA motivated the women to stay at the Maa Gruha but their family members would not agree for the same. The geographical and clinical high risk of the pregnant women was a huge challenge for the team and they constantly counselled the women and her family members and finally they agreed to allow her to stay at the Maa Gruha. She stayed for seven days and was given nutritional food, rest and was taken to the CHC for daily health check up due to her critical situation. She was referred for complications to the DHH and she gave birth to a girl baby. Every one in the family is now happy that the mother and child are safe. They thanked the team for persuading them to admit the women in the Maa Gruha.
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Atma Nirbhar for Bhima Kuldip, a carer of three Persons With Disability |
Bhima Kuldip hails from Matuguda village of Goudaguda GP of Laxmipur Block, Koraput district. His two children have locomotor disability from birth and his wife who used to take care of the disabled children and work in the agriculture field also became physically diabled and Bhima Kuldip is the only carer for all the three of them.
WORD supported the family through regular meetings and now all the three people have got their Disability certificate and the Disability pension. Bhima Kuldip was also supported to get Land patta for his house, PMAY toilet and also a wheel chair. WORD also supported with a small subsidy of Rs.3000/- and with this his wife set up a petty shop at home and Mr. Ranjan, the son of Bhima Kuldip has got some knowledge on electrical works and he was supported to take up small enterprise at home itself for preparing switch board and selling it to customers.
His daughter who was a disabled girl was also motivated to get married and she got married and WORD team supported for application of marriage incentives for her. Now all of them are doing some work and their economic condition has improved.
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Child NOT Bride |
Ms……….. of …….. village is 15 years old and is a fifth class dropout. She supports her parents at home and belong to a tribal family in Koraput district. Her father is a agriculture labour and earns the living through sales of vegetables. On 28th April 21, it was decided to engage the girl with another boy from the nearby village who was just 18 years old. Padmini was very much against marriage but the parents were very adamant and the Childline team got the call from the village through the girl’s friend that the engagement is about to take place. Immediately Childline team informed the concerned CDPO and also the Police and all of them rushed to the village. They counselled the parents of both the boy and the girl and finally they were coerced to agree to get their children married after 21 and 18 years respectively. The police handed over the girl to the CWC and they also counselled the parents and it was given as undertaking that the marriage will take place only at the appropriate age. Now the girl has returned back to her home and is happy and grateful to Childline for stopping her marriage in which she was not interested.
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Say NO to Sexual abuse- Support to Minor Girl through childline 1098 |
This is the case story of a minor girl named Ms. …. Aged 14 years residing in ….. village in Laxmipur Block of Koraput district.
Childline team member received a call on 1098 on 08.04.21 informing that the girl who went to attend the wedding has not returned home. The information was passed to the respective police station and after four days came to know that the girl has been abducted by a man from same village and has taken her to Tamilnadu. The parent along with police support searched for nearly one month and identified the girl in critical condition and was admitted in the Koraput Government hospital. From the medical examination it was found that that she was eight weeks pregnant and the girl was too sick that the parents and CWC mutually decided that the foetus may be aborted to save the girl and Medical Termination of pregnancy was done on 18.06.21. She was kept in hospital until she recovered and discharged. The man has been booked and now in jail.
The girl is now healthy and is leading a normal life. The parents thank WORD Childline for supporting them throughout the case and bringing their child to normal condition
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Dealing with Domestic Violence!! |
This is the story of one Ms. Jeyanti Bisoi(name changed) of Jeypore(place changed) town who approached the Mahila police station of physical, mental and emotional abuse by her husband and in-laws. The police felt that the need for counselling and understand the truth behind her story and sent her to Women Support Centre, Koraput. During the first session she kept telling controversial statements and the counsellor counselled the girl to tell the truth. She then told that her father-in law was abusing her sexually and her mother-in-law although knows this, she keeps quite. Later in the second session with the entire family everyone abused the girl including her husband that she was lying and finally she confessed to speak to the elder sister-in-law who also faced similar situation while she was in the family and now she has gone to Bhubaneswar with her husband. In the third session, the lady was called and she informed the truth of her father-in-law misbehaving with her several times. A case was filed as the girl did not want to go back to the family but with much pressure from all quarters she finally agreed to stay back. After few days, the entire family blamed her and abused her obsence language for dragging them to police station and she finally left the home and came back to her aunt’s house. He aunt also refused to keep her at home and she was left alone. The counsellors of WSC managed to get her a job in Centurion University for a monthly salary of Rs.6500/- A case was filed in with support of DLSA and she got a one time compensation of Rs.100,000/- . She is now leading a peaceful life..
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Participatory communication on ITCF |
Deo Saunta lives in Kapsiput Village of Bhitaragada GP, Laxmipur Block. She has three children and is now pregnant with her fourth child. Till now she had never attended any VHND or taken immunization .The same was the condition during her previous three childbirths. She was hesitant to listen and do whatever the AWW and ASHA would say to her. WORD had organized a video show in Kapsiput village on the topic of safe motherhood. After watching the video, the staff present there explained about ANC and PNC to the women and the others present over there. Listening to the staff and after watching the video Deo Saunta realized the importance of taking care of the child and also of herself. Thereafter she is now regularly attending the VHNDs and taking immunization and TT injections.
The Video show has brought a change in Deo Saunta’s behavior and the way she used to take care of her. Now she is attending VHND regularly and taking ICDS THR on time.
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Child Protection through 1098 |
The CHILDLINE center of WORD received a call from Mr. Drono Khosla on 26. 05.2015. It was from Kellar village of Laxmipur block. The call was made in order to stop the marriage of a 16 year old girl.
Miss. Kuntula Kandpan was the daughter of Mrs. Maria and Late Mr. Chitrasen Kandpan. Their family was not so well off. Her mother and other relatives decided to marry her to Sahadev from Bandhugaon. Their family could not afford for the marriage expenses. Hence the groom’s family agreed to make all the necessary arrangement and conduct the marriage at Majhigouri temple in Rayagada. It was to take place on 07.06.2015. The marriage was against the will of the girl and she had agreed to this only because of her poverty.
Once they received the call, the staff of WORD reached the village and took the necessary steps to stop the marriage. They counseled the family members and the villagers .They informed about the consequences of conducting child marriage and also indicated how this is a violation of child rights. The police were also present to withhold the marriage and they also explained the villagers.
When the people understood their mistake, they decided to stop the marriage for now. The family members of Kuntula gave an undertaking stating that they will wait for the girl to turn 18 years of age and the elder brother of Kuntula will solemnize her marriage. They also agreed if they violate the undertaking they will be punishable as per the law.
The undertaking was signed by the girl Kuntula. Her mother Mrs. Maria, elder brother Sudarshan, uncle Chandra and two villagers Gobindo Garoda and Bhakta Khosla as witness.
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Livlihood enhanced through better farming practices |
Koraput a tribal district is the abode of nature’s beauty and resources. With abundant natural resources and favourable climatic conditions, the district has the capability to mitigate the poverty of the tribal people.
The current practice of farmers is still improper used of the bado land into cropping pattern. Two phases vegetable cultivated in irrigated land whereas one time cultivation system practiced in un- irrigated land during one year period. Farmers donot have proper planning and skills to increase the yield.
Farmers were given better package of practices by inter cropping and mixed cropping for better yields.
Bhagaban Muduli a Marginal farmers live with 3 children and his wife at Raulipadar village of Champi GP. He belongs to tribal community. The village is 18 Km distance from kakiriguma market and 14 Km distance from Laxmipur market and 6 km distance from main road communication. He is a marginal farm
Land status of Bhagaban Muduli:
Land categories DANGAR PADAR BADO SARIA-1 SARIA-2 JHOLA Total
Area in acres 2 0.5 1 1 1 0 5.5
Bado Land:
Present status: The farmers ddidnot use the bado land into cropping pattern. Two phases vegetable cultivation was done in irrigated land and one time cultivation during monsoon on non irrigated land was done. Approximately he earned an income of Rs 10000/ per year from his land.
In this situation he is getting facilitation for planning, on field training on mixed cropping and handholding support like soil testing, selection of crops, crop protection and marketing through WORD agriculturist. He prepared an Agriculture plan for his land as follows:
Cropping programme: Three phase cultivation process planning was done in the land for one year duration.
In the first phase putting cereals, root, tuber, green, etc., vegetable during four months period from June to September was planned and grown.
After that second phase spices varieties were cultivated during October to January for four months period.
Thirdly the short duration of vegetables were taken up after the second harvesting from February to May four months period. Papaya, banana, Drumstick plants were planted in the periphery of the land.
The major intervention done by Mr.Bhagaban Muduli is to improve production under agriculture programme, Promotion of back yard poultry farming, Income generation programme, Individual asset creation under NREGA, vegetable cultivation and mobilization of Govt. facilities were also taken up simultaneously.
Promotion of mixed cropping at Household level:
According to planning Mr. Bhagaban Muduli applied off season cultivation in second phase during October to January in their field during 2014 October.
With the seed support of WORD he cultivated potato and Radish as a mixed crop in their one acre of bado land. He was given technical guidance by WORD. During the cultivation period he made an expense of Rs 20000/ (own contribution like ploughing, seedling, planting, manuring, watering, care and maintenance and harvesting etc) apart from seed provided by WORD. After harvest he contacted the three markets viz. Rayagada wholesale market and weekly market at Laxmipur and Kakiriguma.
Mr. Bhagaban Muduli sold the vegetable an amount of Rs 70000/. and profited Rs 45000/ in the four month intervention practicing better agriculture techniques.
Changes: The mixed cropping vegetable cultivation y profited them to Rs 45000/.With the profit he is planning to build a house and bought one goat for rearing. He learnt the skills and now able to take up the skills independently and also support his fellow armers.
Conclusion:
His involvement with WORD gave him opportunity to preparation of agricultural plan, taking up better package of practices, able to mobilise support from different departments like agriculture, horticulture etc., to improve his livelihood. He is now trained to support other farmers as well.
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Making MGNREGA a success by People's Initiative |
This is a success story of four villages namely Raulipodar, Bilansil, Gusaraguda and Jholaguda of Kumsumguda and Champi Panchayats of Laxmipur Block , Koraput district.
The villages are situated at an altitude of about 3000ft above sea level and consist of 40 to 60 households in each village, who are tribals and marginal farmers depending on the nature and forest for their livelihood. Their main occupation is rain-fed agriculture and forest based livelihood. Due to the climatic variations and large deforestation, people lost their livelihood base and started to migrate to nearby cities like Rayagada and Vishakapatnam. The women were left in the village to take care of the family while men worked in brick kilns and construction sites and earned meagre income. They usually migrate during the summer months to other cities and towns and return back before monsoon to take up agriculture. Migration had its own consequences like ill health, addition to alcohol and gravity of sexually transmitted diseases. Agriculture occupation was weaning in the villages and there was food insecurity for 5-6 months among families. This resulted in ill health especially of the women and children.
WORD facilitated the communities to prepare a village profile and micro plan through the Village Development Committees (VDCs) and during the process it was observed that the people did not have any source of livelihood during the off season of agriculture. It was also observed that MGNREGA schemes have been implemented in the villages but there was lots of issues related to non payment, delay in payment, corruption among the stakeholders involved in the scheme, debting of MGNREGA cards to the sourkars for small credits, mis management of fund in the post office etc., These issues in turn have made the people wary of the scheme and they did not opt for more MGNREGA projects into their villages.
WORD felt that it was necessity to make the people fully aware about the scheme and bring about infrastructure and land development works in the villages to support in their livelihood initiatives. WORD had a detailed discussion with the Village Development Committee members and prioritized the issues as follows:
• Man-days of work was from 5 to 20 days only and not all eligible families had the MGNREGA cards
• Accounts were opened in Post office and the Post master kept all the pass books
• The work sanction was done by the contractors who took up the work in the villages and hence the infrastructure like CC road, village road, ghat cutting etc., was not qualitative.
• There was a delay in payment from 12 to 20 months which disappointed the people who have put their hard labour.
WORD conducted series of trainings on concept clarity of MGNREGA to the communities, PRI members, NREGA monitoring committee, Gram Sathee and GRS of the Panchayats. Accordingly 30 pass books which were kept under the charge of the post master was relieved. An interface was conducted with the stakeholders and the people who were deprived of their wages. The people addressed their issues directly with the Block and District administration and OMBUDSMEN of MGNREGA. With repeated dialogue of the leaders of the VDCs at the Block and District level, the issue of delay payment was sorted out amicably after a long struggle of 18 months.
194 cardholders of four villages got their delayed payment totalling to Rs.2,32,095/- by creating assets like roads and concrete roads to their villages.
This success has instilled confidence among the communities that if they could work as a team they could lobby for their rights at the block and district level. They no longer depend on the contractors to bring MGNREGA work into their village and the village youth take up the initiative. The Village youth also became the Gram Sathee and he monitors the work and payments. The number of man days has improved dramatically to 50 days per family and now there is no delay in payments. If any issue ari
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