Education India Project #28320

Rehabilitate 250 disabled children in India

by Sangli Mission Society

Project Report | May 18, 2020
Hope for the best...

By Roshan Varghese | Project leader

Hi…

I am very thankful to present our thirteenth report of the project - Rehabilitate 250 disabled children in India via GlobalGiving.

World is going through a difficult situation and everyone is fighting to come out of it. COVID-19 cases in India may touch one lakh within a week time from now (17 May 2020). The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian state of Maharashtra was confirmed on 9 March 2020. Morethan one-third of the total cases reported in India are from Maharashtra. Mumbai and Pune are among the hotspots in the country identified by the Government of India.Sangli Mission Society is working in this situation in different ways.

Food kit distribution

Every year scores of migrants move to Maharashtra from other states and people move within the state too for livelihood, finding job, small business, etc. The lockdown in India due to COVID-19 has impacted the livelihood especially of the migrant families who face many consequences due to loss of employment, lack of food and income. During this lockdown, Sangli Mission Society has found some migrant families who are suffering from this shut down in Sangli, Kolhapur and Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra, India. The migrants belonged to different states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Rajasthan and various parts of Maharashtra.

Sangli Mission provided food kit as an immediate relief assistance to the people in distress in 10 villages such as Kupwad, Shirala, Dhavli, Kavathe Mahankal, Ghalwad, Kodoli, Bharane, Veral, Khavti.and Chiplun. The food kit included Rice, Wheat, Sugar, Tea Powder, Pulses, Poha, Biscuit, Oil, Salt, Bathing Soap, Washing Soap, etc. A total of 318 families got benefited through this distribution, such as 75 families in Dhavali, 30 families in Kupwad, 38 families in Kavathe Mahankal, 50 families in Shirala, in Sangli District; 63 families in Ghalwad, 05 families in Kodoli in Kolhapur District, 40 families in Chiplun and 17 families from Bharane, Veral and Khavati villages of Ratnagiri district.

Sharing of Infrastructure

Alphonsa School Karanjoshi is currently used as quarantine facility for people in Malkapur area in Kolhapur district and Sangli Mission Society has offered its institution premises especially schools including Santhome Ayurveda Arogya Kendra for quarantine or medical purposes to help the COVID-19 response.

COVID-19 awareness creation

Awareness on COVID-19 pandemic is given to Self Help Groups (SHGs), Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIVs) and students through phone call, conference call, quiz and social media. Alphonsa School Miraj has launched an online quiz program to make students aware about Novel Corona Virus and they are provided with e-certificates.

Social Media Engagement

Childline Kolhapur, Railway Childline Kolhapur, Childline Sangli, SMS Hitguj School Counseling program seized the opportunity to go online to help the children during lockdown with various activities. Hitguj School Counseling completed a child counseling and communication skills online training to 37 staff working in various programs. A workshop on Juvenile Justice Act also is conducted for Childline team to enhance their knowledge in dealing with children. Many of the staff have acquired one or more certificates on COVID-19 through online course participation. An online course was arranged by Hitguj on Life Skill Education for teachers, parents, counselors using online webinar and 98 teachers participated in it. We plan to conduct family counseling and youth counseling during this lockdown period.

Delivering Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) at doorstep

SMS Vihaan team took ART to 292 patients at their door step to help them to stay healthy and safe during the pandemic.

We are looking to make more interventions in this crisis and invite you too to be part of it, however all of us are affected or infected in some way or other.

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Mar 16, 2020
Together we can...

By Roshan Varghese | Project Leader

Hi…

I am very thankful to present our twelfth report of the project - Rehabilitate 250 disabled children in India via GlobalGiving. I am happy to present you different activities in the new year.

Maharashtra flood assistance

We are continuing with our little efforts to help the flood affected people with various projects and the people are slowly moving forward with hope with the help of people like you. To provide emotional support to flood-affected disabled children, their families and poor people towards improving the health and hygiene, economic support via livelihood and Improving life security to those who lost houses completely or partially in flood, SMS helped 926 people from 08 villages such as Halondi, Rui, Ingali, Ichalkaranji, Rajapur, Ghalwad, Shiroli and Bhendavade in association with CHAI- LF. People got benefited through various services such as aids and appliances (08 CWDs/PWDs from 04 villages), repairing & maintenance (12people 05 villages), Livelihood (17 people from 05 villages), Medical camps (555 people from 04 villages) and School Kits (179students from 05 villages).

In association with Caritas India, SMS helped 100 flood-affected people from 03 villages such as Dhavali, Junidhamani, and Bhamani-Nilaji, Sangli. To provide early recovery assistance to improve psychosocial support for the flood-affected ones 38 people got benefited for house repairing and to bring the flood-affected people towards sustainable livelihood 62 people got benefited with a livelihood. The project aimed to empower the flood-hit people to stay in safe homes and equip them with livelihood options so that the families come back to a normal life. House constructions for the poor and flood affected are progressing and I will be sending a seperate report on this later.

SWAVALAMBAN – Promotion of skill development & livelihood

Initiated 02 tailoring batches; The team inaugurated tailoring batches at 02 villages such as Shirol and Jaysingpur in the period of Jan - March. A total of 39 women from three villages had taken admission for tailoring batch. Sangli Mission Society will be certifying the students after the completion of the tailoring course.

Community Based Rehabilitation Program- Kolhapur

Advocacy Meeting: On the occasion of Indian Republic Day on January 26, 2020 CBR organized the advocacy meeting for PWD’s and CWD’s at Shiroli Village. The meeting was conducted with the presence of Sarpanch, Deputy Sarpanch, Gramsevak, members of Grampanchayat, villagers, PWD’s and CWD’s. During the meeting, Sangli Mission Society received an award named “Shiroli Ratna Puraskar” from Grampanchayat as a token of appreciation. The team also discussed a 5% reserve fund and 50% House Revenue concession of PWD’s and application submitted to the Grampanchayat.

DPO Meeting: The CBR team conducted DPO meetings at 03 villages such as Halondi, Hatkanangale and Shiroli. A total of 161 PWDs/ CWDs were enthusiastically participated. The team discussed issues and challenges facing by PWDs/ CWDs, rights, available schemes, etc.

SAKSHAM - Women Empowerment Program

New SHGs; Through the Saksham project, a total of 26 new Self Help Groups (SHGs) have been formed during January - February 2020 in Sangli and Kolhapur districts. A total of 390 women have newly joined in Self Help Groups (SHGs). A group of women has begun a cloth shop as part of their empowerment and development.

Poor people linked with Govt. Scheme; Through the Samardhan project, a total of 41 poor people of the society enabled to link with various Govt. schemes such as Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojana (SGY) and Shravanbal Vrudhapkal Yojana (SVY). Sangli Mission Society helped these peoples in various ways i.e. advocacy, guidance, documentation, submission, etc.

Micro – Insurance; In between Jan - Feb 2020, through the Adhar project, a total of 77 rural people has been linked with the micro-insurance policy. It is the policy that provides full payment plus bonus towards the policyholder after the completion of the term and if death happens it also pays death claim.

Sangli Mission Society participated in Mumbai Marathon 2020 consecutively for the fourth time. This is a crowd funding platform and it gives visibility to the organization.

Thank you very much for all your assistance. We remember each of you for your valuable support.

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Dec 18, 2019
Season of Joy & Peace!!!

By Roshan Varghese | Project Leader

Hi…

I am very thankful to present our eleventh report of the project - Rehabilitate 250 disabled children in India via GlobalGiving. Following are some of the glimpses from the field.

Through Saksham program, 33 new Self Help Groups (SHGs) have been formed in between Oct. 2019 to Nov. 2019 in Sangli and Kolhapur districts. Total 660 women have newly joined in the SHGs to empower their lives. We also conducted 04 plastic eradication awareness programs with the collaboration of SHGs . The awareness was in the form of rally and more than 5000 people participated.

On the occasion of World AIDS Day (WAD) on Dec. 01, in collaboration with CPR District Hospital Kolhapur, Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital and Dist. Sub Hospital, Gadhinglaj we organized awareness programs in Ichalkaranji and Gadhinglaj. The day was celebrated with various activities like poster exhibition, distribution of Information Education and Communication (IEC) material, awareness discussions, etc.

World Disability Day Celebration

We celebrated World Disability Day on Dec. 03 in two working villages; Herle and Shiroli in Hatkanangale tehsil of Kolhapur district. In Herle village 12 CWDs, 29 PWDs and good number of school children, teachers and public participated. In Shiroli village 42 CWDs, 48 PWDs, their families and children from Shiroli primary school enthusiastically participated in the rally. The main aim of the rally was to provide awareness among people for the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. The students were carrying the placards and shouted slogans related to the rights of people with disability. The Childline team of SMS enacted a street play related to child abuse and role of childline in such situations. We distributed Wheelchair, caliper, splint and hearing aids for the selected CWDs of new working village, Shiroli. We also honored a CWD, who got the first prize for shot put competition in district-level.

Sangli Mission Society has done flood relief work in collaboration with several organizations, NGOs and the community people. We were able to give our helping hands to people of 40 villages in Kolhapur and Sangli districts. We were able to provide the flood affected with food kits, educational kit, hygiene kit, household articles, etc. to the needy. We will be sending you a report of flood in the next report.

Following is a real story from the grassrrot…

“My name is Sandeep, 32-year-old, physically challenged person (70%), living in Kolhapur. I have completed my graduation in BA. As I grew, my curiosity towards the cause of disability also budded in my mind. But I wasn’t sure that how my parents will accept the question about the disability. One day my mother told me that the root cause of my disability is the result of their unawareness towards proper vaccination. At the time of polio vaccination I was feeling feverish but my parents weren’t aware that vaccination at the time of fever will leads to disability. I am accepting my current physical situation and I don’t want to blame or curse my parents for my disability.

In 2013 my application for Sanjay Gandhi Yojana got sanctioned, and I am getting Rs.600/- per month. I had to go to Kolhapur District Central Cooperative Bank, for receiving the particular amount. But whenever I go, I used to face lot of challenges for this. But I didn’t take any initiative to solve the issue. In 2018 I attended a meeting conducted by Sangli Mission society in my village. The meeting was about something called Grassroot Comics, at that time I was new to this concept. But team made us understand that it is a platform for discussing our (PWDs) issues through comics. They told us to think about the issues we are facing. The issue came to my mind was that, the cash counter or any other counters of the bank are built in a particular height which I was struggling to attain. So in order to fill the transaction forms and completing other process I was always seeking others help and I felt so bad about depending on others for my transactions.

SMS conducted a dissemination of all the grassroot comics in the village as well as in bank. SMS arranged an advocacy meeting with respective people to discuss about each issues and that made a twist in my life as well as all the other disabled’s life. Bank manager got sensitized about the issue facing by disabled people through the dissemination of grassroot comics and advocacy meeting. As a solution to this issue the manager appointed a Peon for helping people with disability. I am so happy that through this platform, I was able to express my issue and today it is benefitting the Persons with Disabilities”.

Wish you all Merry Christmas and propsperous New Year...

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