By R.BALU | DIRECTOR
For every five people in this world, one is without a home. Housing changes everything for a family and children living in poverty. Inadequate Housing is one of the largest problems in the world today. It is pervasive and overwhelming. This approach to fighting poverty will have a direct effect on the efforts to reduce hunger, curb child marriage, empower women, reduce sickness, educate children and more.
Community-led improvements in housing, housing infrastructure and the local environment can have significant benefits for children and young people living in poverty. Increased security, healthier living conditions and access to improved facilities lay the foundation for children to learn, develop and eventually contribute to community development efforts as well as generating income .
This project is community participatory programme. The community will play critical role in selection of beneficiaries, raw material purchase and monitoring through the members of Self Help Group (SHG). This SHG is primarily formed for motivating the poor to involve in small savings and credit among themselves and stop the people from getting money from private money lenders at very high interest rate we motivated the people to form in to S.H.G. and involve them to help themselves. They have been cultivated to involve in team work for common cause. We have formed 80 such groups and do lot of welfare activities. The dalits and tribal, who did not own any worth household articles at their huts, have learnt saving practices after moving into their permanent houses and the it has ultimately made them to be the proud owners of T.V. ceiling fan, cot, almirah, chairs and tables and jewels on their houses. The permanent houses have motivated them to look for the future optimistically. The life in tiny huts forced the dalits and tribal to form a negative thinking that their In life is doomed once for all and the their children’s education can not bring any change their life. But the permanent houses have transformed their pessimistic attitudes and all the children belonging to the families where we helped them to build houses, are regularly attending to the school now.
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