This project is about 85 Kilometer South of Kolkata. We started this Project in the year 2002 in response to the local villagers. The village is called Mudipara, it’s basically an islet in South 24 Paragana district. The islet is called Konkondighi. The people are mostly agricultural laborer. They work in lands of high caste. There are about 70 families in the project area. Average family income is about 3000 rupees that is 3000/5 = 600 rupees per head per month. We started the project in the year 2002. With the active support of the Village Panchayet (local Govt.). We organized the local committee who built up the 1st. community hall.
We run the following activities :-
The development Activities
Health Promotion Activities as follows
- Education
- Tutorial for poor students from Nursery to standard 10, 6 days in a week
- Provide Study material to students
- Child Development Activities
- Brotochary (folk songs, rhymes and folk dances)
- Sports & Games
- Exposure visit
- Health promotion
- Health Awareness meeting
- Monitoring of Antenatal & Post natal care
- Sanitary napkin for adolescents
- Sterilisation of women
- Health Awareness meeting for women and children
- Kitchen garden & Mushroom farming
- Promotion of Bio-farming, Use of bio-fertiliser
- Chimney for Kitchen project
- Low cost Latrines
- Women Empowerment
- Women Self Help Group
- Matri Prochesta Microfinance
- Goat rearing
The girls have least ideas about menstrual hygiene we provide sanitary napkins against 50% cost
In a very small kitchen without a window they cook with wood which produces huge smoke so we provide smokeless chulla which is energy efficient and help them cook faster.
We provide them seeds to grow seasonal vegetables adjacent to their kitchens
Self Help Group Meeting
The Self Help Group Members having goat raring project. While they a kid they pass it to another member. Thus the goat rearing increases in the village enabling them to earn some money.
We have trained up 28 women to grow musroom.
