On-Going Program
Jeevan Vikas Sanstha as a committed Development Organization implements several programs. The most significant objective in implementing the different on-going programs is to be at the service of the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable communities, groups and individuals of the vast geographical area covered its programming. The different meaningful interventions made by our Society as a Development Organization has been able to provide further direction and growth in achieving its Vision and Mission. Although a Church-based Social Development Organization working under the wings of the Catholic Diocese of Amravati, the development activities and programs implemented by Jeevan Vikas Sanstha helped it immensely to be deeply rooted in the socio-cultural setting of our society. Indeed our efforts during the past years have brought the Organization further closer to the life situations and the real development needs of about 1,00,000 poor and the marginalized families we have been working with.
For our Organization, the past years proved to be years of deeper and intense involvement with the social, medical, cultural, educational and economic development needs of thousands of poor and marginalized families. As on 1st January 2007, JVS Organization is implementing the following project-based programs in order to deal efficiently, effectively and in sustainable manner with the above-identified issues negatively affecting our target population.
* JVS is implementing 4 Community based Tribal Development Projects in 120 tribal villages in the Melghat tribal Region of Amravati District and 14 tribal villages in Zarijamni Block of Yavatmal districts which cover the following development aspects:
Tribal Social Animation;
Capacity Building of tribal communities; tribal Women
Empowerment activities;
Formation and Promotion of village-based Self Help Groups of
tribal men,
youth and women; Formation and Promotion of Tribal Community
Organizations
such as Village Development Committees, Village Education
Committees,
Initiating different Income Generation activities like goat
rearing, group
farming, kitchen gardening; support classes for tribal children;
implementing
various watershed development activities; promoting eco and
organic farming;
creating seasonal employment for tribal communities, Conducting
Life-skill
trainings for the tribal youth; Liaisoning, Action-oriented
Advocacy and
Net-working with the Government machineries and other
like-minded Non-governmental
Organizations; Conducting Medial camps, Community Health
Promotion programs,
ensuring the immunization of tribal children, special medial and
nutritional
care of the malnourished tribal children.
*
JVS is implementing 3 Community based Rural Development Projects
in 50
rural villages in Achalpur Block of Amravati District and 25
rural villages
in Washim district which cover the following development
aspects:
Rural l Social Animation;
Capacity Building of Rural communities; Rural Women Empowerment
activities;
Formation and Promotion of village-based Self Help Groups of
rural farmers,
youth and women; Formation and Promotion of Rural Community
Organizations
such as Village Development Committees, Village Education
Committees,
Initiating different Income Generation activities like goat
rearing, group
farming, kitchen gardening; support classes for rural children;
implementing
various watershed development activities; promoting eco and
organic farming;
creating seasonal employment for rural communities, Conducting
Life-skill
trainings for the rural youth; Liaisoning, Action-oriented
Advocacy and
Net-working with the Government machineries and other
like-minded Non-governmental
Organizations, etc
*
JVS is also implementing a Tribal and Rural Family Support &
Development
Program which cover 250 tribal and rural Below Poverty Line
families in
Amravati District:
This is a Family Sponsorship
Program where each of these 250 family is being sponsored as the
extended
family of the supporting overseas families from Canada and USA.
Within
the period of 5 to 6 years, the supported families are helped to
develop
their social, educational and economic status so as to reach a
much higher
degree of self-sustainability. The different activities
implemented through
this program are: assisting the families to identify their
priority issues
and helping them to make viable plans to deal with these issues;
assisting
the families to take up various viable income generation
activities such
as farming, animal husbandry to improve their economic status in
a consistent
manner; assisting the families to complete the formal education
of their
children; assisting the families to improve the quality of their
housing
and health; etc
*
From 1st October 2005, JVS initiated a District level HIV &
AIDS prevention
& control program in Amravati District which cover the
following activities:
Conducting HIV/AIDS awareness
creation trainings, seminars and meetings for the high school
children,
college youth and village communities; printing and
disseminating hand
bills and posters on HIV/AIDS theme; organizing HIV/AIDS poster
exhibitions
where the general public gather; motivating and preparing the
high risk
groups for voluntary HIV test; offering counseling services to
the HIV
& AIDS patients and their families; offering medical and
nutritional
care and support for HIV & AIDS patients; etc
*
From 1st October 2006, JVS initiated a Block level Anti-human
trafficking
program in 50 rural villages of Achalpur Block in Amravati
District which
cover the following activities:
Organizing awareness
creation trainings on human trafficking issues for high school
& college
students, village communities and for the Civil Servants such as
the police
personnel; organizing Human Trafficking poster exhibitions in
public places;
printing and disseminating hand bills and posters on Human
trafficking
theme; Forming and promoting community and village level
Anti-trafficking
Vigilance Cells.
