What We Do…

Social Animation was taken up as a thematic thrust area from 2011. Most of these activities were implemented in the Melghat Tribal Region consisting of Chikaldara & Dhnari Blocks in Amravati District.

Different Activities of JVS

• CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMS

• PROMOTION OF SELF-HELP GROUPS

• SAVING AND INTER-LOANING ACTIVITIES

• MOBILIZATION OF GOVERNMENT SCHEMES

• WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS

• PROMOTION OF FORMAL EDUCATION

• CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

• INCOME GENERATION PROGRAMS

• HOUSING AND LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS

• SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES

• HIV/AIDS CONTROL AND PREVENTION PROGRAM

• RALLIES, SEMINARS & STREET PLAYS ON SOCIAL ISSUE

• MEDICAL CAMPS IN THE TRIBAL VILLAGES

• SOCIO-CULTURAL PROGRAMS

• YOUTH ANIMATION PROGRAMS

• RELIEF & REHABILITATION PROGRAMS DURING NATURAL CALAMITIES

JVS Organizational Structure:

1 . INTEGRATED TRIBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Funding Partners

• Caritas India

• Manos Unidas

• CASA

• Andheri Hilfe

• Holistic Child Dev. India

• UNICEF

Key Development Activities

• Tribal Community Mobilization

• Strengthening of CBOs

• Sensitization on MREGS and other Govt. Schemes

• Food for Community Development Program

Year-wise summary of JVS Tribal Dev. Projects

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2000-2001	4	1	40	3200	472,500
2001-2002	2	3	60	3600	783,375
2002-2003	7	6	82	4920	954,920
2003-2004	3	2	59	4130	1,483,547
2004-2005	5	3	94	6580	5,049,755
2005-2006	4	8	80	3040	4,670,036
2006-2007	4	3	120	7200	3,741,039
2007-2008	4	4	130	9100	6,274,563
2008-2009	1	3	50	3800	1,806,347
2009-2010	1	1	20	2000	1,583,104
2011-2012	2	0	20	2100	1117840
2012-2013	0	0	15	1800	1586299
2013-2014	0	1	15	1400	327665
Total	37	31	685	46070	2,85,95,115

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS of JVS’ Tribal Development Interventions in 11 years:

• Jeevan Vikas Sanstha has successfully facilitated 450 SHGs to receive Govt. schemes worth Rs.98,07,800/-

• 1415 Children of 225 villages have been admitted to different schools.

• 6352 Students of 49 villages were educated through support classes.

• Different Competitions, like General Knowledge, Essay, Drawing, and Sports were conducted in 113 Villages for 62,352 Students.

• Literacy classes were conducted for 989 illiterate Adults in 84 Villages.

• 560 Tribal Children between the age group of 03-06 were provided with regular midday meals, medical care and other recreational programs.

• 720 School going tribal children between the age group of 06-15 were given support classes and nutritional and medical care.

• 51 Medical Camps and Health Check-up programs were conducted and 13,515 tribal adults and 1025 children benefited from the free medicines distributed.

• Nutrition kits were provided for 852 Malnourished Children in 47 villages.

• Participatory micro planning programs were conducted in 100 villages of Melghat Tribal Region.

• With the help of JVS 29,730 people of 102 villages received work under the MREGS Scheme.

• With JVS intervention, Rs.2,85,800/- was returned to the tribal laborers who were cheated by the employer.

• Through the CASA Project 9,634 laborers received 84,052 man days of work. This work was done in 506 farmers’ field and 5, 43,300 k.gl wheat was distributed to the laborers.

• Tribal farmers were provided with Seeds, Fertilizers & Pesticides.

• 954 women of the different project villages started the healthy practices of starting nutritional kitchen gardens and are now growing vegetables and pulses during he post monsoon period for the consumption needs their families.

• As many as 232 Advocacy & Networking meetings and programs were conducted

• 5348 tribal people received the Birth, Death, Marriage certificates.

• 3605 children received education certificates.

• 4110 Beneficiaries received individual Govt. schemes.

• 421 children were stopped from child labor activities.

• 231 Beneficiaries received Handicrafts Certificates.

• 108 Tree Plantation Program Conducted.

• 85 Garbage pits were made with the help of village youth.

• 3,563 Kitchen gardens were made.

• 82 Vanarai Bandaras were made.

• 1025 Beneficiaries received Ration Cards.

2. INTEGRATED RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Funding Partners

• Manos Unidas

• NABARD

• DRDA, Amravati

Key Development Activities

• Capacity Building of the Focused Groups and Target Communities

• Promotion of People's Organization and Self-Help Groups

• Mobilization of Government Schemes By the SHGs

Year-wise summary of JVS Rural Community Dev. Programs

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2000-2001	1	1	12	350	40,000
2001-2002	2	0	15	900	150,000
2002-2003	2	3	11	600	110,000
2003-2004	1	2	1	140	60,000
2004-2005	2	1	27	800	538,955
2005-2006	1	1	10	400	521,397
2006-2007	3	3	115	3500	699,422
2007-2008	4	2	156	4680	930,066
2008-2009	0	1	170	5780	1,148,522
2009-2010	0	2	50	2000	479,134
2010-2011	2	0	80	1900	913,274
2011-2012	0	0	30	1200	2,194,797
2012-2013	1	0	40	1400	2,516,101
2013-2014	1	1	40	1325	1118592
TOTAL	20	17	757	24,975	1,14,20,260

SPECIAL RURAL DEV. ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY JVS

• Exposure trips for rural children

• Parents Gathering

• Summer Camps for children

• Bicycle Distribution for girl students

• Worm Tablets Distribution

• Tree Plantation drives

• Handicraft trainings for youth

• Women Day Celebrations

• Village cleaning Drives

• Tailoring classes and distribution of stitching machines

• Vocational Trainings for Rural Youth

• Street Plays on education

• Essay Competitions, Medical Camps

• Income Generation Programs

• Leadership Trainings

• Promotion of Govt.’s MREGS Scheme

• Animal Vaccination Camps

3. INTEGRATED FARMERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Funding Partners

• Caritas India

• Manos Unidas

Key Development Activities

• Community Mobilization of Farmers

• Addressing the economic issues of the debt-ridden farmers

• Income Generation Program for farmers' suicide victim families

• Land Treatment and Watershed Development Activities

• Integrated Natural Resource Management Activities

Year-wise summary of JVS Farmers Dev. Projects

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2007-2008	3	1	34	3500	2,591,754
2008-2009	1	1	62	6750	3,205,147
2009-2010	0	0	65	7000	4,735,152
2010-2011	1	2	20	1200	2,192,950
2011-2012	0	0	4	500	1,193,150
2012-2013	0	0	4	500	980,000
2013-2014	0	1	4	500	801,174
TOTAL	5	7	193	19,950	1,56,99,300

Program Achievements at a glance:

• 63 Vermicompost tanks were constructed in 4 FARM project villages and about 73 quintals of vermicomposts were produced.

• 1025 families Benefitted from the kitchen garden promotion program

• 1425 saplings were planted in different project villages

• 84 farmers developed model organic farming practices

• Over 150 farmers switched over to the use of organic pesticides

• 854 Hectors of land belonging to the tribal farmers of 4 villages in Amravati Dt. were brought under good quality cultivation through land treatment and water conservation activities

• Interactive & Networking meetings with Farmers and Govt. departments were organized

• Celebration of Women Days, environment Day human rights Day

• Trainings conducted on Gender sensitization & Women Farmers

• Trainings on Legal aid & Right based Approach for Farmers Groups

• 42 Landless & debt-ridden families were supported with IGP in the project villages. They are getting good income from IGP for their livelihood.

• 153 Farmer Suicide victim families were supported with IGP. They are getting good income from IGP for their livelihood.

• 42 farmers have from the seed bank promotion program

• Established good relationship with like-minded NGOs, GOs and communities and we are getting good support from them.

• Several small farmers received various Schemes from the Govt. through JVS project staff.

• JVS promoted Organic farming in a big way in several project villages and the farmers have now begun to get the benefits of the organic farming promotion program of JVS.

• 264 farmers were supported to purchase farm implements in Akola Dt.

• 435 farmers were supported with agriculture seeds in Akola Dt

• 157 young tribal girls were given cutting and tailoring vocational trainings in Akola Dt.

• 108 young girls were given sewing machines in Akola Dt.

• 18 Health check-up camps were conducted and 971 patients benefitted

• 419 goats were purchased and given to 200 women in Akola & Buldhana Dts.

• 95 farmers were supported with vermis for the promotion of organic farming

• 15 animal vaccination camps were conducted which benefited 769 domestic animals

• 42 cases submitted in the court for different issues related to farmers

• 132 counseling sessions had been done for suicide victim families of Yavatmal Dt.

• Different Sensitization meetings on legal issues have been conducted in 50 villages in Yavatmal Dt.

• 9 Signature Campaign Advocacy programs had been conducted on farmers suicide issues

4. HIV / AIDS PROGRAMS

Funding Partners

• MANOS UNIDAS

• CLINTON FOUNDATION THROUGH CRS

• GFATAM THROUGH ALLAINCE INDIA & MAMTA

• JVS THROUGH LOCALLY MANAGED RESOURCES

• NACO THROUGH KHPT & MASACS

Key areas of Intervention by JVS

• HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Programs

• HIV/AIDS Care & Support Programs

• NAVAJEEVAN Community Care Center/Hospital

• NAVAJEEVAN Care Home for HIV Children

Year-wise summary of JVS HIV/AIDS Projects

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2005-2006	1	0	85	6250	1,604,490
2006-2007	0	0	120	10200	1,016,021
2007-2008	2	0	140	22500	1,679,966
2008-2009	1	2	150	6000	2,531,558
2009-2010	0	0	200	20000	4,155,383
2010-2011	0	0	200	20000	4,457,478
2011-2012	0	0	100	5000	1,540,546
2012-2013	0	1	80	4000	1,486,280
2013-2014	0	1	45	3500	428,967
TOTAL	4	4	1120	97,450	1,89,00,689

Creating Supportive Environment

(for reducing stigma in different settings)

• Community advocacy – identification of key stakeholders & “gatekeepers”

• Development of advocacy messages & materials

• Advocacy with schools & health institutions

• Mobilizing community support by involving community in direct service provision

Creating Supportive Environment

(for strengthening civil society & institutional capacity)

• Capacity building of lead NGO partners & agencies providing services.

• Identification of capacity building needs in different service areas

• Develop capacity building modules

• Quality assurance of trainings & follow up

• Capacity building of implementing NGOs/CBOs, health care providers & counselors

1. HIV/AIDS Prevention & Control Programs

FOCUSED ACTVITIES :

• HIV AWARNESS CREATION & TRAININGS

• HIV SCREENING CAMPS

• POSTER EXHIBITIONS

• COUNSELLING SERVICES

• REFERRAL SERVICES

• SOCIAL MOBLIZATION

2. HIV/AIDS Care & Support Programs

FOCUSED ACTIVITIES:

• Formation and strengthening of children’s support groups

• Facilitation for provision of prophylaxis & treatment for common opportunistic infections

• Provision of ARV treatment literacy, facilitation of access to ARV in public sector & follow up

• Provision of supplementary nutrition for children in need & their families

• Provision of home based care through household support for children & family members

• Access to education

• Provision of psychological support

• Facilitating livelihood options through IGP support

DETAILED VIEW OF SUPPORT PROVIDED

SR.	SUPPORT	BENEFICARIES
1	NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT	3254
2	EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT	1487
3	HOUSE HOLD SUPPORT	4863
4	REFERREL	1101
5	IGP FOR FAMILIES	341
6	SUPPORT GROUP FORMATION	32
7	COUNSELLING SERVICES	1045
8	OI SUPPORT	309

3. NAVAJEEVAN Community Care Center

FOCAL SERVICES EXTENDED

• TREATMENT

• COUNSELING ( ON ART ADHERENCE, POSITIVITY IN LIFE, PREVENTION, NUTRITION, TREATMENT OPTIONS )

• BUILDING LINKAGES & ENSURING REFERRALS

Year wise status of OPD & IPD

Year	OPD	IPD
2008	18	15
2009	1590	461
2010	2151	792
2011	808	372

SR. NO	TOTAL SERVICES EXTENDED	NO. OF PATIENTS BENEFITED
1	PSYCHO SOCIAL COUNSELLING	4567
2	NUTRITIONAL COUNSELLING	3825
3	FAMILY COUNSELLING	2500
4	DRUG ADHERENCE COUNSELLING	4567
5	HOME BASED CARE & SUPPORT COUNSELLING	3200

4. NAVAJEEVAN Care Home for HIV Children

LATEST INTIATIVE OF THE DIOCESE OF AMRAVATI

The Navajeevan ( Navjeevan meaning New life) Care Home is a residential Care Centre for HIV positive destitute children, owned and managed by the Catholic Diocese of Amravati through the Diocesan Social Development Society and LRRC, Nimbhora. It was started on 15th August 2008 at Nibhora in Amravati. As of now we have 19 children – both male and female – in our Care Home.

The children at our Care Home enjoy the following facilities:

• Safe residence with all the basically required facilities

• Nutritional care through good quality diet

• Educational care through regular schooling in the Govt. school and tuition classes in our Care Home

• Medical Care through our Community Care Centre/Hospital for HIV patients

• Psycho-social support through regular counseling, meditation, prayer etc

• Recreational facilities for the children

• A child-friendly environment in our Care Home

The following Staff personnel give their services at JVS Care Home for children:

• A full-time Sister Director of the Care Home

• A resident Nurse

• A full-time Driver

• A full-time helper

• 3 resident Care mothers

• A visiting Doctor

• A visiting Counselor

5. FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Funding Partners

• Save a Family Plan

Key Development Activities

• Integrated Family Development Activities

• Promotion of health, education & housing of BPL families

• Income Generation Program for BPL families

Year-wise summary of JVS Family Dev. Projects

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2000-2001	1	1	5	52	284,878
2001-2002	1	1	5	52	286,804
2002-2003	1	1	7	52	268,525
2003-2004	1	1	8	54	284,191
2004-2005	1	1	10	54	378,538
2005-2006	1	1	10	54	526,292
2006-2007	1	1	14	250	1,548,402
2007-2008	1	1	15	248	2,015,658
2008-2009	1	1	15	248	2,257,698
2009-2010	1	1	15	240	2,757,342
2010-2011	1	1	15	300	3,018,000
2011-2012	1	1	13	300	3,499,060
2012-2013	1	1	15	300	3,679,328
2013-2014	1	1	15	300	3,533,396
Total	14	14	162	2504	2,43,38,112

The Family Development Program was started in Amravati Dioceses in 1994 with 45 families.

At present there are 300 BPL families which are benefiting from this program

6. CHILD RIGHTS PROMOTION PROGRAM

Funding Partners

• Save the Children (Bal Raksha Bharat)

Key Development Activities

• Child Protection Programs

• Inclusive Education Activities

• Promotion of Child Rights

• Child Labor Elimination Activities

• Creating Child Friendly Learning Space in Govt. Schools & Anganwadis

Year-wise summary of JVS Child Rights Projects

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2009-2010	2	0	100	8000	4,952,305
2010-2011	0	1	100	8000	6,713,692
2011-2012	0	0	100	8000	7,363,368
2012-2013	0	0	100	8000	4,673,154
2013-2014	0	1	100	8000	4,79,772
TOTAL	2	2	100	8000	2,41,82,291

JVS believes in the Rights of Children.

Through the Child Rights promotion program we are hoping

to make 100 villages of Amravati Dt. as Child labour free villages

• Where All Primary school children are in school

• Where No child under the age of 14 is engaged in exploitative labour

• Where A functioning Child Protection Committee in place at the community level

• Where A functioning Children’s Group in place at community & school levels

• Where The majority of parents are aware of and acting for protection of child rights

Major Achievements of JVS’ Child Rights Programs :

• Active Child Protection Committees in 100 Villages were established

• Active Children Group were established in 100 villages

• 66 children were helped out of Child labour

• 8245 Adolescents were trained on Life skills

• The established committees and Groups have under gone series of trainings on Child Protection and Child Rights

• 5240 children received their Birth certificate (Through Birth Registration Campaign)

• Child Opportunity Centre have been established in a number of Villages.

• A number of awareness programs on child rights were conducted in the village and Block levels

• 200 Govt. school teachers were trained on Inclusive Learning Friendly Environment (ILFE)

• 100 Govt. ICDS workers were trained on Pre literacy skill

• 1025 children were enrolled in schools (Irregular and out of school children)

• Village Education committee/School management committee were strengthened in 100 villages (They have under gone series of training on School management and Quality Education)

• Child Friendly Environments were created in 18 Govt. schools (Renovation and Beautification)

• Libraries were set up in 30 Govt. schools

• 30 Govt. ICDS Centres were supported with teaching & learning materials

• 5000 children received solar lamps

• SHGs in 100 Villages were strengthened and all the SHG members went through a series of trainings related to SHG management & empowerment.

• Number of people received Job card through NREGA Campaign

7. RELIEF & REHABILITATION PROGRAMS

Year-wise summary of JVS Relief & Rehabilitation Programs

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total No. of villages covered	Total No. of families covered	Total Amount spent
2002-2003	3	3	38	3100	300,000
2004-2005	1	1	1	120	100,000
2005-2006	3	3	26	1950	1,460,000
2006-2007	5	5	32	4200	5,057,918
2007-2008	4	4	40	2325	5,449,978
2008-2009	3	3	2	38	4,557,496
2011-2012	0	0	0	0	0
2012-2013	0	0	0	0	0
2013-2014	2	2	5	0	5,57,500
TOTAL	21	21	144	11,733	16,925,392

Year wise status of Relief & Rehabilitation Programs

Sr.	Name of the Project	Project Location	Donor Partner
2002-2003
1	Relief to victims of floods	638 families of Akola & Buldhana Dist.	CASA Relief
2	Relief to victims of floods	Akola & Buldhana Dist.	Caritas India
3	Relief to victims of floods	2211 families of 32 villages in Akola & Buldhana Dist.	CRS
2004-2005
4	Relief to victims of Fire	Rampur village in Amravati Dist.	Caritas India
2005-2006
5	Emergency Relief Program	Nirmala School at Kapustalani village	Caritas India
6	Emergency Flood Relief Program	Digras & Mahagaon Talukas of Yavatmal Dist.	Caritas India
7	Flood Relief Program	6 villages in Amravati Dist.	WRSSF
2006-2007
8	Rehabilitation to victims of Hailstorm	5 Tribal villages of Malkapur centre, Amravati Dt.	Caritas India
9	Rehabilitation to victims of Hailstorm	3Tribal villages of Malkapur centre, Amravati Dt.	CASA
10	Rehabilitation to victims of Hailstorm	8 Tribal villages of Malkapur centre, Amravati Dt.	Manos Unidas
11	Relief to victims of floods	4 villages in Buldahana Dist.	Caritas India
12	Relief to victims of Floods	Buldhana, Yavatmal & Washim Dist.	CRS
2007-2008
13	Relief to victims of Floods	5 villlages in Achalpur, Anjangaon & Chandur Bazar Blocks, Amravati Dt.	Caritas India
14	Relief to victims of Floods	15 villages in Achalpur, Daryapur, Chandur Bazar & Chikhaldara Blocks, Amravati Dt.	CASA
15	Rehabilitation of victims of Floods	222 families of 7 villages of Amravati Dist.	Manos Unidas
16	Blanket Distribution Program	5 villages of Amravati & Washim	CASA
2008-2009
17	Relief Program for victims of fire	38 families of Dharanmahu villages in Dharni Block	CASA
18	Re-counstruction of Kapustalani school	Kapustalni village	Manos Unidas
19	Quilts distribution program	Navjeevan Care Centre, Nimbhora	CASA
20	Relief to victims of Fire	Retiya & Pilli village in Amravati Dist.	CASA
21	Re-construction of Kapustalani School	Kapustalani village	Caritas India

Summary of JVS Relief & Rehabilitation Intervention

Total No of Village Covered	Total No of Govt. Beneficiary Families	Total No of Benefitted Population
139	11,733	58,665

8. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Year-wise summary of JVS Institutional Dev. Projects Implementation

Financial Year	Total No. of new Projects Implemented	Total No. of Projects Completed	Total Amount spent
2000-2001	4	0	1842170
2001-2002	3	6	1926838
2002-2003	4	5	1080939
2003-2004	2	2	139320
2004-2005	4	3	649904
2005-2006	3	4	2931198
2007-2008	1	1	615438
2008-2009	0	0	0
2009-2010	0	0	0
2010-2011	0	0	0
2011-2012	0	0	0
2012-2013	0	0	0
2012-2013	0	0	0
TOTAL	21	21	9,185,807

 

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