Malur Project           

Bishop’s
Conference of Italy

* Children’s day
celebrations

- Village wise cultural and sports competitions.

- Panchayat members, parents and school teachers were
invited as guests for the finals of the competition

 

* Self Help groups
for women

- More than 128 income generation programmes like:
livestock, petty shops and food stall, etc. 

- Training in small business activities.

- Banks have come forward to work with these groups. 

- Collaboration with Hindustan Lever Ltd. (HLL) to start
dealership for daily, consumable products. E.g. toothpaste.

 

K. Gollahalli
Project Area
 

* Crèche for children

- attracted more than 25 children, 

- provision of pre-school education, nutrition and health
care.

 

* Self Help Groups

- regularly accessing loans from banks for setting up
various small businesses, 

- initiating discussions to get benefits from local
government,

- have been taken for exposure on new variety of sheep
rearing. 

- Cluster Level Association (CLA) is training SHGs and
building links with banks.

 

Rajendranagar
Slum, Koramangala

 * Child Sponsorship Programme:

- Talents day

- Tests 

- Film Shows (At field & PVR – Tare Zameenpar)

- Personality Development workshops 

- Drawing Competition

- Craft work 

- Regular Classes

- Monthly Parents Meeting - Class wise 

- Counseling assistance

- Distribution of New year gift (T-Shirts)
 

* Self Help Groups 

- Regular Meetings, Savings, Credit Activities

- 100% External loan repayments 

- Payment of Child Sponsorship fees

- Five SHG’s have taken responsibility to conduct school
wise monthly meeting for the parents of sponsored children  
  and fees payments
are made at the meetings.

- Housing loan repayment collection & payment to CSA 

- One new group formation

- HIV – AIDS Awareness rally & programme on 1st of
December 07 at Christ College Auditorium
 

Hoskote – Chetana

 
This year there were appreciable rains resulting in
satisfactory crop yield & created better employment opportunities for the
village poor. The farmers have gained in the crop yields wherever they adopted
appropriate soil & moisture conservation techniques- implemented under CFCD
project.

All the Day care nutrition centres are handed over to the
local community for the self management.

Women’s Meet was organized for showcasing their unity &
preparing the platform for forming the federation.

The women’s federation has been formed & members are
being trained intheir roles & responsibilities.

The activity centres have become a hub for honing their
learning skills & developing their personalities. The child’s &
mother’s health is being treated with utmost care.

There is a noticeable improvement in utilizing the health
facilities implemented by the government agencies.

With a little more support and effective linkages to various
sources including the government, the Committee based organisations will able
to meet all the needs of the community.