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Education
Two crèches are run by
Bani Mandir, one at its complex at village Khordanhala
since 1975 and one at village Singalganj since 2002-03
under the auspices of West Bengal Council for Child
Welfare. 25 children in each unit of working parents
are being cared in those two crèches.
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parents leave their child in the crèche while
going to work and while returning from work take them
away. The kids are learning well and the care workers
are looking for all out development of their health
and mind. The children are getting tiffin and learning
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Health
There are four health clinics -
two Allopathic and two Homoeopathic. Out of these 4 clinics
one is headed by a lady gynecologist. Women, particularly
those in rural areas, have inhibitions to disclose their
gynecological problems in front of male doctors. Here
in Bani Mandir women can freely discuss their health matters
with the female doctor and automatically some complicated
diseases are diagnosed. Helpage India is providing support
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Vocational
Training for Women
Tailoring and wool-knitting programmes
held for training unemployed women and they become self-reliant
after obtaining the training. This programme was initiated
by the Royal Embassy of Netherlands, New Delhi for benefit
of the scheduled caste women. This programme is a regular
feature for imparting training facilities to them for
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Micro
Credit & Self Help Group
For a few years Bani Mandir has
been trying to provide sustainable income to the rural
women mostly living below poverty line through its Micro-Credit
Programme. The number of women self-help groups have
gone upto 259 having total number of beneficiaries of
2978. 24 villages have been covered under this programme.
The women are gaining sustainable income from trades
like brass making, vegetable vending, paddy processing,
agriculture, tailoring, grocery, tea stall etc. Regular
training camps for group leaders and motivation camps
for interested women are organized.
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Environment
We have undertaken various programmes
on environmental awareness under the guidance of School
of Fundamental Research, which is in turn sponsored
by the Ministry of Forest, Govt. of India through its
department of National Environment and Ecology, New
Delhi. In order to implement these Environmental Awareness
Programmes, we conduct workshops on the need for use
of Herbal Medicines and necessity of Herbal plantation,
we conduct sit & draw programme on environmental
pollution with school children, mass rally, survey,
and so on. This apart, we have dug one garbage pit to
enlighten people about the proper use of garbage in
fighting environmental pollution, and we have also established
a nursery through which herbal plants are demonstrated
and freely distributed among the masses. |
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Stress has been given on vermi compost and along with
compost pit one permanent vermi compost pit has been constructed
mainly for demonstration purposes to the farmers. A new
venture is going to be started in collaboration with Vivekananda
Institute of Bio Technology, Nimpith Ashram of South 24
Parganas to Propagate use of Bio-fertilizer and Bio-pesticide
to protect the mankind from utter future disaster for
using orgnic chemical mannure. A private public partnership
(PPP) programme has been given to Bani Mandir for training
of farmers as well as providing Bio-fertilizer to them
after properly motivating them by the institute. Three
representatives are getting training in the institute
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Community
Development
We work in the community with
a holistic approach. We try to develop our community
in every respect. Apart from providing education to
underprivileged children, taking care of elderly people,
helping the community with different type of resources,
we have installed several tube wells and have set up
more than 1200 sanitary latrines in addition to repairing
of houses with financial assistance from Sahay. We regularly
distribute fruit plants and repair & construct roads
for the convenience of local community.
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Old-age
Care
Sponsor-A-Grand
Parent (SAGP) Programme – Under this programme
we are caring 104 aged male & female destitute aged
persons who are neglected in their families as well
as in the community. With the financial assistance of
Helpage India, grannies are getting all sorts of benefits
like food, clothing, medicines, personal and household
goods including pocket money which an old man needs
for proper living. Some of the grannies are investing
the pocket money in small trades and are getting more
income. During long association with the activities
of Bani Mandir, grannies have become sources of information
about various social activities as well as they are
aware about environmental pollution, common diseases,
consumer rights, social evils, etc. Community as a whole
gets benefit from the experienced grannies and thus
grannies have become social animators.
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