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To make the children mentally develop for creativity skill and sense of imagination, the under privileged children were supported by providing books and learning materials, education kit as well and other co-curricular activities etc. Bani Mandir took a vital role and ICICI Bank through Give India supported for 700 under privileged children from 6 school in this area through their Read and Lead Programme.
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Youth Activities for development of the villages is another important programme of Bani Mandir. In 13 village Bani Mandir organized youths to develop their villages with different activities through which they are active for development work in their area. Bani Mandir with the support of ONGC started a Computer Training Centre at Khordanahala village where around 100 students are getting basic knowledge of computer.
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Survival of Elderly Persons
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The poor elderly persons from the socio-economic backward communities suffered mainly for proper care even in crisis of food and nutrition at their older age. Helpage International throught Helpage India sponsored 104 grand parents for survival under SAGP Project. They are getting support for their survival as well as for their socio-cultural protection.
Helpage India extended its activity from service mode to Right based approach. Up to March 2010 they sponsored 104 elderly person with monthly ration, clothing, medical and other benefit which they have stopped. From April 2010 have extended
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programme for 322 elderly persons. Community people were encouraged to look after the elderly persons for their social protection. Village Development Committees were empowered on social protection of the elderly persons. One animator has appointed to look after these 322 working elders directly or by support from others. Who are aged above 55 and capable to work for themselves considered to go for Self-Help-Group (ESHG) to make them sustainable along with the help of their decedents and others from the community. Those poor people who are mainly unable to work due to their age an illness will be maintained by the community and their decedents. Helpage India will support with the matching grants and will monitor the project through Bani Mandir. A medical check up Center for common ailments, ophthalmic disorder (IOL) and physiotherapy is going to b set up as par this extended project.
Apart from the Helpage International support, Give International through Give India, since 2003 supported partly sponsorship providing time to time support of 448 elderly persons in 26 villages for food, health etc.
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Women's Right Programme
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Women's Right Programme is the programme of Bani Mandir for women development and empowerment activities with the women member of the working class families in Diamond Harbour II Block. Basically the women members of Bani Mandir's socio-economic development programme formed as village level development groups.
A micro finance activity organized primarily by Bani Mandir with the funding from Rastriya Mahila Kosh, New Delhi, also helped them to co-ordinate some income generation programme for their socio-economic support which they are running by themselves now.
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At present 272 women groups are active in this programme in 24 villages of Diamond Harbour Block II where 3165 women from social and economic weaker section joined hands to develop their organisation under Bani Mandir's active support to fight for all shorts of discrimination against them. Awareness with the women in this area on physical and
sexual harassment, inequality with wages, domestic violence, social securities etc. are the major activities of Bani Mandir's Women Rights team. bani Mandir believes that empowerment of women both economic and social can only make their lives better.
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Health and Nutrition
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RCH and Maternity support to the rural poor of 50 villages in Diamond Harbour II Block, where Bani Mandir is active in different social health support activities. To help the adolescent girls, women in gynecological trouble, prenatal and post natal care Bani Mandir is active for long period. Lady gynecologists and several female health workers active in this regards. Several RCH training were held in last year (2009-2010).
Bani Mandir is running on General, one R.C.H and two Homeopathic Clinics. Workshops on Reproductive Child Health (RCH) was organised.
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RCH Education for Adolescent girls: SAHAY supported to run several Workshops / Meetings on life skill, reproductive anatomy, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS etc.
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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.
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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.
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 in a two & half months course.
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Community Development
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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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ONGC Supported Programme
ONGC supported us in our effective and important programmes like Youth-Computer Training (in the year 2007-08 & 2008-09) and Ambulance service to the rural poor (in 2009-10 year). Both the support helped us a lot for the poor youths & poor patients of these mostly backward areas.
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ONGC Sponsored Programme
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Bani Mandir from its inception has been working for socially deprived people irrespective of caste and creed. Now in social development activities several Donors and
Government Departments emphasize on SC, ST, OBC and minority people's development. So Bani Mandir made an assesment of their workon the basis of its service to SC, ST and Minorities and got the following results:
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Hospital services in this area are not available and the patients particularly the pregnant mother and the patients in acute cases have to travel at risk a long way to Diamond Harbour Hospital or to Kolkata in any medical college Hospital. In order to obviate this difficulty a suitable Maternity Home cum General Hospital is felt absolutely necessary. In the villages there are no doctors available and quacks help is the only alternative. Birth of the children depends mostly at Home with the support of Local Dai (Untrained Midwife).
To make the institutional delivery of the pregnant women and moderns and scientific treatment for common ailment a modern Maternity Home cum General Hospital would be the most useful establishment. Looking for forward to your kind support, Please mail us at:banimandir06@rediffmail.com
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