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About our organisation

Inspired by the Gandhian ideals of socio-economic change, our founders, a group of like-

minded professionals who shared a common dream of implementing a people-centric model of

development to benefit the poorest of the poor, set up Sukalyan Welfare Society on 8th March,

2005 as a non-profit organization registered in Kolkata under the West Bengal Societies

Registration Act, 1961.

Driven by the values Seva, Sadhana and Kranti, SWS strives to ensure last-mile delivery of key

services to the most underserved and poorest of the poor communities in West Bengal and

several other states. In formulating its core programme areas and projects in each of these

areas, the principal objective of SWS is to select those communities that are the least reached

by the government and other mainstream development agencies.

At present we reach the unreached through projects under five core programmatic areas which

are: Health, Sanitation & Hygiene; Education & Training; Creation of sustainable Livelihoods,

Digital Empowerment; and Community Empowerment. We are also constantly looking at

opportunities to implement projects in other socially relevant programme areas such as

Women’s Empowerment, Environment Conservation, Water Conservation & Safe Drinking

Water, Sustainable Agriculture etc.

In the 12 years of our existence, we have impacted nearly 1 million people across 12 districts or

municipalities in West Bengal covering a total of 48 blocks or wards. We have a footprint

across the following districts, municipalities and blocks: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Kolkata

District) 2 Wards, North 24 Parganas 16 Blocks, Nadia 3 Blocks, Purulia 2 Blocks, Bankura 4

Blocks, South 24 Parganas 6 Blocks, Hooghly 1 Block, Malda 3 Blocks, Murshidabad 2 Blocks,

Jalpaiguri 2 Blocks, Birbhum 6 Blocks and Uttar Dinajpur 1 Block apart from this we have an

dedicated team of social workers and network NGO partners who could effectively implement

projects across various other areas in West Bengal.

We are an Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council,

United Nations since 2017 apart from this we have received several awards and accolades for

our work such as Finalist certification from eNGO Challenge Award for our RHCP capacity

building initiative in 2016; we have got the Transparency Key as a token of appreciation from

GuideStar India Transparency Awards in 2016; finalist certificate from Public Interest Registry

(USA) for having an attractive profile at ongood.ngo in 2017 and certification under basic norms

from Credibility Aliiance in 2017.

We are a registred non-profit under Sections 80G and 12AA of Income Tax Act 1961 and our

application for registration under FCRA is now being processed at MHA. We are an empanelled

member of several national and international bodies such as NGO Partnerships System (NITI

AAYOG), GuideStar India, HelpYourNGO, Central Social Welfare Board, UNICEF, OnGood,

WASME, and UNDESA.

Apart from hundreds of individual donors, our partners and supporting agencies include

Government of West Bengal (Dept. of Health & Family Welfare), West Bengal Social Welfare

Board, German Leprosy & TB Relief Association - India, Digital Empowerment Foundation,

INOMY Media Private Limited, United Way of Kolkata, IIFL Foundation, CRISIL Foundation,

Merlin Projects Limited, Yes Bank, USHA International Nasscom Foundation (For BiG Tech

Program), Stop TB Partnership, Daan Utsav, Instamojo (Online Payment Gateway partner for

online contribution to our organisation).

In the current financial year (2017-18), our total developmental budget is over Rs 50 lakhs with

most of the funding coming individual and corporate donors. This year, two of our major CSR

partners are IIFL Foundation (CSR arm of India Infoline Finance Limited) and CRISIL

Foundation (CSR arm of CRISIL Ltd.). We have a target of achieving a total funding of Rs 1

crore by 2019-20.

Vision

Communities that do not have access to health, education, livelihoods and information in this

digital age tend to suffer from poverty and social illnesses such as crime, communal

disharmony, substance abuse, caste and gender atrocities, lack of sanitation and hygiene and

ignorance about the need to protect our environment. Our vision is to empower communities in

every way possible so that they are able to use the power of solidarity to lift themselves out of

poverty and gain the knowledge, skills and strength needed to rid themselves of all social ills.

Mission

Our mission is to design projects under several broad programmatic areas that seek to

empower underserved, poorest of the poor communities so that they can use the power of

solidarity to benefit from affordable healthcare, sanitation and hygiene; education and skilling

through schools and training; sustainable livelihoods through skill-building and establishment of

micro-enterprises; information and knowledge by acquiring digital literacy and the ability to

make full use of the Internet; and, overall community empowerment through various types of

capacity-building activities. At present we are implementing five core programmatic areas:

Health, Sanitation and Hygiene, Education & Training, Creation of Sustainable Livelihoods,

Digital Empowerment and Community Empowerment. We intend to launch projects in other

socially relevant core programmatic areas such as Women Empowerment, Environment

Conservation, Water Conservation & Safe Drinking Water, Sustainable Agriculture etc.

Message from our President

I look back at 2016-17 one word that describes the year is ‘revolution’. It had been an year of

experimentation, trying new methods and modules, building up new partnerships and bringing

revolution in the core programmatic areas. Despite experiencing taking same feedbacks from

the communities this year the very new team showed tenacity than ever to handle the

challenges from field and innovating ideas to mitigate the challenges.

This year various new initiatives’ were started few of them are like empowering women through

financial literacy which opened the eyes of women living at the rural settlements and got

cheated month after month, our dedicated team abled to bring awareness among these women

to build effective savings habit this project is being supported by IIFL Foundation; We have

revived our Swanirbhar project and implement a sustainable model along with USHA for not

only impart training to the women but also to teach them how to generate income which shown

us an fantastic result; We have also engaged with CRISIL Foundation to plan, implement and

follow-up their employee volunteering activities in and around Kolkata which got us very new

experience to work with so many corporate volunteers.

This year we have achieved few certifications and awards such as GuideStar India Transparency

Award 2016 in Intermediate Organization Category and got Transparency Badge as a token of

recognition, this award has been supported by Tata Trusts; we have received a finalist

certificate at eNGO Challenge Awards 2016 in Healthcare & Wellness category for our capacity

building initiative for RHCPs this has been followed by finalist certificate in India4Good Awards

2016 for maintaining attractive profile at www.ongood.ngo this is organised by Public Interest

Registry USA.

Over the next 3 years we plan to expand our financial literacy initiative at other Eastern & NE

India states, create long term partnerships with our existing corporate partners, digitalize all our

materials for people to access from anywhere in the world and start financial educating

themselves.

A huge Thank You to all our donors, Board members, volunteers, well-wishers and interns for

traversing a path with us that is not very easy and with faith and conviction to one day see a

world free from poverty, diseases and financial obstructions.

With kind regards,

Birendra Ch. Gautam

http://www.ongood.ngo/

Governing Board

Sl.

No. Name Designation Profession Permanent Address Pan No.

Aadhar

No

1

Birendra

Chandra

Gautam

President Social

Worker

Uttarayan, Nabapally,

Barasat, North 24

Parganas, Kolkata- 700

126

ADXPG2118H

2757

6244

2531

2 Kamal

Karmakar Secretary

Social

Worker

Hatiara Road, Helabattala,

Kolkata- 700 157 AWKPK5336P

2502

4639

5633

3

Sucharita

Das

(Adhikari)

Treasurer Teacher

104/13, West Ghosh Para

Road, Authpur, Bhatpara,

Jagaddal, North 24

Parganas, Pincode-

743128

BPAPA3107C

2265

9883

3769

4 Shanti Aich Member Teacher

Gayenpara, 7 No.

Rajarhat, Kolkata- 700

059

NA

4952

9010

4559

5 Sumita Das Member Business

Ca 1/10

Deshbandhunagar,

Baguiati, 3rd Floor, Alo

Appt., Kolkata- 700 059

NA

5261

2236

3146

6 Swapna

Nath Member Teacher

Arunachal, Hatiara,

Rajarhat Gopalpur (M),

Kolkata- 700 157

AUHPN4087H

7906

9363

4417

7 Jharna

Dutta Member Teacher

Dakhin Hatiara, Near

Hatiara Bus Stand,

Newtown, North 24

Parganas, Kolkata-

700157

BWWPD1962M

9405

3086

2136

Operations Team

Core Team

Indraneel Karmakar

Manager – Programmes &

Partnerships

Biswajit Chakraborty

Coordinator – Programmes

Rana Pratap Bardhan

Asst. Coordinator –

Programmes

Sufal Das

Asst. Coordinator –

Programmes

Pritam Datta

Manager – Events

Soumyadeep Ghosh

Asst. Coordinator – Events

Field Team

Sohidul Islam

Project Coordinator

Abdul Halim

Asst. Project Coordinator

Utpal Dutta


Shyamal Roy

District Project Coordinator

Jalpaiguri

Masud Ali Sahaji


Shabir Ali Sahaji


Dipak Karmakar

District Coordinator –

Programmes

Bankura

Arun Ch. Layek

SHG Coordinator – Bankura

Sumitra Halder

District Project Coordinator

Malda

Sabyasachi Mukherjee

District Coordinator

Birbhum

Padip Sharma


Abdul Hafiz

Field Coordinator

Sanwar Hossain Khan

District Coordinator

South 24 Parganas

Core Programmatic Area: Education

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in

every society, in every family.”

- Kofi Annan

Considered to be one of the great contributors to the progress of humanity down the ages,

the 18th Century American Benjamin Franklin once said “An investment in knowledge pays

the best interest.” We at Sukalyan Welfare Society (SWS) have, since our inception in 2002,

constantly strived to empower lives through interventions in the area of education, literacy,

knowledge-transfer and skilling through various projects over the years. We strongly believe

that nothing empowers the poor and underprivileged more than the acquisition of

knowledge, information and skills.

In this reporting year too, we launched a very important intervention - Community Financial

Literacy in West Bengal – in August, 2016. On hindsight it appears that following the

Government of India’s demonetization move in November, 2016 together with its increased

stress on financial inclusion and promotion of a digital economy to replace the largely cash

economy of India, this particular SWS intervention has not only been extremely timely but is

also meeting the critical need of making rural people, especially women and youth, to

become financially literate enough to operate and benefit from a digital economy and the

habit of banking.

The approach we have adopted for the intervention is depicted below. SWS not only

conceived the project entirely but also developed the curriculum for both the awareness

camps and training programmes. So far, we have been able to rope in two partners – IIFL

Foundation and CRISIL Foundation - to implement the intervention in West Bengal. The IIFL

Foundation-sponsored project is called Community Financial Literacy while the CRISIL

Foundation-sponsored project is called Financial Literacy for Women under Project Prakarsh.

25,500

+

is the number of people in West Bengal who have been directly or

indirectly sensitized about financial literacy in the last 8 months of

2016-17 financial year through our intervention.

Project: Community Financial Literacy in West Bengal

This ongoing project is sponsored by IIFL Foundation. The basic framework of the project

and the progress achieved till end of the 2016-17 financial year is detailed below. The

project is continuing in the current financial year.

What is Financial Literacy?

Financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works in the world: how someone

manages to earn or make it, how that person manages it, how he/she invests it (turn it into

more or earn returns with high interest rates) and how that person donates it to help others.

More specifically, it refers to the set of skills and knowledge that allows an individual to

make informed and effective decisions with all of their financial resources.

Objective of intervention

The project’s objectives are as follows:

• To sensitize rural communities about the need for financial literacy and thereby facilitate their financial inclusion by empowering them with two essentials - literacy and easy access.

• To impart knowledge to enable financial planning, inculcate saving habits among the rural and illiterate communities and to improve their understanding of financial products leading to effective use of financial services.

• To be able to plan ahead of time for their

life cycle needs and deal with unexpected emergencies without resorting to debt.

• To enable them to proactively manage money and avoid debt traps.

• To ensure that the knowledge provided through awareness results in inculcating

banking habits and literacy inputs are synchronized with access to financial services so as to enable the common man to use the information effectively to gain control over financial matters.

• To help enhance their economic security aided by use of banking services.

Impact in 2016-17 In the seven months since the launch of the project, the following landmarks have been reached:

• 270 sensitization meetings conducted in 9 Districts of West Bengal • 4 Volunteer Training Programs conducted • 200+ volunteers trained • 14875 direct beneficiaries reached among which 95% women are having minimum

earning potential and 5% school students. • 10000+ indirect beneficiaries reached through volunteers. • Partnerships with local NGOs are being worked out to enhance our reach. • The districts in West Bengal that have been covered so far are 24 Parganas (North),

24Parganas (South), Bankura, Purulia, Kolkata, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Bardhaman, and Hooghly.

Outcomes The project has already achieved the following outcomes:

• Rural women are now going to banks to take the facility of zero balance bank account and the facility of cheque and debit card

• The women are now able to verify fake currency notes after our sensitization • Our comprehensive school programmes enabled school going students to understand

the need for money and saving it for the future • We have able to open bank accounts for more than 200 rural women in Purulia

District of West Bengal as part of our financial inclusion intervention through this programme.

Case Study-I

Making small money grow into big money

Ever since her birth at Deuli village of Gangajalghati Block in Bankura District, Sangita Malakar, 25,

had never stepped out of her village.

She had no idea of what a bank was and what she could do with the little money that she earned

doing odd jobs around the village. One SWS-organised financial literacy sensitization in her village

changed all that.

“Today I know that even the small money I earn can become big money over time through savings

in my bank account,” she says proudly. “Today I have a bank account, know how to use a debit

card and I am fully aware of the various ways I can save money so that it grows even when I am

sleeping or not doing anything,” she quips with a twinkle in her eyes.

After the SWS sensitization meeting she not only opened a bank account but also became a

volunteer for our programme. She has already spread the message of financial literacy and its

benefits to more than 100 other women in and around her village. For Sangita, our programme has

proved to be life transforming.

Case Study- II

Cheating the ‘Cheat Fund’

Santi Mahato residing at Dumurdih Village of Barabazar Block in Purulia District, she was

approached by a ‘Cheat Fund’ company to invest money for the high return with interest and with

an co-incidence we organized a sensitization meet at her village where she was also present when

we shared the list of ‘Fraud Companies’ she found that the company who have approached her was

in the list and we held a counselling meet with her and made her understand, later she not

invested a single penny in that company.

Project Prakarsh: Financial Literacy & Skilling for Women

Project Prakarsh is an employee volunteering initiative under CRISIL RE (an initiative of

CRISIL Foundation) in

Kolkata. The overall objective

of this project is to increase

social impact among the rural

communities in some parts of

two districts in West Bengal.

This project was wholly

conceptualized and convened

by SWS. Started in February

2017 and continued till May

2017, the project had three

components: Financial

Literacy Workshops for

Women; Tailoring Training for

Women, and ; Capacity

Building Training for Rural Health Care Providers.

Financial Literacy for Women

The objective of the project was

to increase knowledge among

women and school students

regarding the concept of

savings, banking, government

schemes on financial inclusion

and easy access to entitlements.

During the four months of the

project, a total of 10

programmes - 9 among women

community and 1 with school

students – were conducted

involving 31 volunteers and

covering 448 women and 24 students. The venues selected were all in and around Kolkata.

Each of the programmes were of three hours duration. The programme module was entirely

developed by SWS.

Impact:

Total No. of women participated: 448

No. of women having bank A/C’s: 308

No. of women opened new bank A/C’s: 31

No. of women expressed their interest for opening PMJDY A/C: 269

No. of women having Aadhaar seeded A/C’s: 251

• Seeded pre-awareness: 189

• Seeded post- awareness: 61

Women opened SSY (Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana) A/C’s: 41

Women enrolled for Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY): 327

• Pre- awareness enrollment: 298

• Post- awareness enrollment: 29

Students A/C opened: 24

Core Programmatic Area: Healthcare, Sanitation & Hygiene

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Health, sanitation and hygiene constitute the bedrock of human welfare. Since our inception

we at SWS have given top priority to interventions in the sphere of healthcare, sanitation

and hygiene. The financial year 2016-17 was no exception. During the year we were

involved in as many as four different projects.

1. Sputum Collection Pickup & Transportation Scheme (in PPP model with Govt.

of West Bengal)

Since Dec’ 2008, Sukalyan Welfare Society is implementing the ‘Sputum Collection Pickup &

Transportation Scheme’ in PPP (Public Private Partnership) model with Dept. of Health &

Family Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal. Presently we are working in two DMC’s (Designated

Microscopic Centres) of North 24 Parganas District, from which 1 DMC has already achieved

the ‘Highest Performance Record’ among all 5 DMC’s in this district.

Data of 2015 – 16 are as follows:

Designated

Microscopic Centre

(DMC)

Sputum Collected

& Transferred to

DMC for diagnosis

(Units)

No. of Sputum

units found

positive (+ve)

Sputum collected

and transferred

to DMC for

follow-up

examination

Reckjoani Block

Primary Health

Centre TU

197 53 102

Panihati State

General Hospital

TU

124 16 45

2. RHCP Capacity Building Programme

Who are RHCPs?

The Rural Health Care Provider envisages a cadre of volunteers at the village level. A RHCP

is someone who is not “alien” to the neighborhood and is accepted by the village

community.

RHCP’s are those who easily reach the grassroots community without any hesitation and

being a local person they used to identify and treat the disease very easily and in a

convenient way.

Role of RHCP’s towards serving community

• Identify and treat or refer village people suspected of having various diseases.

• Trace and identify any default patients.

• Report adverse effects to the local Govt. or Private practitioners.

• Raise community awareness on different diseases.

• Provide elementary health education

• Provide local immediate medical support during any emergency such as flood,

earthquake or fire.

• Counseling of default patients to get back them into treatment.

In view of the objective of establishing a workforce of RHCP’s, the quality and adequacy of

training is most important on different issues pertaining to health. We do capacity building

of RHCP’s through a cascade mechanism with the active involvement of local Doctors and

Govt.’s technical support. We have also done advocacy meetings with the Govt. officials to

accredit these health providers for just a token of appreciation and support their excellent

workforce. In this financial year we have able to train around 68 RHCPs newly and

continued a follow-up and remained touch base with around 78 RHCP’s who were trained in

the year 2015-16.

Objective of RHCP Capacity Building Program

• Provide the skills to manage the local health programmes in their area.

• Makes efficient to treat patients correctly.

• Aware of all health programmes of Govt.

• Address accessibility issues at local level by sensitizing/ training healthcare providers

in the private sector.

How the model works

Impact

• The poor rural patients getting more effective treatment after our awareness cum

training intervention among RHCP’s

• The RHCP’s getting certification for their work from Govt. level

• The RHCP’s got a platform through us for sharing mutual experience to enhance

equal and effective treatment to the community

• The referral for different disease cases to the govt. hospitals enhanced, which

enabled the poor community to access the right treatment with proper guidance.

• The first-aid kit provided to the RHCP’s are enabling to treat the emergency patients

more conveniently

• The Whatsapp group enabled the RHCP’s to access any important messages send by

us more quickly

3. COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (A CSR initiative of Merlin

Projects Limited)

The Comprehensive Social Development Programme (CSDP) targets the project location

including the villages/slums around the realty project sites of Merlin Projects Limited. These

locations are supposed to undergo a process of all round empowerment/development of

communities in and around the targeted area.

The projected output of the CSDP was be to develop strong empowered community at the

project location including the villages/slums as a prerequisite for their social, spiritual and

economic development. In the year 2016-17 we started this project and is still continuing

with its full endeavor.

SWS identifies the RHCP’s

SWS ties up with the Govt. & Local

medical practitioners for technical support

SWS fix a dates for the training and

inform the RHCP’s to be a part of this

SWS Team along with Govt. and local medical practitioners

provides training to the RHCP’s

Post training RHCP’s shares

different stories through which we modulate further

sensitizations

Activities performed in 2016-17

Installation of 2 Nos. of Water Coolers at Panihati State General Hospital, Sodepur

The Panihati State General Hospital covers an area of more than 10 Sq. Km. and more than

1 Lakh population of Sodepur and Madhyamgram area. Everyday more than 500 patients’

visits the hospital for their treatment

and approximately 10-15 admits for

the continuous treatment process.

Basic surgeries are also conducted

here. The major problem in this

hospital was the access to safe

drinking water for the patients, visitors

and the staffs working in this hospital.

Sukalyan Welfare Society kindly

requested Merlin Projects Ltd. to

provide 2 Nos. of Water Coolers at the

campus.

The water coolers were inaugurated on June 11, 2016 by Mr. Nirmal Ghosh (Hon. MLA of

Panihati) and Dr. Nabarun Gupta (Superintendent of Panihati State General Hospital,

Sodepur).

Installation of 1 Water Cooler at Reckjoani Block Primary

Health Centre- Rajarhat

The Reckjoani Block Primary Health Center covers an area of

more than 15 Sq. Km. and more than 5 Lakh population of

Rajarhat area. Everyday more than 200 patients’ visits the

hospital for their treatment and approximately 05 admits for

the continuous treatment process. Basic orthopedic surgeries

are also conducted here. The major problem in this hospital

was the access to safe drinking water for the patients, visitors

and the staffs working in this hospital. Sukalyan Welfare

Society kindly requested Merlin Projects Ltd. to provide a

Water Cooler at the campus as a part of their CSR activity.

The water coolers were inaugurated on July 22, 2016 by Dr.

Lenin Roy (Block Medical Officer of Health, Rajarhat) and Ms.

Jayeeta Palit (Marketing Communications, Merlin Group)

Awareness Camp on ‘Prevention of Dengue’ and Distribution of Science Laboratory Materials

to the school authority of Tiljala Brajanath Vidyapith, Picnic Garden

The situation of Dengue was very prevalent in the

areas of Kolkata and its suburb’s and the school

students are mostly affected with this dreadful

disease. The session was conducted by the

doctors came from various hospitals. The students

were quite interactive and they said that they

would keep their school as well as their home

away from Dengue larvae through cleaning and

planting plants.

Apart from this the school authority’s

infrastructure lacks with the laboratory

equipments of Chemistry and Nutrition, Merlin

Projects Limited and Sukalyan Welfare Society jointly initiated and donated few needful

science laboratory equipments to the school authority.

4. Global Fund Round 9 TB Project (Axshya India)

Sukalyan Welfare Society is member of the RNTCP, West Bengal from 2008 onwards and

has successfully completed ТВ- ACSM Project funded by USAID in year 2010. Now Sukalyan

has been implementing the Global Fund Round-9 Project, West Bengal named as AXSHYA

INDIA ТВ PROJECT in three Tuberculosis Units in North 24 Parganas district (Reckjoani

BPHC TU, Panihati SGH TU & Sagardutta MCH TU) as Field Level NGO in collaboration with

Naihati Prolife, SSR of GLRA India

The Objectives of the project are:

• Improve the reach, visibility and effectiveness of RNTCP through Civil society

Support.

• Engage communities and community-based Care Providers to improve ТВ Care and

Control especially for marginalized and Vulnerable Population including TB-HIV

patients.

This year we went through implementing various activities related to this project, an

quantitative data is mentioned below

Community Awareness Camps

Tuberculosis Unit

(TU)

General

Community

Meetings

Gaon

Kalyan

Samity

Meeting

(GKS)

Patient

Provider

Meeting

(PPM)

RHCP

Capacity

Building

Training

Reckjoani BPHC

TU 36 6 10 1

Panihati SGH TU 30 5 12 2

Sagardutta MCH

TU 36 0 12 1

Patient Counseling

Tuberculosis Unit No. of Counseling

conducted

Reckjoani BPHC TU 24

Panihati SGH TU 12

Sagardutta MCH TU 36

Patient Referred by TBCV’s for Sputum

Test

Tuberculosis Unit Patients Referred

Reckjoani BPHC TU 123

Panihati SGH TU 67

Sagardutta MCH TU 240

5. Health Checkup Camps

This year 2 Nos. of health camps are organized at regular intervals which are need-based to

meet the specific needs of the community and to deliver medical services to remote areas.

These camps also ensure provision for timely referral services to the patients for further or

specialized care. This year we have successfully conducted 2 health checkup camps in the

district of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal where more than 300 general community

members/ villagers got thoroughly check-up.

6. Community Health Awareness Programs

Sl.

No.

Name of Awareness

Camp

Date Location Beneficiaries

1 Leprosy Eradication

Awareness Camp

4th June 2016 Raigachi Youths Club,

Rajarhat

56


Awareness Camp

6th June 2016 Jheelbagan Nabadiganta

Sangha

120


Awareness Camp

8th June 2016 Nirvik Sangha, Baguiati 38


Awareness Camp

11th June 2016 Netaji Kishore Sangha,

Ashwininagar

75

5 Dengue Awareness

Camps

3rd August 2016 Bhai Bhai Sangha,

Baguiati

100

6 Dengue Awareness

Camps

4th August 2016 Naba Jagriti Sangha,

Baguiati

120

7 Dengue Awareness

Camps

5th August 2016 Bandhu Mahal Club,

Baguiati

85

8 Dengue Awareness

Camps

6th August 2016 Abhijatrik, Baguiati 50

9 Dengue Awareness

Camps

8th August 2016 Akandakeshari 34

10 Dengue Awareness

Camps

9th August 2016 Kalaberia 45

11 Dengue Awareness

Camps

13th August 2016 Khamar 40

12 Japanese Encephalitis

Awareness Camp

12th Sept 2016 Bhatenda 25


Awareness Camp

13th Sept 2016 Kanjialpara 38


Awareness Camp

16th Sept 2016 Naipukur 40


Awareness Camp

18th Sept 2016 Nawabpur 35


Awareness Camp

21st Sept 2016 Sarberia 48


Awareness Camp

23rd Sept 2016 Muhhamadpur 25


Awareness Camp

23rd Sept 2016 Kadampukur 16


Awareness Camp

24th Sept 2016 Patharghata 39

20 Dengue Awareness

Camps

2nd Nov 2016 Rajarhat Shikshaniketan

for Boys

124

21 Dengue Awareness

Camps

3rd Nov 2016 Rajarhat Shikshaniketan

for Girls

112

22 Dengue Awareness

Camps

5th Nov 2016 Sir Ramesh Institution 158

23 Dengue Awareness

Camps

7th Nov 2016 Jyangra Adarsha

Vidyalaya

136

24 Dengue Awareness

Camps

8th Nov 2016 Chittaranjan Colony Hindu

Vidyapith

155

25 Dengue Awareness

Camps

9th Nov 2016 Annadasundari Balika

Vidyalaya

110

26 Handwashing

Workshop

13th Feb 2017 Teghoria High School 63

27 Handwashing

Workshop

15th Feb 2017 J.N. Mondal Institute 28

28 Handwashing

Workshop

15th Feb 2017 Jagatpur High School 65

29 Handwashing

Workshop

17th Feb 2017 Tiljala Brajanath Vidyapith 70

30 Handwashing

Workshop

17th Feb 2017 Prafullakanan Deshapriya

Vidyapith

50

31 Handwashing

Workshop

22nd Feb 2017 Saptagram Sarbeshwar

Boys High School

48

32 Soft Skills Workshop 22nd Feb 2017 Chanchalkumari Balika

Vidyalaya

20

33 Soft Skills Workshop 27th Feb 2017 Jadunath High School 20

Core Programatic Area: Sustainable Livelihoods

“But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and

you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life

the way you want.”

- Anita Roddick

Ever since its inception in 2005, SWS has focused on the need to create sustainable

livelihoods for people living on the margin. The very idea of SWS was born when our

founders realized that one of the biggest reasons why people turned to communal violence,

crime and substance abuse was the lack of sustainable livelihoods that could give people a

sense of dignity, freedom and balance in their lives.

One of our first projects has now come to be called the Swarnirvar project. In the current

year while work on this project was continued, our other livelihoods project called “Silai

School” in partnership with Usha International Limited (UIL) also made progress.

Swanirbhar Livelihood Development Programme (EDP)

Under this project, a Self-Help Group of women in Basudevpur village of Deganga Block of

24 Parganas (North) have been producing handicraft items, making and packaging haldi

(turmeric), and making pickles.

This hub at the Basudevpur village grew out of our initial interventions right from the time of

our inception in 2005. In the beginning we started giving training to women of the area to

impart them skills that could enable them to work from home and earn sustainable

livelihoods. Over the next eight years, however, we found that some 23 women were not

only regulars at our training programmes but they had also created a SHG and was very

keen to work together and use the space that we had created for our trainings to carry out

regular production of various items and sell them in the market. We then allowed them to

do so thus creating the hub and named it the Swanirvar Livelihood Development Programme

as an Entrepreneur Development Programme where we continuously give training not only

to this SHG but all others who are willing to participate.

All the 23 participants were given the following trainings at the hub:

1. Training on ‘Jute Shoes Making’ during 22-25 June, 2016.

2. Training on ‘Key Rings making’ during 16-17 September, 2016.

3. Training on ‘Padded Coaster making’ on 21 January, 2017.

Like every year, a Handicrafts Fair was organized at Baguiati Jagriti Sangha Club from

September 7-10, 2016 where 800 footfalls occurred and the total sales were more than last

year. This project is entirely funded by SWS through individual donations.

Project: USHA Silai School

Under this project supported by Usha International Limited we identified and trained 10

village level women entrepreneurs in tailoring. Each entrepreneur was given a Usha sewing

machine. These are called Classic Silai Schools. These entrepreneurs, in turn, have trained a

further 16 women to become entrepreneurs as tailors.

Initially our role was only monitoring and idea creation for better market linkages. There

was a Mother NGO and we were a child NGO. However, the Mother NGO became completely

inactive so that most of the Classic schools closed down due to various problems such as

lack of repair of machines, lack of market linkages, and other kinds of support.

In 2016-17, UIL appointed us as the Mother NGO. We then revived all the Classic Schools by

giving them new machines from UIL and also provided them with market linkages and the

necessary support. We also helped them to set up Satellite Silai Schools (SSS). The two

tables below provide details of the project.

Status of CSS in Habra-II

Women Entrepreneur’s

Name

Village Name Present Status Present Income

APARNA PAHAR BIRA BALLOVPARA Working 500-600 CHANDANA HALDAR UTTAR BALLOVPARA Working 300-350

SAHANARA BIBI MALLICKPARA Machine Issue 120-150

DEBASRI HALDAR BIRA BIRUAPARA

Working with USHA

machine as well as rented

machines through learners

5000-5500

SHARINA BIBI BIRA BITHANIA Working under a Hosiery

factory 1200-1500

LAXMI HALDAR BIRA PUKURKONA Working 350-400

SELIMA BIBI BIRA BARUIPARA Working 500-600 RABIA BIBI BOLISHIA Working 150-500

NASIMA BIBI BUGPUR Machine Issue 0

TABOSSUM BIBI SOLEMANPUR Working 400-500

List of SSS in Habra-II opened in 2016-17

Name Village Name Father’s/Husband’s

Name Age

RINKU TARAFDAR DOGACHIA KAJAL TARAFDAR 36

GAYATRI MANDAL HALIA DANGA TARAK NATH MONDAL 38 PARBATI KAHAR RANGRI BIVAS KAHAR 27

JHARNA DUTTA MALLICKBERIA RANJAN DUTTA 40 TAPOSHI GHOSH PATDANGA LT. AUROBINDO GHOSH 30

RABIA BIBI TALSHA SK. HABIJUL HOQUE 32

SHIKHA GHOSH HATNAPARA LT. HARIPADA GHOSH 46 SHADONA SEN BANDHOBPALLY ANANDA SEN 32

MADHABI MONDAL BALGACHI MAHANANDA MONDAL 32 BULTY KHATUN PADMAPUR BAKIBUL ALAM 33

MAYA DAS RAJIBPUR SANJIT DAS 38

Case Study

Debasri Halder

Debasri is a resident of Bira Birua Para village in Habra-II block of North 24 Parganas district

of West Bengal. She used to travel to Kolkata to work as a domestic worker. After some two

years of daily travel by suburban trains she developed a bone fracture in her ankle. She then

decided to give up her daily travel to Kolkata for work and instead started working as a

surveyor for a local hospital where she used to earn Rs 50-70 every month. When we were

looking for women having minimum tailoring skills and having the potential to earn from this

profession, she expressed keen interest in getting Silai School training and certification.

Earlier, she had already learnt basic tailoring from her mother-in-law. She was very sincere

during her training days and completed her training very successfully. Today, she is able to

earn as much as Rs 5000-5500 every month as a result of her training and the machine

provided by UIL.

DOLI BASU NETAJI NAGAR DILIP BASU 51

KRISHNA GHOSH DAPARI LT. SUSHIL GHOSH 45 RUMA PARUI BARO BAMUNIA ABHIJIT PARUI 22

REHENA BIBI CHOTO BAMUNIA RANJAN MALLICK 28 ANWARA BIBI KHUDRA SOHORA KUTUBUDDIN MONDAL 35

An Women Entrepreneur working for a order she got through our Market Linkage program

Core Programmatic Area: Community Empowerment

“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to

work toward the same goals.”

― Idowu Koyenikan

India is a country where vast swathes of people live in poverty and underdevelopment.

Interventions by any one individual or organization can touch only so many lives but never

all who need help and empowerment. Hence, for SWS a major strategy has been to

empower entire communities as well as organisations that work for development of

communities simply because immense power can be unleashed when groups of people with

similar interests get together to work toward the same goals.

In the year under reportage, we participated in three different activities that we believed

would help to empower communities.

National Volunteering Week

Under the India@75 initiative of CII, the National Volunteering Week was held during

January 18 to 24, 2017. SWS organized four events during the week – two in North 24

Parganas district, one in South 24 Parganas district and one in Birbhum district.

Event 1: Awareness on ‘Tuberculosis Control’ at Teghoria High School

An awareness session was

organized at the school in North

24 Parganas district where 125

students participated. Dr

Farukhuddin Molla, Senior

Treatment Supervisor at the

Reckjoani Block Primary Health

Centre, was the chief speaker.

The discussion revolved around

the following points:

• What is tuberculosis?

• Symptoms of

tuberculosis

• Process of treatment for tuberculosis

• Government facilities available for tuberculosis patients

• How to prevent tuberculosis.

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Event 2: School Kit Distribution to the underprivileged children

At Sardar Para Janakalyan Sangha and

Jheelbagan Nabadiganta Club, both in

Baguiati, North 24 Parganas district, SWS

distributed a total of 80 kits to as many

children. The kits contained a school bag, a

pencil box with stationeries, a water bottle, a

tiffin box and a cake as refreshment. A few

corporate volunteers participated in the

event to provide the kits and encourage the

kids to use them.

Event 3: Awareness on cashless methods of receiving money for shopkeepers

At Lakshmikantapur, South 24 Parganas

district, we organized an awareness session

for shopkeepers regarding cashless methods

of receiving money. The shopkeepers were

made aware of all the five different methods

of cashless transactions - bank cards, USSD

(Unstructured Supplementary Service Data),

AEPS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System),

UPI (Unified Payment Interphase), and e-

wallet - that are possible in India.

Through a Powerpoint presentation in Bengali they are also shown how to set up and use

any or all these methods, their advantages and characteristics.

NGO Capacity Building Program

With the support of Yes Bank, SWS

organized two hour workshops on

“Capacity Building Of NGOs” at

each of 10 Yes Bank branches in

Kolkata. The objective of the

workshops was to promote best

practices regarding Good

Governance, Financial Management

and Fund Raising among NGOs. A

total of 186 NGOs from Kolkata and

its neighborhood participated in the

workshops. The details of the workshops are given in Table 1. At the end of the workshops

all the participating NGOs felt they had been immensely benefited by the presentations and

interactive sessions of the workshops.

Table 1: YES Bank Community NGO Capacity Building Programme, Kolkata

Date Time Venue Address No. of NGO

Participants

July 4, 2016

(Monday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank -

Tollugunge

Branch

193, Netaji Subhas Chandra

Bose Road, Netaji Nagar,

Tollygunge, Kolkata- 700 040

18

July 5, 2016

(Tuesday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Prince Anwar

Shah Road

Branch

Ground Floor, Merlin Oxford,

22, Prince Anwar Shah Road,

Kolkata- 700 033

17

July 6, 2016

(Wednesday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank- Bara

Bazar Branch

Ground Floor, 36, Shree

Tower, Kali Krishna Tagore

Street, Barabazar, Kolkata-

700 007

19

July 7, 2016

(Thursday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank- C. R.

Avenue Branch

Ground Floor, 271,

Chittaranjan Avenue, Kolkata-

700 006

20

July 11, 2016

(Monday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Bidhannagar

Branch

Ground Floor, Omega, Plot-

A2, M2 & N2, Block- EP & GP,

Sector-V, Kolkata- 700 091

16

July 12, 2016

(Tuesday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Kankurgachi

Branch

Ground Floor, P-253, CIT

Road, Scheme VI- M, BRS-10,

Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700 054

17

July 13, 2016

(Wednesday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Russel Street

Branch

Ground Floor, 7A, Anandilal

Poddar Sarani, Near Park

Street, Kolkata- 700 071

20

July 14, 2016

(Thursday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Alipore Branch

68/1A, Ground Floor, 2-3

Judges Court Road, Alipore

Road, Alipore, Chetla,

Kolkata- 700 027

22

July 16, 2016

(Saturday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Howrah Branch

Krishna Enclave, 2/1, Bhajan

Lal Lohia Lane, Howrah,

Kolkata- 711 101

18

July 18, 2016

(Monday)

5.00

Pm

YES Bank-

Dalhousie

Branch

Stephen House,56 A Hemanta

Basu Sarani,Ground Floor,

Kolkata- 700001

19

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Core Programmatic Area: Digital Empowerment

“Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government

transparency and accountability to citizens.”

- Safra A. Catz

Our foray into the area of digital empowerment began in April 2015 when we helped to set

up a Community Information Resource Centre (CIRC) at Mankara village in Murshidabad

district with the support of the non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation. Developed by

DEF, the CIRC model envisages setting up at remote areas a facility which houses several

Internet-enabled computers, printers, web cams and a few other necessary devices that can

enable the community around the facility to use it for purposes of digital literacy and access

to the information super highway. Through the CIRCs all kinds of digital interventions to

empower poor and underserved people can be introduced to bring about all possible

benefits that can be obtained by use of digital means and the Internet.

The CIRC at Murshidabad like other CIRCs operates on a self-sustaining model and we are

happy to note that it is still serving the people in the area.

In the year under reportage, we surveyed several locations for setting up more CIRCs. The

plan is to initially set up CIRCs in areas inhabited by clusters of artisans engaged in

traditional handicrafts. Such artisans and their traditional arts and handicrafts are facing a

situation where due to the exploitation of middlemen and Mahajans the next generation of

artisans are often refusing to take up their traditional work and are seeking livelihoods in

other areas. As a result, most of these traditional arts and handicrafts are facing extinction –

a phenomena that is often referred to as the vanishing arts and handicrafts of India.

In the current year, we hope to implement at least one such CIRC among a cluster of

artisans.

Our Achievements this year

This year we have received recognition from various renowned organization for our

contribution towards society.

1. Finalist at eNGO Challenge Awards 2016

in Healthcare & Wellness category for our

exclusive ‘RHCP Capacity Building

Program’, this award is organized and

conceptualized by Digital Empowerment

Foundation, New Delhi.

2. Winner of GuideStar India Transparency

award 2016 in Intermediate Organisation

category for our transparency measures. We

received Transparency Badge as a token of

appreciation.

3. Finalist recognition from Public Interest

Registry, USA for showcasing our

organization activities and cause at 2016

#India4Good contest through attractive

profile at ongood.ngo (Database of

validated NGOs across the world)

4. Certification from Credibility Alliance in

‘Basic Norms’ for maintaining good

governance in organization

Our Associates

We Thank our following partners for getting associated with us towards a development

journey

Corporate Funding Partner

Government Partner

Non Profit Partners

Local NGO Partners

1. Shaliara Binapani Yuba Sangha

2. Benevolent Integrated Rural Development Society

3. Chandipur Kazi Nazrul Association

4. SANTANA

Audit & Accounts

Office Address

Baguiati, Hatiara Road, Helabattala,Kolkata - 700157

www.sukalyanindia.ngo

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