ANNUAL REPORT 2008-09

Step to sustainable development 7

SOCIETY TO UPLIFT RURAL ECONOMY (SURE)

Gurudwara Road, Post Box No. 29 Barmer (Rajasthan) 344 001

Phone : 02982-230801/231103, Email: surebmr@gmail.com

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I. Historical Background

II. Development Indicators of Barmer

III. Challenges

IV. Areas of Intervention

Rural Livelihood

Disaster Management and Ensuring Water Security

Empowerment of women and community

Education

Health

Advocacy

Mainstreaming Disability

Training and workshops

V. Partners

VI. SURE Record and facts

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Historical Background

A far important kingdoms flourished at various times and many places in the district

which are unimportant today were centres of great activity in Barmer district. These

include Khed (near Balotra), Kiradu (near Barmer) , Siwana, Pachpadra, Jasol,

Tilwara, Sheo and Mallani.

When the Panwars (Parmaras ) captured Mandor, they later brought Siwana, Sheo, 36

of expedition of Mahmud of Ghazani, The Pratihars, Solankis, Parmaras and Guhils

held the area of Mallani, Khed, Siwana and Kiradu. Pachpadra was at first in the

hands of the Panwars, but later it was occupied by the Chouhans and the the Guhils.

The same was the case with Sheo and Mallani. Many scholars state that the Pargana of

Mallani derived its name from the Malli, Malloi or Malava clan. Other historian

conclude that the place was called Mallani after Mallinath.

Rao Siha : founder of Rathore clan in this area conquered Khed and planted the "

Standard of the Rathores amidst the sand hills of the Luni in 1212 AD." This area was

regained by Pratap Singh (Guhil) and Rao Asthan ( Rathore) respectively later on Rao

Dhuhar succeeded his father Asthan and after the death of Dhuhar in 1309, Raypal

succeeded him. He was succeeded by his son Kanhad at Khed. Kanhad died and was

succeeded by his son Trivhuvansi, where upon th ambitious Mallinath ( nephew of

Kanhad & son of Salkha) appealed to Delhi for help. With the assistance of Muslim

forces, he defeated Tribhuvansi in 1374 AD . After his victory, Mallinath entrusted

the fort of Siwana to his brother Jaitmal and jagir of Biradkot to another brother,

Viram. Khemkaran another nephew of Mallinath (son of Jaitmal) wrested Guda and

Nagar from the chief of Soras in 1397 AD. Mallinath died in 1399 AD. Ojha

concludes that the conquered the whole of the area which later became known as

Mallani. He was the first chief of the area to take the title of Rawal.

Mallani came under British control in 1836 and was managed by a superintendent. He

also commanded a detachment of regular troops , consisting of one squadron of

Bombay regulars.

Mallani was completely integrated with Jodhpur on Aug. 1. 1891. The administration

was at the same time re-organised and Hakims were placed in charge of each hukumat

in the area now comprising the district viz. Pachpadra, Siwana , Sheo and Mallani.

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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE DISTRICT :

POPULATION 2001

Total Person 1963758

Male 1035813

Female 927945

Rural Person 1818517

Male 957632

Female 880885

Urban Person 145241

Male 78181

Female 67060

Sex Ratio (2001 ) 896

Area 28387

Population Density 69

Decadal Growth Rate (1981-91) +28.27

Crude Birth Rate 1991 31.60

Total Fertility Rate 4.5

Infant Mortality Rate 86

Life expectancy at birth 1991 54 yrs

Age at Marriage (F) 1991 13 yrs

Sr.No. Name of Panchyat

Samiti

Total

Villages Population

1 Barmer 265 171158

2 Balotra 189 192132

3 Siwana 97 134488

4 Dhorimana 252 181025

5 Baitu 248 151787

6 Sindhari 240 167810

7 Shiv 167 121551

8 Chohtan 167 171105

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TOURISM INFORMATION:-

Information Officer, Suchana Kendra, Near Collectorate, Barmer . Tel. 20485.

Residence Telephone 20168.

District Informatics Officer, National Informatics Centre, Collectorate Barmer.

Tel. 20973.

DISTANCES TO IMPORTANT CITIES BY ROAD : Jodhpur 224 Km. (via Balotra)

Jodhpur ` 198 Km ( via Pachpadra)

Jaisalmer 157 Km. Jalore 204 Km. Udaipur 462 Km.

Jhunjhunu 625 Km. Jaipur 588 Km.

Ahmedabad 485 Km.

Balotra 100 Km.

OTHER INFORMATION :

Climate : Summer Mean Max 43 degree C

Winter Mean Min. 10 degree C

Rainfall : 277 mm

Season : August to March

Clothing : Summer - Light Tropical

Winter - Woolen

Language : Rajasthani, Hindi, English

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Overview how the organization started

Working area of SURE has been the

Barmer, Jaisalmer and Jaipur district

and the projects areas since 1991,

SURE started working some 18 years

ago and took up projects supported by

Government and Non-government

agencies to implement Rural

development, Health, Income

generation programme, Natural

Resource Management, Livestock

improvement, Conservation of Bio-

diversity etc. SURE is the firm

believed that the development efforts

must be pro-poor and pro-environment. Its holistic development of human

nature is to be achieved. The organization has been successful in involving

people in planning and implementation sure makes special efforts to maintain

dignity of poor people especially backward class women by awakening and

involving them on different fronts which we consider paramount in any

developing society.

Natural calamities like drought and Recurring famine after every three years

badly causes the lives of the people especially to their economy because they

depend on land, water and animal for their livelihood. People have the craft

skills with them but they never be took it commercially, they use this skill only

for the house decoration and marriages. With the view of potentiality to work

for change the lives of people through development of skills for livelihood like

commercialization of handicraft, animal husbandry and alternative source of

income which ultimately contribute towards the economic upliftment of society

and with this Society to Uplift Rural Economy (SURE) came into existence.

Society to Uplift Rural Economy (SURE) was established as an NGO in 1990

by Shri Magraj Jain, who hails from Barmer and who was with Nehru Yuva

Kendra as its District Coordinator and later its Regional Coordinator. He was

awarded by Central Government a “Padmashree” for his outstanding service

with devotion and commitment in promotion of development initiatives for the

youth of the district.

SURE started from the border villages of Barmer district which are the most

deprived areas of one of the poorest districts in the country. SURE initiated its

work for craft development with Action Aid since 1991, with the refugees from

the Pakistan who brought craft activity with them, but they were exploited by

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the local traders. SURE organized these artisans and upgraded their skills

through trainings and workshops and also provided them market through

organizing exhibitions.

In 1992 SURE started work in education with the Shiksha Karmi program of the

Rajasthan Government. Also contributed a lot in mobilizing people at the

village level in the Lok jumbish program of the Rajasthan Government that

began in 1994.In 1992-93, with support from Indian Council of Agricultural

Research (ICAR), SURE established a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) to

promote appropriate technologies in agriculture and in Animal husbandry

specially in Tharparkar cow breed up gradation and conservation program.

Action Aid helped to launch a long- term integrated development project in 18

villages of the Chouhtan block in 1993.This program brought stability to the

working of SURE team could learn a lot on organizing work in different sectors

in an integrated manner and had a learning experience in sponsorship program.

We have good experiences in Health and hygiene, education specially girls

education recently we are running 33 girls residential girls camp. Also covered

other issues of girl’s health awareness, BAL panchayat, Kishori manch, we are

preparing them as a resource person to encourage and to promote the

community. We are also working in Sustainable Livelihood related projects

Credit support group (SHG) savings, animal husbandry, dairy development,

drinking water and sanitation project, women development and empowerment,

women legal issues, public advocacy.

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SURE’s Vision is a society where

All social and economic relationships must be non exploitative

There is a ‘just’ social order

Women are empowered

There is opportunity for the downtrodden to develop by their own

efforts

SURE’s Mission is

To work for sustainable development of the villages and the

improvement in quality of life of deprived people (tribal, SC and other

backward communities, especially women of all castes and class)

through capacity building and appropriate programme interventions.

Goal

To ensure the participation of the poor and marginalized in the

development process through collective decision making and

development of democratic leadership within the ambit of local

community institutions and Panchayati Raj Institutions and to ensure

that the process of development is sustainable.

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Challenges Social challenge

Gender discrimination

Caste Discrimination

Impact of feudalism

Male dominance society

Tradition of female foeticide

Tradition of alcoholism and drug/opium usage

Community are poor, disabled, marginal and minor

Unawareness and non - approach of government health schemes and

services.

Muslim community were not interested in education and women

development.

Lack of confidence, superstition, illiteracy, rites and rituals were the

major constraints for the women and child health.

Myths about the immunization.

Economic Challenge

Lack of opportunity of employment

Dependent on animal husbandry and agriculture

Farmers are regularly facing drought

Due to the above problems, migration is continuously done by the

community.

Geographical Challenge

Barmer district is situated in western part of the Rajasthan in the Thar

Desert. It is situated at the border of Pakistan.

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The organizational structure:

Secretary

Human resource we have:

S.No. Particular No. of Employees Based in

1 Employees 5

Barmer Head office

2 Consultants 3

3 Administration 3 Barmer

4 Project Employees 93

Relevant Field areas

5 Trained Field Workers and volunteers

204 Relevant

Field areas

Infrastructure – Computer system with printer and photo state machine, Facility of

telefax and internet facility with broadband. Furniture - Table, Chair, almirah,

Meeting hall, Vehicles – Jeep and Motorcycle, field centres with all basic facility

available etc.

Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor

Worker Worker Worker Worker

Project Coordinator

Worker Worker Worker Worker

Joint Secretary Accounts Dept.

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Rural Livelihood

Rural Handicraft – Income Generation Programme

From the severe drought of 1987, SURE started the search for alternative livelihood (non-

farm) in the areas of Barmer, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. The region is famous for its rich

traditional craft.

In Barmer, the SURE, this was active in the name of “Society to Uplift Rural Economy

started work with a group of refugees from the indo-pak war of 1965 and 1971. The refugee

people were got the aid from the government but have no access to livelihood. They have the

traditional skills of craft for their decoration home, children’s dresses, pet animals, like

camels, goats, sheep etc, festivals, and preparation of dowry or gifts for their daughter but

they were doing at domestic purposes not for commercial purposes, then gradually due to the

lack of source of income, lack of unity and scattered local settlement known as Dhanis are

scattered around the region and are caste specific; they are exploited by the local traders. To

tackle this problem, SURE started for the regular livelihood of these refugees and initiated

for craft development with Action Aid since 1991, with the refugees from the Pakistan who

brought craft activity with them, but they were exploited by the local traders. SURE

organized these artisans and upgraded their skills through trainings and workshops and also

provided them market through organizing exhibitions. The handicraft program of SURE was

initiated with 224 women artisans. Today SURE is successfully running 15 production

centers supporting over 600 artisans.

To improve the quality and skill level of the artisans, designers from NIFT, NID, Polytechnic

and Dastkar conducted workshops. Assistance was provided by Development Commissioner

(handicrafts) to build the craft development centre at Bijrar. The Organization provided the

women with raw material and design and work started with production of hand-made, hand-

embroidered cushion covers and bags. The current product range includes a whole range of

apparels, bags, accessories and soft furnishings that are marketed all over India as well as

internationally. The women can easily earn a decent amount of Rs 1500- 2000/- per month.

The women also get an opportunity to participate in various exhibitions and sell their own

products and also see the customer’s response. The artisans are also involved in the various

decision-making activities of the

programme.

Major Activities

Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hast shilp Vikas

Yojana- Ministry of Textile

Training Programme

Design development workshop

Life and Health Insurance

Artisan Identity Card

Participation in exhibition

Strengthening of self help group - Supported by NABARD

SHG formation

Training programme of SHG leaders

Opening of SHG Bank linkage (Bank loaning and inter group loaning)

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Nawatala Cluster development Programme - Supported by NABARD

Handicraft Development Centre – BINJRAR

Training Centre

Production Centre

Showroom

Other activities:

1- Participation of 5 women and

cutter master from SURE

organisation in the workshop

organised by Rang Sutra for

design development and

sample prepared & on the basis

of sample they booked order

and completed the job work.

2- Two days display of products

organized at village Santa

under the income generation

programme through Dalit and

Women Empowerment Prog.

All the guests appreciated their work and purchased items from Binjrar Store.

3- Cluster programme from NABARD- Review meeting conducted at Nawatala Jaitmal

in which evaluation of last month activities and future work plan prepared by the

cluster members and also approved extention of one year work duration.

4- SURE organization is selected as member of ODE to Earth and SURE has

participated in workshop at Jaipur with the ready material in which 38 other

organization has also participated.

5- On the basis of selection of SURE by ODE to earth in the workshop at Jaipur, the

SURE has participated in exhibition at Hotel Ashoka which was appreciated by the

guests and regular correspondence is doing by the parties for booking the order.

6- Quality improvement workshop organised at Nawatla Jaitmal in which 30 women

participated in the workshop.

7- Design development workshop organised at Nawatala Jaitmal and Derasar and sends

it for the market test and it responded positive.

Impact of handicraft IGP

Insurance and health Insurance of the women of SHG

Women are integrated with Baba Saheb Ambedkar Scheme of Office of the

Development Commissioner Handicraft, Government of India

Integration of women with NABRD schemes.

Permanent source of income developed by replacing their domestic traditional

craft into commercial.

Marketing Supporter – Local Sale, Exhibition, Order based (Domestic and

International)

SETU- Bridge, Gwalior

Rangsutra New Delhi

Mamta, Hydrabad

Fab India, New Delhi

National & International Trade Fairs and shops – New Delhi, Mumbai, Banglore,

Jaipur, South Africa, DCA Denmark

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Dairy Development

CEIL in collaboration with The International Financial Corporation (IFC) intends to

undertake intensive community based dairy development project with an aim to improve the

economic condition of the rural poor.

Objectives

The main objectives of undertaking dairy development project are:

To create gainful employment in rural

areas by facilitating dairy development

activities.

To increase the quality and volume of

milk production

To improve the income of rural milk

producers, through the provision of an

assured and remunerative outlet for their

dairy products.

To provide technical assistance to the

farmers’ cooperatives aimed at increasing

their milk production substantially.

To undertake intensive breed improvement programme for increasing the production

of milk.

Linking the increased supply of mil production to the milk processing units around

larger towns that would function as ready buyers of the increased supply of milk

production

To facilitate the use and production of nutritious fodder using local resources

To improve the hygiene standards of the rural milk products.

Phases of the project:

The Dairy Development project is broadly divided into three phases.

Phase I. Strengthening/ establishing the collection and distribution network in the villages

(From formation of groups to collection of milk and its sale to the dairies and open market)

Phase II. Value addition of the dairy products and opening of retail outlet accompanied by

Intensive Capacity building and technical assistance programme for the milk producers in

coordination with other stakeholder organization.

Phase III. Undertaking breed improvement, fodder development programme (Farm

Development etc) and other support programmes like insurance, linking farmers’ groups to

banks for cattle loans, etc.

Components

Major steps involved:

Formation of milk producer’s self help

group in the villages.

Collection of milk from the villages – on

daily basis- at a common collection centre

in each village.

Transportation of milk to Barmer.

Sale of milk to the ‘bulk customers’.

Collaboration with the Saras Cooperative Dairy so that a portion of milk collected is

purchased by the dairy

Payment to the farmers after a regular interval (fortnightly).

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Achievements:

Developed positive thinking towards centre

Increased income due to increase of fat and CLR in the milk.

Tharparker cow breed improvement has taken up and integrated in the society of

Rawali Nadi and Adarsh Nagar

Coverage of immunization of cattle and medical check-ups has been undertaken

Insurance coverage of cattle has been done through Saras Arogya Beema.

Women participation increased at centre

Sewing machine has been provided to the women by Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang

Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur

Some of the people have purchased the

cows through loan

Local market developed for the sale of

milk

10.Competition developed through the

programme of Bharni and cooperative

members, themselves taken the

responsibility of collection of milk, selling

11.Registration of 5 societies have been

done.

Highlights

More than 93000 liters of milk was collected from 13 centres and more than Rs 1.1

million was generated as revenue from the sale of milk to members of the Self help

groups.

On an average 292 members regularly supplied milk throughout this quarter

Mr. John Bonnier consultant from IFC visited Dairy Development Project area to

assess the present status of project and exploring new interventions

Three days training was organised at Rajasthan electronics and Instruments Ltd at

Jaipur on maintenance of electronic equipment at milk collection centre.

The EC was inaugurated on 8th Feb 2008. A simulation of the milk collection centre

was displayed.

Ms Sujata Lamba from IFC visited IFC- CAIRN linkage projects in Feb 2008. During

this visit SURE- Barmer imlementing partner of Dairy development project detailed

the progress of the project.

The strategy review workshop for the

project was conducted in the second

week of march in which their was

representation from SURE, IFC and

CAIRN.

Nearly 50 loans have been sanctioned by

the Barmer Central Cooperative Bank

and are under final stage of release.

81 members were linked to the

individual life insurance scheme.

Exposure trip was organised for the

members of Bothia, Nimbla and Junejo

Mehro Ki Basti to Nagar region

Republic Day was celebrated on 26th Jan 2008 by Maliyon Ki Dhani Milk society.

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Tharparker Breed Improvement, Up-gradation and conservation Project

The aims to develop and strengthen community based approaches for conservation and up

gradation of the Tharparker breed of cattle. The project approach is to promote village level

institution in each project village by organising community in groups. The programme has

been divided in to three components – social, technical and environmental issues. The social

component involves capacity building and strengthening of people’s institution. Similarly

technical part covered breed conservation, and up gradation, breed animal management and

its health care. Environmental issues are related to the development of pasture land.

Main Activities:

Income generation

Education

Health

Panchayati raj

Women Development

Advocacy

Agriculture

What is Tharparker?

1. Tharparker is an indeginous breed of this area

2. Synonyms- white Sindhi, Grey, Sindhi, Thari

3. Nativetive place of this is Tharparker district of Sindh province now in

Pakisthan.

This programme is exclusively implemented by the community on itself and it is supported

by SURE independently.

No of villages in which implemented: 15

Project Objectives

Conservation and breeding of Tharparker Breed

Spreading awareness among the livestock farmers

Econonmic upliftment of livestock farmers through animals husbandry

Improvement of pastureland, grazing and also developing fodder storage facility

Conservation of Calve’s production from the breeding process

developing of traditional knowledge and documenting it.

Key Objectives of the project

Breed improvement

Awareness

Community formation

Technical improvement

Evaluation and documentation

Advocacy

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Challenges in the present scenario

Recurrent drought leads unavailability of water, fodder, and no income from

agriculture.

Non- farm income of sources is very few and this leads to family migration.

Leaving cows as stray animals

Tough geographical condition

Population is scattered in hamlets

Degraded breed bull and cows are available in large number at low cost so that people

prefer them.

In F1

2360 progeny and out of this progeny females are 1242 and male are 118.

In F2

42Progeny and out of this progeny females 23 and males are 19

Future strategies

Community fodder bank development

Rainwater harvesting and conservation

Providing trainings to non- farm based income- generating activities

Demarcating of other low variety cows and bulls in villages.

Insurance of good selected cows

Vaccination and de-worming of cows to be done through Livestock Development

Committee

To prepare marketing strategies for surplus cattle, Wealth and animal produce

Upgrading breed of bulls with the help of LDC

Goat Rearing Project

The goat Project is started in the month of October 2008 with the open discussion of VLFSC

members of the villages, rural community workers and team of the organization. For the goat

loan project total 16 villages covered.

Process undertaken:

Selection of families for the goat loan, those families who are needy, marginalized

and previously those who have hardly one or two goats.

Approval of the name of the family in the meeting of the VLFSC with the consent of

all members.

Decision taken for the joint training of VLFSC members and beneficiaries families of

goat loan.

Household survey was conducted by the VLFSC regarding general and economic

conditions of the family.

The training of goat loan beneficiaries are decided to conduct in the month of the Nov

2008 in two phases.

For the successful intervention of the programme the 83 beneficiaries of Chohatan and

Barmer became trained for the goat loan, which include the procedure of the goat loan,

objectives of the goat loan programme, Information about the application form and rules of

goat distribution, schemes of the Vetinary department, to develop understanding of the food

security, problems of the animals, drought, and disaster management, payment of the loans

and documentation, management of animal husbandry, insurance, immunization and schemes

for the animals, goattary project and future action plan

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Reasons to start Goat Project in the SURE field area

To reach poor families those who have hardly one or two goats.

To reach those family who have small child and they are malnourished.

To reach those poor families who are willing to purchase milk for their children.

To reach those family who are extremely poor and economically not stable.

To reach those families who are poor regarding health.

Rules:

To give benefits to 5-6 families in a village.

To provide 4600/- for three big goats.

In the Goat fair, the tagging of goats and insurance are doing in the village.

During the sale and purchase procedure of the goats the photography and on the spot

amount is compulsorily given by the buyer to the seller.

Immunisation and medical checkups are the services given in the Goat fair

All the purchasing and selling procedures are according to the responsibility,

leadership and suggestion of VLFSC and to do documentation and signature on

Stamp Paper.

Implementation of interest rate at the rate of Rs 0.50 and within 8 instalments and it

should be completed within two years.

Penalties on non payment of instalments.

First insurance will be done by the organization and from second year it will done by

the beneficiaries.

When the goat becomes died or missing of tag, the organization takes the step to

inform the vetinary doctor for the further procedure of insurance claim and for the

preparation of the required documents.

Preparation of the panchnama when the goat becomes died.

The responsibility of the goat’s nutrition and care, the beneficiary families are

responsible as well as the VLFSC will be the monitoring committee for the Goats

health.

The follow up arrangements are there in the field for the newly born goats care and

counting of the goats.

Ensuring immunization on every six months period

Demonstration on the goattary programme.

The beneficiaries can purchase good breed of goats by adding their own money other

then 4500/- given by the organization.

Goattary is one of the best strategies to fight against the drought for the poor

community.

VLFSC as monitoring committee:

Importance of Goattary

Roles of the VLFSC

Rules of Goat distribution

Loaning rules

Recovery of loan with interest

Development of Goat breed and immunization

Goat fair

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Important documents

Photos

Consent letter

Witness

Declaration

Insurance

Medicine

Committee members

Organizational staff

Future Planning

Monthly follow up check up and vigilance of the goats.

Record maintenance of the newly born goats.

payment of first instalments and other 8 instalments of the loan

Insurance of the goats in the second year

Medicine and immunization of the goats.

Beneficiaries’ detail of the Goat programme

S

No.

Block SC ST OBC GEN Widow Disabled

1 Barmer 27 03 22 01 10 -

2 Chohatan 13 11 06 - 05 -

83 Families 40 14 28 01 15 -

Training of the beneficiaries were conducted in two phases and goat fair were organized in

which goat were distributed to the families and the arrangements of the team of doctors for

tagging in front of VLFSC members and immunization and medical checkups were

conducted.

Positive points felt through this implementation are as follows:

Availability of the milk at home

Control ensured on malnutrition of the women and children

This is the initiative to integrate children with the health and education.

This initiative has basically taken to develop as permanent entrepreneurship for the poor

community and permanent source of income.

Encouraging entrepreneurship for the livelihood.

Aim: To minimize the migration level and create employment opportunity for improvement

of the economic status of the community.

In the step of livelihood programme, the provision of different types of loan started to

provide the families of intervention areas. Through these loan facilities the family became

integrated with some income generation activities and the migration level also minimized.

Type of loans are agriculture, Peti Shop, goat loan,Atta chaki, Camel Cart, Sewing Machine,

Poultry, Kitchen Garden, Grain Bank

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Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Krishi Vigyan Kendra was established by Society to Uplift rural economy (SURE) in 19

September 1992 with the support of ICAR, New Delhi with the objective of developing

understanding of farmer regarding the subject of agriculture, animal husbandry and training

on related subject. It is situated at 13 KM away from Barmer at Dantta village with their

administrative building, laboratory and residential facility. The coverage area is district

Barmer.

Krishi Vigyan Kendra is completely devoted in the following activities implementation along

with providing services to the families of farmers in the covering areas:

Conduction of on-farm testing/ trial/research for the evaluation and up gradation of

agricultural methods.

To provide knowledge to the farmers about the latest technologies of agriculture

methods.

To give residential as well as non residential training programmes to the farmers for

the best implementation of the latest technologies of agriculture methods for getting

best agricultural production.

For the generalisation of the latest and upgraded technologies of agriculture in the

farmers, the first line demonstration, species testing and special demonstration is to be

conducted by KVK

Information centre - The information centre works as to provide services to the

agriculture department and related institution regarding agricultural information and

resources.

Activities:

The KVK is working in the Barmer as per the directive principles of the ICAR, New Delhi.

I. On the basis of farmer participation, the techniques of agriculture, changes in

agriculture practices and these to be handed over to the farmers. For this, KVK

ensuring the farmer participation for doing practical at the farm field.

II. Commercial trainings is organised for the increasing the production level of the

related work.

III. Integration of farmers with the latest technologies of agriculture by organisation of

first equipment show to the farmers.

IV. On the basis of need and demand, the training programme is to be organised for the

service workers.

V. The practical show of latest technology to the farmer for increasing the agriculture

production and quality improvement.

VI. The collection of the data regarding local resource, natural resources, agricultural

arrangements for the development of the future work plan of the KVK.

VII. Soil and water testing laboratory – to provide guidance to the farmers on the basis of

soil and water testing of the concerned farmer.

For getting achievement of the KVK objectives below mentioned projects are sanctioned :

Central sector scheme, science and technology department

NABARD Project

National Horticulture Mission / Rajasthan Livelihood Mission

ATMA / Grain Village scheme

Major activities

Training programme

First line demonstration

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Disaster Management and ensuring water security

Rajasthan development programme is running at Barmer tahsil with the support of CASA

Udaipur. It is implanting in 3 villages that ids Surali Kahariya, Gogliya and khariya Ratodan.

It is a step to organize the village level groups through which the identification of local

problem is doing and the solution is provided by the efforts of the group. In three villages, 6

SHG is organized and they are active groups.

Major activities:

regular monthly meetings

Identification of local rural problem and permanent solution.

Proper implementation of govt scheme.

Economic development through distribution of goats to the poor and marginal

families.

Goat Mela was organised by the sanities at village level and in this initiative the below

mentioned details were achieved.

Total beneficiaries: 50 families

Total amount: Rs 300000/-

Per family Cost: Rs 6000/- for 5 Goats

Ensured community initiative for management and vigilance of the constructed asset for the

community

Particulars 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009

Beri Construction 30 20 20 10

Beri Maintenance 08 - 03 -

Tankli Construction - 30 20 10

Tanka Construction 10 - - -

Water Resources at

School, Safe water tank

- - 05 -

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Empowerment of women and community

The organization is exclusively working with the approach of bottom to top planning method.

It is completely need based, rights based and through peoples participation. All the

achievements of the SURE intervention is only because of peoples participation and CBOs .

Aim:

Empowering women, Dalits Community by advocating right based issues and strengthening

community based organization.

Objectives

Empowerment of the Dalit community

To make the community aware about gender sensitization and violence against

women.

To make the community aware about government and Non- government schemes.

To reduce the migration and drought problem through the economic empowerment.

To establish the empowered community through the capacity and confidence

building.

To make the community economically empowered through livelihood programme.

To encourage the girls education.

Kishori Manch

Reached adolescent girls to make them aware about the community problems, understanding

about the education, health, gender issues, life skill education for the qualitative life,

leadership skills and through this Kishori Manch, a platform developed to get the honourable

position in the society.

Kishori manch is developed in the 8 villages of the cluster and continuously monthly

meetings are doing by the Kishori manch. Basically the life skill education is imparted in the

adolescent group for their stress less and qualitative life. In this year 10 days life skill

education training and follow-up training was organised at Binjrar in which 40–50 adolescent

girls has participated.

Ekal Naari Shakti Sangathan

In the intervention areas, the widow, single and poor women are to be mainstreamed with the

society and with the schemes of the government. A platform is developed to make the women

strengthened, to develop leadership skill,

participation in the meeting etc. Monthly

meetings are conducted at cluster level

and advocacy is doing by this

strengthened group for the eligible

women. The main advocacy issues are to

increase pension amount up to 1000/--

1500/-, compulsory selection of women

of this category in BPL, Provision of

work distribution according to the

capacity and priority of the women in

NREGA project, policy reforms etc.

Monthly board meetings are

continuously doing and the annual convention was organised at Sata cluster in which 70

single women has participated.

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Dalit Jagruk Samiti (DJS)

In the 20 villages of the project area, 21 Dalit Jagruk samiti is formed and the monthly

meeting is continuously holding by the samiti. The main objective of the formation of samiti

and the meeting is to assess the capacity of the group regarding the developmental activities

and also to empower those regarding issues like gender sensitization, problems of the

marginalized community, capacity building of the group members, and sustainability of the

group member in the Samiti. The village level workers are so active to reach each house of

the village for the information of the meeting dates and ensure the participation of the

members. During the meeting the issues like all the government schemes for the dalits and

poor people, understanding of the legal part of the issues, selection of issue and to develop a

common decision for the further step to solve any problem, selection of the eligible

beneficiaries for availing government schemes, rights of the dalits, women, food security,

issues of NREGA etc.

Impact of DJS

Regularization of the meeting ensured.

Capacity building of the members regarding leadership.

Equity and equality in the community developed along with gender equity.

Decrease in social superstitious rites and rituals.

Decrease in dominance of the dominant people.

Participation increased in panchayats.

An understanding developed regarding the issues of food security, NREGA, BPL,

rights of the dalits, gender sensitization, girl education etc

Establishment of Board of DJS and their policy development.

Thar Jagruk Nagrik Manch:

Organisation has facilitated a process of

organising village youths belonging to

SC community at the Tehsil level. This

manch having the representation of

youth groups and women SHGs. This

group is actively working at Tehsil level

for creating pressure of the govt.

delivery system so that marginalised

people could not left from the benefits.

Breeder association:

For the promotion of the Tharparker breed in their own villages. These associations take care

of the pure variety of the bulls, which has already been given in the villages and watch all

other ongoing activities at the village level.

Empowerment of the people both in political and material terms has taken place.

Participation of the Dalit community in the Gram Panchayat ensured.

Linkages with government scheme.

Women are now empowered to participate in the panchayat and free to speak their

problem, rights, government schemes, employment etc

They can identify the problem of the community or individual.

Now they know about how to prioritize the issue.

They take action through Resource centre or through their own group.

They are working as pressure group.

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Live story:

Achla Ram s/o Hamaera Ram Bheel, Hathala village. The story is like that the manager

Shree Bheem Sing of the Gram Seva Sahkari samiti, Hathala has taken the loan in the name

of Achla Ram. It was taken by doing fraud. Achla Ram was completely unaware about this

loan. After 4 years, Achla Ram has got notice from Cooperative Bank to deposit the loan with

interest. Loan was Rs 40000/- and with interest it became Rs 62500/-. After receiving this

notice he came to Santa field office to share his problem and he also shared it with DJS. With

the help of DJS and organization, all the information collected from the villages and ensured

that Achla Ram is innocent then an application was given to the Tahsildar and District

Collector. With the effort of Achla Ram and DJS he found innocent after this enquiry and

lastly the manager paid to the bank.

BPL Process and Monitoring

After the finalization of government BPL list, the government has given the relaxation for

those who are not enlisted in the BPL and eligible, they can enlist their name through giving

an application to the Tahsildar.

In this context, the organization has aware the DGS and community about this relaxation. At

the field center Santa, the application prepared by the cases themselves with the help of

organization and collectively given to the Tahsildar. Through this intervention 199 cases

enlisted properly in the BPL list. And 168 enlisted through resource centre Chohatan.

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Education

Balika Shikshan Shivir

Girl’s education is one of the major objectives of the programme in the step of women

empowerment area of intervention. This programme is implemented to mainstream the

dropout girls with the main system of education.

Objective:

To integrate children with main education system

To improve the quality of life of the girls through life skill education.

To provide primary education to the girls.

To provide an opportunity of education to the house girls.

To create an environment of the girls education in the community.

To develop local resources as an employee for AWC, School, health system, ICDS etc.

Educational Visit at Barmer Mahaveer Park, Collectorate, Office of the Police Superintend,

SURE, railway station,Satya Sai Special school for the blinds, deaf and dumb was conducted

for the girls. Coordination with the block education officer was done for conducting the

examination, evaluation, result and integration of the students with the government education

system.

At Binjrar Balika Shivir is completed in which 21 girls have given the examination for the

class 8th and 4 girls are for 10th class. Three teachers were providing coaching to these girls as

residential coaching.

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Health

Reproductive and Child Health

Goal

Enhance the health status of women, children and adolescents in the project area and raise

awareness on reproductive health. Also, mitigate threat of HIV infection with the improved

awareness among truckers and their cohorts.

Objectives

To increase the ANC and PNC coverage of the project areas.

To sensitize health functionaries on new techniques of immunisation, RCH and gender

sensitivity.

To sensitize truckers and their cohorts on issues related to HIV/AIDS.

To empower adolescents on life skills

To increase access to health services provided by government

To increase social marketing of the product related to health and family welfare.

Issues and Needs

Women don’t have their say in health issues concerning them or their children

Cultural inhibitions exist to send adolescents out for any programme

Drudgery of women prevent them to access services in the health institutions

Lack of awareness and prevalence of myths on HIV/AIDS among truckers and their

cohorts

Lack of education among female PRI members

Lack of interest on health issues among PRIs

Attitude and skills of service providers are very limited.

Environment of health institutions are not sensitive to gender

Community Eye Health

The people those who are blind, they are facing so many problems in their personal life as

well as in the society. It will become more difficult when a blind person faces the problem in

the society, near by environment, area, government system and their arrangements which are

not according to the blind people.

The Barmer district of Rajasthan always comes as difficult district to work and the Sam block

is located at the border of India and Pakistan. This area is more difficult because of scattered

population, migration, low education status, unawareness, and loopholes in the arrangements

of government system etc. In this situation a normal person is struggling for his rights. Now

we can think about the situation of the blind people that how they are surviving.

In this critical situation the Sight Savers International Mumbai has initiated to work for the

people those who are blind.

Objectives:

1. To create awareness in the community, impart eye health and rehabilitation,

information and there by generate demand for services among the project community.

2. To prevent blindness by mobilising primary services at the community level and

secondary and higher level services at hospitals.

3. To restore sight by facilitating primary and secondary services.

4. To integrate primary eye health into the primary health care structure of the area.

5. To provide rehabilitation services to those incurably blind

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6. To facilitate integration of irreversibly blind/ low vision children into the mainstream

7. To develop local ophthalmic and rehabilitation capacity

8. To develop a permanent primary eye care facility through establishment of a vision

centre in the project headquarters at

9. To reorganize the government eye care and rehabilitation system by involving them in

all aspects of project management

10. To advocate for the issues of blindness control and the rights of the irreversibly blind

at the local, district and state level

11. To ensure sustainability of eye care and rehabilitation services by working in close

association with the community, local groups and the government in all phases of

project planning and management.

Strategy of Intervention:

Base line Survey

Community Meetings

Social Mapping

Approach – Cluster and Zone

Development of Eye Health Care Committee

Case Study and photography

IEC and Advocacy

Mainstreaming blind people with Government Schemes

IEC Activities

Sensitizing Urban Youth to Enhance Dignity of the Girl Child

Since this intervention is dealing with young people, therefore, youth in the age group of 15 –

25 will be the target group for intervention. 100 Jaipur based NSS units will be addressed

through 100 Program Officers (POs) and 1000 NSS students who will function as Peer

Educator Volunteers (PEVs) from 100 NSS units. Each NSS unit will be represented by 1 PO

and 10 PEVs.

The census data for Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan reveals a dismal child sex ratio at 897

with urban at 881 and rural at 908. This is indicative of the problem affecting urban

populations more than rural. While several efforts are being undertaken with rural

communities, interventions with urban, middle and upper classes are relatively fewer.

Hence, this intervention activity is proposed to address the urban college going youth

segment of Jaipur.

Expected Results of the Project:

The Core Group of SURE Jaipur has developed 2 training Modules. First 3 day module was

developed for the ToT of NSS POs and the Second one day module was developed for the

orientation of PEVs. Both modules are designed according to the need of the beneficiaries.

Interactive Training Methodologies like warm up, role-play, group discussions, presentations,

games etc. are used in both modules in order to fully transact the theme to the beneficiaries.

Three ToTs were conducted in HCM-RIPA (OTS) i.e. first ToT of private colleges was

organized on 16-18 Jan, 07 with 18 participants, second ToT of colleges (U.O.R.) was

organized on 13-15 Feb, 07 with 39 participants and third ToT of private & govt. schools was

organized on 22-24 Feb, 07 with 36 participants. The PEVs training programmes have started

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from 25th Jan, 07 and by the end of Jan. 08, 24 PEVs training programmes have been

organized covering 11 colleges & 19 schools in which 1000 PEVs were trained by their

respective 100 NSS POs which were supported by the Resource persons of SURE team.

In light of these PEVs trainings the support mechanism was designed & executed by SURE

Jaipur. SURE Jaipur has organized the PEVs Training Programmes by facilitating &

supporting the NSS POs whenever & wherever required i.e. distributing one day module to

the POs, Taking the Welcome session, Work-plan session, Film analysis session, Registration

of participants, taking Pre & Post test of the participants, distributing refreshments packets to

all participants, support to the NSS POs and overall management of the training programme.

NSS POs give the training to the participants (PEVs) based on the one day PEVs training

Module. In these trainings they use the training methodologies like Warm up, Role-play,

Group discussions Presentations and Games etc. to make the training simple & effective. A

film “Uska Aana” based on Female Foeticide was shown. This film gives the massage on

gender discrimination & about the killing of the female foetus. Dr. Meeta Singh, Dr. Ajit

Jain, Ms. Prieyaa Narula and Sh. Satya Deo Bareth regularly visit these programmes & make

discussions on the Socio-cultural, Demographic & legal (PC&PNDT) aspects of this issue.

PEVs have learnt many lessons & they had shown a framework of the work plan (what we

do) in their group presentations. As a result the PEVs took this awareness programme open

heartedly as a campaign and promised to meet at least 10 families regularly.

SURE has successfully completed 13 follow-up activities and 6 follow-up workshops on

combating Female Foeticide covering 2572 PEVs of NSS Jaipur. First follow-up activity

was held on 15 Oct.-20 Oct. 2007 on 10 identified busy petrol pumps of Indian Oil

Corporation limited in Jaipur city. In this 6 day Signature Campaign, PEVs interacted the

automobile drivers who reached at the identified filling stations and after they have been

convinced, they signed the PLEDGE paper. Around 50,000 signatures have been obtained in

this activity. 100 PEVs had participated this activity. It has far reaching impacts in the state

of Rajasthan.

Second follow-up activity (Rally) was held on 28 Nov. 2007. It was a protest against the

Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC). In this Rally, 250 PEVs had participated. They have been

enthused & become the part of the network, which is struggling against Female Foeticide.

Three Kite Festivals (Follow-up activities) were organized on 25 Dec. 07, 27 Dec., 07 and 12

Jan., 08 covering 6 schools and colleges. 610 NSS PEVs participated in this festival and

2000 slogan written kites were flown. Eight Signature Campaigns were organized to combat

Female Foeticide, covering 9 schools and colleges. 932 NSS PEVs participated in this

Campaign, in which 10,000 signatures were obtained. Six follow-up workshops were

organized covering 680 NSS PEVs.

The core group has decided to design a Resource-kit for the PEVs in order to fully equip

them. It consists one set of 2 books:

PEVs Diary (Mere Samajik Sarokar-Meri Diary)

Book of Slogans (Naaro Ki Kitaab – Dekho Ladki Ka Vishwaas)

Core group members intended to boost & make this campaign run successful. Core group

meetings were conducted regularly and by the end of project, 14 meetings were conducted in

this regard.

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A Database is developed to collect, collate & consolidate the records of the training for the

proper documentation of this project. An On-line quiz is developed and accessible on SURE

Barmer’s website i.e. www.surebarmer.org/quiz.asp. The Distribution of Resource-kit to 100

NSS POs and 1000 NSS PEVs is completed.

Outcome

SURE Jaipur attained the objectives and successfully completed all the proposed activities of

this project with the help of National Service Scheme (NSS) Jaipur and the supportive

involvement of the core group members. Gradually the student community started to realize

the importance of the dignity of the girl child and take proactive steps to combat sex

selection. A positive outcome as a result of the fallout of this program is that6 student

volunteers (in addition to PEVs who were trained under this programme)came forward and

got involved with issues related to dignity of the girl child and female sex selective abortions.

They raised their concern in many follow up activities and workshops, i.e. Kite Festival,

Signature campaign, Rally etc. This was a positive indication that participation of the

community is getting augmented and this augurs well for the sustainability of our effort even

after our exit form this project. Similarly the process of institutionalization of the issues has

begun at the NSS headquarters at Jaipur and its various units throughout the State where

dignity of the girl child and combating sex selection has acquired focussed attention

Towards the future

PEVs have strongly emerged as role models for the student’s youth as well as catalysts for

social change. This calls for scaling –up of the project, especially in big towns of the state

through NSS networks.

The materials developed by SURE Jaipur which includes training modules and

communication kit should be utilized on larger canvas by various channels of student and

non-student youth.

NSS needs to accelerate and sustain the already initiated process of institutionalization of the

issue of the dignity of the girl child and combating female sex selective abortions in

Rajasthan.

This successful model of involving students youth in various social issues would do well to

be replicated in other parts of the country.

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Advocacy

Food Security

Objectives

Target right holders realize their food and employment rights from state run schemes

with direct bearing on food security i.e. social security scheme, PDS and livelihood

schemes.

Targeted right holders have increased access to and control over productive resources

(land, water, forest and capital).

Targeted right holders increasingly accessing state services and able to apply low risk

sustainable, equitable and diversified use of productive resources.

Enhanced nutritional security among the targeted right holders

Enhanced capacity of SURE and people’s organization to plan, implement and review

the food security programme with strategic cooperation and synergy with likeminded

resource institutions and international organizations and their partners

S. No.

Village Total Amount

Bajara received

No. of Beneficiaries

5-25 kg 26- 50 kg

above 50 kg

Total Beneficiaries

1 Poshal 11000.00 49.10 kg 07 21 30 58

2 Bawari Kala

10437.00 95.91Kg 80 41 53 174

3 Booth Rathodan

10000.00 130.20 kg

138 58 60 266

4 Nawatala jethmal

12472.00 97.82 kg 61 32 63 156

5 Undakha 9820.00 73.90 kg 29 87 12 215

6 Gudisar 10350.00 134.76 kg

43 57 89 189

7 Ghonia 10000.00 13.20 kg 13 19 3 35

8 Daruda 10000.00 11.38 kg 8 8 1 17

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Status of beneficiaries of welfare Schemes

S.

No.

Welfare Scheme No. of Beneficiaries

Accepted Under

Process

Disqualified Total

Application

1 Widow Pension 26 39 11 76

2 Old aged pension 3 22 4 29

3 Joint Pension 3 6 0 9

4 Disabled Pension 4 4 0 8

5 Palanhar Scheme 16 16 4 36

6 Pop Scheme 0 3 0 3

7 Monitory support for the

marriage of daughter of the BPL

1 0 0 1

8 Panna Dhai Scheme 1 3 1 5

9 Restart the pension 45 0 0 45

10 Caste certification certificate 87 0 0 87

11 Income Certificate 41 0 0 41

12 Death Certificate 26 0 0 26

13 Utensil Kit 16 0 0 16

14 Tri Cycle 2 0 0 2

15 Disabled leg 1 0 0 1

16 Hand Machine 8 0 0 8

17 Leg Machine 16 0 0 16

18 Monitory Support (Rs 208500/-) 27 0 10 37

19 Grain Support (605kg) 9 0 6 15

20 Domicile certificate 1 0 0 1

21 Asahay Anugrah Sahayata

Scheme

179 0 0 179

Total 512 93 36 641

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Advocacy on violence against women

Established risk factors for violence against women

Age – Young women face more violence against women.

Marital status of women – Violence against women is more common among married women

Alcohol consumption – Men are more likely to act violently when drunk.

Poverty – Violence against women occurs in all classes of society, however it is more severe

in lower economic groups

Number of children –A women with more children is more likely to experience violence.

Commission is for the women. The women those who are facing the gender based problem in

the society; they are welcome to this platform to solve their problem. State women

commission and UNICEF, both of them jointly are implementing advocacy and awareness

method that is public hearing to raise the issues as well as solving the problem of the women

issues. Through this public hearing the commission reaches the inaccessible areas for the

awareness generation in the community, location of the problem and their solution. Also

doing best coordination between Mahila vikas samiti and Police counselling center, also

helps in court as legal aid. The women are still afraid of police and court and it is also seen as

the reality of the case is not comes in the written report. Any women can file the case of

violence in the IPC code 498. Women should avail the scheme of the government optimally.

The government has initiated the activities for the women like 100 days work for the women

in the NREGA, girls education etc. The major targets are as follows:

1. 100% enrolment of girls in the school

2. Janani Suraksha Yojana

3. Appointment of ASHA Sahyogini

4. Provision of free books for the education of the girls up to 12 standard.

5. Provision of Rs 10,000/- for the marriage of widow’s daughter.

6. Farmer welfare Insurance Scheme

7. Panna Dhai Scheme

8. Widow pension

9. Remarriages of widows

The chairperson heard the problems of each cases and assured each case that the commission

will take the appropriate step for the solution. She also bounded the each level of

administration to settle the matter accordingly. SURE and ICDS has collected around 60

cases and at the moment of the Jan Sunwai some of the case also enrolled and heard by

Chairperson after the spot scrutiny of the cases. The court cases are strictly not entertained

during the Jan Sunwai. Organization has involved the media like ETV, Zee News, Dainik

Bhasker, Rajsthan Patrika, Dainik Nav Jyothi, Janta Sahkar, Pratinidhi, Local Channel Dristi

Desert. For the success and immediate implementation of the order of the chairperson the

organization also invited the government functionaries as well as local NGOs.

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Mainstreaming Disability

Our integrated solution model will provide rehabilitation services to disables through

attitudinal change of society, education and trainings; especially vocational trainings for

economical independence to streamline them with society.

Objective:

To impart special training on communication and language skills i.e. Braille script,

sign language etc.

To empower and enable the disabled through access to special education to be

productive citizens.

To improve the mobility skills of the visually impaired and facility in the use of

necessary aids and appliances.

To help hearing impaired children to make use of their residual hearing to the

maximum possible extent.

To give special inputs on managing the daily living skills.

To tone the other functional senses through special instruction on multi-sensory

training.

To provide for special orientation education with reference to the physical,

psychological and social environment.

To cope with the normal literacy levels to prepare and provide opportunities for

educational integration that would eventually lead to social integration.

To involve the parents and encourage them in a participative role in the educational

process of their disabled child.

To prepare the students for integration in regular schools as far as possible.

To create awareness in the society at large with a view to provide healthy

environment of growth and development for disabled children.

To move the disabled person (Adults/Adolescents) towards economic independence

through vocational trainings

Our experience:

Looking at the problem of disables while doing development projects in the area we initiated

an approach to rehabilitate them through an integrated education programme. In this

programme we recruited special trained teachers who used to go villages to teach these

children. One teacher teaches a group of 8 students and this group is called a unit. In this we

had 5 units hence we were teaching 40 students at their village.

But we were not satisfied with this programme because of problem of our outreach due to

lack of resources as well migration of community as we discussed in problem statement

above. To rehabilitate these children we planned to start a residential school where we can

teach them provide them all the necessary skill which was not able to provide in integrated

education programme. We started a residential school in year 2005 for disables presently we

are educating 30 students up to 5th class and enhancing their skills through music training.

These students regularly participate in district level cultural functions as well Radio

Programme.

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Target group:

However, since the people with disabilities are still out of the fold of general education, the

target group, therefore, on which this project will focus, would be people with disabilities. It

stresses on improving learning achievements and expanding access to students who have not

had an easy opportunity to be a part of the mainstream system. Our target group is the people

with disabilities of Barmer and Jaisalmer district. It is clear that we are not restricted to the

disables of these districts only. We may take people from other districts. We will be limited

to 150 children with disability for education.

Type of

Disability/District

Barmer Jaisalmer

Persons Male Female Persons Male Female

Disabled in Seeing 31516 19380 12136 6640 4008 2632

Disabled in Speech 2668 1791 877 720 502 218

Disabled in Hearing 3367 1742 1625 808 454 354

Mentally Disabled 3895 2396 1499 858 564 294

Disabled in

Movement 12042 7368 4674 3118 2120 998

Total 53488 32677 20811 12144 7648 4496

The above mentioned persons will be our target group as per our optimum capacity.

Trainings and Workshops

Data of respective programme under Food Security

S. No Activity Female Male Total

1 Quarterly Meeting of VLFSC 28 56 84

2 Coordination meeting of VLFSC and ICDS 37 30 67

3 Orientation Workshop of Rural workers - 5 5

4 BPL Rally 77 119 196

5 Educational tour of VLFSC members 13 28 41

6 Coordination meeting of PDS and VLFSC 13 39 52

7 Orientation workshop of PRIs on Food Rights 12 52 64

8 Workshop on Legal Action 14 32 46

9 Coordination Meeting of VLFSC and Thar

jagruk Manch

24 41 65

10 Slogan writing 21 villages

11 Survey of villages regarding widow, BPL,

disabled, old aged

21 Villages

886 Families are target

12 Block level coordination meeting of

government functionaries and VLFSC

25 37 62

13 Public Hearing on Women issues – food

security, social security, violence.

46 Cases - 46 Cases

Participation of women for

advocacy are 195

14 State level Advocacy – Food security and

social security to the families of the prisoner’s

of Pakistan

9 cases - 9 Cases ans participation of

community members for

advocacy are 35

15 Income generation activity 60 - 60

16 Goat Loan 81 Families out of 15

villages

17 Organization of Ekal Nari Shakti sangathan 272 - 272

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Training and Workshop under Women and dalit Empowerment programme

Training for women leadership skills

In the step of women empowerment

programme, the leadership quality is one of

the main capacities of any group strength. It

gives strength to the women to initiate and

locate the issues in the community. This

quality gives strength, capability to help

each other, understanding of equality and

advocacy can be done in the community. For

emerging of this quality in women a three

days workshop had been organized. In this

workshop 17 participants of Bhalgaon, 16

participants from Santa and 9 participants

from Chohatan had been participated.

Major contents of the workshop are as follows:

For encouraging the leadership skill, group work and a common understanding

developed.

Legal issues on the women security in which Mahila Sangrakshan Adhiniyam, laws

for the domestic violence, women’s commission, three tier system of PRI system.

Social rites and ritual like Mrithyu Bhoj, child marriage, gender discrimination,

dowry system, drug addiction.

Place of women in the society

Development of future work plans with targets.

Capacity building training of the members of the Dalit Jagruk samiti

For the strengthening of the Dalit

Jagruk samiti, sustainability of the

meeting, development of the

leadership skills and proper

understanding of the method of the

advocacy and identification of the

issues, a training of the three

members of the Dalit Jagruk samiti

had organized for the capacity

building regarding above

mentioned issues. This successful

training had been organized at

Binjrar SURE campus.

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Capacity building training of the project staff

For getting the optimal outcome of the result of

the implemented project and for the

generalization of the project objectives and

strategy of the implementation of the project, a

capacity building workshop had been conducted

on 26/9/08 to 29/10/08.

Contents of the training

To impart information about

organization’s objectives along with

project objectives and activities.

To develop understanding about the

strategy to implement advocacy based activity.

To develop the presentation skill.

To provide information about the legal

section and schemes for the marginalized

community.

To get maximum people’s participation for

reaching the goals of the project.

Develop gender sensitization in the

community.

To give them knowledge about the

departmental rules for getting the services to

the community.

Understanding of objectives, inputs and

outputs in logical framework.

Reporting and documentation.

Sharing meeting with Media People

The involvement of the media is one of the method through which advocacy of any issue can

be done at mass level. A media workshop was organized at district level for the involvement

of the media in social issues.

Objectives:

1. To make the media aware about the

objectives of the organization

2. To make the media aware about the

objectives of the project.

3. To make the media update about the

activities of Thar Jagruk manch and

Dalit Jagruk Samiti.

4. To develop coordination between the

members of the Samiti and the media.

5. To make them sensitize towards Dalits

and women.

6. To get cooperation of media for the advocacy of the issues and as resources.

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One day workshop of media people belongs to print media and electronic media was

organized on 12.09.08. In the beginning an

introduction of the organization with the

objectives has been given by Ms Lata Ji who

is Joint Secretary of the organization. Then

the issues like food security, NREGA,

different types of schemes for the poor,

women, Dalits, corruption, PRI issues are

discussed and empowered the media people

to take the initiative in reaching those people

in the mainstream of the society. Through

this workshop a common platform is

developed on the advocacy for community

issues will be done by the media and field

visits also can be done by them. 23 media persons, 3 rural participants and 7 organization’s

workers have been participated in the workshop.

Co-ordination meeting with Block Level Government officials

A coordination meeting was organized at block

level in which the members of DJS and BLO,s

participated. The basic objective is to share the

issues of their concerned villages with the

BLO,s through which the solution of the

emerged issues can be done on priority basis,

also to make BLO,s sensitized toward the

problem of the Dalit community.

Total participants in the meeting was 22, in

which 18 participants were from DJS and 4

from BLO’s.

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Sponsors & Funding Agencies

Foreign

1. Action Aid

2. EZE, Germany (Voluntary Health Association of India)

3. Save the Children fund UK

4. Sight Savers International

5. CASA

6. Christian Aid

7. Capitalization of Livestock Programme Experiences India (CALPI)

8. INTERCOORPORATION/SWISS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Government of India

1. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture, GOI

2. Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, GOI

3. Ministry of Forest and Environment, GOI

4. Ministry of Textile, GOI

5. Ministry of Social Welfare Department, GOR

Other Agencies/Trust

1. Aravali, Jaipur

2. Unnati, Ahemdabad

3. CAIRN Energy India PTY. Ltd.

4. Chetna, Ahemdabad

5. Shri Nakoda Trust, Balotra

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Society to Uplift Rural Economy (SURE) in records and facts

SURE field centres/ Offices

Barmer

Post Box No. 29,

Gurudwara Road,

Near Gupta Transport,

Barmer, 344001

Phone : 02982- 231103

Email : surebmr@rediffmail.com

Website : www.surebarmer.org

Binjrad

Binjrad Craft Development and Training Centre

Binjrar

Block Chohatan

District Barmer

Tel – 02989- 233001

Krishi Vigyan Kendra

Danta

District Barmer- 344001

Tel - 02982- 260123

Resource Centres

Chohtan

Panchayat Sandarbh Suchana Kendra

Chohatan

Tel - 02989 - 286930

Field Centers at :

Sindari

Sata – Chohatan Block

Gudamalani

Harsani

Jaisalmer

SURE

Achal vanshi Colony

Jaisalmer(Raj.)

Jaipur

SURE

59/60 Mansarover

Jaipur(Raj.)

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Society to Uplift Rural Economy Governing Board

S.

No.

Name Qualification/

Professional

Degree

Number of years

associated with the

organization

Designation

1 Sh Madan Lal Singhal LLB 18 years President

2 Sh Rikabdas Maloo MA 7 Years Vice President

3 Sh Magraj Jain BHMS 18 years Secretary

4 Ms Lata Kacchawaha MA 18 years Jt Secretary

5 Sh Narendra Tansukhani MA 18 years Treasure

6 Sh Chanda ram MA 18 years Member

7 Capt. Dr Shankar Lal MBBS 18 years Member

8 Sh Murad Ali Abara MA 3 Years Member

9 Sh Kesarimal Keshri BHMS 18 years Member