Jan Vikas Samiti (JVS) conducted a two days (23-24 August, 2021) training programme on ‘Child Rights & Gender Rights’ at Indore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Indore (MP). A total of 22 participants from 15 grassroots organizations of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh participated at this training with Ms. Sarita Anand, Executive Director, Angles SDRA as a Resource Person for the programme.
7,244 cooked ration meals distributed in flood affected Mirzapur
In our week long Flood Relief campaign starting last Friday in Shikhad development block of Mirzapur district, we provided immediate relief to impacted families by distributing a total of 7,244 packets of freshly cooked meal in 53 villages of the block. With the help of our team and network of SHGs we could reach out to maximum number of families in remotest location of the block and provide them some relief as their crops and property have been badly devastated by the flood in river Ganga.
PPE Kits distributed to ‘Frontliners’ in Varanasi
Today we distributed 64 PPE Kits to 16 healthcare workers from 108 Ambulance service at our head office in Varanasi. Handing over the kits, our Executive Director – Fr. Chandran Riymonds thanked all frontliners for devoting themselves in saving humanity from the wrath of COVID-19. Mr. Ravi Kumar Singh, Mr. Avneet Tripathi, Mr. Himanshu Verma – District Coordinators, 108 Ambulance Service along with other frontline workers expressed their gratitude towards the organization and reaffirmed their commitment towards the fight against this deadly virus.
Covid-19 Awareness & Vaccination Campaign
Raising awareness among the community on COVID-19 vaccination in the current scenario is the need for testing time to break widespread myths and misinformation about vaccine hesitancy. Therefore, Jan Vikas Samiti developed a range of IEC materials like posters, leaflets, and booklets to provide accurate and scientific information about the virus and its prevention methods to enable the community to make informed decisions to adopt COVID-19 precautions and get vaccinated in order to protect themselves, families and communities.
Vaccination against the COVID-19 virus is the key to preventing deaths and pausing the mutation of the virus into stronger and more infectious variants like Delta and Omicron. Thus, the challenges of vaccinating whopping rural communities where poverty, lack of information, limited access to health care services, and illiteracy are widespread, vaccination efforts become a formidable task.
In these circumstances, Jan Vikas Samiti, with the support of the Dasra Foundation, took up the task of investing resources for creating massive awareness on COVID-19 from the 1st week of August 2021. Besides creating mass awareness, we have facilitated vaccination for 101,988 rural population in the past 5 months in Varanasi, Jaunpur, Agra, Mahmudabad, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Siddarth Nagar, and Basti districts of Uttar Pradesh. Every day, volunteers of Jan Vikas Samiti set out in the field with the primary objective to create door-to-door awareness on COVID-19 viruses’ preventive measures and motivate the community members towards vaccination.
“Gift a Blanket Drive” Helping Families Stay Warm this Winter
Gift a Blanket Drive
As the winter wave turned harsh with each passing day in the month of January this year, Jan Vikas Samiti is spreading warmth among the marginalized and less privileged community in Harahua and Pindra blocks in district Varanasi by carrying on “Gift a Blanket Drive.”
The objective of the initiative is to provide a shield to the marginalized and less privileged community people, especially the “Musahar Community” from the winter. From the 1st week of January, “Gift a Blanket Drive” is carried out in the settlement places of Musahar Community villages in Harahua and Pindra blocks, reaching 754 families with 2 sets of blankets.
Jan Vikas Samiti is happy to witness the overwhelming support from friends in India and abroad and extends a big thanks for your kind cooperation and financial support. Without your generous donations, it was not possible for us to reach out to the people in need.
National Seminar on Resource Mobilization for Organizational Sustainability
A two-days’ seminar on Resource Mobilization for Organizational Sustainability was organized by Jan Vikas Samiti on December 20-21, 2021 at Navjeevan Renewal Centre, New Delhi. There were 55 participants from 47 Organizations working in the field of disability and rehabilitation across North and Northeastern states. The resource persons for the seminar were Mr. Barat Joshi and Mr. Sarfraz Syed. The objectives of the seminar were: to understand the fundamentals on fund raising and resource mobilization; to learn project proposal writing and to know more about CSR.
Mr. Bharat Joshi explained in detail about fundraising strategies that can help the participants to mobilize resources and funds. He emphasized the need to have both a long term and short term strategy and plan for each organization for the next 20 years. Along with a good strategy, a committed team for resource mobilization is essential, he added. Donor management is yet another important aspect as organizations need to maintain the relationship with their donors consistently.
Mr. Sarfraz Syed explained in detail about project cycle management, such as identification, definition and design, proposal preparation, approval and financing, implementation and evaluation. He further dwelt upon writing a good Concept Note. At the end, he urged all the participating organizations to draft their own fund raising strategy and make conscious efforts to raise funds for their organization.
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