FLAGSHIP PROJECTS
Community Radio Station
It is a developmental platform for the community to be aware, to share, to experience and to grow together to compete with the outside world
SCOPE (Rural Digital School)
The school was started to specifically stimulate the visualization of the rural students. This is the first Rural Digital School in Maharashtra. This is first of its kind where education and technology go hand in hand. It is working as educational Laboratory to set up packages of best practices for rural and semi-urban schools
1 Million Plantation
Plantation of 1 Million trees for 5 years by partnering with 5000 farmers from drought pron area. 5,000 green patches of 1 acre land each are being created to improve the micro climate and the overall effect on environment.
Concept Housing
To empower destitute women by providing them with a Right based house so that they can respectfully re-join the society
Curiosity Center
This center promotes learning by doing. This is a hands on experience with complex scientific concepts promoting logical thinking and Problem solving techniques for rural kids.
Agricultural Demonstration Center
This center is developed to introduce new crops and best agricultural practices & techniques. These efforts are made to mitigate the losses of local farmers while trying new out crops
Process of Selection of Projects
All the projects are need based. This need is recognized because the organization has very strong connections with the people in the villages. These people trust the organization enough to open up about their problems.
A few people who share the same ideology as the organization become Key Persons of a specific village. These Key Persons play a vital role in bringing up the local problems to the organization. These people are constantly in contact with the core team of the organization and they raise requests whenever they come across a problem. These requests are thoroughly discussed with the partners and a strategy is put in place to address these problems.
Resource Center for Women
The Organization has built a special center just for women. This center is fully equipped with resources to help women acquire new skills like computer operation, reading, stitching and much more. In this center counseling is also provided to women in need
The Goat Project
To empower destitute uneducated women, the organization provided 6 locally adept (Osmanabadi) goats to over 400 women. These women then started earning over 30,000 rupees per year
Concept Housing
To empower Destitute women by providing them with a Right based house so that they can respectfully re-join the society
Rain water Harvesting
Organisation involved in demonstration of scientific way of Rooftop rain water harvesting. The drought prone area can get assured drinking water by rain water harvesting thus the demonstration. At 5 places the demonstration carried out for recharging drinking water borewell.
Solar Home Lights
The school going children who live in huts have supported by Solar Home light system. The children need light at night to study and a family feels secure at night only with the light ON. Hence the solar home light system supports such poor families living in huts.
Demonstration of Renewable Sustainable Energy Sources
Due to the abundance of wind and sunlight the organisation is working to promotion of renewable and sustainable energy sources. Hence demonstration of domestic windmills and solar systems to power water pumps to fill up the water tanks
Bicycle Bank
Bicycle bank is support for girls to continue their education after 7th grade. Majority girls in rural area have to walk to attend the school after 7th std. The daily walk of 5-7 km tedious for the girls hence they drop out from the school. The Bicycle supports such likely to dropout girls to continue their education.
Curiosity Center
This center promotes learning by doing. This is a hands on experience with complex scientific concepts promoting logical thinking and Problem solving techniques for rural kids.
SCOPE (Rural Digital School)
The school was started to specifically stimulate the visualization of the rural students. This is the first Rural Digital School in Maharashtra. This is first of its kind where education and technology go hand in hand. It is working as educational Laboratory to set up packages of best practices for rural and semi-urban schools
Drought Relief Emergency Services
Due to frequent droughts (every 3 years) in this area, the needy families, women headed families and land laborers need to be supported for ensuring food for two times a day. This is essential to support these families so as to avoid borrowing loan for food from local money lenders.
Promotion of Science to combat superstitions
By conducting road shows and rallies by involving school children to address the unethical acts based on superstitions in the society the organization communicates the importance of science. A expert team is involved in this to train school children in writing slogans, paintings and drawings or elocution skill through conducting summer camps
Community Radio Station
It is a developmental platform for the community to be aware, to share, to experience and to grow together to compete with the outside world
Combating Desertification
The organisation started working in the area with the theme of agro-forestry. The need was identified 22 years back as to promote agro-forestry to plant variety of saplings to impart better environmental conditions to improve micro-climate. Those who participated in the project have observed healthy atmosphere around the house and improved live quality as well
Promotion Of zero Budget, Organic/ Natural Farming
Promoting agriculture without investing any money hence zero budget. The traditional seeds developed in house; organic manure made at the farm itself. The traditional seeds are strong and nutritive hence the less need of using insecticides or fungicides. Similarly locally made crop growth promoters used for the better and healthy growth of crops
1 Million Plantation
Plantation of 1 Million trees for 5 years by partnering with 5000 farmers from drought pron area. 5,000 green patches of 1 acre land each are being created to improve the micro climate and the overall effect on environment.
Agricultural Demonstration Center
This center is developed to introduce new crops and best agricultural practices & techniques. These efforts are made to mitigate the losses of local farmers while trying new out crops
Skill Development
The vision behind this training is to develop skill in the local community to take up new activities to earn more. The training module used in all the capacity building training involves hands on approach. Training includes: Stitching & tailoring, Goat rearing, Poultry brooding and much more
Support to temporary migrant
: Marginal farmers facing water scarcity to bring their land under cultivation are migrating as sugarcane cutting labor after monsoon gets over. They tend to ensure family food by monsoon fed crops. These are short term crops and then the land remains open for heavy sunlight for say 8 months, thus prone to desertification.
Promotion of Dragon Fruits
Dragon fruit being a member of the cactus family, it doesn't need a lot of water and grows well in the are. so to understand the proper scientific way of cultivation and the infrastructure needs to be arranged for the cultivation and the economics involved in comparison with grapes farming.
Smart Agriculture
Provided training to farmers (men/women & youths) to know soil, water testing, planning and selection of crops for the year, Water and resource management, sub-soil irrigation technique, Kitchen garden, organic farming. The use of small techniques in making farming easy for women. The selection of crop and water management depending upon soil type had been well explained to youths.
Kitchen Garden
Kitchen garden project supported to improve nutrition of the family. The women enrolled in the project have developed the kitchen garden on 1 acre land near the house. The water storage tank and drip material provide to them for developing Kitchen garden. The women participated in the project have undergone through capacity building training for cultivation of seasonal veggies with the use of low cost drip and in available water
Goat Farming
The project has included fodder plot with the goat rearing. Those participants who have small piece of land near to the house and unused have motivated to plat fodder trees to ensure fodder for goats. The link with the goats and establishing ecology in the area the fodder plot is the innovation linked with the Goat i.e. main activity.
Backyard Poultry farming
The Backyard Poultry project shaped up to support destitute women for earning money daily by selling eggs. The concept is chicks have to brood by open and freely so that the chicks can get fed on themselves. To fulfill the need of nutritious protein intake the insect garden added in the project.
Promotion Of Sirohi
Mix breed of Sirohi and Osmanabadi to get best quality through meat and milk thus to get better income. This activity had been handed over to community by setting up 4 bit wise extension units for crossing.
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