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BI-‐ANNUAL REPORT

January-‐ June 2014

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CONTENTS PAGE NO.

Main Activities and Achievements 3 Introduction 5

Health

An Overview of Medical Activities 6 Access to Primary Healthcare in Urban Area: Shechen Medical

Centre in Bodhgaya, Bihar 9

Mobile Clinics 12

Medical Camps 15

Health Education Program (HEP) 17

Education

Early Childcare and Development 20 Non-‐Formal Education (NFE) 21

Social

Kitchen Garden 23

Vocational Training 24

small money BIG CHANGE 25

Networking with local NGOs 26

Environment

BodhGaya Clean Environment, Hygiene and Sanitation Program 27

Rainwater Harvesting 28

Solar Electricity 29

Other Events and Activities

Activity Progress in Jharkhand 30 Field work and Project study by Magadh University Students 30 Finances 31 Upcoming Activities 32

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MAIN ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS

Health

35,362 Patients availed the healthcare services of our OPD (Outreach Patients Department), Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps.

3634 medical tests were conducted in our pathology laboratory. 4477 Sanitary napkins were distributed A Menstrual Health and Hygiene Educational session was conducted at Project

Kanya school in Bodhgaya.

Education

We have started our new programme-‐ The role of play in the life of a child: A way to contribute to children well-‐being and healthy development’ in Gopalkhera, Chando, Dema and Banahi.

We have started our own informal schools for young children at Dema and Masuribar

We have started providing newspapers to NFE centres to update the student son important news events. The papers are later used by the students to make paper bags.

Social

Under the ‘small money BIG CHANGE’ program we are digging ponds in the villages of Bhupnagar and Dema

1922 households have received vegetable seeds for their Kitchen Gardens 657 OPD patients have received vegetable seeds for their Kitchen Gardens We have made a Kitchen Garden Demonstration Field cum Nursery on a land

within premises of anon-‐functional NGO near BodhGaya town We have also started plant nurseries in 11 villages where 11 people, chosen from

the village communities for the purpose, are undertaking the responsibility of looking after the nurseries.

The first session of Computer Training for the youth came to a close with 35 students passing out and a new session was started in March with 55 students.

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Environment

We have planted 100 trees along the road in front of our OPD We have distributed food covers among 21 vendors at Gaya railway station We are in the process of giving out 100 food boxes made of steel and glass to

interested food vendors and shop-‐owners in the towns of Bodhgaya and Gaya We have installed Rainwater Harvesting system in 5 households in Banahi, 13 in

Dema along with schools at Dema , Gopalkhera and Lohjhara 60 Solar sets were installed in the villages of Bhupnagar, Dema, Mansidih,

Lohjhara and Karhara Jute bags were distributed among local people in order to reduce the rampant use

of plastics

Other Events and Activities

We have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with two local organisations in Jharkhand; Cause for Change and Dhad Disham Vikas Sangha (DDVS)

We will start our Mobile Clinic activities in Jharkhand from August/September 13 final year post-‐graduate students of Rural Management and Development

department, Magadh University conducted field work in our operational villages, taking as case study, one of our programs for their Masters Project work

A socio-‐economic survey was conducted in all our 18 villages.

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In the first half of 2014 we have focused on several new initiatives in all four areas of our intervention; Health, Education, Environment and Social.

With the objective of reaching out to disadvantaged communities beyond Gaya district we have launched a third Mobile Clinic in 4 villages across the districts of Jenhanabad, Nawada and Aurangabad. Under the Health Education program we have started Menstrual Health awareness sessions in schools with the aim of disseminating information about proper menstrual hygiene and health practices. A new Educational project, ‘the role of play in the life of a child: A way to contribute to children well-‐being and healthy development’, launched in January , aims at physical, mental, cognitive and social development of 0-‐ 6 years of children through the introduction of indoor and outdoor games at Anganwadi centres. The program has been started as a pilot in 4 villages namely, Gopalkhera, Chando, Dema and Banahi. Looking at the grim primary education scenario in rural schools of Bihar we have opened two schools (at Dema and Masuribar) for young children who neither go to Anganwadi centres nor to primary schools. The objective is to provide a strong grounding in academics and co-‐curricular activities through informal education. With the intention of encouraging the sale of hygienic food items we distributed free food covers amongst vendors at Gaya railway station early this year. We are now in the process of giving out food boxes for keeping edible items covered from dust and germs to interested food vendors and shopkeepers at 50% subsidized rates. In a bid to promote environment-‐friendly beautification of the town we have started planting trees along both sides of the road in front of our Bodhgaya office/OPD. We have successfully planted 100 trees till now and intend to plant 300-‐400 more in the following months. Another initiative in the area of Environment has been the installation of 60 LED solar sets across Bhupnagar, Dema, Mansidih, Lohjhara and Karhara. The second computer training session began in March with 55 enthusiastic youths hailing from poor communities after all 35 students enrolled in the first session passed the written and practical examinations with good scores. Seasonal vegetable seeds have been distributed among 1922 households across 18 villages. We have also started giving out free seeds to interested patients at OPD and till now 657 individuals have been benefited this way. Besides, we have opened a Kitchen Garden demonstration field cum nursery near BodhGaya with the intention of encouraging and reviving the usage of traditional seeds.

The first half of 2014 has been very rewarding in terms of the new ventures as also the successful operation of the programs that have already been running. This report gives the details of all the programs and the various activities and events that have taken place in the course of the past 6 months.

INTRODUCTION

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AN OVERVIEW OF MEDICAL ACTIVITIES

OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps

35,362 needy people availed healthcare services of our OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps. New patients (for OPD and Mobile Clinics) constituted12,180 people ( 35.46% of total number of patients at OPD and Mobile Clinics).

Table 1: Total Number of Patients at OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps

Month OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps

Total

January 2613 3240 0 5853 February 2384 3075 513 5459 March 2668 3071 502 5739

April 2474 2545 0 5019 May 2573 2649 0 5222 June 2966 4089 0 7055 Total 15,678 18,669 1015 35,362

January February March April May June

2613 2384 2668 2474 2573 2966 3240 3075 3071 2545 2649

4089

0 513 502

0 0 0

Number of Patients at OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps

OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps

HEALTH

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From the above graph and table we observe that for every month the Mobile Clinics have registered slightly greater number of patients than OPD, which may be due to an increasing number of patients from satellite villages. In June Mobile Clinic registered a sharp rise in the total number of patients due to the introduction of our Third Mobile Clinic that month.

Medical Camps, conducted in the months of February and March registred above 500 patients at each camp.

The number of patients refered to PHC & Government Hospitals was 114 ( 0.32% of total patients).

Table 2: Total Number of Patients Referred to PHC and Government Hospitals

Months OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps

Total

January 0 5 0 5 February 5 1 29 35 March 6 1 24 31 April 3 1 0 4 May 3 1 0 4 June 17 18 0 35 Total 34 27 53 114

18,122 patients (51.25 % of total patients treated) were treated “Free of Cost” (Pregnant women, children and aged people above 60 years). In other words, more than half the total number of patients visiting OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps did not even have to pay the minimal registration fee (INR 20) for their health check-‐up.

Direct Observed Therapy (DOT)

Out of 3634 medical tests conducted in our pathology laboratory 265 were Sputum tests (for Tuberculosis). Out of these the number of people who were diagnosed with TB was 8. Currently, the total number of TB patients undergoing treatment is 103.

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Table 3: Details of DOT Program

January February March April May June Total

Number of TB patient’s started medicine

3 4 4 5 3 4 23

Number of sputum tests conducted

34 33 58 56 46 38 265

Sputum Positive 1 0 2 0 2 3 8

Refer TB Patients 3 2 2 2 3 3 15

Completed TB Medicine 7 3 11 2 1 4 28

Types of Diseases observed among Patients in OPD and Mobile Clinics

The following table gives us information about the various types of diseases observed among the patients:

Table 4: Types of Diseases

Types of Diseases Total Diarrohea/children 108 Diarrhoea / dysentery adults 546 Amoebiasis 963 Typhoid 5 TB 363 Gynecological patient 1327 Bone & joints patients 9097 Burn patient 98 Worm manifestation 31 Skin diseases of all kinds 2972 Ophthalmologic infections 8 Number of identify malnourished children

11

Cardiac Infection 2 HTN 1883 Diabetes 262 Asthma & COPD 972

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The table and graph show that the most common health problems observed among our patients were Bone and Joint Pain, Cough and Cold, Skin diseases and hypertension.

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Diarrhoe

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Amoe

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Typh

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Gyne

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Burn paK

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Asthma & COPD

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Epilepsy

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Lymph

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I&D D

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Other PaK

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108 546

963

5 363

1327

9097

98 31

2972

8 11 2

1883 262

972

6322

122 859 19

251

8044

Types of Diseases

Cough & Cold 6322 Epilepsy 122 ENT patient 859 Lymphadenopathy 19 I&D Dressing 251 Other Patients 8044

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ACCESS TO PRIMARY HEALTHCARE IN URBAN AREA: SHECHEN MEDICAL

CENTRE IN BODHGAYA, BIHAR

The total number of patients at our Medical centre in BodhGaya in this quarter was 15,768, 108 %

higher than that registered in the January-‐June 2013 period (7596), of which 6286 (representing

39.87% of total patients at OPD) were new.

Table 5: Details of Patients in OPD

January February March April May June Total

Total Patients 2613 2384 2668 2474 2573 2966 15678 New Patients 1068 911 1089 968 1039 1211 6286 Men 712 608 697 679 650 684 4030 Women 1283 1187 1342 1224 1313 1442 7791 Children 618 589 629 571 610 840 3857

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all the months registered more than 2400 patients. We observe that the month of June had the highest number, which can be attributed to the commencement of monsoons when people become susceptible to water-‐borne diseases and various infections.

The above graphs show that majority of the patients at our OPD are women and children (74%).

Pathology Laboratory

Total number of patients who came for different medical tests was 1357 and total analysis done was 3634. The number of patients and tests are different because one patient may go for several tests.

Table 6: Types of Medical Tests conducted in our Laboratory


2613 2384

2668 2474 2573

2966

Number of PaIents at OPD

Men Women Children

4030

7791

3857

Men, Women and Children at OPD

Men 26%

Women 50%

Children 24%

Men, Women and Children at OPD

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Types of Medical Tests Conducted

Total Number of Tests

TC/DC 533 ESR 489 HB% 446 Malaria 117 Uric Acid 104 Blood Sugar 474 Serum Blirubin 66 AFB (Sputum test) 265 ECG 39 Urine routine examination 164 Urine culture sensitivity test 98 Other Tests 839 Total 3634

15%

13%

12%

3% 3%

13%

2%

7%

1%

5%

3%

23%

Types of Medical Tests

TC/DC

ESR

HB%

Malaria

Uric Acid

Blood Sugar

Serum Blirubin

AFB (Sputum test)

ECG

Urine rouKne examinaKon

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From the above table and graph we see that the highest number of medical tests conducted are TC/DC, ESR, Blood Sugar, HB% and AFB (Sputum Test).

MOBILE CLINIC

In the past 6 months 18,669 patients came for the consultations to our mobile clinics, which is 156.23% higher than the number registered for Jaunary-‐June, 2013 period (7286). We have closed our mobile clinic services to Sripur from June as these villages are not far from our OPD and the villagers can easily come over for check-‐up, when required. Our outreach services have been extended to the neighbouring districts of Nawada, Aurangabad and Jehanabad with the launch of a third Mobile Clinic in May. It is providing healthcare services to the disadvantaged communities in the villages of Bardaha and Sitamari in Nawada, Salaiya in Aurangabad and Makpa in Jehanabad. Out of 18,669 patients 5894 (31.57%) were new The total patients who were treated Free of Registration Charge (Pregnant women, children and aged people above 60 years) in the Mobile Clinic was 9901 (53.03 % of the total patients at mobile clinics).

Table 7: Details of Mobile Clinic Patients January February March April May June Total

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Total Patients 3240 3075 3071 2545 2649 4089 18669 New Patients 1098 879 779 653 898 1587 5894 Number of Patients from Satellite Villages

2347 2232 2253 1852 1695 2539 12918

Men 909 849 1758 757 741 1119 6133 Women 1647 1571 3218 1257 1396 2101 11190 Children 684 655 1339 531 512 869 4590

As observed from Table 7 majority of the patients, 12,918 (69.19 % of total patients at Mobile Clinics) come from the satellite villages surrounding the one where our outreach medical team pays regular visits.

The above graph shows that apart from the months on April and May the Mobile Clinics have registered more than 3000 patients with the highest number recorded in June when the third Mobile Clinic was launched. The plausible reason for comparatively low patient turnout in the two months was the scorching summer heat.


3240 3075 3071 2545 2649

4089

Total PaIents at OPD

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The graphs clearly show that, like that in the OPD, here too women and children form majority of the patients (72%).

MEDICAL CAMPS

Men Women Children

6133

11,190

4590

Men, Women and Children at Mobile Clinics

28%

51%

21%

Men, Women and Children at Mobile Clinics

Men Women Children

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Free Medical Camps for the underserved and needy people were organised in BodhGaya in the months of February and March where 1015 patients availed our medical services with more than 500 patients registered at each camp.

Table 8: Details of Medical Camp Patients

February March Total

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Total Patients 513 502 1015

Men 214 157 371

Women 187 196 383

Children 112 149 261

From the above table and graphs we see that, just like in OPD and Mobile Clinics, at medical camps too women and children for majority of the patients (64%).

HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME (HEP)

36%

38%

26%

Percentage of Men, Women and Children at Medical Camps

Men Women Children

Men Women Children

214 187 112

157 196

149

Men, Women and Children at Medical Camps

February March

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A woman with sanitary napkin packs Community Health Meeting

Our Health Education Program continues to serve rural communities in Gaya district, with a special focus on reproductive health and related menstrual hygiene. In order to make our program more effective we have hired a female Village Coordinator to better reach out to women and girls through HEP.

Table 9: Some Details of HEP

Indicators

Total Households reached 1,285 Total Families reached 1,936 Total Number of Health Groups

77

Total Number of Members in Health Groups

332

Total Number of Home Visits by Village Coordinators 1,713 Total Number of Home Visits by Motivators 3,768

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The number of home visits by our Village Coordinators and Motivators, number of families/households imparted with education on health-‐related matters, and number of Health Groups formed for the effective running of HEP vividly put across the sincere efforts of the organisation towards the program.

Table 10: Reproductive and Child Health

Indicators

Total Number of Sanitary Napkins distributed 4477

Percentage of Pregnant Women Followed-‐up by Village Coordinators and Motivators 91.88 Percentage of Pregnant women immunized with TT1& TT2

81.42 Percentage of Pregnant Women having Institutional Delivery

66.96 Percentage of new-‐born children immunized with BCG and 1st DPT

65.58 Percentage of Neo-‐natal deaths

0

The achievements of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) component of HEP can be gauged from the large number of sanitary napkins distributed among the interested beneficiaries, high percentages of pregnant women followed-‐up by our village coordinators and immunised with required vaccinations, an increase in the number of women taking to institutional delivery and no neo-‐natal deaths recorded in the past 6 months.

Table 11: Number of Sanitary Napkin Packets distributed

Months OPD Mobile Clinics

Medical Camps

Total

January 177 695 0 872 February 158 586 102 846 March 108 613 135 856 April 84 440 0 524 May 125 685 0 810 June 159 410 0 569 Total 811 3429 237 4477

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4477 packs of sanitary napkins have reached menstruating population who cannot afford the branded napkins available in the markets. In all 6 months we notice that the napkins distributed in the villages have been much higher than those in OPD and Medical Camps in Bodhgaya town. The reason being that apart from the medical team, our motivators, who themselves are members of the village communities, sell the napkins.

In a bid to reach more disadvantaged population who do not have access to proper menstrual protection we have started a new initiative to conduct educational sessions at schools and colleges on menstrual health and hygiene matters. In the month of May we organised our first such day-‐long program at Project Kanya school. As a part of this activity we envisage installing Sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators at girls schools and colleges in towns of Gaya and Bodhgaya.

... Community Awareness Program on Reproductive and Menstrual Health have been conducted in

.... villages with ... participants


177 158 108 84

125 159

695

586 613

440

685

410

0

102 135

0 0 0

Sanitary Napkin distribuIon at OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps

OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps

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EARLY CHILDCARE AND DEVELOPMENT

Recognising the vital role of play in the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills development of a child we have introduced our new programme, ‘Role of play in the life of a child: A way to contribute to children well-‐being and healthy development’ in collaboration with Inter’Lude, France. The program, launched at the beginning of the year, is aimed at the children in Anganwadi centres. This pilot project is running in 4 villages (Gopalkhera, Chando, Banahi and Dema) where we have supplied Anganwadis with various indoor and outdoor games for the children.

The grounding of the program began with a day-‐long training session organised for select staff members of our organisation, Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) of the blocks where the four villages belong and Anganwadi Workers of those villages. The training was imparted by a volunteer from Inter’Lude who worked with us on this program till April, and our Director In this

EDUCATION

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interactive training, the participants learnt about the importance of play in a child’s growth; the objectives, methods and expected outcomes of our program.

This project is running successfully under regular monitoring by the village coordinators. Games, toys and other materials required for its smooth functioning are provided to the Anganwadi centres from time to time as per their needs.

In the State of Bihar where 95% of the schools are located in the rural areas, elementary education presents a very grim picture. Plagued by poor infrastructure and high teacher absenteeism these schools not only dissuade a large number of rural children from enrolling in primary education but also increase the dropout rates.

In order to provide a strong educational foundation that the primary schools often fail to provide we have launched informal schools in Masuribar and Dema. Our objective is the all-‐round development of young children who neither go to Anganwadi centres nor attend primary schools through free educational and co-‐curricular activities like Yoga.

NON-‐FORMAL EDUCATION (NFE)

An NFE instructor reading out news to the students NFE students making Paper bags from old newspapers

Our NFE program is running successfully in the villages. We have introduced newspaper reading to raise awareness about the various events happening around us. At Banahi we have taught the students to make paper bags using old newspapers and will be teaching this vocation at our other NFE centres in the coming months. This will not only improve their livelihood opportunities but also promote the use of environment-‐friendly alternatives like paper bags to plastics.

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In the second quarter NFE classes at Bandha, Nawatari and Kadal were temporarily dissolved due to poor and irregular attendance. The average attendance of the rest of the centres is provided in the table below:

Table 12: NFE Attendance details

Name of Villages Number of Students enrolled in NFE

Average Attendance in NFE classes for Q1

Average Attendance in NFE classes for Q2

Banahi 30 15 15 Dema 30 25 16 Gopalkhera 30 11 16 Lohjara 30 14 12 Mansidih 31 12 8 Sripur 30 12 12 Mastibar 25 10 12 J.P.Nagar 28 10 8 Kharati 18 16 10 Karhara 60 30 30 Trilokapur 21 10 6 Bhupnagar 25 15 15 Total 358 180 160

Despite the scorching summers, the harvest season and various festivities the average attendance for the past 6 months has been close to 50% at 47.49%. This clearly brings out the success of the NFE program in attracting and retaining students.

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KITCHEN GARDEN

Vegetable seeds continue to be distributed among villagers growing Kitchen Gardens under the sustained guidance and monitoring of our organisation. 1,972 households have been provided free vegetable seeds for undertaking Kitchen Gardening in their backyards, which is a 98% increase compared to the June-‐December 2013 period (996 households). This brings across the growing success of the program through a surging interest generated among the villagers who have been witness to the benefits reaped by those growing kitchen garden with our support. We have started a new initiative under this program where plant nurseries have been formed in 11 villages.

With the objective to produce healthy seeds for better kitchen gardens and to revive the use of traditional seeds for cultivation we have opened a Kitchen Garden Demonstration Field cum Nursery at Amwan, near Bodhgaya town where we have grown brinjal and green chillies plants and will be growing other vegetables and fruits in the coming months.

SOCIAL

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We have also started distributing seeds among interested OPD patients and thus, have reached out to 657 patients.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH & WOMEN

Computer Courses for the Underprivileged Youth

Issuing certificates to the first batch of Computer students

The first session of our 6 months computer training got over in March with all 35 students, enrolled in the program, passing with good grades. All of them were issued score sheets for their written and practical examinations along with Certificates of successful Course completion. The second session of computer training was started soon after with 55 enthusiastic students.

Vocational Training for Rural Women

The women who had attained advanced training in candle-‐making in Jamshedpur last year conducted refresher and advanced training on candle-‐production and marketing to NFE students at Banahi, Gopalkhera, Bandha, Nawatari and Dema.

We are preparing the ground for conducting vocational training workshops similar to the ones organised last year. One of the vocations that will be taught is Mushroom Cultivation, training for which will be given by one of our local partners at Jharkhand, Dhad Disham Vikas Sangha (DDVS).

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SMALL MONEY BIG CHANGE

Under our Community Planned-‐Community Managed program, small money BIG CHANGE we are digging ponds at Dema and Bhupnagar, both of which face serious dearth of water facilities, especially during the scorching summers when the ponds and wells dry up.

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NETWORKING WITH OTHER LOCAL NON-‐GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS)

The scale and scope of developmental challenges requires that all organisations sharing similar mission and goal work collectively towards the realisation of their common aspirations. With the aim of forming a network of like-‐minded humanitarian organisations we have compiled the detailed information about NGOs (a total of 98 functioning NGOs) working in Gaya district.

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BODHGAYA CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, HYGIENE AND SANITATION PROGRAM

With the pledge to promote eco-‐friendly beautification of the town we have taken the initiative to plant trees along the road in front of our office/OPD and have till now planted 100 trees. In the following months we intend to plant 300-‐400 trees.

ENVIRONMENT

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In order to reduce the indiscriminate use of bio-‐non degradable plastics we have been distributing Jute bags to each of our patients, our NFE students, staff and schools in our operational villages. We have been able to give away 4427 bags in the past 6 months.

We have given free food covers to 21 vendors selling food at Gaya station and are now in the process of distributing 100 food boxes made of steel and glass to interested food vendors and shop-‐owners in the towns of Bodhgaya and Gaya. These boxes, that we have purchased at whole price of INR 7,000 each and whose market value is much higher at INR 11,000 per box, will be distributed at 50% subsidised rates to the target beneficiaries.

RAINWATER HARVESTING

Our programme on Rainwater Harvesting which was started at the end of last year continues with water tanks being installed in 36 households across 4 villages (Dema-‐18 households, Chando-‐11, Karhara-‐2 and Banahi-‐5). Besides, schools at Dema , Gopalkhera and Lohjhara have also set up rainwater harvesting system for the benefit of the students, faculty and other staff members.

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SOLAR ELECTRICITY

This year we have scaled-‐up our Solar electricity program to cover some of the remotest villages where there is hardly any possibility of electrification in the near future. With the help of our new solar engineers we have installed 60 LED sets in interested households across 5 villages and have collected a one-‐time amount of INR 2000 from each of these households (33 in Bhupnagar, 13 in Dema, 11 Mansidih, 2 in Lohjhara and 1 in Banahi).

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ACTIVITY PROGRESS IN JHARKHAND

With the objective of reaching out to more people in dire need of humanitarian services we are expanding our area of operation to the neighbouring state of Jharkhand from this year. The State is bound by Bihar in the North, West Bengal in the East, Odisha in the South and Chhattisgarh and U.P. in the West. A mineral rich state, Jharkhand has 24 districts, 260 blocks and 32,615 revenue villages with a total population of 3.30 Crore as per 2011 census accounting for 2.7% of the country’s population. The reason for choosing Jharkhand for our future humanitarian assistance is that the State, like Bihar, not only ranks as one of the poorest states in the country but also fares very badly in most of the human development indicators and is Maoist-‐affected with several districts being declared as Red Corridors.

Based on the extensive discussions we have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with two local organisations; Cause for Change and Dhar Disham Vikas Sangha (DDVS). On the basis of our village scan process we have selected Rajnagar Block in Seraikela-‐Kharsawan District as our initial area of intervention where we will be working in Baner Panchayat, Gangaruli Panchayat, Kendmundi and Bankhabani Panchayats. We will be starting our Mobile Clinic services in the selected Panchayats by August-‐September.

We have booked our Office space at Hata, an important junction located 20km from Jamshedpur. Hata was chosen for its strategic location; our areas of intervention covering the districts of East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela-‐Kharsewa fall within 50 km radius of our Hata office.

FIELD WORK AND PROJECT STUDY BY MAGADH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

We conducted a day-‐long workshop with final year post-‐graduate students of Rural Management and Development program, Magadh University on Project work/Dissertation writing. Thereafter, we selected 13 bright students from amongst them to conduct field work for their projects at our operational villages, taking as case study one of our ongoing programs. As part of their project work they conducted socio-‐economic survey in all 18 operational villages under the guidance and supervision of our able staff members. The students have been issued certificates by our organisation for their participation.

OTHER EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

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Workshop on Dissertation writing Field Work by the students

FINANCES

The expenses incurred in the January-‐June period of 2014 are presented below:

31%

15% 15%

0% 7%

5%

9%

3% 15%

0%

Expenditure in January-‐June period Health Programme (OPD + 2 Mobiles + 1 NEW MOBILE)

Shechen Medical Centre (Out PaKent Department)

Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps

New Mobile Clinic for extended OperaKonal Area and Nyingma Medical Camp EducaKon

Environment Programme

Social Programme

Programme Support (Need Based Training and Capacity Building for Staff) AdministraKon, transportaKon and funcKoning

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Programs in Jharkhand including a Mushroom training for tribal communities in July at Musaboni Block

Mobile Clinics in selected villages in East Singhbhum and Saraikela Kharswan from August / September

Baseline Survey in the chosen operational areas in Jharkhand Vocational training for women from disadvantaged communities in Bihar including

Mushroom cultivation, Rakhi making and paper bag making Yoga training for interested youths from disadvantaged communities in July Installation of Sanitary napkin vending machines and Incinerators in schools and colleges in

Gaya district Electric Auto-‐rickshaws will be driven by female drivers from our clinic to the main road.

This initiative aims at women empowerment, environment-‐friendly communication and promotion of social awareness-‐related programs.

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