July, 17 edition

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Ekta, New Janiguda, Rangabali Kumbha Road, Koraput (Odisha) Email: ektan@rediffmail.com, www.ekta.org.in

DAIMATI SANTA, 17 years old (Kandha) Tribal girl of Gamkapader village

of Kundra block in Koraput District is sharing her initiative towards stop

her Child Marriage at YMCA, Delhi during Release of Report on

Eliminating Child Marriage in India on 21st July, 2017. This program had

jointly organized by Actionaid, Beti Zindabad and Child Rights Focus.

Prominent film actress of Indian film Industry Ms. Sabana Azmi had

inaugurated the report in the program. Ms. Daimati shared how her

marriage was fixed by her family and how she was able to stop her

marriage with the support of Adivasi Ekta Sangathan (AES), Koraput. She

also shared how she is working to stop Child Marriage by forming

Adolescent girls group at her village level.

Volume: 17, Issue: 27, Month: July, 2017

Adolescent girls groups

meet

National level workshop on Eliminating Child Marriage

Advocacy meeting with Railway staffs at Railway Station, Koraput

Case intervention by the CHILDLINE 1098 TEAM

Open House Activity on Child Related issues

Nutritional Garden at SOUL project areas

Monthly Adolescent Girls Group Meeting has

been organized at AESS project areas where

PTL/WRA and Groups were presented. The

objective of this meeting was to develop

Leadership qualities and create awareness

about child marriage, girl child education,

violence against women and women Health.

The leaders will help to create others child

leaders for work on different child related

issues with them. Various methods were

applied during the meeting i.e. painting,

songs, dance, storytelling etc. to engage the

participants. End of the meeting, the groups

prepared a six month work plan for monitor

social developmental activities i.e. monitor

School MDM, re-admission of dropout

students, awareness to stop use of alcohol and

better sanitation.

One of the major activity of AESS Project is the collection

photos of Sponsorship Children. At present, 425 Sponsor

Children are under AESS project areas . The main objective

of this activity was to collect photos of sponsorship children

and make link between Sponsor and Child in AESS areas.

We have been collecting photos in every 2 year gaps but

from this year onwards, we have a mobile application for

collection of sponsor child photos every year which will be

uploaded in the related links. The idea of the activity is

retention of supporters who is supporting children . It helps

heartily link between supporter and the child who will see

their supporters every 2 year in photos to know the

condition and status of the child.

AESS: Adolescent Girls Group Meeting

Sponsorship Childs photographs

AESS

AESSAdivasiEktaSamanayaSasaktikaran

Livelihood and Climate Change Sustainable Option for Uplifting Livelihood (SOUL)

In the month of July, 2017, the project team members

have focused to develop a model of nutrition garden

in Pichudi and Minapai villages of Rayagada. The

objective behind the model was to promote

cultivation of nutritional plants in their kitchen

garden. The amount of nutritional foods in their food

basket is always less due to their practices and food

habit. Although, they produced varieties of nutritious

foods but they don’t consume it. This activity will

help them to create awareness on important of

nutritional food in human body and how one can

easily produce in their available lands and backyard

kitchen garden. In this context, the project team

members have selected farmers i.e. Bulka Mandangi

(Pichudi) and Birdi Miniaka (Jhumuka) for develop

model of Nutritional Garden in their farming lands.

In the demonstration lands, varieties of plants i.e.

papaya, drumstick, banana & other vegetables will be

grown and some samples of composts and pesticides

also prepared for both demonstration and uses.

Nutrition Garden

The Village Action Team members of Kurumunda

village of Kutuli Gram Panchayat (Rayagada) have

successfully mobilized fund of Rs 2 lakhs from

Panchayat Samiti for construction of rest shed near

their village. Anta Miniaka, member of Village Action

Team has received the work order and monitor the

whole construction work with the support of his fellow

VAT members. This activity helped them to act jointly

and inspired them to go forward in the coming days to

achieve their planned task jointly.

1 0 9 8 Childline 1098

In the month of July, 2017, the Childline team members have intervened 10 cases includes 1 medical, 5 shelters, 1

restoration and 3 other interventions and produced them before the Child Welfare Committee, Koraput. The team

members have successfully 160 phone tested during the outreach. Total 471 outreach hours have done in the field in

the reporting period including 81 Individual hours, 213 Small Groups and 177 Group hours.

Open House activity has been organized at High School, Dhamanahandi on dated 28th July, 2017. In the program,

participants were the children between the age of 14 to 16 years, parents, school teachers and school management

committee members. 100 participants were present during the program. The children were presented certain

important issues i.e. child marriage, child labour, road connectivity especially in rainy season during the open

house. At the end of the program, a collective plan has been developed and it has discussed to organize awareness

program on child marriage and child labour at village level. Similarly, the application will be given to the

concerned departments at GP and Block level to address the issues raised during the open house.

Sustainable Livelihood Initiative through Community Empowerment (SLICE) is one of the new projects at Ekta

which is focusing on two components of Promotion of Good Governance and Improving Food Security. Poverty

reduction through socio-economic and political emancipation of the socially excluded communities in Dasmantpur

Block, Koraput district of KBK region, Odisha State, India is the prime objective of the project. This project is

covering 2500 families in 52 villages of Gadiaguda and Mujanga Gram Panchayats of Dasmantpur block in Koraput

district.

The Project Indicators includes (1) 52 village/hamlet development committees, 2 Gram Panchayat Task Force

groups and a block level federation are in place and function well (2) 2500 socially excluded families will avail

government schemes and provisions (3) 1500 families have improved their food security at least 3 additional

months per year by better management of agricultural practices. This project is supported by Bread for the World

(BftW), German. The project has been interacted with villagers, PRIs and communities on implementation of project

and recruitment of staff in local project areas.

Sustainable Livelihood Initiative through Community Empowernment (SLICE)

TARGETED INTERVENTION

On dated 6th July 2017 Mrs. Laxmipriya Sahoo, Program Officer from TSU visited railway station,

Koraput and met with Senior Inspector Mr. Santosh Kumar Swain and other railway staffs. We

discussed them for organize a health camp for migrant people at railway station and asked for support

from them to organize the program. They have given assurance to provide necessary support to the

project staffs during implement of any activities in the railway station.

Advocacy program with Railway Staffs

This is the great opportunity for Ekta to going to

start Targeted Intervention Project for Female Sex

Workers at Nabarangpur District. Nabarangpur area

is being selected for high prevalence area for HIV

Positives. On dated 27th July, 2017 Project Manager,

Counselor and ORW of TI Project visited

Nabarangpur ICTC and ART Centre. They met with

Senior Medical Officer Mr. Sankarlal Jain, Mrs.

Mansi Behera (ICTC Counselor) and other staffs

where they discussed about the TI Project and

collected some areas of Hotspots and contact details.

Supervisory Visit of Surveillance Team

On dated 15thJuly 2017, Suverlliance Team Members Mr. Arun Kumar Padhi (ADMO PH, KORAPUT), Mr. Ganeswar Panda (DPM, DAPCU), Mr. Amitav Dash (State Epidemiologist OSACS) visited our sites and verified all HIV Sentinel Surveillance Documents.

Community Rehabilitation Centre (CRC)

The CRC team members have involved in Home Based Intervention, Therapeutic Intervention and making

linkages services in their project areas. They have given priority for documentation, preparing Individual

Rehabilitation Plan for Child with Disability (IRP), Target sheet for both short term and long term goal for Child

with Disability and develop Pediatric Assessment Format. The team members have also developed assistive

devices by using local resources.

Targeted Intervention Project Staffs

have taken initiative to organize

awareness program for students of

Tata Trust Vocational Training

Institute, Duruguda (Koraput) on

dated 28th July, 2017. The objective of

the training program was to create

awareness on HIV/AIDS among the

students. Different methodology

were applied i.e. game, quiz, group

discussion and presentation for

making active involvement of the

participants. In this program, 35

students ware participated.

Ekta Other Activities at

From 1st July to 31st July, 2017

Monthly staff review meeting of July, has been organized at Duruguda, Koraput on 8th August, 2017

District level Coordination meeting organized by SSEPD department for organize Mega Camp (Samajika Surakhya Mahostava) on dated 7th July, 2017. Mr. Avinash Sinha and Mr. Simanchal Reddy were participated on behalf of the organization.

Monthly ARTC Coordination meeting was held on 11th July, 2017 at ART Center conference hall in District Headquarters Hospital, Koraput and that was presided by Nodal officer (ADMO, Medical)Ms. BharatiMahapatra, Program Officer, TI project participated on behalf of Ekta.

. On 17th July, 2017, there was an interactive meeting with the KBK Administrator with the NGOs working in the district of Koraput to know what the NGOs have been doing in their operation pockets with the support from various departments of Government. It was a nice opportunity to share and show case the success stories of the organization with him. Mr. Jagannath Mishra, Secretary of the organization represented to the workshop.

On 17th July, 2017, A preparatory meeting on organization of Distirct Level Odisha Vikash

Conclave in Koraput District was held on 20th July, 2017 at COATS, Koraput. Mr. Jagannath

Mishra attended the meeting as a representative of the Organization. Ekta has been assigned

to facilitate the program on Health & Sanitation issues.

On 17th July, 2017, Mr. Arun Kumar Hial, Program Officer, Practical Action, Bhubaneswar visited Ekta for final evaluation of Project of ACCESS supported by them. All the project staffs includes the representative of Ekta had participated in the process.

On 17th July, 2017, Mr. Soujit Das of Indian Institution of Management, Calcutta visited two days to our organization to know more about the cook stoves and its impact on the people. He visited AGMU and Production Centre and interacted with the concerned to know more about the project and its impact. He also met with the users of cook stoves promoted by Ekta at the field levels and other hand, meeting with the members of AGMU for a possible partnership on a business mode in the coming days.

On 17th July, 2017, Mr. Prabhat Kumar Paikaray represented on behalf of AGMU for a possible partnership for the promotion and business of clean cook stove at Bengaluru on 29th July, 2017.

Editorial Team: Amit Kumar Nayak, Avinash Sinha, Bharati Mahapatra, Prabhat Kumar Paikaray and Sarita Dash Email: ektafortnight@gmail.com, Web Site: www.ekta.org.in