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Adivasi Chetna Shikshan Seva Samiti
Annual Report 2013-14
Subsequently, various capacity building interventions for women
improved their knowledge and made them friendly with banking
procedures. These members being the shareholders attend the Annual
General Meeting. Among these women, few members are looking after
the administration of the cooperative.
Core Activities
Micro financing (lending and repayment);
Saving account openings and provide banking facilities;
Capacity building of SHGs members through various trainings at villages;
Motivational Sessions for improving saving habits and get rid of debts;
Awareness on social rituals, women participation and women rights;
Networking with various government program and other agencies for benefits of members;
Key features
Membership fee of Rs. 110 which includes Equity share.
Loaning based on shareholdings viz. Maximum 10 times of the share holding.
Total SHG’s : 403
Total Members: approximately 2015 members.
Revolving fund : Rs. 10,55,500/-
Interest Rate 18% per annum reducing.
Accomplishments
Activities No. of Women Amount (in lakhs of Rupees)
Savings accounts
Loans
Share Capital
Total Working Capital
Surplus
150 SHGs were formed by
ACSSS with aim to
upliftment of socio economic
status of tribal women. Then
these groups transformed into
a Mahila Cooperative Bank.
Presently more than 2000
women members are
associated with the Bank.
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Women Empowerment leads development………
Amlifaliya is almost 8 kms from Jhabua and 1 km
from Ranapur Road. It has four hamlets. The village
doesn’t have road and to access drinking water, the
community need to cross sewage pipe (Nala). During
rainfall, the sewages are full and unable to access
drinking water as well as the children is unable to
attend school regularly. This was the major problem
which the villagers were facing. The problem was put
in notice of government officials and departments,
but did not showed fruitful result.
Amlifaliya, is under the PACS intervention area, the
animator made the community aware about
MNREGA Scheme. This village has 3 SHG’s with 36
members, they united and gave their application for
work under MNREGA scheme on 21st May 2013 to
Janpad Panchayat. Latter, they again submitted the application in “Jan Sunwai” to the collector Mrs.
Jayshree Kiyawat on 10th June 2013. The application had demand for work for 43 women for road
construction from “Kaladungar Hamlet to Mata Hamlet”. The efforts showed no result. On 4th
September 2014 the group along with community presented their problem in front of media.
With the continuous efforts and strong determination the group did not step back and was regularly
following up and on 30th June 2014 the community met the collector Mr. Chandreshekhar Borkar
and narrated their problems as well as the steps taken so far. On 2 July 2014, the animator enquired
about its status from the Panchayat secretary. The work of sanctioning was in process and once it is
approved from technical department, work of construction of road can be started.
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Improve Accessibility of health Services
2.3.1 Prevention of Silicosis
Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by commonly caused by inhaling free crystalline silica or
silica dust. This deadly scourge unleashed upon migrant labourers of Jhabua districts of Madhya Pradesh by
quartz crushing factories in neighbouring Gujarat. It is an incurable and irreversible respiratory disease that
may take from a few months to a few years to manifest itself. The labourers who work in these factories inhale
it for about 8-12 hours every day for a period of three months to a year.
According to the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), “quartz grinding is one of the deadliest
occupations causing exposure to almost 100% free silica leading to silicosis in a matter of few months.” In
Madhya Pradesh, it has assumed a class character: that of a disease almost exclusively affecting migrant
labourers. Further, it's a disease that kills not just individuals, but entire families.
In Jhabua, during non agriculture season, tribal community migrate towards Gujarat in search of labour work
and usually they get work in stone factories. In 2007, silicosis among migrant labourers were identified in
Jhabua , resulted in more death cases in 2010. The government look measures and identified 234 families of
2.3 Quality Health Services
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Jhabua and Meghnagar, and in support of health department arranged medical examination health and
confirmed/certified/marked 121 people to be silicosis victim.
In this context, ACSSS emphasised on awareness generation and medical health check up facilities for villages in their operational areas. To prevent this disease ACSSS conducted much health check up camps and made rigorous efforts to link them government schemes. This program has aim to support and mainstream silicosis affected Family ensuring livelihood and improve the education level of children as well.
Program Implementation Strategy
Accomplishments
Baseline survey conducted in ----villages and identified -----people suffered with silicosis.
Identified ----orphan children in ---villages and linked them to Chetna High School for further education.
Organized---vocational trainings for improving livelihood and benefitted….people.
Baseline Survey
Identification and Selection of
Orphan Children
Admission in School
Vocational training for
affected Family for livilihood generation
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2.3.2 Initiative towards TB free society - Akshaya ACSSS initiated Akshya (meaning TB free) project covering Jhabua and Rama blocks of Jhabua district with support of CBCI- CARD. The primary focus is to provide and improve accessibility TB medical services to vulnerable communities and tribal populations especially in remote and difficult geographically areas.
Key Features
Formation of Gaon Kalyan Samiti along with other community groups
Generation of awareness on TB through street plays/nukkad nataks, rallies, mike announcement, awareness
camps etc.
Capacity building of CBO’s and health care providers.
Collection of Sputum and send for testing.
Positive cases link to DOTS providers.
Identification of initial defaulters and default retrieval of patients who missed their doses.
Advocacy for rights of TB patients to avail required benefits
Accomplishments
ACSSS formed District TB forum which involved NGOs/CBOs representatives, cured TB patients, existing TB patient who are on TB treatment, dedicated DOT providers, retired teacher/Professors and media representatives. This forum has been advocating rights of the patients and also facilitating in networking with government schemes. Through the rigorous efforts of forum district health department started to provide nutritious food along with folic acid tablets to patients on regular basis.
Akshay Samvad, household survey was undertaken in Ranapur and Jhabua district which covered 5346
households.
During the year, total Gram Kalyan Meetings held was 129 with 1286 participants; 89 at Ranapur and 40 at
Jhabua.
S. No Particulars Ranapur Jhabua Total
1 Sputum collection & Transportation
135 80 183
2 Sputum Transport
103 48 183
3 Positive Cases 6 4 10
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Towards building educated society “All children will learn, grow and develop to realize their full potential” – is the mission of the sector which motivates ACSSS to ensure Rights of every children through education based intervention.
Chetna High School In order to promote education in the tribal area, ACSSS started Chetna High School at Garbada village (a tribal
village, Jhabua) in the year 1992. Since inception, school has been striving to provide quality education which
includes improved classroom teaching, sports facilities, advancement of student’s learning method, co-
curricular activities, career guidance etc. Presently more than 350 students (from 1st to 10th standards) are
gaining benefits from the school and facilitating them to get rid of becoming child labor or drop out due to
poverty.
Chetna High School is brightening the lives of poor and vulnerable children from the disadvantaged
community. School is not only providing quality education to children but also catering residential and food
facilities. These children are also benefitted with government scholarships.
2.4 Quality Education
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Balak Ashram (Boys Hostel): In the reported year, 175 students were enrolled in the boys hostel and received residential and food facilities
along with education.
Balika Ashram (Girls Hostel): Educating girl is one of the focused area of quality education thus 150 girls students motivated and enrolled in
girls hostel in the reporting year.
During the year, various sports activities and co curricular activities were carried out in the schools. Students
also participated in district level cultural programs and received prize.
ACSSS have been continuously exploiting various intensive interventions towards improving quality of
education and learning ability of children by giving quality inputs in an interesting manner through TLM, TLA
and interactive sessions.
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3. Institutional Development
3.1 Governance and Management ACSSS has an effective Governing Board as statutory body for management of the organization. It performs
the following functions:
Designing programme directions and strategies
Developing institutional policies for programmes, funds, HR/admin, etc
Reviewing organization’s performance (project wise)
Approving annual budgets and audits
Appointment of Board Members
During the year, board meetings held on- agm 30/9/ 2014 and board ------- for discussing various above
mentioned points. This year main agenda was organization development and resource mobilization to ensure
sustainable development. Now organization will have to focus on resource mobilization through identifying
new funding opportunities, strategy formation for fund raising, seek potential partnership for joint
interventions and overall management for organisation development.
Apart from board meetings, regular monitoring and guidance meetings have organized to streamline the
project as per the desired goal. This year total 10 review meetings were held through which required inputs and
directions were put to improve project performance.
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3.2 Capacity Building of Team
ACSSS has a dedicated and professionally qualified team and village volunteers to implement various projects
in operational areas towards achievement of the expected outcomes. To improve knowledge, skills and
working competencies, organization envisaged comprehensive training and capacity building program at grass
root and management level. In the reporting year, the following capacity building sessions and trainings were
carried out;
12 Capacity building sessions on communication, community mobilization, Participatory rural
appraisal and report writings were conducted in which total 22 staff members participated
Two workshops on Leadership, Project Planning, Budgeting and monitoring tools were held
for senior team members.
Sessions on emerging development issues and trends were conducted for village volunteers and
grass root level staff.
3.3 Community Stakeholders Management
The organisation has been working towards strengthening the community stakeholders ie the anganwadi
workers, elected body of the villages; Farmers group other powerful persons of the village so that they can as a
change agent. The organisation provides regular training to capacitate them to make the development
interventions sustainable.
3.4 Networking and Liaison
Regular liaison with various government departments and agencies viz. Health Department, MNREGA,
DRDA, Tribal Welfare Department, Agriculture and Watershed Departments etc. were undertaken by ACSSS
through monthly liaison meeting, program planning, joint interventions and knowledge sharing meetings.
3.5 Our Partners
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4. News and Events
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4.2 Accolades Events
The Director of the organisation, Mr. Benedict Damor receiving award ………
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5. Financial Overview
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6. Abbreviations
ACSSS Adivasi Chetna Shikshan Seva Samiti
CBCI- CARD Catholic Bishop’s conference of India Coalition For AIDS & Related Diseases
CBOs Community Based Organisation’s
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CMCB Chetana Mahila Cooperative Bank
DFID Department of International Development
DOTS Directly Observerd Treatment, Short course
DRDA Department of Rural Development
FRA Forest Rights Act
FVTRS Functional Vocational and Research Society
MNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
PACS Poorest Area Civil Society
SHG’s Self Help Groups
TB Tuberculosis
TLA Teaching Learning Aid
TLM Teaching Learning Material
NIOH National Institute of Occupational Health
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013-14
Adivasi Chetna Shikshan Seva Samiti
(ACSSS)
District Jhabua, M.P. - 457779
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