7/29/2019 Community ITC
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CommunityFostering The Well-Being Of Communities
All aspects of sustainability are intrinsic to the scope of our
business. Farming process and practice is inherently
dependent on the availability and health of natural resources.
The well-being of communities turns on the economic and
ecological vigour of the region. These indispensable linkages
give our stake in sustainability a vital immediacy.Citizen
First is the guiding principle of a comprehensive strategy that
encompasses three key areas: farm productivity,
management of natural resources and empowerment of
communities.
Human Resource Development
Women and children are the core assets of a familys well - being
and future - they are also those most in need of
assistance. Our community initiatives are principally targeted
at the women and children of our partner communities.
Strengthening the economic power of women has powerful
incremental social benefits contributing to better nutrition,
health and education for their children and improving the
quality of life in their communities.
Children are vital to the prospects of every community and they
have the largest stake in sustained prosperity. We have
chosen to focus on strengthening existing public school
infrastructure, increasing school - going and completion of
schooleducation aimed at expanding employment frontiers in rural
communities.
Womens Empowerment
Helping to build family incomes and assets, women are emerging
as a positive force for social change and community
based enterprise. Women are motivated to form Self Help Groups
that operate micro-credit societies that enable them to
build up small saving and finance self-employment and small
businesses. ILTD supports local NGOs and provides seed
money as an initial corpus, built upon by monthly contributions
from members of the thrift groups.
The thrift funds serve as a critical fall-back cushion and are
used to finance loans for a wide variety of income generating
activities such as leasing land for small plot cultivation and
livestock for selling milk, marketing of dry fish, pickle
making,
tailoring and for starting small shops.
In a step towards improving public hygiene and enhancing social
dignity, womens groups are leading a drive to build
family owned sanitary units. ILTD subsidizes the cost of
building materials for these units, with contributions from the
user family, and in some areas, additional subsidies from the
State government.
Mother child health programmes with regular visits by health
workers and a comprehensive immunization and nutrition
programme ensure protection against deficiency and disease.
School & Supplementary Education
Bringing critical mass to rural education boosting enrolment and
completion, upgrading school infrastructure.
Strengthening existing educational infrastructure is the most
effective way to ensure successful and widespread
delivery.Improving amenities and adding to facilities in the local
schooling system enhances core community assets and is a
significant factor in motivating children to complete their
schooling. Providing classroom furniture and fixtures, making
available slates and books, arranging for drinking water and
water tanks, building classrooms and toilets school-going is
made more enjoyable and productive for thousands of
children.
As a much needed ancillary support for school education, we work
with NGOs to set up Supplementary Education
Centres which provide off-classroom teaching for school-going
children, to maximize enrolment and minimize dropouts
from the school system. Educated local youth are employed as
tutors to provide coaching and general knowledge
