MOTHERMOTHER

ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13

Executive Summary

“None of my previous work-ing organizations shown interest in personality devel-opment of its employees like this; MOTHER stands unique in this matter” said a new staff.

Yes, the year 2012-13 had been vision building year for MOTHER.

With regular activities we looked back on our strengths, achievements and set up vision for 2013 to 2018 keeping our aim in mind.

Meanwhile motivated all the employees to have their own five years action plan for family and or-ganization.

The trained staff conduct-ing vision building train-ings for community based organizations also.

We are grateful to the Kollegal team of MYRADA for building our capacity in such a way to plan an action plan for next five years.

PROGRAMS

Community Development

261 animals treated against common dis-eases,8933 for parasites and 630 for foot and mouth disease.

Conducted Food and Nutri-tion training for 72 women in Rangasamudra of Pava-gada Taluk. women are aware about value added food items and pregnancy food etc. Introduced Kitchen garden-ing for 400 families. Issued seeds and seedlings for daily usage. The aim was to incorporate vegetables and greens in their daily food. It has been successful..

Eye checkup camps : Organ-ized 9 eye checkup camps associating with Sankara Eye hospital. A total of 764 members eye operations at free of cost from the hospi-tal.

HEALTH AND HYGIENE : CBOS UNDER MOTHER

Self Help Groups : 468

SHG cluster groups :10

Federations :02

Executive committee :22

Tank user groups :70

Area groups :109

Common Interest groups :50

Women interest groups :58

Neighborhood groups :2000

GP level committees :36

Farmer clubs : 18

13 more families con-structed sanitary units with the TP and Project support. A total of 405 sanitary units constructed since begin-ning.

Conducted Supplementary nutritional food product survey for selected 120 members (pregnant, ado-lescents and Mother’s of 1-3 year old kids) of Hiriyur Taluk. Distributed 6 types of nutritious food items and recorded their feedback.

Most liked items were bin-daas bites, chaco fills .

Animal Health care : Peo-ple rushed with their do-mestic animals for animal health camps held in 7 vil-lages of Hiriyur Taluk with the assistance of Veterinary Department.

Citrus under Kitchen garden

CAPACITY BUILDING OF STAFF : Focused on improving staff capability for having self monitored sustained CBOs after completion of projects.

Three days training on SHG, Federations, functioning of CBOs and leadership skills etc for all the staff at MYRADA, Holalkere.

Two staff attended 4 days NABYUKTi software and accounts maintenance in micro finance and Federations training organized by BIRD at Bangalore.

Team Leaders participated for 5 days Federation and Co-operatives’ formation training organized by BIRD at Madhurai.

All the staff of MOTHER obtained 3 days Vision Building training at MYRADA, Odeyarpalya. Reviewed personal and organization strengths, achievements and built vision for next 5 years.

Along with Cooperative members, 3 staff participated in 4 days exposure on Co-operative functioning, roles and responsibilities , fund raising etc at Dhruva, Lachchakadi.

A staff, attended 10 days TOT on organizing awareness generation camps for rural women organized by Social welfare Department at Ease, Mandya.

COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING :

Farmers from 10 taluks and Distirct co-ordinator complimented the activi-ties done under Organic farming in Balenahally village during experience sharing workshop

After agri allied activities training under Organic farm-ing, farmers have purchased 66 honey bee keeping units with 50% contribution. And 6 farmers have 2200 fishes weighing 300-500 gm each. To encourage the farmers more about bee keeping again 2 trainings organized

A farmer of Balenahally, installed bio gas unit after training on Renew-able energy from Sri Srinivas, ZP, Tumkur.

Smt.Usha, Soil test centre, Tumkur imparted training to enhance the knowledge of organic farmers on soil and water test and how to select suitable crops.

For ef-f ec t iv e running of self h e l p groups,

oriented all the SHG members in Hiriyur & Pavagada taluk villages. As a result 6 cluster groups are formed and pro-ceeding for federation forma-tion under souharda Act.

PG members ex-posed to Srinivasa-pura to have more knowledge on WADI maintenance.

Madakari CLC members are confident after ex-posure to Dhruva, Guja-rath regarding CLC role in management of horti-culture orchards.

Farmers knowledge on organic farming practices and its benefits increased after 2 experience sharing programs under WDF project.

Conducted 12 trainings on gender issues and pancha-yat raj for 144 members. Gender equity, role of PRIs, women participation in decision making, girl child rights, power of grama sab-has were explained by Mr.Veeranna, Resource person.

Conducted 16 trainings on Social issues and credit plus activities. Total 238 members participated. Members understood Social evils, laws for pro-tection, SHGs, credit activities etc .

Conducted 4 vision building trainings for 4 SHGs. It strengthened the SHGs and now SHGs are having their own plan of action for next years focusing

economic improvement of all the members .

Books and credit mainte-nance improved in the SHGs after the training on book keeping for 10 SHGs.

Conducted 12 mobile Integrated pest and dis-ease management train-ings. Mr.Murali, Resoure Person, visited lands and suggested the medi-cines for pest and diseases in neem, mango, sapota, coconut, lime , ground nut etc

Explained the importance of trees. Distributed 1100 seedlings during celebra-tion of 2 green festivals.

Conducted SHG train-ings for 177 members and food and nutri-tion trainings for 72 members under TDF project.

WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT :

Women opinioned that MOTHER and RIDF Sujala project are showing us route for success. They said it during International women’s day celebration and revolving fund distribution pro-gram on 16th July. Under RIDF Sujala watershed Project Honable Sri D Sud-hakar, MLA distributed Rs.1960000/- to 70 SHGs as revolving fund for in-come generating activities.

EMPLOYMENT CREATION IN THE YEAR Mandays : 8000 & total 799638 Self employment : 291 & total 5343

Formation of women owned coopera-tive society in Hiriyur Taluk is under progress. Promoters named it as Ak-kamahadevi Souharda Coop Society. 50 groups have been divided into 3 cluster groups and collected Rs.175000/- initial share amount. Pro-moters are enthusiastic to register it under Souharda Act. Support for Landless women : Sup-ported 45 landless and distressed women under WDF Project in Sira Ta-luk. Grant support given for Black-smith, Buffalo, sheep, liquid blue, petty shop, hotel business and cloth business activities.

Women’s Day : Explained legal sup-ports for women in case of physical harassment, mental harassment and in family problems and addressed about health and hygiene during two celebrations. And distributed trunks for 17 self help groups.

Sustainable Livelihood :

PRESENT BENEFICIARIES Women : 6000 No. Families : 3225 No. SC : 609 Families ST : 1498 Families Others : 1000 families Minorities : 118 families

MICRO FINANCE : Small loans for SHGs for big changes since 2009. The aim is to strengthen the group concept and build capacity. Total 105 groups have got loan support with minimum float interest rate. Loan after loan for the same group for targeted financial stability is the strategy. This year loan given for 32 SHGs.

REVOLVING FUND : In order to en-courage women to be in organized manner revolving fund is planned for SHGs. This year total 72 SHGs are sup-ported through Rs.3520000/-.

ORCHARD DEVELOPMENT : A total of 1335 acre covered under orchard development out of which 885 acre is yield at present. Where orchards are not survived there loan support is given for other income generating ac-tivities. 154 farmers have supported through loan for animal husbandry.

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY : Aim is to create self employment to the rural poor . This year total 80 cow, 43 buf-falo, 68 sheep units are done under the program.

TURNING POINTS :

Lakshmidevamma, a small farmer owning 3 acre land earning Rs.18000/- per month through cow rearing. In addition purchased 2 sheeps and drilled borewell to her Mango orchard. Now she is a self employer and ex-press her gratitude to MOTHER and TDF Project. Sharadamma, a landless women who was suffering from health problem due to full day laboring for Rs.100; now earning Rs.120 to 150 per day from sitting in her petty shop. Under MOTHER micro finance she took Rs.10000/- and from SHG Rs.10000/- and opened a petty shop. Her health is good now.

Fodder Development : Distributed Kho1 & Kho2 fodder varieties to 70 farmers under Sujala II RIDF project. It resulted in sufficient green fodder availability for livestock and increase in milk yield. Other farmers have pur-chased and planted on their own cost motivating by the impact. Basanna S/o Sannappa, was cultivat-ing red gram once in a year. No tree base farming earlier. Under WDF pro-ject he got support and now his one acre land is filled with 6 ft height 40 mango trees, 180 teak plants on b u n d s . Next year he is ex-pecting 10 kg fruits from each plant.

Total Area covered

Watershed : 23400 ha

Orchard : 1335 acre

Organic farming : 520 acre

Tank rehabilitation : 69 tanks

Watershed Development TURNING POINTS : Sri Chinnaru, Patrehally says now I understood why should we take advice from specialists. I insisted the MOTHER staff to put trench cum bund along the slope. After serious discussions I accepted the concept of Sujala RIDF Project and put the bund against the slope. I am happy to see the result. during flow of Vani vilasa dam’s back water, my land’s trenches were full of water and there was moisture for a month.

Sri Venkatesh, Vaddanahally says—We also wanted to do soil conservation activities, but we could not offer that much invest-ment. By GODs grace Sujala II RIDF project commenced here. We all benefited through soil and water conservation, horticul-ture programs. Farmers were panic due to less rains. But MOTHER has formed women groups and trained them regard-ing additional income activities and supporting through micro finance. And now the women are going to form their own co-operative for further developments. We are grateful to the Pro-ject and MOTHER.

Sri Krishnappa, Bangarihatti says—This is for the first time my 3 acre dry land yielded 15Q Foxtail millet. Prior to this I was getting only 9Q. Increase in yield is because of soil and water con-servation activities such as Farm pond, trench cum bund and waste weirs under WDF project.

COMMON LAND DE-VELOPMENT : 38 mem-bers earned Rs.4.3 lakh from 4 months work in common land develop-ment. Formed 800 mts of waste weir, CDs ,LBS and RFCs. Utilized the amount for loan clearing ,house repaired, children educa-tions and to purchase house hold assets like TV etc .

SOIL AND WATER CON-SERVATION : This year a total of 90463.19 cum trench cum bund, 642 waste weirs were formed to conserve soil and wa-ter. Soil erosion is re-duced and yield in-creased as impact.

BIOMASS DEVELOP-MENT : This year a total of 19359 plants added to the previous 1100640 plants. Survival rate is 70%.

Sustainable Agriculture

ORGANIC AGRICUL-TURE : Organic certified 500 acre farmers are practicing organic cultiva-tion for red gram, millets, coconut, areca nut, vege-tables, fruits etc.

BEE KEEPING : To have increased yield and pure honey 66 bee keeping boxes are maintaining by organic farmers.

DEMONSTRATIONS : Demonstration on bee keeping conducted in 2 villages. As a result one village has decided to take it as additional in-come generating activit

TREE BASED FARMING : Farm-ers are following tree based farm-ing in 1335 acre area.

Marketing and Linkage

Sri Mahadevappa, Balenahally , Says—Addition of honey bee keeping to organic farming has resulted in 20% yield increase of areca nut and coconut. In addition I got 4 kg honey in 34 days. Now we are consuming pure honey and plan-ning to sale in future. Organic farming pro-ject made our village chemical free.

EXHIBITIONS : Exhib-ited organic and fruit pro-duces in 3 days Interna-tional organic fair , one week Pattanayakanahally gurugunda brahmesh-wara exhibition, 2 days Vatsalya mela and in local exhibitions to obtain and expand marketing link-ages.

NETWORKS ESTAB-LISHED : Series of ef-forts resulted in estab-lishment of network with Sahaja Samruddha, Arya Farm, Phala Agro, Jaivik Krishi Society, Nisarga Naturals, Green link, Sathvik organic, Hop-coms, ITC, ST corpora-tion, Vrundavan etc.

International Organic fair at Palace Ground, Bangalore

Exhibition in fair at Pattanaya-kahally

MEMBERSHIP & NETWORKS :

FEVORD –K Net work

Give India network

Guide Star India network

Propoor network

CACLK net work

District level childlabour Com-mittee member

Credibility Alliance

SALE OF ORGANIC PRO-DUCES : Facilitated for sale of 330 Q Finger millet, 17.3 Q Red gram, 13.5 Q Fox tail millet, 2.7 Q Born-yard millet, 2.6 Q ground nut, 1Q onion, horse gram 4.7Q, 2.5 Q chana etc from Bhumimitra organic com-mittee. Total earning from sale is Rs. 7.82 lakh.

SALE OF HONEY : Facili-tated for sale of 19 Kg pure honey from Vigneshwara Organic committee.

SALE OF HORTICULTURE PRODUCES : Facilitated for sale of 7 Ton Mango and 4 Ton Sapota (Chikku) from Madakari Producers Organization.

Convergence in the year

Collaborating & Secondary Institutions 1. Madakari Producers Organization, Rangasamudra Pavagada : A farmer level asso-

ciation registered under Souharda Act, which is serving for rural farmers for market-ing of their produces and providing financial support for income generating activi-ties. Turnover is Rs.30 lakh.

2. Grama Sanjeevini, Sira : To support in procurement and marketing.

3. Dharthi Foundation, Sira : A trust to support MOTHER for various environment re-lated programs.

4. Akkamahadevi sowharda Co-op, Hiriyur : Women SHG Federation for sustainability of women self help groups.

5. Bhumimitra Savayava Krishi Sthala Samiti, Sira : A farmer level society for support-ing and marketing of organic produces.

6. Sri Vigneshwara Savayava Krishi Sthala Samiti, Sira : A farmer level society for sup-porting and marketing of organic produces.

OUR GRATITUDES TO -

Women development Corporation, Bangaluru

NABARD, Bengaluru

UNICEF, Hyderabad

Women and child devp dept Bengaluru

Watershed Devp Dept, Bengaluru

Jalasamvardhana Yojana Sangha, Bangaluru

Department of Agriculture, Tumkur

St’ Jhon’s Research Institution,Bengaluru.

Vayugrid Marketplace Services Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

TERI Bengaluru

Biomass development for rural India, Bengaluru

Multiplex Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

Department of Police, Sira

Central Social Welfare Board, Delhi

Social Welfare Board, Bengaluru

V-Shesh, Chennai

MYRADA, Odeyarapalya

Sankara Eye Hospital, Bengaluru

Monitoring and Evaluations

Monitoring visit of TDF project done by Sri Ranjith Kumar on 28th &29th Nov. He suggested to build the capacity of CLC for sustainability of the project.

Visit done by DWDO, Chi-tradurga to RIDF project. Dis-tributed revolving fund cheque and opinioned IGA is good.

Monitoring visit to RIDF IGA done by District Resource Group. They expressed that MOTHER is doing good by pro-viding financial support to women.

2 Monitoring visits of Organic project done by Smt Kavitha.She gave information on biodigester and indigenous cow.

Sira Taluk ADH visited organic village and explained about bee keeping.

Sri Veeranna, ADA visited or-ganic village, appreciated the quality of programs and sug-gested to keep the same.

Sri S M Subramanya, NABARD consultant, suggested to speed up the activities and improve co-ordination with VWC .

1. Mobilized 12 borewells for Pavagada from ST Corporation.

2. Mobilized 13 toilet program for Pavagada from ZP, Tumkur.

3. Mobilized 750 fodder seeds packs for Hiriyur farmers from Veterinary department, Hiriyur.

Sri Shashidhar Sira ADH visited organic village

Sri Ranjith Kumar NABARD AGM visited

TDF project

Multipurpose Organization for Training, Health, Education and Rehabilitation (MOTHER) is a voluntary organization working on rural development activities. MOTHER believes that rural commu-nity can develop meaningfully only if environmental sustainability and social equity are guaranteed. So, its activities are focused to ensure conservation of soil and water, alternative forms of liveli-hoods and development, assisting local people in empowering themselves to manage their natural resources and social aspects.

VISION

“Empowerment of Rural poor, by improving their livelihood through various interventions in cost effec-

tive and sustainable manner”.

MISSION

MOTHER Mission is to create opportunities of self employment in rural poor

Build appropriate innovative local level institutions to improve the quality of life in disadvantaged section and ensure sustainable liveli-hood through natural resource management and build net work and linkages with developmental institutions.

Strengthen the social morals and justice in the community.

Influence the public policy in support of the poor.

Phone: 91 8135 277372 Fax: 91 8135 276523

mobile : 91 9900250016 E-mail: ngomother@rediffmail.com

MOTHER

Registered & operating from : Jyothinagara, Sira - 572137 Tumkur District Karnataka, INDIA

Registered under the KSR act 1960,

Regn No. SOC 1/95-96

FCRA Regn No. 0984540056

12 A Regn No. 12 AA(b) No.T-261/ 92/ 12A / CIT/ DVG/ 2002-03

STAFF DETAILS

No. of staff worked in the year

Male : 17

Female : 05

Consultants : 03

Resource persons : 12

Hearty gratitude to all the persons for their efforts and dedication to achieve the goals.

INCOME AND EXP. FOR THE YEAR

Income : 5900659.00

Expenditure : 4249991.00

Auditors : Vishwanath, CA, Tumkur

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sri.Nagaraju K - President

Sri.S.H.Veerabhaskar - Secretary

Sri.Nagaraju.P - Treasurer

Sri.Satyanarayana G - Director

Smt.Bhagya.S.M - Director

Smt.Manjula.P - Director

Sri.Eshwarachandra.S - Director

Smt.Kamalakshi.V - Director

Smt. Radhamani S - Director

Dr.C C Pawate - Member

Sri.Basavaraju - Member

Dr.Narasimha Prasadam - Member

Sri. Kumar D - Member

Sri Guruswamy H - Member

FOOT PRINTS:

Tumkur District

Chitradurga District

Dharwad District

Bangalore Rural District.

BRANCHES :

Adivala, Hiriyur Taluk, Chitradurga District, Karnataka

Rangasamudra, Pavagada Taluk, Tukur District, Karnataka

Hunasekatte, Sira Taluk, Tumkur District, Karnataka.

Kesturu, Doddaballapura Taluk, Bangalore Rural District.

Mugubala, Hosakote Taluk, Bangalore Rural District.

Sri.Anil Kumar a farmer of Adivala

The MOTHER should had implemented the project 10 years early...my 12 acre land which was considered as waste, has converted into fertile land due to RIDF Sujala Project’s Soil and water conserva-tion activities. Now expecting good yield in Ragi cultivated in 12 acre.

Sri Gopalappa, Doddenahally

I am a marginal farmer with 1.2 acre dry land. Under TDF pro-ject I planted 20 mango, 20 sapota & 400 forestry seed-lings. Now along with horticul-ture yield and I am earning from forestry also. This time I sold forestry plants cuttings worth of Rs.8500/-and using leaves as green manure. TDF project focused on allround de-velopment of farmers through orchard and IGA pro-grams.

Sri T.Prakash S/o Thimmarayappa, Balenahally

I felt happy when Organic program entered our village. Because I believe Mother earth. Even a feed of 15 tractor load manure (worth of Rs.60000) made 2 acre areca nut plant leaves yellowish and nuts were breaking. I was dis-turbed. Under organic program I attended all the trainings and exposures. Now I am a model farmer with bio-digester, jeevamrutha, liquid manure, local cows, azolla, honey bee keeping, japan model composting etc. I am feeding liquid manure obtaining from biodigester for my areca nut plantation. Very important to say is now Rs.60000/- is saved and leaves remained green and breaking of nuts reduced. Organic farming is showing a new way to my agriculture life.

Smt Gowramma, Katanaya-kanahally

I planted 20 Mango, 20 sapota & 20 Coconut seed-lings under Sujala RIDF Pro-ject. MOTHER staff guided me about maintenance. But all my struggles in feeding water went in vain, because of severe drought. Only 18 coconut and 1 sapota sur-vived. I have not lose the hope, I will plant again in my own cost.

Sri Subbarayappa, Doddena-hally

We laughed when orchard development under TDF project explained by MOTHER. Today it has created wonders with dry land horticulture. Last year I earned 2500 Rs from 500 kg mango yield and this year Rs.1800 from 150 kg sapota yield and expecting good yield in mango. Hope to get more in future.

Smt Thayamma, Balenahally

I am getting 4 quintal vermin compost 3 months once. I am feeding the same to areca nut planta-tion since 11/2 years. Now my plants are green and soil structure has been changed. Soil is so smooth and getting good yield also. And earth worms are every-where in my orchard. Hence I decided to sale vermin com-post in future.

Sri Nagaraju B, Jogaiahnapalya

Ours is a joint family with 60 acre land. Salughattenala WDF project is a

beautiful project with employ-ment creation and women de-

velopment activities. Entire area is covered by soil and wa-

ter conservation activities. Im-pact can be seen through increased

yield and we are expecting increase in ground water level.

Sri Tataramaiah, Hunasekatte

Soil fertility has been increased after imple-mentation of soil and water conservation activities. My land is yielding 1.5 Q Jowar in place of 0.5 Q, 1Q channa yield in-creased to 2 Q. Water holding capacity is also improved. This is all because of Salughatte Nala WDF project.