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Towards Self-reliance

Oct 23, 2020

The Madrani Watershed Development Fund (WDF) project is being implemented by IGSSS with the support of NABARD in six villages of Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh. It is a six-year plan and focuses on voluntary community labour or Shramdaan as it is called in Hindi that...

Tackling Malnutrition in Rural India

Sep 25, 2020

Malnutrition is an ongoing disaster our country. And when a disaster hit us, the community needs to come together to abate it and take care of their peers. Hence, with malnutrition too, community must come together towards ending it by whatever small means they can....

Haunting Malnutrition Crisis in India

Sep 18, 2020

India is staring at an acute malnutrition crisis. It can be attributed to the fatigued health structures, food availability, and the haunting high status of malnutrition. To add to the woes economic crisis created by COVID-19 pandemic has completely made the status...

Project CLAD: Building community resilience towards Drought

Aug 28, 2020

“Drought is a big challenge in our village. The information on rainfall pattern and availability will be very useful to us. Earlier we didn’t have such information and had to suffer huge losses because of crop failure. I as a Climate Change Volunteer feel very happy...

ग्राम विकास समिति: ग्रामीणों को महत्वपूर्ण सहायता प्रणाली

Aug 28, 2020

गोविंदपुर गांव झारखंड में रामगढ़ जिले के गोला ब्लॉक के नवाडीह पंचायत का हिस्सा है। यह एक आदिवासी बहुल गाँव है। इस गाँव के 2 पड़ाव हैं: समनपुर और घाघराजारा। SCIAF के सहयोग से IGSSS गोविंदपुर में 2017 से PAVE परियोजना को लागू कर रहा है। कुल मिलाकर गाँव में 124 परिवार...

Village Development Committees: A Vital Support System to the Villagers

Aug 28, 2020

IGSSS began its humanitarian journey not merely as a charity. It aimed to make the communities self-dependent. We consciously evolved and continued exploring for ways to maximize the impact, empower the communities to take charge of their own lives, enable them and...

Happy Pride Month!

Jun 12, 2020

Sex and Gender. We often have been using them interchangeably in our daily lives. However, these two words, in terms of meanings, are related but different. Sex is a biological categorization based primarily on reproductive potential, whereas gender is the social...

Seed Balls Promoting Bio-Diversity

Jun 12, 2020

Seed Balls are enabling the community to restore Nature and the Environment. We live in times when biodiverse species and trees have become endangered commodities. While policy changes are crucial to bringing about sustainable change, the villagers in Kansil Village...

Our response to Cyclone Amphan

May 29, 2020

On 16 May 2020 India and Bangladesh faced a crisis within a crisis. A super cyclone formed in the Bay of Bengal, first of its kind after 1999. It was named Amphan (pronounced Um-Pan), a name given by Thailand which is a member of World Meteorological...

IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SMALL FARMERS AND DAILY WAGE EARNERS

May 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to grave implications on the small farmers and daily wage earners. The first two phase lockdown of a nation of 1.3 billion people has impacted extremely severe on the lives as well as the livelihood of the people in our operational...