Success Stories

It was a hard summer last year. The rainfall was very less and all the ponds and wells went dry.

“It was a hard summer last year. The rainfall was very less and all the ponds and wells went dry. All the villagers and especially the women, who are the prime water carriers, had to travel miles to fetch water. Our legs would ache and get swollen from hours of...

Pathway

Disaster Risk Reduction

27-year-old Nagammal hurries down the cemented pathway of her village at Nathapettai. She has just completed her morning chores, sent her seven-year old son to the government school nearby and five year - old daughter to the balwadi (government-run child care centre);...

Breaking Stereotypes

Gender Programmes

By: Sohini Bhattacharjee, Officer Communications Story of Ramvilas and Gauri sowing seeds of Gender Fairness in remote Uttar Pradesh Braving the early morning rain, the two of them rushed to the small office of Gramin Vikas Prayas Samiti (GVPS), a local NGO in Mau...

Closed Tea Garden Workers Stand for Job Cards in Lok Adalat

Sustainable Livelihood

Reported By: Sukanya Chatterjee, Manager Programmes, Kolkata Jalpaiguri,West Bengal: The Red Bank Tea Estate has been closed for more than 10 years. The tea garden workers living in the lines face tremendous hardships in eking out a living. Periodic work under MGNREGA...

From the Pages of Humanitarian Relief in Assam – Story of Mukunda Saikia

Disaster Risk Reduction

Reported By: Northeast Team Lakhimpur, Assam: Misfortune always comes uninformed. Hell broke upon the people of Paschim Kharkati village under Telahi Block, Lakhimpur on the fateful night of 14th August 2014. When the people of Pashcim Kharkati were fast asleep, the...

Sevadayi’s Hotel – A Journey from Slum to Entrepreneurship

Urban Poverty

Written By: Proshin Ghosh, Sr. Programme Officer, Kolkata “We have set up a small hotel without taking any loan” said Sevadayi Mondal, from Tinbati Colony Slum. Siliguri, West Bengal: Sevadayi is around 60 year old. She is a domestic worker and finds it hard to...

Improved Practices Help Small Farmer Multiply Production

Sustainable Livelihood

Reported By: Sukanya Chatterjee, Manager Programmes, East Chattisgarh, Surguja: Semardih is a village in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh. It is inhabited by 329 Gond and Kanwar families. The entire area is hilly. The families subsist on rain fed agriculture. A...

A Collective Solution to Water Crisis

Urban Poverty

Reported By: Proshin Ghosh, Sr .Programme Officer, Kolkata Cuttack,Odisha: Members of around 157 families were suffering from cholera, diarrhoea, dengue, malaria and various gastroenteritis diseases continuously due to unavailability of potable water and unhygienic...

A Bridge to School in Assam

Disaster Risk Reduction

Lakhimpur, Assam: As we perspire in the sweltering Delhi weather, rain is wished for fervently. However, for every part of the country rain is not always part of the prayer. The villages, Borgoya and Paschim kharkati in Lakhimpur district Assam...

VAT mobilized MGNREGA Fund to Construct Farm Pond

Sustainable Livelihood

Reported By : EKTA, IGSSS Partner in Odisha “Now I am confident that we will able to do double cropping throughout the year,” Dhansi Mandangi, President of Village Action Team (VAT). Rayagada, Odisha: The story of Himarpodi village assumes significant importance...