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People for Progress in India (PPI) -‐ 2014 Annual Report
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Welcome to PPI’s 2014 annual report! Dear Friends, In our 37th year, we are pleased to show you the variety of projects we are supporting to promote small-‐scale development, economic independence, environmental improvement, and public health. Our ten new projects and nine continuing projects range from vocational training and promotion of tribal art to sustainable farming and horticulture, and we are continuing our emphasis on ecological development through tree plantations. A particular focus at this time is the production and deployment of biosand water filters, an effective and low-‐cost technology for purifying water. Our involvement in this area began in 2009, when we funded a demonstration project in Tamil Nadu. Its success prompted us to urge some of our other partner organizations to promote the use of these filters. As a result, we initiated several biosand filter projects in 2012 and 2013 with organizations in Karnataka and Rajasthan, and this year we are also casting a wider net by participating in a project involving multiple organizations all over India. As availability of uncontaminated drinking water is a critical issue, we are proud we are playing a part in the improvement of public health in India by promoting the widespread use of these filters. We are very grateful for your continued financial support. However, at this time our most critical need is your participation. You can help review projects, make site visits, and assist with routine tasks. We are a 100% volunteer organization without paid staff, and a very small core group does most of the work. We urge you to contact us if you are interested in helping out! Sincerely, PPI Volunteer Team
Water before and after filtration through biosand is beautiful to behold. (See Sangam Project # 5 below) PPI's Vision We envision an India without extreme poverty, where people can live healthy self-‐reliant lives in a clean environment, and where their essential needs are met through sustainable economic activity. PPI's Mission To bring positive socio-‐economic change to the underprivileged, marginalized, and exploited sectors of India by promoting self-‐reliance and providing seed-‐money for development projects. PPI's Goals To fund programs which have the potential to become self-‐sustaining and make people self-‐reliant, and to encourage new ideas involving people’s participation.
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Ten New Projects Are Off to a Good Start with Your Support
Project #1: Young women receive tailoring training in Muzaffarpur. 1) Vocational Training for Poor Women Aakansha Seva Sadan; Muzaffarpur, Bihar Contact: Ms. Bandana Sharma January 2014 – January 2017 Budget: Total: Rs. 550,250; 2014: Rs. 206,350 The goal of this project is to provide 6-‐month training programs in embroidery, tailoring, and beautician work to 270 poor women and adolescent girls (90 for each skill) in the Muzaffarpur area. The first 6-‐month programs, with 15 trainees each, were completed at the end of August. Aakansha Seva Sadan will assist the trainees in finding employment or obtaining startup funds for self-‐employment. 2) Handloom Weaving and Silk Spinning Bihar Educational Development Society; Gaya, Bihar Contact: Mr. J.K. Palit April 2014 – April 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 329,000; 2014: Rs. 163,000 Over a period of two years, this project will train 40 people in handloom weaving and designing and 40 people in silk spinning. Both training programs will last 6 months and will be given to groups of 10 people each. The beneficiaries will be unemployed youths from backward castes. In the second year BEDS will provide further training in entrepreneurship and establishing a production center.
3) Addition to Bridge School for Orphans Vikasana; Tarikere, Karnataka Contact: Mr. Varghees Cleatas April 2014 – December 2014 Budget: Rs. 482,000 We are helping to fund an addition to the children’s living quarters at Vikasana’s bridge school for orphans and other disadvantaged children, in order to comply with new requirements for the separation of boys’ and girls’ quarters. The addition is now under construction, and they expect it to be ready for use by the end of the year.
Building Futures for Orphaned Children
Vikasana Orphanage extension (Project #3) above, and roof repair at Pragathi below (Project 8)
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Project #4: Some 770 trees are being nurtured by schoolchildren in several Karnataka villages. 4) School Plantings and Environmental Education Chinthana Foundation; Ajjampura, Karnataka Contact: Mr. G. Channappa June 2014 – June 2017 Budget: Total: Rs. 336,800; 2014: Rs. 168,600 Continuing our support of Chinthana Foundation’s environmental improvement projects, we have begun a new project for students and teachers at three primary schools in remote villages to develop plantations of useful trees on community land near the schools and to establish kitchen gardens at the schools. This will involve training in environmental awareness as well as practical horticulture. So far, after preparing the land and holding an environmental awareness program for the children, they have planted 770 trees, developed kitchen gardens at each school, and dug 75 percolation pits for water conservation.
Project #5: An activator demonstrates how biosand filters improve water quality and health. 5) Biosand Water Filters: All India Sangam Charitable Trust; Muzaffarpur, Bihar Contact: Mr. Sushil Kumar July 2014 – July 2015 Budget: Rs. 492,000 In cooperation with Friendly Water for the World, Sangam Charitable Trust is undertaking a project to manufacture and distribute steel molds and toolkits for making biosand water filters to 22 NGOs all over India, with the aim of putting this effective and low-‐cost technology into widespread use. PPI has been vigorously encouraging the use of biosand filters (see Projects #11, #12, and #13 below), and we are assisting this wider effort by funding the molds, toolkits, and administrative costs for 12 of the more needy NGOs. Some of the filters are already in use, and the users are reporting health benefits such as a drastic reduction in gastrointestinal and skin problems.
Projects #5: Steel molds for biosand filters are manufactured for distribution to other NGOs.
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6) Livelihood Development Centre Kherwadi Social Welfare Association; Mumbai Contact: Mr. Suresh Lulla July 2014 – July 2017 Budget: Total: Rs. 660,000; 2014: Rs. 220,000 Through their Yuva Parivartan program, KSWA is establishing Livelihood Development Centers in backward areas throughout India to provide short-‐term employment-‐oriented courses for unemployed youth. We are providing funding to support the training of 44 youths per year for 3 years at their recently established center in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. We are pleased to note that KSWA is one of the winners of the ICICI Foundation and CNBC TV18’s recently announced Inclusive India Awards. 7) Crèche for Children of Sex Workers All Bengal Women’s Union; Kolkata Contact: Ms. Amita Sen July 2014 – July 2015 Budget: Rs. 306,000 This crèche is part of ABWU’s comprehensive efforts to better the lives of sex workers in Kolkata and their families. It will provide non-‐formal education and meals to 75 children with the objective of equipping them to enter mainstream schools. We are providing one year’s funding with a possibility of renewal to help the crèche become established. 8) Repair of Tribal Orphanage Building Pragathi; Mysore, Karnataka Contact: Mr. B. Sharanappa September 2014 – June 2015 Budget: Rs. 385,500 During the last monsoon, the Pragathi orphanage for tribal children developed serious leaks. PPI has provided funds to repair and improve the roof of the building, which was built in part from a PPI project in 2009-‐2012, “Low cost housing construction,” to train youth from tribal villages near Mysore. (See photo on page 2.)
Project #9: Farmers of the Warli tribe prepare the soil for organic vegetables. 9) Sustainable Farming Project Extension Dr. M.L. Dhawale Memorial Homeopathic Institute; Thane, Maharashtra Contact: Ms. Ujjwala Pendse October 2014 – October 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 251,000; 2014: Rs. 122,000 Our three-‐year sustainable farming project for tribal farmers with MLDMHI (Project #20 below) was completed in June. We are now funding an extension of the project to address some new priorities: soil improvement and seed conservation practices, establishment of a demonstration/training plot, assuring sustainable marketing, and strengthening the leadership of the farmers’ group. 10) Improving Livelihoods of Storm-‐Affected Farmers Childright; Bhubaneswar, Odisha Contact: Mr. Tapan Padhi October 2014 – March 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 402,000; 2014: Rs. 346,000 This project is targeted at small farmers in coastal areas affected by recent cyclones. It aims to improve the stability of their livelihood (now mostly dependent on rice cultivation) by training them to diversify into dairy farming and vegetable gardening and providing some startup materials for these activities. Marketing will be arranged through Childright’s Rural Produce Outlet, whose establishment we helped fund a few years ago.
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Continuing Projects:
A Low-‐Cost, Low-‐Tech Solution for Clean-‐Water Problems Tree-‐planting by Schoolchildren –Good Ideas Spread!
Biosand Water Filters All over India
Project #13: Gravis youth filter water from their “tanka” through their new biosand filter. The following three projects represent the commitments of three of our longtime partner organizations to manufacture and distribute biosand filters to provide purified drinking water cheaply and reliably. 11) Biosand Water Filters: Vikasana Vikasana; Tarikere, Karnataka Contact: Mr. Varghees Cleatas April 2012 -‐ April 2015 Budget: Total: Rs. 780,515; 2014: Rs. 243,895
12) Biosand Water Filters: Chinthana Chinthana Foundation; Ajjampura, Karnataka Contact: Mr. G. Channappa April 2013 – April 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 679,500; 2014: Rs. 205,500
13) Biosand Water Filters: GRAVIS GRAVIS; Jodhpur, Rajasthan Contact: Dr. Prakash Tyagi April 2013 – April 2015 Budget: Total: Rs. 500,900; 2014: Rs. 243,650
The Vikasana project, now in its final year, has produced 133 filters that are now in use in three villages of western Karnataka. After the first successful year, Vikasana in turn assisted the Chinthana Foundation to start their own biosand filters project, which has made 65 filters so far and deployed them in three other Karnataka villages. At the same time, GRAVIS began its project in two villages in the Thar Desert of western Rajasthan, where potable water is in especially short supply; they now have at least 48 filters in operation. All three of these projects have involved intensive efforts to educate the beneficiaries in the use of the filters and related health and sanitation issues. The beneficiaries are reporting significant health improvements, and other individuals and organizations nearby are becoming interested in obtaining filters for their own use.
Tree-‐Planting by Village Schoolchildren
Projects #14 & 15: Trees are planted and nurtured by Schoolchildren (see Page 6, Greening of Villages)
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Greening of Villages Tree by Tree
Projects # 4, 14, 15. Tree-‐planting catches on. It all started with the “100 trees per child” idea in one illage school. Now the idea is spreading… 14) Tree Plantation Maintenance: Chinthana Chinthana Foundation; Ajjampura, Karnataka Contact: Mr. G. Channappa August 2012 -‐ August 2015
Budget: Total: Rs. 207,500; 2014: Rs. 15,000
15) Tree Plantation Maintenance: Vikasana Vikasana; Tarikere, Karnataka Contact: Mr. Varghees Cleatas April 2013 – April 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 210,900; 2014: Rs. 70,300 Tree planting is a good idea that has sent out new shoots. These two projects are continuations of earlier projects to establish plantations of useful species of forest trees such as teak and neem, and fruit trees such as sapota and mango. Besides providing harvestable materials, the objectives are to improve the use of degraded land and educate the villagers in horticulture and ecological issues. In the case of Chinthana Foundation, the plantations were established near schools whose students and teachers have been heavily involved. In both cases, because of drought conditions, an additional period of continuing care – watering in the dry season, weeding and mulching, etc. – has been found necessary, and this is what we are now funding. The efforts have been successful: both projects are reporting survival rates of more than 90%. We are now starting a new project along these lines with the Chinthana Foundation (Project #4).
Other Worthwhile Continuing Projects
Project #16: She is now earning a livelihood through poultry farming. 16) Women Farmer Livelihood Development Baikuntahapur Tarun Sangha; Baikunthapur, West Bengal Contact: Mr. Sushanta Giri July 2013 – July 2016 Budget: Total Rs. 527,000; 2014: Rs. 162,000 This is a three-‐year project to improve the life-‐status of vulnerable women and their families in villages in the Sundarban Reserve forest areas of the Bengal delta. In the first year they have organized 5 women’s self-‐help groups with 30 women each, provided startup support for them, and given the women training in goat, duck, and poultry raising methods. In addition, they held a conference on sustainability and cooperation with government agencies.
17) Disabled Youth Training Akhil Gramin Yuva Vikas Samiti; Muzaffarpur, Bihar Contact: Mr. Subodh Kumar Pandey October 2013 – December 2015 Budget: Total: Rs. 305,300; 2014: Rs. 149,300 This project aims to promote economic independence of 60 physically disabled of the depressed caste. The plan is to train 26 young women in tailoring in the first year, and to train 34 young men in mobile phone repairing in the second year, with two six-‐month training programs in each year. They have completed the training of the first batch of 13 women; all of them passed the course, and 11 are now self-‐employed with bank loans. They are also conducting workshops and meetings to promote self-‐sufficiency and link the trainees to government assistance schemes.
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Project #18: A quilting session in progress 18) Anchal Project New Light, Kolkata, West Bengal Contact: Ms. Urmi Basu October 2012 – October 2015 Budget: Total: Rs. 735,750; 2014: Rs. 240,000 New Light has completed two years of their program to provide gainful employment to women exiting the sex trade. Ten women from the first year are continuing with the project, producing cotton hand-‐embroidered kanthas (blankets or quilts) and scarves. This requires considerable skill and concentration, which caused some of the women initially involved to drop out but those who stayed were given intense counseling by the New Light team and are now producing crafts of excellent quality. This spring, fifteen women from Bharatpur (Murshidabad District) joined the project and were given 3 months training before starting to produce marketable items. New Light reports, “their love for this activity is a great gift to us.” The range of products has been expanded to include raw material for upholstery and garments, curtains, and cushion covers.
19) Warli Art Revival Enhances Incomes Dr. M.L. Dhawale Memorial Trust (MLDMT), Thane, Maharashtra Contact: Ms. Ujjwala Pendse October 2013 – October 2016 Budget: Total: Rs. 1,085,000; 2014: Rs. 290,000 The first year of this art project has been “a great learning experience for us,” report both Sunil Chavan and Sayli Walke of the Warli Art Project of MLDMT. They have been able to “implement a realistic production system, catering to market demands with superior product quality.” They have introduced new products and designs and set up additional sales channels. They are now seeking to tap export markets. Seven artists are working full time for livelihood. Their monthly earnings have gone up from Rs. 2500 to Rs. 8000 in the space of this year. Sales have also increased from Rs. 175,000 to Rs. 600,000 annually. However, production and marketing costs continue to exceed revenues. The MLDMT Warli Art Project is the first in the area to be set up as a micro enterprise. Sunil adds: “It is an experiment that can have significant implications for preserving this ancient traditional art form while simultaneously providing livelihoods for artisans.” One of the inspiring activities of the group was a series of training workshops for students of a nearby school. These workshops have been enthusiastically received.
Project #19: Warli art workshop engages school boys in a traditional activity.
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Projects Complete: But Work Goes On… 20) Sustainable Farming with Tribal Farmers Dr. M.L. Dhawale Memorial Homeopathic Institute (MLDMHI); Thane, Maharashtra Contact: Ms. Ujjwala Pendse July 2011 – June 2014 Budget: Total: Rs. 820,000 The broad goal of this three-‐year project was to promote ecologically sustainable and economically viable farming on small land plots, and to improve nutrition and economic security for the farm families. Among the more specific achievements are the following: improved irrigation facilities, substantial improvements in yields of rice and certain vegetables, diversification of crops to include more vegetables and pulses, and building capacity to make bio-‐fertilizers and bio-‐pesticides. Sale of the new vegetable crops has resulted in a substantial increase in the farmers’ income. In addition, 18 of the marginal tribal farmers involved have made a commitment to the exclusive use of organic methods, even though awareness of organic methods in the area is generally very low. As more work needs to be done to assure a sustainable marketing system and to strengthen the farmers’ organization, we are now funding an extension of the work (Project #9 above). 21) Education of Stone Quarry Children Institute of Research and Development for the Rural Poor; Chennai, Tamil Nadu Contact: Dr. Irudayasamy January 2012 – December 2014 Budget: Total: Rs. 641,520; 2014: Rs. 213,840
Project #21: Children of quarry workers go to school.
IRDRP works in three stone quarry units near Chennai. Children working in quarries and brick kilns have been provided with opportunities for schooling, supportive education, recreation and counseling. More than 100 children have participated in these programs. Recently, IRDRP has organized programs in spoken English, computer skills, and other subjects with the help of some volunteers from France. IRDRP continues to make progress in keeping the children enrolled in classes, distributing support materials, conducting health and life-‐skill camps, and mainstreaming the children into regular schools.
Project #22 Solar Panels heat water for KHI hospital 22) Solar Water Heating Karnatak Health Institute, Ghataprabha, Karnataka Contact: Dr. Ghanashyam Vaidya April 2012 -‐ October 2014 Budget: Total: Rs. 286,400; 2014: 143,200 KHI has now completed the installation of solar water heaters for their hospital complex with our funding. In the earlier phase of the project they installed solar units for the maternity ward and the community kitchen. This year they installed a 500-‐liter unit for the working women’s hostel and a 300-‐liter unit for the student nurses’ hostel. These units provide hot water in an eco-‐friendly way with minimal running and maintenance expenses.
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Project #23: Two women in rural Jharkhand display their hand-‐woven straw mats for sale. 23) Grassroots SHG Development & Micro-‐financing Jagriti Vihara, Ranchi, Jharkhand Contact: Mr. Rajesh Prashant January 2012 – December 2014 Budget-‐ Total: Rs. 644,000; 2014: Rs. 215,000 Jagriti Vihara is completing the final year of a project to create self-‐help groups (SHGs) and provide vocational training to the tribal community in rural Jharkhand. Women's SHGs have been trained in pickle and dry food making, tailoring, and making palm-‐leaf plates and mats, and men's SHGs have been trained in pottery making. In addition, both men and women's groups have been trained in making candles and soaps. The demand for all these products is good, so it is expected that the trainees will be able to earn a livelihood after completing the training.
Project #23: A Jharkhand potter at work.
24) Improved Agricultural Practices Haritika; Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh Contact: Mr. Avani Mohan Singh January 2013 -‐ January 2014 Budget: Rs. 219,600 Last year we agreed to three years of support for a large five-‐year agricultural improvement project for two poor villages that is mostly funded by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in India. NABARD’s funding is to benefit tribal people; our contribution was to extend the activities to 40 non-‐tribal families. We provided the funds for the first year, but in spite of repeated requests, Haritika failed to provide us with a progress report that accounted for the use of our funds in any specific detail. We therefore reluctantly decided to terminate the project.
Site Visits to PPI Projects Pragathi, Vikasana, and Chinthana, Karnataka In January, Shimoga Srinath visited the Pragathi orphanage near Mysore (Project #8). He saw the completion of the two rooms, hallway, and washroom facilities that PPI and some individual donors funded last year. He also visited Vikasana and Chinthana Foundation in southwestern Karnataka, whose biosand filter projects (Projects #11 and #12) we are supporting. He says, “I saw the pride of ownership and care being given to maintain cleanliness of the filters.” He reports that interest in the filters is spreading; both Vikasana and Chinthana are receiving requests for filters from other organizations. Shim also visited the tree plantation at Channapura School that we funded earlier and whose maintenance we are still supporting (see Project #15. The trees are looking healthy and becoming well established. M.L. Dhawale Trust, Maharashtra In January, Shantha Benegal visited the Warli (tribal) art project (Project #19) of the M.L. Dhawale Trust near Mumbai. At that time the project was operating out of a small hut, in spite of which the artists produced varied products decorated with their charming traditional motifs -‐-‐ old women, musicians, dancers, farmers, babies, exotic birds, and animals. She also visited a handicrafts fair in Mumbai where the products were sold. She was also able to see the Warli farmers’ prosperous vegetable gardens whose establishment we had previously funded (Project #20).
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Special Project
Special Project Belaku: village workers prepare materials for a training class. Every year, special projects are funded from contributions raised by individuals. They must meet PPI's overall goals and requirements for selecting and funding projects. No PPI general funds are expended on them. We are happy to support such worthwhile schemes and the aim is to motivate and facilitate individuals to raise funds on their own to help worthy projects in India. This year we have one special project. Women's Health, Education and Training Belaku Trust, Bengaluru, Karnataka Contact: Dr. Saras Ganapathy Belaku Trust is focused on children’s education, women’s health, nutrition and vocational training in villages near Kanakapura, Karnataka. They have trained women of the villages to work with the children in the government preschool program and provide counseling for their families and for pregnant women. In particular, they are working to combat the problem of poor nutrition in early childhood, which remains widespread. The aim now is to increase community involvement and support for these programs and to build the ability of the local workers to take on more responsibility for management and planning. In addition, Belaku ran summer camps in the villages for more than a thousand children, which provided education on nutrition, hygiene, human rights, and the environment. On another front, Belaku reports that the three women’s income generation groups that they have mentored are
continuing to improve their skills and management abilities, and their profits have been steadily increasing. This year we sent Belaku Trust $18193.
Other News and Events Our meeting on July 15 was enriched by a special presentation by Dr. Vanaja Ramprasad on the work of the Genetic Resource, Ecology, Energy, and Nutrition (GREEN) Foundation based in Bangalore, of which she is a founding trustee. The GREEN Foundation has been working since 1996 to conserve indigenous crop plants and promote sustainable bio-‐diversity-‐based organic farming methods. Their efforts now involve over 2500 farmers in several districts of Karnataka.
2014 Annual PPI Fund Raising Event Our 2014 annual fundraiser, held on April 27, was a huge success. The featured speaker was Dr. Sonora Jha, formerly a journalist in India and now Professor of Communication at Seattle University. She read from her novel Foreign about farmer suicides in Maharashtra, and led an animated discussion about some of the social and financial issues that lead to them. We thank Dr. Jha for a very illuminating talk.
2015 Annual PPI Fund Raising Event Our 2015 annual fundraiser will be held on Sunday, April 26, 2015. More information will be available in the spring. Please save the date!
Treasurer's Report
These budget figures, as of November 21, 2014 are approximate. A precise and detailed financial report for 2014 will be available in early 2015. 2014 Income: $255 in membership dues, $75861 in general contributions (including net $18416 from the annual event), $180 in interest and $18248 in special contributions for Belaku Trust. 2014 Expenditures: $86,240 to PPI projects (not including special contributions), $1554 in operating expenses (printing, copying, wire, postage, insurance charges etc.) All the special contributions were sent as collected (minus wire charges).
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PPI Office Bearers
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Teacher and trainee prepare teaching tools for a crèche for at-‐risk children (Project #7, Page 4)
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Schoolgirls of a Warli tribal village paint traditional designs on greeting cards (See Page 7, Project #19)