Swanirvar's areas of work: Education, Youth & Culture, Health, Arsenic in Groundwater, Microfinance, Model building

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At Swanirvar, we have believed in holistic development of the community in order to make them self reliant. From the very beginning, we have worked in several areas simultaneously. Please click on the links above for a more detailed description of each individual area.

The latest (December 2005) scorecard on our performance in each area is highlighted below:

PRE-PRIMARY

PRIMARY

KKB

SHIKSHAMITRA

3-6 years

Year started: 1991

No. of schools: 14

Enrollment: 906

Graduated: 3130

NGOs  trained: 16

6-10 years

Year started: 1996

No. of schools: 4

Enrollment: 520

Graduated: N/A

NGOs  trained: 11

10-16 years

Year started: 1997

No. of centres: 7

Enrollment: 500

Graduated: N/A

NGOs  trained: 6

Kolkata experimental school & Education Resource Centre

Year started: 2005

No. of sections: 3

No. of students: 40

INTERVENTION IN GOVT. SCHOOLS

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

HEALTH

PANCHAYAT

Rakhi in govt.  primary schools: 2000

No. of govt. primary schools  (Rakhi and Sahitya Sabha)  in year 2005: 100

No. of govt. primary with intensive intervention in 2005: 30

No. of secondary schools where Swanirvar is taking classes from 2004: 2

Started: 1990

Current Villages: 27

Farmers Groups: 42

Farmers: 417

Model Farmers: 32

 SPECIAL “INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT”  DRIVE IN 2005

Area: ~3000 acres

Farmers: 1360

Started: 1990

Mother & Child Health Care: 4000 families in 11 villages

Smokeless Chulhas: 1640 in 14 villages

Very Low Cost Toilets: 1900

Cataract Operations: 190 in 3 years

Blood Donation Camps: 102 camps;  7280 donors: 8 years

ARSENIC IN DRINKING WATER

Arsenic Removal Plants: 29

Domestic Filters:  400 in 11 villages

Started dialogue with Bajitpur panchayat: 1999

Intensive institution building and planning experiment with Bajitpur GP: 2002-03

Coordinator of design team for West Bengal govt.’s 7 year programme for  strengthening rural decentralization: 2002-03

Activating a few GUS of the area: 2005

SELF HELP GROUPS &  MICROFINANCE

MAJOR FUNDING SOUCES

EXPENDITURES

WORKERS

Started: 1990

Villages: 58

Self Help Groups: 510

Women Members: 6,162

Savings: Rs. 61,60,000

Loans: Rs.5,14,00,000

District Technical Agency

Consultant to DRDC, North 24 Parganas for Capacity Building  under the SGSY programme

No. of Groups: ~6,000

No. of Blocks: 22

No. of Gram Panchayats: 200(?)

No. of Villages: 1599(?)

Govt. of India, Handicrafts Board

Govt. of India, MHRD

Govt. of West Bengal, PRDD

Child Relief & You

DRCSC (Christian Aid, UK)

CARE

AIIH&PH (ICEF)

UNICEF

SARIQ/AED

Share & Care Foundation, USA

LA Friends, USA

ASHA, USA

AID, USA

IFA, USA

FoS, UK

NLCB-Community Fund, UK

Hilden Trust, UK

Caritas, Milano, Italy

Indienhilfe e.V.  Herrsching/Germany

1989-90: 6,080

1990-91: 1,38,155

1991-92: 2,21,003

1992-93: 7,72,191

1993-94: 8,63,958

1994-95: 18,15,192

1995-96: 12,92,771

1996-97: 20,63,797

1997-98: 25,69,670

1998-99: 25,29,293

1999-00: 28,18,873

2000-01: 37,94,749

2001-02: 48,70,928

2002-03: 48,26,187

2003-04: 41,74,269

2004-05: 77,19,847

Pre-Primary: 32

Primary:15

KKB: 13

Shikshamitra: 5+5

Health: 8

Agriculture:15

Micro Finance: 9

District Technical Agency: 4

Admin + Training Centre: 6

TOTAL: 107 + 5

 

 

News Flash!

November 27, 2005

Ananda Bazar

Patrika

English Translation

(MS Word)

Bengali Op-Ed piece (PDF)

on SHIKSHAMITRA