Covid-19 relief program at Odisha-Balasore

Dear Sir/Madam,
        It's a requisition to support for implementation of Public health awareness,prevention,public feeding and livelihood support to the people affected by Covid-19.

Respected Sir/Madam,
Sakha Seva Sangha is a voluntary organization registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 with the District Register Of Societies, with registration No. 9199-14 dated 30-05-2014.

The organization is involved in the implementation of various urban and rural development programs such as promotion of quality education for all, capacity building of SHG groups through various vocational training programs, promotion of traditional skills like rural artisan, empowerment of women through capacity building and awareness programs, health and awareness programs for school children, providing the sustainable livelihood to poor families in slums community, plantation programs involving school children,public health awareness,Community sanitation and hygiene,poverty alleviation programs etc. the organization is serving the rural and urban community since Six years.

We are submitting this Sample Project Proposal for Public health awareness,prevention,public feeding and livelihood support to the people affected by Covid-19.

Thematic Area

• Support for the Livelihood and essential daily needs of persons affected by COVID-19 (Others).
• Public Health awareness campaign for prevention of Covid-19
• Promotion of Online education to streamline the education process.

Salient Features of the project
1-To reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection in high-risk vulnerable populations
2-To provide livelihood support to people affected by COVID-19
3-To provide support to the poor people who do not have essential daily needs.
4-Providing support to migrant laborer’s and their family, those who do not have food to eat.
5-Providing support to poor people who don't have access to soaps, sanitizers and mask to safeguard themselves from COVID-19.
6-Providing livelihood support to poor people who have lost their daily wage work due to lockdown.
7-Providing support to poor people who don't have access to soaps, sanitizers and mask to safeguard themselves from COVID-19.
8-Promoting to WASH (Hand Wash, General health and hygiene, sanitation and cough etiquette).
9-Circulating correct information and addressing queries regarding COVID-19.
10-Awareness and prevention measures for COVID-19 in all blocks of Balasore district, odisha where we are already working.
11-To organize a health camp in community with following the norms of Social distancing.

• Who are direct beneficiaries with approx. number 
• Daily and migrated Laboure’s coming from different states and districts, Beggars, Small street vendors, weaker sections of society, farmer, unemployed youths, rural and urban community members of underprivileged society.
•  Numbers of beneficiaries-2000 beneficiaries
• Project Location
• Area-All blocks and subdivisions of BALASORE District, Odisha
• Ans-(12 Blocks and 2 subdivisions)
• Proposed project duration.
• Ans-14 months

The Organization helps many people to prosper in their lives and developing different skills so that every beneficiary associated with Sakha Seva Sangha stand independently. Rural people and drop outs children needs a very high level of motivation as they are under the impression that just by doing farming and other activities they get easy and sustainable income. We are trying to give as much as we can and help them to learn different things. The provision of education and vocational trainings is to serve as a valuable function in reducing the mismatch between the demand and supply of jobs, which is noticeable today. An additional class of 2 hours duration on spoken English is also imparted every week to enhance their personality especially for drop outs children. We have lots of experienced to implement various programs in public health awareness, community sanitation and awareness on preventive measures for various diseases including Covid-19.   Outcome 1. Reducing poverty through income generation. 2. Establishing of vocational & technical Centre to impart skill to the communities for sustainable livelihood with maintaining social distancing and following all the guidelines of covid-19. 3. Change of energy consumption pattern to an environment friendly practice. 4. Develop Online Vocational Training Centre etc. 5.To create awareness among community people related to health and hygiene and on preventive measures for various diseases including Covid-19 etc. 6.Instant relief and food support to the poor (Migrated laborers from other states and districts, baggers, old age, street children and other distress groups etc. Project Impact 01.To reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection in high-risk vulnerable populations 02.To provide livelihood support to people affected by COVID-03.To provide support to the poor people who do not have essential daily needs. 04.Providing support to migrant laborer’s and their family, those who do not have food to eat. 05.Providing support to poor people who don't have access to soaps, sanitizers and mask to safeguard themselves from COVID-19. 06.Providing livelihood support to poor people who have lost their daily wage work due to lockdown. 07.Providing support to poor people who don't have access to daily food materials, soaps, sanitizers and mask to safeguard themselves from COVID-19. 08.Promoting to WASH (Hand Wash, General health and hygiene, sanitation and cough etiquette). 09.Circulating correct information and addressing queries regarding COVID-19. 10.Awareness and prevention measures for COVID-19 in all blocks of Balasore district, odisha where we are already working. 11.To organize a health camp in community with following the norms of Social distancing. Brief description of the organization/agency Background of the organization:   Sakha Seva Sangha is a not-for-profit organization came into luminance on 30th of May 2014 in an endeavour to uplift the underserved class, prospecting them into the main stream of society. Finding its way through the minds of a handful of college youth, Sakha is now an altruistic family of intellectuals, social activists, thinkers and philanthropist, all committed to social service. Sakha is registered under Societies Act of 1860 and holds the certification from Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (an autonomous body of Ministry of Sports & Youth Affairs). We also registered with NGO Darpan. Details of projects ongoing/completed by the organization/agency in previous three years Sakha Seva Sangha Present, Projects and Locations PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN The present study on the issues of reforms in the Indian vocational training has been undertaken at a time when the country faces both opportunities and challenges in India’s growth story. While the opportunities are in terms of a demographic dividend, the challenges are posed by persisting skill gaps: hardly 2 per cent of the Indian workforce has formally acquired skills and another 2.4 per cent workers have some technical education. It is estimated that nearly 291 million workers are required to be skilled by 2022 if India is to be a leading manufacturing economy in the world. A drastic restructuring of the Indian vocational training has been suggested as one of the key conduits through which the persisting skills gaps could be plugged and inclusive growth could be pursued in the midst of a demographic and structural economic transformation.   The aim of the program is to make and nurture the village institution of Sakha Seva Sangha. And autonomous platform through which communities can take Responsibility This program was created as a result of limited capacity of pantheist effectively responds to the needs of the community, widely the fragmentation of community’s diversity of issues and lack of developmental approach at the village level. This program intends to create an environment where there are positive powers of cooperation transparency equity justice and responsible autonomy within the community help move forward towards the overall development of your villages. Village Development Fund has been created once for membership fee. After this, the fund grows as services are implemented in their villages supported by the temple through community contribution during various local development activities. As soon as the fund grows, a bank account is opened in the name of the village development fund. In order to increase the growth of the fund, a significant portion of A Fund is kept in Fixed Deposit Account. Financial resources play an important role in nurturing and enhancing financial skills among the villagers. Conversations with formal financial intermediaries like banks. The village development fund also binds villagers to discuss with each other in relation to the local, develops and creates a sense of self-autonomy among people. Regular training for GVC was organized to help them carry them out, with the aim of strengthening the training group, as well as the responsibility for the creation of more efficient and ethical societies in managing GVs and more commonly, people. Information about government schemes The knowledge of government schemes on the rural landscape is low; largely due to its lack of awareness, the official channel of bureaucracy and the absence of information. Sakha Seva Sangha provides training to the villagers so that they can be made more aware of various social welfare schemes which can potentially benefit those who are deprived and these training teach villagers about the benefits of various schemes, the official channel with which these schemes can be used, and eligibility criteria are being admitted. In the last few years, people have been trained and some of them are working to spread information about the government schemes to help the needy people to get the right benefits.       Women’s Employment Program:-   The women empowerment program attempts to create a more sex friendly society. It also uses a variety of strategies with special attention to women and youth, including other stakeholders such as men, panchayats and caste panchayats. Work done with women can be broadly classified into two categories, social and economic empowerment. These categories, while useful for management and presentation, have a large degree of overlap on the ground. The following sections describe. Social Employment: -   Work on social empowerment was done mainly with women groups, in which women are subscribed. Some of these groups have been contributed to the women resource center contributing to the formation of a Panchayat level association. The panchayat level associations continued with their regular meetings; 217 of their leaders participated in 9 training programs with the aim of improving their knowledge. Government Schemes:- To provide space for the voices of women who have continued the women resource center run by local women leaders and to act as a platform to help them solve their problems. Most domestic violence and difficulties in reaching government services are related. Gender sensitization of women, adolescent and caste Panchayat leaders, gender training was organized for girls, boys and 40 self-help groups. Coordination with caste panchayat leaders through joint training, joint meetings and public hearings As a result of these efforts, many caste panchayats have now started giving women placements in their meetings. Some have amended their advocacy to meet the norms of favoring more women and the poor, such as giving women the chance to personally reduce their expenses and expenses in death and marriage ceremonies. Special efforts were made for gender sensitization with the aim of youth in 30 communities. It included issue-based and vocational training involving training for Kishore, PLA, caste panchayat, and teacher participants, and many public programs and campaigns with almost joint participants. What is the monitoring mechanism for the project as far as project activities and benefits to the beneficiaries are concern? The Core Management staff namely project director and coordinator will implement this project by involving volunteers from community. We schedule the activity and complete within time bound. Every month review will be done to see the progress and any setbacks. Completed activity will be done physical verification. Quarterly monitoring visit will be done to ensure sustained growth and use. Every quarter progress report along with status of finance will be sent to agency. At the end of each year, a consolidated work report and financial statement will be sent to agency. All activity will be documented and made available to the people who come for monitoring. How sustainability of the project is planned to be ensured? The women are expected to acquire a strong sense of ownership of the program. The project will promote aspects of livelihoods, public health awareness on Covid-19, which is a sustainable approach. Financial sustainability of the program is to be enhancing by strategically intervening in the market linkages. The trained women would mobilize and gain access to resources, which hitherto were out of their reach like Govt. schemes, grants, services, banks loans, subsidies etc.