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“The disaster in the year 2004 brought sorrows and opportunities for development in my life” says
Mr. V. Ramachandran, aged 38, living along with his wife Ms. R.Kala and two childrens in Gounder Street of Naluvedapathy village (South) in Thalainairu block of Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Both of his children are under going school education. Fishing was the major income generating activity and farming in 11 cents of land, supplements income to fulfil the basic needs.
Continue reading Livelihood shift from marine fishing to agriculture
Introduction
It started raining during June 2009, so farmers sowed various crops but rain was not sufficient for agriculture and the people suffered a lot, government declared as drought affected area. People were facing drinking water problem and fodder shortage for animals. There were no employment opportunities to those men and women who relied on agricultural works due to extreme drought. Even government declared the district as drought affected area. Many people were migrating to the other metropolitan cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Solpur, and Pune in the search of livelihood options. In this situation, Government has initiated NREG works at all villages to help those who can work, to avoid the people migration to other cities. Press coverage of Indian Express dated Oct 6th 2009 says, “The flood damage across the command areas of the Krishna, Ghataprabha and the Tungabhadra rivers in north Karnataka has been blamed partly on the failure of irrigations projects where secondary and tertiary canal works remain incomplete. Though late in the day for the kharif crop, the rainfall that has created a flood situation in large parts of the Southern Peninsula has been over 80 per cent above normal after the official monsoon ended on September 30.”
Continue reading Humane Trust, Madurai gives flood relief fund
“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take five cents in your hand and say, ‘Here, my poor man,’ but be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.”
- Swami Vivekananda1
- Presented below in three little boxes is the abstract of the case on Ramaiah from Punganur – taken during three different points of time. Box item 1 taken in 2002 – a year after Ramaiah has constructed his farm pond, the second in 2003 and the third one in 2009.
- Read through the three featured box items and we will meet again.
Continue reading Success of a success story
South Asian Fund Raising Group (SAFRG) is an NGO with the mission to provide state of the art resource mobilization capacity building for fundraisers and community organizations. They are building fundraising capacity in South Asia since 1989 through their training programmes. One of such training was Certificate course on fund raising and communication. The venue was New Delhi and the duration of the course was between 8th and 30th July 2010.
Continue reading Certificate course on fund raising and communication
Prelude
I have been working has a block integrator of Palamedu Vattara Kalanjiam, a federation of women SHGs, for the past four years. Palamedu Vattara Kalanjiam is located in Palamedu town panchayat, Alanganallur (block), Vadipatti taluk of Madurai district. The federation is a 16 year old federation, which works to improve the life of women members and their family using microfinance as a tool. Empowering women, promoting rural health and hygiene and generating livelihood opportunities for them, educational support to their children to improve their socio-economic and political situation is the focus of the program. Currently we are working with 3,000 rural families in 24 panchayats and 42 villages.
Continue reading Kutladampatti waterfalls- Ideal spot for ecotourism
Survival and economic income of human being is decided by the availability of water resource, which is finite. The tanks established by our ancestors, still standing as a backbone of agriculture, are the only source of fresh water for the entire communities in the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. Presently most of the water bodies are in deteriorated condition. The impact is visible in terms of women walking far distance to collect water, farmer purchasing water to irrigate land and drinking water purchased from shops and private sellers. In the absence of community management, the link between the humans and the water bodies are detached.
Continue reading Recognition for addressing water issues
Kalanjiam Development Financial Services (KDFS), is a Not-for-Profit company promoted under the aegis of DHAN Foundation, combined with the efforts of the peoples’ organizations to ensure timely and adequate credit for the Kalanjiams (SHGs) and Microfinance Groups (MFGs) The motto of KDFS is to ‘bridge the gap’. That means to fill up the gap in credit availability to the poor from the main stream bankers. The legal structure, it is incorporated under section 25 of the Companies Act 1956 as a guarantee company for public charitable purpose on 19th September 2001. A section 25 company can be a company limited by guarantee or a company limited by share capital or both.
Continue reading Growth of KDFS into a company limited by share capital
Type www.dhan.org
Press Enter…
Opens a starchy white background with DHAN’s logo and name in the middle of the page and series of menus help navigate through the web, pops up.
This is the newly-changed website of DHAN Foundation welcoming you…
Continue reading DHAN’s digital face
Pudhupattinam Kalanjia Meenavar Sangam (KMS) is an association of 42 fishing families, involved in traditional method of fishing, in Pudhupattinam village of Ramnad district, Tamil Nadu. The association is functioning with a mission focusing on village development, fisher folk welfare and conservation of marine resources. It is a community owned pro-poor organisation lead by fisher folks, nominated by the members. The association procures fish directly from its members to market it to the bulk buyers for enhancing the livelihood income of poor and marginal fishing communities. Further it also encourages eco-friendly activities that are harmless to the local resources. The association is financially and administratively sustainable. The KMS’s is having its office in the shore and it has employed two individuals mainly to record its transaction and weigh the fishes harvested by the members and non members.
Continue reading Institution for marine resource conservation
India is rich in natural resources. India has wide range of traditional village based industries like pottery, coir, apiary, metal or wood carving. In order to regenerate the traditional industries; Government of India has launched the Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) for development of around 100 clusters from khadi, village and coir with a total plan outlay of Rs. 97.25 crores. The objective of the scheme is to provide assistance for replacement of production equipment, setting up of common facility centres (CFC), product development, quality improvement, improved marketing, training and capacity building.
Continue reading Experience of SFURTI, Periyakulam Coir Cluster
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