Thursday, December 07, 2006

Update from Mathurapur, 3rd December 2006

by Sombodhi, AID Kolkata

We are currently focussing on the preventive part of healthcare..
In fact we have repeatedly observed that these rural villagers lack the basic awareness related to health and hygiene. So we are planning to launch massive awareness camps..
We will also be conducting health-related surveys to create a database for the villages for reference on our further works and projects...

We are also in talks to start off with a night school-vis a vis a Community Developement Centre which will work to create social awareness amongst people/work towards promoting primary education and also try and create different Self-Help Groups which will be working to promote employment generation for these people....

For employment generation activities we are focussing on teaching the people to make paper bags..in fact we are in the process of doing a market survey to identify what the market demands are and how we can cater to a small fraction of it..We have identified paper bags as its very easy to make and though the profit margin is low the market demand is huge and the supply is inadequate..Infact we not only plan at making simple thongas but also will be tryin to teach the villagers to make hardier paper bags which will carry more weight and can be used by various Super-marts/malls...

As have already been said over and over again we are in dire need of volunteers who can spare some time and effort/ideas which will help us do more work in a more efficient manner..All the plans we have outlined here are already in the implementation phase and we will be delighted if more people can come forward to help us...
we do need funds and volunteers to carry these projects through..so please come forward...

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