Mount Valley Development Association has recently partnered with the LIC HFL CSR to work in the field of holistic rural development. Where organization is aiming to work with 4000 right holders in 5 Gram Pancyat of Bhilangna district, TehriGarhwal, Uttarakhand.
The proposed villages require to have a dual approach including infrastructural development along with the behavioral change. There is a lack of basic infrastructure like toilets. Nearly, 20 percent households practice open defecation as they are financially incapable to construct it causing number health issues. On one hand where the communities need to be aware about the issues like quality education, WaSH, menstruation hygiene management, open defecation, climatic change on the other hand there is a need of infrastructural development as well like fencing walls to protect and promote agriculture, irrigation facilities, fodder development etc. Similarly, the schools of the proposed area have no accessibility to computer education. Also, there is an unavailability of quality education restricting the learning opportunities and basic knowledge of students
Perspective Development Training
Key objectives of the programme:
- To promote a holistic development of the area in terms of livelihood enhancement, education, community health, infrastructure development, water sanitation and hygiene and Natural Resource Management.
- To prevent distress migration from rural to urban areas by establishing agriculture as a sustainable livelihood alternative.
- To enhance income of farmers by 30% through conservation and encouragement of spice, millet, vegetables cultivation.
- To contribute towards social empowerment by engaging all sections of the community in the task of village development
- To improve the social status of women by their economic and political development
The project will be working on the following aspects to address the identified problems and reach the intervention objectives.
- Increase economic Independence and its sustainability
- Increase access to government schemes
- Gender Equity
- Women and Health
- Building resilience against Climate Change
- Awareness and accessibility to clean drinking water and sanitation
- Improving quality of education
- Building infrastructure to combat Human-Wildlife challenge
Animal Health Camp
Bal Panchayat
Training on WASH
Training with PRI Members
Training with SMC Members
