SWERA
Our Projects
Pre-school and Nutrition Project
SWERA is running pre-school centres in five villages of Ajmer and Kekri districts for the deprived children. These villages lack anganwadi centres and the project makes a humble effort to provide pre-school education and nutrition to the deprived children in the villages. An instructor imparts pre-school education to the children who are also provided supplementary nutrition.
Activities
- Running of pre-school education centres
- Pre-school education
- Nutrition
- Ration kit distribution
The project is benefitting 150 children in five villages.
Funder: Jiv Daya Foundation
Environment Project
This project is targeted at ensuring benefits of natural resources to tribals in Sirohi district. The tribals are being mobilised in 30 villages through awareness generation and advocacy.
Context
The project area is near Mount Abu, a well-known tourist location, but around it there is a significant population of Garasiya tribe which has remained underdeveloped for centuries. These are forest dwellers and due to certain policy glitches, they have not been able to get their land title as a result of which their development is very slow. It is interesting to note that in the neighbouring state of Gujarat, there have been many tribal villages where tribals have received such land titles, but here due to bureaucratic inefficiency and political lethargy, the people have remained devoid of such rights. Because they do not have land title, these villages remain aloof from the mainstream development interventions like elementary education, primary health, and such basic services. Providing such basic rights is the immediate need of the villagers.
Activities
- Block level launch workshop
- Community meetings
- Awareness drives
- Convergence workshop with forest and district administration
- Workshops with forest rights committees
Target Group
Garasiya tribals, nearly 6,000 families
NABARD Supported Projects
In both the projects, Joint Liability Groups of women are formed, small savings are promoted, groups are linked with groups and efforts are made to promote livelihood among them. Apart from loans from banks for livelihood, entrepreneurship promotion training and exposure visits are organised. Several women have started their micro enterprises and started livelihood activities, mainly rearing of Sirohi breed of goats
Activities
- Formation of joint liability groups
- Linkages with banks for credit
- Livelihood training
- Exposure visits
- Starting of income generation and small enterprise
- Goat rearing training and business
Beneficiaries
Villages: 20, groups: 100, membership: 500, linkages with groups: 100, total bank loan: Rs 1 crore (10 million), livelihood training: 300 women
Funder
NABARD