Excerpt from Development Matters [Feb 2008 Issue]…
“DHAN works for the community, mainly the poor community. When we say poor community, it is the bottom of the pyramid, which is the poorest of the poor. We started working in rural areas and then moved to urban poverty and also to the coastal and tribal areas. These are the four different contexts in which we operate. We are secular, and we have a special focus only on class- the economically poor”
-M. P. Vasimalai, Executive Director, DHAN Foundation
Regular dissemination of guidance and guidelines from the respective thematic programme offices and DHAN central office aids in mainstreaming the groups at their functional levels, subsequently ensuring the sustainablity of the federations and regions.
11 Board of Directors undergoing capacity building training on INSTITUTION BUILDING in Kalburgi location on 4 September 2020.
Experiential sharing from the sustainable groups to the new groups necessitates the much-needed nested mutuality leading to building the philosophy ‘Vasudhaika Kutumbakam’. Equipping the members, leaders and BoD members with new skillset is a continuous practice across all the federations.Monthly meetings across the nested institutions are organized to ensure the practice of SoMaHa not only for the members, but also for their families. When the ‘new normal’ became the nation’s norm during the unlock phase, members and leaders were oriented in the group meetings to ensure the preventive measures at their workplaces. Conventional and virtual modes of creating awareness to reach the last mile across the regions has been ensured since the institution’s coping phase.
Capacity Building…
46 members across 3 Kalanjiam groups at Jewargi location were trained on accounts keeping at the group level
-Kalburgi region, Karnataka
SoMaHa Continues…
421 members were given SoMaHa awareness during the group meetings l
-Koraput region, Odisha
People institutions are the platforms where members’ get-together beyond caste and creed and help themselves and the co-members to move out of poverty. Members (S1, S2 and S3 categories; F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5 categories) will be categorized beforehand a member joins in the community organization. This information within the organisation enables the other members, the socio-economic needs of the respective member. During the inception of the community organization, most of the members falls into S1 (survival) and few in S2 (subsistence); among any of the category from F1 (Family with newly married couple) to F5 (Family with only the aged couple). The aim of the community organization is to graduate all the members to S3 (self-employment) level and move out of poverty, consequently ensuring the sustainability of the community organisation.
On 11th September, health claims have been distributed to 25 members, with a worth of Rs. 1,32,949/-
-Ramanagara region, Karnataka
1300 members have been enrolled in Life Insurance membership in Semiliguda location.
-Koraput region, Odisha
In September, 582 masks were stitched by kalanjiam members and adolescent girl groups; the masks weresold among kalanjiam members with subsidized prizes
-Koraput region,Orrisa
Sustainable People institutions in turn focus on extending their support to new, budding community organizations at the respective functional levels. The sustainable organizations also start integrating the other thematic interventions DHAN is working viz., water resources, health, insurance, education, millets, rainfed farming and panchayat. Practice of democracy, sitting together and taking decisions, across all the functional groups of the community organizations ensures the much needed independency of each and every functional group at their respective levels.
12th September, workshop on SUHAM integration with community banking and health insurance to the field staff
-Ramanagara region, Karnataka
Mask Wearing Awareness at a group meeting in Bannur federation, Mysore
Girl practicing embroidering post-training session…
Financially backwards girls in the federation were identified and they’ve been given skill building training for self-employment
- Bannur federation, Mysore region, Karnataka
