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Darjeeling Maryward Social Centre Annual Report – July 2010 – July 2011 7/30/2011

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Annual Report: DMWSC July 2010-June20 11 Pg 2

Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre

July 2010 – June 2011

Annual Report

Networks & Partners

• ABCD: All Bengal Collaborators for Development

• SANGAT: South Asian Network of Gender Activist and Trainers

• ATN: Anti Trafficking Network, Siliguri

• Legal Aid Forum, Siliguri

• CRI- Tea Commission

• Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace

• Domestic Workers Forum: Delhi & Mumbai

• Room To Read

• Boarder Security Force (BSF) committee for sexual harassment cases

• Don Bosco Vocational Training

• Child In Need Institute

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Organogram

Capacity Building

No Theme Month Resource Person Category

1 Project Writing & LFA July 2010 Caitlin Staff

Director

Sabrina Edwards

Adm & IG Manager Aman Subba

House keeper Babita Thapa

Driver

Karma Tamang

IG Supervisor

Jaya Tamang

Programme-Cood Binita Mothay

Supervisor

CV-Manju Toppo

3 Volunteers

Rangeela Turi

Jermina Ekka

Pratima Sharma

Supervisor

SM-Magaret Horro

4 Volunteers

Reena Toppo

Mariam Lakra

Ollin Indwar

Sandip Baraik

Project writing

Sheikha Basnet

Accounts

Arnold Lepcha

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2 Child Protection Dec 2010 Sr. Helen O’

Riordan

Binita

3 Child Protection Dec 2010 Sr. Sabrina &

Binita

All staff &

animators

4 Legal Awareness Jun/Jul/Aug Mr. Dey, HC

lawyer

All animators

Special Events of the Year

Children’s Day: 14th November 2010

No. of Children: 150 approx

Venue: Lohargarh Ground

It was for the first time Children day was being celebrated. Children were very excited

and happy and they started gathering before the schedule time. Children from four

schools gathered. A sports program was organized by the initiative of Lohargarh Steering

Committee and working committee of Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre. Biscuit race for

smaller children and running race for bigger children was organized. The program ended

with a Dance competition.

Mary Ward Celebration: 31st January2011

The celebration was on 31st January at the centre itself. DMWSC joined the Loreto Family

world wide on 28th January, 2011. This day is celebrated to remember Mary Ward’s life

and contribution to the church and the world. A small celebration was organized at the

centre. Project staffs from the field and friends were the guest.

Expo visit to Delhi: 18th-21st February 2011

In collaboration with Delhi Domestic Worker’s Forum (DWF), Darjeeling Mary Ward social

Centre (DMWSC) arranged a three days Exposure visit for 13 members of the Community

Vigilance Committee (CVC) and field staff from Gulma tea Estate. The participants are

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part of the ‘safe Migration’ programme, which is being implemented in Gulma, Mohargoan,

Dhagapur and Sukna Tea gardens in Champasari Gram Panchayat. The programme’s aim was

to strengthen community level mechanisms for counter trafficking and exploitation of

women and children.

Women’s Day celebration: 13th March 2011

No. of Celebrations : 3

No. of women: 300 approx

International women’s Day (8th march) is a global day celebrating the economic political and

social achievements of women past, present and future. This year Women’s Day celebration

was celebrated at Chenga Ground on 13th March 2011.

Another celebration was marked in Gulma and New Chumta. Festivities included rallies and

displays of traditional dancing.

Staffs from Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre (DMWSC) were also able to bring some

of the celebratory atmosphere to the women inmates of the Siliguri Special Correctional

Home (prison), an opportunity provided by the Cluny Sisters’ Ministry there. During the

visit, the women were given gifts of flowering plants, which they could plant to brighten

their surroundings.

Environment Day: 5th June 2011

No of participation- 36

Venue: Gulma Tea Estate

Special Guest: Mr. Rajesh Munda (Gram Panchayat member)

Mr. Pantho (Tea garden in charge)

World Environment Day is a day that stimulates awareness of the environment and

enhances political attention and public action. It is on 5 June. In Gulma Tea Estate

Environment Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm. They planted trees and the whole

week was celebrated as Environment week with the slogan ‘SAVE TREES SAVE LIFE’.

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Worlds Day against Child labour organized by ATN: 11th-12th June 2011

Venue – Bhagajatin Park, Siliguri

Guest- Mrs. Gangotri Dutta, (Mayor, Siliguri)

The Anti- Trafficking Network (ATN) of Siliguri organised an Awareness mela to mark the

occasion. In the two day’s program organized by ATN, Mary Ward Social Centre (MWSC)

as a part of the network participated and supported the event. MWSC had opened a stall

mentioning the different activities on what it deals with. The ATN which regulates the

work of Child Trafficking initiated this observance with the aim to support the vulnerable

groups.

Papal Exhibition

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the visit to India by Pope John Paul II, a team of church

high dignitaries made visits to several Indian cities in February. For their visit to Kolkata

on 6th February 2011, they were interested in meeting those involved with the social

service in the region. Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre (DMWSC) was invited to

participate in an exhibition showcasing the development work of church organizations in

West Bengal and Sikkim.

The Exhibition was organized by ABCD. The ‘Safe Migration’ team from DMWSC

participated in the exhibition. In the exhibition, along with other NGO’s we had a stall

where posters showing work of Safe migration were kept.

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Projects: Collective Voices

OBJECTIVE: To empower local communities to know promote and enact their rights in EPHN.

PROJECT AREA: Panighatta, Lohargarh, Chenga, Panthabari

Population: 10,390

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• Training on Education, Protection, Health and Nutrition.

• Training on Documentation at CINI office, Kolkatta.

• Training on Focus Group Discussion and on Resource and social mapping for all the volunteers

who included the SHG as well as the youth.

• Involvement of volunteers (youth and SHG member) in the baseline helped enhance their

awareness about local issues and concerns.

• Resource maps were developed for the three communities –Panighatta Lohagarh and Chenga.

Resource mapping and sensitization done in the field.

• Linkage has been established with most of the key government functionaries and other stake

holders across EPHN domains.

• Formation of Working committee and Steering Committee.

• 28 women have been benefited from Janani Suraksha Yojana in Panighatta and Chenga.

• SHG women volunteer’s in Panighatta helped foil an agent’s attempt to take away local girls on

the pretext of giving them work. • Project supervisor has helped 30 families in Panighatta to be enlisted as BPL families. • The project team helped the Loreto School in Panighatta to obtain provisional tribal

certificates for 27 children. • The project team has helped 30 families in Panighatta and Chenga to get Ration card. • The project team has helped 57 children joined the ICDS school. • The project team has helped 75 elders to get their pension. • The project team has helped 8 drop out children to get admission at school. • The project team has helped 47 children to get immunization (polio). • Evaluation of the Project development at the end of one year.

IMPACT:

• Increased access and utilization of health and nutrition services in order to reduce child and

woman morbidity and mortality.

• Increased awareness about child and human trafficking and increase in elementary education

enrolment and retention rates especially among girl children.

• Increased in children receiving pre-school education and care through early childhood

stimulation activities.

• Increased in access and demand of essential EHNP services among target communities.

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Project: Safe Migration

GOAL: Reducing number of incidences of unsafe migration, commercial sexual exploitation and

trafficking of women and children in Darjeeling region.

OBJECTIVE:

• Increase awareness on Human Trafficking

• Increased linkage and collaboration with the Government/ NGOs/ Ingo’s/ Civil

Society/Institutions/Media.

• Rescue the number of Unsafe Migration/Human trafficking cases.

PROJECT AREA: Gulma, Mohargoan, Dhagapur, Sukhna, New Chamta , Adalpur, Siptuguri,

Putingbari.

Population: 15,970

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• The project team has helped the formation of 13 Groups of Adolescent Girls Group.

• The project team has helped the formation of 12 Groups of Community Vigilance

Committee.

• The project team has helped the formation of 5 Youth Groups.

• 48 Self Help Group has been formed by the women in Gulma and the project team is

following up these Self Help Group.

• 27 lecture based programs were organized to increase awareness on human trafficking.

• Linking with Don Bosco, the project team through Vocational Training for the youth have

helped 5 youths to get trained in hotel management and now they are working.

• Involvement of local volunteers helped during awareness programme. Volunteers helped

the project team to gather local people, to maintain silence, and provided sound system

and Television for the session.

• Providing linkages for job opportunities. The project team helped 5 people to get jobs at

Bengal Kidney Centre at Pradhan Nagar, Siliguri.

• Networking with NGOS, through Anti Trafficking Network meeting and sharing

experiences.

• Networking with District Resource person/Gram Panchayat Resource Person (DRP/GPRP).

In the tea gardens DRP/GRP gives training to the tea garden workers but they never

came hence the project team met them and asked them to visit the tea garden and give

training to the tea garden workers. One training has been organized already.

• Networking with Pradhan, Up- Pradhan and Food & Supply. A survey was done at the

village regarding tribal certificate, ration cards, but the result was poor. So the project

team in this matter met Pradhan, Up- Pradhan and follow-up is being done.

• Networking with Bank Manager. Bank manager attends and visits the tea garden workers.

The Project team set up links with bank Manager to ensure that the Branch Manager

attends the self Help Group meeting of the Committee.

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Child protection Programme

GOAL: To initiate community based child protection monitoring cells around the transit points

and market places.

OBJECTIVE:

• To combat instances of trafficking

• To provide rescue and restoration services through linkage and networking

• To help the rescued children deal with psychosocial problems through intensive counseling

and health services.

PROJECT AREA: Siliguri, Panighatta and Gulma tea Estates.

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• Staff selection.

• Sensitization programme was conducted for the community people.

• Formation of the community based monitoring cells.

• 3 Training on child rights, child abuse, child labour and J.J.Act has been performed.

• Training on anti trafficking act and safe &unsafe migration.

• Training on Barefoot Counseling and Child Psychology.

• Collaborating with Child In Need Institute, Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre

organized an Advocacy meeting on Child Protection issue with the government officials

and local NGOs.

• Rescue and restoration of children from difficult circumstances. The project team helped

to rescue 9 children.

• Monthly meetings with the community animators at Centre.

• Meetings of the partners (Child In Need Institute (CINI), Mary Ward Social Centre

(MWSC) and Kanchanjunga Uddhar Kendra (KUK).

• Rallies in the community for awareness generation.

IMPACT:

• Increased awareness about child trafficking.

• Increase in understanding and knowledge of child rights, child labour and child

trafficking. As a result the monitoring cells are helping in rescuing and restoring the

children.

• Effective mechanisms are being developed on child’s protection issues. Eg. Mayor of

Siliguri Mrs. Gangotri Dutta was the guest in a programme ‘Advocacy meeting on Child

Protection issues’ organized by Child In Need Institute& Darjeeling Mary Ward Social

Centre.

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Project: Income Generation

No. of youth working: 18

Products: Paper bags (5 sizes)

Cards

Wages: Rs. 10 per hour

Support: MWI/ Aus

Concept Support: Elizabeth Hawk (Volunteer Australia)

First consignment of 570 bags and 146 cards sent to Australia on the 28th July 2011 for

marketing during Kirribilli Spring Fair and others.

Support to Sukumbasi and Gowshala out Reach

Writing Project Proposal

Monthly Monitoring

Capacity Building

Reporting to donors

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Darjeeling Mary Ward Social Centre

7 lane Narmada Bagan

Champasari Dist Darjeeling

Receipt & Payment Account For the Period From 1.04.2010 to 31.03.2011

Receipts Amount Payments Amount

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

31.03.2011

31.03.2010

Opening Balance Staff Advance 22,300.00

- Bank Charges 619.00

Cash in hand 2,021.00

- Bharat Furniture 2,644.00

State Bank of India 190,960.00

Books & Periodicals 2,595.00

Audit Fees 5,000.00

Cable T.V. Network 3,250.00

ABCD Associates - 70,137.00

Cleaning & Maintenances 6,395.00

Computer Expenses 8,722.00

Sister Sabrina 3,000.00

Broad & Lodge 8,800.00

Conveyance Charges - 2,367.00

Administration Charges

259,814.00

230,842.00

Fooding & Provision 41,277.00

1,609.00

Fooding for Programme 10,615.00

CPP Programme 44,500.00

6,822.00

Postage & Telegraph 5,815.00

130.00

Power & Fuel 32,332.00

720.00

Bank Interest 3,215.00

1,059.00

Staff Salary 227,700.00

5,000.00

Staff Support (CPP) 44,500.00

10,500.00

Staff Advance recovered

13,100.00

Staff Welfare 6,888.00

Staff Medical 8,648.00

Donation Received 49,905.00

Stationeries 6,959.00

1,218.00

Telephone Charges 22,971.00

999.00

Electricityn Charges 13,858.00

Publication of Magazines 11,425.00

General Expenses 2,327.00

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Sale of old News Paper

170.00 Travelling & Conveyance 9,519.00

Vehicle Expenses 53,486.00

Repair & Maintenances 1,334.00

Ronita Chottopadhaya 20,000.00

Vol. Expenses 24,800.00

Security Deposit WBEDCL

1,255.00

Donation 1,000.00

25,000.00

Vol. Expenses 20,019.00

Welfare 1,985.00

Sister Advance 3,000.00

Legal Expenses 1,176.00

236.00

Laptop & Printer 38,300.00

Accounting Charges 24,000.00

Closing Balance :

Cash At Bank 16,551.00

190,960.00

Cash In Hand 36.00 2,021.00

602,343.00

311,860.00

602,343.00

311,860.00

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