Project Snapshot

• Organization: DOVE (Development of Village Education)

• Objective: Awareness creation on Rural Sanitation and Promoting Kitchen gardens through training, community participation and campaign activities in 15 villages in Tamil Nadu

Location and People

Location:

• Tamil Nadu – 15 Villages selected for implementing the Project: Nochikulam, Chettikulam, Thiruvaranganeeri, Palaniappapuram Karungadal, Peikulam, Mela Kerungadal, Pannamparai, Komaneri, Pudukulam, Arivanmozhi, Semmbankudieruppu, Ambalaseeri, Elamalkulam, Amuthunnakudi

Occupation of People:

• Palmyra tappers, landless laborers, coolies and helpers in construction sites, brick kilns and lime industries.

Goals of DOVE

• Village centered activities with regard to education, sanitary condition, environmental awareness, health care and infrastructure development in a phased manner targeting the villages of Sathankulam Taluk.

• Involve women in development activities by giving them awareness education and trainings.

• Organize and form women Self Help Groups in every village and make it as an entry point to introduce savings culture and equip them to deal with local issues.

• Give training to women entrepreneurs so that they will be helped to embark business ventures by the help of micro credit programs.

• Impart vocational training and skill development for the youth to generate Self employment.

• Take a survey of the available raw materials available in every village so that income generation programs could be initiated at a later stage.

Need of the Project• Litter all around roads and houses• Lack of proper drainage– no toilets in villages • Cattle in plenty – cow dung not cleaned – affects sanitary conditions• Stagnant water around villages - making it a hot bed for waterborne

and mosquito borne infectious diseases. • High pollution - Smoke emanating from chemical and match factories • Big families in small dwellings – not proper sanitation habits• No medical facility in area – no access to doctors – diseases not

diagnosed • Lack of basic health care – affects pregnant women/children more• Minimal Literacy level, acute poverty in the interior parts of villages -

children more encouraged to go for daily labor instead of schools.

Objectives of the project

• Educate people about the need to keep their houses and the surroundings clean

• Remove the factors contributing to poor sanitary condition of the villages.

• Protect the people from various diseases spread out of stagnation of waste water and open defecation.

• Arrange toilet facilities in every house over a time frame.

• Cultivate hygienic qualities in the minds of the children.

• Conduct awareness programs in the villages regarding health and sanitation.

• Promote Kitchen garden concept so that people will get a nutritious rich diet and can make good use of cow dung for manure

Implementation of the Project

Members: 1 coordinator & 5 health workers for 15 villages ( Each health worker will be allotted 3 villages)

Member Activities: • Forming of groups and organizing youth to take up rural sanitary measures.

• Groups will be activated to undertake clearing campaigns, regular sanitary measures, removing of piled up garbage and wastes.

• Education on personal health and hygiene, ill effects of unhygienic factors leading to spread of diseases, importance of taking vegetables and greens in their daily diet

• Health care of babies, pregnant women, old age people and lactating mother will be given attention and follow up actions will be taken.

Implementation Contd..Cleaning Campaigns:

• Each group member will take up the responsibility of cleaning the village every Sunday. Timetable for this purpose will be slated and put up in a common place.

• Irrespective of age, children as well as old age people will join the cleaning campaign

Using Visual Medium:

• TVs and VCRs will be taken to the villages and TV films on model villages will be screened to them.

• Interesting as well as informative films on how to keep a village clean and also its positive impact on the health of the people.

• Every Sunday after the cleaning campaign is over cine- film and cine-songs video clippings - in appreciation of their voluntary work.

Implementation Contd..

Promoting Kitchen Gardens:

• Education on the need of providing a green cover to surroundings and its positive effects to the eco system

• Every house members will be asked to plant trees in front of their house depending upon the availability of space.

• Trees such as Neems having medicinal effect will be encouraged to be grown

• Education on how to maintain a kitchen garden in their courtyards - variety of vitamin rich plant recommendations

• Young girls will be shown to raise flower plants in the kitchen garden.

Training ProgramsNumbers:

• 4 training Programs for the staff, and 5 Training Programs for the women and the village people. Each training will last two days.

Topics covered:

• Preventive aspects of village health care.

• The common diseases attacking village people and steps to avert the contributing factors.

• First aid

• Knowledge on polio awareness and preventive measures taken by the government and the international bodies.

• Knowledge on kitchen gardens. - Natural manure to be used for small gardens instead of fertilizers and pesticides.

• Knowledge on simple varieties of vegetables and greens

• Schemes available for low cost latrines.

Training Contd..Training for Women:

• Simple tips about the concept of small family norms.

• Care to be taken during pre natal and postnatal stages.

• Looking after the babies to take proper treatment for common diseases, giving polio drops.

• Kitchen Garden Concepts.

Medical Camps:

• Inviting specialist doctors from various fields from city hospitals.

• Screening of the patients and refer those who need further treatment to the city government hospitals.

• Chronic Asthma, T.B., and major diseases affecting the people will be given treatment.

• Detecting reproductive health problems among the women.

Expected outcomes

• Villagers will observe and follow hygienic measures.

• Villages will be rid of disease contributing factors.

• Stagnant and piling of wastes will be utilized for raising gardens and the villages will wear a new look.

• Decrease in infectious diseases

• Improved health advice for pregnant women and lactating mothers for better care for their children

• Individual kitchen gardens and community park in the villages contributing for environmental improvement.

Budget

Recurring:1. Salary for the 5 health workers ( Rs. 1200 X 5 X 12 Months ) - Rs. 72,000.00 2. Salary for the Coordinator ( Rs. 2500 X 1 X 12 Months ) - Rs. 30,000.00 Total Recurring - Rs. 1,02,000.00 Non – Recurring: 1.       Training for the women groups ( 5 Trainings X Rs. 7000 ) - Rs. 35,000.00 2.       Training for the youth ( 5 Training X Rs. 7000 ) - Rs. 35,000.00 3. Training for the health workers ( 4 X Rs. 3000) - Rs. 12,000.00 4. Expenditure on Visual Programs - Rs. 8,000.00 5. Miscellaneous expenditure - Rs. 4,000.00 TOTAL - Rs. 94,000.00 GRAND TOTAL FOR PROJECT - Rs. 1,96,000.00 Local Contribution - Rs. 20,000.00 AID REQUESTED - Rs. 1,76,000.00 = approx ($3,700)