The work is carried out by 14 trained Community Based Rehabilitation Workers from the villages. We run a special 6 months CBRWs training programme in Marathi so that the village youth can be trained. This training is open to other projects also. Their is no minimum educational level stipulated. This is so that even the most backward areas can be covered. So far 6 other projects have sent their candidates for training. 

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 II State Level Abilympics report, Event List, Winner List

 Women's Empowerment process :
    Covering over 40 villages and 50 groups the aim is to enhance women's participation in community development through a greater awareness of their rights, responsibilities and strengths.  The aim is also to build self confidence and ability to counter problems through group strength.

Monthly meetings of representatives of all groups are organised. In these 2 day meetings, new information is imparted, sharing of experiences between members is done and most important the programme of the coming months is decided upon. Every group implements the programme in their own villages. Problems that are brought out are  discussed with the women and an action is decided. These deal with both individual and village problems. 

Active women from the same groups are given additional training to act as facilitators. This has the important advantage of sustaining knowledge in the villages.
 

Sakhar Shala Project (Education to children of migrant workers at Sugar Factories):

    A project addressing the issue of the right to education of migrant children  In collaboration with the Sugar Commission, the Sugar Factories and government we are reaching formal education to children of parents who are forced to migrate to sugar factories in search of a livelihood. Began in 2001-02 with 2 factories in Ahmednagar District we cover in 2002-03, 7 factories and reach approximately 3200 primary school children.

    Thousands of families in the State migrate from their villages to sugar factories in search of livelihood during lean agricultural months. This migration extends from anywhere between 4 months to 6 months from October to April. Traveling along with them are their children who necessarily have to absent themselves from school for the whole period of their parents' migration. Many times the school going  older children (middle and high school) stay back in their villages. The younger children have no option but to come with their parents. It is these children that we reach through the Sakhar Shala These schools maintain a continuity in their education while also preventing  a huge educational wastage. The children, carrying certificates of attendance and progress from these schools can be admitted to the next standard in their village schools. This wish turned a reality when in the June of 2002 we visited over 40 villages and confirmed the admission to the next class of more than 300 students.

Sakhar Shala Snapshots   

   Urban Slum Development Programmes :
This covers 7 slums at present and the approach is forming groups who then with training and exposure work towards finding solutions to their problems.

  Economic Programmes

    The underpinning of our economic programmes is our belief that systems are not biased towards poor or non poor. The outcome is dependent on the intentions and motives of who works the system. Before working for dismantling a system we should therefore try and make the system work for the poor.

    A. Agriculture Service Centres:

 These serve the small and poor farmers specially in the interiors to get assured and quality agriculture inputs at fair prices. This helps in better harvest. It also saves them money. There are 17 such outlets this year.

    B. Marketing and Warehousing:

    This is a forward linkage of the input centres. Only a higher yield will not better the condition of the farmer unless he gets a fairer price for his produce. We thus found it necessary that we stand in the grain market on behalf of the farmers as buyers and auctioneers. Janarth is registered as auctioneers in the 2 grain markets - Lasur and Gangapur- of the Block. By this we are also able to prevent the effects of distress sale by farmers by ensuring that his urgent need is not used against him.

     C. Agro Processing :

      This is the third and the most recent economic intervention by Janarth. Processing agricultural raw material would add value to the produce and thus increase the cash inflow in the area. A pulses unit has been started with this view in Maliwadgaon village.

    The turnover of all these units cross 10 million rupees each. The effort also is to ensure that the  units meet their own administrative expenses and are economically viable. 

    Except in the large economic programmes our role is of facilitators and helping people accessing resources.