Mayurbhanj, India: Snippets

Mayurbhanj, India

1 June 2007

Snippets

Out-of-school young people learn income-
generating skills through the tailoring centre.

Achievements
Recently, Mayurbhanj Area Development Programme (ADP) has:

Health and sanitation

Held community meetings to increase awareness of malaria, and distributed 625 insecticide-treated mosquito nets
Facilitated mobile health clinics to visit villages
Celebrated World AIDS Day to increase community awareness of HIV and AIDS
Held meetings for 60 teenage girls to teach them about personal hygiene, sexual health and care of babies
Constructed 14 platforms around wells to prevent contamination

Education

Provided uniforms for 3,200 students and school bags for 3,000 students
Supported 217 children with hostel fees so they could go to school, and provided 200 students with bicycles
Renovated 12 community coaching centres
Constructed five playgrounds

Agricultural and economic development

Trained 460 farmers in sustainable agricultural practices and cash crop cultivation
Trained 20 farmers to grow ginger as a cash crop
Supplied groundnut seed to a farmers’ club for a demonstration of a cash crop
Facilitated farmers’ clubs to access government assistance for seed and rice processing machines
Provided seed for farmers to cultivate sabai grass on their waste land; sabai grass is made into rope which is a common source of income in the Gajapati community
Levelled hilly land for 47 families to use as fields
Provided 243 goats for families to breed and sell
Assisted young people from one village to establish a milk collection centre to supply milk to a co-operative
Helped 23 families establish income-generating activities, such as brick making
Supported a tailoring centre where 54 teenagers are learning tailoring skills
Constructed a fish pond that will support fish farming by the village development committee, irrigate land belonging to 20 farmers and provide water for bathing and livestock for 85 families
Constructed four irrigation canals to irrigate 230 acres of land; 225 farmers benefited
Constructed a check dam to trap monsoon rains and a lift-irrigation system to irrigate land above the level of the water source

Leadership development

Supported 52 family forums to promote family and community harmony
Supported 55 children’s clubs; two child leaders have now joined their village development committees

Challenges
The people of Mayurbhanj ADP still have a number of challenges ahead of them. During the next year, World Vision will focus on combating wariness of health professionals and improving people’s health. Activities will include training first aid volunteers and traditional birth attendants, facilitating mobile health clinics and raising awareness of nutrition, malaria and HIV and AIDS.

Mayurbhanj file

Mayurbhanj project profile

MAYURBHANJ STORY ARCHIVE
2008
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Back to school
Eliminating alcohol
2007
A camp of change
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2006
Well beyond expectations
Avian influenza
Seed idea
Change of direction
2005
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A hand up not a hand out
Gone Fishing
2004
The hard word
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2003
Stop the wedding!
Love those trees
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Women break taboos
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