| Project
Name: |
Program
for the rehabilitation of mineworkers
who have been affected by silicosis
and their families |
| Project
Area: |
10 villages in Bhansi
Paharpur Panchayat, Roopwas Block, Bharatpur
District, Rajasthan |
| Funding
Agencies: |
Concern India Foundation
and NABARD |
| Project
Duration: |
1999 to 2004 and
2004 to 2005 |
| Overall
Goal: |
To diagnose &
treat silicosis affected workers and
provide widows of stone quarry workers
with source of income |
| Objectives: |
To regularize and
extend the Government’s DOTS/RNTCP
scheme for silicosis affected mineworkers |
| |
To develop linkages
with government departments to provide
SHGs with training in rural economic
activities |
| |
To form SHGs and
link them up with local bank through
NABARD scheme (e.g. animal husbandry,
horticulture and agriculture etc.) |
| |
To develop linkages
with government departments to provide
SHGs with training in rural economic
activities |
| Strategies: |
Organize awareness
generation campaign and health camps
with the District Tuberculosis Office
to promote prophylactic behaviors, conduct
sputum tests and disseminate information
regarding diagnosis and treatment for
silicosis and tubercular silicosis |
| |
Distribute medicine
provided by the government to silicosis
affected individuals through local volunteers |
| |
Organize widows and
other women living below the poverty
line in Self-Help Groups and link them
up with financial institutions and government
schemes |
| |
Conduct workshops
and trainings for Self-Help Group members
in the areas of agriculture, animal
husbandry and horticulture |
| |
Provide non-formal
education to children of widows with
the aim of mainstreaming them to local
formal schools |
| |
Conduct quarterly
interface meetings with stakeholders |
| Primary
Stakeholders: |
Approximately 13,000
residents of project villages, including
400 mineworkers, 350 widows & BPL
women and 105 female children of widows |
| Other
Stakeholders: |
Mine workers and
their families, contractors and sub-contractors,
the Directorate of Health Services (Govt.
of Rajas than), District Tuberculosis
Office, National Agricultural Bank for
Rural Development (NABARD); Alwar-Bharatpur
Grameen Aanchalik Bank (Bharatpur);
Department of Rural Development Agency
(DRDA); and Departments of Horticulture,
Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal
Husbandry |
| Networking: |
Community Medicine
Department of Mahatma Gandhi Medical
Institute (Maharastra); Sawai Man Singh
Hospital (Jaipur); World Health Organization
(WHO); Voluntary Health Association
(Rajasthan); Ibtada (Alwar); Department
of Preventive and Social Medicine at
Lady Harding Medical College (Delhi) |
| Monitoring: |
Management Information
System to track and measure the progress
of the project |
| Program
Review: |
Upon program completion
and external review of the program will
be made |
| Media
Coverage: |
DD1, Kiran, A gift
pass on scheme that SARD initiated for
Self-Help Group members in Bhansi Paharpur;
DD1, Kiran, SARD’s DOTS initiative
for mineworkers in Bhansi Paharpur;
Rojana News Channel, The initiatives
of Self-Help Groups that SARD formed
in Bhansi Paharpur; Rojana News Channel,
Mineworkers and silicosis in Bhansi
Paharpur |
| Achievements: |
Organized 40 Self-Help
Groups (10-15 people per group) who
have taken out a total of nearly Rs
8,00,000/ in loans of which they have
repaid Rs. 6,50,000/- to date |
| |
85% of SHG members
use bank services independently of their
SHG and husband; whereas only 20% of
women in the project villages had ever
dealt with a bank prior to SARD’s
intervention |
| |
12 widows benefited
from widows Old Age Pension scheme after
SARD’s intervention |
| |
SARD was selected
by the Department of Health (Rajasthan)
to distribute free medicines within
its project area under the DOTS scheme |
| |
12 local youth have
been trained under the DOTS scheme to
deliver medicine to affected people |
| |
50 people with silicosis
are receiving regular medicine under
DOTS scheme |
| |
105 girls were enrolled
in 4 Non-Formal Education Centres run
by SARD. 50 of these girls were mainstreamed
to government schools |
| |
32 SHG members received
a goat through a gift pass on scheme
orchestrated by SARD |
