Programs
Microfinance
The microfinance
movement has changed its methodology, ideologies and scope since we
formed our first SHG way back in 1989. During the initial period the
emphasis was on expanding the outreach of the movement and enabling
more people in getting dignified access to credit for fulfilling its
consumption and productive needs. We saw women breaking the shackles
of poverty, moving out to harness larger resources and setting paths
for other women to follow – all this backed by the surety of
capital for gratifying their needs. Gradually we moved to aggregating
the groups in order to benefit the economies of scale and providing
enhanced bargaining powers to the aggregation. The scope has now grown
beyond these with the perspective changing to looking at the aggregation
of groups as tools and medium for channelling developmental initiatives
to a larger number of people within limited resources & in more
comprehensive manner. The SHG’s are now seen as an ideal idea
for connecting with the larger number of communities, enabling them
in sharing and growing their resources for improving their quality
of life & facilitating their emergence as vibrant community based
organizations for working for the larger benefit of their region.
With
this understanding, Shramik Bharti has incorporated the SHG’s
as fulcrum of majority of its programmes and also aggregating the
groups formed into SHG federations. Accordingly the energies of the
centre are dedicated to its objective fostering people’s institutions.
We envision SHG federations functioning as community based financial
institutions in next 3-5 years in our operational area.
Boond
Bachat
SHG Federations
Livelihood
Promotion
Institutionalizing
livelihood promotion for checking the ever-increasing vulnerability
of small and marginal farmers, the landless and the youth has emerged
as key agenda for Shramik Bharti in past few years. With an objective
of promulgating regionally relevant, long term and strategically planned
alternate sources of income for its stakeholders, Shramik Bharti is
bringing similar interventions under the umbrella of Sub centre of
Livelihood Promotion. The interventions are once again focused on
SB’s primary beneficiaries i.e. women and are based on the premise
that initially women from Shramik Bharti’s target group need
to be introduced to only such economic activities which can easily
be managed along-with their daily routine and don’t require
high technical skills. Efforts for establishing vertical and horizontal
linkages for the beneficiaries’ esp. provision of market for
products and services are key components for each of the interventions
undertaken.
Eri
Silk
Sodic Land Reclamation
Swashakti
Community
Health
Economic
development of the society does not lead to improvement in quality
of living until and unless the community is able to imbibe the benefits
of economic betterment. Health care especially in developing countries
remains a issue of key concern because is continues to absorb a major
portion of income of the poor and marginalized communities. With this
belief Shramik Bharti since its has been working to promote the adaptation
of affordable and sustainable interventions in communities where death
rates are highest and people have limited access to known, life-saving
interventions. With an objective of synergising its interventions
in the area of health care especially maternal and child health care,
Shramik Bharti brought its health related programmes under the aegis
of Community Health with primary objectives of :
? Developing
and implementing model building replicable programmes in health care
with focus on maternal and child health.
? Ensuring community partnership and ownership for brining component
of sustainability in all the initiatives of the organisation in health
care.
? Institutionalise client-focussed approach with emphasis on meeting
individual needs and empowering clients to make decisions & engage
in behaviours that improve their reproductive health.
With
these doctrines forming the core of various intervention of the centre,
it is assumed that Shramik Bharti will be able to create models of
health care which are owned and managed by the community.
Sanjeevani
Family Planning & Reproductive Health
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