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24th March 2023
Ambedkar Gram Samiti successfully advocates installation of 1st Hand Pump in their Tola: Today my family has access to safe drinking water and I do not have to request other for drinking water. It is my right says a confident and proud Neelu Devi, secrectary of Ambedkar Gram Samiti Baghi Tatma of Baghi Panchayat in Tajpur blocks. The hamlet is dominated by Mahadalit population who are marginalized and mostly BPL families. The tola exhibits all indicators of underdevelopment as lack of access to safe drinking water no contact roads between the tola and rest of the panchayat , subsistence agriculture etc. The families of the tola were forced to collect water from irrigation wells and farm pond. The winds of change began when DVAS started it work in the tola and soon successfully formed Ambedkar Gram Samiti.
A story of Smt. Sangita, A women from Baghi Panchayt in Tajpur Block, she used to live with her mother in law and brother in law. Her husband used to live out of state for work. She was married at very early age which and had 3 childrens, she was very weak and was not able to do any work properly. She was not allowed to meet anyone and go out as well, got tortured by her family members. Due to her bad physical condition, people used to consider her un pious and says she is a ghost and nobody should talk to her. She used to face a lot of problems due absence of her husband in the house and sometimes she used to sleep Hungary. After the intervention of Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti, during the formation of CBO, Sangita Devi also wanted to join the group but all the women got against her and start leaving the meeting as they said she don’t have good character, she is not lucky, she have bad soul. When animator of DVAS came to know about the situation, they tried to convince the family members as well as community. After a lot of effort by animator, people got convinced and accepted Sangita Devi as a member of Ambedkar Gram Samiti(CBO), she was even made the leader of CBO. She said that there are a lot of women who face these type of situation in their life, I want to work for those women and remove domestic violence and superstitions from the society. Right now she is very happy and very active member of CBO, and she is also working as a surveyor for the organization and her family member is also supportive now.
31 December 2022
We are happy to see the cognitive and physical growth of Durga says a beaming Jitendra Ram father of Durga Kumari. Durga is one of the six children in the family and her father works as a migrant labourer. The family livelihood options are limited and insufficient to have sufficient food security for the year and as a result her mother is also anaemic. In the beginning her mother was not in favour of sending her to the village centre. After several rounds of discussion with Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti team and volunteers she finally agreed to send the child to village centre. Soon Durga started picking up the early childhood education with understanding and comprehending concepts of mathematics, number system, simple addition and subtraction. Her health aspects also reflected growth and wellbeing and she gained 5 kg weight and 5 cm in height during the process. Durga has the dreams to become a police officer in her career. Durga growth and development is now motivating the community to provide equal treatment to girl child in terms of education and nutrition. Total Growth in a year is as follows; Starting Weight-15, Assessment Weight-20 ,Starting Centimeter -113, Assessment Centimetre-121 Total Weight Gain-5 and Total Growth in Centimetres-8
November 2022
Bibha Devi, a women belongs to Rampur maheshpur panchayat, and her block is Tajpur. She is an active member of Ambedkar gram Samiti. She belongs to very poor family and her husband is a daily wage worker, she have three childrens 2 Boys and 1 Girl. One in an emergency situation she needed money, she asked to everyone but didn’t get any help. Later she went to money lender and asked for money on interest they said we will provide you money after 4 days and for that you have to give us some gold jewellery till you don’t return money to us. She felt so helpless because she didn’t had any jewellery at that time, she was so tensed and really didn’t understand what to, then one of the member of Ambedkar Gram Samiti reminded her, we have money in account of our group and suggested her to take money from that account. All the members of Ambedkar Gram Samiti organized together and gave the amount of money she required, later she deposited all the borrowed money to the group and saved herself from the high rate of interest of money lenders. This idea helped her women like Bibha Devi and now many other women also take help from this group in case of need of money and not get trapped by money lenders.
Anuradha Kumari, daughter of Santosh Ram and Sanju Devi of Morwa village, Samastipur, Bihar, has 4 sisters and 2 brothers. Confident, prefers to go to the nutrition center. The family comes from poverty-stricken families and his mother is a Divyang (PWD). Santosh eke out a living as a daily wage labourer which was insufficient for year-round food security for the family and the family often took loans from local community moneylenders. Deprived of the expected basic facilities of the district, Morwa is the last line hamlet of the society, where there is neither primary education nor pre-primary education apart from the basic facilities of the government. With the help of Jiv Daya Foundation, in January 2022, Nutrition-cum-Jagjagi Education Centre was started in this colony. Anuradha used to fall ill continuously due to not getting proper food. Anuradha was initially identified as a malnourished child. Anuradha started coming to the nutrition center as the parents were of the opinion that the child would get regular milk support. Anuradha regularly visited the center where she was given milk, biscuits and vitamin supplements. Anuradha has now increased her weight by 5 kgs i.e. from 10 kgs initially she joined the milk project and currently her weight is 15 kgs and height is also increasing. Within a year of the milk project, there has been a lot of positive change in Anuradha's lifestyle. Has experienced very positive weight gain, actively participates in the Center for Mental Wellness and Safe Eating, has become assertive and feels free to talk with her peers and family members. Very interested in dance and sports which is worth watching, all children follow her, she has started speaking and practicing alphabets, besides many other girls Aanchal Kumari, Aastha Kumari, Sandhya Kumari, Swati Kumari and Ruchi Kumari have also seen a lot of growth - positive development. The special thing is that there has been a positive development of growth in girls as compared to boys in the center. The parents of the child are very happy to see the health and educational development of the children.
December 2022
I now feel stronger remarks Rupani Kumari’ a 4 years old girl from Chakshaym nagar village of Tajpur block of Samastipur in Bihar. The majority of SC families depend on farm and nonfarm activities to earn their wages and the livelihood options are few and vulnerable to climatic condition and also impacted by CoVID19 situation. Mr Rajkaran Manjhi and Meena Devi daily waged labourer by profession did not get regular work and thereby the family was facing food crisis and had to depend on the local moneylenders for debt to meet their food requirements and this had adversely impacted health of all eight family members including Roopam Kumari along with other siblings. When DVAS started nutrition and education program in the village Roopam along with two other siblings was enrolled with the centre. Roopam regularly attended the Nutrition and Education centre of DVAS where she was regularly provided with biscuit and milk. When Roopam Joined the centre her weight was recorded 14 kg and was in the category of stunted growth children based on the development index. In a short span of time the growth process of the child picked up and she gained on 4 kg in terms of weight and 9 inches of height. With adequate nutrition her locomotors muscles and bone became stronger and her performance in sports and games also improved as an outcome of the activities. She also developed mental and physical resilience to put aside the challenges and is making remarkable progress in her educational levels and health status. Today 105 such children are enrolled in the Health and nutrition center's of DVAS and the children are improving in terms of their learning levels and happy.
Name - Shyla Devi Husband Name - Late Gulab Choudhry Age - 50 years. Sex - Female Slum Name - T.V. Tower, Nala Par District - Patna Family background Shila Devi is 50 years old widow women living at T.V. Tower, Nala Par, Kankarbagh, Patna with her five sons. She has also three daughter are married. Her husband was electrician. 20 years ago he was felt down from an electricity pole due to current shock, after he got paralysed. After 2 years he recovered slowly. But he was got sudden attack again and collapse. The Shila Devi has been hopeless and helpless after death of her husband. Physical description Shila Devi is migrated from Nalanda with her husband before 30 years ago in Patna for better employment opportunity. They were took temporary shelter in T.V. Tower,Nala Par, Kankarbagh, Patna. After some time many people were took shelter in this place and the place has been merged in a slum. Location T.V.Tower, Nala Par slum located at near Malhi Pakri Basera, kankarbagh, Patna. T.V. Tower 3 KM away from Rajendra Nagar Terminal Railway Station, Patna. The Situation Prior there were 30 mud houses have been situated at T.V. Tower, Nala Par slum. The district administration has been demolished the entire house many times and again they were constructed as temporary houses again. Shila devi has been residing here from 30 years. They have no option to go anywhere accept this place. Often they have been torturing by local administration. They were really staying in very tough situation. The Change or the Uniqueness After intervention of Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti (DVAS) in T.V.Tower slum, Shila Devi was the first person will met the team of DVAS because she has first house in the slum, after knowing all the condition of Shila Devi. The worker has been suggested to open a tea stall for the livelihood. After open a tea stall her economical condition is gradually enhanced. she has been start sending in school of their sons. They were now also a earning member of the family. At present time Shila Devi is selling the break fast and tea in the shop. She make a satisfactory income from there. Shila Devi and her family were unknown about the right and entitlement, they did not get any identity and deprived from the benefit scheme. After intervention of Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti (DVAS) she has getting the identity and entitle for the some benefit scheme. Now, she is active member of Slum Vikas Samiti (Community based organization formed of Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti), she has been mobilizing the community people that they have been segregated. She has been motivating them to protest against arbitrary activities of governance that they have been prone to strip our shelter. Challenges still faced by the family: Now, a day she still living with fear. Despite they have no option to go anywhere. She is struggling for permanent shelter. Hopes for the future: Shila Devi hope that at least her government has been make a solution for them struggle in future and a envisage permanent shelter for them.
Name- Sarojini Devi, Husband Name-Ranjan Ram Age- 26 yrs. Profession- House wife, Caste- Manjhi (SC) Qualification- 8th pass, Child- 1 Age of the child- 7 yrs. Address- Hanuman Nagar, sector- K, Kankarbagh Patna Profession- Factory worker Synopsis:- Sarojini Devi born in a slum area, her family comprises of 9 members who were living at Kankarbagh (Patna). Her father was a daily wage labour and mother is a housewife. She is the youngest sister among 4 brothers & 3 sisters. At the age of 18 yrs, she got married to Ranjan Ram who was a factory worker in Ludhiana. Everything going fine in their married life, they have one kid who were one & only source of love between their families. But, poor people don’t have good luck in their life for a longer period. Tragedy begins, when Ranjan Ram has an extra-marital affair and he had married the second lady at Ludhiana. He started torturing Sarojini physically & mentally. Every day, she has to face Violence at her home. Her husband wants her to get married with another guy so that he could rid out of this family responsibility and live a lustful life with his second wife. Somehow, Sarojini Devi escaped from Ludhiana and came to her family at Patna where she is quite safe from her husband. Henceforth, her husband doesn’t talk to his wife and not given her permission to live with her 7yrs. Through DVAS she was empowered and given a platform through which she started raising her voice against violence against women, today Sarojini has returned to her normal life by standing on her own feet and linking it with livelihood which is employment oriented. Now she wants that no woman and teenager should be victim of violence, which will affect her child, after counseling her husband, both of them resolved to lead a new life together. It is the only source of hope for life. The Hasta family is together today with her husband as a result of DVA's important role in providing support to Sarojini and fighting for her fundamental rights. Today, like a role model in a slum colony, she stands against oppression and violence against any woman and helps her to lead a life with dignity, she says that she will not tolerate the storm of oppression, Baba Saheb (Ambedkar ) We will fulfill your dreams, women.
