Activities

The organization’s general body meeting was held on 10th April 2013 at its office in which apart from the members of the society other respectful citizens  of the city were also present.  The Secretary of the organization Smt Swati Chauhan presented the annual report and apprised the dignitaries present  about the development works of the organization in detail.

The activities which have been successfully accomplished during the financial year 2012-13 are mentioned below:

Vocational Trainings

Many training programmes have been successfully accomplished by the organization for the welfare of the poor and marginalized women living below
the poverty line.The organization had successfully finished the training programmes in the various areas funded by District Urban Development Authority
(DUDA) of Hoshangabad, Bhopal and Gwalior in the trades fashion designing and flower making, beauty parlour training and zari zardozi and needle
 work respectively
 

The organization had also organized training programmes to the women and young girls in the field of beauty parlour, artificial jewelry making, stitching, pickle and spices making, sanitary napkin making and computer training  (for both girls and boys)  in the districts of Bhopal, Betul, Raisen, Sehore, Gwalior, Hoshangabad and Vidisha.

Self Help Groups (SHG) Formation

The organization has also formed 43 Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the districts Bhopal,  Betul, Hoshangabad, Gwalior, Sehore, Raisen, and Vidisha.The importance of empowerment of women in a civilized society cannot be overemphasized.  No nation in the world can think of progress who’s half of the population remain confined in the fore-walls of house.  Keeping this is view and for empowering women particularly of rural and tribal districts of Raisen, Hoshangabad, Vidisha, and Betul various camps have been organized throughout the year which aimed at :

Capacity building of women
Infuse leadership qualities
Promote participatory role in decision-making process.
Involvement in development activities.
Awareness on various legal provisions to safeguard their interests.
Awareness about various Government schemes for their health and livelihood earning.

The objectives of these camps were the capacity building and empowerment of women so that they may be able to participate in the decision making  process and play a vital role in the overall developmental activities in their respective areas.

Welfare of SC/ST/OBC Community

The organization CRDS had been implementing activities in the remote villages of the various districts for the people who are living in impoverished state in the rural areas especially forests.  CRDS organized welfare programmes for SC/ST/OBC community people to ensure the speedy development of these communities through the proper planning and control management functional system and implementation of social, economical, cultural and other protective welfare measures.  With the help of these welfare programmes activities we always make attempt to improve the standard of living and quality of life of these  communities.

Under these welfare activities we organized ST/SC/OBC rights and issue based awareness programmes.   

Adult Education Programme

Illiteracy and lack of education both are very common cause of minimum awareness of people about their rights both human and fundamental.  They are the victims of poorness, poor health, superstition and exploitation.  A nation cannot grow if majority of the population is uneducated.  Keeping this fact in our account CRDS organized adult education programmes for the rural communities and the people coming from underprivileged areas like slums. ‘Har ek ko shiksha ‘ is our approach based program to promote adult education in our selected communities. We at village, spend time to educate rural people who  are involve in some very small income generating activities such as vegetable vendors, fruit sellers, casual labourers etc.  Our team members with the assistance of other  volunteer students spend time voluntarily to educate community people after their schedule work apart from giving them guidance for their income generating activity.

Youth and Sports activity

Youth have a very great potential to be a part of development activities dragging them to their extreme but only if they become the part of the system.   Youth need to play an integral part in the planning, decision making and leadership for actions and initiatives thataffect them.  Youth sports and cultural activities are the best medium to bridge the gap between work and generations as these activities provide the stream of high motivation, interest, involvement, contribution and the next phase development of community.

During this annual session CRDS organized some youth sports activities at village level to motivate rural youths and create the competitive spirit amongst them.  Our these activities were planned for providing youths a stage of mentorship which later on is a part of the solution of addressing youth issues whether they are social, employment, personality development or leadership, decision making obstacles or community based other problems. Youth activities are organized to connect a link of experience with these issues of youths, to build awareness and to suggest a way to positive attitude.

Women and Children Activity

CRDS organizes various welfare programmes for sensitizing women.  Barring participation of women in political, social and economical decision, no development could be comprehensive and overall. 

CRDS has organized about 10 awareness camps for the women and children for the enhancement of their knowledge about the various government schemes, projects and their legal and socio-economic rights in the various villages and urban slums of Madhya Pradesh. Apart from it malnutrition awareness drive was also organized by the  CRDS in the districts of Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Betul, Jhabua, Gwalior, Raisen, Vidisha and Sagar districts of M.P.

Health Welfare

CRDS has organized various health camps in the rural and urban areas of districts of Sehore, Raisen, Vidisha, Jhabua, Gwalior and Sagar, Free health checkups were conducted.  The old women and children got benefited by the advises of the doctors,  Free medicines and fruits were distributed to the ill.

CRDS has also participated in the vaccination and pulse polio drive of the health department.  CRDS has imparted teachings to the women and men about the importance of vaccination which will prevent them from various deceases.

The women were apprised about the importance of institutional deliveries.  The hygiene needed at the time of birth was explained by the trained midwives.Discussion about the birth control devises and pills was done with the women and men.

Health awareness education camps about nutrition, personal hygiene, sanitation, immunization, family planning etc are organized by the CRDS with the help of dais, village level health workers.  CRDS also promote local traditional health improvement methods.

Social Justice and Drug Abuse

Drug de addiction seminars and awareness camps were organized by the CRDS in Jhabua, Betul and Bhopal districts of Madhya Pradesh.  Women and teenagers were given special treatment.  Direct interaction method was used for such operations.  The targets group was accessed at the time of Mela and Hat bazaars.

The drive against caste and class discrimination, untouchability and abuse against weaker sections of the society were successfully accomplished by the CRDS. Two child marriages were stopped by the collective effort of Administration and volunteers of the CRDS

Environment Conservation and Preservation

CRDS has organized state level seminar on biodiversity conservation with the funding from Ministry of Environment and Forests in which experts from various fields within the state and outside the state participated and expressed their concern about the degradation of the state of environment and the  means to further control the environment degradation

CRDS has also conducted various workshops, painting and drawing competition, plantation
ctivities to restore ecological balance in the rural and urban environment(forest and wild life conservation, bio-diversity, sustainable livelihood, water resources, pasture lands, agricultural and other waste lands etc).  These programmes are being organized with the funding from Environmental  Planning and Coordination Organization.

RDS has also participated in the cleanliness drive of the water bodies in Bhopal in consonance with the M.P. Jan Abhiyan Parishad, a NGO of State Planning and Statistical Department, M.P Government.  CRDS has also organized environmental awareness camps through the initiative of MPJAP. CRDS is also working with the save water campaign in consonance with the newspaper Dainik Bhaskar.

The main agenda of CRDS programmes was to educate people about their immediate environment and impart knowledge about the eco-systems, their  inter-dependence and their need for survival, to make them aware about environmental problems and involving them in the efforts of environmental preservation.in the rural areas, CRDS has put an emphasis on the use of smokeless chullahs, bio-gas, and solar cooker so that the women are less stressed during cooking and their health is restored.  Also this has reduced in the number of head loads of woods thus reducing the dependence on forests.CRDS in consonance with the forest department helped the villagers in collection and marketing of non-timber forest produces (NTFPs).

Agriculture Development

CRDS organized a training program Krishak Khet Pathshala with the collaboration of Agriculture Department.  During this programme we organized training camps to the villagers of gram Deepdi, Amravat Kalaan, Baansia, and others under the schemes Tilhan Vikas and Beeja Vikas Yojan implemented by the related department of Government of India.

CRDS has also emphasized the need of distributing the vegetable seed kits to the village populace so that they can grow vegetables in their courtyards. CRDS has emphasized the need of kitchen gardens in the house of every villager.Through live dialogues with the villagers CRDS has established seed banks in the villages.The villagers are given live demo of preparing compost pits for production of high quality organic manure.

Waste land Development Programme

CRDS also updated villagers about water conservation and water harvesting structures on the principle of watershed development, sourcing and promoting improved agricultural practices and technologies, field bunding and their stabilization, water conservation and harvesting structures on the principle of water shed development. The villagers were informed about the importance of planting horticulture species at the boundaries of their agricultural lands.The villagers were also imparted knowledge about the development of Community pasture land.

Rural Development Activities

CRDS with the village panchayats have planned the construction of community hall, places of worships, school buildings, water tank construction, public water drinking facilities during summers etc.  The CRDS functionaries with the help of PHED department helped the villagers to get repair and maintain the community hand pumps for improved drinking water supply.

The construction experts associated with the CRDS had helped the rural masses in constructing houses through propagation of low cost building technology, construction of seed storage structures and construction of village access/internal road, soak pits and drainage system etc.

Social and Cultural Awakening

The problem of Child labour and exploitation is a major challenge to the progress of developing countries.  Children work at the cost of their right to  education which leaves them permanently trapped in the poverty cycle, sadly without the education and literacy required for better- paying jobs. Child labour is prevalent in almost all informal sectors of the Indian Economy.

Hence keeping in mind these facts CRDS organized various workshops in different districts, especially for the parents of those students who are  enrolled in schools but are not able to keep continue their studies and the economic up and down in family is a cause behind.

Apart from such social awakening programmes CRDS with the help of local artist and folk groups has organized cultural music group items, folk plays and dance festivals etc.  Various creative activities are performed to the targeted women group such as cooking competition, antakshari, mehdi and rangoli pratiyogita, bhajan sandhya, gazal sandhya ,local sports etc.

Animal Husbandry

CRDS had organized veterinary camps in the rural areas of various districts of Madhya Pradesh emphasizing the need of Vaccination, de worming among the animals. 

Awareness was generated by the doctors associated with the CRDS for Breed Improvement of the animals in Sehore, Hoshangabad, Raisen and Bhopal districts of Madhya Pradesh.

Book Promotion Activities

The organization CRDS through its own generated funds have developed various informative pamphlets and reading material on environmental issues,  drug de addiction, self help groups, life skills etc.CRDS had also organized Book Fair for the promotion of books and develop reading habit among the masses especially children and women.

Education Development

CRDS is working intensively for the education of drop out children in the districts of Dewas, Sehore with the help of local dignitaries. Through their help CRDS has made arrangement for the alternative schools.  Also NGO is instrumental in organizing literacy camps for adults and post literacy camps(follow-up of neo literates).  With the help of affluent and dignitaries support has been provided to the impoverished people of educational materials.

Birds and animals protection and awareness programme

In India, birds and animals are worshipped from time immemorial. They are considered to be cultural assets and have a profound effect on Indian art, sculpture, literature and religion. Considering the value and other aspects of wild and domestic life of flora-fauna, CRDS organized a series of awareness programmes to spread the message about importance of Birds and Animals and Knowledge sharing about their protection. Human Resources Development

Human Resources Development

During the year, CRDS organized programmes ensuring the wholesome development of targeted social sectors i.e. gender, caste, income and regional disparities. In the phase, we provided a deeper understanding of the stakeholders whose actions can transform human development into a process that is participatory, democratic and accessible.

1. Extensive use of survey-based data on the status of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes
2. A stand-alone study of women’s self-help groups to assess the impact of these programmes on women’s empowerment
3. An analysis of government programme delivery system to ensure better service delivery
4. A presentation of alternative models of participatory development