1. SARITSA FOUNDATION (SARITSA CHARITY TRUST)
A Mobile University For Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change
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"Reach to People, Talk to People and Prepare People“
Builds capacity to reduce risks from disasters and climate change by reaching
to “Door Steps of vulnerable people ­ "A People Centered, People Led, and
People Owned Resilience and Safety Culture Methodology.

2. Saritsa Foundation adds a simple and workable solution to move
ahead to empower women and girls to win over an important
cause of their suffering and poverty ­ losses of lives and means of
cause of their suffering and poverty ­ losses of lives and means of
livelihood disasters. Saritsa Foundation takes Disasters Risk
Reduction practices to the houses and families of these
disadvantage women. Saritsa Foundation has recognized that
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this needs a ripple of change in our hearts and minds to empower
women by taking care of their Right to Life Security in disasters.
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Consequently, it needs awareness, access to information,
education and training to move them in a state of mind where
they develop an action plan to minimize risks. In India, most of
they develop an action plan to minimize risks In India most of
these women belong to weaker sections ,including Scheduled
castes/Scheduled tribes/backward classes and Muslim and
Christian minority who are mostly living in rural areas and
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urban pockets without any access to prepare to protect.
Saritsa Foundation endeavors to mainstream these women to
provide equal opportunity to bring about a change in minds of

3. women to be confident to protect themselves and their children
and families to reduce risks.
The team of Saritsa Foundation
Saritsa Foundation reached to these groups of
women in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state in
subdivision of Kudal. The team led by me conducted workshops
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from 11 to 13 March in association of Collector of the district and
Mahila Vikas Mandal, Kudal (Women Development Group). 250
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women and girls took part in these workshops enthusiastically to
learn to protect in disasters and be Trainers and Motivators to
their family members.
their family members

4. Objectives
1) To create an enabling environment amongst participants to
build capacity by raising awareness, imparting education and
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training with use of local resources for innovations keeping in
view the significant hazard proneness of their region.
2) To empower women Self Help Group and Bank Saving Group
leaders to understand their role and responsibility towards
leaders to understand their role and responsibility towards
preparing themselves and be accountable at local level to
minimize losses.
3) To provide equal opportunities to women and girls to develop
in decision making, planning, and implementation of mitigation
methods for disaster risk reduction and protecting means of
livelihood.
4) To ensure setting up of warning system mechanisms with
communication net work with conventional expertise and

5. technologies to inter act with local government authorities, NGOs
and outside agencies.
5) To guide participants to evolve action plans to integrate
disaster risk reduction with plans of poverty eradication and
development with usable tools with identification of specific
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needs to protect property, facilities, and economic activities.
6) To be awareness raisers, trainers and motivators to sustain
the initiative and keep on developing it.
7) To be able to measure and quantify sustainability of their
capacity building efforts time to time and evolving future
preparedness plans.
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6. The participants were provided opportunity to learn to protect
themselves and be self reliant to cope with disasters.
The Awareness, Education and Training was conducted with
interactive participatory methodology.
The participants were encouraged to analyze risk and
vulnerability to them under various scenarios of their houses,
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their working places and their movement and their areas.
They were encourage to raise awareness among themselves
They were encourage to raise awareness among themselves
and their families and prepared to respond accordingly.
Make use of local resources and local experience and expertise.
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Participants were provided practical training with mock drills
with live scenarios of disasters.

7. Develop buddy system(jodi system) to respond to disasters.
Practice to cope with different emergencies as trained by
Practice to cope with different emergencies as trained by
practical training and mock drills.

8. The Photographs of the event speak!!!
The Photographs of the event speak!!!

9. Colonel N M Verma inaugurates the workshop, Tehsildar and
Colonel N M Verma inaugurates the workshop Tehsildar and
Circle Officer of Kudal at extreme right and Shri. Vijay Doke,
Chairman of Mahila Vikas Mandal at extreme left at
inauguration.

10. The Participants

11. Mock Drills for
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22. Mock Drills for
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24. Mock Drills for
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36. Media Supports
Media Supports

38. Thank You !!
Thank You !!
Please Contact
saritsa@vsnl.net
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Mob : 91 9323157377
Tel : 91 22 24366370
Website : www.saritsafoundation.org