Karuna-Shechen bi-annual report 2014

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HALF YEARLY REPORT
2014

2. CONTENTS PAGE NO.
Main Activities and Achievements 3
Introduction 5
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Health
 An Overview of Medical Activities 6
 Access to Primary Healthcare in Urban Area: Shechen Medical
Centre in Bodhgaya, Bihar
9
 Mobile Clinics 12
 Medical Camps
15
 Health Education Program (HEP)
17
Education
 Early Childcare and Development 20
 Non-Formal Education (NFE) 21
Social
 Kitchen Garden
23
 Vocational Training 24
 small money BIG CHANGE
25
 Networking with local NGOs
26
Environment
 BodhGaya Clean Environment, Hygiene and Sanitation Program
27
 Rainwater Harvesting 28
 Solar Electricity
29
Other Events and Activities
 Activity Progress in Jharkhand 30
 Field work and Project study by Magadh University Students 30
 Finances 31
 Upcoming Activities 32

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MAIN ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS
Health
 35,362 Patients availed the healthcare services of our OPD (Outreach Patients
Department), Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps.
 3634 medical tests were conducted in our pathology laboratory.
 4477 Sanitary napkins were distributed
 A Menstrual Health and Hygiene Educational session was conducted at Project
Kanya school in Bodhgaya.
Education
 We have started our new programme- The role of play in the life of a child: A way
to contribute to children well-being and healthy development’ in Gopalkhera,
Chando, Dema and Banahi.
 We have started our own informal schools for young children at Dema and
Masuribar
 We have started providing newspapers to NFE centres to update the student son
important news events. The papers are later used by the students to make paper
bags.
Social
 Under the ‘small money BIG CHANGE’ program we are digging ponds in the
villages of Bhupnagar and Dema
 1922 households have received vegetable seeds for their Kitchen Gardens
 657 OPD patients have received vegetable seeds for their Kitchen Gardens
 We have made a Kitchen Garden Demonstration Field cum Nursery on a land
within premises of anon-functional NGO near BodhGaya town
 We have also started plant nurseries in 11 villages where 11 people, chosen from
the village communities for the purpose, are undertaking the responsibility of
looking after the nurseries.
 The first session of Computer Training for the youth came to a close with 35
students passing out and a new session was started in March with 55 students.

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Environment
 We have planted 100 trees along the road in front of our OPD
 We have distributed food covers among 21 vendors at Gaya railway station
 We are in the process of giving out 100 food boxes made of steel and glass to
interested food vendors and shop-owners in the towns of Bodhgaya and Gaya
 We have installed Rainwater Harvesting system in 5 households in Banahi, 13 in
Dema along with schools at Dema , Gopalkhera and Lohjhara
 60 Solar sets were installed in the villages of Bhupnagar, Dema, Mansidih,
Lohjhara and Karhara
 Jute bags were distributed among local people in order to reduce the rampant use
of plastics
Other Events and Activities
 We have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with two local
organisations in Jharkhand; Cause for Change and Dhad Disham Vikas Sangha
(DDVS)
 We will start our Mobile Clinic activities in Jharkhand from August/September
 13 final year post-graduate students of Rural Management and Development
department, Magadh University conducted field work in our operational villages,
taking as case study, one of our programs for their Masters Project work
 A socio-economic survey was conducted in all our 18 villages.

5. In the first half of 2014 we have focused on several new initiatives in all four areas of our
intervention; Health, Education, Environment and Social.
With the objective of reaching out to disadvantaged communities beyond Gaya district we have
launched a third Mobile Clinic in 4 villages across the districts of Jenhanabad, Nawada and
Aurangabad. Under the Health Education program we have started Menstrual Health awareness
sessions in schools with the aim of disseminating information about proper menstrual hygiene and
health practices. A new Educational project, ‘the role of play in the life of a child: A way to
contribute to children well-being and healthy development’, launched in January , aims at physical,
mental, cognitive and social development of 0- 6 years of children through the introduction of
indoor and outdoor games at Anganwadi centres. The program has been started as a pilot in 4
villages namely, Gopalkhera, Chando, Dema and Banahi. Looking at the grim primary education
scenario in rural schools of Bihar we have opened two schools (at Dema and Masuribar) for young
children who neither go to Anganwadi centres nor to primary schools. The objective is to provide a
strong grounding in academics and co-curricular activities through informal education. With the
intention of encouraging the sale of hygienic food items we distributed free food covers amongst
vendors at Gaya railway station early this year. We are now in the process of giving out food boxes
for keeping edible items covered from dust and germs to interested food vendors and shopkeepers
at 50% subsidized rates. In a bid to promote environment-friendly beautification of the town we
have started planting trees along both sides of the road in front of our Bodhgaya office/OPD. We
have successfully planted 100 trees till now and intend to plant 300-400 more in the following
months. Another initiative in the area of Environment has been the installation of 60 LED solar sets
across Bhupnagar, Dema, Mansidih, Lohjhara and Karhara. The second computer training session
began in March with 55 enthusiastic youths hailing from poor communities after all 35 students
enrolled in the first session passed the written and practical examinations with good scores.
Seasonal vegetable seeds have been distributed among 1922 households across 18 villages. We
have also started giving out free seeds to interested patients at OPD and till now 657 individuals
have been benefited this way. Besides, we have opened a Kitchen Garden demonstration field cum
nursery near BodhGaya with the intention of encouraging and reviving the usage of traditional
seeds.
The first half of 2014 has been very rewarding in terms of the new ventures as also the successful
operation of the programs that have already been running. This report gives the details of all the
programs and the various activities and events that have taken place in the course of the past 6
months.
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INTRHOEDALUTCHT ION

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AN OVERVIEW OF MEDICAL ACTIVITIES
OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps
35,362 needy people availed healthcare services of our OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps.
New patients (for OPD and Mobile Clinics) constituted12,180 people ( 35.46% of total number of
patients at OPD and Mobile Clinics).
Table 1: Total Number of Patients at OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps
Month OPD Mobile Clinics Medical
Camps
Total
January 2613 3240 0 5853
February 2384 3075 513 5459
March 2668 3071 502 5739
April 2474 2545 0 5019
May 2573 2649 0 5222
June 2966 4089 0 7055
Total 15,678 18,669 1015 35,362
Number of Patients at OPD, Mobile Clinics and
Medical Camps
OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps
3240 3075 3071
2613 2384
2545
2668 2474 2573
4089
2966
2649
0
513 502
0 0 0
January February March April May June

7.  From the above graph and table we observe that for every month the Mobile Clinics have
registered slightly greater number of patients than OPD, which may be due to an increasing
number of patients from satellite villages. In June Mobile Clinic registered a sharp rise in the
total number of patients due to the introduction of our Third Mobile Clinic that month.
 Medical Camps, conducted in the months of February and
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March registred above 500 patients at each camp.
 The number of patients refered to PHC & Government Hospitals was 114 ( 0.32% of total
patients).
Table 2: Total Number of Patients Referred to PHC and Government Hospitals
Months OPD Mobile Clinics Medical
Camps
Total
January 0 5 0 5
February 5 1 29 35
March 6 1 24 31
April 3 1 0 4
May 3 1 0 4
June 17 18 0 35
Total 34 27 53 114
 18,122 patients (51.25 % of total patients treated) were treated “Free of Cost” (Pregnant
women, children and aged people above 60 years). In other words, more than half the total
number of patients visiting OPD, Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps did not even have to pay the
minimal registration fee (INR 20) for their health check-up.
Direct Observed Therapy (DOT)
Out of 3634 medical tests conducted in our pathology laboratory 265 were Sputum tests (for
Tuberculosis). Out of these the number of people who were diagnosed with TB was 8. Currently,
the total number of TB patients undergoing treatment is 103.

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Table 3: Details of DOT Program
January February March April May June Total
Number of TB patient’s
started medicine
3 4 4 5 3 4 23
Number of sputum tests
conducted
34 33 58 56 46 38 265
Sputum Positive 1 0 2 0 2 3 8
Refer TB Patients 3 2 2 2 3 3 15
Completed TB Medicine 7 3 11 2 1 4 28
Types of Diseases observed among Patients in OPD and Mobile Clinics
The following table gives us information about the various types of diseases observed among the
patients:
Table 4: Types of Diseases
Types of Diseases Total
Diarrohea/children 108
Diarrhoea / dysentery adults 546
Amoebiasis 963
Typhoid 5
TB 363
Gynecological patient 1327
Bone & joints patients 9097
Burn patient 98
Worm manifestation 31
Skin diseases of all kinds 2972
Ophthalmologic infections 8
Number of identify malnourished
children
11
Cardiac Infection 2
HTN 1883
Diabetes 262
Asthma & COPD 972
Cough & Cold 6322
Epilepsy 122
ENT patient 859
Lymphadenopathy 19
I&D Dressing 251
Other Patients 8044

9. Diarrohea/children
Diarrhoea / dysentery adults
Amoebiasis
Typhoid
TB
1327
Gynecological patient
Bone & joints patients
Burn patient
6322
8044
The table and graph show that the most common health problems observed among our patients
were Bone and Joint Pain, Cough and Cold, Skin diseases and hypertension.
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ACCESS TO PRIMARY HEALTHCARE IN URBAN AREA: SHECHEN MEDICAL
CENTRE IN BODHGAYA, BIHAR
Worm manifestation
Skin diseases of all kinds
Ophthalmologic infections
Number of identified …
Cardiac Infection
HTN
Diabetes
Asthma & COPD
Cough & Cold
Epilepsy
ENT patient
Lymphadenopathy
I&D Dressing
Other Patients
108
546
963
5 363
9097
98 31
2972
8 11 2
1883
262
972
122
859 19
251
Types of Diseases

10. The total number of patients at our Medical centre in BodhGaya in this quarter was 15,768, 108 %
higher than that registered in the January-June 2013 period (7596), of which 6286 (representing
39.87% of total patients at OPD) were new.
Men, Women and Children at OPD
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Table 5: Details of Patients in OPD
January February March April May June Total
Total Patients 2613 2384 2668 2474 2573 2966 15678
New Patients 1068 911 1089 968 1039 1211 6286
Men 712 608 697 679 650 684 4030
Women 1283 1187 1342 1224 1313 1442 7791
Children 618 589 629 571 610 840 3857
2613
Number of Patients at OPD
2384
2668
2474 2573
2966
January February March April May June
Men, Women and Children at OPD
4030
7791
3857
Men Women Children
Men
26%
Children
24%
Women
50%

11.  all the months registered more than 2400 patients. We observe that the month of June had the
highest number, which can be attributed to the commencement of monsoons when people become
susceptible to water-borne diseases and various infections.
 The above graphs show that majority of the patients at our OPD are women and children (74%).
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Pathology Laboratory
Total number of patients who came for different medical tests was 1357 and total analysis done
was 3634. The number of patients and tests are different because one patient may go for several
tests.
Table 6: Types of Medical Tests conducted in our Laboratory
Types of Medical Tests
Conducted
Total Number of
Tests
TC/DC 533
ESR 489
HB% 446
Malaria 117
Uric Acid 104
Blood Sugar 474
Serum Blirubin 66
AFB (Sputum test) 265
ECG 39
Urine routine examination 164
Urine culture sensitivity test 98
Other Tests 839
Total 3634

12. 7%
3%
5%
From the above table and graph we see that the highest number of medical tests conducted are
TC/DC, ESR, Blood Sugar, HB% and AFB (Sputum Test).
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MOBILE CLINIC
15%
13%
12%
3%
3%
13%
2%
1%
23%
Types of Medical Tests
TC/DC
ESR
HB%
Malaria
Uric Acid
Blood Sugar
Serum Blirubin
AFB (Sputum test)
ECG
Urine routine examination
Urine culture sensitivity test
Other Tests

13. In the past 6 months 18,669 patients came for the consultations to our mobile clinics, which is
156.23% higher than the number registered for Jaunary-June, 2013 period (7286). We have closed
our mobile clinic services to Sripur from June as these villages are not far from our OPD and the
villagers can easily come over for check-up, when required. Our outreach services have been
extended to the neighbouring districts of Nawada, Aurangabad and Jehanabad with the launch of a
third Mobile Clinic in May. It is providing healthcare services to the disadvantaged communities in
the villages of Bardaha and Sitamari in Nawada, Salaiya in Aurangabad and Makpa in Jehanabad.
Out of 18,669 patients 5894 (31.57%) were new The total patients who were treated Free of
Registration Charge (Pregnant women, children and aged people above 60 years) in the Mobile
Clinic was 9901 (53.03 % of the total patients at mobile clinics).
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Table 7: Details of Mobile Clinic Patients
January February March April May June Total
Total Patients 3240 3075 3071 2545 2649 4089 18669
New Patients 1098 879 779 653 898 1587 5894
Number of Patients from
Satellite Villages
2347 2232 2253 1852 1695 2539 12918
Men 909 849 1758 757 741 1119 6133
Women 1647 1571 3218 1257 1396 2101 11190
Children 684 655 1339 531 512 869 4590
Total Patients at OPD
3240 3075 3071
2545 2649
4089
January February March April May June

14.  As observed from Table 7 majority of the patients, 12,918 (69.19 % of total patients at
Mobile Clinics) come from the satellite villages surrounding the one where our outreach
medical team pays regular visits.
 The above graph shows that apart from the months on April and May the Mobile Clinics
have registered more than 3000 patients with the highest number recorded in June when
the third Mobile Clinic was launched. The plausible reason for comparatively low patient
turnout in the two months was the scorching summer heat.
Men, Women and Children at Mobile
6133
Clinics
11,190
4590
Men, Women and Children at
Mobile Clinics
Men Wom en Children
21%
The graphs clearly show that, like that in the OPD, here too women and children form majority of
the patients (72%).
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Men Women Children
28%
51%

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MEDICAL CAMPS
Free Medical Camps for the underserved and needy people were organised in BodhGaya in the
months of February and March where 1015 patients availed our medical services with more than
500 patients registered at each camp.

16. Percentage of Men, Women and
Children at Medical Camps
Men Women Children
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Table 8: Details of Medical Camp Patients
February March Total
Total Patients 513 502 1015
Men 214 157 371
Women 187 196 383
Children 112 149 261
36%
26%
38%
Men, Women and Children at Medical
214
Camps
February March
187
112
157
196
149
Men Women Children
From the above table and graphs we see that, just like in OPD and Mobile Clinics, at medical camps
too women and children for majority of the patients (64%).

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HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME (HEP)
A woman with sanitary napkin packs Community Health Meeting
Our Health Education Program continues to serve rural communities in Gaya district, with a special
focus on reproductive health and related menstrual hygiene. In order to make our program more
effective we have hired a female Village Coordinator to better reach out to women and girls
through HEP.
Table 9: Some Details of HEP
Indicators
Total Households reached 1,285
Total Families reached 1,936
Total Number of Health Groups
77
Total Number of Members in Health Groups
332
Total Number of Home Visits by Village Coordinators 1,713
Total Number of Home Visits by Motivators 3,768

18. The number of home visits by our Village Coordinators and Motivators, number of
families/households imparted with education on health-related matters, and number of Health
Groups formed for the effective running of HEP vividly put across the sincere efforts of the
organisation towards the program.
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Table 10: Reproductive and Child Health
Indicators
Total Number of Sanitary Napkins distributed
4477
Percentage of Pregnant Women Followed-up by Village Coordinators and
Motivators 91.88
Percentage of Pregnant women immunized with TT1& TT2
81.42
Percentage of Pregnant Women having Institutional Delivery
66.96
Percentage of new-born children immunized with BCG and 1st DPT
65.58
Percentage of Neo-natal deaths
0
The achievements of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) component of HEP can be gauged from
the large number of sanitary napkins distributed among the interested beneficiaries, high
percentages of pregnant women followed-up by our village coordinators and immunised with
required vaccinations, an increase in the number of women taking to institutional delivery and no
neo-natal deaths recorded in the past 6 months.
Table 11: Number of Sanitary Napkin Packets distributed
Months OPD Mobile
Clinics
Medical
Camps
Total
January 177 695 0 872
February 158 586 102 846
March 108 613 135 856
April 84 440 0 524
May 125 685 0 810
June 159 410 0 569
Total 811 3429 237 4477

19. Sanitary Napkin distribution at OPD, Mobile Clinics and
695
Medical Camps
OPD Mobile Clinics Medical Camps
586 613
177 158
440
135
108 84
685
125
410
159
0
102
0 0 0
4477 packs of sanitary napkins have reached menstruating population who cannot afford the
branded napkins available in the markets. In all 6 months we notice that the napkins distributed in
the villages have been much higher than those in OPD and Medical Camps in Bodhgaya town. The
reason being that apart from the medical team, our motivators, who themselves are members of the
village communities, sell the napkins.
In a bid to reach more disadvantaged population who do not have access to proper menstrual
protection we have started a new initiative to conduct educational sessions at schools and colleges
on menstrual health and hygiene matters. In the month of May we organised our first such day-long
program at Project Kanya school. As a part of this activity we envisage installing Sanitary napkin
vending machines and incinerators at girls schools and colleges in towns of Gaya and Bodhgaya.
... Community Awareness Program on Reproductive and Menstrual Health have been conducted in
.... villages with ... participants
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January February March April May June

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EDUCATION
EARLY CHILDCARE AND DEVELOPMENT
Recognising the vital role of play in the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills development
of a child we have introduced our new programme, ‘Role of play in the life of a child: A way to
contribute to children well-being and healthy development’ in collaboration with Inter’Lude,
France. The program, launched at the beginning of the year, is aimed at the children in Anganwadi
centres. This pilot project is running in 4 villages (Gopalkhera, Chando, Banahi and Dema) where
we have supplied Anganwadis with various indoor and outdoor games for the children.
The grounding of the program began with a day-long training session organised for select staff
members of our organisation, Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) of the blocks where the
four villages belong and Anganwadi Workers of those villages. The training was imparted by a
volunteer from Inter’Lude who worked with us on this program till April, and our Director In this
interactive training, the participants learnt about the importance of play in a child’s growth; the
objectives, methods and expected outcomes of our program.

21. This project is running successfully under regular monitoring by the village coordinators. Games,
toys and other materials required for its smooth functioning are provided to the Anganwadi
centres from time to time as per their needs.
In the State of Bihar where 95% of the schools are located in the rural areas, elementary education
presents a very grim picture. Plagued by poor infrastructure and high teacher absenteeism these
schools not only dissuade a large number of rural children from enrolling in primary education but
also increase the dropout rates.
In order to provide a strong educational foundation that the primary schools often fail to provide
we have launched informal schools in Masuribar and Dema. Our objective is the all-round
development of young children who neither go to Anganwadi centres nor attend primary schools
through free educational and co-curricular activities like Yoga.
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NON-FORMAL EDUCATION (NFE)
An NFE instructor reading out news to the students NFE students making Paper bags from old newspapers
Our NFE program is running successfully in the villages. We have introduced newspaper reading to
raise awareness about the various events happening around us. At Banahi we have taught the
students to make paper bags using old newspapers and will be teaching this vocation at our other
NFE centres in the coming months. This will not only improve their livelihood opportunities but
also promote the use of environment-friendly alternatives like paper bags to plastics.

22. In the second quarter NFE classes at Bandha, Nawatari and Kadal were temporarily dissolved due
to poor and irregular attendance. The average attendance of the rest of the centres is provided in
the table below:
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Table 12: NFE Attendance details
Name of Villages Number of Students
enrolled in NFE
Average Attendance in
NFE classes for Q1
Average Attendance in
NFE classes for Q2
Banahi 30 15 15
Dema 30 25 16
Gopalkhera 30 11 16
Lohjara 30 14 12
Mansidih 31 12 8
Sripur 30 12 12
Mastibar 25 10 12
J.P.Nagar 28 10 8
Kharati 18 16 10
Karhara 60 30 30
Trilokapur 21 10 6
Bhupnagar 25 15 15
Total 358 180 160
Despite the scorching summers, the harvest season and various festivities the average attendance
for the past 6 months has been close to 50% at 47.49%. This clearly brings out the success of the
NFE program in attracting and retaining students.

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KITCHEN GARDEN
SOCIAL
Vegetable seeds continue to be distributed among villagers growing Kitchen Gardens under the
sustained guidance and monitoring of our organisation. 1,972 households have been provided free
vegetable seeds for undertaking Kitchen Gardening in their backyards, which is a 98% increase
compared to the June-December 2013 period (996 households). This brings across the growing
success of the program through a surging interest generated among the villagers who have been
witness to the benefits reaped by those growing kitchen garden with our support. We have started
a new initiative under this program where plant nurseries have been formed in 11 villages.
With the objective to produce healthy seeds for better kitchen gardens and to revive the use of
traditional seeds for cultivation we have opened a Kitchen Garden Demonstration Field cum
Nursery at Amwan, near Bodhgaya town where we have grown brinjal and green chillies plants and
will be growing other vegetables and fruits in the coming months.
We have also started distributing seeds among interested OPD patients and thus, have reached out
to 657 patients.

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VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED YOUTH & WOMEN
Computer Courses for the Underprivileged Youth
Issuing certificates to the first batch of Computer students
The first session of our 6 months computer training got over in March with all 35 students, enrolled in
the program, passing with good grades. All of them were issued score sheets for their written and
practical examinations along with Certificates of successful Course completion. The second session of
computer training was started soon after with 55 enthusiastic students.
Vocational Training for Rural Women
The women who had attained advanced training in candle-making in Jamshedpur last year conducted
refresher and advanced training on candle-production and marketing to NFE students at Banahi,
Gopalkhera, Bandha, Nawatari and Dema.
We are preparing the ground for conducting vocational training workshops similar to the ones
organised last year. One of the vocations that will be taught is Mushroom Cultivation, training for which
will be given by one of our local partners at Jharkhand, Dhad Disham Vikas Sangha (DDVS).

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SMALL MONEY BIG CHANGE
Under our Community Planned-Community Managed program, small money BIG CHANGE we are
digging ponds at Dema and Bhupnagar, both of which face serious dearth of water facilities,
especially during the scorching summers when the ponds and wells dry up.

26. NETWORKING WITH OTHER LOCAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS
(NGOS)
The scale and scope of developmental challenges requires that all organisations sharing similar
mission and goal work collectively towards the realisation of their common aspirations. With the
aim of forming a network of like-minded humanitarian organisations we have compiled the
detailed information about NGOs (a total of 98 functioning NGOs) working in Gaya district.
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27. BODHGAYA CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, HYGIENE AND SANITATION PROGRAM
With the pledge to promote eco-friendly beautification of the town we have taken the initiative to
plant trees along the road in front of our office/OPD and have till now planted 100 trees. In the
following months we intend to plant 300-400 trees.
In order to reduce the indiscriminate use of bio-non degradable plastics we have been distributing
Jute bags to each of our patients, our NFE students, staff and schools in our operational villages. We
have been able to give away 4427 bags in the past 6 months.
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ENVIRONMENT

28. We have given free food covers to 21 vendors selling food at Gaya station and are now in the
process of distributing 100 food boxes made of steel and glass to interested food vendors and shop-owners
in the towns of Bodhgaya and Gaya. These boxes, that we have purchased at whole price of
INR 7,000 each and whose market value is much higher at INR 11,000 per box, will be distributed
at 50% subsidised rates to the target beneficiaries.
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RAINWATER HARVESTING
Our programme on Rainwater Harvesting which was started at the end of last year continues with
water tanks being installed in 36 households across 4 villages (Dema-18 households, Chando-11,
Karhara-2 and Banahi-5). Besides, schools at Dema , Gopalkhera and Lohjhara have also set up
rainwater harvesting system for the benefit of the students, faculty and other staff members.

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SOLAR ELECTRICITY
This year we have scaled-up our Solar electricity program to cover some of the remotest villages
where there is hardly any possibility of electrification in the near future. With the help of our new
solar engineers we have installed 60 LED sets in interested households across 5 villages and have
collected a one-time amount of INR 2000 from each of these households (33 in Bhupnagar, 13 in
Dema, 11 Mansidih, 2 in Lohjhara and 1 in Banahi).

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OTHER EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY PROGRESS IN JHARKHAND
With the objective of reaching out to more people in dire need of humanitarian services we are
expanding our area of operation to the neighbouring state of Jharkhand from this year. The State is
bound by Bihar in the North, West Bengal in the East, Odisha in the South and Chhattisgarh and U.P. in
the West. A mineral rich state, Jharkhand has 24 districts, 260 blocks and 32,615 revenue villages with
a total population of 3.30 Crore as per 2011 census accounting for 2.7% of the country’s population.
The reason for choosing Jharkhand for our future humanitarian assistance is that the State, like Bihar,
not only ranks as one of the poorest states in the country but also fares very badly in most of the
human development indicators and is Maoist-affected with several districts being declared as Red
Corridors.
Based on the extensive discussions we have signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with two
local organisations; Cause for Change and Dhar Disham Vikas Sangha (DDVS). On the basis of our
village scan process we have selected Rajnagar Block in Seraikela-Kharsawan District as our initial
area of intervention where we will be working in Baner Panchayat, Gangaruli Panchayat, Kendmundi
and Bankhabani Panchayats. We will be starting our Mobile Clinic services in the selected Panchayats
by August-September.
We have booked our Office space at Hata, an important junction located 20km from Jamshedpur. Hata
was chosen for its strategic location; our areas of intervention covering the districts of East
Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsewa fall within 50 km radius of our Hata office.
FIELD WORK AND PROJECT STUDY BY MAGADH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
We conducted a day-long workshop with final year post-graduate students of Rural Management and
Development program, Magadh University on Project work/Dissertation writing. Thereafter, we
selected 13 bright students from amongst them to conduct field work for their projects at our
operational villages, taking as case study one of our ongoing programs. As part of their project work
they conducted socio-economic survey in all 18 operational villages under the guidance and
supervision of our able staff members. The students have been issued certificates by our organisation
for their participation.

31. Workshop on Dissertation writing Field Work by the students
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FINANCES
The expenses incurred in the January-June period of 2014 are presented below:
Expenditure in January-June period
31%
15%
3% 15%
15%
7%
0%
5%
9%
0%
Health Programme (OPD + 2
Mobiles + 1 NEW MOBILE)
Shechen Medical Centre (Out
Patient Department)
Mobile Clinics and Medical Camps
New Mobile Clinic for extended
Operational Area and Nyingma
Medical Camp
Education
Environment Programme
Social Programme
Programme Support (Need Based
Training and Capacity Building for
Staff)
Administration, transportation and
functioning

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
 Programs in Jharkhand including a Mushroom training for tribal communities in July at
Musaboni Block
 Mobile Clinics in selected villages in East Singhbhum and Saraikela Kharswan from August /
September
 Baseline Survey in the chosen operational areas in Jharkhand
 Vocational training for women from disadvantaged communities in Bihar including
Mushroom cultivation, Rakhi making and paper bag making
 Yoga training for interested youths from disadvantaged communities in July
 Installation of Sanitary napkin vending machines and Incinerators in schools and colleges in
Gaya district
 Electric Auto-rickshaws will be driven by female drivers from our clinic to the main road.
This initiative aims at women empowerment, environment-friendly communication and
promotion of social awareness-related programs.