PAST PROJECTS

All of our projects are designed to become self-sustaining, providing long-term benefits to the communities in which they are delivered.

We aim to ensure that all of our projects continue to make a difference, even once they have officially ended. Many of our projects address long-term need through the construction of vital village facilities like water pumps & toilets. Our women’s income generation projects enable women to build sustainable livelihoods and to continue to support themselves & each other through the formation of Self-Help Groups.

PROJECT NAMAKKAL (2)

Delivering Partner: Women’s Organisation for Rural Development (WORD)

Supported by: Innocent Foundation

Duration: June 2012 – May 2014

Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Focus: Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 895 (265 woman SHG members, 475 adolescent girls & 150 Dalit children)

Total lives touched: 895

Project Namakkal (2) worked with  265 Self-Help Group women members & 475 adolescent girls formed into activity-focused SHGs in five villages in North West Tamil Nadu to generate income through vermicomposting, organic vegetable farming, tailoring & embroidery or coir rope-making. All were provided with access to a Revolving Fund to help them save & expand their activities & were provided with legal literacy training to better understand their legal rights & entitlements through membership of Watch.

PROJECT ECO – BERHAMPUR ISLAND

Delivering Partner: Jeevan Rekha Parishad (JRP)

Supported by: Innocent Foundation

Duration: June 2012 – May 2014

Location: Odisha, Eastern India

Focus: Water & Sanitation, Health & Nutrition, Environment, Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 100

Indirect Beneficiaries: 2800

Total lives touched: 2900

This 2-year initiative to conserve the eco-system on Berhampur Island in the Chilika lagoon in Odisha benefited over 2,900 fisherwomen, men & other islanders to develop lagoon-linked livelihoods such as crabs, prawns & fish for local & export consumption as well as ground nuts & compost for mainland markets. Islanders planted coconut, mango & banana trees to help stabilise the island’s eco-system while strengthening its resistance to cyclones. The fruit from the tree supplements nutrition & generates income. Berhampur village & its school now also benefit from clean water & sanitation facilities.

MADHU NETWORK PROJECT

Delivering Partner: Jeevan Rekha Parishad (JRP)

Supported by: DfiD

Duration: January 2012 – December 2013

Location: Odisha, Eastern India

Focus: Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 300

Indirect Beneficiaries: 1500

Total lives touched: 1800

Delivered by JRP in Odisha with support from DFID, this honey production project expanded its beekeeping activities from 3 to 10 villages via a network of 300 women beekeepers during 2012-14. A Women Beekeepers Association (WBA) was formed to represent the interests of small-scale women producers & to build a sustainable & replicable beekeeping industry. JRP is currently strengthening the production capacity and commercial viability of the WBA to pool, store, filter & market its honey to wholesale purchasers with the ultimate aim of the Association achieving Fair Trade registration.

PROJECT MOUSMI

Delivering Partner: Jeevan Rekha Parishad (JRP)

Supported by: Innocent Foundation, Zurich Community Trust, Paget Trust

Duration: April 2009 – March 2012

Location: Odisha, Eastern India

Focus: Water & Sanitation, Women’s Income Generation, Environment

Direct Beneficiaries: 1600

Indirect Beneficiaries: 1500

Total lives touched: 3100

Project Mousmi was an extensive three-year project addressing the need of 1,600 tribal villagers living in two villages in the Chandaka Forest Area for safe clean water for household use & sanitation to improve health, small-scale cultivation & environmental sustainability. It covered a broad range of activities from rainwater harvesting & containment of water sources, to the provision of household toilets, and a village awareness campaign to develop small-scale water-based cultivation & livelihoods. The project also provides access to clean water to a further 1,500 villagers who live in 3 villages downstream from the water development area.

PROJECT ECO – MAHINSA ISLAND

Delivering Partner: Jeevan Rekha Parishad (JRP)

Supported by: Zurich Foundation, Southall Trust & Harbinson Trust

Duration: March 2009 – Feb 2011

Location: Odisha, Eastern India

Focus: Water & Sanitation, Health & Nutrition, Environment, Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 756

Indirect beneficiaries: 1050

Total lives touched: 1806

This 2-year initiative to conserve the eco-system on Mahinsa Island in the Chilika lagoon in Odisha benefited over 1800 fisherwomen, men & other islanders to develop lagoon-linked livelihoods such as crabs, prawns & fish for local & export consumption as well as ground nuts & compost for mainland markets. Islanders planted coconut, mango & banana trees to help stabilise the island’s eco-system while strengthening its resistance to cyclones. The fruit from the tree supplements nutrition & generates income. Mahinsa village & its school now also benefit from clean water & sanitation facilities.

PROJECT NAMAKKAL (1)

Delivering Partner: Women’s Organisation for Rural Development (WORD)

Supported by: Waterloo Foundation

Duration: April 2009 – March 2010

Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Focus: Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 180

Indirect Beneficiaries: 1080

Total lives touched: 1260

Project Namakkal (1) empowered over 180 Dalit women, including widows, in five villages in south-west Tamil Nadu by providing livelihood training so that they could generate income through the production of coir rope. A Revolving Fund enabled these women to deposit savings & make loans so that they could invest in their activities, contribute to household income & improve the quality of family life. Other activities included raising the awareness of human rights issues among these women & villagers generally in an area which has a high-level of domestic violence.

PROJECTS OORANIE & PISCES

Delivering Partner: Social Change and Development (SCAD)

Supported by: Haramead Charitable Trust, Miss KM Harbinson’s Charitable Trust & Walk for Water (Ooranie) Waterloo Foundation, Marr-Munning Trust, Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust, John and Susan Bowers Trust & Walk for Water (Pisces)

Duration: May 2007 – April 2008 (Ooranie), March 2009 – February 2010 (Pisces)

Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Focus: Water & Sanitation, Health & Nutrition, Environment, Women’s Income Generation

Direct Beneficiaries: 6790

Total lives touched: 6790

Implemented by Social Change & Development (SCAD) near Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, Project Ooranie helped restore three disused traditional village water reservoirs or ooranies to secure village water for farming & domestic use. Project Pisces built on this work by supporting the cultivation & harvesting of fish within the same three reservoirs which enables some 2,500 villagers to annually consume a share of the fish & to harvest & sell the fish to raise community funds for ooranie maintenance.

PROJECT ANNAI MARY

Delivering Partner: Annai Mary Foundation (AMF)

Supported by: Waterloo Foundation

Duration: June 2007 – June 2013

Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Focus: Women’s Income Generation, Health & Nutrition

Direct Beneficiaries: 150

Indirect Beneficiaries: 900

Total lives touched: 1050

Project Annai Mary worked with 150 Tribal & Dalit women in 3 villages in Tamil Nadu, & included a small number of women registered as HIV+. The women engaged in beekeeping & goat-rearing. They used the honey for household consumption & medicinal purposes & generated an income from surplus honey & the sale of goats in local markets. Project activities also included the production & marketing of home-made chutneys, as well as organic compost & kitchen garden production, the vegetables of which improved family nutrition & generated a little income when there was surplus.

PLEASE NOTE: Jeevika Trust is not a grant-making organisation. We build meaningful relationships with our partner organisations & develop projects together. We do not consider unsolicited requests for funding & we are currently fully committed to our six existing partners.

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