To achieve our Vision/Mission
and objectives we have conducted activities on following
issues in the past 16 years:
Reproductive
Child Health including Nutrition, Pulse Polio Programme,
Vitamin A Administration, Iodine Deficiency Control
Program, Diarrhoea Management, TB,STD,HIV/AIDS etc
in more than 600 villages of Uttarakhand and western
U.P.
Adult Literacy for women of 30 city slums and 35 tribal
community villages.
Diversified Agriculture which includes Agriculture,
Horticulture, Dairy, Poultry, Formation of farmers’
federation, Self Help Groups etc in 40 villages of
two tribal community blocks Kalsi and Chakrata of
district Dehradun.
Water & Sanitation which also include construction
of low cost toilets for below poverty line people
in 20 villages of two districts i.e. Pauri Garhwal
and Chamoli in Uttarakhand.
Women Empowerment through advocacy for their rights,
legal literacy, health and nutrition, Women Land Rights,
Livelihoods activities, vocational trainings, Income
generation, Leadership & Skill Development, formation
of women and adolescent girls SHGs, Microfinance initiatives
for poor women for their small entrepreneurships in
more than 300 villages of Uttarakhand and U.P.
on Panchayat Raj, Health and Nutrition, Community
Need Assessment, Water and Leadership and skill development
of civil society organizations, community leaders
and volunteers Sanitation etc in 33 Blocks and 350
villages of Uttarakhand and western U.P.
Enhancing capacity and skill of Adolescent girls groups
through trainings on family life education, health,
nutrition, awareness about their rights, education,
vocational and career guidance in 100 villages of
Dehradun and Boarder district Chamoli.
We have successfully completed our project called
“Garhwal Health & Development Package :
2000” on key components of Primary Health Care
in 30 blocks of Garhwal Division, Saharanpur &
Haridwar, covering more than 300 villages with the
financial support from UNICEF, Lucknow, technical
support from the concerned departments like Health,
Education, Block, Agriculture, Horticulture, PRIs
etc. and implementation through 17 networking agencies.
We have also undertaken project called “Social
Mobilization for Child Care & Nutrition”
in full block of Vikasnagar, Dehradun, covering 56
villages with the support from UNICEF, Lucknow. Under
this project we have taken out several children out
of malnutrition, particularly girl child. We have
also formed 31 adolescent girls groups in villages
of Vikasnagar block to look into the nutritional,
health, Socio-economical, legal and emotional needs
of the adolescent girls. Beside above programmes,
we have undertaken following projects on health, Nutrition
and Hygiene:
a)-Health
Education Project with primary school children and
community in 40 villages of Block Ghat, District Chamoli
with the support of TPAK/JICA, Japan to promote proper
health and hygiene practices among school children
and their families.
b)-Iodine
Deficiency Disorders Control Programme with students’
of class 8-12 and community in 4 districts of western
U.P., covering 62 colleges and more than 400 villages
with the support of Govt of U.P. and UNICEF, Lucknow
to educate the students and community the consequences
of iodine deficiency disorders and promote use of
iodine salt to use at their households to prevent
IDD.
c)-Strengthening
of Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS) and
village women and adolescent groups on health, nutrition
and sanitation with women and adolescent girls in
18 villages of 3 Blocks of District Chamoli with the
support of Govt of Uttarakhand and World Food Programme.
d)-Conducted
State, Divisional and district level stakeholders
meets in Uttarakhand to promote RNTCP and DOTS. With
the help of tbACTION
e)-Conducted more than 500 trainings and orientations
in the past 16 years for middle and grassroots level
functionaries and communities at large on common health
problems like TB, HIV/AIDS, Polio, Iodine Deficiency
disorders, Vitamin A Administration, Diarrhoea Management
etc to develop capacity and skill of these functionaries
in the required field, so that they may deliver good
services and yield good results.
Women
Empowerment
• Mamta has constituted more than 120
women self help groups and adolescent girls groups
in villages of two districts i.e. Dehradun and Chamoli.
• Conducted various social, cultural and vocational
training programmes for women and adolescent girls
to develop them as a leader and catalyst of change.
More than 15,000 women & girls have been trained
on women rights, govt schemes, health, nutrition,
gender equality, livelihoods, Sewing, Food preservation,
Horticulture, Agriculture, Primary Health Care, Pre-primary
education, Adult education, Panchayati Raj in the
past 16 years.
• Chicken Embroidery training in 8 villages
of Vikasnagar, 300 women/girls, support – SEWA,
Lucknow (2000).50 women initiated embroidery work
with SEWA and earned Rs 2000/- to Rs 4,000/- per month.
Rest of the women and girls used the embroidery skill
locally in their family and village.
• Currently, Mamta is associated with several
women networks at state and national level and these
days, we are encouraging women SHGs. to raise voice
for their livelihood & land rights. These groups
are now demanding to the govt. and their local Panchayat
to give them right over village common properties
in order to ensure their livelihoods through some
income generation activities as a group.
Income
Generation and Vocational Trainings
• Income generation for the weaker section of
the society, has been the main thrust of Mamta since
its inception. One can think about his/her education,
health and social responsibilities better, if he/she
is economically sound. Mamta, since its inception
involved some women from weaker section in income
generating activities such as: knitting, sewing, embroidery,
painting, hand made soft toys, greetings cards, eatables
like pickle, jam, chips etc.
• To market its products, a shop called ‘Lowcost
Home Care Point’ was opened and maintained for
3 years i.e. 1992-94.It was an unit of voluntary organizations
or network of Mamta’s seven partners who found
it difficult to market their products, kept their
products in this shop. We had to close down the shop
because we could not compete the market.
• Mamta has entered in the field of Micro credit
in December,2007.Since then we have formed 101 Joint
liability groups(JLGs) and provided loan of Rs 50
Lacs to 505 members of women from weaker section of
the society with the help of Uttarakhand Microfinance
and Livelihood Promotion Development Cooperative Institute,
Govt of Uttarakhand. Currently 100 more groups are
ready to take loan for their small entrepreneurships.
We are targeting 74 slums of Dehradun in the beginning
and gradually expand the micro credit work in rural
areas of Dehradun and other districts of Uttarakhand.
We have also linked up our organization with L.I.C.of
India in March, 2008 to provide micro insurance facilities
to the members and families of the weaker section
of the society, particularly to the members of micro
credit groups.
• We are also planning to start functional vocational
trainings for less educated and disadvantaged youth
of the society on various viable trades in order to
give them an opportunity to either start their own
small entrepreneurships or get suitable job after
the training.
• Mamta with the support of Directorate, ICDS(Women
& Child Development deptt),Govt of Uttarakhand
, conducted convergence trainings on early child care
and development for the frontline functionaries of
primary education, women and child development, civil
societies and health department in 19 Nyay Panchayats
of 4 blocks in district Chamoli. Total 617 frontline
functionaries got an opportunity to understand the
various steps of early child care and development
and they got motivated to play a significant role
in early child care and development in their respective
field through their departments.
• The project Women Development Initiatives
was implemented in 5 backward villages of Vikasnagar
Block, district Dehradun w.e.f Ist January, 07 to
31 December,2007 with the support from TPAK-UNIFEM,
Japan. We focussed our project activities on women
and adolescent girls in five villages as primary group
and covered approximately 750 families and 3000 population
of weaker section as a secondary group of the villages,
mostly having the population of scheduled tribe, scheduled
caste, other backward class and Muslim. We have formed
one women and one adolescent girls group in each project
village. The members of the each group were encouraged
to select two members out of their group as leaders
of their group to whom Mamta provided training on
leadership skills and all relevant issues pertaining
to their group’s health and sustainable development.
Other Projects and Achievements:
• 8th Red & White Bravery
Awards (1998-99) were given in Meerut on 1.5.99 and
Mamta was honored with the Silver Award in recognition
of an exceptional Act of social courage.
• Has been associated with ICDS and Most India-USAID
Micro-nutrient program State offices, Dehradun as
their Master Trainers to train their various level
functionaries.
• Has been associated with CORE, New Delhi for
providing trainings under Pulse Polio Eradication
campaign to their Block and village level coordinators
as a master trainer in 4 Districts of U.P.
