HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INDIA’S SELF ASSESSMENT REPORT 1. Name of Organization: Humana People to People India 2. Postal Address : C-183, Madhuban, Preet Vihar, Delhi 110092 3. Telephone: 011- 65137806 4. Email: [email protected] 5. Legal Status: a) Registered under Section 25 (not for profit) of the Companies Act, 1956, Place: New Delhi. b) Year of Registration: - 1998 c) Foreign Contribution Regulation Act ( FCRA ) Number: 231660194 and d) Year of Registration: 2001 Vision “It is about fostering new generations with golden hearts and heads and hands, well educated and with a personal ethic of such proportions that humanized relationships of all sizes can serve as substitutes for all sorts of dehumanised phenomenon. It is about improving democracy, advancing production, building up trade relations, generating services and it is about scanning all brains to create new portions of know how. It is about concentrating on the important task of transferring the results of efforts from places where development is well ahead to places where it is dawning or even absent. It is about establishing capable institutions for education and health. It is about improving human relationships on a contemporary basis and to modern standards. It is about emancipation of every single human being on the level of personal happiness and, at the same time making each human being responsible for the happiness of his neighbors through practical methods. And as always in the question of development it is about promoting and preventing. Preventing the dehumanising of society, of institutions and of you and me. Promoting the humanization of mankind, the only art form that contains the seeds to the flowers of happiness for all. From black-white to all colours at random. From the struggle for liberation to the struggle for development” (from the charter of Humana People to People). Mission Humana People to People India’s mission is to create development in the broadest sense. Especially through the establishment and implementation of projects that aim at transferring knowledge, skills and capacity to individuals and communities that need assistance to come out of poverty and dehumanized conditions. Humana People to People India works with the people as partners in finding solutions and in creating the necessary conditions to improve their living standards and to achieve their aspiration for a just and humanized life for themselves, their families and their communities. 1 It is further Humana People to People India’s mission to promote humanization of man, and to protect the weak and the outcast and to go against all forms of discrimination, oppression and exploitation. Humana People to People India aims to have an effect on the eradication of poverty, the control of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, education for all, health care for all and for people to have the power do decide over their own destinies. Humana People to People India is a non-political, non-religious organization Our strength Humana People to People India works on community development from a holistic approach. Our strength is a dedicated and well-educated staff that lives and works at the project areas. They mobilize people to join community-based organizations and encourage them to take initiatives in formulating and carrying out the activities. Samples of community based organizations are: Village Water and Sanitation Committees, Parents – Teachers committees, Farmers Clubs, Women’s Self-Help-Groups, Common Interest Groups, Youth Clubs, Active Kids Clubs. For each individual who participate in community work it is an experience and a skill the person will carry along for the rest of the life. For the community it is a lesson in improving common life conditions by lifting together. Humana People to People India has good experience locally and globally in implementation of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Programs. HPPI has experienced and dedicated staff members to run HIV/AIDS prevention, Community Development, Environment and education projects in any state of India. Type of Projects Humana People to People India is implementing 19 Social Development projects on :- Community Development, Environment, HIV / AIDS, Health, Education of adolescent girls, street and working children; across six states of India, viz. Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttrakhand, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. a) Community Development Projects The “Community Development Projects ” are based on a comprehensive model, which has been practiced and developed over many years. The model defines an operation area of a minimum of 3000 families. The families are mobilized to be part of the Community Development Project, as the main drivers of development. The model includes 10 lines of action, 8 of which are defined in broad terms and 2 lines defined by the projects and communities themselves. Within each of the 10 lines the project leadership together with the communities develops and implements activities in support of their struggle for a better life. Humana People to People India is implementing Community Development Projects in Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttaranchal and Tamilnadu. The various Community development projects being carried out are:- 1. Community Development Project, Alwar Main Focus The project has two main organizational set ups:- 2 i) People are mobilized to organize themselves in “common interest groups” such as Self Help Groups, Farmers Clubs, Youth Groups, Adolescent Girls Groups and Women Groups. The project trains, links the groups with government schemes, organizes actions in the villages that the groups implement, etc. ii)The Project implements different programmes according to agreements with partners; Reproductive Child Health in 14 Model Villages; Training and empowement of female elected local government officials; Fluroide Mitigation; etc. Social Impact / Accumulative Figures The project has established 150 Self Help Groups, 100 Youth Groups, 50 Farmers Clubs, 100 pre-schools, General Knowledge classes in 50 schools, Reproductive Child Health Programme in 14 model villages, Promotion of Vermi compost units and Fluroide mitigation. 2. Community Development Project, Virat Nagar Main Focus The projects main focus is on over all development of the community. In this regard the project is focusing on 3 major areas. Empowerment of women, Girls education and youth. In Girls education mobilizing the community to send their children to school and its never late to go to the school. In Women Empowerment motivate the women to take up active participation in the decision making and be economical independent. Social Impact / Accumulative Figures The project has succeeded in formation of 125 Self Help Groups,15 Girls Education Centers, 450 Students, 7 youth clubs,12 Teachers workshops, 8 Exposure Visits,180 school Ralies and 180 Computer classes. 3. Community Development Project, Dausa Main Focus Formation of the Common Interest Group for improving their living standard by taking participation in income generation activity. To mobilize the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and the communities to form strong grass root organization, develop a life of dignity and well being through accessing services that meet their basic needs in a sustainable manner including livelihood, health, education and information, a safe and healthy environment and a life free of discrimination, thus ensuring their economical, social, as well as civil and political rights. Social Impact / Accumulative Figures During the last year various improvements have been added to the project, which is by now extended to December 2007. One important improvement is a change in the concept, which means that the Common Interest Groups that have established their projects and are now earning from the productions are encouraged to start a common saving in style with the Self Help Groups. This will provide them with capital to invest in repair of equipment or purchase of new items. The project has formed 326 Common Interest Groups and linked with Government scheme under District Poverty Initiative Program (DPIP). The project has worked hard to explain this facility to the groups and by the end of the year 177 groups have been converted to Self Help Groups. 4. Community Development Project, Jaipur Main Focus 3 The organization started working for the development of slum dwellers at Jhalana Kacchi Basti in Jaipur. Since its inception, the project is working with 1750 families to create a difference in their life. The project expended its operational area since January 2007 and is now reaching to 2197 including families from Kunda Basti with support from State Resource Centre (SRC), Rajasthan. Social Impact / Accumulative Figures The project has accomplished in reaching out to 2200 Households, 24 Self help groups, 24 youth Clubs,12 SHG trainings,12 youth trainings in income generation and 12 women group. 5. Community Development Project, Nainital Main Focus The idea of the project is to work together with people and their communities to develop a life in dignity and well being through access to services that meet their basic needs in a sustainable manner including livelihood, health, education and information, a safe and healthy environment and a life free of discrimination. Ensuring their economical, social, cultural as well as civil and political rights. Social Impact / Accumulative Figures The project has succeeded in formation of 16 Adoloscent girls groups, 13 Youth groups, 2 pre-schools and 2 education centres. The project has also been successful in forming