Gramarthan – Making village self-contained
Gramarthan is reflection of Deepastambha’s vision of sustainable rural development, which effectively covers; ecological, cultural and economic aspects of rural lives. Based on the principles of sustainability and ownership, Gramarthan’s rationale is to explore and execute participatory models by encouraging the values of self-governance and self-sustainability in the members of rural communities.
The quest of Gramarthan began in 2013, with identifying communities that be the prototype of our vision. After an exhaustive process of field visits, meetings with the domain experts, developing approaches, searching for alternatives and the implementation of those approaches, today Gramarthan stands as a development model aiming at;
- Assisting villages in fulfilling the basic needs with the help of natural resources.
- Ensuring expert’s guidance through planned interactions with the community
- Assisting community members to avail necessary health, educational facilities along with alternative livelihood options
- Encouraging women empowerment
- Self-sufficient community model
- Enabling access to technological advancements
Area of Work
Work Domain
Swacha Maze Gaon – Cleanliness drive and awareness for 450+ house
Working in Three Steps
- Step 1- Swacha Maze Ghar (My House)
- Step 2- Swacha Maze Parisar (My Surrounding)
- Step 3- Swacha Maze Gaon (My Village)
Swacha Maze Gaon – Cleanliness drive and awareness for 450+ house
Working in Three Steps
- Step 1- Swacha Maze Ghar (My House)
- Step 2- Swacha Maze Parisar (My Surrounding)
- Step 3- Swacha Maze Gaon (My Village)
Niramaya (Health & Hygiene)
(More than 1200 villagers are taking benefits from this initiative)
- Awareness campaigns,
- Regular OPD
- Various health camps- Anemia checkup, eye checkup, Brest/cervical cancer screening camp.
Educational activities
- Skool-Falak (To encourage critical enquiry and research skills)
- Setting up libraries and activities for developing reading skills
- Skill development programs
The outreach is five (4 primary and 1 secondary) schools covering more than 130 students.
Village Team building
This covers a wide range of activities; right from screening movies, celebrating festivals, call for volunteers to organizing Gramsabhas, to encourage maximum participation from the villagers as well as to facilitate team’s interaction with them.
Women Empowerment
- Skill building sessions
- Sessions on entrepreneurship development by experts.
- Sessions aiming at confidence building
- Counseling sessions for family members.
The outreach of women empowerment program is over 150 women.
