WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME – Maithreyi

KSWCT has a strong belief that communities can develop and sustain if their citizens are adequately empowered with knowledge and skill sets. In line with this, we have engaged in several initiatives.

Maithreyi is a Women Empowerment, Economic independency and Personal development programme organized by Kabiguru Social Welfare and Charitable Trust. We are working to provide quality living through different vocational education and social awareness programme to the underprivileged women in our area. Our mission is to enhance Women’s Economic status, Dignity and Decision making within their families.  

Maithreyi, Rural Women Development and Empowerment project is to strengthen processes that promote economic development of woman and create an environment for social change.  The specific area of work is to establish women’s self help group (SHG), increase the income of poor women and improve the access to better health, education and child labor reduction facilities. 

Our responsibility towards women empowerment with the progress of communities being dependent on the working generation, Our Trust focused its initiatives on the welfare and well-being of women from the sections of underprivileged society. The underlying objective was to give them the opportunity to raise their standard of living. 

Our Trust believes that empowering a woman means empowering her whole family. We continues to support vocational Training course in tailoring to promote self-sufficiency amongst underprivileged women, especially girl student dropouts, widows, divorcees and women from Below Poverty Line segment in and around the villages of Nadia, Murshidabad, Hooghly etc.

During self counseling session, most of the women showed enthusiasm in learning some skills to supplement their household income. They showed interest in learning basic stitching skills and advance tailoring, fashion designing, Creative art, Craft and more. To facilitate these kinds of vocational training, we has joined hands with different women self help groups in our area.

STREET CHILDREN PROGRAMME – Anchal

Project Objective

ü  To rehabilitate children abusing substances

ü  To develop an effective intervention model

ü  To create awareness about the issue amongst children and stakeholders

Rationale

Research studies show that the presence of Street children is an urban phenomenon all over the world today. The problems surrounding street children are growing in big cities and towns as a consequence of the growth in size and complexities of cities. The accelerating processes of urbanization, rural-urban migration, globalization and family disintegration have caused many social problems including that of marginalized children.

Among the broad category of marginalized children, a group of street children stands out due to their specific characteristics and lifestyle

• Street children are an extremely vulnerable group because of the way they are forced to live homeless on the streets.
• They are roofless, rootless and alienated from the society.
• They are roofless, rootless and alienated from the society.
• They grow up on the margins of the society without love, care, protection and supervision of adults.
• Moreover, they are deprived of their basic rights of survival, protection, development and participation.
• They have to fend for themselves for their own survival and sometimes for the survival of their family as well.
• Civic amenities like latrines and bathing facilities are beyond their reach.
• Malnutrition and hunger is widespread among them.
• Due to constant exposure to the unhealthy conditions of living on the streets, children suffer from a range of ailments.
• Owing to the lack of guardian control over their lives children indulge in various addictions like smoking, sniffing glue, and Xerox solutions leaving them debilitated.
• Street children become the victims of the sub-culture of the street: drug abuse, gambling, drinking, vagrancy, thieving and prostitution. They are high-risk group for HIV/AIDS.
• Street children are subjected to harassment and eviction by the municipal authorities because of their unauthorized occupation of city roads and vacant places. Street children are also
• They are victims of physical and sexual abuse.

Target Group (at Present)

Children who reside and work within the premises of railway stations, inside the train and surrounding area.

Work Area

Railway stations from Sealdah to Ranaghat, Sealdah to Sonarpur, Sealdah to Bongao and the surrounding communities.

Methods

Regular counseling and therapy sessions both with individuals and groups are essential aspects of the project. The project comprises of an array of other activities, such as: identification of new children indulging substance abuse, establishing strong rapport with all the substance-abusing children, assessment of their perception and needs and organizing activities like life skill workshops, heath camps, counseling with parents, parent meetings, art and craft classes, etc.

Education is also provided to these children through the system of non-formal education. Keeping the focus on the children’s best interest, they are either sent to a shelter home or rehabilitation centre.

CHILD LITERACY, EDUCATION & SELF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME – Suchana

Suchana is a Child Literacy, Education and Personal development programme organised by Kabiguru Social Welfare and Charitable Trust. We are working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of our area. Our mission is to ensure “Education is the Right of Every Child”.  

We reach children living economically and literally backward families in both rural and urban areas through a range of interventions. Our programs include pre-school education, mainstreaming out of school children, providing learning support to both in-school and out of school children, providing children with access to books, research and analysis, protecting vulnerable children, among others.

We are also conducting counselling program among parents (specifically belonging in under priviledged section), staying at different district, West Bengal to promote Child literacy and Personal development for exploring human potentiality towards self reliance.

 Highlights of key Programs

• Improving the reading, writing and arithmetic levels of the children

• Improving Enrolment & Learning levels of children in urban areas

• Assessment, Survey, Evaluation and Research

• Working with vulnerable children

• Working with underemployed and unemployed youth

• Working in Early Childhood Care and Education

• Providing books to underprivileged children

FAMILY WELFARE AND AWARENESS PROGRAMME

Organization arranged for health checkup of the women through periodic Health Camp. The awareness for family welfare programmes was also created. The eligible couples were motivated to adopt the ways to control the birth rate. They were also advised to maintain a small family with two children and to have a gap in the birth of two children. They were also appraised to use condoms and oral pills to control the pregnancy, take deliveries in hospitals and to provide proper care for the women and infants. Awareness was also created for breast feeding.

PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND ORAL HEALTH CHECK UP PROGRAMME

Our organization is running Charitable Dispensary cum Doctor’s Consultation and Health Management Chamber at Santoshri Pally (Deul Para), Naihati, 24 Parganas since February 2014. We are also providing Health Councelling & Nutrition, Oral Health Checkup and General Health Services to the peoples at their convenience staying at underprivileged areas located at different district of West Bengal through our associated Health Workers & Health Care professionals.

KSWCT observed that the health status of women, children and senior citizen residing in slum areas are very -very poor. The main reasons for the same were early marriage, high birth rate, mal –nutrition etc. We have organised and running Charitable Dispensary for weaker section of peoples who can not afforded high charges. Our Charitable dispensary has done treatment to substantial population in these areas.

NATUROPATHY & ORAL HEALTHCARE PROGRAMME – Arogya Healthcare

Women in West Bengal are marginalised and vulnerable because of low literacy rates and a predominant gender bias. KSWCT aims to deliver sustainable healthcare to women and children at underprivileged area in this region through different Mother and Child Healthcare & Awareness Program / Project. Since, Mother & Child are main part of a family, and family is a part of a larger community. Accordingly, the plan is to cover all the three levels (child, family and community). The health services include advisory and awareness Programs in health related issues.

The project promotes community health, including advisory service on diarrhoea care, antenatal care, child nutrition and immunisation. We wish to provide education and disease awareness to the Village health workers. The project also aims to identify congenital abnormalities in high-risk pregnancy cases, especially neural tube defects and intrauterine growth retardation.

WHAT WE DO – Area / Sector of activities

With the focal agenda of transforming people’s life into models of prosperity, we work in the diverse areas that touch the day to day lives of under privileged peoples in our society. We design and implement programs in the realm of,

• Child Literacy & Education
• Rehabilitation of peoples in the Challenge 
• Health Care & Family Planning
• Agriculture Research  
• Wasted land development
• Livelihoods
• Revival of Folk Arts
• Exploration human talents & Self growth
• Spiritual development
• Women Empowerment & Rural development
• Spiritual development & Humanity

Vision & Mission

Our Vision

Kabiguru Social Welfare and Charitable Trust think about a society in which peace, justice and equality will prevail and wish to contribute efforts in building a new India where all people can gain access to education, healthcare, employment opportunities, economic self reliance and where all Indians can realize their full potential irrespective of caste, creed, colour, language, sex and religion. Finally to harness not just natural resources but also human resources through leadership and motivation.

Our Mission

To promote continuous self-improvement in the quality of lives of the under privileged peoples by generating their own leadership in solving their problems and by creating opportunities at their doorsteps for utilizing their resources most efficiently.

 

ABOUT US

Kabiguru Social Welfare and Charitable Trust is a Non Profit organization (NGO) registered under Indian Trust Act 1882 with registrar of Assurance vides Regd. No. IV-01013 of 2013, established in the year of 2013 for promoting and rendering welfare services to the marginalized, orphans, minorities, tribal people, urban poor, informal labor sector and other socially, economically and literally backward peoples of India. Our Trust organized different integrated programs and offered welfare services to implement its objectives without making any discrimination on the ground of caste, creed, sex, language, colour and religion for socio-economic development of peoples living at grass root level in rural India. Kabiguru Social Welfare and Charitable Trust works and initiates major efforts in various interconnected spheres such as Education, Health awareness, Mother & Child welfare, Livelihoods, AIDs awareness, Rehabilitation, Environment, Health & Nutrition, Micro entrepreneurship, Social awareness, Women empowerment, Spiritual growth, Social justice, brother hood and Integrity. We focus mainly convenience, reliability, continuity a range of social welfare and charitable services for improvement of the quality of living of under privileged, down trodden and other needy peoples in our society.