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"Srikakulam Integrated Block Development Project " NGO Name: AID India Status: AID BTR has approved the project along with 4 other chapters. Funded $3500 for 2006; Target to raise for renewal in 2007: $4000 Budget: ~$15,500 State: Andhra Pradesh (Srikakulam District) VIEW OUR SITE REPORT ON SRIKAKULAM HERE New!! VIEW PICTURES OF THE SITE VISIT TO SRIKAKULAM New!! HOW TO HELP?

Background & Key Features:

• The program has been in existence since 1999-2000.
• Working by involving local community: 1) Housing for people whose huts were lost in a fire 2) Village libraries run by children 2) Electricity connections for poor/loans 4) Fight against corruption 5) Water harvesting 5) Kitchen gardens & vermi composting 6) Encouraging village products like jute and khadi products and help with marketing them.

Achievements so far & Goals for 2005-06:

Electricity

Achievements in 2004-05:

• Electricity connections to 180 families in 15 villages were secured without paying bribes. Previously villagers has to pay Rs.1000 as bribe. After meeting with the Assistant Engineers at the EB and the Anti Corruption Bureau electricity connections were given without bribes. Loans were given out to pay for the connection.

Plans for 2005-06:

• Facilitate another 100-200 connections this year by rotating last years repaid loan money.
• New electricity poles to be installed.
• There are further bribe situations to protest against and get rid off.

Children's Library

Achievements in 2004-05:

• There are now 25 village libraries run by boy and girl volunteers. The library provides children books and magazines like chandamama, balamitra etc.
• The cost of running one library is $40 per year.

Plans for 2005-06:

• Expand the libraries to 30 villages in the Srikakulam district.
• Provide diaries to children and encourage them to write their thoughts and their day to day experiences.
• A children's newsletter will be started where they contribute their own stories and sketches.

"Nirupedalu" - Poorest of the poor

Efforts made in 2004-05:

• A survey was made to identify people who are poorer than the landless daily wage laborers.
• Some of the people identified are old women (many of whom are alone), who no longer can do wage-labor, single parent families where the mother is the sole bread earner, families where the sole wage laborer has a health problem(such as fractured hand) and will not get the labor job.
• Village people were given small bags and requested to save some rice everyday for these people. People began to do this and collected 30 Kg rice. AID-India then added some 'dal' and chintapandu and have given ¼ Kg dal per person.

Plans for 2005-06:

Nirupedalu is a new component added to the Srikakulam Integrated Development project. A small amount of Rs 65,000 is requested to take care of the immediate survival needs of these people.

Apart from these components, this project also involved work in:
Organic farming, Providing supply chain for the village products, Reducing malnutrition in children, Rain water harvesting, Women's self help groups etc.

MAKE A DONATION :

To help us raise funds to support this project,  please make an online donation to our chapter here. KINDLY CHOOSE "BATON ROUGE-LA" FOR CHAPTERS WHILE MAKING THE DONATION. You can also give donations by check or cash - if so, please email us at batonrouge@aidindia.org or call the below mentioned contact person for more details.

For more information on this project: you can contact the project coordinator, Manoj Iragavarapu, at (225) 614-3184 or write to manojtammiraju@yahoo.com.