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ROSE. (Rural organisation For Social Education. Karnataka India)

Glory doss

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Rose is a ngo working with poorest of the poor in india called untouchables,oppressed,exploited and marginalised people.We work to promote Livelihood,Health,Education Land right to women and HIV/AIDS.Those who are intrested to support and mobilise resources for this programme they are most welcome.

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rosekarnataka 10 months ago

ROSE is a ngo working with poorest of the poor called Dalits,they are oppressed,exploited and marginalised people in India.At present we are working in 60 villages with out any funds,we are facing lot of financial problem,si,i request wiserearth organisation to recemend our proposal to some donor agency.Hoping for your favourable reply,with regards,GLORYDOSS ROSE.GEN.SECRETARY.

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rosekarnataka 10 months ago

ROSE PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR 3 YEARES

INTRODUCTION

This project sets out to sustain the livelihoods of rural poor particulareley the dalits by motivating collective action for people oriented development, being people centered is the core principal of the sustained livelihood approach to development the Dalit and strivers to enable vulnerable groups like women and children. Rose (Rural organization for social education)

Is a registered society in the year1985 to facilitat5e the development of the most vulnerable section of the society i.e Dalits.

The organization was started by a group of socially concerned individuals. Since then the organization has made much progress in reaching out to Dalit community in Bangarpet taluk of kolar-dist. Karnataka, the present project proposal of Rose Is the conviction and commitment on the course of action that Rose is determined to preserve in realisiing its objective of socio, Economic, and political, empowerment of the most deprived and marginalized section of the society.

VISION:

ROSE believes in the principles of “FIRST TO LIVE, THEN TO SURVIVE AND HAVE A BETTER LIFE” through its people empowerment projects.

ANALYSIS OF DALITS SITUATION:

Dalits are the largest group in South India but are the weakest in terms of Social, Economic, Political and Cultural resources for Dalit/Tribals poverty are primarily hopelessness and exclusion from social and commercial life. A part from low ability to provide basic necessities for house hold, fear, ignorance and humilitation additionally grip the “Very Poor” such kind of qualitative dimensions of poverty are very much applicable to the Dalits.

The 2001 census reports that 74.93% of Dalits belongs to rural areas and about 25.07% belongs to urban areas, Dalits are largely concentrated in rural areas. Almost 75% of them live in villages and mostly depend on wages derived from agriculture labour or activity allied with agriculture to manage their day to day living

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Land has remained the backbone of Indian Rural economy. The effort of the Govt. to restore land to the Dalits have remained till now, in consequential. The dominate forces even now are on a relentless effort to grab the little land that the Dalit people are left with. From the Social and historical point of view the land position of Dalits has always been very weak. As per caste norms they are not entitled to land ownership except the piece of “Watani” land granted to them in lieu of the traditional services that they rendered to the caste Hindus in their respective villages. The precarious condition of ownership of land by the dalit is continuing with much less improvement, of the total agricultural land only 8.75% belonged to the Dalits, Where as others owned 85.74% only 18% of the farmers among the Dalits have any chances of getting some that reasonable income from agricultural activities.

PROBLEM ANALYSIS OF THE DALITS:

The Dality Community in the target area are wedged up in a vicious circle, seeing as majority of them are landless laboureres. So, they depend always on land lord.

a) In ability to repay the loan require Dalits to be fall as bonded labourer.

b) Either the entire family or the head of the family or any child of the family become bonded labour to landlord/money lender.

c) Eventually they are paid a very low wage which make them even more economically reliant on the land lord.

d) Their women folks are molested at the work place of land lord. The victims cannot protest or lodge a police complaint because of their dependency.

e) Their health condition deteriate and they are unable to take proper medical care.

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f) They are constrained to send their children to school for the reason that they can neither meet the educational expenses nor well enough to do without a working hand who brings even a meager amount to supplement the family income.

g) Powerless to fend for them selves or as phyxiated by exploitation, and oppression some people migrate to cities and towns. What is store for them in the urban areas is no better. They come to live in the slums which are unfit for decent and hygienic living. Sooner or later they are exposed to various disease including HIV/AIDS. The Survival of the state of India has been marked by the hard labour of Dalit people. Every village in India has a dalit settlement for its labour requirement. Every city in India has large number of slums, mainly of Dalits, to fulfill its labour requirements. However in rural India Dalit labour is either free or bonded..

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

Ø To promote local organization Men/Women (Sanghas).

Ø To enable peoples participation in democratization process.

Ø To work for Women’s right (Land right to Women).

Ø To forge unity among the community.

Ø To organize capacity building programmes to import knowledge and skills attitude to take collective action.

Ø To facilitate informing new leadership.

Ø To create access to government services and schemes.

Ø To facilitate economic empowerment programme and free them from the clutches of land lord and money lenders.

Ø To work for political and economical empowerment.

Ø To enhance peoples representation in decision making.

Ø To address of the issue of HIV/AIDS.

CORE STRATEGIC ACTIVITIES:

1. Formation of new village sanghas and broad basing existing sanghas.

2. Initiation of Credit and Savings Groups.

3. Empowerment of Women

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4. Formal education for children freed from bonded labour

5. Promoting capacitation building programme

6. Conduct community health camps

7. Federating sanghas at the apex level

8. Forging strategic alliances and networking with like minded groups.

METHODOLOGY:

Ø Awareness creation and sensitization

Ø Leadership Building

Ø Issue base actions

Ø Thrift, Savings and Income Generation

Ø Representation to concerned government offices

Ø Accessing social entitlements

Ø Weekly Sangha Meetings

Ø Monthly Federation Meetings

Ø Seminars, Workshops and Trainings

FORMATION OF VILLAGE SANGHAS:

Village sanghas aims at empowering the Dalits/ Tribals with focus on the marginalized and the women. It helps them analyze and devise creative solutions to their own problems and thus enables them to create a socially just and economically self-reliant society at the grass roots level.

· The concept of village sangha visualizes its people at the grassroots level as striving for self-reliance and social justice in a continuous process.

· Facilitated by democratic decentralization at the village level.

· The sangha envisages to invigorating the members human spirit and deepening their moral, cultural values, they seek to eliminate discrimination and reduce dependence and enhance mutual help and to bring about a qualitative change in their economic, social, cultural and political living.

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· The growth of sanghas shall greatly facilitate building a cadre of dynamic and committed community leaders.

· Major thrust of the sanghas shall be to identify and articulate local issues of individuals, families and the village community. Such issues shall include social entitlement like lack of ‘water. Road, School, Anganwadi, Community Centre, House Patta, Ration Cards, Health care’ and the need of government welfare programmes etc.,

· The sangha is a forum to incessantly create awareness generation and sensitize its members and the village community as regards to their legitimate needs, and about those issues which are critical for their day to day living.

· ROSE will focus on 5 major areas 1) Livelihood, 2) Womens right, 3) Education (Children released from bonded labour 4) Health and 5) HIV/AIDS.

LIVELIHOOD:

Credit and Savings Groups:

The credit and savings groups shall engage in savings, credit and income generation programmes. They comprise both men and women or exclusively men or women. They are small and homogeneous with 25 to 30 members. They have face to face relationship. They participate in decision making. The profit and losses are their responsibility. They mobilize as many local resources as possible. Their programmes are self managed by their members.

The project shall contribute 50% matching grant to the revolving fund which shall be utilized for credit and saving activity. The revolving fund shall be sued for wide rage of activities which include to provide credit to the members for the development of land, to purchase ploughs, to give seed loans, fertilizer loans, for Food and sickness to provide loan to the government housing programme beneficiary to meet the initial expenditure first bill. All the loans given to the members are repayable in easy installments. The fund received as repayment shall be given to other members on a rotating basis.

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The fore most emphasis and major objective of credit and saving programmes is to mitigate the poor Dalits, Tribals from the clutches of exploitative and oppressive rich farmer/money lender. Easy loan, low interest, soft repayment option provides the member not to default in repayment. Ultimately the members land or cattle will not be confiscated by the money lender for default in loan payment.

This activity involve the poor Dalits, tribals in productivity and employment and alleviate their poverty. In due course credit and savings programme promote social structural changes at the local level by eliminating money lenders and middlemen, promoting peoples participation, particularly women’s participation and development of women’s leadership.

WOMEN’S RIGHT : (LAND RIGHT TO WOMEN)

Land has been and continues to be one of the most important natural resources which has sustained life and mankind. Over decades women have played a key role in utilizing lad agriculture and forest based activities to sustain themselves and their households. It is now a well documented fact that women constitute the majoprity of labour without getting returns for their economic contribution. Women produce a large percentage of the regions food as farmers, working on lands that they cannot own. This is mainly because ownership of resources has remained in patriarchal hands. Further more patriarchal logic has defined work in economic terms where women’s contributions has been underestimated and ignored.

Despite the high prevalence of women as workers in the unorganized sector this same logic and ahs excluded women’s rights to property and other resources even when laws grant them such rights. Social and customary constructs return self generated property back to male relatives. As a result women often do not even Have access and right to adequate housing. The rapid changes ushered in by globalization have ensured the continuation of these social.

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Constructs and polices which has rendered women powerless despite working twice as hard to ensure survival of their house holds. Privatization and open market policies are threatening livelihoods of the poor and most of all women. Strong movements are promoted in the developing world demanding rights of people on land, natural resources and other means of livelihoods. Issues like displacement of tribal distress due to agrarian crisis, right of dalit and tribals, marginalized groups and others are being addressed and defined very clearly at local, national and International levels. Women participate as a strong force within these movements but their rights to land, housing and other resources remain in the background.

There is urgent need to re-strategize and include gender perspective since women have nurtured and managed land, forest and traditional livelihoods since time immemorial. It is important to highlight and bring to the fore front the fact that the adverse impact of globalization is being acutely felt more by women, increasing their burden of work both at home and outside.

Women and land rights has an over all goal to ensure equal access to control and ownership over land and resources for women. This includes specifically recognizing, upholding and protecting women’s housing, land and rights over than other resources, food sovereignty and livelihood security. Therefore:-

· ROSE envisages promotion of women’s rights for land, livelihood and other resources. In view of this to ensure the promotion of women sangha every village (operational area) to raise the level of women’s participation and visibility of women’s voices and their demands claiming these rights.

· Recognize and respect different ideologies and agree to work together on common issues of women’s rights to land, livelihood and other resources.

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· Respect diversity among women and allow space for all such voices which have their own unique understanding of rights land and livelihood with in the context of their socio- cultural frame work. At the same time they to continue to question and examine patriarchal patterns and challenge them with in these diversities.

· Commitment to marginalized Women Dalit/Tribal in Taluk, District and State level involvement of all such women in training advocacy policy reform process as a matter of principles.

· Recognize the womens right to land, livelihood and other resources would first ensure their subsistence needs whether individual or collective and ensure a life of dignity for women.

EDUCATION:

Formal Education for children released from bonded labour:

Children freed from bonded labour or akin to bonded labour condition must be motivated to join formal education. Education of children of deprived section particularly of children in bonded condition is an important aspect of this project in order to bring these children into mainstream society.

· Children freed from bonded labour situation need the love and care that ordinary children receive from their parents. Like any other children, they also need proper food, shelter and education.

· Emphasis will be laid on the individual development of the child to a level where he/she can be enrolled in formal school.

· Regular contacts will be maintained with the school authorities and the child’s progress is monitored.

· Similarly constant contact also will be maintained with the parents to keep the motivation alive and prevent them not to succumb to situation in which their children will be forced again in to bonded labour.

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HEALTH:

Community Health Camps/ Programme:

The project provides for community health activities. The important health actions shall include conducting regular Health camps to detect various types illness and provision of medicine in collaboration with like minded people. Serious health problems identified in the camp shall be referred to concern Hospitals. The camp shall educate the people on hygiene, protection of drinking water and immunization of children etc., so, Health Camp is most essential to the Dalit and Tribal in the rural area. They have been affected by infectious diseases, since they are not maintaining he health and hygiene and hygienic food system. Therefore 4 health camps and health education will be organized by inviting qualified doctors and free medicine will be distributed to the target group.

HIV/AIDS:

HIV/AIDS is one of the growing concern in the contemporary society. Particularly in India HIV/AIDS growing in alarming level. In the rural set up the spread of HIV/AIDS is not mainly because of sexual intercourse. The men folk from the poorer community Dalit and Tribal or forced to migrate to the cities and towns in the summer season due to lack of employment opportunities for the Dalits in the rural areas and lack of natural food availability in the forest areas for Tribals. The migrated men get infected in unhygienic barbar shops and use of un sterilized needles in the clinics and hospitals. It may spread to other family members or other villagers from the men who have already contracted HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS PREVENTION PROGRMME:

To arrest the spread of HIV/AIDS in the rural and forest area the dalit and tribal communities need to be developed economically, impoverishment force them to migrate to the urban centers were.

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They are exposed to many unhealthy conditions including health assaults like HIV/AIDS. To combat this condition dalit and tribals economic empowerment (Livelyhood Programme) is essential. Enhancement of their income and continuous employment would prevent migration and there by preventing spread of the killer disease HIV/AIDS. In addition planned HIV/AIDS awareness programmes through Training and regular meetings.

FEDERATION OF SANGHAS:

Efforts shall be made to federate all the sanghas in the working area at apex level. The rationale for such a federation will be to take hold of issues at a broader level. Priority will be accorded to articulate issues such as minimum wages, common problems affecting all the villages and land issues. The federation will comprise of 3 representatives from each sanghas and therefore it will be a collective representation of all the working villages. The federation meeting will be conducted every month to work out strategic plan of action.

NETWORKING:

With the adoption of Networking as one of the key principle, the project envisages to forge strategic alliance with other organization of mutual concern. Such networking activity shall take place at district and state level. It will provide a common space for coming together to evolve strategies and actions to exert pressure on the government to come up with pro-people policies and legislations. On the whole the networking activity will promote collective bargaining to address the problems of the rural poor, particularly of the Dalit community to ensure justice.

Expected overall impact of the project:

The positive impact and the significant contribution fo the project implementation after 3 years shall be facilitation of community education, community development and community organization.

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with strong emphasis on integral human development. The positive contribution shall include remarkable success in slowly and steadily transforming people’s traditional values and developing new values of thirst for social justice, disposed to fight for rights through collective action. There will be an alternative people’s power structure of democratic decision-making and action as against the traditional power structure, which has vested interest and which, exploitative and oppressive.

The impact would have generated the values of self reliance, participation, leadership, women’s participation and leadership, love for communal unity and harmony concern for the common good and a sense of equality and justice. In concrete terms the impact indicator will be evidence for:

· Dependency on land lord have been reduced.

· Exploitation by land lord have been reduced

· Empowerment of Dalit/Tribal have been considerably in progress.

· Migration will be reduced

· Bonded labourers have been considerably releaved from the land lord.

· Health camp/Health Education would resulted the target group to be aware of HIV/AIDS, infections disease, essential to maintain sanitation child care etc.,

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rosekarnataka 10 months ago

Dear Sir, /Madam

SUB: Project proposal of ROSE.

Greetings from ROSE.

I introduce my self that I am R. GLORY DOSS Gen. secretary of ROSE.

Rose main focus is the integration of Dalit& Tribal Community in the rural areas onto mainstream society. This is done through enhancing the target population’s capacity to plan for their own development. The organization was started in the year 1985 by a group of socially concerned individuals. Since then, the organization has made much progress in reaching out to rural Dalit community in Karnataka & Andhra pradesh

Rose believes in building appropriate peoples local forums to articulate their needs, to involve them in programmes and activates to become self reliant, to promote the values of cooperation and mutual help and strive to words economic empowerment. Proceeding period of activity mainly focus on awareness creation, sensitization and mass mobilization. After much reflection the core members of Rose reformulated its strategy and thrust that to sustain the awareness process and mobilization of people there is need for introducing economic empowerment programme

The present project proposal is a reflection of the above reformulated strategy and Rose is determined to persevere in realizing its objective of socio economic and political empowerment of the most deprived and marginalized section of society. We request your kind self to become partners in our endeavor and provide the necessary financially support to translate our objective in to action and decisively empower the socially and economically ostracized people of the society.

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