GRAM NIYOJAN KENDRA - NGO in Ghaziabad

Programme Interventions

Gram Niyojan Kendra’s interventions focus on improving the lives of Women, Children and Youth from the marginalised and excluded communities.

In and around Ghaziabad, the Kendra is working in urban settlements and construction sites with migrant population and other urban poor groups.

Specific interventions are being implemented with potential victims of trafficking, families belonging to Nuts and Bedia communities, traditionally engaged in prostitution and other rescued victims of trafficking and their families. Interventions with physically disabled and elderly are also being implemented.

Our Interventions have focused on various issues, based on community needs. Health, nutrition, economic support, microfinance, poverty reduction, strengthening women’s leadership and environment protection are some of the areas prioritized by the Kendra.

Promoting Child Well being
Prevention and Control of Trafficking and Prostitution of Girls and Women
Youth engagement through Mental Health Awareness Campaign
Education Initiatives
Skill building and Livelihood
Women and Land Rights
Our CSR activities
Covid response activities
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Promoting Child Well being:

Our interventions have focused on holistic well being of children and adolescents. Early Child care development through community based centres, nutritional support, strengthening of Anganwadi services and health monitoring has been prioritized.

Innovations:

Four Early Child Care Centres at Bapudham, Nandgram, Kanawani and Kashiram colony. Early Child care centres were set up to provide child care to the children who are unable to access the local Anganwadis. These centres provide education, health support and nutrition to the children in 3-6 years age group.

This activity is supported by Micromatic Grinding Tools- Our CSR partner for three decades. Covering 8000 families, the project reaches out to nearly 30000 individuals through various activities focusing on health, education and nutrition of children and women

Prevention and Control of Trafficking and Prostitution of Girls and Women

GNK adopted comprehensive area development programmes for prevention of trafficking as the key strategy to prevent trafficking and prostitution of girls and women. The programme on Control and prevention of trafficking and prostitution has been implemented successfully across three geographies under the banner of “Samriddhi” which means ‘empowerment’.

Samriddhi, Roopwas, Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Samriddhi Narkatiyaganj, West Champaran, Bihar

Samriddhi Roopwas, Bharatpur

Started in early 1990s as an intervention for prevention of trafficking amongst Nat and Bedia communities in the regions.

The current activities include the running of Samriddhi Bal Vidya Mandir Madhyamik Vidyalaya for promoting education and community mobilisation across 40 villages for prevention of trafficking and promoting child well being.

Samriddhi Narkatiyaganj , West Champaran, Bihar:

GNK started its intervention in Narkatiaganj block, District West Champaran, Bihar in 2018 focussed at control and prevention of trafficking and exploitation of children and women. The interventions cover 14521 families across 40 villages.

The interventions include organising awareness generation programmes (meetings, seminars) for stakeholders on prevention of trafficking; promoting education; skill development and livelihood promotion. The priority is to mobilise community action for prevention of trafficking and exploitation of children and women.

Children’s and women’s collectives have been also formed in 40 villages, to sensitize them on the issues of child trafficking and its prevention besides organizing other activities for their holistic development.

Technical support for improving the livelihood of human trafficking and debt bondage survivors:

Technical support for improving the livelihood of human trafficking and debt bondage survivors in four areas of Bihar & Uttar Pradesh was implemented as holistic prevention model to address and counter child labour, child marriage, child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children. The programme aimed at empowering survivors of human trafficking, child labours, debt bondage and vulnerable families for improvement in their livelihood status. GNK worked with survivor’s groups on various priorities

Priorities include:

To provide technical support to survivor’s groups forum of the project areas for establishing their income generation initiatives.
To build up cadre of leaders among survivors groups through capacity building for helping them to get credit support and business plan for their enterprise and income generation activities.
To strengthen the survivor’s forum, develop leadership skill among them (survivor), and helping them to link with skill development programs.
To develop survivors through capacity building and handhold support as solidarity so that they can take care of the groups at their own level and also facilitate other groups / communities to establish business for better livelihood.

Youth engagement through Mental Health Awareness Campaign

School level Mental Health Awareness campaign for adolescents is being implemented by Kendra. This includes workshops on mental health with school children followed by Counselling support. Nearly 7500 school children from 65 Government schools have been reached through the Mental Health Awareness Programme in Ghaziabad District.

Education Initiatives:

Samridhi Bal Vidya Mandir Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Roopwas, Bharatpur:

Samridhi Bal Vidya Mandir Madhyamik Vidyalaya started in 2003 as an effort to provide education to the children of marginalized and vulnerable communities who were being trafficked for prostitution by their families and community.

The school is now a secondary school and recognized by Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education. Presently 200 students are enrolled in grades 1st to 10th. More than 90% of the students belong to marginalised communities.

Day care centres (Balwadis) for children:

125 children in the age group 3-6 years are receiving early education and nutrition support through the four Balwadi centers, running across urban slums of Ghaziabad district.

Improving academic outcomes of school going children in Narkatiaganj, West Champaran, Bihar

200 school students are receiving academic support for improving their learning outcomes, in Narkatiaganj , West Champaran district of Bihar, through the nine support learning centers set up by Kendra.

Strengthening Anganwadi services on early education for children

Kendra is supporting District officials in West Champaran to improve the functioning of the Anganwadis by training and site mentoring of anganwadi workers on early childcare and education.

Economic Empowerment Through Skill Building and Livelihood

The Centre for Entrepreneurship Development organizes skill oriented training programs in different vocations for women and girls. These trainings have emerged as viable livelihood options for women, who otherwise have very limited economic opportunities due to restrictions on their mobility and lack of adequate skills.

Innovations:

Special Initiative on Skill Development of Women Prisoners at Dasna Jail, Ghaziabad. The Centre for Entrepreneurship Development provides livelihood skills in tailoring to female inmates of Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad. This is done in collaboration with India Vision Foundation.

Health Attendant Training is an innovative training conducted by the Kendra for young men and women. The training aims to form a cadre of trained health attendants who provide care and services to the elderly and sick, thereby catering to a growing demand, particularly in the urban areas. Nearly 300 individuals have been trained as Health Attendants till now and more than 80% are continuing to work as Health Attendants.

Formation of Women’s Collectives for livelihood promotion SHGs are also strategically formed to empower women through sensitizing them on various issues with a view to facilitate their understanding , knowledge and skills to deal with their various problems and initiating action. These are :

40 SHGs in 40 villages covering 600 women members, have been formed at Narkatiaganj, West Champaran, to sensitize them in the meetings organizing for them for prevention of trafficking, government schemes and programmes, promotion of livelihood and skill training, child protection and child trafficking, violence against women and children, importance of education and skill development, etc.

GNK- Landesa Project (West Bengal & Jharkhand):

The GNK- Landesa project is focussing on “Empowering Women and Communities through property rights, livelihood activities like “Collective farming & restoration of Mangroves in Sundarban (Delta area) in West Bengal and Jharkhand states”.

The implementation is sub divided in three different components:

Women’s Empowerment through Property Ownership in West Bengal.
Mangrove Forest Programme.
Stronger Land Rights for women in Jharkhand.

The objectives for work on Property Ownership/Land Rights are:

Facilitate identification and training of SHG women to provide land records updating services in the communities.
Work with the WBSRLM to facilitate SFC established in all the 22 rural districts in West Bengal with land record updating.

Activities organized towards “Women’s Empowerment through Property Ownership/Land Rights” are:

Regular meetings/discussions with Anandadhara (WBSRLM) state and district units for reviewing of the progress as also as sharing the learnings gathered and documented in assessment exercise, to further support SFCs scaling in the state.
Facilitate refresher training to the MTs/Service Providers in districts for smooth running the SFCs.
Facilitate trainings/capacity building workshops for the fresh batch of Service Providers including BODs to be identified by DMMUs for running new SFCs.
Developing a monitoring system in coordination with the WBSRLM for sustainability.
Collect evidence on changes in life due to WLL and / or SFC intervention from all stakeholders at the district and sub-district level for further dissemination.
Organise three regional level experience sharing and learning workshops in the north, center and south of the state of WB on Sangha Facilitation Centres(SFC) for the identified Service Providers with good and moderate performance.
Video documentation demonstrating steps for each type of land record updation based on the new guidelines and IEC materials preparation for enhancing SFC effectiveness and scaling.
Support WBSRLM in organising State level Knowledge Dissemination Workshop on WLL and SFC.
State level workshop on sharing of SFC assessment findings involving WBSRLM and all DMMUs units and state level land officials