Achievements of Child protection program at Sandeshkhali Block-I & II (2022- 2023):
Achievements of Child protection program at Sandeshkhali Block-I & II(2022- 2023):
1) 207 functional Children Groups formalized with an active membership of 3756 children (3285 Girls & 471 Boys).
2) All Children group members are good fighter against trafficking and gender-based violence.
3) 207 functional Child Protection Committees with an active membership of 3714 stake holders (2116 Women & 1598 Men).
4) All Child Protection Committee members are good fighter against trafficking and gender-based violence. Government authorities are using them as a resource person in the program of gender discrimination and child protection. Demonstrated model Child protection mechanism in the District that is being recognised by Government at State and District.
5) Total 57 child marriage prevented.
6) Total 326 dropout children got admission in school (through direct intervention)
7) 223 Children received SC/ST Certificate
8) 674 children got coaching support.
The essence of this project has been to involve the community in every stage of the program. In the present project 75% of the stakeholders, PRIs and other duty-bears have been sensitized and awakened on the issue to such an extent that they are now ready to combat it by taking effective actions in an organized manner. Some parents are now thinking of keeping their children at home and engaging them in some kind of alternative income generation activity. Along with the parents, the some children, especially the girls have become motivated to stay at home rather than go outside to work.
Some stakeholders (parents, Teachers, Club members, ICDS workers, PRI members, Health workers, Govt. officials) are playing a vital role in terms of building awareness and creating public opinion, giving effort in enforcing the child labour, Child Trafficking, Child marriage, Child abuse ban.
KEY CHALLENGES ON THE PROGRAM:
Natural disaster’s Communication gap between Administrative Departments and different islands Lack of convergence (in few cases) between different Departments.
Achievements of North 24 Parganas District Childline Project:
Dhagagia Social welfare society works as NGO partner with Childline Indian Foundation for North24 Parganas District. It works as Collaborating organization in this district. It directly looks after 6Blocks of this district namely Barasat-I &II, Barrackpore-I&II, Amdanga and Rajarhat.Presently there are all total nine members working in this Childline project. One Coordinator, onecounselor, six team member and one volunteer.Being a partner of a 24 hour national free emergency phone outreach service like Childline,members of Childline team of Dhagagia Social welfare society works not only providing emergencysupport to children in need of care and protection on a 24*7 basis but also their had some otherfunctioning like outreach and awareness generating programme regarding Child rights, Childlineand its activity.
Call statistics in the following format for the year: April’2022 to March’2023
Types of calls April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
I. Interventions
Medical help 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Shelter 2 4 9 13 7 6 1 1 0 3 2 2
Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
Protection From Abuse 19 24 17 27 32 17 15 18 14 11 10 17
Child Conflict With Low. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Repatriation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other Intervention 21 17 12 13 21 20 12 15 18 17 18 48
Referred by another CHILDLINE 7 2 5 3 4 5 1 0 2 2 1 2
Sponsorship 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
II. Missing children
Child lost 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
Parents asking help 6 5 4 4 4 2 2 2 4 2 6 1
III. Emotional support and
Guidance
2 2 6 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 4 1
CORONA 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 58 58 55 63 72 51 32 43 41 39 42 71
Total no of Cases intervene by Collab (DSWS) team. 625
Childline team celebrated National Children’s day every year not only that from National
Childdren’s day to International Children’s day Childline team celebrated “Childline se Dosti” Week and engaged in different programmes like signature campaigning , drawing competition etc.
Achievements of Babughat (Kolkata) Childline Project:
Dhagagia Social welfare society works as NGO partner with Childline Indian Foundation for Kolkata Babughat Bus Stand. It works as Collaborating organization in this district. It directly looks after Babughat Bus Stand area. Presently there are all total twelve members working in this Childline project. One Coordinator, one counselor, seven team member and three volunteer. Being a partner of a 24 hour national free emergency phone outreach service like Childline, members of Childline team of Dhagagia Social welfare society works not only providing emergency support to children in need of care and protection on a 24*7 basis but also their had some other functioning like outreach and awareness generating programme regarding Child rights, Childline and its activity. Babughat Childline team trying to generates awareness to Bus Stand area by this outreach and awareness, generating programme. Babught team handled 318 cases in this year.
Achievements of Education program at
in Sundarbans (2022- 2023):
DSWS based in Sundarban, envisions to ensure quality education for all children from under resourced and at risk sections of society. Through its various action research initiatives in pedagogy, curriculum development, teacher development program, children supplementary learning centers and child protection, DSWS has spread its work not only in West Bengal but also in Jharkhand.
Due to and loss of livelihood, wages and income among most of the parents, children are either forced to child labour or they are willing engaging themselves to some work heading towards high chances of school drop outs. Therefore, reintegration of these children were done followed by re-enrolment.
a. Liaison with school teachers and we were developed plan for enrolling children b. Out of school children identified through the survey was linked with formal schools.
b. We are continuing 14 Multi-Activity centres in Sudarban area for education support to poor marginalize children.
c. DSWS volunteers were identified children lacking interest in schools and re integrate them in schools after proper family counselling and required steps, particularly in post-disaster situation. Continuous tracking and home visit of irregular children to be done to make them regular.
d. DSWS volunteers were conducted 28 sensitization program on RtE Act, gender equality,Child rights in 14 schools of Sundarban.
e. DSWS volunteers were conducted 16 sensitization program on Girls education in 16 schools of Sundarban area.
f. 115 children were mainstreamed through DSWS team members.
g. We gave educational support to 335 marginalized children through coaching support.
Achievements of Livelihood program at
in Sundarbans (2022- 2023):
We believe that sustainable livelihoods contribute to child protection by providing an enabling environment for growth. Therefore, we work to build the capacity and assets of vulnerable populations, mainly women and adolescence from underprivileged communities, through vocational training and livelihoods strategies enabled by Self Help Groups.
DSWS is one of the members in various committees in Block, District and State level of Govt. of West Bengal. DSWS is also one of the training partner of Paschim Banga Society for Skill Development (PBSSD) and DDGKY and West Bengal Swarojgar Corporation Limited.DSWS has the advantage of a strong community level presence in working area from 1994 and enjoy a good rapport with the parents, local government, teachers, youth, women artisans andchildren there.At the same time DSWS has strong networks with the administrative departments at all levels (Village level, GP level, Block level, District level and State level) and also strong networks with he 46 women SHGs who are involve in our existing production/Training centre. 258 women artisans got agriculture training. They established mangrove nursey and they planted 12 lakhs mangrove plants in river embankment of Sundarban. They are selling their products (plants) from nursery to Governments and NGOs.
DSWS has strong network with local government, PRIs, Govt. departments like District Administration viz. District Rural Development Cell, District Industries Centre, Department of Women & Child Development and Social Welfare, Regional Director,Eastern Regional Office, O/o Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Kolkata, PBSSD,MSME Department ,Private sector like Bandhan Creations, NABARD, State Bank of India etc. for livelihood generation programmes. In addition to that local youth clubs, MahilaMandals / Samity are also associated with DSWS. Regular contacts with new buyers are gradually increasing.
The SHGs in Mithakha, Atapur, Purbali, MonipurAtapur are working in raising the mangrove samplings for the plantation work. All the SHGs in these villages were identified. We required to contract with 16 SHGs to raise 05 lakhs of mangrove saplings. They are the leading stakeholder in raising the saplings and protecting the plantation plots. We selected 16 SHGs from the enlisted SHGs as per the given below criteria: 1. Have prior experience of raising mangrove nurseries or familiar with the work
2. Have bank account and other books of records updated ?Agree to protect the mangrove sites at least three years after the plantation
3. The SHG must be constituted with female members.
4. Priority will be given to the vulnerable women groups ? The SHGs which members are residing beside the rivers must be prioritize.Apart 26 women members were involved in poultry business for their economical development. They established02 poultry firm in Sandeshkhali area with the help of well-wishers of DSWS.30 women members were involved in kitchen garden progran for their economic development. They established 06 kitchen garden in Sandeshkhali area with the help of well-wishers of DSWS.
We established a strong presence in targeted communities and with the local government from 2004. We knows everything about field situation. We conducted 08 Focus Group Discussion (FGD) in 08 villages for selection of beneficiaries. After discussion, we selected 14 tailoring beneficiaries and 10 beneficiaries for van distribution. We distributed 14 tailoring machines to 14 women beneficiaries and distributed 10 van to 10 women beneficiaries for their livelihood opportunities (Supported by: Action Aid India).
Achievements of Wash program at in
Sundarbans (2022- 2023):
Swachh Bharat Mission India IHHL scheme aims to make India an open defecation free country in 5
years. IHHL Application is a massive program for constructing private toilets in urban and rural
areas. Construction of individual household toilets is going on rapidly in 4401 towns and several
rural areas of . Under , Central and State governments are providing financial assistance in the
construction of household toilets. We got a support from Panchayat and Rural Development
Department (Govt. of West Bengal) for Construction of individual household toilets for 572 poor
families in Sarberia Agarhati Gram Panchayat of Sandeshkhali Block-I under North 24 Parganas
district. We completed successfully this program. We conducted many sensitization program on
WASH in Sandeshkhali Block-I
Achievements of Mother and Child Health
program at in Sundarbans (2022- 2023):
The Sundarbans is a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal famous for its unique
mangrove forests- the world’s largest. This region is ecologically fragile and climatically vulnerable.
It faces severe threats of climate change through frequent cyclones and tidal waves, the increasing
salinity in water and soil has destroyed the productivity of the land. Changes in the environment
have a large influence on the health of the local communities, as climate change induced disasters
bring with them unique challenges. Children and women are likely to bear higher risks for their
vulnerabilities. They are prone to communicable and preventable diseases such as diarrhoea,
vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, kala-azar, chikanguniya and infections associated with
under-nutrition. Poverty and deprivation in this region looms and as a result many children are sold
or trafficked to major cities to work as domestic helpers. Early marriages of girls are common
combined with a high rate of school drop-out. There are only two Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres
near to Sandeshkhali II block, at Basanti (in South 24 parghana) and Bashirhat (in North 24 Pgn)
though both are very difficult to access to due to rivers in between and longer road connectivity.
The project’s location - Sandeshkhali II Block in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, has a long
history of disasters, mainly floods and cyclones. It has a fragile ecosystem, vulnerable to damage
and disruption. DSWS has been working in the area since 2004 on prevention of child trafficking
and child labour in Sandeshkhali I & II blocks. The focus has been on creating a community based
child protection and monitoring mechanism to stop trafficking of children and distress migration from
the area which is largely induced by the fragile environment. The intervention also ensured
reintegration of the child survivors with their families and resumption of formal education or
vocational training in collaboration with the local NGO partners and governance structures.
The purpose of this project was to reduce cases of malnutrition among children below 5
years of age in the project area in Sundarbans. The health seeking behaviour and practices of the
community members were addressed through various activities at local level and by facilitating their
active participation in the planning, implementation and review of this process. The strategy of the
intervention was also include water, sanitation and hygiene issues. Concerted efforts were made to
support the Government system through training and consultations and strengthen quality of service
delivery and mechanisms. Moreover, regularizing community level meetings on hygiene and
sanitation in collaboration with PRI were also contribute to system strengthening. DSWS worked
with the PRI and Health Services aiming to make these as mainstream agenda of the local
governance system. Stronger linkages was established with services of Government Departments
like Department of Sundarban Affairs, Department of Child Development, Women Development and
Social Welfare, Public Health Engineering Department etc.
Specific objectives:
? To improve health seeking behaviour and practices on Infant, Young Child, and Maternal
Nutrition among local marginalized communities who are severely impacted due to changes
in the environment and climatic condition in the region and the decaying local economy
? To strengthen the capacities of communities and other duty bearers to prevent and respond
to environmental health issues