Program: Kutch Kala

 

Program: Kutch Kala

At Sewa International, we realise and firmly stand by the fact that Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development of any country. The economy becomes more productive, innovative and competitive through the development of a flourishing and self-sufficient skilled human capital.The increased pace of globalization and technological changes provide both challenges and growth opportunities for economic expansion and job creation. To take advantage of these opportunities as well as to minimise the social costs and dislocation, which the transition to a more open economy entails, the level and quality of skills that a nation possesses are becoming critical factors. There is always a difference between „knowing‟ and “performing‟, and the gap is explained by inadequacy of skill.

Kutch district is a district of Gujarat state in western India. Covering an area of 45,674 km², it is the largest district of India. The literal meaning of the word ‘kutch’ is something that becomes intermittently dry & wet; a large part of the district, the Rann of Kutch, is a shallow wetland that submerges in water during monsoons & remains dry during other seasons.Not only isolated by distance, the district is also drought-prone & being a border district, Kutch has both an army and an air force base.

 

Gujarati Ahirs comprise a comparatively large group in Kutch and all of these various ethnic communities maintain & produce traditional dress and crafts of many types, including weaving, dyeing, printing, bandhani (tie and dye), embroidery, leather work, pottery, woodwork, and metalwork. The Sewa

 

‘KUTCH’ Initiative

 

Background:

 

The Earthquake which hit Gujarat in 2001 killed more than 20,000 people and injured about 1,70,000 people. Around 250 villages and 4,00,000 homes were destroyed. About 40 lakh people were affected in total. As the epicenter was located in Kutch, the entire region was the worst affected. Sewa International was involved in the reconstruction of 1800 houses, 14 villages, and more than 250 schools.

 

 

 

 

Mission Niramayah!

 

Mission Niramayah is a health initiative for avoiding the upcoming wave of COVID 19  in rural India.

Goal - Create a prevention wall in anticipation of the third wave of COVID -19 in Rural India.

The rural areas in lack of adequate healthcare services are at the maximum  risk, so mission Niramayah aims at creating a protective wall for prevention of third wave of COVID 19. Save lives by early detection, isolation, & medication for COVID patients in the country.

Objectives

 

Increase the awareness on COVID19 symptoms, and the importance of sanitization and isolation in Rural India.

Give beneficiaries a basic understanding of symptoms, precautions, measures of diagnosis, treatment related to covid.

Reduce the number of deaths in case the 3rd wave hits.

 

The interventions to be taken are:

 

1)     Identify Aarogya Preraks from villages across the nation, who would be responsible for COVID19 prevention in their locality.

2)     Train the Aarogya Preraks for COVID19 detection, importance of self-isolation, importance of vaccination, and home remedies for immunity boosting.

3)     Equip them with a Aarogya Kit for the village.

4)     Guide the Aarogya Preraks for critical cases with telemedicine support.

5)     Long-term support for building resilience against similar pandemics/ disaster in the future with trainings required resources and mentorship.

When COVID19 was a pandemic in the cities, we worked across more than 405 locations in the form of COVID care centers and Isolation centers.

Now the challenge is bigger!

COVID19 now spreads to rural India. With lesser medical infrastructure available, it may get worse in the coming few weeks.

49% of the confirmed COVID cases are coming from rural parts of the country, while in states like Uttar Pradesh, more than two-thirds of cases are coming from rural areas.

Rural areas only have less than1/10th of the COVID treatment centres than urban areas, with states like Madhya Pradesh having as low as 1/25th of the covid care centres in rural areas.

We must empower our villages to fight COVID19!

Solution:

The purpose is to building a preventive wall against COVID19:

 

Save lives by early detection, isolation, & medication for COVID patients in the country.

Increase the awareness on COVID19 symptoms and the importance of sanitization and isolation in Rural India.

Build long-term health resilience in the nation, with a team of dedicated and semi-voluntary ‘health preraks’, across rural India.

 

Overall Target:

1,25,000+ (Villages + Slums) from across the nation covering all 28 states, and 742 districts.