Short profiles of
partners and descriptions of BHC support:
Gramya
Profile: The
main target of Gramya is to support women's initiatives and to stand
for the right of the female and/or the working child. Gramya is mainly
working in a tribal area, East of Hyderabad, with the Lambada Tribals,
who face extreme difficulties in their daily lives. The local authorities
neglect the area, there is hardly any infrastructure or medical facilities
and the Lambadas are mainly very poor. With their programmes, Gramya
tries to improve the difficult situation by providing people with practical
support like road construction and bus service; counselling in their
social problems is also part of the programme.
BHC support:
Deccan
Development Society (DDS)
Profile: The
aim of the Deccan Development Society (DDS) is and has always been:
to reach the poorest of the poor in helping rural development through
the use of innovative interventions. Right from the beginning DDS has
done this through training a 'barefoot' cadre. This means that the people
are trained to become their own barefoot doctors, barefoot agricultural
experts and barefoot extension workers. DDS runs several projects at
present. One of these is the support and strengthening of 'Sanghams'
or women groups that help enhance women in e.g. land development activities,
thrift and credit and education. In the execution of the programmes,
DDS pays a lot of attention to a 'green way' or environmentally friendly
way of working.
Their other recent
activities are developing wastelands, introduction of permaculture,
organising health jatras (exhibitions), motivating people to use herbal
medicine instead of allopathic medicine, summer camps for the children,
literacy programmes for both children and adults and running a 'green'
school.
BHC Support:
- Preparation of
project proposal for: A safe home for women. (Funded by Mama Cash,
Amsterdam)
Contact
DDS
Doctor Tiphagne Memorial Charitable (D.T.M.C)
Trust
Profile: Since
its inception around 70 years ago, the sisters involved in the D.T.M.C
Trust have been responding to the needs of the poor and downtrodden
of the society through interventions in the areas of health-care, education
and welfare. The main objectives of the trust are 1. Rehabilitation
of Leprosy patients 2. Care of women and children in distress 3. Care
of the terminally ill and those with stigmatised diseases 4. Empowerment
of the marginalized of the society. DTMC aims to address new problems
through further diversification of activities, scientific study of current
issues and planning appropriate strategies.
BHC Support:
ANTHRA
Profile: The
philosophy that guides Anthra's work is "true development is an
organic process growing gradually from older traditional systems."
Anthra aims to generate equity and participation for rural women by
creating awareness about the importance of women's roles in animal production
systems. It aims to improve productivity though women's participation
in the decision making process.
A few of Anthra's
activities include: 1. Building a cadre of village level Animal Health
Workers to strengthen the negligible animal health care services. 2.
Bringing about the inclusion of women in decision making, for although
traditionally woman have been responsible for day to day animal management
they are not given the recognition 3. Integrating systems of traditional
and modern medicine.
BHC Support:
- Consultancy on
a project regarding the use of yeast as a supplement in animal nutrition.
- Consultancy in
conducting field trials in animal nutrition.
Contact Anthra
Emanuel Orphanage and Child Care Centre, (EOCCC)
Profile: EOCCC
is a registered Christian non-profit organisation working for the welfare
of the poor children in slums of rural and semi-urban areas. They are
also involved in child evangelism, community development and women's
income generation initiatives.
They run a day-care
centre with 25 children who suffer from malnutrition. In the centre
children are provided with care, shelter, health care, a balanced meal
and a conducive environment for healthy growth and development.
BHC Support:
- Preparation of
project proposal
- Consultancy in
setting up and management of the day care centre
- Consultancy in
setting up of education programmes.
Contact
EOCCC
ETC-Foundation
Profile: ETC
Netherlands is an independent non-profit research and development organisation
in the field of sustainable agriculture, forestry, energy, public health,
training and extension. ETC has been a lead organisation internationally
in the development of participatory approaches to natural resource management
and agricultural extension and research, pioneering the Participatory
Technology Development (PTD) approach. Since the mid-eighties, ETC has
been advocating sustainable agriculture in general and LEISA (Low External
Input and Sustainable Agriculture) in particular.
BHC Involvement:
- Participation in
a Workshop on Participatory Research on Goat Feeding Systems and Sylvi-Pastoral
Development on Common Lands in Northwest India.
Contact
ETC
League For Pastoral Peoples
Profile: The
League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP) is an advocacy and support group for
Pastoralists who depend on common property resources. The group is involved
in research, and works with pastoral communities, primarily in India.
The aim of LPP is to raise awareness among the general public about
the global plight of Pastoralists, and improve the image of pastoralists
among governments and development organizations. It stresses on the
Pastoralists' role in sustainable food production in arid areas, preserving
indigenous livestock breeds, and as stewards of an intricate indigenous
knowledge system on survival in the arid zone.
The projects of the League for Pastoral Peoples in Rajasthan are implemented
in close cooperation with a local NGO, the Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan
in Sadri.
BHC Support:
- Design and development
of a website (see Networking) for Lokhit
Pashu Palak Sansthan on the preservation of local livestock breeds.
Contact
LPP
Woord en daad
Profile: Woord
en Daad offers support to the needy people of the developing countries.
Not discriminating amongst race, caste, complexion or religion, Woord
en Daad aims to help people generate a better livelihood. The foundation
has a biblical mission and therefore tries to address the spiritual
and emotional as well as the materialistic aspects of development. Woord
en daad also creates consciousness of their supporters in The Netherlands
regarding the problems of poverty in the developing countries.
BHC Involvement:
- Evaluation of
an adult literacy programme, Chilakaluripet, AP
- Evaluation of
a commercial poultry farm (30,000) layers in Narsapur
- Design of training
on Project Formulation
Contact
Woord en Daad
Conseil Mondial des Eleveurs (CME)
Profile: The
CME is an international network of herders that stands for quality cattle
breeding which includes a respectful attitude towards nature, towards
animals and towards people. In the 1999 forum of CME held in Switzerland
the herders of the South met their European colleagues in order to discuss
with each other traditional and market oriented ways of herding, milk,
its quality and the quality of dairy cows.
"To begin, keep
up and bear the criticism, to preserve and perfect", CME takes
action with this aim. Its future is to organise itself to identify the
common and stimulating aspects of herding that includes spirituality
as well as ecological and economic aspects within the different pastoral
societies.
BHC Support:
- Preparation of
the meeting of the Conseil Mondial des Eleveurs in September 2001,
Mont, France.
Contact
CME
