Kadaliguda is a small village in Rayagada district of Odisha having 130 households all of which belong to Other Backward Classes. Economic condition of families living in this village is very poor and all of them depend upon agriculture or wage labour for livelihood. Women of the village had formed a Self Help Group with …
The people of Narpura village of Dhaulpur district of Rajasthan were unhappy because their long standing need of drinking water was not getting fulfilled. The entire population of the village, which was 827 in number, was facing the problem, with women being the worst hit as they had to fetch from other villages which were …
Naukasili is a small hamlet of 30 households in Kampamaligaon Gram Panchayat in Rayagada district of Odisha. The hamlet is located on a hill and is about 1.6 kilometers from the district headquarters. All the 151 villagers of the hamlet which include 65 men, 52 women and 34 children belong to tribal community and their …
Minar refers to a tower in English. But Jal Minar refers to Community overhead tank as shown in the adjoining picture which is used for storage and supply of drinking water. Construction and maintenance of Jal Minar because of the efforts of Jal Samiti, a local community based institution, has resulted in bringing smile on …
Gubansha Panabati was among the women farmers who had raised doubts over the claim of significant increase in productivity of paddy when they were invited in the training for developing paddy demonstration during the Village Development committee meeting of their village Kampamaligaon on July 7, 2018. However, when Prayatn staff showed her some videos of …
Prayatn is implementing Water, Sanitation and Health project in all villages of Sapotara and Mandrail blocks of Karauli district of Rajasthan to generate community awareness on health and hygiene and ensure and make the Open Defecation free status of the blocks sustainable. The project is being implemented with financial and technical support of Plan India …
Date: 23rd June – 4th July Prayatn Sanstha distributed kits containing thermoscanners, pulse oximeters, sanitizers, etc. to handwashes, etc. to Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres, Sub-centres and ASHA workers and soaps, masks, etc., community members during COVID awareness campaign that was held across 50 villages Cholapur block of Varanasi. The campaign, which has been …