• Sustaining on vision, mission and objectives ACHIEVEMENTS.

• Continuing with a transparent, cooperative and communicative working style.

• Maintaining the image that KICD is hardworking and honest. This image could be achieved amongst VOs and GOs on block- and district level as well as a few governmental departments and VOs with whom KICD has been cooperating on state and national level.

• Keeping the administrative expenditures at a lowest possible level.

• Carrying out “3 NOs” firmly::NO to preaching of any religion
                                        NO to involvement in party politics
                                        NO to corruption

• These years have been an enriching journey of spreading work from one family to one Panchayat and now to one Development Block of 122 villages.

• Our efforts continue - to be a good human being first and to bring spirituality into development.

• Two girls from the neighbourhood live free of charge at the institute to receive a higher exposure to impressions they would have never received at home. One of them is the first girl of her faliya to pass primary school and is now attending last year of middle school. She also played a major part in the enrolment of the 50 children into primary school. During 2006 she has gone back to stay with her family.
• One family, Gochali and Khurban with their children, from Kavchha became aware, economically settled, could stop migration, left alcohol …: since 2003 they have enough food to eat, clothes to dress and nobody fell sick; all the children go to school now - the eldest does extremely well: In her fourth year of going to school she successfully attends now 8th standard.

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2.     Educational Programmes

• Kindergarten (see also achievements due to grants) and primary school learning group free of charge from spring 2001 to August 2006. All together some 50 children benefitted from kindergarten and learning group.
• Purchase of toys and furniture for kindergarten.
• Support to the child-to-child approach financing the girl child animator.
• Enrolment of 50 children into primary school and support to 15 school drop outs to give the exams for 5th/8th standard.
• During the school year 2005/06 another three girls from the remote village of Karha stayed at KICD so they could visit the Middle School in Katthiwada. 2006/07 eleven girls from seven villages took advantage of this boarding facility. Besides a save environment and a good learning atmosphere they receive a better nutrition and exposure to situations they never would get otherwise. The girls pay Rs 300.-- per month. The remaining expenses - up to Rs 150.-- per girl per month - are financed out of donations and by KICD.

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3.     Livelihood Programmes

• Purchase of two typewriters and five stitching machines for training purposes.
• Financing of training programmes as the course fees were purposely kept very low (and support to when the allotment by funding agencies is insufficient), partially including lodging and boarding:
  • English coaching to 80 students of classes 5 - 12 at KICD, and in their schools for 120 students of 8th (Middle School) and 12th (Higher Secondary School) standard in Katthiwada.
  • capacity building classes and adolescent training in 8th standard to 50 students of Middle School and 32 students of Rajendra Girls’ Ashram in Katthiwada Support to the Primary School Kavchha, providing an assistant teacher for 1st to 3rd standard and teaching English, Science Environment in 4th and 5th standard.
  • 450 women from 15 villages received training in stitching, embroidery and knitting. 20% of them utilize their new skills as a source of additional income and some 50% privately; the rest of the women took these courses as a hobby and for self satisfaction - a few of them registered as they see it as an additional qualification for marriage.   
  • 5 trainees for soft toy making   
  • 85 typing trainees         
  • 2 PC trainees   
  • 5 trainees for winding the tube-light transformer
• 150 persons participated in a training programme for growing of medicinal plants, which do not need irrigation. 43 farmers also received free seeds of these plants. KICD purchased their production for two years.
• Arrangement of a revolving fund, Rs 50 000.--, on a monthly interest of 1 to 2% for self employment, health, education, land purchase, house construction, travel, livelihood enhancement activities and similar needs of the community. The fund has increase to almost Rs 97 000.-- by the interest; more than 65 families from some 12 villages have benefittet from it.

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4.     Health and Nutrition Programmes

• Daily (Mo - Sa) free distribution of food to 20 - 45 children attending kindergarten and primary school learning group.
• Distribution of free medicine and first aid to all villagers of Kavchha Panchayat - particularly two neighbouring faliyas (clusters).

5.     Infrastructure

• The KICD-campus is situated on the private land of the founders free of charge. By donations this land has been partially adapted for the use of the GLOCAL Information and Demonstration Centre - bio-horticulture (use of quality fruit trees and vegetable seeds, composting, drip irrigation, bio pesticides, nursery), renewable energy park, rainwater harvesting, waste segregation.
• Construction of a freely accessable children's playing ground in front of the office visited by minimum 20 up to more than 100 children each day.
• Construction of an 150 m2 office, a guest- cum staff house, a small dormitory, a sanitary block and a kitchen room attached to the multi-purpose-hall.
• Purchase of office furniture and - supplies.
• Honorarium to kindergarten teacher, primary school group trainer and kindergarten helper (cooking).

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6.     Charity

• Distribution of new and used clothes to 175 children up to the age of 15 seven times.
• Transport of sick neighbours to hospital, support for buying medicine in case of need.

1. Awareness Programmes

• Kalyani Institute for Community Development participated in awareness programmes like ‘Meena Campaign’, National Environment Awareness Campaign, Pani Roko Abhiyan, and Pulse Polio Campaign. Thus almost 12 000 people from 25 villages, particularly children, women were benefitted with a better understanding in education, health, gender equality, environment, rainwater management and other basic socio-economic issues. Out of 2 500 families around 400 show glimpses of increased awareness.

• 170 members of WSHG or their family members participated in various exposures, workshops, Pani Yatra, Mela, Gramotsav etc.

• Panchayat representatives and WSHGs of Kavchha Panchayat were involved in eradication of rural child labour.

• KICD is mastertrainer for Gram Swaraj (village self-rule). 552 members of gram vikas samities (village development committees) from all the 122 villages in Katthiwada Development Block received two days gram swaraj training for participatory governance. 60% of the total representatives of 46 panchayats attended the trainings.
  For the election in 2005 the number of panchayats was increased to 49. All the 49 Sarpanches and 39 secretaries received training.
  See also health and nutrition programmes, Polio and Iodine

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2. Educational Programmes

• The honoraria of the kindergarten teacher and helper as well as a part of the meals were co-financed by the Bal Vikas Evam Kaliyan, Bhopal, through the Anganwadi Training Centre, Jhabua, from April 2004 to August 2006. (see private donors/educational programmes)

• English Classes are given to the hostelers, 9th and 10th standard, of the governmental higher secondary school in Katthiwada.

• End of March 2007 a special school for 50 child labourers was inaugurated in the Harijan Colony of Kavchha. KICD employed for this project two teachers and one helper. A third teacher for vocational training will be employed from next quarter onwards. The project is financed by the labour office. The goal is that the students pass primary school and learn some vocational skills.

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3. Environment Programmes

• 37 farmers were helped to install drip irrigation systems in their orchards.

• Plantation of more than 20 000 plants of 14 varieties of fruit-, fuel and timber trees through 32 women self help groups and 250 children in 20 villages. (Survival rate: 50%)

• Under rainwater management programmes following constructions were erected: 200 gully plugs on nalas between private fields and in the forest, stone- and soil bundings on 80 fields, 5 bolder check dams on 5 nalas, 3 field ponds, 8 soak pits, 3 hand-pumps and 1 tube-well recharged, 15 gunnybag dams in four nalas, 1 stop dam. All the constructions fulfil their purpose and except the gunnybag dams, which are meant to last for only one season, they are in good condition. Within two years the land under Rabi (winter) crop could be doubled in a Microwatershed-village.

• Besides being fully in charge of one microwatershed under Rajeev Gandhi Watershed Mission, KICD is also responsible for the community organization and the training of ten other watersheds run by the block office (4 Rajeev Gandhi Watershed Mission, 6 Hariyali).

• 258 less smoke chulhas were made and established in ‘Kutir’ and watershed area (utilization rate 20%) and 50 in the 12 MP-RLP villages.

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4. Livelihood Programmes

• A livelihood enhancement programme (2004 - 2006) benefited 250 members of women self help groups (WSHG) in 8 villages covering 3 activities: Food Processing, horticulture and handicrafts - production and marketing

• KICD was chosen to implement the Madhya Pradesh - Rural Livelihoods Programme in 12 villages in the Southern part of Katthiwada Development Block. This projects aims at the strengthening of the Gram Sabha (village counsel) as this institution will have to decide on all activities, which will be run in the village for the livelihood improvement of the most needy ones. Many innovations and experiments are under way to improve the living standards of the tribal community. For this purpose a project office was opened in neighbouring Panwad, Gujarat.

• 32 members of WSHGs were involved in a school uniform stitching programme and produced 5 200 uniforms for primary school girls within two years. 2004 the scheme was changed and many of them are directly contacted by the school to stitch their uniforms. Most of these ladies had previously participated in the stitching courses at KICD.

• 2 Stitching courses for 10 women sent from another NGO.

• Training for self employment was given as follows: 350 trained in improved agri- and horticulture, 45 - Kadaknath chicken (a special, local variety with “black” meat, very tasty, almost extinct), 20 - food processing, 15 - bakery, 30 - handicrafts, 21 - soap-, washing powder- and phenyle production.

• Out of the 220 families in Kavchha 127 are now connected to many programmes through the SHGs. 32 SHGs rotate totally Rs 500 000.-- as Revolving Loan Funds filled by funding agencies and their own savings. In their meetings the women decide who will get how much loan and for which purpose; they also take care that the loans are paid back.

• Kalyani Institute for Community Development was in charge of the survey of Katthiwada Development Block for the National Food For Work Programme. During the Survey for the National Food for Work Programme KICD covered all 122 villages of the block to collect the basic needs of the villagers related to this programme from each single Faliya (cluster) of each village.

• Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar (SGSY) training was organized to upgrade the skills of BPL-WSHG members: Stitiching, bamboo items, incent stick rolling, chandling.

• In co-operation with the National Institute for Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi, some 20 women and 20 men from the SHGs in the Harijan Colony, Kavchha, received a special training for new bamboo designs. All the new designs are also marketed by NIFT. Six of the trainees have learned so good that they can now train others.

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5. Health and Nutrition Programmes

• 350 families received 11 types of vegetable seeds and 3 types of vegetable saplings. Two nurseries were supported to produce some of these saplings. All the families consumed these vegetables themselves thus improving their diet fulfilling the primary goal of health improvement, 10 families sold the surplus production to neighbours and in the market as an income generating activity.

• The reproductive and child healthcare (RCH) (2005/06) programme in 10 villages covered children up to the age of 5 years, adolescent youth and adults in reproductive age. It also includes the objective of strengthening the existing governmental health care system:

  • Total immunization of 700 children below 5 years

  • Nutritious support to 60 malnourished children and 100 pregnant/breast-feeding women

  • Family planning operation (sterilization) of 35 women - transport home after operation and nutritious support for one month

  • Training to 19 untrained dais (midwives) and 8 Jan Swasthya Rakshaks (village health worker), 10 village health committees and 10 teachers

  • Awareness programmes for WSHGs and adolescent youth - Filling infrastructure gaps at the primary healthcare centre

• Ayurvedic health camps benefitted some 170 patients

• Distribution of free medicine (allopathic, ayurvedic and homeopathic) mainly to the inhabitants of two neighbouring faliyas (clusters)

• One Training by MP-VHA (Voluntary Health Association) for the production of herbal medicines as home remedies for 32 participants (WSHG members, local healers, staff members). The medicine is also sold by one WSHG.

• Kalyani Institute for Community Development participated in the Pulse Polio Eradication Drive from December 2003 to May 2005, being responsible for the community activities in several villages around Kavchha. Once it was also participating as a monitor for the WHO in the three blocks of Alirajpur Tehsil.

• Kalyani Institute for Community Development is coordinating seven Village Information Centres in as many villages in Katthiwada Development Block. The basic material is given by M.P. Voluntary Health Association but it is meant to distribute information to the villagers also on other subjects than health.

• November 2005 to January 2006 KICD participated in the national awareness campaign against iodine deficiency diseases (IDD)covering Alirajpur Tehsil. Also sample testing of salt on iodine content was done.
  Two follow-up rounds were conducted in Katthiwada Development Block end of 2006 and beginning of 2007, which showed the consumption of iodised salt has gone up in the area.

• Financed by NACO (National AIDS Comission) and their partners KICD has been implementing an INP+ (innovative projects for positive people) project in 19 villages of Katthiwada Development Block since October 2006. 50 Dais (local midwives) and Jan Swasthya Rakshaks (village health workers) have been trained as referal persons for HIV/AIDS related subjects. In co-operation with the VCTC (Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre) in Jhabua people are tested against HIV/AIDS - so far no known cases in the area.

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6. Membership in Committees

• KICD is a member of following core/advisory groups on block level: Jalabhishek Facilitator Group (water conservation) at block office, Rogi Kalyan Samiti (patients’ welfare) of health department, Peace Committee of police, bridge course for school drop outs and teacher training programme of education department, Scouts and Guides.
  It is committee member on district level for Jetropha (for bio-diesel) plantation and for water resources as well as in the Jal Prakoshta (water resources) monitoring team.

7. Infrastructure

• 2000/2001 a multi purpose hall and training centre was constructed on the campus with the financial support of the German Government and IEC material purchased.
  see also private donations

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8. Latest Developments

• KICD will start the RCH-2 campaign under the guidance of MP-VHA in 20 villages belonging to three underserved subcentres of Katthiwada Development Block. The main aim is to bridge the gaps existing in the governmental health infrastructure in connection with reproductive and child healthcare.

• A livelihood programme for the Panchayats of Dhyana (villages Dhyana and Bholwat) and Kavchha (Kavchha, Dabcha, Andharjhiri) is to start with May 2007. It is a long term project financed by Christian Aid aiming at an overall development of the villages according to the needs as formulated by the community. The first year is for training of the team, conducting the base line survey and to develop masterplans for each Faliya, which will be implemented from 2nd year onwards.

• In co-operation with The Hunger Project, India, KICD will organize several personality-development trainings for female Panches and Sarpanches (members of local government) and new potential canditates for the election 2009.

• Also in April 2007 KICD will start a project financed by NABARD (National Bank for Rural Development), giving training to SHGs in all villages of Katthiwada Development Block and linking them with credit programmes of the bank.

• As there is a big need for a boarding and lodging facilities for girls attending middle and higher secondary school in Katthiwada KICD is looking for a financer to adapt the multi purpose hall into a dormitory. For the construction and furniture for 50 girls some Rs 700 000.-- are needed.

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