Livelihood Support to help the rural poor villagers under privileged persons

It is a programme from among persons belonging to poor and needy families struggling with poverty. Our goal is to eradicate poverty and give back their reputation as well through livelihood support such as Tea-Stall, Grocery shop, Vegetable Vending, Fish Vending, Potato Onion Shop, Fuchka vending, Goat Rearing etc.

Our organization’s operational area consists of 60 villages under 07 Gram Panchayat of Diamond Harbour Block – II in the district which is mostly on agricultural based villages. Inspite of working till morning to evening they cannot meet their daily ends. So they cannot maintain their family as well as children’s education. As a result their poverty are increasing day by day alongwith child labour, unemployment, destitution are increasing.

To meet their Livelihood support till date, Bani Mandir has taken the initiative to raise funds locally alongwith main support Give India in the option “Donate a Cycle Rickshaw for a poor villager as livelihood option”. We have indentified 105 such poor and needy families based on the list of poor persons provide by VDCs, a short listing project is done at Bani Mandir. Accordingly, the names are finalized to help with livelihood support to such 15 persons for Tea-Stall, 15 persons for Grocery Shop, 15 persons for vegetable vending, 15 persons for fish vending, 15 persons for Fuchka vending, 15 persons for Potato Onion and 15 Goat rearing for female candidates. Bani Mandir’s field staff keep close contact with the villages and villagers where the beneficiaries are finalized. The support so provided has been beneficial to check their poverty as well as able to give back social responsibility and reputation.

After distribution to the beneficiaries, we maintain Benefit Register, Books of Accounts and other relevant documents as well and time to time Feedback will be submitted to Give India. 

After distribution of Livelihood support such as Tea Stall, Grocery Shop, Vegetable Vending, Fish Vending, Fuchka, Potato, Onion Shop, Goat Rearing to 105 beneficiaries, we are thinking that they will be highly benefited and able to eradicate their poverty alongwith reduce child labour, unemployment etc. Besides, their economic development will surely encourage other such backward and socially underprivileged persons to follow them.

For an Example had already in organized some livelihood option financial supported by Give India that are

 i) “Help a poor villager set up a Tea Stall” – 28 beneficiaries  (2008 - 2013)

ii) “Help a poor villager set up a small grocery shop”. – 8 villagers (2008 - 2013)

iii) “Goat rearing for a woman for the livelihood support of her poor family” - 9 women (2008 - 2013)

All the options have been successfully going on. Now the beneficiaries of these options are able to establish their family economically.

Thus through these livelihood support, we want to achieve our goal reducing their poverty and to bring back them in the main stream of the society. Our programme will help not only the families of the beneficiaries financially but also their socio-economic status will be progressed give back to their social reputation in the society.