WOMEN FARMER
Help Widows of Farmers Who’ve Committed Suicide in Vidarbha for helping her come out of the distressed situation and build a strong family. Creating a support system for woman farmers:
– To overcome current problems & start a normal life
– To facilitate receiving all facilities provided by the government.
– To enable restore interest and faith in Agriculture.
– To help adopt sustainable agriculture to get better results and become self-sustaining.
– To support skill training/education for Income Generation Programs.
– To support children’s education of the distressed family.
Your help will create a direct connection between you and the woman-headed family as an extended family and an urban-rural connect. So anyone who wants to help women farmers are not bound to pay only but also can help by advising, sending goods or buying their farm products, etc. US$ 1200 FOR ONE FAMILY
1. Children Education – (US$ 170)
2. Food and Nutrition Support -(US$ 170)
3. Individual Counseling of family members in distress situation and referral support for alternate household’s Income Generation Activities (End-to-End) – US$ 600
4. Support to get Government Schemes and related documentation – (US$ 50)
5. Organizational Support – (US$ 200)
6. Contingencies – (US$ 10)
Children Education
- Every child has the right to a safe, formal, quality education and access to lifelong learning.
- Promote and Motivate children with access to quality education in an interactive and joyful environment.
- To join mainstream schools, having become confident, independent learners.
- Support for School Fees, Books, uniforms, etc.
Food and Nutrition
- Proteins or body-building material.
- Fats and starches are used especially for energy.
- Minerals & Vitamins.
- Fibre & Water.
- Essential Nutrition
Livelihood (Household’s Income Generation Activities)
- Train and provide Agro-based, Agri-allied (a small ruminant-based livelihood) and non-farm Income
- Generating Programs on better practices to increase their income and earn more respect within the household.
Support to Get Government Schemes and Related Documentation
- Create or adapt referral tools- guidelines, standardized electronic or paper-based forms, clear feedback mechanisms, and a referral database that tracks receipt of services and its outcomes, to facilitate systematic & effective referrals between Family and Government.
- Identify schemes & contact points- to track and provide feedback on schemes and bring together family and service providers to discuss the operation of the schemes, related documentation and challenges.
- Create strong linkages between related government schemes and access to support to address economic barriers.
Organizational Support
- Coordination, Implementation, and monitoring of the support services
- Hold stakeholders meeting for service providers and government representatives to share and validate the mapping results, develop priorities for improving linkages and services, and decide on an action plan to develop the referral network.
- Develop a diagnostic tool to assess household poverty and food security
- Map Family services and develop a sustainable model
- Individual Counseling and referral support
- Conduct a situation analysis of the family context, & referral network, address gaps and inefficiencies in the system, track outcomes, and ensure the quality of the system.
Contingency Support
To assist with activities that may fall outside of standard support or on an as-needed so they could cope with their daily sufferings and fulfil daily needs.