As a part of our Plant a Tree for Life campaign, on 20th Sep 2016 another tranche of saplings were distributed to the farmers of village Hamiraka in Tijara block. As per the demands from the farmers, pomegranate and guava saplings were given. These saplings were donated by Mr. Lalit Jalan on behalf of GLMF DMRT 43, Delhi.
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Saplings distribution
As a part of our Plant a Tree for Life campaign, on 20th Sep 2016 another tranche of saplings were distributed to the farmers of village Hamiraka in Tijara block. As per the demands from the farmers, pomegranate and guava saplings were given. These saplings were donated by Mr. Lalit Jalan on behalf of GLMF DMRT 43, Delhi.
Wednesday, 14 September 2016
EP's collaboration with ABS India
End Poverty has collaborated with
ABS India, a subsidiary of Genus world leader in animal breeding to improve the
breed of dairy animals in Alwar. Dairy farming is extremely crucial in the area
as most of the people here are engaged in dairy farming and income from dairy
farming is crucial to sustain their families.
ABS global, headquartered in De Forest, Wisconsin, US is the world
leader in bovine genetics, reproduction services, technologies and udder care
products. The cluster which covers Bharatpur, Alwar, Dhaulpur, Dhousa and
Karoli is a dairy belt that lacks the know-how of scientific dairy farming and
farmers remain poor.
ABS product launch meeting was held
in Tapukra on 6th of September 2016. Vinod Kaushik, President of End
Poverty presided over the function and expressed his conviction that with the
availability of ABS semen in Alwar this area may grow in leaps and bounds and move
forward faster in breed improvement
leading to the required change in farm sector earnings.
The Managing Director of ABS India Dr.
Arvind Gautham, delivered the keynote address. He shared that ABS India has set
up a high end breeding farm in Pune, which is amongst the best in the world
which has imported 13 of the best bulls from America. With this genetic input,
it is expected that Indian dairy farmers will have access to best semen similar
to the one available in the US. The best genomic semen is now available to the
farmers of this area at their door step with the support of End Poverty. In the
near future there are plans to introduce embryo transfer technology and sex
semen to dairy farmers.
Dr. Jayverdhan Tiwari and Mr.
Abhishek Kumar from ABS India also presented valuable aspects that will support
the effort such as - allow the farmers to choose the semen, managing the future
progenies –such that the milk yield continuously grows. How customers can
choose and estimate profits by using customised Apps was also shared by the ABS
Team.
The program was attended by Zilla Parishad
members, Sarpanch, progressive farmers, AI (Artificial Insemination) Technicians,
NGOs representativesin large numbers.
Farmers who had gathered from far and wide from areas like Alwar, Agra, Meerut, Rewari and the AI technicians had many queries that were answered to their satisfaction by Dr. Arvind and his team.
Thursday, 8 September 2016
International Literacy Day
UNESCO officially proclaimed September 8 as
the International Literacy Day in the year 1966. This year, the
world will celebrate 50th International Literacy Day under the banner “Reading
the Past, Writing the Future”
UNESCO 2012 report shows that
13.54 million South Asian students leave school before completing their primary
education. Three main reasons for this being expectations of domesticity,
safety and infrastructure barriers.
As per the 2011 census data literacy rate in Tijara
block is 50%. In males the literacy rate
is 61% as 86695 males out of total 139884 are literate however female literacy
ratio is 37% as 47705 out of total 127023 females are literate in this block.
End Poverty recognised this
problem in its target area of Tijara Block in Alwar district, Rajasthan and
came up with Kishori Shiksha Program. In 2010 EP launched Kishori Shiksha Program (KSP) for
the girls in the age group of 10 -18 who have never been to school and may
never get chance to get the education. KSP started off as a 3 months course and
slowly evolved into 6 months and finally to the present 12 month course.
End
poverty not only recognised the problem of girls not being sent to school, but
also the real reasons and concerns of the society behind this. In addition to
the global reasons listed above for the girls dropping out of school, the local
population in EP’s target area also had concerns about male faculty teaching
the young adolescent girls. EP
addressed this concern by training one of the literate girls among their
community to be a teacher for adolescent girls between 10 and 18 years of age. The school runs in their own hamlet, so the
distance and safety concerns are taken care of.
Currently
417 girls are studying in 15 centres. So far EP has been successful in making
1686 girls become literate in many villages of Tijara Block. There is an
estimate of still about 10,000 unschooled adolescent girls in the area. EP is
striving hard to empower the unschooled adolescent girls of Tijara block with
literacy skills.
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