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 Safe water
Project Well is a non-profit organisation that has developed
a self-supporting community-based mitigation programme to provide arsenic-free water to
the afflicted villages of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The primary objective of the
organisation is to encourage sustainable use of dugwells via the formation and management
of community-based groups and creating a database and follow up programme using a passive
surveillance system. In India, the organisation focuses on implementation of a
community-based mitigation programme in the district of North 24 Parganas of West Bengal.
Project Well has constructed 34 dugwells and has been monitoring their efficient use. It
also trains the new users on maintenance of the dugwells for a period of one year, which
includes application of disinfectants. The NGO constructs conventional dugwells, modified
slightly to suit carefully selected sites. The diameter of each dugwell is one metre and
it is packed with coarse sand to enhance ground-water storage and filter fine-grained
sediment, and also to reduce the flow of bacteria into the well water. The wells are
protected from external contamination by a net cover and a tin roof. Water is withdrawn by
using handpumps. The organisation carries out a door-to-door campaign
to ensure sustainability of the community-based programmes before expanding to adjacent
villages as the members feel that the cost of the process to create sustainability is
higher than the cost of construction of dugwells.
For more information contact:
Mrs. Alpana Hira, Advisor
Project Well, Kolkata, India
Tel: 011-91-33-2246-8065
e-mail: alpanahira@yahoo.co.in
For the child in need
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Child in need institute (CINI) in Kolkata is working among poor communities in the city of
Kolkata, South 24 Parganas and surrounding areas. Since 1974, this non-governmental
organisation’s (NGO) focus has been on the health of women and children, child
nutrition and development, and mainstreaming streetchildren through education. CINI's
mission is to motivate the community to adopt positive action to sensitise the local
self-government (panchayat) about the health needs of the community and develop
effective linkage at different levels especially between the panchayat and the
government health systems. The organisation conducts field programmes, training and
research. CINI was recognised as the national mother NGO, under the Reproductive and child
health (RCH) programme by the Ministry of health and family welfare, government of India
in 1998. As mother NGO it supports advocacy and Information Education Communication (IEC)
activities for awareness generation on reproductive and child health programmes including
safe motherhood, quality care for infants, immunisation, counselling on STD / HIV and
adolescent issues. CINI reaches out to more than 1,10,000 of the rural population in South
24 Parganas, 2,50,000 of the urban poor population in Kolkata, more than 5,000 street
children in Kolkata and 1,000 sex workers in rural red light areas. CINI has a unique
"adopt a mother" scheme wherein needy mothers-to-be are identified. They are
instructed on the importance of adequate rest for the mother-to-be and are also oriented
in the basics of good parenting and the necessity of family planning.
For more information contact:
Dr K Pappu?
P.O Pailan, via Joka
Kolkata - 700 104
West Bengal, India
Tel : +91 (033) 2497 8192/ 2497 8206
Fax : +91 (033) 2497 8241
e-mail : cini@cinindia.org , cini@cinindia.org
website : www.cini-india.org |
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