HARIT PRAYAS Project

Report on Visit of caritas team

(9^th-11^th June 2012)

INTRODUCTION:

In Satna a visit by Caritas team was conducted from 9/06/2012 to 11/06/2012. In this team, the key persons were Ms. Maribel (caritas Spain), Mr. Saju (State officer) & Mr. Vinod Pandey (Project officer), Fr. Joseph (Director of SSSS, Satna) & Fr.Jossey.

During this 3 day trip to project villages of Satna the field visit and in-house discussions/presentation was organized by Satna Diocese. In the in-house presentation two teams of Life project (Banswara & Ajmer) Harit Prayas team of Sagour Diocese also participated.

FIRST DAY (09/06/2011):

We went to the Village Majotta at 9.30 A.M. The following are the happenings of the day:

·        The community member welcome the team with a cultural program which consisted welcome song by Mahila Mandal, Poetry on Harit Prayas by farmers club member Harideen Patel & Harit Prayas theme Song by our Kissan Club.

·        Inauguration of Name of Village Harit Prayas Majotta by Miss. Maribel in presence of villagers.

·        It was followed by gallery walk, organised by the our community members are shared with our team in which there were four stalls of organic product, food security, Products by our Mahila Mandal & Kissan club. Th 4^th stall was of Documents on MGNREGA, Agriculture & other government Schemes etc.

·        All of us, as a team, went to the Agricultural fields of our farmers in which they have shown the agricultural pits which is prepared by them.

·        Then Mahila Mandal & Kissan Mandal meeting took place in which Miss. Maribel also participated.

SECOND DAY (10/06/12):

 On second day, team visited three project villages Karondia, Kawar, Motidungaria & one VIC of Silone. The following are the activities of the day:

·        Firstly team visited the Village Karondia which was one the most backward village few months ago, but now changes can be observed now, after putting lots of effort by the team members of project Harit Prayas. A cultural program was presented by the villagers & interaction of Miss. Maribel with the community members took place in which the villagers shared and discussed about the changes happening due to the efforts of our Project in village & the good no. of written application has filled by the villagers & they have shown the Xerox copies to us.

·        After that we went to the Village Kawar in which we had a discussion with Mahila Mandal & Kissan club. The CBO members also shared their experiences, changes & result achieved by them with the help of our projects.

·        After this we visited village Silone for the VIC in which the visiting team saw a number of posters on Gramsabha, schemes, books on organic farming, application form of govt. schemes etc .VIC incharge Preeti shared all the documents prepared by her like Newspaper register, register in which she prepared name of the people helped by her for availing benefit of government schemes etc.

·        The next village for visit was Motidungaria in which team interacted with community members and had a field visit of their agricultural area in which team saw organic pits prepared by farmers & discuss over their next planning for the crops . After this a meeting of Miss. Maribel with the cluster coordinator took place, in which they asked them to share the challenges faced by them in implementation of project & the easiest & toughest activity for them. At the end she has gave thanks to our team.

Third Day (11/06/12):

We went to the Main office Samaritan Social service society where two team of life project (Banswara &Ajmer) & two teams of Harit Prayas (Sagar & Satna) participated in in-house discussion/presentation. All the four coordinators & field supervisor presented the scenario (before the project & after the project), they also made an analysis of targeted set and target achieved, so far in the project area. This was a great session in which all teams have some learning’s from other teams.

At the end of the session, Mr. Vinod Pandey also shared achievements & changes brought by different teams, in their respective project area.

At last Miss Maribel given thanks & congratulates the all teams for doing well in their project area.

What’s the different about this visit?

In three days of this visit our team, Satna Harit Prayas team, was surprised by Miss. Maribel! We enjoyed this visit because the participation by her was not like a member come from Caritas Spain but she became part of community itself and the project. All team members were very much comfortable and at ease due to her participation, which helped us to share clear picture about our targeted area. Thanks to her for this kind of participation from entire team of Harit Prayas satna.

A report by HARIT PRAYAS-SSSS-Satna team