Palli Vikash Pratisthan’s mission is to facilitate and guide processes, which are integrated, holistic, comprehensive, all-inclusive and sustainable to ensure a vibrant and dynamic community culture and leadership to achieve a dignified quality of life based on self-reliance, participation in decision making, access to and control over natural resources, preservation and application of indigenous knowledge systems and access to information.
Pallivikash, in partnership with Gram Vikas, intends to make available to the poor, toilets that are fit to be used. It is a simple logic that guides us in this task: “We only build toilets that we ourselves would use”. With regard to water supply, it has been our conviction that rural poor do need 24*7 piped water supply. We believe that uninterrupted water supply is an indicator of quality of life. The burden of fetching water in villages rests almost solely on the women and without piped water supply, it would be left to women to fetch water for the entire family’s needs. The villager’s access to a bathing room assumes significance since that is the only way of ensuring that the people stop using common village ponds for bathing. Bathing rooms have resulted both in a reduction of the incidence of skin diseases and gynecological and reproductive health problems among women. The bathing room usually does not figure in any water and sanitation programme. Providing a bathing room with water supply is probably the only way of ensuring that women could bathe properly in privacy.
Another crucial component of our programme intervention is to promote hygiene education among the poor and illiterate villagers. In addition our mandate also seeks to promote a clean and healthy indoor cooking environment to protect the health of rural women folk. Right now we are encouraging the rural household to use smokeless chullas and solar study lights so that the health risks could be minimized.
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Our Focus
We have recently demonstrated cooking stoves developed by Phillips in our operational villages and villagers have shown a great interest in Phillips cooking stoves. We have targets to promote 100 cooking stoves in the first phase. Demands are coming in from the villagers.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Nothing like that. Only the cost of the stove matters.
We have not had any experience before in this area, but we are confident to market the product in rural areas as we are working in more than 400 villages.
Nothing to comment on in this area.
Our grass root motivators will frequent the households and monitor the improvement on health through a properly developed monitoring format.
Relevant Publications or Studies
None noted
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We can contribute to this partnership in many different ways: 1. We can mobilize rural women through SHGs promoted by us 2. Create awareness programmes about the campaign 3. Promote selling through SHGs
