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Gram Vikas completed a landmark of 40 years of work, in partnership with rural communities, across Odisha, Jharkhand and other states in 2019. Our Executive Director, Liby Johnson, shares a brief overview of our work and initiatives in the past year.
Suvojit Chattopadhyay discusses the need for NGOs to redefine scale, to seed an exit strategy right at the start of a community engagement process and address the challenges that come in its wake.
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Tulasipur village development
The Holistic Rural Development Programme attempts to overcome complex, interconnected challenges that is critical to community development.
Rudra’s journey from Kalahandi to Kerala
Rudra shares about his journey from a village in Kalahandi to Kerala for search of work.
Difficulties for the migrant community
Ram Majhi speaks for all migrants as he shares the difficulties at source and destination for the migrant community.
Rebuilding Livelihoods in Cyclone Titli affected villages
Gram Vikas is training women and men from Cyclone Titli affected villages in Ganjam and Gajapati districts of Odisha in masonry as a part of efforts in rebuilding livelihoods.
Make your own progress
“No one can stop you, the moment you decide to be yourself.” Sindhu Majhi from Purnagumma village, Thuamul Rampur, Kalahandi.
Farmers – The smart way
Smart Community Interface project supported by Oracle through Charities Aid Foundation India is helping the farmers in Odisha get market information using technology.
A renewed solar microgrid has brought back consistent access to high quality electricity to the village Maligaon bringing opportunities for rural lives and livelihoods.
A joint study report by Gram Vikas and CMID details the challenges and solutions for safe migration of labour from Odisha to Kerala. Migration has been a key survival strategy for millions of rural poor from the Indian state Odisha, with a poverty ratio of 32.6 per cent in 2011. Thuamul Rampur, with the […]
The Smart Community Interface Programme aims to develop a community-owned and managed model of information management that uses information and communication technologies to improve the quality of life of village communities in areas with limited physical access and connectivity. The Smart Community Interface programme will put together the hardware architecture, content and software applications; and […]
The unprecedented floods that inundated Kerala affected a large number of migrant workers, some of whom were from villages that Gram Vikas has been working with. We supported the migrants and their families stranded during the floods. “Everywhere it’s just water. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know where I am. There […]
A matter of great pride for us that 29 young women and men from Gram Vikas’ partner villages will join as Gram Vikas employees in April 2019. In January 2018, the Gram Vikas Governing Board approved the Community Professionals programme as a key component of the human resources strategy for Gram Vikas Decade V. […]
The Status Assessment Survey (SAS), of about 70,000 households re-connected Gram Vikas with the villages which had set up water and sanitation systems with our assistance. The Status Assessment Survey (SAS), of about 70,000 households across 1170 villages, rolled out in May 2018. An exercise with few parallels, the survey aims to help Gram Vikas re-establish contact with all […]
Mason training helps Laxmi send her children to school
Laxmi Ekka, a young mother, struggled to send her children to school as earnings from daily wage labour were just enough for her family to survive. But attending the mason training by Gram Vikas helped her get a job with OPGC, triple her income and send her children to school.
Tutukoli village first gets tap water and now grows vegetables using greywater
Families in Tukutoli village in Gumla, Jharkhand, once suffered from diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera. Open defecation was prevalent, there were few sources of safe water and an acute water shortage in summer. Today, every household in the village has a toilet and a bathing room (TBR), and piped water supply.
Higher yields and incomes at lower costs of cultivation for Kantabania farmers
Farmers in Kantabania village adopted the Improve Package of Practices for rice cultivation thereby increasing yields and incomes at lower costs.
Kandhabanta village makes contaminated water potable
Kandhabanta village led a community initiative to reduce health risk from water-borne diseases and ensure zero wastage of water from the household pipes.