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10th Earth Care Awards to Gram Vikas for exemplary stewardship of climate action

The award recognised the efforts to restore 540 acres of degraded land in Kalahandi. KNOW MORE

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Springs flow, birds sing, forests breathe in hundreds of acres of parched land

Women’s perseverance and resolve brings a village together and revives a spring. KNOW MORE

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Counting every single drop of the unseen water

Adivasi youth across 700+ villages in Odisha are on a mission to map ground-water sources. KNOW MORE

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Students of Gram Vikas residential schools win a national competition for Climate Action

Students from Gram Vikas residential schools win the national competition, ‘Student Champs for Climate Action’. KNOW MORE

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Adivasi communities use Google Earth Pro to digitally map their villages

Young Adivasi women and men create a GIS-based village information system and a digital map of their villages KNOW MORE

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Mobile vans for COVID-19 awareness in communities

Gram Vikas’ mobile vans with mounted speakers travel to communities playing pre-recorded audio messages on measures to prevent COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Response: Migrant workers and families receive food and essential kits

Gram Vikas and CMID ensures access to food and essential materials for migrant workers and their families from Odisha stranded outside the state during the lockdown.

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COVID-19 vaccination drives to ensure 100% registration in 106 Adivasi habitations in Odisha

Gram Vikas teams help tribal communities overcome vaccine hesitancy through community outreach, information dissemination, dispelling misinformation, and help with registration on CoWIN website.

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Adivasi communities register for vaccination slots on CoWIN

Gram Vikas trains community volunteers from tribal habitations in Odisha and Jharkhand to support India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive.

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GRAM VIKAS COVID-19 RESPONSE 2021: Safeguarding health, life & livelihood security of rural communities

The second wave of COVID-19 leaves 74% of rural households more vulnerable to health, life and livelihoods risks. Findings from a needs assessment with 14,648 households in Odisha and Jharkhand.

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Community Champions enable safe and dignified migration in rural Odisha

A network of Community Champions support safe and dignified migration for migrant workers from remote villages in Kalahandi, Odisha.

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Wastewater management helps families eat nutritious food and earn alongside

Water security delivers on mitigating twin challenges of food and nutritional insecurities, while expanding income sources for the poor in rural Odisha.

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UDAN helps unemployed tribal youth become skilled masons

Young women and men from tribal habitations learn masonry to chart out new careers with higher incomes in the construction sector.

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Micro weather stations aid better crop planning and water smart farming

Advisory from micro weather stations help farmers do better crop planning and adopt water smart farming practices.

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Community Ownership in the Rural Drinking Water Sector

Liby Johnson describes experiences from Odisha, which indicates that Jal Jeevan Mission’s audacious goal of functional household tap water connection to all rural households is possible.

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Self-Help group revives traditional millet, supports youth education and supports for other emergencies in the village

A small group of women pool their money to access credit, and use it for farming, education and healthcare in their village in Kalahandi.

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From scarcity to plenty: A parched village solves its perennial water crisis

A 52 households village in Odisha comes together to solve years of water crisis.

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Water gets Gasukia’s children to eat better and stokes mothers’ hopes of being entrepreneurs

Access to water gets women into vegetable farming improving the health of their families.

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The Springs Initiative

Gram Vikas embarks on an initiative to protect and harness natural springs as a sustainable water resource by building capacities of local communities in providing the utmost care for the sustainability of water sources.

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