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Toilets are now an essential and affordable need in Gram Vikas partner villages

Residents of Silam Bartoli village in Jharkhand construct toilets to realise their right and dignity to clean sanitation facilities. KNOW MORE

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Women-led drinking water management

Women of Mandapathara village overcome stiff resistance to fund piped water supply system for their community. KNOW MORE

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Adolescent girls lead health conversations and actions in villages

Nutrition and improved WASH behaviour positively impact adolescent health. KNOW MORE

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Nutrition gardens strengthen resilience during the pandemic and help families eat healthy round the year

Backyard kitchen gardens sustain food security of Adivasi families in remote Odisha. KNOW MORE

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User-centred design accelerates adoption of behaviour change in child faeces management

The age long belief of child faeces being harmless could change with introduction of an user-designed and locally made model of child toilet. KNOW MORE

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₹ 10,000 monthly income likely to reduce out-migration from Odisha

A new study on post-lockdown coping strategies of migrant workers from Odisha. With a poverty ratio of 32.6%, migration for work has been a key survival strategy for millions of poor from rural Odisha. Gram Vikas and Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development spoke to 392 migrant workers from Odisha stranded in different states of […]

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I am not sure what I will do going forward

Ramesh and his family worry about their future. He feels he may not have work after a few months. He has not been able to save much either. But more heartbreaking is his helplessness. He feels nothing can be done about the situation.

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15,845 people supported in the first 45 days of the pandemic

Gram Vikas’ COVID-19 pandemic response work reached vulnerable rural poor with health awareness and screening, survival kits for families of daily wage workers, support for livelihood security and local government actions; and ensuring the wellbeing of stranded migrant workers from Odisha.

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All we want is for him to return safe.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left Mohan Majhi stranded in Kerala, where he went to work in a construction firm. His family has to cope with the uncertainty of the fallout on their own while taking care of an infant.

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Systematic, swift data collection helps reach out to migrant workers stranded due to the COVID-19 lockdown

The Government of Odisha announced a partial lock-down on 22 March 2020 due to which several of Gram Vikas offices were closed. Subsequent to the national level lock-down, all our offices have been closed and staff members are working from home. All Management Team members are working from home and keeping in touch with each […]

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Telephone helpline, local government linkages, individual outreach support stranded migrant workers

As part of our work on Safe Migration, Gram Vikas already had built a database of workers who had migrated to Kerala from villages in our operational area in Thuamul Rampur block of Kalahandi district. A 3-member team in Bhubaneswar aided by one management team member who was at his home in Kerala worked together […]

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COVID-19 pandemic threatens livelihood security of village communities

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to joblessness and a looming fear of livelihood insecurity amongst the rural poor from Gram Vikas villages. A large number of men have been forced to return to their native villages in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kalahandi districts from other states like Kerala and Karnataka. Most of them were engaged […]

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A village walks into the light

The story of electrifying a remote tribal village, Maligaon in Odisha, by renewing a defunct solar microgrid.

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Sanitation warriors of Bandhaguda

Women of Bandhaguda, a small village in Ganjam district of Odisha, India, tells you how they built the toilets, manage the system and ensure safe sanitation behaviour in their community.

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The Walking Stick

“The hidden agenda was to address the problem of exclusion, but the open agenda was to see that people got quality water and sanitation facilities in rural areas,” Joe Madiath. Watch the Skoll Foundation’s interview with Joe Madiath on how Gram Vikas was built, 41 years ago, to find equity through water and sanitation.

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Study finds higher toilet use and lower rates of child diseases as a result of Gram Vikas’ combined water-sanitation programme in Odisha villages

A joint research by LSHTM, KIIT and Emory University found improvements in toilet use and coverage, better child faeces management and reduced diseases among children in selected programme villages of Gram Vikas. Lack of clean water and poor sanitation and hygiene habits such as open defecation and unsafe child faeces disposal in rural households exposes […]

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Toilets are now an essential and affordable need in Gram Vikas partner villages

Women-led drinking water management

Adolescent girls lead health conversations and actions in villages

Nutrition gardens strengthen resilience during the pandemic and help families eat healthy round the year

User-centred design accelerates adoption of behaviour change in child faeces management

ALL BLOGPOSTS

₹ 10,000 monthly income likely to reduce out-migration from Odisha

I am not sure what I will do going forward

15,845 people supported in the first 45 days of the pandemic

All we want is for him to return safe.

Systematic, swift data collection helps reach out to migrant workers stranded due to the COVID-19 lockdown

Telephone helpline, local government linkages, individual outreach support stranded migrant workers

COVID-19 pandemic threatens livelihood security of village communities

A village walks into the light

Sanitation warriors of Bandhaguda

The Walking Stick

Study finds higher toilet use and lower rates of child diseases as a result of Gram Vikas’ combined water-sanitation programme in Odisha villages

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