District Kutch in Gujarat is a rainless salt desert, a sandy plain plagued by dust storms during the dry seasons. This is in sharp contrast to the wet fertile, plains of Gujarat’s southern coastal fringe. Like the rest of Kutch, village Momaymora of Rapar block was in the clutches of severe drought for the last 4 years.
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Planning is vital to development and is the key to success. A long history of 28 years nudges and propels one to move forward with more zeal and focus.
The strategy plan process of ours, lays equal emphasis on two planes – on an internal retrospect and external evaluation, which we foresee would help us evolve a strategy that would provide us insights into our unique potential and also enable us to become better facilitators of wholistic transformation and empowerment.
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During the monsoon of 2002, the state of Bihar was lashed by heavy rains causing severe floods. There was a loss of 324 lives while 13.2 million people became homeless. The poor living in interior villages suffered the most. For the raging waters the mud plastered huts with makeshift thatched roofs was mear putty and along with the huts were washed away all hard earned assets that families may have taken years to accumulate. Two of the relief items distributed during the flood relief were a hygiene kit and a 100-liter water container.
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Hasu Ben Mahadeva belongs to the marginalised Kohli community, a resident of village Namadha Dhar in district Kutch of Gujarat. The devastating earth quake of 2000 left her a widow with the additional burden of caring for four children the eldest just a mere 7 year old at the time of the calamity.
Life for Hasu Ben was a long struggle, shaking her faith in provider who was who, she has always been told provides or helpless people. Compensation from the government for her husband’s demise was a mere Rs.700/- hardly amounting to anything.
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