Sunderban Social Development Centre

Vill: Polerhat, P.O:Bijoyganj

Via: Ghateswar, Dist: 24 Parganas (South)

West Bengal 743343, India

Tele/Fax: 03174 – 277286

Email: ssdcindia@gmail.com

Annual Report

2014-2015

Sunderban Social Development Centre

Vill: Polerhat, P.O:Bijoyganj

Via: Ghateswar, Dist: 24 Parganas (South)

West Bengal 743343, India

Tele/Fax: 03174 – 277286

Email: ssdcindia@gmail.com

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Annual Report

2014-2015

From the desk of Secretary & President

It is the happiest movement for we all to published annual

reports in its for all of us to let inform that

Sunderban Social Development Centre (SSDC) has reached to

its 25th year on 2004 and has celebrated its Silver Jubilee

after walking a far way since its inception towards the wellbeing of the

people living over the disaster prone Sundarban Delta Region.

Being a voluntary organization, we never forget about its contribution

on development and hardness effort of its dedicated management

committee, core staff and field workers.

We have thousands of beneficiaries in the areas of health, education,

Mother and Child health, Water, Sanitation and hygiene, education,

child care and protection, child development and women welfare, eye

care, disaster management and all of their voice always goes for praise

to Sundarban Social development centre.

In the eve of its 25 years journey, SSDC likes to express heartiest

gratitude to all its supporters, well wishers, organizational members,

dedicated project staffs, volunteers, partner organizations, Govt.

departments, individuals, national and international donor agencies

those have extended their helping hands towards its growth,

development and its intensive service facilitation and pro people

activities.

We are immensely proud of what been achieved in 2014-2015 and look

forward to a future as a devoted organization creating positive change

in the lives of the people of Sundarbans over the years.

Sri Gopal Paramanik Sri Bhakta Purakayastha

President Secretary

Memorable Achievements in this year: ECF opportunity/UNICEF

SSDC- About Sundarban Social Development Centre

Sundarban region: Working areas

= SSDC believes in collaborative approach and right from the situation

analysis & project planning stage up to evaluation at the end it involves people of all

strata in the community. The organization involves all the local youth organizations,

women’s group & samities, Village Education Committees, children, adolescents,

SSDC is a Not for profit making Government and FCRA registered Non Government Organisation (NGO) at district level. It is devoted and is working for well being of People living over disaster prone Sundarban Delta Region in West Bengal, India since the year 1989.

Thematic areas

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Ensure community participation & Value to

community opinion and experience

Adopted Collaborative and target oriented

approach

Involvement of local clubs, PRI body, Govt.

departments & other institutions

Join hands with community service

providers

Formation and nurturing of mothers,

youths, adolescents & Children Groups

Institution based care, service and

treatment

Continuous study, analysis, advocacy &

networking and sharing.

Maintaining Child protection policy

Maintaining MIS, documentation and

presentation at different forums.

Resource mobilization and utilization

Show case good practices through IEC

BCC activities and handholding support

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Dist. South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Vision = To build up a just society where love, Peace and equality are

discovered, lived and nurtured.

Objectives

Community well being through service, facilitation, empowerment and behavior change

on practice.

Close association with community & adopt participatory development initiatives.

Undertake rural development projects in joint hands with Government, NGOs, INGOs,

donor agencies and individual donors.

Make all endeavor fit to survive, all round development and check on poor indicators in

standard of life.

Organizational infrastructure development

Mission = To uphold the human dignity of the poor and marginalized through the

process of empowerment.

Sundarban People

Main occupation of the people of Sunderbans is agriculture

and pisciculture. All agriculture is mono crop agriculture

and nearly 55% of the population is landless and hence

dependent on daily wage from agricultural or related labour

activities. 44% of the effective area is under pisciculture

with participation of women being higher in this activity

than the men. Fishing on the high seas with larger boats is

few and far between owing to restrictions on number of

months in which high sea fishing is permitted and lack of

equipment. There is also a limited income obtained from

forest produce such as honey and medicinal plants.

Migration to the cities for economic reasons is common

both for adults and children.

Due to the geographical location, transport is limited, with

boats and van rickshaw as main mean of transportation.

Conditions of village roads are bad and only a few parts of

the roads are brick-paved.

Indian part of the Sundarbans covers around 9630 square

kilometers in West Bengal, spreading across 106 islands in 19

administrative blocks of its two districts – 6 from the North 24

Parganas district (out of 22 blocks) and 13 from the South 24

Parganas district (out of 29 blocks). About 55% of the

inhabitants are Hindus, 30% Muslim, and about 15% pertain to

scheduled castes and tribal communities.

The Sundarbans is one of the most disaster prone areas in the country being regularly

affected by cyclonic storms and tidal waves. Earthen embankments and loss of life and

destruction of crops and property is being devastate the region regular basis. The effects of

the cyclone AILA in 2009, which was responsible for massive destruction in the Sundarbans,

can still be felt in the remote villages and stands to huge recovery by .

SSDC: Health Interventions

Health Activities

EYE Hospital care

Outreach vision centers

Mobile Boat clinical

Medical camps &

Follow ups.

Nutrition rehabilitation

centre

Health Check up camps

Cancer Screening camp

Cleft left & burnt

patients operations

Adolescent health

hygiene promotion

School health Hygiene

education Promotion

Mother & Child health

& Immunization camps

Optical & Pathology

opportunities

Achievements this year…

OPD patients treated

(New & Old) -31129 Nos.

RSBY Patients-2229 Nos.

Total cataract Surgery

cases:

(Free) -5869

(Pay in)- 1202

Free spectacles

distribution: 1500 Nos.

Extension of OPD, OT

and vision centers

Introduce mobile van for

patient parties

Extended 7 numbers

vision centers at island

areas

H Eye care

Major Focused areas

• Low cost eye screening,

examination and

treatment facilities

• Cataract and other

surgical incidents

• PHACO surgery

• Free medical camps &

check ups

• Optical & Pathology

opportunities

• Ambulance & Mobile van

services

• School screening camp

• RSBY benefits accessibility

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Everyone has right to sight

SSDC: Health Interventions

SSDC: Basic Health Care project

Objectives

Ensure save mother hood Immunization tracking of all

PWs and children Under 5 years

Promote good practices on maternal health & child care

Family planning promotion to Eligible couples

Arrest the malnutrition trend among children and suffering from anemia among mothers

Care givers sensitization and involvement

Capacity building of stake holders and service providers

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Child health & Nutrition

Cover to 60000 under five

children as direct

beneficiaries

Regular Growth, Edema

Check and MUAC

measurement.

Conduct home based Low

Birth Weight Management

Programme.

Enroll for home Management

programme to Moderate

Acute malnourished Children

(MAM)

NRC care to Severe Acute

Malnourished Children (SAM)

Promote Homestead

Nutrition gardens to Targeted

families

PLA activities with mothers

Maternal, Child Health & Nutrition

Achievement this year Direct intervention and reach to

29129 number of U5 Children through regular Growth monitoring

588 numbers of LBW child intervened

2293 Numbers of Malnourished children enrolled to programme

2295 Numbers of MAM

children intervened directly

Promoted 250 Numbers

of Homestead Nutrition

gardens to houses having

malnourished children.

360 SAM children admitted to NRC

Maternal care

Ensure ANC/ PNC to all mothers in joint hands with ASHA & ANM

Promote institutional delivery

Mother camps at outreach areas

Family planning method promotion

Basic Health Care Projects

Anemia Control Programme for Mothers and adolescents

Adolescent Health Hygiene Promotion; School Health Education & reproductive health messages Advocacy to health infrastructure development & medical insurance promotion

Capacity building of Community Health service providers & PRI stakeholders

Strengthening Sub-Centre & ICDS functioning and joint handholding service facilitations with SHG/SGSY group members.

Blood donation camp for thalassemia patients

Major Achievements in 2014-2015

Facilitate child immunization to children- 2543 children

Direct intervention to 6208 families

Adolescent covered to nurture through groups activities- 178 numbers

Covered to anemic mothers: 465 Nos.

Lemon tree distribute to families- 500 numbers

ICDS covered directly: 491 Nos.

SC covered 71 Nos.

Covered to schools hygiene promotion & : High School:

15, Primary- 20 SSK-4, ICDS- 3, MSK-I Health check up camps for mothers: 56 Numbers

Benefited cancer patient: 10 & Cleft left: 21 children

Basic health care and support project is an integral part of SSDC’s health care intervention in joint hands with Govt. health service providers based on Sub Health Centers, ICDS centers and through pocket outreach health camps and clinic boat services. SSDC workers & medical team are dedicated and hard to cover 101425 numbers of Populations in Patharpratima & Mandirbazar Blocks in South 24 Parganas district.

Cancer screening camp & Cleft left & burnt patient operation

Strengthening child routine immunization

amme programme

Health for all

Intigrated Women & Child Development Project

Annual Sports

In continuation, SSDC passed another year to implement integrated women & Child development Programme on right based approach through pro people activities and empowerment.

Achievement figure 2015-16

School Dropout 46

Child labour mainstream 28

Recovery malnutrition of child

73

GP covered on Child protection issue

6

Stop Child marriage 1

Immunization: child left out intervened

65

Immunization: child left out intervened

191

Ensure ICDS spot feeding 3

Kishor Bahini Group (KKB)

24

Child Immunization 3502

complimentary feeding

Organize outreach Health camps

Ensure institutional Delivery

ICDS Infrastructure Dev. 1

Distribution books to poor children

Mohila Mondal Groups 24

Women & Child Participation

Street theatre performances/Puppet show

Group activities: Supervision on Mid-day meal & School Health hygiene

Integration

Nutrition garden to child

home

Encourage families on

integrated farming / land

shaping

Facilitate Govt.

entitlements to farmers,

PDS facilities, and other

health entitlements

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project

Crisis in save drinking water is a concern lack in the project area in Sundarban Delta region. People have observed to lack also in Sanitation and hygiene practice that related to reflect in health hazard, suffering from mother and trend towards suffering from malnutrition among children. Proper school infrastructure has a huge need for up gradation, renovation or make them child friendly specially for hesitation less use by adolescents; user friendly to maintain proper menstruation hygiene.

WASH

WASH Project aims to:

• Access to Safe Drinking Water for everyone forever • Community based Disaster friendly installation and

construction activities • Reduce the water and sanitation related health hazards

and prevalence of suffering from diseases. • Improved environmental sanitation in the community

and effort to make the pollution free. • Better prepared community for future disasters.

Major activities under taken in 2014-2015

• Construction of Household toilets. • Running Rural Sanitary mart (Sanitation materials

Production House) • Disaster Friendly high raised new tube well installation • Renovation of tube well platforms of Disaster effected • Formation & Strengthening of WATSAN committees at

community and Schools • Promotion of hand washing at school & community • Tube well chlorination & surface water treatment plan

use to community. • PRI members sensitization • Safety loop practices at every households • construction/up-gradation of School toilets • Mobilize people through towards Saccha Bharat Aviyan

Achievements in 2014-2015

• Tube well installation: 25 nos. • Household toilet promotion: 200 Nos. • Community Toilet-1 No. • Hand washing facility at Primary school: 28 Toilet block renovation at High schools-11, SSK-4, ICDS- 3, MSK-I • High raised tube well platform: 30 • Safety loop covered to households: 540 houses

Active WATSAN Committee

SSDC wish safe drinking water & Sanitation everyone forever

Disaster Risk Reduction & Enviornment Protection

What SSDC did in 2014-15

DRR mainstream

• High raised tube

wells : 265 Nos

• Formation of

VDMC and DRR

training to groups.

• MOCK drill:

260 villagers

• DRR tool kit

distribution : 24

Numbers of VDMC

• River embankment

protection; Bamboo

guard Wall

• Mangrove

plantation : 100000

saplings

• Outreach medical

camps : 240 Nos

Environment protection

• Mangrove

planted to 24 acres

of river side land

• Covered 3 Gram

Panchayets at

Patharpratima Block

• Developed 2

mangrove nurseries

• Planted 1 lack

mangrove saplings

• Empower and

trained to 96

numbers of Women

Groups

Sundarban area where SSDC is working is high disaster prone which characteristics with frequent flood and cyclone. Cyclone Aila has heat over the region terrible in the year 2009, occurred huge losses of natural and human loses and leads a disaster situation in the region. SSDC started an initiative on emergency response through relief works. From 2012, SSDC took initiatives on DRR Preparedness/resilience at 7 Gram Panchayets. SSDC is applying Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) mainstreaming activities for well prepare to the community and by the community. Beside it, there are a few activities to protect environment

SSDC played its role to emergency response and recovery activities from then.

The climate change due to global

warming is a concern threat for the

people living in disaster prone

Sundarban Delta region in West

Bengal. From the environmental

health point of view, there is a

huge need of actions to fight

against climate change to make the

endeavor environmentally fit and

make the habitant safer for living

by reducing the prevalence of

frequent flood and cyclone.

Community Media interventions IEC & BCC Activities

SSDC use community media locally acceptable and

attractable towards dissemination of good practice

messages to all stratum of the community. Any

IEC/BCC Activities usually conduct pro people

considering local language, tradition and by search in

talent in the community and learnt from oldage

experience.

Major IEC/BCC activities carried out in this reporting

year:

Play street theatre and school on health hygiene messages by adolescents groups. Flipbook picture messages on Disaster

preparedness and WASH behavior change.

Wall writing Railway station campaign on child protection

issue during CRC week celebration Puppet show by children groups Manifesto signature campaign Community interaction & one to one

counseling Cultural events, competitions, rally & mobile

campaigning. Celebration of special days & events by audio

visual curriculum activities and audio visual shows

Message through Calendar & cloth posters

A page from DRR Flip Book

Vocational Skill Building Livilihood Activities

Motor training

To empower Rural Women, youths and adults towards sustainable livelihood and facilitate skillful income generation, SSDC carried down various skill building activities for the target group of:

Rural Women

Vulnerable or risk to dropout children (15 to 20 years)

Rescued or repatriate children may or in risk to

Child Domestic workers and child labour

Rural youths & farmers Objective

Child Labour Elimination Women Empowerment Support families to reduce economic

hindering that lead risks to any types of vulnerability

Enable women to be economic self dependent or keep earning contribution to families

Achievements in 2014-15

Skill Development Training to 162 Children & Youths (Male: 105, Female: 57) between the age group of 15-20 years.

All Children achieved certificate of Training completion

Successfully mainstream into skill appropriate trade engagement so far about 60 Numbers of Children & Youths after complete their training.

32 Numbers of women Self-help group members have trained on Mangrove nursery development.

16 Numbers of Farmers group have promoted to integrate farming through land shaping module.

250 numbers of home gardens have been promoted by trained mothers and family members.

Focus Trades: Zari/handicraft, Tailoring,

Beautician, Motor Mechanic, Mangrove

Nursery, Electrician

Preview in the year 2014 15 A photo galary look

Inauguration of SSDC’s colorful silver

jubilee Celebration event

Cheers movement with Hon’ble MP of

Soouth 24 Parganas & Minister of

Sundarban Development’

Sri Manturam Pakhira’ and our old

age well wished freedom fighter sri

Kishori Mohon Paik

Celebration of tube well birth day

Happiest movement with villagers

Villagers

A dream green house

Peaceful meeting place in open field at

SSDC campus

A photo galary watch

A little performance ………

Celebration of Internation children day

with co-curriculum activities !

A jimnastic dance performance from

children group

A Tribute to SSDC at its silver jubilii

year celebration event

Participation in Nimal Bangla Avijan

Vision to diseminate clean and healty

living messages

A photo galary watch

A stage play performance by Children

group

Theame to concious society to

determined ICDS care to Children

Street theatre ………

Awareness on Child immunization and

nutrition care

SSDC facilitate children groups (KKBs)

to perform

Honor to guests; attribute Smarak

Old age letature; always support and

bliss to SSDC’s activitiesa…

Case Study: Intervention on ICDS Infrastructure Development Centre No: 326, Vill: Kamdebnagar GP: Durbachati, Block: Patharpratima Dist: South 24 Parganas

Introduction: 326 No. of ICDS centre has been

identified in poor infrastructure. It has no it’s

permanent infrastructure, presently running it at

ICDS workers home. SSDC workers intervene

towards its permanent infrastructure.

Present Condition: Running it at ICDS workers

home. Space is not adequate. It is very difficult to

maintain hygiene during supplementary food

preparation and spot feeding to children. There is an

absence of toilet facility.

SSDC’s intervention: SSDC workers keep

observation and realized the need of its permanent

infrastructure. SSDC conducted awareness at

hamlet. Community raised the demand for a

solution. As per need, action taken under the

following process mentioned beside in picture

diagram as:

Observation and need indentified.

Aware community on action.

Raised demand.

Involved PRI members

Make agree to land donor and site selected

Arrange joint discussion with VDC, PRI and

SHG leaders

Appealed to Block through proper channel

and relevant documents.

PRI members keep follow ups.

SSDC workers keep follow up on progress.

Output/Achievements: SSDC workers successfully

facilitate community to move on action. Effective

liaison has possible to create. BDO has

recommended through proper channel. It is now

way forwarded to grant sanctioned and start of

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Case Story Niranjan Mondal; Eye Cataract Operation beneficiary Village – Kochuberia, Block - Sagar Age – 66 Sex – Male Education – Can Sign MR No. 5505/14 OT date – 19.11.14 Niranjan Mondal lived with wife, Son, Son`s wife and

three son`s daughter. Two daughters have got married.

He has no cultivable land but homestead land. Earlier he

has paid some rupees to buy land but due payment the

registration yet to complete. He is day labor by

occupation. The labor rate in the area is rupees 300/- per

day. Now and then he cultivated vegetable in other land

for household consumption. Other than that Niranjan

Mondal do work to earn money net cleaning of the

fisherman, winnowing and basket binding, labor work in

betel field (PANER BOROJ), paddy cutting. Now one betel

and tea shop is going in Kochuberia Jatey Ghat where he

cooperates with his son to run the shop.

But in the home there is no peace in family. The quarrel

between mother in law and son`s wife is daily work in the

family. Because the daily work of Niranjan Mondal has

stopped due to eye problem and gradually income of the

family is not sufficient to survive. Now the income of the

family has stopped. The son has made one betel shop. By

the income of the shop the son`s wife did not share the

whole family. Every month two or three times son`s wife

has separated from the family and after few days later

they joined together. Niranjan Mandal blames his fate

because due to eye problem he cannot work hard as

earlier. All his work has stopped now. No one call on to

do work.

One day the CHW of Sagar told that in Sundarban Eye Hospital there has facility of cataract operation. The CHW send Niranjan Mondal to Hospital for cataract operation being screening. The Niranjan Mondal came to the Sundarban Eye Hospital for cataract operation. The Doctor advised for cataract operation. After operation he is seeing fine. He told whatever I do not see, I am seeing fine now. Everything is glitter in front of me. Getting rest one month now he has started all work in the field. He spends more time in the betel and tea shop. Without any hesitation he now prepared betel and tea for sell. Villagers are call on to do work. Now in the home he is not liability. The son`s wife has stopped quarreled. Now I am happy. I offer my gratitude to the Sundarban Eye Hospital for my operation.

“We on behalf of School Management committee would like to express thanks to SSDC for assist on hand washing facility and for conducting continuous hygiene education sessions for the students. This hand washing station is now in proper use by the children. They are washing their hands before taking mid-day meal. It has also possible to ensure hand washing with soap use after every time toilet use. Hope that this practice will impact to lifelong follow by the students’’. …….. Sri Arup Dinda, head teacher, Mahendranagar FP School, Patharpratima .

Dharani Patra, a toilet beneficiary, with happy experience has expressed his words as “We are from poor family and we had no toilet of our own. We, the male members usually used to go for open defecation and for female members there was a temporary pit to use at our pond embankment. One day when SSDC worker came into contact with us, we get valuable information from them and encouraged to make a permanent toilet at home. Now, we all are happy to use out newly constructed toilet. This has also saved us from the shame that we had at earliert”.

“I never thought that our human

excreta may use for kitchen garden? .

Our fecal may used as manner. We

used urine as manner but after Toilet

volt open and getting lab testing report

of our decomposed material, we use it

at our kitchen garden with better result

for growth of vegetables. Hope to

develop an improved kitchen garden

in future” …… Sri Sudam Barui from

Buraburir Tat, G-Plot Gram Panchayet.

Sharing experiences

“We on behalf of all inhabitant of

Patharpratima Gram Panchayet would like

to express our heartiest gratitude to SSDC

WASH Project team. As like other activities

on constrictive as well as behavior change

initiative, construction of community

garbage bin is an innovative action we

think. These are now well maintained by

the user committee and mostly useful for

market and gathering places. This step may

be considered as a best effort to keep our

environment neat and clean’’……… Ms.

Sandhya Maity, GP Prodhan, Patharpratime

Gram Panchayet

Sri Jagadish Maity at garbage bin site when

they were burning the market waste at

garbage bin has said that, “before having

this community garbage bin, we were not

serious about the market waste

management. Whole environment was

quite dirty with thrown waste materials

here and there. Now we are strict about

market waste management and all are

using the garbage bin properly.

Periodically, we are burning the waste

materials in a week. Now the market place

is clean than before. We are happy to keep

our contribution towards environment

protection.”

Sri Sukumar Jana is an oldest member of

‘Dushan Rodhan Jal Samrakshan

Committee’ at Choto Banashyamnagar

Manasa Para. In a community meeting he

stated “God thanks for came into contact

with Sundarban Social Development Centre.

After Aila devastation, we felt a serious

crisis on drinking water. Mothers had to go

for a round trip time to collect drinking

water from adjacent village. Now we are

happy to have a tube well with high raise

Platform”

Sharing experiences

SSDC’s friends & donors

Appeal

On behalf of weaker section of the society i.e. marginal farmers, patta-holders,

bargadars, daily labours, distressed and destitute; the members of Sundarban Social

Development Centre is placing appeal before all of you, please help & lengthen your

support in any form to SSDC to render benevolent service to the poorest of the poor of

Sundarbans. Beside our integrated development efforts, we are enthusiastic to reach

more people in wide range of our intervention. Your valuable support may ensure an

enormous change in any future endeavor.

Heartiest thanks and regards to all.

Gopal Pramanik Bhakta Purkayastha

President General Secretary

• Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Govt. Of India and Govt. of West

Bengal

• Ministry of Panchayat and Rural Development Govt. of West Bengal

• District Magistrate and all the Additional D.M. of South 24 Parganas

District

• Sabhadhipati and all the Karmadhyaksha, South 24 parganas Zilla

Parisad

• CMOH, South 24 parganas

• Sabhapati, all the South 24 parganas Panchayat Samity

• BDO, all the South 24 parganas Block Development office

• BMOH, all the South 24 parganas Block Primary health Centre

• Prodhan and Panchayet Member, All the South 24 parganas Gram

Panchayat

• CRY, Kolkata

• KFB, Austria

• Bart Massart and PAZ- Belgium

• Sight Savers International, U.K

• Terre des hommes Foundation, Lausanne

• SIMAVI, Netherlands

• Memisa, Belgium

• Water for People, USA

• Anesvad Foundation, Spain

• Save the Children, Kolkata and New Delhi

• India 800 Foundation

• WBVHA, Kolkata

• NMB Trust, Mumbai

• Terre des homes

• MPTF, USA

• SIDA

• Taj Trust

• Volkart Foundation

• Mr. Dilip Banerjee and

• All the CBOs, NGOs, SHGs, Youth Forums, Child Parliament Members and

people of Sundarban

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Dedicated to walk a long ahead