INTRODUCTION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNTIES

The communities we belong to can help us to be more effective citizens. They

play an important part in our personal wellbeing. They are the source of many

creative ideas and solutions, especially to the problems that arise because people

lack power and wealth. They can care for or harm the environment we live in.

Communities do not just preserve old links and traditions. They change and

grow. Sometimes economic and social pressures threaten to break up the links

between people. But people also come together in new ways, undertake new

activities and create new, more diverse communities, releasing new energy and

resources. In the modern world, one person can belong to many different

communities, based on where they live, their interest or culture, or the people

that share common difficulties. Tremendous strengths can be found in

communities. But these are not automatically built upon, especially when

economic disadvantages or rapid social change makers it difficult. In the end it

is what communities can do for themselves that matters. But there usually needs

to be something in the background-some person or organization to help get

things started, or to whom people can turn for advice or support, or to build up

the right skills.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

The United Nations defines Community development as "a process where

community members come together to take collective action and generate

solutions to common problems." It is a broad term given to the practices of civic

leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects

of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local

communities.

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by

providing them with the skills they need to effect change within their

communities. These skills are often created through the formation of large

social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must

understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities'

positions within the context of larger social institutions.

Community development as a term has taken off widely in anglophone

countries i.e. the USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and other

countries in the Commonwealth. It is also used in some countries in eastern

Europe with active community development associations in Hungary and

Romania. The Community Development Journal, published by Oxford

University Press, since 1966 has aimed to be the major forum for research and

dissemination of international community development theory and practice.

Community development is a process, a way of doing things. It can bring

people together

Help people to identify the problems and needs which they share and

respond to these problems.

Help people to discover the resources that they already have

Promote knowledge, skills, confidence and the capacity to act together.

Strengthen organization an leadership within communities

Strengthen contacts between communities

Take action to address inequalities in power and participation

Deal directly with issues they think are important change the relationships

between communities and public or private organizations

Help public organizationsto work in more open and inclusive ways

Promote increased local democracy, participation and involvement in

public affairs.

But it goes beyond a narrow focus on any one of these things. Good community

development work is done in ways which challenge disadvantage and tackle

inequalities. It involves changing the relationship between ordinary people and

people in positions of power. It is not simply about listening to the loudest

voices, or doing things the way they have always been done. It is an approach to

achieving social change. It is based on the idea that disadvantage and social

injustice cannot be tackled by top-down solutions alone.

COMMUNTIY DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION

Community development is an active process. It happens when somebody

intervenes to help people to achieve things that they might not otherwise do.

Who does the Community development?

Community development work can be done by a wide range of workers (paid

and unpaid) in a wide range of organizations. Knowledge and skills are

required. These are often gained partly through training, which is available at all

levels up to postgraduate. Especially in local authorities, now a days many

professional workers work in community learning an Development teams these

may include specialist community development or capacity, building, workers,

alongside colleagues who apply community development principles to adult

learning or youth work.

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by

providing them with the skills they need to effect change within their

communities. These skills they need to effect change within their communities.

These skills are often created through the formation of large social groups

working for a common agenda community developers must understand both

how to work with individuals and how to affect communities positions within

the context of larger social institutions.

Definitions of community development.

Community development is defined as “a process where community members

come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common

problems. It is broad term given to the practices of civic leaders, activists,

involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of communities,

typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities”

The United Nations defines Community development broadly as "a process

where community members come together to take collective action and generate

solutions to common problems."

Community Development Exchange defines community development as both

an occupation (such as a community development worker in a local authority)

and a way of working with communities. Its key purpose is to build

communities based on justice, equality and mutual respect.

Community development involves changing the relationships between

ordinary people and people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part

in the issues that affect their lives. It starts from the principle that within any

community there is a wealth of knowledge and experience which, if used in

creative ways, can be channeled into collective action to achieve the

communities' desired goals.

Community development practitioners work alongside people in communities

to help build relationships with key people and organizations and to identify

common concerns. They create opportunities for the community to learn new

skills and, by enabling people to act together, community development

practitioners help to foster social inclusion and equality.

The Community Development Challenge report, which was produced by a

working party comprising leading UK organizations in the field (including

(Foundation Builders) Community Development Foundation, the (now

defunct)Community Development Exchange and the Federation for Community

Development Learning) defines community development as:

A set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty

and disadvantage, knitting society together at the grass roots and deepening

democracy. There is a community development profession, defined by national

occupational standards and a body of theory and experience going back the best

part of a century. There are active citizens who use community development

techniques on a voluntary basis, and there are also other professions and

agencies which use a community development approach or some aspects of it.

HISTORY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Community development practitioners are involved in organizing meetings and

conducting searches within a community to identify problems, identify assets,

locate resources, analyse local power structures, assess human needs, and

investigate other concerns that comprise the community's character (case study).

These practitioners, sometimes called social activists, use social resources to get

the economic and political leverage that a community uses to meet their needs.

Often, the social resources within the community are found to be adequate to

meet these needs if individuals work collectively through techniques like

cooperation and volunteerism. A form of community development that links

academic resources to community problems in a reciprocally beneficial manner

is community-based participatory research (CBPR), a form of research which

engages a community fully in the process of problem definition/issue selection,

research design, conducting research, and interpreting the results. One of the

principal ways in which CBPR differs from traditional research is that instead of

creating knowledge for the advancement of a field or for knowledge's sake,

CBPR is an iterative process, incorporating research, reflection, and action in a

cyclical process. In the UK Rural Community Councils support local

communities to build sustainable futures. They assist local communities in a

form of CBPR called community led planning. Rural Community Councils

employ experienced, independent community development workers.

DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• Community economic development (CED)

• Community capacity building

• Social capital formation

• Political participatory development

• Nonviolent direct action

• Ecologically sustainable development

• Asset-based community development

• Faith-based community development

• Community practice social work

• Community-based participatory research (CBPR)

• Community mobilization

• Community empowerment

• Community participation

In detail of numerous overlapping approaches to community development

Community capacity building; focusing on helping communities obtain,

strengthen, and maintain the ability to set and achieve their own development

objectives.

Social capital formation; focusing on benefits derived from the cooperation

between individuals and groups.

Nonviolent direct action; when a group of people take action to reveal an

existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to

a social issue which is not being addressed through traditional societal

institutions (governments, religious organizations or established trade unions)

are not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.

Economic development, focusing on the "development" of developing

countries as measured by their economies, although it includes the processes

and policies by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social

well-being of its people.

Community economic development (CED); an alternative to conventional

economic development which encourages using local resources in a way that

enhances economic outcomes while improving social conditions.

Sustainable development; which seeks to achieve, in a balanced manner,

economic development, social development and environmental protection

outcomes.

Community-driven development (CDD), an economic development model

which shifts overreliance on central governments to local communities.

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); is a methodology that seeks to

uncover and use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable

development.

Faith-based community development; which utilises faith based organisations to

bring about community development outcomes.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR); a partnership approach to

research that equitably involves, for example, community members,

organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research

process and in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making

and ownership, which aims to integrate this knowledge with community

development outcomes.

Community organizing; a term used to describe an approach that generally

assumes that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in

order to generate collective power for the powerless.

Participatory planning including community-based planning (CBP); involving

the entire community in the strategic and management processes of urban

planning; or, community-level planning processes, urban or rural.

Methodologies focusing on the educational component of community

development, including the community-wide empowerment that increased

educational opportunity creates.

Methodologies addressing the issues and challenges of the Digital divide,

making affordable training and access to computers and the Internet, addressing

the marginalisation of local communities that cannot connect and participate in

the global Online community. In the United States, nonprofit organizations such

as Per Scholas seek to “break the cycle of poverty by providing education,

technology and economic opportunities to individuals, families and

communities” as a path to development for the communities they serve.

There are a myriad of job titles for community development workers and their

employers include public authorities and voluntary or nongovernmental

organisations, funded by the state and by independent grant making bodies.

Since the nineteen seventies the prefix word ‘community’ has also been adopted

by several other occupations from the police and health workers to planners and

architects, who have been influenced by community development approaches.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

To empower individuals and group of people by providing them with the skills

they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often

created through the formation of large social groups working for a common

agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with

individuals and how to affect communities position within the context of larger

social institutions. Community development involves changing the relationships

between ordinary people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part in

the issues that affect their lives. It starts from the principle that within any

community there is a wealth of knowledge and experience which, if used in

creative ways, can be channelled into collective action to achieve the

communities’ desired goals.

‘ A set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty

and disadvantage, knitting the society together at the grass roots and deepening

democracy. Community development is a structured intervention that gives

communities greater control over the conditions that affect their lives. This does

not solve all the problems faced by a local community, but it does build up

confidence to tackle such problems as effectively as any local action can.

Community development works at the level of local groups and organisations

rather than with individuals or families. The range of local groups and

organisations representing communities at local level constitutes the community

sector.

OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME :

The community development programme has for its objectives economic

development, social change and democratic growth. These three objectives are

to be promoted jointly and in such a manner that they support one another. In

India, the objective behind the community development programme is to

develop the resources of the people and to assist each village in planning and

carrying out the integrated agricultural production. Like this, the major

objectives of this project are:

To change the outlook of the village people

To improve the existing village crafts and industries and organizing new

ones

Providing required educational facilities for children

To provide recreational facilities

To help them maintain a cleaner surroundings by conducting awareness

programmes.

Improving housing and family living conditions of villagers

To develop a responsive village leadership, village organization and

institutes

To suggest the villagers how to increase their income and standard of

living

To develop the villagers so that they become self-reliant and responsible

citizens

Organizing or arranging trainings for voluntary local leaders like

members of panchayats, village and block advisory committees etc. and

professional community development workers like village level workers,

extension officers etc.

The community development has been instituted with a view to free the

toiling millions of the country from the chain of economic slavery.

Broadly speaking it creates opportunities to guarantee the people their

basic human rights such as right to earn a living the right to receive the

rewards of one’s efforts.

In fact it is a living movement giving the people new hopes and

aspirations for better and peaceful living. The people are taking a breath

of solace after a long suppression by foreign rulers over centuries.

However the board aims and objectives can be discussed as follow:

i) Community development is based on the principle of people welfare.

This would be expressed in such terms which are intelligible to the

people. The programme should be capable to inspire people to develop

the desire for better living by dint of their own efforts.

ii) Community development programme aims at promoting and

developing socio cultural and economic conditions of a particular

community. Such a development is to be achieved through co ordinate

methods with more emphasis on utilisation of local resources.

iii) To bring about an all round development in the field of industry,

agriculture, etc.

iv) To develop a feeling of community living.

v) To develop the sense of self dependence and self reliance among the

people.

vi) To make the villages self sufficient and to bring them to the main

stream of national life by fostering the spirit of nationalism.

PROFILE OF THE ORGANISATION

SAPTHGIRI HOME NURSING SERVICES (HOME FOR THE

OLDAGE)

HISTORY

Sapthagiri is recognized by the government of Karnataka .The founder

Mrs.vijayshanthi who has done with her post graduate degree in master of social

work (MSW) in Bangalore University in the year 1991.Her friends Mr.patil and

Mr.shivappa they had exposure visits to various volunteer organizations, initiate

a development organization to give back our knowledge and skills to the needy

people in our society particularly the rural masses.

Our institution of sapthagiri was not a sudden idea, it came into existences on

07-11-2005 . At the outset the team felt that they could focus on health and

sanitation and conducted awareness programmes , and also carried out a survey

for houseless people and submitted a proposal to CAPART, NEW DELHI and

got sanctioned 25houses and built houses for the neediest people .

The nobel view of the organisation is to render service with clear vission , real

mission and strong comittiment to all kinds of disablities for their welfare,

education and rehabilitation. Reach thr unreached through provision of quality

and quantity of services for better lives of differently abled. The residents when

they arrive at the home one thing are common that they are in drive need of love

and serious and immediate medical attention which is not fulfilled by them here

were the old age home plays an important role. Homes for the aged are ideal for

elderly people who are alone, face health problems, depression and lonliness.

Organization gets funds to run this organization from donors who don’t disclose

their name.

ABOUT SAPTHAGIRI OLD AGE HOME

Abandoning the aged persons is alarming everyday. They are ill treated by their

kith n kin since they are unproductive. They are not in position to contribute

anything economically to their families. They are also suffering from many

diseases such as diabetics ,cataract ,blood pressure etc. the inmates in our home

totally abandoned by their family members. In our home we provide all the

services at free of cost to our inmates. Old people need every sort of basic

failities along with peace and happiness at this crucial stage of life , Hence we

think this is the most needed and essential service to be done.The inmates of

this old age are physically, posses rich ,knowledge filled experience and talents.

Hence without neglecting or ignoring them one should appreciate their golden

moments. only then it would be a great contribution to the siociety. Spathagiri

also expects the same kind of help and co-operation from the public and join

hands with them in treading this path of service.

They have rich and wonderful imaginations, talent and real life experience

which can be used in rightful way for the success of our society. With this aim

and objective we are serving the needy people and old aged.

Sapthagiri gives a disciplened way of life and the services rendered to the

inmates of this oldage home as been appreciated by one and all. The old age

home as merely a feeding center for the aged people. It wants to give a new

image to the concept of the old age home. the plight and the living condition of

these old age homes are heart touching.

SAPTHAGIRI PROVIDES SERVICES LIKE:

• Old people care

• Home nursing services

• Wound care and dressing

• Injection-BP recording

• Enema and catherisation

• Ryles tube inspection and negulisation

The inmates are from different parts of Karnataka. They are above 55-60 years

some of them are little bit educated. 50% of the inmates are able to work

physically the remaining were bed ridden.

ON THE AREA

The old age home is located at #51, 19th cross laxmipuram ulsoor (opp.

B.P. Bakery) Bangalore-560008.

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA COVERED

Sapthagiri is operating its activities in ulsoor, utharahalli, devar chikknalli,

urban of Bangalore and also in some rural of Bangalore.

VISSION

" They might be aged but their experiences can't be dethroned "

MISSION

"To work with marginalized sections of the society towards their empowerment

and enable them to evolve a vision of an alternative society including alternate

models of social and economic relations and alternate development paradigm"

OUR REACH

Our reach is expanding to the territories to the Bengaluru urban and rural to help

old age find their needs. We are focusing on the identifying the less privileged

across Bangalore and help them to get complete access to quality life with

normal and hygiene food and shelter.

UPCOMING CHARITY ACTIONS

Mid-day meal program

Home based education program

We also provide manpower to other NGOs in order to serve their inmates.

Improving the living condition of the old ages

Provide recreational facilities for the old ages to keep them happy

ADVERTISING OF THE OLD AGE HOME

Advertising of sapthagiri old age home is through distribution pamphlets

in our operational areas and other places and also fastening the handouts

in routine buses, field staff and help line.

Referred by other NGOs and old age home run by others on payment

basis since ours is free old age home

They also use use banners in commercial areas to popularize their old age

home

Most of the inmates of the home had joined the old age home through

advertisement in VIJAYA KARNATAKA news paper by seeing our

advertisements

Sapthagiri has also registered in JUSTDAIL in order to get easy access to

the people who are in need for old age home

Sapthagiri also advertises through mass media like television and radios

VISITING CARD

PAMPHLETS

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION

Sapthagiri old age home provides various facilities to old age people. There are

around 20 members in which 12 are female and 8 are male who live there.

Sapthagiri provides them all their basic needs.

The organization provides breakfast in the morning at 8 o clock.

The organization provides an eye protein for inmates at 11am.

The organization also provides lunch from 12:45pm to 1:30pm

They provide hot water for bathing .

They also give sponge bath for the physically handicapped inmates.

They also provide three times tea or coffee according to the requirements

of the inmates.

They also given a separate locker to keep their belongings.

Along with these all things like bed, pillow, blanket, clothes and utensils

and all other things required to live day to day life.

Doctors are visited twice a week.

In addition to all these things, people are given medical treatment at free

of cost and also performed funeral ceremonies for dead peoples very

systematically.

There is good seating arrangements outside of the organization with

number of benches and chairs.

If any inmate is physically challenged and cannot do his own work then

organization will appoint servant and make all his work to be done

properly.

Creating recreational activities with in the organization in order to

bloom and cherish the mind, smile and happiness of the inmates.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS

The success of a long-term financial strategy depends upon your abilities to get

connected and networked in order to establish several long-term partnerships

that will support your basic need of secure funding throughout the years. It is

also important to think creatively and evaluate different options. For instance,

you could start a collaboration with organisations whose overarching goal is

different from yours, but with whom you could work on short projects

combining interests, ideas, and efforts.

MY INTERVENTION

HUMAN RESOURCE ASPECTS

INTRODUCTION

The “Human Resource Management for Ngo” here aims to make small and

medium-sized Ngo understand and assess organizational behavior and

functioning; manage organizations through planning, implementing

and monitoring activities strategically; improve the performance of their staff;

build effective management systems, policies and plans and improve long-

term sustainability and resource mobilization.

Human resource management is the management of the people who work in an

organization. They can be managers, employees, project officers, field workers,

coordinators. Since the organization is run by these people, they are considered

to be a “resource” – ‘a human resource.’ Like we use funds to manage a project,

we also need to use these ‘human resources’ or the ‘people’ to manage the

organization.

It is not enough just to have a dedicated team for an organization. It is

fundamentally believed that unless the team is not properly managed, motivated

and performed, the organization will not achieve its goal and objectives.

The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is a database that records and

maintains information about all employees in an organization. This system is

useful in job recruitment, developing terms of reference, and monitoring,

assessing and coordinating work with each of the employee. This system also

ensures transparency of the organization in employing people.

We are familiar with ‘MIS’ or ‘Management Information System’ to

implement projects and deliver results. The Human Management Information

System is similar to it in the sense that it is used to manage the staff and achieve

results for the growth of the organization.

Although this kind of information system is also used for carrying out job

analysis and career development of an employee is larger organizations, here is

a simple format which Ngo use to record and store data related to their

employees.

It is better to use a Microsoft Excel sheet to fill in the information, save the file

in the computer and take a printout and file it at a safe place. The document

should be easily accessible for others to see.

ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Central to an effective quality system is commitment and support from

management at all levels including

Clearly defined organizational structure that define accountability,

authority and responsibility

Designation of a quality manager, with the necessary skill and expertise ,

in each blood center and hospital blood bank.

Formulation of a quality section or identified work are in each blood

center and hospital blood bank from which quality activity can be

coordinated

Development of a culture of quality through a management focus on

building quality into all activities

Motivation of staff to ensure their commitment and support for the

quality system

Identification of specific process and procedure their and critical control

points

Development of a system to manage the issue, use and retrieval of

documents

There is no particular procedure for recruitment and there are two employees

who is qualified in masters or other employee who performs data entry and

administrative work is qualified with B.com. There are other supporting staff

in achieving the organizational objectives of the NGO.

TRAINING

Comprehensive, appropriate and effective training is required for all staff

and other health care professionals.

Important activities includes

Training policy and plan

Training for all staff in general principals of quality, the quality

system, documentation and use of quality monitoring tools

Training program for other health care professionals

Clear understanding of the role of the individual in the quality system

Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of training and its impact

The NGO also provides staff training for 1 month with daily 2 hours.

Staff Recruitment Policy of NGO:

Staff recruitment is the process of hiring staff to carry out various activities in

an organization. In Ngo, staff recruitment is mostly determined by the

availability of ongoing projects and how they have been budgeted.

Nevertheless, staff recruitment is essential because many donors seek to know

what policies grantees have adopted in terms of hiring personnel for projects

funded by them. No male staffs are recruited.

ADMISSION PROCESS FOR OLD AGED PEOPLE

The member should be of the age of 60 or above.

If a person doesn’t have any relatives then organization approves his or

her admission even though he or she is not of the age above 60.

A person should be with his or her relatives. If he or she doesn’t have any

relatives then any person very near to him or her like neighbour etc,

should be with him or her.

They don’t accept any kind of monetary help from relatives.

STAFF IN THE NGO

There are 8 staff working in the centre. Their role & responsibilities are as

follows.

DUITIES OF THE STAFF IN THE NGO

1)SUPERINTENDENT/WARDEN/MANAGER

She is total responsible for the programme

Monitoring and supervision of day to day affaires of the programme

Her responsibility is to take care of the inmates in all aspects including

medical care

Managing and maintaining the home

2)SOCIAL WORKER/COUNSELOR

Responible for counselling the inmates

Taking them to hospitals for any treatments

Visiting the field areas and conduct awareness on the problems of the

elderly persons

Adocacy the grama panchayat members, local leaders on the senior

citizens problems.

3)DOCTORS(PART TIME)

Responible for health care of the inmates

Referring them to other hospitals if it is required

4)NURSE(PART TIME)

Responsible for health care of the inmates

Assisting the doctor in his work

5)COOK

Responsible for cooking the foods in time

Keeping the kitchen and dining hall neat and clean

Take the instruction from the warden/superintendent for daily routine of

menus and others

6)SECURITY

Keep vigil on the home in the night time

Take care of the inmates in his duty time

NGO MANAGEMENT PROFILE

The director of the Sapthagiri NGO is Mrs vijayshanthi.

They have nurse or GNM (General nursing mid wifire) this is done by

Mrs anjali who is incharge of both administration and office incharge

As the head of patient incharge Mrs.Rashmi a BSc staff plays an

important role in the services of the NGO inmates

The NGO also provides staff training for 1 month with daily 2 hours

They have 4 Field visitiors for every center

The BSc nursing staff where recruited from hospitals if only they had 6

years of hospital service in experiences

There are 5 wardens, 3 cleaning workers, 5 BSc nurses, 2 visiting

counsellors, 3 part time doctors, 2 cooks, 2 security guards.

SWOT Analysis

Only NGOs perform well are likely to survive and grow in the long term.

Organisation’s that fail to manage themselves appropriately, struggle to achieve

their mission and find it difficult to create real change are likely to ultimately

found themselves cast by the way side in the favour of more efficient ones.

Therefore, the ability to be able to strategically evaluate your organisation’s

performance is crucial to its long term sustainability.

The SWOT analysis is highly effective tool for understanding and decision

making for all business including NGOs. SWOT is an acronym for strength,

weaknesses, opportunities and threats the tool can be used for business strategic

planning, competitor evaluation, marketing, product development and more.

Strength and weaknesses describe ‘where the project or organization is now :

the existing resources that can be used immediately and current problems that

won’t go away .It can help identify where new resources, skills or allies will be

needed ;Both refer to technical, financial, promotional, networking, knowledge

or competency based factors internal to the program. when thinking of strengths

it is useful to think of real examples of success to ground and clarify the

conversation strengths are those things that are working well in a project or

situation. The aspects people are proud to talk about and which differentiate the

programs from others. Weaknesses are those things that have not worked well

or that the program is less efficient in than others.

Opportunities and threats describe what is going on outside the organization or

areas which are not yet affecting the strategy but could do; Opportunities

include ideas on how to overcome weaknesses and build on strengths; within

the environment the program operates .Threats are things that constrain or

threaten the range of opportunities for change in the program environment. The

external aspects are often related to sociological, political, demographic,

economic, trade specific and environmental factors. The SWOT analysis

template is normally presented as a grid comprising four sections, one for each

of the SWOT headings : strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Below is the SWOT analysis of sapthagiri old age home Bangalore:

STRENGTH

It is purely service based

The structure is well

established as it is center of the

city

Medicines and doctor facilities

are available 24/7

Every attender supervises two

people only

Management is well organized

and staff are well trained

They are capalabe of

responding flexibly and rapidly

to people’s needs and changing

circumstance

It has advantage of tax

exemption

WEAKNESS

Fund raising for the NGO is

been a challenging path

Lack of popularity of the old

age home

Lack of proper spacious

infrastructure in the old age

home

Insufficient volunteers to serve

the members of the old age

home

Improper response from the

public to the field workers in

case of emergency

The trust is not built that big

enough in the public

OPPORTUNITIES

It can link with other NGOs

when in need for volunteers

for the old age home

They should also set up society

in various places across the

city in order to expand the old

age home

They can show improvement

in publicity of the home in

order to raise more funds

THREATS

Limited financial resources to

the old age home

Lack of volunteer and staff to

the old age home

Accessibility by the old age

people is one of the threat

Lack of support from the

external factors

Political interference and civic

leaders cause a major

hinderence to their work

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS

The very concept of an old age home is new to India. An old age home is

usually the place, a home for those old people who have no one to look after

them or those who have been thrown out of their homes by their children. The

place is of course like home where the inmates get all the facilities for a routine

living, like food, clothing, and shelter.

It is very clear to all who visit an old age home that, all the inmates are there,

not for the love of being away from home and independent but, because there is

no better alternative left for them, once they are neglected and unwanted in their

homes by their own children.

The only solace is that, they are getting their daily requirements of shelter and

food - if not the bonds of love from the family.

Infrastructure of the organization is not so good.

Houses are not well maintained.

As there are only few rooms and there are 20 members so it is very

inconvenient for them to live in this much space.

There are concerned only about two time meal and only the basic needs.

But they are very emotionally hurt and they have to live far asway from

their family.

People were not willing to answer any question related to their past

memory.

It provides education to physically disabled person, blind or mentally

retarded people.

This project has helped me to become a better person. I got an experience to get

adjust with each other and also to forget and forgive.

CONCLUSION

Old age had never been a problem for India where a value- based joint family

system is supposed to prevail. Indian culture is automatically respectful and

supportive of elders. Ageing as a natural phenomenon has all along engaged the

attention of the civilized world. Provision for the aged in the society has become

one of the constitutive themes of our modern welfare state. The problems of the

aged vary from society to society and have many dimensions in our country.

However the disintegration of the joint family system and the impact of

economic change have brought into sharp focus the peculiar problems which the

old people now face in our country

And in the traditional sense, the duty and ob-ligation of the younger generation

towards the older generation is being eroded. The older generation is caught

between the decline in traditional values on one hand and the absence of an

adequate social security system on the other hand thus, finding it difficult to

adjust in the family.

They have started walking out of their own home in search of a journey that

promises peace, joy and celebration of life with a group of people who share the

same boat of life. However not may rather any of them receive it. Young people

with vigor and strength forget that its not too late for them to be in the same

shoes.

If we respect the one who has molded you into a fine being, then just hold their

hand and lead them straight into your home. They dnt need our money or

luxury, they just needs shoulder to lean. Help them lead the last few days of

their life that doesn’t trigger loneliness.

SUGGESTION

In India the ageing process was influenced by the socio-economic development

of the society. Better standard of living, freedom from infectious diseases, and

better nutrition, social protection programs, be it for a limited number of

working class- all contributed to the ageing process of the society. But now we

are entering into a new century, where the process is going to be reversed. The

ageing of society is going to affect the course of socio-economic development.

On one hand it is a welcome trend that human beings are living longer in our

country on the other hand the situation poses a potential danger if not addressed

immediately- we may have millions of destitute down the line. A serious

welfare policy shift is required to address the situation. Some of the

recommendations

may be:

a) Encouraging the family members in the first place to take care of their aged

parents and incentive scheme wherever feasible and possible,

b) Including geriatric sociology in the curriculum of the schools so as to

sensitize the younger generations to the problems of the aged so that they may

keep the family tradition in tact

c) Value education, advocacy on the rights of the aged has got to be given

priority in all the programmes

d) Immediate strengthening of primary health centers and motivating the

doctors to

work in the primary health centers in rural India

e) Retraining rural un-qualified doctors, who have been accepted by the rural

socio

economic system, in geriatric care and assigning them with the responsibility of

elderly care

f) Designing and developing occupation based social security programs for the

workers in the Unorganised sector with individual contribution and along with

employer contribution where ever there is an identifiable employer;

g) A rights based approach than an institutionalization of aged care should be

thought of for mainstreaming the aged

h) Establishing district wise old age homes with community support; ( As a lost

resort for family care and mainstreaming is strongly recommended)

i) Raising the retirement age in public service to 65 so that the knowledge and

skills of the aged can be fully utilized at the same time lessening the burden on

pension systems to pay for longer unproductive years

BIBLIOGRAPHY

WEBSITE AND INTERNET

WWW.GOOGLE.COM

https://www.homenursingcare.in

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

www.hr-guide.com/