URMUL TrustURMUL Trust& FAMILY& FAMILY

Welcome to

Thar Desert

URMUL URMUL in Tharin Thar

Issues of the TharIssues of the Thar• Extreme temperatures

• Harsh physical terrain

• Scanty and unreliable rainfall (average rainfall 31 8.7mm)

• Frequent occurrence of droughts & Migration

• No food, fodder, water, livelihood security

• Distant & scattered settlements

• Lack of infrastructure

• Sex ratio (807 females per 1000 males)

• Absence of basic Health Facilities

• Abysmal literacy rates

• Poor socio-economic condition of women, girl childr en & backward castes

• Environmental Imbalance

To lead the poor towards self reliance by making available to them

a package of development services that they themselves decide on,

design, implement and eventually finance.

URMUL TrustURMUL Trust

•• Beginning :1986Beginning :1986•• Health :1986Health :1986•• Economic :1988Economic :1988•• Education :1990Education :1990•• Advocacy :1992Advocacy :1992•• Decentralisation:1993Decentralisation:1993•• Strengthening Strengthening

community community

URMUL TrustURMUL Trust

URMUL Trust represents URMUL Trust represents a family of organisations a family of organisations

working towards social and economic working towards social and economic change in the lives of the people change in the lives of the people

in the harsh, inhospitable difficult in the harsh, inhospitable difficult terrain and interior region of Tharterrain and interior region of Thar

What keeps these different What keeps these different organisations and the TRUST organisations and the TRUST

together are . . . together are . . .

URMULURMUL

Transparency

Secularism

Belief in Democracy

Gender Sensitivity

Ethics

Commitments

Participatory Approaches

Shared Feelings

Equity

Urmul GavaniyaarBikaner

Urmul SeemantBajju

Urmul SetuLunkaransar

Urmul SamitiPhalodi

Urmul JyotiNokha

Urmul KhejdiJayal

MarushaktiSujangarh Vasundhara

LunkaransarAawam

Vikas SansthanSri Dungargarh

URMUL TrustURMUL TrustBikanerBikaner

The core of the development premise of The core of the development premise of URMUL Trust is URMUL Trust is an intrinsic faith an intrinsic faith in the capacity of in the capacity of

the rural people to the rural people to devise and manage and devise and manage and

sustain development programssustain development programs

Most of the members are the natives from the Thar Most of the members are the natives from the Thar and only a handful of development professionals and only a handful of development professionals

as middle level managers come from reputed as middle level managers come from reputed institutions of higher education.institutions of higher education.

Since inception there has Since inception there has been an unflinching been an unflinching

commitment towards commitment towards strengthening the strengthening the

processes of local initiative processes of local initiative and leadership both within and leadership both within the organization and at the the organization and at the village level & Panchayatsvillage level & Panchayats

The drought of 1986-88 taught us

a basic lesson that development

interventions in the Thar

would have to be informed by the fragile context of the crisis of food, water &

fodder security

Health & Education

Environment

Self Help Groups

Capacity Building

Women Empowerment

Panchayat Raj ,

Female Feticide ,Adolescents

Income Generation Programme

Animal Husbandry & Agriculture

Water Harvesting

Advocacy & Research

Village Resource Centers

Rural Developmental Tourism

MSSK & Child Line

Desert Craft Desert Craft & &

Desert Art Desert Art for for

Social TransformationSocial Transformation

Western Rajasthan & the Thar desert brings to mind i mages of sand dunes, starry nights & lilting folk music. For the discerning buyer, Rajasthan has also being synonyms with a ric h and colorful craft tradition. Potters, weavers carpente rs, jewelers and leather workers are but some of the artisans that a bide in the region.

The stark landscape & seemingly barren stretches ar e in remarkable contrast to the vibrant colors that the inhabitants clothe themselves in.

The symbol of woman The symbol of woman with a spinning wheel with a spinning wheel

or CHARAKHA, or CHARAKHA, signifies an attempt to signifies an attempt to

ensure that rural ensure that rural artisans can bear the artisans can bear the

fruits of their labour fruits of their labour with dignity and with dignity and

securitysecurity

Empowering PRI & Self Governance

Partnership with IGPRSTraining of trainers for PRI

Need assessments for trainings

Training responsibility forBikaner, Churu, Ganganagar, Hanumangarh

Jaisalmer

Trustees of UTMD, RCDF

District Collector

Principal, Medical College, Bikaner

CMHO, Bikaner

MD URMUL DairySh. MK Khanna

Sumita Ghose

Rita Sareen

Funding AgenciesFunding Agencies GovernmentGovernment InstitutionsInstitutionsAction Aid CAPART NID

Save the Children

CARE RCDF Urmul DairyThe Hunger Project NDDB Gangmul

RUDA TISS

Oxfam DCH IDS, Jaipur

Aga Khan Foundation DRADA NIFT

Ford Foundation BADP

PANOS

NORAD CADA

CBCS CIDA DWCD

PLAN International Shiksha Karmi

IGSSS Lok Jumbish

Amar Foundation Min. of Health & Family Welfare

N(O)VIB

KKS-CEVA

CRY

Sir Ratan Tata Trust

IFES

The Hunger Project

Partners in DevelopmentPartners in Development

�� Govt. ProjectsGovt. Projects

�� Funding AgenciesFunding Agencies

�� Self Sustaining Income Generation Programmes incl. Self Sustaining Income Generation Programmes incl. Handicrafts, Vermicompost, Folk Artistes etc.Handicrafts, Vermicompost, Folk Artistes etc.

�� Public ContributionPublic Contribution

�� Govt. ContributionGovt. Contribution

�� Individual DonorsIndividual Donors

Fund Raising TechniquesFund Raising Techniques

URMUL TRUSTURMUL TRUSTP.O. Box 55P.O. Box 55

URMUL BHAWANURMUL BHAWANSri Ganganagar RoadSri Ganganagar Road

BIKANER BIKANER –– 334 001334 001

urmultrust@rediffmail.comurmultrust@rediffmail.comPhone : 0 151 2523093Phone : 0 151 2523093

Fax : 0 151 2522041Fax : 0 151 2522041