Religious and caste discrimination is one of the leading causes of poverty and social exclusion in India. This has prevented access to basic services, including education, health facilities and other government services and schemes for large sections of society.
We support the local church to provide study centres for children of illiterate families, and connecting through them to empower marginalised communities, enabling them to be organised, educated and healthy, involved in local governance and capable of accessing government services and schemes.
The project operates in the urban slums of West Bengal and in communities in Amritsar near the Pakistani border areas.
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This project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). Thanks to ANCP, we’re making a huge difference together; lifting families out of poverty and helping people improve their lives.
Check out the impact we’re making!
Our Impact (FY 21-22)27,917 people were impacted by: • Study centres with trained teachers providing remedial education (and healthy snacks!) for children of illiterate families • Skills training for women and farmers in rural areas to grow their incomes and prevent them from having to travel far away for work • COVID-19 emergency relief and prevention activities, as well as critical information for marginalised communities about how to access government support services. |
COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESPONSEIn response to COVID-19, this project will seek to provide food packages to families connected to the project. Our partners have been speeding up the dissemination of messaging on COVID-19, including health awareness, prevention measures and response to families connected to this project. Because of the restrictions on travel and social distancing project staff have been running check in’s to houses of families connected to the project (after lock-down). Through working closely with the government, project staff are working to speed up access to medicines for people in the rural areas who have no or limited access to transport to urban areas. (Updates about the above activities have been posted in news articles below) |
India
Church of North India – Diocese of Amritsar and Diocese of Durgapur
Poverty Alleviation