Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We thank all the people who are involved directly or indirectly with every activity of ours, more specifically committee, staff, volunteers and partners CRY, ILP, IGSSS, CRS, IC-SDC, GTZ, UNICEF, CHAI, Oxfam and Action-aid, media who have been the great support in mobilizing the resources, creating programmes, developing policies, designing and implementing advocacy initiatives and awareness campaigns.
Major achievements of CARPED include:
- Above 4000 children enter schools and hostels: Above 4000 children belonging to Lambada ST community, SC and other backward communities have been enrolled into govt. schools through non-formal education and campaigns for Universalisation of elementary education (UEE). Some of them were child labourers working for annual contracts under the rich and programme has been supported by CRY, ILP and IGSSS.
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25 schools started by the govt. where CARPED run NFE centres: Child rights and educational programmes in the Kowdipally mandal over the past five years have been successful in demonstrating to the authorities that poorer sections of the mandal also require schooling and that there is need for it. As a result Govt. has started 25 single teacher educational centres over the past two years in the mandal where earlier CARPED has run NFE centres.
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End to child marriages among Gangireddulagudem community: Child marriages among the Gangireddulagudem right in their preschool age have come to a halt owing to community mobilisation and sensitising the authorities. Mass marriages of Gangireddula community children have come to an end in Kowdipally mandal. Families belonging to this community from other districts also used to come here earlier.
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Network of 12 WUAs: CARPED has been successful in bringing 29 Water User Associations of the mandal into one forum to collectively address issues related to development of water resources of the mandal.
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Facilitated WUAs to mobilise around Rs. 21 lakh: Facilitated Water User Associations within the project villages to plan and mobilise govt. funds to an extent of Rs.21 lakh for restoration of their water bodies.
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Mobilised Rs. 9 lakh gain to CBOs through legal aid: Legal aid to Water User Associations fighting with the govt. to pay the agreed rate of expenses for earth work in tank restoration works has helped the CBOs to get around Rs.9.0 lakhs which would have been otherwise lost.
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Women society to fight against exploitation in beedi leaf trade: Has formed network of the beedi leaf collectors in the mandal with active participation of women from the villages who earn around five thousand in two months during the summer from the activity. Issues of exploitation by the “kalledars” middlemen have been challenged by the might of women groups.
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Facilitated Self Help Groups to mobilise around 47 lakh: 61 Self Help Groups have been assisted in accessing around 47 lakh from the govt. to help in household and community development.
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Enlisting shramdhan for improvement of their resource base: Community participation for improvement of tanks / kuntas was made possible in Devulapally, Jaji Thanda, Mutrajipally, Mohammednagar villages.
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Revolving fund to help livelihoods: Revolving fund for the SHGs helped design livelihoods promotion activities for poor households in seven villages of Kowdipally mandal. While in Manthur it helped a group of 9 SCs to buy musical instruments to form into a band, it was useful to help a group of fishermen in Mutrajipally to take up fishing in the village tank. Adolescent girls’ vocational training was supported in Manthur from these funds and to buy sewing machines. In other villages it met the requirements of poor household to buy agricultural inputs and meet social needs and Medicare. The SHGs handling the money also mobilised additional funds from the govt. based on this financial and non-monetary assistance provided by CARPED to the thrift & Credit groups.
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Protection of forest resources despite difficulties: Forest protection and community control over forests has been successful in 19 Vana Samrakshana Samithis in the Narsapur and Medak ranges. The network of VSS has successfully challenged the shortsighted and anti poor approaches of the department in the Manthur village and got the forest that has been protected by allotted officially to the village. Villagers braved force and fought for reallocation of forest area clandestinely given to the AP Forest Development Corporation for raising monoculture plantations of eucalyptus.
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Birth registration: birth of children below five years were registered and issues certicificates to 5230 in the mandal out of which, all the children in 32 settlements have been registered and birth certificates have been issued.
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Facilitated funds for 9 borewells, 10 small and 5 over head tanks for safe drinking water.
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Strong child clubs: Formed and strengthened the child clubs, child club in Chitkul village have submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister of AP and got sanctioned a school building, it is under construction.
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PIL to speed up child heart surgeries to benefit more than 5000 children get aid and save lives: The writ petition filed seeking direction for correct implementation of the scheme meant to benefit the children with heart ailments. The division bench of High Court directed the Principal Secretary Medical and Health to take up personal visits to and also to see that children from economically backward families suffering from heart ailments get aid from the govt.
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Study on Hysterectomy exposed the magnitude of the issue: Hysterectomy has become a familiar medical term, and Industries minister Dr J Geeta Reddy has asked Medak collector to probe the matter and submit a detailed report.
