Sanitation facility In Villages 

In rural area yet people are not having household toilet facility because of which they have to go in open for defecation. Open defecation causes number of problem related to health, social, and so on. According to the study of Brian Arbogast, Director of the water sanitation and hygiene programme at the Bill and Melinda gates foundation “in India every year, 200,000 infants die because of open defecation, Open defecation leads to contamination of food and water and transmits diarrhea-related diseases. In addition it can cause mental and cognitive stunting to young children”. Doctors have identified several other diseases like, skin disease, scabies, and intestinal parasites resulting in kidney damage, anthrax and tuberculosis.

MGVS has understood the importance of having household toilet and therefore started working in this field in several villages of Aurangabad by identifying the needy people of the village community.

The following are the benefits which the villages are getting from this programme.

1.      Fall in diseases cases in the programme implementing area.
2.     Improvement in women’s safety and safeguard of their dignity.
3.     Clean and hygienic environment in surroundings of the village

Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha is working in rural water and Sanitation project as support and technical agency, sanitation and pure water is life! MGVS has created awareness about practices to keep water pure, safe, importance of sanitation and hygiene has been created among the rural poor in 24 village of Aurangabad Nasik and Ahmednagar District.

Rural water supplies and sanitation Committee, Social Audit Committee and Women Development committees are initiated in partnership with Gram Sabha. These community level committees are being capacity built by MGVS and they participate in every stage of project cycle such as planning, monitoring, decision making, evaluation and project implementing. 

Water conservation

Introduction:

The nature can only sustain when there is equal balance between ecosystem and human system, the equal balance will create good quality life and unbalanced act will create worst quality of human life. In the rural areas the natural resource such as land, water, vegetation, livestock and livelihood are inter-linked with each other. Approximately 17 percent in the Indian GDP is contributed from the Agriculture and approximately 60 percent of the population is depending on the income from agriculture.

In the last few decades we are seeing that the environment is getting degraded and destroyed due to human’s greedy activities. This kind of unwanted activity and experiment with the environment has not only threatened to the various species but now human is also suffering from various effect of global-warming. This has breakdown the traditional local management connection between the human and nature. 

Watershed programme:

Watershed is not simply the hydrological unit but also socio-political-ecological entity which plays crucial role in determining food, social, and economical security and provides life support services to rural people.

At the backdrop of less rainfall, depleted ground water conditions, crop failures, Govt. Of Maharashtra has declared more than 24,000 villages in the state as drought affected during year 2015- 16. Out of 1353 villages in Aurangabad district, 237 have been declared as drought affected in year 2015. To deal with the recurrent drought situation, Government of Maharashtra launched Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan on December 5, 2015 a flagship programme for making ‘Drought Free Maharashtra by year 2019’ enabling water for all. 

Integrated water and soil conservation Programme

According to the Soil Conservation Society of America, a watershed is a geo-hydrological unit comprising land and water within the confines of a drainage divide.

The focus of project is  Soil and water conservation is on i) In situ water harvesting, ii) increasing ground water level, iii) increasing irrigation potential & creating facilities for protective irrigation, iv) creating decentralized water bodies, v) rehabilitation of existing water bodies through de-silting, vi) soil conservation vii) livelihood programme. It has been implemented various water harvesting measures and soil conservation on integrated approach through convergence of various ongoing schemes.

The benefits of the interventions have reach out directly to the villagers in terms of increase in ground water table in dug wells / bore wells, increase in area under protective irrigation, reduction in incidence of crop failures due to longer dry spell, increase in cropping intensity, increase in crop yields, all this has lead to increase in income & development of drought coping mechanism.

Holistic approach of MGVS

1.       Promotion of modern technologies for maximum output of the programme

2.       Soil conservation to increase crop productivity.

3.       Increase the income and income source of underprivileged people.

4.       Create awareness on natural resource management.

5.       Livelihood programme by establishing Self help Groups (SHGs)
.       Empowering rural women by involving them in the decision making process. 

 Who We Are?

Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha (MGVS) is a Non-Governmental Organization registered under the Public Trust, Society Registration Act. It is also registered under FCRA Act, and also 12A and 80G.

MGVS is working in the outskirts of Aurangabad, Nasik, Ahmednagar and Jalna districts of Maharashtra State since 1995-96 for the downtrodden and affected areas. These are some of the most backward districts in Marathwada and western Maharashtra region. MGVS works mainly in the area of health, education, rural water supply and sanitation and women empowerment for the rural and urban poor.

Vision

To strengthen the grassroots initiatives for socio-economic empowerment of economically underprivileged rural and urban women, youth and children through promoting community based development programmes in the field of health, education and water, sanitation programme.

Mission:-

Develop a model village (Green, Healthy and Drought free village) in Aurangabad district.

Promote the community based Health Care centers in remote villages to have easy access to health care facilities.

Provide shelter home for HIV+ve orphans and beggars in Aurangabad district

Work with high risk group (HRG) , vulnerable , bridge and HIV+ve population towards the prevention and control of STD and HIV/AIDS in Aurangabad and Jalna District of Maharashtra State.

Render technical and consultancy towards building programs for other community based organizations, local NGO's and partner organizations. This should help these Organizations achieve self-reliance for their future social initiatives.

Create awareness and build capacity of village community to take up the issue of drinking water and sanitation of their own village.

To create awareness and build capacity of rural women shelf help groups and other community based organization.

Work towards creating a community driven approach to tackle the social and economic issues faced by the poor mainly women, youth and children.

MGVS Programmes and Project Activity  

Health

·         Prevention and control of STD & HIV/AIDS among high risk group, vulnerable, bridge and HIV+ve population in Aurangabad District of Maharashtra State

·         Improve the Reproductive Health status of women (age 15 to 49 years) by reduction of maternal mortality, morbidity, totality and STI / RTI.

·         Residential and home base Care and support for children affected by HIV/AIDS.

·         Tobacco Control program.

·         Community based health care centers for rural community.

·         Project of Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS.

·         Water conservation for sustainable availability of water in drought effected villages.

·         Toilet construction for poor rural villagers.

Poverty relief

·         Provision of Night Care and Shelter for Beggars.

Vocational Training and women empowerment

·         Self-Employment Generation Program via Vocational Training for rural women and girls. Self help group’s establishment and capacity building.

Rural water and sanitation project

·         Toilet construction project for rural household.

·         Water conservation project.

·         District recourse organization under integrated water management programme.

·         Project training organization (PTO) under integrated water management programme. 

Impact

·         HIV AIDS rate reduced from 7.25 % to 0. 40 %.

·         Increased institutional deliveries & Immunization rate in project area.

·         175 orphan children’s medical, social and home care are provided by MGVS on permanent basis.

·         145 rural women have been started their self employment.

·         Daily 40 litres clean, pure and sustain drinking water and toilet is available in 26 villages.

Our Achievements and highlights:

Accredited by Credibility Alliance under Desirable norms.

Listed with, GiveIndia, GuideStar India, “SAMMAAN”, iCharity and Help your NGO.

Awarded by:

1) Health Department of Govt. of Maharashtra (Best NGO Award 2011)

2) S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (Social Impact Award 2010)

Life Member of:

1) Association of Agricultural Medicine & Rural Health in India

MGVS is Member of:

1) Indian Chamber of Non-Government Organizations (ICNGO New Delhi)

2) Community Enterprise Forum International (CEFI) New Delhi

3) Khushii, New Delhi.

4) District & Block Mentoring & Monitoring Committee under National Health Mission.

5) Women & Child Welfare Committee, Aurangabad.

6) Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra (AFARM).

7) Aurangabad LWS NGO MGVS felicitated by Hon. Health Minister for the best practices in LWS project for the year 2016