GENDER EQUALITY WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION
By properly implementing SDG target number 5 and 10, connecting marginalized women to the mainstream of society without discrimination
SOCIAL INCLUSTION
Organizational, creative and developmental work to ensure parliamentary sovereignty, right to equality, right to freedom, right against exploitation, right to culture and education to marginalized and weak community
NUTRITION AND EDUCATION WORK FOR EXCLUDED CHILDREN
Reference ; Establishment of malnutrition free Bihar deprived of PREE PRIMARY
EQUALITY FOR ALL
Sustainable gender equality awareness program for marginalized and weaker section community women in Bihar
NUTRITION AND DRESS DISTRIBUTION OF MARGINALIZED CHILDRENS
Nutrient distribution program at nutrition cum education center operated to make malnutrition free village
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR EXCLUDED CHILDREN
Mainstreaming marginalized children into the mainstream of education and strengthening community participation in the VSS system
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
In times of floods, earthquakes and other calamities, the work of providing cooperation and providing relief by Yuva Suraksha Mitra in disaster.
ROLE OF DALIT WOMEN'S IN PANCHAYAT
Ensuring participation of Dalit women in Gram Sabha and developing leadership capacity
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION
Economic empowerment of marginalized and homeless women by promoting organic farming-vegetables, handicrafts, Mahbubani painting, tailoring, beautician and small shops for urban homeless for sustainable livelihood
E-Tendering Training by SC/ST HUB
Employment orientation to the disadvantaged sections through SC / ST HUB
URBAN POOR AND HOMELESS
Providing basic services to the urban poor and homeless community with dignity.
MARGINALIZED WOMEN'S PLANNING AND BUDGETING
Planning and budgeting of marginalized women on the suggestions sought from the citizens before the budget by the central government
ENSURING CHILD SAFETY AND PROTECTION
Educational development with protection to marginalized communities and homeless youth
CHILD MARRIAGE FREE INDIA
Pledge ceremony under child marriage free India campaign
CHILD MARRIAGE FREE INDIA
Pledge ceremony under child marriage free India campaign
Bihar has seen a significant step in the rate of urban population growth, creating a complex socio-economic process. It is not only migration and transfer of population from rural areas to urban areas, but it also changes the social fabric and demographic structure as well as occupation, lifestyle, culture and behavior. It is a general phenomenon, yet it has very different manifestations across regions and levels of development of cities.
Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar, is one of the fastest growing cities in India, although the city has long been ranked among the poorest urban settlements in India. While Patna is regarded as a place of opportunity, it has also created conditions in which poverty pervades.Many migrants are unable to access the benefits available in the cities. Issues relate to identification of the homeless, access to basic amenities such as safe housing, humane working conditions, nutrition and food security, humane abuse-violence, safe drinking water, affordable quality education and health care.The city administration is unable or unwilling to address these issues.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, DVAS worked with district and state government departments to implement special measures to try and prevent the spread of the pandemic among homeless and inadequately housed people in the city of Patna, who due to their poverty faced increasing vulnerability.
To ensure the livelihood of these urban homeless families, Organization has provided financial support to 300 people like vegetable shop, egg, rickshaw puller, singer shop. The hawkers, along with tea and litti pakodas, fish shops, sell ingredients on festival occasions, which seem to ensure sustained livelihood options .They were also registered as street vendors under State Urban Livelihood Mission (SULM)of the state along with issuance of identity cards for 1500 homeless people, unorganized laborers and women domestic workers. Initiatives are being undertaken to bring such informal sector urban workers into the mainstream of the society by organizing interface and promoting association with the social security schemes.
2800 poor families were registered as below poverty line families and linked to Public Distribution System (PDS) and started getting regular food supply every month.
The organization has working experience on urban poverty with civil society organizations, political representatives, socially prominent people in Patna and Bodh Gaya to connect them to the mainstream by conducting a state level campaign for the urban poor and homeless.
