The GEN Initiative/UK in partnership with End Poverty/India

Background to The GEN Initiative - and our Christmas Appeal!

For all of you who have received our Christmas Appeal ‘shopping list’,  the information below tells you  more about how your ‘gift’ will benefit villagers from the Meo tribal group in rural Rajasthan.   These villagers live in remote rural areas with minimal access to clean water, health services, employment opportunities or education for their children, especially girls.  Your gift – whether it be for a goat, a hand-pump, a sewing machine or a tree, or any of the other things on the list – will make a tangible difference to the lives of villagers in the five villages in which GEN currently sponsors development activities.

GENs role   Our sponsorship of End Poverty  (EP)– our grassroots implementing partner in Rajasthan - enables EP to extend its capacity to meet the needs of villagers who – with its support  – can actively engage in  identifying  and meeting  their own needs, obtaining  resources and accessing  opportunities, and are thus able to participate more practically in building their communities.

GENs sponsorship of End Poverty includes –

-  Technical and organisational guidance related to the implementation of village activities

-  Fundraising in the UK and India through submissions to government bodies, trusts and other funding bodies, and from donations

-  Project monitoring, evaluation and reporting assistance

 

End Poverty’s role is to develop the capacity and skills of the members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society by working with partner organizations.

During the last six months, with GEN sponsorship, End Poverty has undertaken a Situational Analysis of five villages in Tijara Block, it has helped organize key villagers into Village Development Groups and Self-Help Groups, it has planted trees in around the villages, and young women and men have been identified for income-generation activities and children for basic literacy & numeracy skills.  EP has also submitted numerous proposals – particularly for children’s education and eye care for the elderly – within India and the UK.  

 

In the next six months, End Poverty - with GENs help and your donations – can achieve so much more for Meo children, young women and men, and the elderly.

We thank you

 for making this valuable work possible!

 

The GEN Shopping List

Can you afford to help those villagers who cannot afford to help themselves?

 

Help a child’s future

£10 will buy 1 set of text books for 1 year for 1 child

£40 sponsors 1 child’s education for one year

£70 provides 7 children with basic literacy & numeracy skills

£100 will provide reproductive health care information for a group of 20 adolescent girls

Help the environment

£15 will buy 30 forestry or fruit tree saplings to help retain pond water, provide shade for animals & fruit for eating

£100 will help 10 farmers purchase organic fertilizer & seeds to support healthier crops

Help family nutrition & health

£20 will buy 10 chickens to supplement family nutrition as well as generate a little income

£40 can buy a she-goat and provide 2-litres of milk    

each day to help nourish a family

£150 will allow 5 elderly villagers to see again as a result of a cataract operation

Help women save

£25 for a sewing machine will enable women to clothe their families & sell clothes locally

£200 will help train & provide 10 young women with the resources to produce clothing for themselves, their families & generate income

Help provide clean drinking water &

Increase energy efficiency

£150 for a new hand pump will provide safe water for household use & for kitchen gardens for up to 300 villagers

£150 will allow families to use a bio-gas cooker which reduces the burning of wood or dung for fuel

Payment Details
When contributing to one or more of the above project items, please indicate your preference/s & either use the Just Giving web site for the GEN Christmas Page or send a cheque to GENs Registered Address below:

Charity Reg’n No: 1101193   Reg’d Address:   The GEN Initiative, 3 Howitt Close,

www.gen-initiative.org      contact@gen-initiative.org