Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A variety of community-specific issues will be addressed and the capacity of the community to address other issues in the future will be enhanced. Communities will feel more encouraged to take responsibility for bringing about social change.

Project Message

The role of community leaders is extremely important as otherwise the poor often just remain mere spectators of processes affecting their lives and expect that the State will solve their problems.
- Mohd. Yaqub Khan, Incharge-GVK (Village Development Fund Programme)

Who is Running This Project

Seva Mandir's Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Send a Child in India to School for a Year	Immunization for Tribal Children and Young Mothers	Profit for Poor Farmers	Improving Food Security for Tribal Farmers
Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 24, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Upcoming workshop

By Dr. Sunita Kumari - In Charge People's Management School, September 05, 2008 04:06 PM

Dear Friend,

Greetings from Seva Mandir, India!

We are grateful to all our donors for keeping their faith in our work and for standing by us.

I am going to give you a brief account of the progress we have made in Fellowship Program and would request all of you to please share your thoughts and comments on our feedback as well as the program.

In the last two we have completed the process of selecting the Fellows. A total of 17 Fellows have been selected so far. This was done by a selection committee that held several rounds of meetings and interviews before selecting the Fellows.

The selected Fellows would be working on various issues of social-change in their respective regions that are related to the social, political and environmental concerns and are affecting their communities considerably. The issues chosen by these Fellows include witch-hunting, desertion of women tracking, the performance of Government Schemes, forest rights issues etc.

We will be organizing an orientation workshop for these fellows very soon. Our next step is to identify mentors for these Fellows who will provide constant hand holding and advise.

The enthusiasm expressed by these Fellows for the programs is very encouraging. We would like to communicate our deep thanks to all our supporters, friends and well wishers for supporting our Fellowship Program. We hope to receive very encouraging results from this program. Please do write to me at sunita@sevamandir.org for any information or doubts.

With warm regards,

Sincerely,

Dr. Sunita Kumari
In Charge People’s Management Program

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