The role of frontline humanitarian workers is not only physically demanding but emotionally challenging. Long working hours, and exposure to different people, emotions, and situations disturb psychosocial well-being especially working with forcibly displaced people. The PROCAP project works with the distressed population who have been forcibly displaced and living in the states of Mizoram and Manipur in Northeast India. It supports and strengthens

Knowledge exchange and learning visit on the formation of Farmer’s Producer Company (FPC) organized on January 11 and 12, 2023 at Palkot Gumla of Jharkhand where farmers representatives from Anugyalaya Diocesan social service societies, Darjeeling have come to interact with the FPC representatives. Five selected representatives from Anugyalaya DSSS Darjeeling attended the knowledge exchange and learning visit. Anugyalaya diocesan social service

Jay Bura Devi and Sahayta SHG of Sansargarh village have now started vermicompost, a method of making compost, by using earthworms to earn their livelihood. The SHGs received Rs. 94,000/- after the sale of the first lot of vermicompost to the Chhattisgarh government. They are content to stay in their village and support their family. Sansargarh, is a cluster of 30 small tribal households of the primitive Gond tribe (PVTG) located 15 kilometres from

The students of Pathordohora school in West Bengal grow and consume vegetables from their school nutrition garden. Pathordohora village in the Jhargram district of West Bengal has made this exceptional change which makes them distinct from others. Latika Murmu loves to have green vegetables served with the Mid-Day Meal (MDM). She says now our plates have safe-to-eat food. Many students like Latika are now getting nutritious food in their Mid-Day

For centuries, farmers from Gumla District of Jharkhand used to work isolated in their own small farm in a disorganised manner. In the absence of effective organisational structure, the farmers were on the verge of becoming incompetent in the market or in a captivating position under local buyers or village level brokers. “When we are not organised,” says Budheswar Tana Bharat, a farmer from Tapkara village, “we have less decision-making power

A delegation from European Commission Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO) visited Cachar district, Assam on 4th January 2023 for the closing of its Flood Response intervention, Humanitarian Assistance to Vulnerable and Excluded Communities impacted by Flooding, Assam. Mr. Damien Blanc, WASH Technical Expert and Ms. Shivani Rana, National Program Officer for India from ECHO interacted with the community of Natanpur village of Kalain block

Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are two major States with high internal migration rates. Seasonal migration for livelihood as a means to access food and money through casual labour is very high in Madhya Pradesh. Since 2001 to 2011, the number of migrants increased by 45% and the number is growing. People migrating for work face many challenges including lack of social security and health benefits, lack of portability of state-provided benefits,

For the past 10 years, three Self Help Groups (SHGs), Beeralingeshwara women SHG, Chenneshwara Women SHG and Ranganath SHG are functioning in Masadi village under the support and guidance of Shivmoga Multipurpose Social Service Society (SMSSS) also called Chaithannaya in Shivamogga Karnataka. Each SHG has 15 women members who meet every month to discuss savings and loan repayments. SMSSS, the social development arm of the diocese of Shivamogga strongly