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February 2009 - September 2009
CINI’s new girls’ shelter “Sukhi Griha” was opened in the sprawling city of Siliguri in February 2009. While facilities were already available in Siliguri for runaway boys, facilities for girls had previously been grossly inadequate. In its first six months, the shelter has provided a safe place to stay and nutritious meals for 32 vulnerable girls, who had previously been living or working on the streets. The girls have also gained access to health care support, educational opportunities, and simply the chance to play and enjoy being children in a loving environment. Where possible, the girls are being reunited with their parents and enrolled at local schools. Follow up work is being done to ensure they are safe and happy and continuing to attend classes. Where family reunification is not appropriate, we link the girls up to organisations able to provide them with long-term support and access to education or vocational training. Whichever option is pursued, the children will acquire the skills they need to live independently in later life.
This project is co-funded by CINI Italy |
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July 2006 – June 2009
This three year project in Khorda, located in the disadvantaged Sunderbans region, has directly helped 317 pregnant mothers, seen 298 infants born, and reached out to 364 adolescents living in the area. The aims were to improve the status of maternal and child health and to improve the health and nutrition knowledge of adolescents, who are future parents, whilst raising awareness of and access to services in the community. As a result there have been drastic improvements in the safety of child birth, with 97% of deliveries having a trained person present compared to the average of rural West Bengal of 37%. There have also been noteworthy improvements in child nutrition and health, with increasing rates of exclusive breast feeding and the proper immunisation of babies.
This work has been innovative in it use of networks of women's self-help groups working in partnership with local government. The final year of the project has focused on continuing to raise awareness in the community, empowering people to make their own decisions, ensuring that development interventions are bottom up and sustainable. The work has been innovative and successful leading to the ideas developed being applied as a model for CINI’s other programmes. |
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January 2009 - June 2009
CINI's girls' shelter 'Amader Bari' (Our Home) is a refuge for disadvantaged children in Kolkata - many of whom have suffered neglect, abuse or exploitation. In the six months to Jun 2009, work has included providing the children with access to counselling, both individually and in groups, with discussion focusing on issues like self-esteem and anger management. The children have also had the opportunity to use the visual and performing arts to express themselves and explore difficult topics. CINI staff have worked closely with children and parents, working towards reunifying families where possible. Follow up support is being provided to ensure the ongoing well being of the children. Where family reunification has not been possible, girls have been enrolled in boarding schools or other supportive organisations for their long term care and schooling. Again, follow up care has been provided to these to girls to ensure that they are happy and safe and progressing well in their studies.
This project is co-funded by CINI USA |
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June 2008 - May 2009 (interim report)
This project involves working alongside local communities, service providers and local government to improve health, nutrition, education and protection services. Progress over the last six months includes training being given to traditional birth attendants, informing them about measures they can take to reduce the chances of injury or death of women following childbirth. Monthly nutrition camps have been established to identify malnourished children and provide their families with advice and support. Meetings have been held with local teachers to discuss measures they can take to improve the quality of education available to children. Police have been trained on interventions that be made in cases of child trafficking, domestic violence and child abuse. A community based monitoring system has also been established so that relevant information is recorded, so that government members can be held to account for the quality and accessibility of local services. |
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May - August 2009 (final report)
Cyclone Aila hit West Bengal on 25th May 2009, with wind, waves and floods destroying people’s homes and killing crops and livestock. CINI’s relief efforts were focused on Moipith Island – a low-lying coastal part of the remote Sunderbans region, which was particularly badly hit. In the period to August 5th we provided tablets to purify contaminated water for 20,000 people; provided food through community kitchens to 3,000 people; provided protective sheeting from which to build shelters for 1,000 people and provided cooking pots and bedding for 400 people. |
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January 2009 – July 2009
CINI’s drop in centre has directly helped 155 children who work or sleep on the platforms and on board trains at Azimganj railway station. The centre is open five days a week and provides a safe place for children aged five to 16 to study, play and enjoy recreational activities. The centre helps wean children away from work and teaches them valuable life skills, important for their reintegration back into mainstream society. Awareness raising activities have sought to inform local communities about children’s rights, safety, protection and the need to create child friendly spaces. These have reached out to 10,000 people living in the area surrounding the railway station, and a slum adjacent to the railway. |
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click here to see archived reports of Drop in Centre at Azimgang Railway Station
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October 2008 – March 2009 (interim report)
This integrated project aims to supplement state services rather than replace them, by supporting initiatives that stimulate community driven demand for their own health, nutrition, education and protection related rights and entitlements. At the same time CINI is building the capacity of service providers and local government to deliver quality accessible services. In the slum area of Shibtala three transition centres have been set up to help children with the difficult transition from primary to secondary school - a point in children's education which is usually marked by large numbers of children dropping out. Visits have been made to local primary schools to work with local authorities to identify children at risk of dropping out by reviewing children's attendance and academic performance. In the village of Patra we are now at a point where key indicators of progress have been reviewed and compared with baseline figures. The number of children not attending school has fallen 42% from 456 to 262. In Patra village the proportion of women giving birth with full medical support has gone up from 33% to 44%. |
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August 2008 - May 2009
A total of 93 child labourers have received education and healthcare support at CINI’s education camps. Of these, 61% were mainstreamed into government schools in age-appropriate classes within the 12 month project period. The remainder have either migrated from the project area, dropped out due to irregular attendance or will return to the camps in the coming year for further support before being reintegrated into the mainstream school system. Monthly parents’ meetings, street dramas on social issues for Children’s Day and other activities have also been undertaken to raise awareness amongst parents, local community leaders, teachers and employers about the importance of education for all children, including girls and children from lower castes. |
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April 2007 - March 2009 (final report)
From April 2007 to March 2009, this two-year project improved the health and nutrition of pregnant women, children and adolescents living in Khagramuri. Interventions targeted the critical life stages - pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence. In addition, interventions sought to raise awareness within the community about their health rights and entitlements, and have successfully improved access and quality of government health services for women and children. The most direct beneficiaries are the 380 mothers and 382 infants (two cases of twins), and 40 adolescents who have received preventative health care support and training. Indirectly, 17,000 people living in Khagramuri now stand to benefit from an improved and more responsive healthcare system. Through outreach activities residents have greater awareness of how they can help protect the health of their families |
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March 2008 - February 2009 (interim report)
The staff at CINI's Emergency Ward and Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre aim not only to relieve the suffering of severely malnourished children in West Bengal, India, but also to protect their future welfare by working closely with families to help prevent malnutrition from occurring again. The Emergency Ward provides emergency health care to children with acute malnutrition and related health problems. The Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre rehabilitates undernourished children, whilst also providing supportive care and training on how to provide a nutritious diet, even on the tightest of budgets, and preventative healthcare measures they can take to protect the well-being of family members. CINI directly helped 575 children and their mothers through this project between March 2008 and February 2009.
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See follow up report monitoring the progress of the children discharged from the Emergency Ward and Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre - six months on
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November 2008 to February 2009
Over the winter , some of CINI’s offices, and a storage area, were converted to provide a shelter for girls in distress, living on the streets in Siliguri in North Bengal. The shelter now has a fully functioning kitchen, dining room, food-storage room, two bathrooms, a dormitory, lockers and play areas decorated with murals. The girls also have access to a counselling room - a private space where they can discuss with trained staff how to get their lives back on track. There is room for 15 girls to stay at any one time, and we expect 100 girls to directly use the services at the shelter over the coming year.
As well as meeting the girls immediate need for a safe place to stay, nutritious food and access to healthcare and education services, girls at the shelter will also be encouraged to plan for the future, and supported in pursuing those plans. Options include being reunited with their parents and attending local schools, going to boarding school, or getting vocational training. Whichever path is followed, the aim is that they gain the skills they will need to live independently in later life.
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November 2005 – October 2008 (final report)
This three-year project directly helped 406 pregnant women, 374 infants under two years old and reached out to 1,100 adolescents living in Nahazari. The aim was to improve maternal and child health and nutrition. By the end of the project, 72% of the 406 pregnant women tracked had received at least three or more ante-natal checkups - the average for rural West Bengal is 56%. Even more encouragingly 92% of deliveries had a trained person present, either in hospital or at home, this is more than double the average for rural West Bengal, which is 37%. On the breastfeeding front, 94% of babies were exclusively breastfed for the initial three months, and 83% for the recommended six-month period. |
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September to December 2008
CINI's emergency response team responds to all major natural disasters affecting India. In 2008 the breaching of the Kosi dam caused flooding on a massive scale in Bihar. CINI brought relief materials to the refugee camps including food, clothes and vital items such as mosquito nets to help prevent the spread of malaria. We were also involved in establishing a missing person help-desk to reunite families that had become separated in the rush to escape the floodwaters. Counselling was given to people suffering the emotional fallout of seeing their homes and livelihoods washed away. This has included practical support, including helping families access the government compensation package for flood victims. An estimated 5,000 people have been helped through this work. |
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July 2006 to June 2008 (two year interim report for three year project)
This project is based in Khorda which is in the disadvantaged Sunderbans region, an area largely inaccessible due to its dense network of streams and rivers, it has been long neglected by both the government and aid agencies. To date, a total of 317 women and their children have been directly helped. Already the results are looking very positive in terms of making childbirth safer, improving child nutrition and health, and improving rates of exclusive breast feeding to six months and ensuring babies are properly immunized.
This work has been innovative in it use of networks of women's self-help groups working in partnership with local government. In the final year, we will be phasing out in such a way that the progress made to date can be maintained by ensuring local government bodies provide ongoing support to community groups. The success of this approach so far is making it a model for many of CINI's broader activities, and we are now seeking to apply many of the ideas developed to our other programmes. |
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July 2006 - March 2007 (interim report)
This project involved tracking a cohort of pregnant women and their children until they reached the age of two. The aim was to ensure that pregnant women received the necessary care including appropriate diet and rest, medical check ups and support from other family members. |
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January 2008 - July 2008
CINI has a drop in centre for children who work and sleep on the platforms and trains of Azimgamj Railway junction. The centre offers these children access to education and health services and very simply a safe place to play games and socialise with other children. When the project started in 2005 there were a large number of out of school children. Now 118 of the 132 children supported by the centre attend school. We are working closely with the remaining 14 to help them get back into education. The centre offers a vital service to mainstreamed children by enabling them to do their homework in a supportive environment. This is particularly valuable as most of their parents are illiterate and do not have space in their homes for the children to study. Plans for the coming year include expanding outreach work to the wider community and working more closely with the railway authorities.
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September 2007 - March 2008
The six months ending March 2008 have been used for community planning in Shibtala, a slum in Kolkata with a population of 23,526, and in the rural Patra Gram Panchayat in West Bengal, which has a population of 23,526. Local people have identified the primary needs in the area, and other services that already available. This means we can avoid duplicating services and link up effectively with other service providers. Ultimately the project will help accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the key areas of education, protection, health and nutrition. |
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April 2007 to March 2008
At the end of year one of this two year project, we have directly helped 380 pregnant women and their children. The aim has been to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in the project area. To date 87% of babies have been exclusively breastfed for at least three months. 92% of eligible babies have received complete primary immunization. Activities in the final year will mainly focus on bringing together community groups and local government to ensure that the benefits of this work are made sustainable.
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June 2007 - May 2008
CINI has reached out to 109 child labourers and provided them with academic and non-academic support through two education camps, with the goal of integrating the children into age appropriate classes in local schools. 73% of the children were successfully enrolled in local schools during the 12 month period, most of the remaining children will return to the education camps for intensive educational support for another year, and will be prepared to be enrolled in schools at the end of the next academic year. |
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March 2007 - February 2008 (interim report)
A total of 581 malnourished children, plus their carers, were admitted between March 2007 and February 2008. 612 children were admitted in the previous year, making a total of 1,193 since CINI UK started funding this project. |
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November 2006 - October 2007 (interim report)
Begun in November 2005, to date this project has helped 406 pregnant women and 374 children until the age of two, aiming to ensure safe motherhood, good child survival, growth and development, as well as mobilise the community by generating greater awareness of mother, child health and adolescent health. |
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August 2006 - May 2007 (interim report)
CINI has reached out to child labourers and provided them with academic and non-academic support, through two education camps for both boys and girls. The goal is to successfully reintegrate and mainstream these children into formal schools. |
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November 2007 - April 2008
The aim of this project was to strengthen the relationships between parents and children affected by HIV/AIDS, and to minimize children's psychological trauma, as well as their risk of infection. The project's beneficiaries were 12 children and adolescents and 10 parents from Canning, Bishnupur I and Bishnupur II. In order to enable other children and parents to benefit from the project's findings, parent-child clubs have been established in several villages in the area. |
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October 2006 - September 2007 (final report)
The young couples' project focuses on sexual and reproductive health in adolescents, where they are treated not merely as beneficiaries, but as active participants in the change process. This initiative was piloted in two gram panchayats (government localities) in the Falta block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. |
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November 2006 - April 2007 (final report)
In this project, six individuals (four of whom were children), suffering from HIV and malnutrition, were selected to receive nutritional support from CINI over a six-month period to help them become more healthy and resilient. The aim of the project was to demonstrate how low cost nutritional support and treatment of infections can make a profound difference in the overall health of those receiving assistance.
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October 2006 - December 2007 (final report)
This initiative aimed to further the objective of universal enrolment and retention of children in formal schools, as stated by the Indian Government under the "Education for All" initiative. |
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April 2006 - December 2006 (final report)
This project aimed to enable adolescents to achieve greater participation in their local communities by establishing youth groups and organising community events. They have received support and training on key issues such as health and nutrition as well as reproductive and sexual health, empowering them to make good decisions in their adult lives. |
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September 2005 - February 2006 (final report)
In India today, there is evidence that HIV cases are growing across all sections of the population. Street dramas can help limit the spread and stigma of HIV/AIDS, providing information about HIV/AIDS, voluntary counselling and testing centres and safer sexual practices. These short street plays also provide an opportunity to challenge and correct misconceptions about modes of HIV transmission and the lifestyle of people living with HIV/AIDS. |
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October 2006 (final report)
In October 2006, almost 1.5 million people living in the villages of Murshidabad District, 150 km north of Kolkata, were displaced by the rising flood waters of the Bhagirathi River and its tributaries. |
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October 2005 (final report)
On the 8 th October 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit South Asia, leaving about 75,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless and vulnerable to the impending winter snowfall. The CINI Disaster Response Team focused its relief efforts on Indian Kashmir. |
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December 2004 (final report)
December 2004 witnessed devastating tsunami waves that hit the shores of Asian countries, generating an unprecedented disaster. One month after, the official death toll was thought to exceed 200,000 but many deaths were never recorded. CINI arrived on location on the third day following the disaster with three teams of volunteers carrying food, medical supplies and cash for local purchases. |
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August 2003 - July 2006 (final report)
This project aimed to ensure safe motherhood, good child survival, growth and development, and to mobilise the community by generating greater awareness of mother, child and adolescent health. 75 pregnant women from families earning less than £12.50 per month were identified and tracked. The aim was to ensure that pregnant women received the necessary care including appropriate diet and rest, medical check ups and support from other family members.
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