Kudumbashree Gender Transformative Model to be implemented in Odisha in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2019

Kudumbashree Gender Transformative Model would be implemented in Odisha associating with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Project Concern International. The gender activities implemented by Kudumbashree in Kerala would therefore be replicated in Odisha, with the assistance of National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). State Level Workshop on 'Gender Integration and establishing Kudumbashree Gender Transformative Model' within Odisha Livelihoods Mission was held at Hotel New Marrion, Bhuvaneswar, Odisha on 29 & 30 July 2019. The project was officially launched at the function.

Kudumbashree had got an opportunity to present  the gender activities implemented in Kerala, at a conference held during March 2018, organised by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Following that, the representatives of the foundation visited Kudumbashree Mission to perceive the activities. Based on further discussions and presentations, it was decided to replicate the gender activities of Kerala in Odisha, under Odisha State Livelihoods Mission with the support of National Rural Livelihoods Mission. The project was officially kick started on 30 July 2019 and would be implemented at Deogarh and Jagatsinghpur districts of Odisha.The tenure of the project would be three years. The project would be implemented under the leadership of resource persons who had received special training in capacity building and the resource persons who act was mentors. Kudumbashree Mission would be paid, travel allowance and honorarium for the resource persons and officials.

Project Concern International (PCI) is a non-profit, humanitarian NGO based in San Diego, California, which address a broad range of topics including food security, gender equity, water and sanitation, economic development, climate change, agriculture, education, health, and emergency response. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates, and is reported to be the largest private foundation in the world

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Kudumbashree had got an opportunity to present the gender activities implemented in Kerala, at a conference held during March 2018, organised by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kudumbashree launches Theerashree Programme for the welfare of the poor in the coastal areas

Posted on Friday, August 2, 2019
 

Kudumbashree launched Theerashree Programme for the welfare of the poor in the coastal areas. The programme was inaugurated by Shri. A.C Moideen, Minister, Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala at Grand Auditorium, Kaippamangalam, Thrissur on 27 July 2019. The programme envisages strengthening the Kudumbashree activities in the 82 coastal panchayaths in the state, thereby improve the quality of life of women and children in the coastal areas and improve their livelihood activities.

The programme aims including new families into Kudumbashree neighbourhood group system, rejuvenate inactive NHGs,  extend source of earning income to atleast one member of every family, grade all eligible NHGs and avail linkage loan to them, extend skill training to the poor youth in the coastal areas and assure them jobs.

Uncertainties in job, irregularity in getting income, educational backwardness, unavailability of basic amenities, health issues in women and children, scarcity of drinking water, unavailability of livelihood activities other than fishing and related activities etc are the main issues faced by the people of coastal areas. Women and children are usually bound to suffer the negatives of these issues. The increasing debts among the people in these areas, lack of education, skill training, addiction towards alchohol among the youth etc are also the issues existing in these areas. Kudumbashree aims at solving these issues through 'Theerashree', thereby improve the quality of life of the people in the coastal areas.

Theerashree inaguration

In addition to 'Theerashree', 'Prathibhatheeram' programme, which helps the students of fifth to tenth standard classes would also be implemented. Prathibhatheeram aims at organising classes for studentsbon daily basis. With the support of Sports Council, 'Kayikatheeram' programmr would also be implemented aiming at tha sports development of students, teenagers and youth. All these activities would be monitored through specially appointed volunteers.

As per the statistics till 31 March 2019, there exist 12,045 NHGs in the 82 coastal panchayaths, in 702 wards. 1,81,671 people are members of these NHGs. 1770 micro enterprises are also active in coastal areas.

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Uncertainties in job, irregularity in getting income, educational backwardness, unavailability of basic amenities, health issues in women and children, scarcity of drinking water, unavailability of livelihood activities other than fishing and related acti

Kudumbashree Mission's multi task teams to strengthen the rebuilding activities of Kerala

Posted on Friday, August 2, 2019

Kudumbashree Mission's multi tasking teams are all set to strengthen the rebuilding activities of Kerala post floods of August 2018. The multi task teams would start extending services at all Local Self Government Institutions in Kerala very soon. The services of multi task teams comprising of men and women  would be made available in the sectors viz., electrical work, electronic repairing, plumbing, masonry etc. The state level workshop of the multi task teams was held at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram on 26 July 2019.

As of now, more than 40,000 men and women had registered in ARISE programme out of which, 2500 persons had already availed training in plumbing, electrical work, electronic repairing etc. So far, 78 multi task teams were formed including them. They were given special uniform as well. Kudumbashree plans to give interest subsidy to them,  for buying toolkit for repairing and for buying vehicles. In the next phase, Kudumbashree would extend them further training of 400 hours to help them gain more expertise in their work. For this, Kudumbashree had came in contract with 16 Government ITI institutions in the state. Kudumbashree also aim at getting accredition to those multi task teams as well. The members of multi task team formed under Kudumbashree Mission would be known as 'Arise Technicians'. Kudumbashree plans to form at least one team in every Local Self Government Institutions by this year itself.

Post floods, ARISE programme was launched after identifying that there exist many job offers in these sectors, through the livelihood survey during October 2018. ARISE aimed at extending skill training to 50,000 flood affected families in various sectors, thereby equipping them  for paid employment. The campaign aimed at helping them in attaining resilience. Kudumbashree aims at equipping the multi task teams take up the works from the households and earn income of their own. It is also planned to make use of the opportunities in the construction sectors for multi task teams.

Multi task team

Shri. T.K Jose IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala delivered the keynote address. Shri. S. Harikishore IAS, Executive Director, Kudumbashree Misson delivered the introductory speech. Smt. Niranjana.N.S, Programme Officer, Kudumbashree  Mission welcomed the gathering. Smt. Suchithra and Shri  Shibu. N.P, State Programme Managers, Kudumbashree Mission led the classes. The team members and the state programme managers shared their experiences faced during the implementation of the programme. More than 300 members of the multi task teams took part in the workshop.

 

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Post floods, ARISE programme was launched after identifying that there exist many job offers in these sectors, through the livelihood survey during October 2018

File Adalath-Kozhikode

Posted on Monday, July 29, 2019

കോഴിക്കോട് നഗരസഭയില്‍ വച്ച്  29.07.2019 ന് ബഹു തദ്ദേശസ്വയംഭരണ വകുപ്പ് മന്ത്രിയുടെ നേതൃത്വത്തില്‍ നടത്താന്‍ നിശ്ചയിച്ചിരുന്ന ഫയല്‍ അദാലത്ത്  03.08.2019 രാവിലെ 10 മണിയിലേക്ക് മാറ്റി വച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.

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Kudumbashree Idukki District Mission launches BUDS Micro Enterprise units

Posted on Saturday, July 27, 2019

Kudumbashree Idukki District Mission has launched BUDS Micro Enterprise units in BUDS School at Kumily, Idukki. The sales of the products made by the students of BUDS schools was held at BUDS School, Kumily on 24 July 2019. The seed pens made by the BUDS students were sold to the DDUGKY study centre in Idukki. Shri. Ajesh T.G, District Mission Co-ordinator, Kudumbashree Idukki District Misison inaugurated the sales of the products by buying the seed pens made by the BUDS students on behalf of the DDUGKY study centre. Kudumbashree Idukki District Mission had formed a micro enterprise of specially abled children of the BUDS School at Kumily. The initiative aims at the self sufficiency of these students.

   A total of three micro enterprises were formed by including them in Prathyasha Micro Enterprise scheme. They were also given training in umbrella making as well. The BUDS Micro enterprise units are also making paper pen, umbrellas, mats, phenoyl and soaps. The profit earned from the BUDS Micro Enterprise units would be shared equally among the children.

BUDS Schools are free and open special schools for mentally challenged children of poor families, owned and managed by the Local Self Government Institutions under the support and guidance of Kudumbashree Mission and the community structure.

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A total of three micro enterprises were formed by including them in Prathyasha Micro Enterprise scheme.

Foundation Stone laid for the Kerala Chicken Regional Unit

Posted on Thursday, July 25, 2019

The foundation stone for the Kerala Chicken Thiruvananthapuram Regional unit was laid at Channankara, Kadinamkulam, Thiruvananthapuram on 23 July 2019. Shri. A.C Moideen, Minister for Local Self Governments, Government of Kerala laid the foundation stone of Modern Poultry Plant and Adv. K Raju, Minister for Forests, Animal Husbandry and Zoos, Government of Kerala laid the foundation stone of E.C Parent Stock farm. This would be the first ever meat processing plant in the history of Kerala which keeps up the ISO standards.

The Kerala Chicken project would be implemented through Kudumbashree Broiler Farmers Producer Company Limited (KBFPCL), which include all Kudumbashree broiler farmers. The fully automated plant would have the capacity to process and pack 10,000 chicken in an hour and the fully automated breeder farm would produce 60,000 chicks a week. In the first phase, regional units would be set up at Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode and Palakkad districts. More than 200 Kudumbashree women would get job opportunities through this. The Kerala Chicken project envisages taking over more than half of the domestic market of broiler chicken in Kerala.

Shri. V.Sasi, Deputy Speaker, Kerala Legislative Assembly presided over the function. The keynote speech was delivered by Shri. S. Harikishore IAS, Executive Director, Kudumbashree and Chairman, KBFPCL. The report was presented by Dr. Nikesh Kiran, Programme Officer, Kudumbashree and CEO, KBFPCL.  Smt. Asha Varghese, Director, Kudumbashree, Dr. Sunil Kumar P.C, Director, Animal Husbandry, Shri. P. Felix, President, Kadinamkulam Grama Panchayath, Smt. Shyji, Director, KBFPCL and Smt. Usha Rani, Director, KBFPCL gave away the felicitations. Smt. Prasanna Kumari, Managing Director, KBFPCL welcomed the gathering and Dr. K.R Shyju, District Mission Coordinator, Kudumbashree Thiruvananthapuram District Mission extended vote of thanks. A seminar on 'KBFPCL- The new hope for Broiler Farmer's in Kerala was also held along with the programme.

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The Kerala Chicken project envisages taking over more than half of the domestic market of broiler chicken in Kerala.

Kudumbashree-NULM- Employment through skill training and placement

Posted on Wednesday, July 24, 2019

·    35 പരിശീലന ഏജന്‍സികളുമായി ധാരണയിലെത്തി
·    എട്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സ് പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കിയവര്‍ക്ക് മുതല്‍ പരിശീലനത്തില്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കാം

തിരുവനന്തപുരം: കുടുംബശ്രീ മുഖേന കേരളത്തില്‍ നടപ്പിലാക്കുന്ന ദേശീയ നഗര ഉപജീവന ദൗത്യത്തിന്റെ (എന്‍യുഎല്‍എം) ഭാഗമായി നഗരപ്രദേശങ്ങളില്‍ സാമ്പത്തികമായി പിന്നോക്കം നില്‍ക്കുന്ന യുവതീയുവാക്കള്‍ക്ക് സൗജന്യ നൈപുണ്യ പരിശീലനവും തൊഴിലും നല്‍കുന്ന എംപ്ലോയ്‌മെന്റ് ത്രൂ സ്‌കില്‍ ട്രെയ്‌നിങ് ആന്‍ഡ് പ്ലേസ്‌മെന്റ് (ഇഎസ്ടിപി) പദ്ധതിയുടെ മൂന്നാം ഘട്ടത്തിന് തുടക്കമായി. തൈക്കാട് ഗവണ്‍മെന്റ് ഗസ്റ്റ് ഹൗസില്‍ നടന്ന ചടങ്ങില്‍ കുടുംബശ്രീ എക്‌സിക്യൂട്ടീവ് ഡയറക്ടര്‍ എസ്. ഹരികിഷോര്‍ ഔപചാരിക ഉദ്ഘാടനം നിര്‍വ്വഹിച്ചു. മൂന്നാം ഘട്ട ത്തില്‍ 93 നഗരങ്ങളിലെ 12000 പേര്‍ക്ക് നൈപുണ്യ പരിശീലനം നല്‍കുന്നതിനായി 35 പരിശീലന ഏജന്‍സികളുമായി കുടുംബശ്രീ ധാരണയിലെത്തി. കുടുംബശ്രീ ഡയറക്ടര്‍ ആശ വര്‍ഗ്ഗീസ് ചടങ്ങില്‍ അധ്യക്ഷത വഹിച്ചു.

  2016ലാണ് എന്‍യുഎല്‍എമ്മിന്റെ ഭാഗമായി കുടുംബശ്രീ നൈപുണ്യ പരിശീലനം നല്‍കി തുടങ്ങിയത്. ഇതുവരെ 16000 പേര്‍ക്ക് പരിശീലനം നല്‍കി കഴിഞ്ഞു. എട്ടാം ക്ലാസ്സ് മുതല്‍ ബിരുദം വരെ യോഗ്യതയുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഭാഗമായി വിവിധ കോഴ്‌സുകളില്‍ പരിശീലനം നേടാനാകും. മൂന്ന് മാസം മുതല്‍ എട്ടരമാസം വരെ കാലാവധിയുള്ള കോഴ്‌സുകള്‍ വിജയകരമായി പൂര്‍ത്തിയാക്കുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് എന്‍എസ്ഡിസി (നാഷണല്‍ സ്‌കില്‍ ഡെവലപ്പ്‌മെന്റ് കോര്‍പ്പറേഷന്‍) സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റാകും ലഭിക്കുക. 12000ത്തില്‍ 5300 പേര്‍ക്ക് റസിഡന്‍ഷ്യല്‍ രീതിയില്‍ പരിശീലനം നേടാനാകും. താമസവും ഭക്ഷണവും സൗജന്യമാണ്.

   അതാത് നഗരസഭകളിലെ കുടുംബശ്രീയുടെ സിഡിഎസ് ഓഫീസുകളില്‍ നിന്നോ കുടുംബശ്രീ ദേശീയ നഗര ഉപജീവന ദൗത്യം ഓഫീസില്‍ നിന്നോ 155330 എന്ന ടോള്‍ഫ്രീ നമ്പരില്‍ (കുടുംബശ്രീ എന്‍യുഎല്‍എം നൈപുണ്യ പരിശീലനത്തിനായുള്ള പ്രത്യേക നമ്പര്‍) നിന്നോ വിശദ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ ലഭിക്കും. വിവരസാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യ, ടെലികോം, ഓട്ടോമോട്ടീവ്, ടൂറിസം, അക്കൗണ്ടിങ്, ഇലക്ട്രോണി ക്‌സ്, ആയുര്‍വേദം എന്നിങ്ങനെ വ്യത്യസ്ത മേഖലകളില്‍ കോഴ്‌സുകളുണ്ട്. അക്കൗണ്ടന്റ്, ഫീല്‍ഡ് എഞ്ചിനീയര്‍- ഇലക്ട്രോണിക്‌സ്, ആയുര്‍വേദ സ്പാ തെറാപ്പിസ്റ്റ്, ജൂനിയര്‍ സോഫ്ട്‌വെയര്‍ ഡെവല പ്പര്‍, ഫാഷന്‍ ഡിസൈനര്‍, കാഡ് ടിസൈനര്‍ തുടങ്ങിയ 54 കോഴ്‌സുകളില്‍ പരിശീലനം നല്‍കുന്നു.

  ചടങ്ങില്‍ എന്‍യുഎല്‍എം പ്രൊജക്ട് അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് അഞ്ജു ആനന്ദ് സ്വാഗതം ആശംസിച്ചു. കുടുംബശ്രീ സ്‌റ്റേറ്റ് മിഷന്‍ മാനേജര്‍മാരായ പി. രാജേഷ് കുമാര്‍, എസ്. മേഘ്‌ന എന്നിവര്‍ സംസാരിച്ചു. പ്രൊജക്ട് അസിസ്റ്റന്റ് അദിതി മോഹന്‍ നന്ദി പറഞ്ഞു.

 

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Destitute Free Kerala Programme Beneficiary from Malappuram gets job placement through DDU-GKY

Posted on Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Destitute Free Kerala Programme Beneficiary from Malappuram gets job placement through DDU-GKY. It is Ms. Annamma M.A hailing from Karuvarakundu CDS of Malappuram district of Kerala, who secured job placement through DDU-GKY. Annamma is placed in the Edakkara branch of ESAF Small Finance Bank as  Sales Officer Trainee with a monthly salary of Rs 16000. It is as per the special inclusion of DFK families, that Annamma was mobilized for the programme. She did the Banking Finance Service Insurance (BFSI) course at ESAF.

Kudumbashree SRLM has done special mobilization programmes for the family members of the destitute in the state, by visiting each destitute family and identifying the beneficiaries.To make the inclusion of the real needy a reality, Kudumbashree has done special mobilization programmes for the family members of the destitute in the state, by visiting each destitute family and identifying the beneficiaries. As a small yet significant initiative from DDU-GKY Kerala, it was decided to include 2,000 DFK beneficiaries or family members in DDU-GKY programme, through which an income generation can be assured at least to one member of the family. 

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Kudumbashree SRLM has done special mobilization programmes for the family members of the destitute in the state, by visiting each destitute family and identifying the beneficiaries

Kudumbashree Alappuzha District Mission distributes Menstural Cups

Posted on Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Kudumbashree Alappuzha District Mission distributed Menstural Cups under the leadership of the Gender team in the district. Awareness class on how to use menstural cups was also organised along with the programme. The menstural cups were distributed as part of the Thinkal Programme, the joint venture of Alappuzha District Administration and HLL Lifecare Limited (formerly Hindustan Latex Limited). Dr. Karthika, Community Medicine Department, Medical College, Vandanam, Alappuzha and Ms. Kavya Menon, Project Coordinator, HLL Lifecare Limited lead the awareness classes.

  Snehitha Community Counsellors, Snehitha staff, women staff of Kudumbashree Alappuzha District Mission attended the function.  Menstrual cups was distributed to all women who attended the programme. Menstrual cups are very hygienic and convenient that sanitary pads, though are yet to enter the mainstream. Menstrual cups were distributed to Kudumbashree women for make the  menstrual cups familiar among the public.

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Dr. Karthika, Community Medicine Department, Medical College, Vandanam, Alappuzha and Ms. Kavya Menon, Project Coordinator, HLL Lifecare Limited lead the awareness classes.