BARADRONE SOCIAL WELFARE INSTITUTION
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Mission Statement
Mission To work for deprived people for their uplift and betterment with special emphasis on children and women and to provide them with education and basic needs opportunities and bring them into the mainstream of society. Vision - To contribute to building a society where all people can gain access to education, health care, and employment opportunities and where people can realize their full potential. - To build a trusted bridge between the dreams and aspirations of individuals who care about suffering people and their realization.
About This Cause
BSWI catalyzes change in thousands of lives by implementing innovative efforts. We work in four focused areas: - Education, with an emphasis on the universal elementary and secondary education. - Livelihoods, with an emphasis on the economic empowerment of women. - Preventive & Promotional Health, for arresting CMRs, UFMRs & MMRs and promotion of good reproductive health practices. - Women’s Empowerment, for improving the status of poor women and advocating for protecting their rights. BSWI - OUR TEAM: We work to strengthen the ability of the rural poor to strengthen themselves through education and earn a decent living. We are organized into field-based teams, under the leadership of a team coordinator and the guidance of a team of integrators. More than 18 staffs and 45 young volunteers are working in 126 remote villages of West Bengal, India, immersing themselves directly with target communities across three of the poorest districts. They are recruited from localities and external educational institutions and hold degrees in varied subjects like education, agriculture, and the social sciences. A majority of the 37,486 families we work with belongs to marginalized communities like SCs, STs, OBCs, Minorities (Muslim), Fishermen, Small & Marginal Farmers and Rural Artisans. BSWI - OUR BOARD: Our Governing Body comprises of 9 members of whom 3 are women members who have come up from the villagers and from the Self-Help Groups; 2 from management fields, 2 from government departments (retired) and 2 schoolteachers. We have 2 Retired IAS Officers as patrons and advisors who worked with several government departments during their tenures. OUR STRATEGY: Social Mobilization Reaching out to the poorest communities, building human capabilities, building women's self-reliant collectives as change agents. Food Security Reducing hunger, ensuring year-round food. Managing Natural Resources Making the most of nature’s gifts through husbandry, suitable technologies and investments. Livelihoods Building models of alternative livelihoods, training the community in new skill sets. Market Linkages Linking to markets, to financial institutions, and to government. Governance Making the community aware of its rights, empowering them to have a say in the way things are run. OUR IMPACT People We have more trained professionals working in villages in the field of rural development than any other organization except for the government. Our pioneering contribution has been in inducting educated and socially inspired youth, grooming them through a structured program and placing them directly in villages to facilitate change. Models Our innovations are adopted by government and civil society organizations at the national, state and local levels. Using our field experience, we have helped create appropriate policies and programs that bring opportunity for the rural poor. Our work on self-help groups (SHGs) and Natural Resource Management. Scaling Up BSWI works directly with more than 6000 families across four poorest districts of West Bengal, and we support 70 NGOs. The livelihoods we have directly promoted with women and communities today generate a gross yearly output of $80 million. Our work in sectors such as tasar silk, vegetables, fruit and poultry have helped community organisations become leading players in these business sectors. SECTOR: EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT We have been implementing "Bridge Education For Dropout Adolescent Girls" by enrolling many adolescent girls and the project is benefitting the girls by being enrolled in local high schools and they have discarded early marriages and are getting higher education. The goal of the project is “To ensure that no girl is left outside the ambit of the education process and all of them are graduated in the State Madhyamik (Tenth Standard) Examination. BOOK GRANTS TO CURIOUS & NEEDY STUDENTS: BSWI distributes free textbooks, educational materials, note books and school materials for the curious and needy students of the area with a focus on girl students in order to increase the rate of qualified girls. This initiative is being run since the year of 1961 constantly and thousands of students (especially girls) from a vast rural area in many districts have been provided such support. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR THE ADOLESCENT GIRLS: It has been found by BSWI that the adolescent girls of the rural areas are humiliated and undermined as they are much vulnerable in education and economic skills. To ensure economic productivity, BSWI has launched a vocational course entailing skill development and increasing their earning skills though local level feasible enterprises of tailoring, embroidery, fine crafts and scientific livestock rearing. More than 350 adolescent have been trained over the years and strengthened their hands for earning supplementary incomes independently. SECTOR: COMMUNITY HEALTH Nutrition & our work: Our interventions seek to address a variety of determinants of malnutrition in children, adolescents and pregnant women, as they relate to healthcare, hygiene and sanitation, child care, appropriate feeding practices (including breastfeeding), growth monitoring and promotion, adoption of low-cost home available foods, promotion of gender equality. Health education & our work: Low cost preventive measures are the core of our community health program. Improved health habits, positive attitude building in health care and protection, reduced gender discrimination and child survival and development and development of motherhoods are the primary agendas of our works in this sector. Awareness generation on child survival and protection, women’s health aspects, adolescent health behavior and issues are our focus areas and we have been working on this since last three decades. Curative Care: BSWI is addressing some general health problems through its active Health Clinic situated in its headquarter. With a very meagre economic resource in comparison with the local needs, BSWI is struggling to give some relief to the poorest communities by providing medical consultancy by trained medical team and doctor, medicine and necessary emergency supports at a very low cost. A medical fund has been generated out of its internal sources of income and by receiving a small grant from S. J. Jindal Trust and with this resource we are reaching to more than six thousand of patients a year. SECTOR: LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT & BASIC NEEDS - Promotion of Animal Husbandry amongst the SHG members: In the main center's farm house in Baradrone village, BSWI has been organizing animal husbandry training cum demonstration activities for the SHG members and each year it has been training about 350 women members of the SHGs. - System of Rice Intensification (SRI): BSWI introduced this technique in the project area since 2008 to enhance the productivity of rice. In 2016-2017, more than 3500 farmers followed this technique in 5250 acres of land. In the 2015 farmers multiplied paddy production by 1.7 times. - Improved Vegetable Cultivation: Second activity in this category has been vegetable cultivation. BSWI encouraged vegetable cultivation as a supplementary livelihood activity and provided seeds, saplings, seedlings and fertilizers. - Water management: In order to augment a captive source of water, BSWI supported digging of small, field level tanks in individual farms. The farmers could irrigate their small vegetable plots with this storage. - Releasing of Mortgaged Land & Supplementary Economic Activities : Considering the high incidence of land-mortgaging, BSWI is encouraging releasing of the lands and encouraged SHGs to advance loans to the needy families. Other associated activities included encouraging goat rearing as a supplementary livelihood measure. In order to explore the potential of marketing the local produce, BSWI commissioned a study on 'Livelihood Options with Market Mapping and Value Chain Analysis'. The recommendations are being materialized by BSWI now. Training and capacity building of farmers and other beneficiaries is also on-going project activity. - A Garment Making Unit named "PROCHESTA" has been set up in Panchpara village involving 25 SHG members ORGANIZATION BUILDING Capacity building (SHG & Federation members): The group members/leaders, Federation leaders were provided training and orientation in leadership, gender, rights, communication skills, group dynamics, managerial aspects, maintaining accounts, PIME and regulation of their savings and credit program. BSWI also organised workshops that had the twin participation of both the women’s SHGs and the Federation members as well as the leaders of the Panchayats, banks and government officials. Livelihood Planning: BSWI has worked with both men and women in the family, helping them to improve their livelihoods and access complementary services from public and private institutions. Combining PRA tools such as livelihood and resource mapping, interventions such as achievement motivation training, area planning and envisioning exercises, BSWI has helped SHG members and their families develop medium-term livelihood goals for themselves. Strengthening Knowledge: The major intentions of BSWI in this sector have been to sensitize the target group women about their rights, gender dimensions, and responsibilities as the stakeholders in the development process through innovative awareness programs. BSWI has been sensitive in this issue by, the final process of empowering the target group illiterate women to acquire functional literacy skills and to be equipped with various social-political-economic knowledge and capacities to be self- reliant. Organic Farming BSWI has initiated a farming technology named “Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)” that is a method of farming where the cost of growing and harvesting plants is zero as it reduces costs through eliminating external inputs and using local resources to rejuvenate soils and restore ecosystem health through diverse, multi-layered cropping systems.