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Livelihoods

By gaining economic strength, one’s
ability to trigger demand on other basic
services such as education, sanitation,
and water among others can also be
enhanced. In our livelihood
engagement, we focus on
demonstrating catalytic action on
localized livelihood opportunities in our
action pilot sites. In our endeavour, we
work closely with the government
systems and community institutions to
enhance access to services for farm,
Somwati Posham non-farm livelihoods and social
security schemes.

Manauri Village of Dindori District, In the year 2020-2021, our livelihood
CLF Swashakti Nighauri, Bhanpur programs prioritized the needs of the
Small and Marginal farming
communities and the Youth.
As a member of the CLF, I got an opportunity to
learn about practices for improving FHNW in our
I am content to see my life’s families and community. I was motivated to

transformation – my family’s become a ‘Badlao Didi’ (change vector) for my
health has improved, and I am community. I joined the training program and built
a deeper understanding of how mother-child and
respected in the community adolescent health are interlinked and nutritional
for my knowledge. I would like negligence at any stage can risk the health of a
to see such a change for newborn child and impact his/her quality of life.
people from my village too. My mother had complications during her
pregnancy, and I was born with partially disabled
limbs. I have experienced the adversities, starting
from social exclusion to being married into a
low-income family and ill treatment from the to remunerate adequately or provide them
family. I was determined to learn more, practice Fostering ecosystem enhancement life-advancement opportunities. Their
and spread awareness in my community. I started via localized opportunities and struggles don’t end there. As the rural
growing vegetables in my garden and improved adoption of innovative methods to population, especially the youth, moves to
the food diversity of my family’s diet. I went create access to services and the cities, they are faced with a multitude of
door-to-door talking to women, understanding markets. challenges ranging from poor infrastructure
their reservations on the newborn child’s facilities, unhygienic living conditions,
vaccinations and other nutritional inputs. I started With cities contributing to nearly two-thirds unemployment, and exploitation among
raising these issues at the Gram Sabha meetings of the economic output of the country, every others.
and along with other members, demanded year a large number of Indians migrate
resolutions to AWC related functioning barriers. from the rural areas to cities in search of At TRIF, we believe that creation of
VHSNDs are now being conducted regularly for better livelihood opportunities. Agriculture
the past year. is the primary source of income for 70% of ‘local’ livelihood and economic
the rural households. However, with 82% of opportunities has the ability to foster
Program: Mission Antyodaya the farmers falling under the category of improvement in quality of
Funder: Tata Trusts small and marginal farmers, the sector fails life-experience in the villages.
NGO Partner: Chetna

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