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Gram Vikas COVID-19 Response June 2021 Progress Update

Gram Vikas has reached out to about 45,000 households in 1043 habitations in 116 Gram Panchayats across 8 districts in the five weeks since the COVID-19 Response started in May 2021.

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Grassroots community volunteers lead the fight against COVID-19 in remote rural Odisha

Community Volunteers trained by Gram Vikas are working to reach half a million people across 12 districts in Odisha to register them for vaccination on CoWIN.

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Gram Vikas COVID-19 Response May 2021 Progress Update

Gram Vikas has reached out to about 30,000 households in 668 habitations in 88 Gram Panchayats of 22 Blocks of Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Kandhamal and Kalahandi districts from first week of May 2021.

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Gram Vikas sets up COVID Care Centre in remote rural Odisha

A cluster-level COVID Care Centre set up by Gram Vikas is augmenting the local healthcare infrastructure in one of the poorest parts of the Kalahandi district in southwest Odisha.

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Mobile vans for COVID-19 awareness in communities

Gram Vikas’ mobile vans with mounted speakers travel to communities playing pre-recorded audio messages on measures to prevent COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Response: Migrant workers and families receive food and essential kits

Gram Vikas and CMID ensures access to food and essential materials for migrant workers and their families from Odisha stranded outside the state during the lockdown.

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COVID-19 vaccination drives to ensure 100% registration in 106 Adivasi habitations in Odisha

Gram Vikas teams help tribal communities overcome vaccine hesitancy through community outreach, information dissemination, dispelling misinformation, and help with registration on CoWIN website.

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Adivasi communities register for vaccination slots on CoWIN

Gram Vikas trains community volunteers from tribal habitations in Odisha and Jharkhand to support India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive.

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GRAM VIKAS COVID-19 RESPONSE 2021: Safeguarding health, life & livelihood security of rural communities

The second wave of COVID-19 leaves 74% of rural households more vulnerable to health, life and livelihoods risks. Findings from a needs assessment with 14,648 households in Odisha and Jharkhand.

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Community Champions enable safe and dignified migration in rural Odisha

A network of Community Champions support safe and dignified migration for migrant workers from remote villages in Kalahandi, Odisha.

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Wastewater management helps families eat nutritious food and earn alongside

Water security delivers on mitigating twin challenges of food and nutritional insecurities, while expanding income sources for the poor in rural Odisha.

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UDAN helps unemployed tribal youth become skilled masons

Young women and men from tribal habitations learn masonry to chart out new careers with higher incomes in the construction sector.

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Micro weather stations aid better crop planning and water smart farming

Advisory from micro weather stations help farmers do better crop planning and adopt water smart farming practices.

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Community ownership in the rural drinking water sector

Liby Johnson describes experiences from Odisha, which indicates that Jal Jeevan Mission’s audacious goal of functional household tap water connection to all rural households is possible.

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Self-Help group revives traditional millet, supports youth education and supports for other emergencies in the village

A small group of women pool their money to access credit, and use it for farming, education and healthcare in their village in Kalahandi.

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From scarcity to plenty: A parched village solves its perennial water crisis

A 52 households village in Odisha comes together to solve years of water crisis.

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Water gets Gasukia’s children to eat better and stokes mothers’ hopes of being entrepreneurs

Access to water gets women into vegetable farming improving the health of their families.

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The Springs Initiative

Gram Vikas embarks on an initiative to protect and harness natural springs as a sustainable water resource by building capacities of local communities in providing the utmost care for the sustainability of water sources.

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