E

ducation

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B

uilding solidarity among tribal children through sports

ollowing pages (180–181):

Sensitizing the community about social security programmes

g

roups, especially among the youth, working

on literacy programmes and entitlement

literacy, etc. It also moved into rural

livelihoods system and food security, natural

resource management, micro-credit and

women’s entrepreneurship. Some of these

models were recognized by the government

as effective interventions and replicated

through Mission Shakti, Watershed Missions

and more. CYSD is also focussed on building

resilience in communities to climate change

and disasters. It has since evolved from the

role of a community-level change agent to

that of a change catalyst at the policy level.

As Jagadananda, ounder of CYSD, says,

‘What makes the organization unique is its

dual strategy of intensive direct action and

extensive capacity building and resource

support for replication and multiplication.

Strategic and multi-layered partnerships

with development practitioners and policy

framers, the state intelligentsia, academia, as

also the apex research institutes of national

and international repute, and alliances with

several national and international forums

provide cutting edges to CYSD, making its

development interventions life-changing,

effective and futuristic.’

H

CL Grant Project Approach:

E

stablishing

a community-based learning ecosystem in

schools through supplementary education

programmes on hygiene, health and

government entitlements

HCL Grant Project Title:

SAMAD

HAN

Beneficiaries:

20,000 children, 10,000

pregnant and lactating mothers, 15,000

adolescent girls, 8,000 le-out beneficiaries,

1,000 volunteers, and 100 Gaon Mitra

Location:

200 v

illages in Odisha