SHAKTI launched Scheduled caste welfare Project

Shakti Organisation has very recently from 1^st Oct.’13 launched Scheduled Caste Empowerment and Livelihood Programme in Rayagada Block of Rayagada District. It is a special programme where exclusively the welfare of Scheduled Caste women’s is planned. It will cover 345 Households of 16 SC concentred villages. The project is planned for three years. Two hundred Households will be supported with individual income generating enterprises and 145 Households will be covered with Group Income Generating Enterprises. Petty business, Trellis based vegetable cultivation, Improved Goat rearing & Poultry and NTFP processing units like, tamarind processing, Hill Broom Binding, Leaf Plate sewing will be some of focused activities.

SHAKTI-CHILDLINE-Rayagada in SFCAC

SHAKTI-CHILDLINE-Rayagada nominated to the Rayagada Dist. Child Sponsorship and Foster Care Approval Committee (SFCAC) under Integrated Child protection Scheme (ICPS). The committee will approve and invite applications of those children who are in need of care and protection, basically the orphan; single parent children to provide them foster care and sponsorship. Another important aim of the Programme is deinstitutionalization of children from Orphanages and facilitate for community based rehabilitation.

SHAKTI got Ambulance donation from SBI…

Shakti Organisation got an Ambulance as donation from the Community Services Banking Department of State Bank of India, one of the leading public sector Bank of India. The Chief General Manager of SBI, Bhubaneswar Circle Mr. Debendra Prasad handed over the key of Ambulance to Mr. Akhil Ranjan Panda, the General Secretary of SHAKTI in a function organized at SBI local Head office, Bhubaneswar. SHAKTI has been active in the field of community health care for the last twenty years. Among others the General Manager Mr. Rajib Barma, Deputy General Manager of Berhampur Zone Mr. Kausik Sinha and other officials of Bank present in the function.  Mr. Panda speaking to media said, this service will be free from all short of exploitation by private ambulance service providers to patients.