Project Activity Report for Sponsors – Karnataka Project name ...

Project Activity Report for Sponsors – Karnataka
Project name:
Karnataka State Project
Project reference number: -
Reporting period: 1 st April 2010 to 30 th sept 2010
Project Worker’s name and job title: M.Prakashan Sr. Manager- Programs
Project partners and locations
Project
code
Name of the partner agency
Location (no. of blocks/districts)
1000090 Abhaya Ashraya Kodiolbail and Assaigoli,
Mangalore
St.Joseph’s Prashant Nivas
Jeppoo, Mangalore
1000101
1000126 Bazm-E-Niswan Taskar town , Bangalore
1000128 Dhondenling Tibetan Family Welfare Project Kollegal , Chamrajnagar
1000208 Rabgayling Tibetan Family Welfare Gurupura, Mysore.
Association
1000466 Belgaum Diocesan Social Service society Catholic Diocese of Belgaum,
Belgaum.
1. Direct beneficiaries
Age group Able Elders Assisted Elders Destitute Elders
Men Women Men Women Men Women
55-79 143 144 73 108 126 247
80+ - - 6 4 64 94
Total 143 144 79 112 190 341
In the institutional based project, the residents are fulfilled with all the needs including palliative
care. Whereas in the community based project, abled and assisted elders are benefitted
through ESHGs, livelihood support, seed capital, health camps and physio care facilities,
assisted elders are also support through cataract surgeries, advocacy and linking with
Govt.Schemes and destitute elders are benefitted through health care facilities, commodity
support and recreation programs.
2. Indirect beneficiaries of the project (grandchildren, family members or community
members)
Directly involved with the beneficiary Indirectly involved with the beneficiary (ie
in the community)
Older Family Grand Older people Family Grand
people members children in the members children
(other than
community (other than
grand children)
grand
children)
Number of 423 354 380 543 543 614
INDIRECT
beneficiaries

Older people are benefited through medical camps, advocacy programmes, pilgrimages,
cataract surgeries, physiotherapy, and in institutional based project through commodities
support and healthcare facilities. Others in the community like family members and children are
benefitted through medical consultation, recreation, food facilities and advocacy.
Project activities carried out in the past 6 month
Health care:
All the Project Partners are conducting free Health
Checkups as parts of health care. 556 elders have been
receiving medical consultations till date. To ensures the
requisite medicines for the beneficiaries, local hospitals
and neighbouring nursing homes were tapped. Better
health status of the elders with regular health check ups
and steady control of few diseases like diabetes, blood
pressure etc.
Through eye camps 33 cataract patients have been
identified by four agencies and have referred the patients
to the base hospitals for cataract surgeries. By the end of September, 30 cataract surgeries
have been conducted across 3 projects - St.Joseph’s Prashant Nivas, Bazm-E-Niswan,
DTFWA. As part of providing Physiotherapy services to elders, four project agencies have
initiated procurement of physio equipments and setting up at the project locations have been
taken up to identify young volunteers by project partners to get them trained as Para
Physiotherapist. This Para Physiotherapists will intensively travel in the remote villages and
slums and provide Physiotherapy treatment to the elders at their door steps itself.
Formation of groups
Out of 30 groups, across three projects 15 groups have been formed (BDSSS-4, Rabgayling-4
and Dhondenling-7 groups). Whereas Bazm-e-Niswan has done community mobilisation and
are in the process of initiating with the formation of groups.
The groups formed in BDSSS have meetings at regular intervals and in terms of deciding the
banking resolution and training process.Whereas the groups from RTFWA and DTFWA have
just formed and will proceed towards banking process in a short period of time.
Livelihood Options
Ben, DTFWA and RTFWA have few alternative options for commodity support. Ben is planning
to use the amount in some income generation activity like envelope making, garland making
etc.and DTFWA is planning to start a provision stores in their settlement as the people in the
settlement have to travel 3 Kms to purchase every
small thing and RTFWA has decided to invest the
amount in Livestocks.BDSSS will find as alternative
solution soon.
Advocacy
The agencies are in the process of preparing the
IEC material. Ben and BDSSS will start their
workshops in the month of December, other
agencies will conduct the advocacy programs in the
month of January and February.
Consultation in progress during a Medical
camp

Changes or improvements on the lives of the beneficiaries as a result of the project:
Elders are able to view problems in a better way as a result of regular counselling. The project
has leaded the old people towards self dependency. Elders are able to bring a sense of unity
among them, elders are able to make proper decisions in family as well as community and
Working together has brought a sense of collective decision making among the elders
Share any positive or negative changes in the lives of the beneficiaries as a result of
external events (local, national, emergencies, etc):
Project has made changes in their life like getting away from loneliness, ignorance and taken
care of by the project. The lives of the elders have vastly
improved and have the chance to live safety, independently
and happily .Because of the unity among the elders they are
involving themselves in the community decision making.
Elders find the community as a better place to live-in.
Economic independence has become the topic among the
elders
Challenges faced in the last 6 months and steps taken to
over come the challenges:
The agencies representatives consider meeting the daily
needs within the restricted budget is a challenge and they are
Older people learning how to write
their name from school children.
facing difficult times in meeting the medical expenses for bed ridden patients. When it comes to
community based agencies many able elders are scattered and difficult to organise in one
place. The representatives of the agencies strongly feel grain bank is difficult implement so they
in the process of looking for an alternative option for commodity support. As a result of ageing
many older people eat less than in their younger days, which are reducing their appetite level.
Plans for the next 6 months:
- Monitoring the regular medical consultation.-BEN, St.Joseph’s, AA, BDSSS, DTFWA,
RTFWA
- Establishing a physiotherapy unit with a consultant.-Ben, St.Joseph’s, BDSSS, DTFWA,
RTFWA.
- Screening, Surgery with IOL treatments, other surgeries and follow up.- Ben,
St.Joseph’s, AA, BDSSS, DTFWA, RTFWA
- Formation of groups-Ben, DTFWA, RTFWA.
- Registration of groups-Ben, RTFWA, DTFWA, BDSSS.
- Grading of groups- Ben, RTFWA, DTFWA, BDSSS
- Deciding on alternative option for commodity support,- Ben, RTFWA, DTFWA, BDSSS
- Recreation and pilgrimage programs-AA, St.Joseph’s
- Advocacy programs- Ben, St.Joseph’s, AA, BDSSS, DTFWA, RTFWA