Karunashray Samajik Seva Kendra

Major Program Sectors
Our organization works in the following areas of work.

  • Community empowerment with special focus on women (organizing poorest people and generating people’s self-reliance action for people-centered development and advocacy).
  • Economic enhancement through sustainable livelihood promotion.
  • Community health promotion.
  • Integrated child development and education.
  • Establishing good-governance through activation and strengthening of local self-governance system.

Program Approach
Karunashray Samajik Seva Kendra adopts the following approaches in its program Implementation:

  • Community participation in program planning, implementation and routine monitoring.
  • Special focuses on women, children and physically challenged from poor communities, since they are the most marginalized.
  • Institutional development of CBOs and to carry out the activities through them and gradually prepare them for the sustainability to intervention.
  • Mobilizing and creating People’ Fund for enhancing the accessibility of target community on micro-credit facilities for self-help (immediate poverty needs) and livelihood creation.
  • Creation of alternate livelihood opportunities for preventing the migration of target community.
  • Establishing good governance by promoting participation of target community in local self-governance system (i.e. leadership development in target community).

Objectives

  • To empower women to injustice and gender discrimination through collective action.
  • To give awareness on community health education to the people of the target area.
  • To motivate community to take up collective action and promote community to health and gender equality.
  • To promote children’s education and healthy life style.
  • To empower adolescent girls through literacy and family life orientation and personality development.
  • To promote the drop out children to go school.
  • To bridge the increasing gap between male and female ratio and putting stop on female feticide.

Activities Under Taken

  • Conducting mass awareness programme through Puppetry, Audio, Video, Folk song, Wall writing and rally.
  • Formation of Self Help Group.
  • Motivating SHGs to avail govt. schemes.
  • Formation of federation at Village level, Panchayat level and Block level.
  • Participation in Panchayati Raj Institute (PRI)Tapping govt. schemes.
  • Conducting Right to Information (RTI).
  • Conducting monthly meetings for evaluation and planning with animators at centre.
  • Conducting training/orientation/work shop for animators Office bearers and members of SHGs, Volunteers, Villagers, Adolescent girls at centre school children.
  • Networking with govt. officials & NGOs.

GEOGRAPHYCAL AREA OF OPERATION – 5 Blocks (30 Villages)

Total population of All 5 blocks:- SIX LAKHS TWENTY NINE THOUSANDS EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY NINE

Covered population by KSSK:- FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED NINE

Total Villages of All 5 blocks:- TWO HUNDRED NINTY ONE

Covered villages by KSSK :- THIRTY TWO

No. of SHGs formed by KSSK :- ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN

Total members of SHGs :- ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY ONE