• Activities
  • Nutrition Garden
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  • Beneficieries are motivated for this so that they can use the land adjacent to their house for growing vegetables and do not have to depend too much on the local market for food and can save the money for using in other purposes.
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  • Income Generation Programme
  • Income Generation Programme has been introduced to increase the income of the beneficieries through the use of local natural resources.
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  • Use of organic manure
  • Organic manures have been promoted so that they can be used instead of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to reduce the cost of farming and are also environment friendly.
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  • Landshaping
  • One of the major problems of Sunderbans is salinity. Therefore Landshaping is promoted to check the salinity and also to decrease the market dependency by cultivating Paddy, different types of vegetables, fish and also rearing hens and ducks.Thus enhancing the income of the beneficieries.
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  • Common Property Resource
  • This is a joint venture of the beneficiaries with the gram panchayat to use the fallow land for planting trees for fuelwood and fodder so as to meet the needs of the beneficiaries and also to maintain the natural balance.
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  • Alternative energy sources
  • Beneficiaries are encouraged to use alternative sources of energy since it is renewable, environment friendly and also helps to mitigate global warming.
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  • Seed Bank
  • Community seed bank has been constructed to preserve the native variety seeds and also to decrease the market dependency of the beneficiaries to buy seeds.
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  • Disaster Risk Reduction Training
  • The coastal Ecosystem beside Sunderbans is highly porn to extreme weather events i.e. tidal floods, cyclonic storms, more variable precipitation and soil salinity. The community is highly vulnerable to climate change due to scarcity of fodder, firewood & water and less access to information that would allow them to manage such climate-related risks to agriculture and livestock. Therefore, ISWS aims at to reduce the vulnerability of local community. We are trying to building partnership and strengthening capacity and resilience of local community. We took initiative to form 14 village level Climate change adaptation committees. Presently we are organizing trainings on Disaster Risk Reduction in those vulnerable villages.
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  • Awareness generation programmes
  • Several awareness generation propgrammes and rallies, fairs and exhibitions are organised to aware people about organic farming, preservation of native seeds, adaptation strategies with climate change etc.
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  • Eye testing camp
  • These camps are arranged for eye check up of the residents of the area.
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  • Liason with the government officials
  • Another important task of our organization is liason with Govt. officials at different levels and thus to help our benefcieries to get accesss of the Govt. schemes.
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  • Maintenance of weather parameters
  • Weather parameters (maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall and relative humidity) are recorded on daily basis through the thermometers and rain-gauges.
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  • Blood donation camp
  • Blood donation camps are arranged for patients and for people when they are in need.
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  • Public Information Centre (PIC)
  • A public information centre has been set up to deliver information on different issues to the local people.
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  • ARTC or farmers forum
  • 400 farmers, gardeners and some eminent persons are members of the ARTC which is an unregistered organisation and maintains a track of the activities in the working areas.
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