Current Projects

Preventive Health Care Program :

In the project area health of the people is in a precarious condition – there is at least one seriously ailing person in one of five families in the area. The families do not have any knowledge in preventive health care or reproductive health, widely the behavior is oriented at tradition or even superstition. Because of many reasons like poverty, unawareness, negligence, non availability of health services, people from Jalihal area do not pay more attention to their health. The project is to focus on preventive measures than curative. To implement the project we had successful in forming the structure of the women in the project area. There are 2 Health social workers looking after, 22 village level health workers named as 22 ArogyaSevikas these then follows by Arogyapravartikas. In every village behind 20 families one Arogyapravartika serves, we have 304 Arogyapravartikas working in the villages. The project thus focuses on the sanitation and personal hygiene, nutritious diet at regular basis. The regular training of health social workers, village level health workers & Arogyapravartika have conducted on monthly, quarterly & yearly for their capacity building. They are taught on the problems commonly faced by these women like Gynaecological disorders, piles, weakness due to lack of nutrition, change in their bad health related habits by healthy ones. Making them aware on the importance of personal cleanliness as well as keeping surrounding clean. Also the training is provided on the awareness of Water bound diseases, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Pneumonia, HIV/AIDs. The midwife’s training is also done to handle deliveries more efficiently and carefully. And to guide the pregnant women for nutritious food intake, good care of her health, vaccination during the pregnancy. Linkages of health experts at block level & district level also with private practitioners been made efficiently, to provide health services on regular basis. We also support to build toilet to the families. With in three years of the project period we have supported about 284 families. The project has got new dimensions to support Arogyapravartika towards sustainability we have started training them as a Barefoot Medical Service Providers (BMSP). These trained BMSP will be then able assist the local doctors, private practitioners etc.
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Education Key :

We have started working on bringing all children in the main stream of education. The dropout rate of the girls at the secondary level is very high due to the unavailability of secondary schools in the same villages and poor transportation facilities. The girls need to walk all the way to reach to the school. The organization supported these girls through bicycle bank program by providing bicycles to continue their schooling. At present the organization has 452 bicycles in the bank. The girls completed her 10th std. returns the bicycle back to the organization this is then handed over to the new needy & likely to dropout girl. So this is the ongoing process helping girls to continue their education. Similarly we have started the hostels for children of migrant families to stay back for continuing their education. At present the project area has 6 hostels to facilitate about 120 children since 3 years. The parents of girl child are not ready to keep their girls in the hostels. We have talk to the parents for the other alternative for keeping the girls ensuring their safety for their education. The parents agreed to keep these girls with their grand parents or neighbours. To ensure their studies we have supported them by foster parenting this is the additional intervention of the organization during the year. During this we have encouraged the schools to take the students for the exposure tour. The tour must be for the innovative places and a good exposure to the students like factories, industries, Agricultural school, milk centres or science centres. Every year we are supporting all 10 schools in the project area to facilitate about 300 students. The teachers in the project area are also not having good teaching skills, knowledge & exposure. Similarly we have started Balwadis for the children of remote areas under the educational facilities. The project area has 6 balwadis for the children under remote places can’t afford to go to the existing Anganwadis due to many reasons. Since 2 years through this activity we have able to bring 150 children of age group 2 – 3 years under the main stream of Pre-schooling.

• Curiosity Centre
• Bicycle Bank
• Balpanchayat
• Gender Equality section in CC
• Mixed games
• Why group & bulletin
• Philosophy for Children (P4C)

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Kitchen Garden :

The project is to support Preventive health Care program. The people in the project area haven’t habitual of eating fresh vegetables & nutritious food. The availability of these vegetables and affordability of the people is also a problem. Keeping this in mind the project focuses on getting fresh, green vegetables in the daily food of the family. The water tank other material is provided to the participants. The quality seeds of the vegetables & green – leafy vegetables also provided to them. The use of gray water for plantation is also suggested to them. In summer season when there is scarcity of drinking water the use of gray water is found very helpful for the participants. Due to this they are able to get the vegetables to serve their family at least. We have 225 participants so far in the project. When we found that the participants don’t know the variety of dishes to serve the family especially to attract children to get nutritious diet & green vegetables. The project has introduced recipe training to make the women well equipped with the good recipes keeping the nutritious values intact. During the year the project has introduced the medicinal plants from the kitchen garden to help the families for using the same with preventive way. At the introductory phase three medicinal plants are provided to the participants. Later on we will add three more medicinal plants in it. The participants have provided with the use of these plants through training by Ayurvedic experts. The concept of Zero energy Cool Chamber is implemented useful during the summer season to keep the vegetables fresh for 4-5 days to use for the family in daily meal.
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Sub Soil Irrigation Technique Program :

The program helps the farmers for better output from their agricultural activities. Through this program we help the farmers to use sub soil irrigation technique. The diffuser & drip material is provided to the farmers. The trainings are conducted on the usage of the technique. The training also focused on the use of proper fertilizers & pesticides for the economical crops like grapes, berry, and custard apple. The project further helps the farmers by developing marketing trends & linkages. Through this we support animal husbandry, dairy farming etc. The activity has supported 150 farmers so far.
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Goat Project :

The Project has based on the need of women empowerment for the destitute women in the project area. YPS developed the Central Goat Unit with the service from veterinary doctor. YPS provides the identified destitute or underprivileged women a goat unit with 5 She goat & 1 he goat. With in two years the women will be supported by this unit to develop her own unit as well. We have observed that the women participants of the project has started sending their children to the school & also benefited by the getting her own money. Through out three years we have supported to 235 participants. The veterinary doctor supports the participants by providing medical facilities to the goat unit. The unit provided to the participants is insured to get full benefit to the participants if any one of it is died. The project is entering into its second phase from Feb 2011 with new concepts of the beneficial one for the participants & to help in developing eco system in the village by developing the demo fodder plant of 1 acres land for greasing the goat units. Each participant will be guided to develop its own land for the same purpose, thus by bringing more land under cultivation by developing the eco-system.
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Grain Bank :

The area has majority marginal farmers who suffered a lot during the flood situation during last season. The need of grain bank come forward during the same situation that the farmers lost their seasonal crop and the family couldn’t able to survive as every thing washed out due to flood. In such condition to save the poor & marginal farmers from the local moneylenders & to help them getting the grain to feed their family we have started grain bank. The grain bank gets enrol the poor & needy farmer identified by the local committees as a bank member. We have supported 360 families so far. The program proved very effective to stop the dependability of the farmers.
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Digital School :

The education Key is on going program. In first phase we have worked for betterment of the educational facilities in the schools of the project area. In this we have started a digital school in Jalihal campus as there is no secondary school available to the children and the available school is far away from the village. The children needs to walk for 15 km. to get the schooling thus after 10 std. the children are kept away from the education. The school called School Of Progressive Education (SCOPE). The school is for 8th to 10th std. the school is digital school with the computer system in every classroom. The system has loaded with the syllabus of 8 to 10 std. with audio-visual effect including question & answer and game based on the syllabus taught to them. The teacher plays the role of facilitator for the students. Since 5 years 350 students have facilitated for quality education through the digital school. Similarly we have made the science labouratory in the Campus. The centrally placed well equipped science labouratory with all three sections of science namely physics, chemistry & biology facilitate to 15000 students so far. The schools in the project area visit to these lab and facilitate the children to use it. We have developed the library for the children to make them familiar with the reading world.
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Science Awareness :

We have entered in the 21st century. The Urban population in India is progressing speedily with the help of higher technologies. We hear the news that, a four year old boy in Japan, has created his own web site! China has invested largely in the technology sector and is producing goods at unbelievably low price! Israel’s progress in field of Agriculture is awesome. All this is due to the development in Science & Technology.
Quality of education in our project area was poor, children are sent to school just to pass from one class to the next! If they are able to just read & write they are considered as literate!! Infact they consider education as the process of learning reading and writing. Schooling for acquiring knowledge is not a concept! Villagers were unaware of anything going on in the other part of the world.
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Practicing Non-Conventional Energy Sources :

To demonstrate the non conventional energy sources to get electricity we have installed wind mill, biogas , Solar light in the villages The wind mill project is launched to generate electricity for the school, curiosity centre, and farm house in the Jalihal campus. 4 wind mills have been fitted. The area Jalihal is suffering with heavy power cut off. Through the Abhyas Deep program the organization worked for these destitute women headed families who direly need electricity at home will be selected by the villagers by providing Solar light system. This helps the children of such families to study at night. Around 130 families 300 people including children of the family have supported.

Agri-School :

The project area is drought prone. Thus people needs to use progressive techniques to get best yield. Thus the Agricultural school helps the youth, women & men practicing agriculturist to train on using organic fertilizers, farming with minimal use of water. The school helps the youth to know that the agriculture also based on science. We trained them to prepare the organic manure by using locally available ingredients. We have arranged 47 trainings during the year. Through this activity we also help the farmers to use progressive techniques for farming. We arrange the exposure tour for these farmers a batch of 25 to the agricultural colleges, institutions and farms using such techniques in farming. The water & soil testing labouratory also formed to support these farmer to know, the kind of input to be provided in the farming to get better output through agricultural practices. The activity facilitated to 583 women so far.

Community Radio Station :

The Community radio station has started in support of the development of the people in the area. The recording studio has established in Sangli HO while the transmission studio is set up in Jalihal Campus. The well equipped studios are working to provide information and to give voice to the people of the area. The inauguration of the station has done by the senior social worker Dr. Abhay Bang. The radio station has facilitated to the 1 lac people around the Jalihal (bk) up to 30 kms. The program aired through this radio station has focusing mainly on the daily lives of the people in the area.

Light Project :

To provide employment to the women who are suffering from HIV/AIDS , YPS runs an industrial activity of producing electronic ballasts, Solar home lighting, street lights and LED lighting. Total 23 women are working with this unit. Women does the job of placing components into the PCB, soldering, testing , packing. This program of YPS has proved one of the best rehabilitation project!

Poultry Project :

YPS has under taken the backyard poultry project in hand to support the needy women to be self- reliant and also to help their family to have nutritious food at their doorstep. We provide good quality chicks grown up for 6 weeks and vaccinated properly and easy to maintain for the local women.



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