⇒MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
A German non-government organisation called Welthungerhilfe implements a project in these 26 villages of Jharkhand, one of the poorest states in India. This project called “The Millennium Village” is funded by the European Commission as part of their contribution to the MDGs. It aims at raising awareness on MDGs among rural communities and at encouraging them to integrate MDGs in their development priorities and local political processes. Through this project, Welthungerhilfe also intends demonstrating a successful and replicable model of community participation where communities own and lead local development processes.
We visited some of these villages with Babita who is a young social worker in Welthungerhilfe. Babita feels passionately about the importance of local communities interpreting the MDGs from the perspective of their economic, social and cultural priorities, identifying the goal and indicators that they consider coherent with their development priorities and needs and that they would like to achieve. Babita and her colleagues from Welthungerhilfe help villagers in understanding their development needs, in prioritising these needs through dialogue and consensus among themselves and in developing targets and indicators that they believe are important to achieve.
The Welthungerhilfe team, together with the villagers, also tries to understand the gaps and challenges in achieving the targets that they have set for themselves. The villagers then identify projects that can address these gaps and challenges and the resources that they require in order to implement these projects. Welthungerhilfe then provides the villagers with the technical knowledge, skills and resources that they need in order to implement these projects. Mining, for instance, is the main source of income in Jharkhand and rural communities have little knowledge about agriculture. So, the villagers wanted to learn more about agriculture and start farming activities on the lands they own. Now, Welthungerhilfe trains the villagers in new farming techniques like rain water harvesting, efficient use of irrigation water, and crop rotation, in basic nutrition, health and hygiene, etc. New knowledge and specialised support is encouraging villagers to cultivate their farms and become self-reliant.
Now, people can earn in the village itself. They have found a reason to stay on in their villages rather than migrate to the city. The dreams of many villagers have now become reality.
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"Our dreams have come true. We can now stay on our farms instead of searching for jobs in the city and we can eat the healthy food we grow ", says a farmer.
"If people are convinced and there is local ownership, development will take place and it will be sustainable", says the programme manager from Germany
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Financed by the European Union and implemented by Welthungerhilfe in partnership with Centre for World Solidarity and Pravah, the MVP wants to showcase local, national and international governments how achieving the MDGs is difficult rural condition is possible. Even where drought is an yearly problem |
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Interview to Bernhard Hoeper |
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Interview to Rajesh Kumar Jha |
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Interview to Dilip Kumar
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Babita Sinha responsible for the MVP project of Pravah. She was interviewed on the 3rd of April 2010 by Fausto Aarya De Santis |
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Vinita Rani works for Pravah. She was interviewed on the 3rd of April 2010 by Fausto Aarya De Santis |
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