Project Gujarat Mahila Housing Sewa Trust

Campaign Story

About the project

The project operates in Ranchi, Jharkhand, to make urban development more inclusive. The project expands upon the slum upgrade and housing activities and increases outreach based on the needs of poor women.

This Project is fully funded by the Oak foundation.

Making a difference

CRY America’s Project Gujarat Mahila Housing Sewa Trust ensures that citizens and the most marginalized have a representative voice in governance, access to sustainable livelihoods, legal housing and affordable essential services like water, sanitation and electricity.

Way forward

● Expand upon the slum upgrade and housing activities, and increase outreach based on the needs of the poor women
● Amplify the voice and agency of poor women from slums, empowering them to address habitat issues in communities and to engage with and influence vital city-level decision-makers
● Increase employability and income for women construction workers through skill upgrades, and expand programs to multiply impact
● Synthesize the advocacy strategy based on first-hand grassroots experience and findings from direct research

The way forward

● Identifying vulnerable children and bringing them to children collectives
● Regular child participation and life skill session with adolescent groups
● Ensuring the progress of community action plan developed based on interface of children collective/adolescent girls group with community
● Meeting with parents of children groups on life skills and child protection issues
● Regular interface with the community to create space for children and community leaders for exchanging and sharing their ideas and experience related to child marriage

Project Impact

Children impacted

68

Children impacted

Villages_slums covered

9

Villages/slums covered

Children in schools (6-18 yrs)

2,580

Children in schools (6-18 yrs)

Children mainstreamed into schools

240

Households received access to an electricity connection

Child marriages stopped

103

Households received legal water connections

Children in children’s collectives

210

Heneficiaries completed their housing construction and received a government subsidy

Adolescent girls’ collectives

19

Beneficiaries received formal housing

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Last year’s budget: $231,866

Current Year’s Approved Grant: $328,307

Missing child reunited with the Family

A 17-year-old boy Mohhamad Shami lives with his family in Puranapul at Pulkohla. His father works in a powerloom factory in Varanasi.

One fine day, a missing child information was given to the SRF team, they quickly started spreading the word in the community and nearby locations. After a few days, Shami was identified when found at the Railway Station by the ChildLine team. Shami was tracked from the Railway Station and information was given to SRF as they were looking for the child along with the family. Same day Shami was sent to a shelter home run by SRF in the Varanasi district. Through a professional social worker counseling session he expressed the reason for leaving home. It was informed that the child had lost his eyesight at the age of 2 years due to severe illness because of which he couldn’t pursue his education.

During a counseling session with the child, it was revealed that Shami left the house in anger. Later after completing all the documentation, presenting the child to the child welfare committee, the child was sent back to home with parents. Currently, regular follow ups are done of the child by the SSRF team through home visits. SRF is also trying for his enrollment in school. Hopefully, very soon, the child will start pursuing an education and will be supported for his eye treatment too.

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