Our Initiatives
Samerth supports unreached communities through Education opportunities, Natural Resource
Management and Promoting Livelihoods
Our Intiatives
Participatory Water Management
Water Harvesting Structures – Build | Revive | Repair | Reconstruct
Samerth uses the Participatory Ground Water management (PGWM) principles and emphasize on Building, Reviving, Repairing and Reconstructing Water-Harvesting structures through its initiatives. The programme is based mainly to understand the groundwater scenario in the regions of Kutch and Chhattisgarh. Groundwater is an essential resource for farmers, especially in arid to semi-arid regions where the rainfall is a most non-reliant phenomenon. The enormous amount of usage of groundwater for drinking and irrigation purpose has sounded alarm bell for everyone as the deterioration of groundwater quality is a problem that has created severe water crisis.
Education
Samerth believes in increasing accountability of the Public Education System (schools and Anganwadi) so that the local government takes positive steps to address the inequality by ensuring universal quality public education system for children ages 3-14 years. Samerth’s Education Program focuses mainly on: Improvement in the quality of learning outcomes; Increasing awareness amongst parents towards importance of educating their children; ensuring the continuation of education and retention of children from distress migration affected families along with strengthening the implementation of ‘Right to Education Act’.
Disability
Working with children and people with disabilities is one of the focus areas of Samerth Charitable Trust. It is estimated that in any population, 10% of the overall people suffer from some form of disability. In poor and marginalized communities, their vulnerability increases and they become the last layer of the bottom of the pyramid. Samerth works towards creating an inclusive society and that include disability. The Ahmedabad programme houses a day-care and vocational centre for children / young adults with a disability which also offers community-based rehabilitation services in severe cases. The first intervention was initiated in 2007 in Ahmedabad, as a response to community demand for a space for children and young adults with special needs.
Livelihood
In our quest for creating sustainable and economical empowered communities, promoting on-farm and off-farm livelihoods of the marginalized groups become a focus area of Samerth’s work. Our Livelihood interventions in Chhattisgarh began in 2007 to address the pressing issues of livelihood for PVTG (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group), PwDs (People with Disabilities) and Small landholding farmers. The effort aims to strengthen the process of claiming individuals as well as Community Forest Rights under Forest Rights Act and by the means of Sangathans (Community Based Organizations), working on the conservation of the forest as a source of livelihood, community forest management and conservation.
