LAB-to-LAND INITIATIVE ANDHRA PRADESH AMR-APARD

VOLUNTEER

Volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization. - ANONYMOUS

Volunteers are not paid -- not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless

L-2-L INITIATIVE VILLAGES IN A.P

Sl. No ETCNo.of Districts No.of Mandals No.of Villages 1 BAPATLA HASANPARTHI RAJENDRANAGAR SAMALKOT SRIKALAHASTHI Total227179

TOTAL NUMBER OF BNVs TRAINED

BNVs’ Trainings

WHY BNVs DO VOLUNTARY WORK

FINDINGS FROM SAMPLE SURVEY ON WHY BNVs DO VOLUNTARY WORK IT HELPS FOR JOB SEARCH IT OFFERS MANY NEW PROFESSIONAL CONTACTS IT PROVIDES A PHYSICAL & PYSCHOLOGICAL FEEL GOOD SENSATION IT REDUCES ISOLATION, LONELINESS, FRUSTRATION & DEPRESSION IT LEADS TO RECOGNITION IT STRENGTHENS INTRA & INTER FAMILY/IES RELATIONS IT PROVIDES GAINING INTERPERSONAL, COMMUNICATION, ORGANIZATIONAL, MANAGERIAL & LEADERSHIP SKILLS

L-2-L PROCESS MODEL FOR BNVs

 L-2-L Initiative process model was evolved BNV Group of familiesIssues Ward member Different Committees Village coordination Committee Gram Panchayat Mandal Parishad Zilla Parishad

MEASURES FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF L-2-L INITIATIVE

MEASURES FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF L-2-L MODEL THROUGH BNVs  Weekly visits by core committee to pilot village  Weekly visits to L-2-L villages by faculty of ETCs and DTMs  Monthly video conference from APARD by Commissioner with BNVs  Feed back from BNVs through s  Feed back from BNVs through post cards addressed to Commissioner,APARD

 Publication of articles on L-2-L in the “Sthanika Palana” monthly magazine  Production of motivational films that are posted on APARAD’s “you tube” channel  The best voluntary works taken up by BNVs are reported through Bulk SMSs helping e-networking of BNVs  Visits to the L-2-L villages where the best works done by BNVs and night halts at those villages by the Commissioner,APARD along with the core committee members

 Close monitoring and handholding by the District Training Managers (DTMs)  Face book and Twitter on APARD’s website helps e-learning of the peer’s achievements

Highlighting the activities of BNVs

VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES TAKEN UP FOR GAINING CONFIDENCE OF COMMUNITY

Voluntary activities by BNVs Initiatives  Plantation programmes  Kitchen garden activities  Special classes were conducted for 10 th class students  Started open library in the village  Collected rice and distributed to the poorest of poor families  Banned sale of liquor, Panparag and Gutkha  Taken up shramadan works on every 1 st and 3 rd Sundays in a month

 Facilitated in constitution of a team with 15 elderly persons and conducting awareness campaign about harmful consequences of intoxication  During cyclonic storms, damaged street lights were replaced by BNVs  Jungle clearance  Clean and Green programmes

 Taken over community hall which was under unauthorized occupation by local leader for the last 23 years  Banned use of plastic items  Closed liquor vending shops  Organized health camps  Enrolled school dropouts  Distributed note books and slates to school children  Restored RTC bus services  Established R.O-based water treatment plants

 Supplied dust bins  Cleared debris with the help of JCB machines  Through health camps identified children suffering from heart problems and facilitated surgery under “Arogya Sree” programme with 100% free of cost  Avenue plantation  Construction of Individual Sanitary Toilets  Ensured Mid-day meal as per menu to school children

 Facilitated 100% family planning  Cleaned Over Head Water Supply tanks every 15 days  Wall writings on social responsibilities  Monitored local institutions like Anganwadi centres, schools, Nutrition centres, Gopal mitra centres, Health sub-centres, etc  Formation of approach roads to local grave yards

 Conducted quiz programmes among pregnant women to create awareness about mother and child health  Distributed Smokeless chulhas  Facilitated distribution of pattas to landless poor  Promoted enrollment in government schools discouraging admission in private schools  Facilitated bank loans to landless tenant farmers

 Reading daily news papers for the non- literates in the village  Prohibited washing of clothes at public water bodies and drinking water taps  Established bio-gas plants with the help of NEDCAP  Facilitated loan waiver to weavers  Conducted physiotherapy classes to weavers

 Closed cesspools and prevented water logging  Campaigned against open defecation  Some BNVs opened addresses like :  Regulated garbage dumping in drains

 Horticulture plantation  Ensured no police /court cases in the villages  Identified child labor and enrolled them into schools  Facilitated financial assistance from NGOs/ CBOs for completion of incomplete houses under IAY/INDIRAMMA housing  Identified eligible youth and referred them to Job Cell,DRDA for Vocational training

 Trained farmers on Organic farming with the help of local “Adarsh Rythulu” for preparation of vermi compost, bio- fertilizers and bio-pesticides  Suggested to be called as “Nava Bharat Nirman Volunteers”  Campaign on banning of plastic  Engaging elderly through conversation and documenting their experiences

 Promoted the concept of making family members literate by one’s own family  Engaged in HIV/AIDS care  Campaigned with school children on water, sanitation and ethics. Slogans like “KOTI RUPAYALU ICHINA VOTUNU AMMUKOMU” used  Ensured “Challa Yanadi”- a nomadic tribe to lead settled life  Conducted games, elocution and essay writing competitions to school children

 Conducted trainings for skill up gradation in association with banks  Promoted community contributions to upgrade the existing institutional facilities  Started BNV reading rooms  Programmed reunion of all those once lived in the village and are now away under the banner “JANMASTHALA SAMYOJANAM”

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43 REMOVAL OF BUSHES WALL NEWS BOAD DOOR TO DOOR CAMPAIGN ON HEALTH PLANTATION

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45 CLEANING OF ROADSBUSH CLEARENCE

46 REMOVAL OF ENCROACHMENTS

SOME PROUD MOMENTS TO AMR-APARD

 REQUEST FROM OTHER THAN 79 VILLAGES FOR REGISTRATION UNDER L-2-L INITIATIVE  REQUESTS FROM NGOs to CONSIDER THEM FOR TAKING UP THIS INITIATIVE  REQUEST FROM RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT FOR UTILIZING THE SERVICES OF BNVs FOR SOCIAL AUDIT, IWMP  DISTRICT COLLECTORS OF RANGA REDDY & CHITTOOR RECOMMENDED TO TAKE ONE VILLAGE IN EACH MANDAL  SOME OF THE EX-SARPANCHES HAVE ENROLLED THEM AS BNVs  ENGINEERING GRADUATES FROM BITS, PILANI HAVE UNDERGONE BNV TRAINING  INTEL DONATED 100 LAPTOPS TO APARD IMPRESSED BY THE CONCEPT THROUGH APARD WEB SITE

Demand for training  Sarpanches who were completely convinced about the concept and the role of BNVs in Lab to Land have enrolled themselves as BNVs after completion of their 5 years tenure on August 21 st 2011

COMMITTEES CONSTITUTED

 GRAM PANCHAYAT COMMITTEE  DRINKING WATER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE  STREET LIGHT MAINTENANCE – LOCAL PROBLEMS SOLVING COMMITTEE  LIQUOR PROHIBITON COMMITTEE  LOCAL CABLE NETWORK MAINTENANCE COMMITTEE  HEALTH COMMITTEE  CLEAN AND GREEN COMMITTEE

 CIVIL SUPPLIES COMMITTEE  LOANS RECOVERY COMMITTEE  INTERNAL AUDIT COMMITTEE  WOMEN-PROBLEM SOLVING COMMITTEE  SCHOOL COMMITTEE  YOUTH COMMITTEE  WOMEN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE  EMPLOYEES COMMITTEE  LIVELIHOOD COORDINATION COMMITTE

 FARMERS EMPOWERMENT COMMITTEE  ANGANWADI CENTRE-NUTRITION COMMITTEE  ADULT EDUCATION COMMITTEE

LIST OF GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PROGRAMMES - BNVs