ANGANWADI KENDRAS
Department of women & child development, ministry of human resource development running ICDS centres in each village where children ageing 1 yrs are brought at one centre despite non-formal education, nurturing etiquette, values of life & good habits among them Supplement food is also served in order to supplement their regular food at their homes to lactating mothers and pregnant women are serve hygienic diet to them for healthy babies as well as maintaining good health of the lactating mothers. INRECA Sansthan has started 60 ICDS centre in 2 blocks of Narmada district. The progress of initiating their centre is on full swing where the above mentioned activities are rendered in order to reduce MMR/foeticide etc.
ANGANWADI WORKER WORKERS TRAINING CENTRE (AWTC)
The Anganwadi Centre is looked after by one workers & one aya. Both the workers are being trained how to run Anganwadi Centre & its allied activities depending on their status Job orientation course, Induction course & refresher course etc. INRECA Sansthan has been assigned to run a district level training centre where in all the un-trained/ new appointed staff undergo their respective training course before joining their duties of in order to make their skill up-grading.
SWA_SHAKTI PROJECT (Self Help Groups)
World Bank & International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) & International Development Agencies (IDA) has joint launched "SWA-SHAKTI" project through Gujarat Women Economic Development State. INRECA has been selected as a nodal agency to carry out "SWA-SHAKTI" Project in Nandod block of Narmada district under this project 40 SHGs for 20 women in each group are formed, these groups would be well organized, trained, enhancing their capacity building to carry out group based economical activities in order to enhance their socio-economic status. The main objective of this programme is Women Empowerment Programme. This programme would executed 50-100 SHGs so that most of the under developed village should be covered. India's first business counselling centre has been started at Khutamba village under Swashakti project in order to disseminate latest informations to the trible women for self dependence.
ANGANWADI KENDRAS
Department of women & child development, ministry of human resource development running ICDS centres in each village where children ageing 1 yrs are brought at one centre despite non-formal education, nurturing etiquette, values of life & good habits among them Supplement food is also served in order to supplement their regular food at their homes to lactating mothers and pregnant women are serve hygienic diet to them for healthy babies as well as maintaining good health of the lactating mothers. INRECA Sansthan has started 60 ICDS centre in 2 blocks of Narmada district. The progress of initiating their centre is on full swing where the above mentioned activities are rendered in order to reduce MMR/foeticide etc.
CREDIT & THRIFT ACTIVITY THROUGH SELF HELP GROUPS (SHGs) & SAKHI MANDAL:
INRECAhas been involved in Micro-credit finance to the needy tribal beneficiaries and providing regularly to them and when they are in need through various co-operative societies under the umbrella of INRECA. A high chunk of loan was made available to the beneficiaries worth of Rs.80 lakhs since 1985 and the same was rapid in due period. This loan was provided through National & Rural Regional Banks and even INRECA's own fund. The recovery of loan was cent percent recorded. In the mean time, Micro-credit finance through Mahila Mandal called Self Help Groups (SHGs) was introduced which gained popularity day by day. At present, INRECA is running about 150 SHGs in 100 villages of Dediapada block & 50 SHGs in 100 villages of Sagbara blocks of Bharuch district with its 8000 odds membership. Some more groups are being formulated in Dadra & Nagar Haveli (U.T.) Some more 50 to 100 groups are to form under SJSY in both Dediapada & Sagbara block of Narmada district. The process has already started. Secondly, under Gokul Gram Yojna about 142 villages of total 698 villages of Narmada district are supposed to be aversed under SHG so that they may be provided finance to their individual or group activities in order to enhance their socio-economic status.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF SELF HELP GROUP ARE:-
To create awareness among the women for saving for future.
To make them habitual for compulsory savings.
To organize the saving of groups as their own.
To provide loan to the needy members of groups.
To sure the return of loan by themselves.
To exact the mutual understanding and responsibility in order to uplift themselves.As of now, during 2010, we are working with MANGAL MISSION PROJECT launched by Government of Gujarat whose main objective is to initiate economic emancipation though utilizing a tool of SHGS in form of SAKHI MANDALS who are engaged in credit & thrift under micro-finance pattern.