There are thousands of children working in large number of different industries and occupations all over the Odisha state. Taking the above scenario of the state into consideration, Government of India established special schools for child labours under the National Child Labour Project in Cuttack district. As an implementing agency, SUPRATIVA opened a Special Schools at Dadhibamanpur, Saffa and Dibati of Cuttack district. The objective of this project was to identify and withdraw child labours within the age group of 6 to 14 years engaged in hazardous occupations and rehabilitate them by giving value based primary education in an intensive manner, so that they could be mainstreamed in formal school of education. In order to attain the above objective, SUPRATIVA is providing non-formal education, skill development training, supplementary nutrition, monthly stipend, and health care service to 200 child labours. Now all of them are studying in different formal schools.

With support received from Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust, Mumbai, we opened special schools at Chandanpur and Chagharia Pada villages of Tangi Choudwar Block of Cuttack district. The project was planned to combat child labour and take immediate steps for withdrawal and prevention of children participating in the worst forms of labour. First, the community was empowered through social mobilization process by motivating them to provide education to their children instead of sending them to work. Second, through creative pedagogy and joyful learning, effort was made to keep the children interested in the learning process. After withdrawing of children from hazardous and non-hazardous occupations, the organization rehabilitated them in two centers established for this purpose, where they are provided with non-formal education, vocational training, health care service and nutrition, etc. The performance of this project is appreciable and worth replicating. No doubt, these schools are essentially acting as a bridge to various institutions, sincerely trying to withdraw children from work and mainstream them with better educational facilities.

In order to provide quality reproductive and child healthcare to the urban poor, our organization implemented an Urban Health program for 20 selected slums of Cuttack Municipal Corporation covering 20,155 slum dwellers consisting of 10,292 males and 9,863 females. The project was supported by the National Urban Health Mission with an objective to provide various clinical and non-clinical services related to reproductive and child health care to the slum dwellers. Suprativa, had its OPD facilities at Kanheipur, where patients were provided with free treatment and medicine. The OPD was functioning six days a week. On an average there were 50-60 footfalls in the OPD per day. Other activities were outreach health camp, antenatal/postnatal care, promotion of institutional delivery, family planning, impregnation of community bed nets, immunization, observance of Nutrition Day, cleanness and sanitation drive etc.

The Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Program was implemented by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare through Mother/Field NGOs. The objectives were for addressing the gaps in information of RCH services in the project area, building strong institutional capacity, promote advocacy and awareness generation. As a project partner, SUPRATIVA provided services in un-served/under-served areas in Berhampur and Sankarpur GP of Cuttack district identified and allotted by the District Health Authority. The services were based on maternal & child health, adolescent & reproductive health, family planning, prevention & management of RTI etc.

A three-storied building with carpet aria of 3300 sq. feet each is constructed on own land at Fakirpada, Cuttack as training center. At present the training infrastructure facilities of the Institute include a total of 9 rooms. The administrative section of our organization has within it, office rooms, and two training halls, a computer center, a library and a reception room. The training halls having the capacity to accommodate 30+30 persons and are equipped with LCD projectors, computer, TV etc. Our organization is also equipped with computers (desktop and laptop) with internet facility, landline and mobile phone, vehicle, teaching learning materials etc. This training center has been accredited by National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) as a District Accredited Vocational Institute (AVI) for ASHA Certification Course. Our institution has already conducted following courses.

• ASHA Refresher Training on Certification Program
• Field Level Training of Mahila Arogya Samities
• Refresher Training of ASHAs
• Training of ANMs on HBNC Program
• Training of ASHAs on Module 6 & 7
• Induction Training for Newly Selected ASHAs
• Training of Low-performing ASHAs on HBNC
• Training of MAS Members on Accounting and Book Keeping
• Training of ASHAs on Population Based Screening Program on NCDs
• Training of MASs on Newer Contraceptives and Client Friendly Services

Everybody keeps on talking about road safety. However, there are only a few organizations actually make their words into deeds through their sheer determination and vision. Our organization, Suprativa has been doing exemplary work for the cause of road safety and accident prevention. Since 1997 it has been working actively to spread the message of road safety among the common people. These efforts have given the organization rich dividends. During our illustrious work in road safety program, we implemented many projects. Some of the very successful projects, which have directly been responsible for bringing down road accidents, are given below.

• Road Safety Awareness Campaign through Community Radio
• National Road Safety Week
• Refresher Training to Heavy Motor Vehicle Drivers in Un-organized Sector
• Road Safety Awareness Program
• World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India have been the major partner of these projects.

The organization has been founded with one of the primary objectives to popularize science in the society. It has since evolved into a Peoples’ Science Movement with a clear mandate of shaping science and technology, ensuring its utilization to benefit the weaker sections of society. We believe that in a world dominated by science and technology, science communication and popularization is of utmost importance especially for our country where a large population needs to be told about the impact of science and technology in their daily lives. The organization has been actively engaged in undertaking several program in science popularization and stimulation of a scientific temper among people. The organization is successfully transmitting the message of science and scientific knowledge through traditional and digital media. We have implemented many interesting projects with Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. Those were:

• Detection and Prevention of Adulteration in Food Stuffs
• Root and Shoot Project for School Children
• Resource Persons Training Program for Nature Study Activities
• Volunteer Plus: Resource Persons Training Program on Disaster Preparedness
• Motivational Program for the Talented Students of Higher Secondary Education
• Resource Person Training Program for Open Ended Experiments Based on Hydroponics
• Training Program on Prevention and Detection of Adulteration in Food Stuffs
• Training Program for Science Communicators through Digital Media
• Workshop on Mathematical Model Making and Problem Solving for Secondary School Teachers

Establishment of Technical Resource Centre under PROBE Program

Our organization has been participating in National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC) activities for more than two decades. we have been conducting a series of workshops, seminars, awareness camps in association with Centre for Environmental Studies, Bhubaneswar.

An Awareness Generation Camp organized with “Central Social Welfare Board” was a platform for the rural women to come together to exchange and share their ideas and experiences and through this process they have developed an understanding of the real life situations to be able to tackle and handle problems and also fulfil their needs. The camps continued with the household survey with the objective of selecting participants, finding out the issues that needs to be discussed. From this survey, we found out that the households faced certain problems such as dowry, alcoholism, domestic violence, unhygienic ways of living, improper sanitation, unemployment and lack of awareness on Government sponsored program and schemes, etc. Keeping their needs in mind, the objectives were finalized. We got really positive response for this awareness program and it is also encouraging to note that participants are looking forward to more such programs in future. As a part of follow up activities, we conducted a survey and found that maximum women have been taking the advantage of their knowledge and exposer gained in the Awareness Generation Project.

Amongst the minorities, Muslim community is the largest community but still far behind the benefits of development. Unlike in many other community’s leadership qualities among the minorities, especially among the Muslim community are lagging behind due to socio-religious causes. So, there is a need to make the women from the minority community aware of their rights and duties so that they can take leadership position to speak not only for themselves but for their own community. Considering the needs, the organization conducted Leadership Development Training Program, benefiting 350 minority women in selected places of Cuttack District, Odisha. The main objective of the leadership development program was to empower the women from the minority communities and emboldening them to move out of the confines of their home and community and acquire leadership roles and assert their rights, collectively or individually, in accessing services, facilities, skills, and opportunities besides claiming their due share of development benefits of the Government for improving their lives and living conditions. The program was sponsored by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India.

For the last many years, the organization is working actively to protect consumer rights and interests in various ways viz., by organizing training seminars/workshops for generating awareness among consumers, documenting relevant legal provisions and case studies to provoke consumers to fight for their rights. Our organization along with Department of Food, Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Government of Odisha are taking various steps to promote consumer education among the masses. To promote a strong and broad-based consumer protection movement in Odisha state the department has given us the responsibility to organize consumer awareness program in different blocks of Cuttack district. The main objective of the program was to educate the consumers about their rights and responsibilities as provided in the Consumer Protection Act 1986 and other Indian laws. A large number of PRI Members, SHG Leaders, ICDS Functionaries, School Teachers, Government employees, NGO representatives etc. participated in the Consumer Awareness Programs.

All most all our essential commodities are being adulterated with either substances of inferior quality or excess quantities of chemical additives or have pesticide residues which produce toxic effects and are detrimental to the health of people. All this is happing due to unfair trade practices & lack of people’s awareness. Considering the need, a series of training program has been designed for science teachers and communicators of Odisha state. The main objective of this training was to train them on various simple methods for detection and prevention of adulterants in food articles and motivate them to teach such tips to the students and general people in their respective fields. Under this project, an attempt was made to develop a testing kit consists of a plastic box with some solutions, a few test tubes, a dropper to transfer the solutions, watch glass, lens, filter papers, litmus papers and an instruction manual, which can be used to test adulteration in essential food commodities.

Being a coordinating agency, our organization implemented Disaster Risk Management Program with the help of other CBOs in 21 Gram Panchayats of Cuttack Sadar Block. Under this program village & GP level Disaster Mitigation Committees were formed; Evacuation & Rescue Group, First Aid & Medical Group, Sanitation Group and Monitoring Group were constituted in each revenue village; community contingency plans were completed and approved by Palli Sabhas; Training programs for the task force constituted from the village; preparedness exercises were held in selected villages. As Panchayat Raj Institutions are playing an important role in the development of disaster management plans, they were given training on disaster management at regular intervals. We developed Disaster Management Plan for Cuttack Sadar Block which was highly appreciated by Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA).

Development of Village Disaster Management Plan is the most important ingredient in implementing Community Based Disaster Risk Management in any area.We were assigned by the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Cuttack to develop Village Disaster Management Plan in 34 villages of Niali and Barang Block of Cuttack districts. The main objective was to empower the community to deal with disasters on their own as a way of life. Our volunteers organized meetings, formed committies/teams, at each village as per VDMP guidelines.

We keep conducting training programs on disaster preparedness for NSS Program Officers and Volunteers. The objective is to promote and develop the culture of preparedness among the NSS Program Officers and Volunteers for management of natural & manmade disasters by adopting modern scientific knowledge & technological know-how. During the training program, the participants were provided with live demonstration, lecture, film show, mock drill exercise and exposer visit etc. on how to save human lives and properties from the grip of natural and man-made calamities. Around 250 NSS Program Officers have been trained by our organization so far.