A proposal : ‘Neev’ in a village means..
(Goonj’s comprehensive village development plan)
Creating a barter between two new currencies..
Community Labour and growing urban surplus for comprehensive village development..
Addressing basic but often ignored issues like water, sanitation, agriculture, environment, menstrual health,
education to livelihood..
Founded in 1999 Goonj works in parts of 22 states with a strong team of 600 people and thousands of volunteers. Started with 67 units of personal clothing today it deals with over 3000 tons of material every
year. Goonj is repositioning discard of urban household as a development resource for villages.
Constructively reviving and strengthening rural volunteerism, to solve its own problems, digging deep into the age old wisdom and knowledge base of the villages. We initiate over 3000 developmental activities every year, from repairing roads, recharging ponds, building
bamboo bridges to digging wells. It not only brings a significant change in day to day life of millions but the entire model also frees up
meager resources for other hard pressing needs like food or health.
About Goonj. .
NEEV (means Foundation)
Goonj's comprehensive village development initiative..
In our work in thousands of villages across India simple solutions around water stops migration, a bit of sanitation brings a positive impact on health of people, a simple kachcha road increases business and a piece of cloth brings some change in the menstrual health and hygiene of women.
Neev is a comprehensive plan, not about bringing concrete structures and urban amenities, but about holistically and locally addressing the difficult rural problems with the participation of
rural communities, their wisdom and resources.
Instead of donor, beneficiary, everyone is a stakeholder. It is about using the traditional wisdom and community labour as an important input into development work.
NEEV focuses on 7 crucial aspects
*Water *Sanitation *Infrastructure *Health *Education *Environment *Livelihood
Neev will work in village clusters in different parts of India.
With an input of Rs. 5.00 lakh per village (of upto 100 families) & upto Rs. 10.00 lakh for larger villages we will add basic needs material as a reward while village communities will add labour to
achieve in-depth work.
The key inputs into each village will be;
Basic material as reward for each family’s needs.
Community labor as contribution from the communities.
Local wisdom and management of the entire work.
Money for the logistics
Goonj brings together the first three aspects in hundreds of villages in a very effective way and only the 4th component of money has to come from the people and organizations.
NEEV in a village means..
Impact on 7 crucial aspects
2.SANITATION & IRRIGATION
a. Cleaning t h e entire village t o avoid c h o c k e d w a t e r bodies.
b . A cti vati ng drainage system i n village.
c. Creating du st b i ns o n b arren land.
d. Tu rni ng village i n t o 'No polythene ' village.
1.
WATERa. Di ggi ng / cl eani ng / deep eni ng of a p o n d / o t h e r w a t e r b o d y t o m a k e sure t h a t rain w a t e r is stored i n t h e village.
b. Repairing/ rechargi ng of t h e village well.
3. WOMEN HEALTH
a . O p e n i n g u p t a b o o subject of m e n s t r u a t i o n
b. Reaching o u t ‘MY Pad’ – c l o t h sanitary nap k i ns m a d e o u t of unusable c o t t o n c l o t h t o w o m e n w i t h t h e basic i n f o r m a t i o n o n h e a l t h & hygiene.
4. EDUCATION
a. Cleaning existing
schools/anganwadis a n d su rrou ndi ng areas.
b . B u i ld i n g a library.
c. Providing 'School Kit' a m o n g students.
d . C o n t r i b u t i n g toys i n anganwadis.
e . S u p p o r t i n g anganw adi s w i t h n e e d based material.
Establishing urban surpl
material as a tool for soc change in rural India
us
ial Empowers rural communities
to solve their own problems
6. ENVIRONMENT
Entire process revolves a r o u n d u r b a n surplus material , reuse a n d channeli z i ng i t as
d e v e l o p m e n t resource saves t ons of i t f r o m g o i n g t o landfills.
5. EMPLOYMENT
Ki t m a k i n g process for f ami l y k i t s ,p rodu ct i on of c l o t h Pads (MY Pad), c l o t h daris, school bags o u t of w as te c l o t h etc. creates h u n d r e d s of days of di gni f i ed e m p l o y m e n t for h u n d r e d s of w o m e n all across.
7
. RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE
Every f ami l y gets a 'Goonj- Family kit', w h i c h includes family’s cl ot hi ng , utensils, f o o t w ear a n d o t h e r essential i t e m s as a rew ard .
IN NUTSHELL !!
With an input of Rs. 5.00 lakh per village (of upto 100 families)
& upto Rs. 10.00 lakh for larger villages The key inputs into each village will be;
Basic material as reward for each family’s needs.
Community labor as contribution from the communities.
Local wisdom and management of the entire work.
Money for the logistics
Goonj brings together the first three aspects in hundreds of villages
in a very effective way and the 4th component of money has to come from
the people and organizations.
Work in State Districts No. Of villages
Uttarakhand Uttarkashi, Munsiyari 35
Odisha Khandmal 25
Rajasthan Baswara 20
Uttar Pradesh Banda & Lalitpur 20
Proposed area of work..
With an input of Rs. 5.00 lakh per village (of upto 100 families) & upto Rs. 10.00 lakh for larger villages we will add basic needs material as a reward while village communities will add labour to achieve in-depth work.
Under the ‘Neev’ Initiative in each village, on the basis of the need of the area Goonj will ensure
•Water
-Digging /cleaning/deepening of a pond/other water body - Repair/recharging of the village wells
- To ensure that a village retains the rain water it gets.
•Sanitation
- Cleaning of the entire village
- Activating drainage system in the village - Create dustbins on barren village land
- Turning village into ‘No polythene’ village as plastic waste is the biggest threat to water bodies and for over all sanitation
•Infrastructure
-Repair of major roads, especially to schools & aanganwari’s
-Complete cleaning of the School and Aanganwari center in the village -Making a boundary wall around the school
-Create a Playground/ Community space
•Menstrual Hygine
- Opening up taboo subject of menstruation and reaching out ‘MY Pad’ to all with the basic hygiene info.
•Education
-Aangawari to be converted into a better place and full of toys -Schools to have one small library
-All the school going kids get one ‘School Kit’ with bag, sitting mat (aasan), stationery and other basic items
•Comprehensive family kits
- A comprehensive family kit with basic for an entire family with basic clothing for entire family, footwear, dari’s, vegetable bags, toys, ‘My pads’- cotton sanitary pads, Sujni’es.
