Goal

• Eliminate child-labor system by bringing them into mainstream education.
• To reduce malnutrition among U-5 children in the community
• To ensure that all school-aged children are in the formal school and they complete minimally their 10th standard.
• To ensure economic self-reliance of the community.
• To reduce exploitation of women and children.
• To allow people in community to breathe in pollution free environment.
• Overall development of the women and Deprived, Excluded and Vulnerable children in the community.

Objective
The objectives as stated below are mainly relating to 1000 families where CTD is working intensively. In extensive area CTD is working mainly on awareness activities relating to Health, Nutrition, Hygiene, Quality Education, Child right, Child protection, participation, Self Help Group activity for the self reliant of the families and Advocacy. The objectives set- forth for intensive areas is as follows:

1. To meet the needs and development of 0 to 24 years children, adolescents and youths in totality.
2. Eradication of child labour system.
3. Control & prevention of HIV/AIDS.
4. Spreading social security net in the community totally.
5. Imparting vocational training /education where needed/possible.
6. Develop other facilities,-CBOs beneficial for society.
7. To reduce pollution in any form.

Strategy

1. The whole area has been divided into 9 branch offices. Each branch office has a Guardian/Parents Committee to look after the affairs of that branch.
2. There are issue based sub-committees also for this area.
3. All families have been brought under the umbrella of S H Gs.
4. Taking representatives from these CBOs, a central committee is there to look after each Project which is known as project level SHG Federation.
5. Local resources like material resource and human resource mobilization and its proper utilization is also a strategy of the organization.
6. Constant effort for human resource development within staff, volunteers, peer educators and others committee members.
7. Constant networking to ensure expertise in different developmental field.
8. A strong network with the various related Govt Departments and other NGO’s/CBO’s for smooth functioning of the activities with the good collaboration with them.

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Operational Area

As it has been mentioned earlier that in Tarakeswar Block, there is intensive area and extensive area. From Dakatia Khal of Bagbari to Chaulpatti Morh of Tarakeswar, it is intensive area wherein 1000 downtrodden families and the children who are deprived, excluded and vulnerable, reside by road side, railway track side, canal side etc. and get all sort of services. The organization is also trying to giving more focus to community based protection mechanism, create a child friendly environment and to bring a drastic and positive changes into the lives of the children and their families and lasting it.

Target Group

The target group of CTD is always downtrodden people and specially the deprived, excluded and vulnerable children of rural area mainly (Some Villages of Baligori GP-1 & 2) though partially Tarakeswar Municipality area is being covered. However focus is on child and women – be it rural or urban and they always belonging to oppressed and underprivileged section of the society.

Strength of the Organization

• Good Decentralized Management
• Good networking/linkage with the various Govt. Departments, Schools, AWC, Block Hospital, ICDS Dept, District and Block level authorities and others.
• Good Community structures.
• Educated, Energetic, Dynamic, Skilled and active Human Resources.
• Adequate Infrastructure.
• Strong Community Based Organization.
• Good Governance
• Strong Relationship and Good Bonding with the Community People.
• Sufficient Material/Technical Resources for using as a Modern Technology.
• Good Communication.

Awareness on Maternal and Child Health

CTD is committed to reduce the maternal mortality ratio and providing universal access to reproductive health. Awareness generation on maternal and child health is a major responsibility and fundamental importance, to ensure utilization of various programmes implemented by the organization.
Mental Health awareness - Need of the hour
According to World Health Organization, by the year 2020, depression constitutes the second largest disease burden worldwide. The social and economic costs associated with growing burden of mental ill health, directs to create awareness on mental health and treating mental illness.
WHO defines mental health as mental well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. The portal provides information related to this vital health aspect that is drawing attention at present. CTD conducted or organize school based health programmes in entire Tarakeswar Block on the theme of HIV/AIDS, Mental Health, Health as a broader perspective based on the definition of WHO, and other related hygienic issues. The organization conducted these programs with the close collaboration, networking and coordination of school authority, Tarakeswar Rural Hospital, Tarakeswar Panchayat Samity and other concern stake holders. CTD also conducted or organize so many awareness campaigning on the other two major issues like Malaria control and Management and Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program with the collaboration, coordination and networking with Tarakeswar Rural Hospital and Indian Medical Association, Tarakeswar Branch. This basic awareness program or advocacy program conducted by CTD within all the Panchayet areas withinTarakeswar Block. CTD also organized so many general awareness programs on First Aid in the same community within Tarakeswar Block with the coordination and collaboration of India Red Cross Society, Kolkata.
Women Health
Women health is very important thorough out her life, from puberty to menopause. Adolescent health, pregnancy, and reproductive tract health are the major areas of concern where care needs to be taken. In this portal information is provided for safe motherhood and care for good reproductive tract health.
Child Health
Children and Newborns, Growth and development, achieving mile stones, vaccination, care during illness, nutrition etc play a big role in child health. Children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases. Healthy growth and development need to be supported with proper care to prevent malnutrition and infectious diseases. Each phase of child as a new born, infant, toddler and school going age needs special attention and care to protect and prevent diseases and to optimize the growth and development to their full potential. The portal provides information about all these topics.
Sanitation and Hygiene
A holistic definition of sanitation includes safe drinking water, liquid and solid waste management, environmental cleanliness and personal hygiene. The portal provides information on these topics of importance. CTD organized so many awareness programs or advocating campaigning on Sanitation and Hygiene to keep healthy, physically fitness, keep sanitized environment and to make disease free atmosphere.

Nutrition

Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body’s dietary needs. Good nutrition – an adequate, well balanced diet combined with regular physical activity – is a cornerstone of good health. The portal provides information related to dietary guidelines, foods and their nutritional values, nutrition concepts and tips and much more. CTD worked with the under-5 years children along with pregnant women and nursing mothers to advocate on the basic concept on nutrition education along with the directly implemented the activity for attitude or behavior changes of the mothers regarding the nourishment of the malnourished children named “Positive Deviance Hearth Program” (PD/Hearth Program). This is an innovative approach to change the attitude or beheaviour of the mothers for taking care of the children or infants to become a nourished child. This is an activity for the 12 days programme with the mothers of malnourished children and selected nourished children as a role model through the health education and nutritious recipe demonstration by the mothers with the help of facilitator by the using of locally available vegetables and other materials. This is approaches that with the maximum utilization of the local resources and with the very short span of time how the malnourished child may become nourished and healthy. Apart from this a long term follow up program was conducted for retain the growth and development of the children. CTD total covered approx 25000 malnourished children along with their mothers and other stake holders in some blocks like Tarakeswar, Pursurah, Jangipara, Pandooah and Dhaniakhali Block in the District of Hooghly. With the implementation of this program CTD got networked with all Block officials in the concern Blocks and ICDS Department in all concern Blocks where the organization implemented these programs. Apart from this CTD conducted or organized some awareness programs to advocate nutrition concept among the community people especially for the mothers and children into the entire community.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT (ECCD PROGRAMS)

Centre for Total Development (CTD) implemented so many activities related to ECCD component for the fine and gross motor development, build social development of the children and also to improve the pre primary education of the children. Total 400 children covered through our ECCD Programs. Impact of ChildFund India Projects

Education

Impact of ChildFund India Projects

• Literacy and Numeracy Skill Centers are running at primary schools with the good collaboration and rapport with the teachers, SMC members and Block Officials.
• Children are encouraging through the new innovations in the Literacy Class
• Children participation is 98% in BBS Model Centres
• Some parents are attending the sessions with their children to sit outside the classrooms
• Govt Teachers are also interested to look after the session at their time frequency in school and they also are encouraging to their children for attending the class at daily basis.
• Education Volunteers are facilitating the classes through some new innovative modes like various types of action songs, rhymes presentation, storytelling session, group discussion session, presentation by the active children participation, audio visual method etc.
• Children have learnt 20 Poems, 15 Stories based on folk tales and fables, moral stories and some animal and birds related funny stories and now they are in situation to tell these on their own
• Parents, Teachers, SMC Members are also made aware on the entire concept on BBS Model
• Teachers, Block Education Dept allowed to run the BBS Model Centers at 2 respective schools within the project locations
• Through regular intervention of the Child Club activities children are gradually make well aware on various social issues and they are Through regular intervention of the Child Club activities children are gradually make well aware on various social issues and they are trying to make a platform where they can raise their voices to solve the social issues and to make a child friendly atmosphere into the community

CTD is implementing school safety programs with 15 Schools in Tarakeswar Block. Safety of children has direct linkage with achieving educational outcomes and well-being of children. This programme offer aims to achieve comprehensive safety for school children within and outside the school (from home to school and back). The process to achieve this objective is led by children at school level with active participation of teachers and SMC members.In order to achieve comprehensive safety, the programme offer focuses on two key elements viz. a) undertaking school safety planning at school level and b) advocating with the government and other key stakeholders for effective implementation of school safety agenda as enshrined in the school safety policy 2016. The first element will involve children as leaders and build their capacity towards their safety while the second element focuses on the implementation and replication of successful school safety model at large. To make a safe learning environment CTD, ChildFund India Project has been taken some initiatives to resolve the safety related issues in schools like Risk analysis with the involvement of children , strengthening capacity and to make aware of the SMC/PTA/Teachers on the entire concept on school safety, restructuring of task Force team in each school and their capacity building through the comprehensive training, provided emergency safety kits to meet up any type of emergency needs in school, to resolve the safe drinking water issue through the installation of running water facilities in schools, recover the risk areas identified by children through the mitigation activities and strengthen the activity in school through the District Level Consultation program through advocacy workshop and to make transparency and to publish and disseminate the program through making school safety plan etc.
Other Achievements

• Children/Teachers/SMC & PTA members are making well aware on entire school safety concept.
• Children are able to identified risk areas and analyze these risk areas, made prioterized these points and they made a comprehensive school safety plan at their respective schools.
• According to school safety plan in each school through the mitigation activities risk areas is gradually reducing. Rest is under process through the utilization of Govt Fund.
• Task Force team has been restructured and their capacity has been strengthened through the Task Force Training.
• Task force kits already distributed to schools to meet up their any type of emergency needs.
• Safe Drinking water facilities has provided through the installation of running water facilities in 2 schools according to the risk identification by the children
• Govt Officials and various stake holders are sensitized through the advocacy workshop and to expansion of the activities in a larger way beyond our project locations.

IMMEDIATE OUTCOME AT A GLANCE

• Children/Teachers/SMC/PTA Members are strengthened on School Safety Program
• Risk Areas is gradually reducing and children are in process to make a safe learning atmosphere in their respective schools.
• Task force Members and other children are sensitized on Mock Drill and First Aid
• Children are able to meet up any emergency needs through their task force kits and their active involvement.
• Task Force Members are in a regular process to make aware to other children on various Mock drill and First Aid
• A Comprehensive School Safety Plan has developed for advocate and disseminates this approach to all.
• A strong network has developed with State Inter Agency Group to carry forward this program approach with the network/.collaboration of other NGO’s and concern Govt Department.
• Department of Disaster Management, Govt of West Bengal helping to CTD, ChildFund India Project to build up the capacity or skill of the children on various Mock Drills and First Aid through the several comprehensive Task Force Training.

LIVELIHOOD PROJECT

• Youth are trained on Tailoring and Embroidery Skill.
• Centre of Excellence got a momentum during the year.
• Youth developed their Leadership, Soft Skill & Life Skill
• At least youth have been able to find carrier option and guidance.
• Involvement of community people in youth development have increased
• A Newsy Letter published during the year creates confidence and encourage youth to participate in meaningful way.
• Youth Clubs have taken initiatives for wider campaigning and creating awareness.
• Youth are partially equipped with trade specific skill

Strengthening SHG’s and Federation

• We have 87 SHG’s with near about 1198 members and also formed a SHG Federation. They are started interloan on their own among the members. They are actively taking part and also involved in SHG and Federation related activities and also they are taking active role for the processing in regard to giving loan and taking recovery.
• Through the capacity building training of Area Committee/SHG members, the members actively participated in the program and also they gathered knowledge/ideas on community mobilization, Book keeping, various SHG related activities, entrepreneurship development and on the different trades.
• All the members identified the local resources through the resource mapping in the villages only the purpose of to utilize the resources for getting the benefit along with the committee members can link the other families with the various programmes.

All the members are now in a position to organize the program on the issues for the other family members and also they are disseminating the messages to the others in the community as Peer educators. The members are able to maintain and keeping the documents systematically, facilitating the groups as well as the committee. SHG was directly supported to special needed children for their education in the community. SHG supported financially to give the monthly allowances to 1 volunteer. Apart from this through SHG celebrated International Women’s Day with the active involvement of SHG Members, youths, children, parents and other stake holders.

INITIATIVE OF SPONSORSHIP PROJECT
As of now CTD have 18 children clubs, 6 youth clubs and 12 adolescent clubs. They are in the process of streamlining to get the overall ideas on various social problems, issues identification, and importance to form these clubs, their roles and responsibilities. Through the other life stages regular activities they are in process to strengthening their capacity, skill building, confident building and positive responses with the implementation of various child/ youth related activities. As a leadership development and its practical implication, in the last year some of our children and youth club members are exclusively organised and celebrated Sponsor’s day, Alumni Meet with Annual Performance Day and various National Days. Children and youth club members took initiative and they organised these programmes based on the process of from drafted planning to program execution and its evaluation. They have show case their excellent performances through the implementation of these various activities. They organised Rally, Seminar, Quiz Contest, Debate Competition, Sit and Draw Competition, Poster Preparation time to time. All the enrolled children and youth along with their sibling and few community children and youth were actively involved and participated in these activities. To retain the good impact related to SR activities and its continuous follow up CTD formed First Year Retention Group (FYRG). In the last year two time meeting was organised with all the members of this group for sharing the latest and update status of SR related activities in the entire project area. As a result members of FYRG took some positive initiative to follow up the letter writing by the children, RAM and DPL update and its follow up, Child regularise in the program and activities, proper communication with the sponsor etc. They have to follow up the regular child meet and there the discussion on sponsorship, documents properly keeping at the child’s home, child himself or herself are aware on his/her sponsor details etc. They have to interact with the children, youths regularly at their own villages or hamlets. Gradually awareness and impact of sponsorship is improving in the community. Total 9 Emergency Cases has been supported and they have been recovered.

TI PROJECT
Under the umbrella of CTD, one of the important projects is Targetted Intervention (T.I.) Project. Since February 2010 this project is being implemented in partnership with West Bengal State AIDS Prevention & Control Society, under the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of West Bengal. The T.I. project is being implemented to prevent & control HIV/AIDS among the Female Sex Workers Tarakeswar, Champadanga and newly included Arambagh area. So we are working among 300 Female Sex Workers (FSW), some of them are Brothel based and rest are flying, they are coming from neighborhood or from different place of Hooghly district

The major activities of this project are-
• HIV and Syphilis testing of FSWs and their partner also.
• Regular Medical Check Up.
• Reducing Sexually Transmitted Infection among them.
• Condom distribution Free/ through Social Marketting.
• Counselling services.
• Community mobilization.
• Advocacy with stakeholders.

During this year (April 2017 to March 2018) we have provided the following services to Female sex workers

Sl No.	Name of the Service	Quantity
1	HIV Testing	492
2	Syphilis Testing	392
3	Regular Medical check up	1078
4	Condom Distribution (Free)	67473
4	Condom Distribution (Free)	47165

Other Activities:-

• We organized two community events (Talking Doll show & Magic show – awareness campaign against HIV/AIDS) one at Conference Hall of Arambagh Super Speciality Hospital and another at Meeting Hall of Champadanga Gram Panchayet and we also organised four Health Camps in this financial year.
• We have started community based screening of HIV at Tarakeswar & Champadanga site. We are collecting the HIV testing kits from district authority.
• Central Government has introduced a new system “The Public Financial Management System (PFMS)” through which they will directly monitor the disbursement of fund.

Best Practices:-

• We have a good network with Tarakeswar Rural Hospital (For HIV and Syphilis testing), Arambagh Sub Divisional Hospital (For HIV, Syphilis testing, Sexually Transmitted Infection treatment, collection for Sexually Transmitted Infection KIT), Pursurah Block Primary Health Centre (For HIV and Syphilis testing), Chuchura District Hospital (For Anti Retroviral Therapy) etc.
• We have arranged an awareness programme (Folk media) in Champadanga & Tarakeswar site in collaboration with Pursurah Block Primary Health Centre and Tarakeswar Rural Hospital.
• We also supply general medicine to the FSWs procuring from different sources.ges:-
• Irregularity of Govt. Grant.
• Frequent staff turnover due to irregularity of Govt. fund release, subsequently left the service for better opportunity

NETWORKING
a. Nehru Yuva Kendra, Hooghly.
b. Government Administration of Hooghly District and Various Block on Health and Sanitation, Nutrition, Education, ICDS, Non formal Education & other officials Zila Parishad Hooghly. .
c. IIT Kharagpur, .
d. IMA Tarkeswar and Swasthya Bhavana Welfare Society. .
e. Inter Agency Group- West Bengal. .
f. Association of voluntary organization for Rural Development (AVARD), New Delhi .
g. All India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health.
h. National Child Labour Project (Hooghly District) .
i. West Bengal State AIDS Prevention and Control Society.
j. Gram Panchayets of Haripal, Singur, and Tarkeswar Block. .
k. B.D.Os of Tarkeswar, Singur and Haripal Block and Zilla Parishad Hooghly. .
l. D.P.O (Hooghly District), C.D.P.O (Tarkeswar Block) and ICDS Centers of Tarkeswar Block. .
m. S.I and Primary Schools of Tarkeswar Block. .
n. B.M.O.H of Tarkeswar Rural Hospital. .
o. Panchayet Samity, Tarakeswar Block. .
p. District Child Protection Unit. .
q. Netaji Subhas open University (Tarakeswar Study Centre.
r. Growing Technology and Mobile Repairing, Tarakeswar, Hooghly.
s. Jolly Beauty Institute, Uttarpara, Hooghly.
t. Taraknath Motor Driving School, Tarakeswar, Hooghly.
u. IT Training Institute, Tarakeswar, Hooghly.
v. ACC India Ltd. .
w. Webel Technology Limited.
x. Inter Agency Group (State IAG) .
y. Various Local NGO’s.
z. Banipur Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Bannipur .

Impact and Reach
Currently, CTD’s program on all backgrounds reached within Tarakeswar Block and surrounding 4-5 Blocks in the District of Hooghly of West Bengal.

Providing Skills for life

Providing vocational and life skills (age 15-24) As children become young adults and prepare to take on bigger responsibilities, their education needs become vastly different. CTD helps them become ready for this stage of their life by providing life skills training that eases this transition. Our interventions also empower and equip students with vocational and professional skills. At this juncture, we focus with more intensity on the higher education of girls from marginalized, tribal and hilly communities through a scholarship programme, helping them take on advanced courses. We also provide vocational training and functional literacy for illiterate women and girls in the community.

General Department

During the year 2017-18 CTD developed a project of ‘Vidya Utkarsh” (An Education Project) with the collaboration and support of ACC Cement India Ltd. This project is on the pipeline.
CTD developed a linkage with WTL (Webel Technology Limited) to run the course of 1 year Basic Computer Application for the students of the community. Total 86 students are continuing their course under WTL.
CTD is implemented a project with Banipur Mahila Mahavidyalaya NSS Unit on Education at Jigra Primary School through the implementation of programs like wall painting of the classroom to ensure joyful learning method towards children, provided school bags to the children, organized awareness programs on child rights, education and environmental issue and also set up some street lights in a part of jigra village.
CTD implemented another project named “Kishori Shakti Yojana” (KSY) with the networking/collaboration of Govt ICDS Department through the organizing of Beautician Training for 25 adolescents girls at Tarakeswar.