Charaka Organization

              Saturday I went to the Charaka Organization with my co-fellows. Charaka is in Bhimankone village, Sagar Taluk of Shivamoga district. Prasan sir is founder and director of this Charaka. It produces naturally  dyed cotton garments. Its is helping to the rural unemployed women. It produce the clothes and it is selling these in big cities under the Desi. There I saw the processing of clothes. I visited to the dyeing unit, dryer unit, Charaka Pre loom and post loom, storage unit, and warping unit. Charaka have good co-ordination staff. Charaka is using natural resource. It is providing all kind of facility to the workers for example- PF, food, and bonus. And also it is providing education to children. Totally I felt very happy. 

APREETA DAIRY MILK HARTI

Apreeta is one of the dairy milk in Harti. This is having 100 buffaloes and 100 small buffaloes. Total it is having 200 buffaloes. There totally 10 workers, they came from the Haryana, they are getting good salary, per month 6000 Rs. They sold milk in Gadag; per liter rate is a 40 Rs. Daily every buffaloes gave 8-10 liter. They are doing livelihood activity.

AGRICULTURE SCIENCE FOUNDATION HULKOTTI:

                        It established in 1980. K.H.Patil is a founder. It is working on overall development for example- health, agriculture, and education development.

Characteristics of Agriculture droughts in Gadag:

• Probability of agriculture, droughts-70-80%
• Erratic rainfall with uneven distribution
• Problems caused by Recurring Agriculture droughts in the distribution:
• Resource poorness
• Crops failure, reduced yield
• Under unemployment
• Migration
• Promotion of rain water harvesting structure

                      This is having partnerships with the Zilla panchayath and Deshpande foundation.

Activities of the Agriculture science foundation:

• Awareness camps training program, Seminar, exposure visits, and compartment bounding activities.
• Vocational trainings to overcome under employment.
• Training for the income generation activities initiated by landless SHG.

THE INTEGRATED HANDLOOM CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM GADAG

This sponsored by the development commissioner. The Gov of Karnataka is undertaking this project. The development, commissioner (handloom), minister of textiles, Gov of India, New Delhi, and the Karnataka handloom Development corporation limited, have jointly established the “common facility centre” and “Dye House” under the Integrated Handloom Cluster development program Gadag at KHDC weavers colony, Narasapur, Gadag-Betgeri.

Some facilities and services:

• Dying of cotton and silk yarn facility.
• Supply of yarn through yarn depot mill Gate price and at all small quality, as required by the handloom weavers, established in common facility centre.
• Handloom for development new Sample products.
• Computer added textile design facility for development of new design.
• Dyed yarn testing facility.

Common weaving and training centre:

                  Under this they are using Jakarta machine, through this they makes design. They are giving payment per worker 150-200 rupees. They are making pillow cover, blanket, and bedsits.   

Agastya International Foundation Hubli

                  

It is creative, knowledge and learning foundation.  Children are managing natural resources. That foundation staff gather the community members, aware about science, and then they promote their children. There is imperial learning also happen. There is science based learning is happen, many more research learning they were open, and also Mobil lab is major program. They worked under Govt of India. They are giving training to related science, leadership, computer skills, and to bring them science and technology. Its main body is in Bangalore and campus in Hubli.

The Teacher Foundation

It teaches learning schools, and its run by Sharadha trust. They are conducting Teachers training sessions, group discussion, time management and discipline, and this training is going on three month. They are visiting schools and observe the schools. They teach to the students, they make students groups in class, black board activity based teaches and to empower teachers. Totally they are indirectly train students through the teachers.

Rapid NGO

It is one of the women empowerment NGO. It is started in 2001 and its founder is a Vijay Kulakarni. It is served the women distress situation, handicap, harassment women. And also it is doing the emotional counseling, skill development training, employment, self employment training, and scholarship to their children. Totally it rehabilitates women in distress. They are doing culture, economic, and emotional counseling. They will teach marketing skill, handicraft, fashion, and computer training.

Bhoraka charitable Thrust

                  Jyanjyoti School is one of the HIV parents children school. They are teaching life skill, computer education, maths, science, and stage courage. They build children capacity. And its focus on the sex worker children and back word community people children. They are giving good environment, nutrition food, and hygiene for each child. After the class they should get food, breakfast, and they are play there only. Totally they avoid whoever stigmatizes and discrimination. Their objective is to avoid a home environment. They are conducting parents meeting. Weekly they will arrange the guest speaker session and dancing class.