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Sambhav’s journey runs back 22
years from now to 1986. With some of the leading members of the national
campaign to struggle for land, water and forest rights , Sambhav started up as a
grassroot advocacy and awareness organization. The initial phase of the
organization was in the Ghatigaon , a neighboring rural area of Gwalior
district. Sambhav involved itself as a agency striving for basic rights and
entitlements of the Saahriya, a primitive tribal group of Madhya Pradesh.
Sahariya historically has been identified as one of the highest exploited an
developmentally backward class. Sambhav’s initial intervention with the
Sahariyas was to address the issue of Bonded Labour and Land Rights.
Later on in 1992 Sambhav joined
hands with Christian Aid to empower Sahariya and deprived classes of women to
realize their aspiration through collective dialogue and community based
intervention. The program followed a strategy of building village level
community groups of women, who sit and discuss the developmental and rights
based issues of their lives, and work together with the administration,
panchayati raj institutions and village leaders.
Further in the coming years Sambhav
realized its heart in The Sahariya Tribe. Identifying its limited area of
operation versus the large of spread of Sahariya throughout the Gwalior-Chambal
region, and situation of the Sahariya going worst day by day, Sambhav spread out
to the neighboring districts of Gwalior which included Shivpuri, and Bhind. The
second phase of Sambhav’s intervention clubbed along health, education and women
rights as its prime focus, with support extended by agencies like Voluntary
Health Association of India, Action Aid and NABARD.
Ever since 1988, Sambhav’s year of
registration, Sambhav has been known in the Gwalior-Chambal as a right based
grassroot advocacy organization. Sambhav’s span of operation extends to over
2500 villages spread through 9 districts collectively in Madhya Pradesh and
Uttar Pradesh. Sambhav’s prime focus of operations ever since inceptions have
been:
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Women Empowerment through community based group formation, which
includes micro-saving at internal level through Self Help Groups and
Financial Inclusion and Microfinance. |
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Promoting better livelihood and standard of living through livelihood
promotion programs, which include capacity building and direct/indirect
support. |
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Contributing to the sector goal of improving health and nutrition
through health promotion programs. |
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Ensuring community entitlement to right to food and related issues
through integrated community development interventions. |
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Working in close convergence with the government machinery to make
ground level interventions and introductions sustainable and
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Improving access to sanitation, safe drinking water and better hygiene.
Promoting water conservation and sustainable agriculture through
watershed development. |
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