Community Ownership and Development - Towards Sustainable Livelihoods!

Twenty youth and seven subcommittee members gathered together on 3 rd January 2018 as a follow up to take an action on the issue of uncleanliness and water at Manthanpada, Manori. The main objective of the meeting was to plan and strategize the rally based on the issue. The youth took the responsibility of preparing creative posters and banners, for the rally along with slogans of awareness. They promised to also take part in the rally to raise their voices against the issues. The rally is set to take place on the 7 th January 2018.

The Cleanliness issue subcommittee members organized a meeting at Manthanpada village, Manori on 29 th December 2017 with 16 members present for the meeting. The objective of the meeting was to interact with the locals and get more information about the issue of cleanliness and to make a plan of action. The agenda for the meeting was to create a time to time awareness on cleanliness among the villagers and fixing the next meeting date. Members took ownership for the cleanliness issue to be solved. They also asked the CCO staff to give support for the administration work. The committee has taken the initiative to organize and lead an awareness rally & drive in the month of January 2018. The five members will inform the other committees, youth & children about the rally and drive program. 

The subcommittee follow-up meeting to discuss the issue of septic tank & Public toilet at ward no.4.was held on 20 th  November 2017 at Church Office Pali. Ten members were present for the meeting. The agenda for the meeting was to draft an application letter to Nagar Sevak regarding the issue of septic tank & public toilet, at ward no.4, visit families and hold a signature campaign and plan a common place to keep the waste dustbin. The following day on 21 st  November 2017, one of the CC members took the responsibility to write the application letter. The CC members along with committee member visited forty-five families in ward no.4  explaining the purpose of their visit and people willingly gave their signature to support the action plan. Even though the plan was to discuss waste dustbins at ward level, majority members felt that the committee will not take a decision since it’s an issue of searching a commonplace at ward level. Therefore it was dec...