Project Details
Status: Ongoing
Partner: SBI Foundation
Reach: 1586 Households
Region: 5 Villages of Palasi Block of Araria District of Bihar
Program Overview
The Gram Sewa Project is a two-year integrated rural development initiative designed to address poverty, illiteracy, poor healthcare, livelihood vulnerabilities, and the recurrent floods in Palasi Block of Araria District, Bihar. The project emphasizes transforming villages into resilient and self-sustaining communities by enhancing education, healthcare, livelihoods, and infrastructure while promoting sustainability and gender equality.
Glimpses of Our Work
Our Approach
Holistic Model
A multi-sectoral approach covering Education, Health, Livelihoods, and more.
Community-Centric
Planning with Village Development Committees, SHGs, and Gram Panchayats.
Technology Integration
Using smart classrooms, digital literacy centers, and mobile healthcare units.
Implementation Highlights
- ✔ Establish Gram Seva Kendras for digital access and government scheme linkages.
- ✔ Upgrade schools with smart classrooms, computer/science labs, girls’ common rooms.
- ✔ Run remedial classes and scholarship programs for vulnerable children.
- ✔ Vocational training for youth & women, with entrepreneurship promotion.
- ✔ Health interventions: mobile healthcare units, health & veterinary camps, WaSH facilities.
- ✔ Women empowerment: Prerna centers, SHGs, self-defense training, menstrual hygiene support.
- ✔ Natural resource management: rainwater harvesting, social forestry, solar-powered irrigation.
- ✔ Renovation of Anganwadi centers, community libraries, and public infrastructure.
- ✔ Waste management via Swachhata Saarathi vehicles, compost units, dustbins.
This project is transforming villages into resilient and self-sustaining communities by promoting sustainability and gender equality.