Rural Development

The main focus remains on knowledge, electronics and economic connectivity to 100 villages.

Gramothan: Concept of Gramothan Resource Centres (GRCs)

Ekal has set up eight Gramothan Resource Centres (GRCs) in different remote places in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, U.P, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. These GRCs serve as resource centres for about 100 villages surrounding the centre. The main aim of these GRCs is to make the village community economically self-reliant and develop villages as centres of economic activity. The idea is very similar to the idea of PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) promoted by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and adopted by Govt. of India. The main focus remains on knowledge, electronics and economic connectivity to 100 villages.

The main activity of the GRCs is to motivate and educate the villagers to adopt eco-friendly life, train farmers on organic farming and high-value crops, provide skill development training to youth and women for better livelihood, husbandry and promoting agro-based local entrepreneurship. The training to farmers is imparted for organic farming through production and use of vermin compost and organic pesticides, commercial crops, tools for packaging and marketing, water conservation etc.

Apart from training to farmers, new skills are imparted to unemployed/under-employed tribal/ rural youth and school dropouts for tailoring, computer data input, tube well and tractor repairs, electric motor winding, carpentry etc. The objective of imparting these skills is to make the youth self-reliant with rural entrepreneurial skills so as to earn livelihood in the vicinity of their villages and avoid urban migration.

A contribution of CAD $500 helps run one Ekal school for an entire year, educates 30 children, and have a positive impact on 30 rural families.

Through your gift you will receive the opportunity to make a significant difference.

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Emergency Appeal to Support India against COVID-19

Most of you have seen wrath of CORONA in India.

This is a call to come forward to HELP HUMANITY. Need is now.

Ekal has been successful in keeping 100,000 Ekal villages with population of 100 million people safe until recently. We are sorry to share that epidemic has now begun to infiltrate Ekal villages. Most of Ekal villages are very remote, and generally do not have easy access to medical facilities. A large team of Ekal workers is trying hard to prevent and control epidemic in these villages. Ekal needs funds for prevention and control of epidemic in these villages for the following:

Telemedicine to provide medical consultation to patients.
Diagnostic equipment such as Oximeter and Digital Thermometer
Over the counter medication like Paracetamol, Erythromycin, Zinc etc
Make masks at Ekal tailoring training centers, and distribute masks
Provide immune-boosters including Vitamin-C and Ayurvedic immune-boosters (Kadha)
Counter misinformation
Take immediate action when people feel sick
Promote acceptance of vaccination.
Provide tele-health consultations for sick patients in partnership with the National Medicos Association of India using the Intelehealth tele-health platform.

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