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Posted on: March 27, 2009
IICDP project is implemented by IRDC with technical and financial support of ADRA Nepal in Rupandehi and Palpa districts since June 2007 to May 2009 (two years). The goal of the project is to improve the over all status of women and their families. The objectives of the project are; to provide literacy skills to 600 women, 15-49 years age in the underserved areas of Rupandehi and Palpa districts, enabling them to read, write and do simple practical arithmetic, to provide skills for economic development opportunities of their choice to 200 women in the program areas through vocational skills and income generating training to improve their livelihood, to increase the access of women' groups to micro finance opportunities by establishing the linkage with financial institutions and to make 600 women from 2 districts aware of civil rights issues and create awareness of gender based violence in order to empower them. So as per the objectives 600 illiterate dalit, janajati poor and excluded women are the primary beneficiaries of the project.
This is the success story of a participant of Chetana literacy centre Itiya, Palpa named Indra Kumari Gaha. She lives in Satyawati VDC named Itiya cluster ward no 9. It is about 60 km. down a dirt road west side from the district head quarter Tansen and 6 hours on foot by a small track. It is not only the geographical remoteness but also far from the other development opportunities like education, health, transportation, communication etc. It is easy to go to Itiya from Saljhandi by foot. It is the area bottom of CHURE range with sloppy land and forest area.
"I am Indra Kumari Gaha I am belonging to disadvantaged and low economical status family. I have a small family with 4 members with 2 children. My husband is a service-holder in India and he is simply literate. Last year, when IICDP commencement in Itiya, at that time I was not interested to join in the literacy centre. Facilitator Khima Thapa pointed the importance of education and lastly convinced me and I decided to join in the group.
"After launching the IICDP, lots of good changes have been seen in my life. Earlier I was not convinced to join in the literacy centre. It has proved to be the appropriate forum for women to discuss our personal and collective problems. In the very short period of project implementation I have had progress in different sectors like education, saving, and gender and health component. Besides that a radical change occurred in my life. Actually in the 1st year of IICDP I learnt much and got the position first in the literacy centre. I can easily write my name and others names, read the paragraphs, write the numbers up to a hundred, solved the borrowers addition and subtraction etc. I have participated in different types of training, meetings and campaigns. I learned so many things in health, hygiene and sanitation practices in my life."
Indra Kumari Gaha has changed very much and gives advice to her colleagues to come in the centre regularly. She gives many thanks to Indreni and ADRA Nepal for implementing IICDP in that village.
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