Project Concern

International/India Society

 

 

Annual Report

(April 2004 – March 2005)

 

 

 

 

Project Concern International/India Society

C-38, Defence Colony, New Delhi-110024

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

On December  26,  2004  the  largest  natural  disaster  in  recent  memory  struck  the  shores  of

South East Asia, including southern parts of India. PCI through its Salem office was among
the first NGOs (Within hours of the Tsunami) on the shorelines of Nagapattinam providing
rescue and relief work to the Tsunami affected. PCI has established an office at Nagapattinam to facilitate its over all operations in the Tsunami affected areas.


Another major initiative of this year is the launching of the year long AIDS Walk for Life. A
first of its kind the AIDS Walk will cover the Golden Quadrilateral Express Highway covering more than 6000 kms through 13 states of India. Flagged off on the world AIDS Day of 2004 from Raj Ghat in New Delhi, the Walk will culminate after 365 days of non stop walking at Delhi on December 1, 2005.


PCI/India, registered in 1998 as a Charitable Society in India, is an affiliate of Project
Concern International, a renowned international health NGO working in twelve countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America since 1961. PCI/India has worked in HIV/AIDS prevention,
care and support projects throughout India since 1997. HIV/AIDS now comprises
PCI/India’s single largest area of program intervention.

 

 

PCI World Wide

 

 

The PCI/India has broad experience in NGO networking, capacity building, monitoring and
evaluation, training, and managerial experience in HIV/AID in India. PCI/India also has
substantial in-country HIV/AIDS experience in developing NGO needs assessments; grant
selection criteria, building coalitions and advisory groups, and managing NGO grants. Over
the past five years, PCI/India has emerged as a leading NGO working to combat the
HIV/AIDS with demonstrated managerial and technical capacity to administer substantive,
cost-effective and cutting-edge interventions.
PCI/India’s approach to development is participatory, community-directed, innovative,
holistic and self-sustaining in nature, optimizing local human and institutional resources for
appropriate, cost-effective implementation. Wherever feasible, interventions are
comprehensive and inter-connected. Each project component complements and supports
other activities to improve the overall impact of the program on the lives of those it benefits.

 

 

 

PCI/India has substantial experience in institutional capacity building and developing training
modules, strategic planning, resource development and proposal writing, HIV/AIDS and
management information systems, and has participated and conducted a number of
workshops and seminars in these areas.

 

 

PCI/India Offices


 

 

 

Country Office:

C-38 Defence Colony, New Delhi-110024 Tel # 91-11-24335297/5299/1393

E-mail - proconin@pciindia.org

 

Kolkata Office:

Flat 1B, Matri Chaya-Pitru Chaya, 4A- Santosh Roy Road, Sakher Bazaar, Barisha Bihala, Kolkata-700008

Tel# : 91-033 –24454944

E-mail - rochana_mitra@hotmail.com

 

Salem Office

: 115/1, 4th Main Road, Shivaya Nagar, Reddiyur, Salem, Tamil Nadu- 636004.

Ph: 427-2336401

E-mail – kavita@pciindia.org

 

 

Jaipur Office:

Rajdhani Industries Area; Ajmer Road, Bhankrota, Jaipur, Rajasthan Tele-fax – 91-141-2250491

Tel# – 91-141-3126279

 

 

Pune Office:

“Yashashree,” 8 Panini society,

Santnagar Aranyeshwar, Pune – 411009

Tel# -91-020-24222717

E-mail – path@vsnl.net

 

Warangal Office:

1-7-1294/2, Advocates Colony, Balasamudram, Hanamkonda, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh-506001;

Tel. No. 91-870-2546650; Email: pciwarangal@rediffmail.com

 

Nagapattinam Office:

7,NewBeach Road,Kadambady,

Nagapattinam,TamilNadu,611001.

Tel 04365- 249325

E-mail: pcirajasthan@yahoo.co.in

 



Donor:

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC)

 

Goal:

To improve the quality of the life

of people living with HIV/AIDS

and their families

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

BACKGROUND:

The Centers  for Disease  Control  and Prevention (CDC) awarded a five-

year cooperative agreement to Project Concern International (PCI) for the

period  beginning  September  2004,  and  ending  on  August  2009,  to

implement a home-based care program for people living with HIV/AIDS

PATHWAY  Project  in  Pune,  Maharashtra,    Salem,  Tamil  Nadu  and

Warangal, Andhra Pradesh.  PCI has been  provided  with  supplementary

funding  for  interventions  in  three  sites  in  North  Eastern  states  of

Nagaland  and  Manipur.  The  interventions  in  Andhra  Pradesh  and

Manipur are implemented entirely through the partnership approach.

 

OBJECTIVES:

1.

Increase  delivery  of  health  care  services  to  2,950  PLHA  and

6,200 family members

2.

Increase  delivery  of  psycho-social  support  services  to  2,950

PLHA and 6,200 family members

3.

Increase  livelihood  opportunities  for  330  PLHA  and  family

members

4.

Increase  delivery  of  HIV  prevention  services  to  128,000

community members

5.

Increase community support for PLHAs and their families in 42

communities  through  the formation  and/or  strengthening  of  30

PLHA support groups

6.

Increase  capacity  of  42  local  community-based  organizations

(CBOs), NGOs and other private and  governmental institutions

to deliver HIV prevention, care and support services

7.

Strengthen referral linkages among 110 CBOs, NGOs and other

private  and  government  institutions,  such  as  referrals  for  day-

care services, microfinance assistance, medical services, etc.

 

 

ACCOM PLISHMENTS:

 

2,742 PLHA received healthcare services through the PATHWAY+ project

Conducted counseling sessions for 2,954 PLHA and 3,242 family members

A total of 77 HIV/TB co-infected cases served at PATHWAY+ project sites

3,793 clients have been tested for HIV through the PATHWAY+ project, and 23% of those tested were

HIV positive.

Although ARVs are  not covered under  PATHWAY+, PCI has succeeded in accessing  ARVs for  218

clients. The project has also conducted 457 CD4 tests

Provided nutritional supplements to 894 PLHA or their family members

Provided job and business development training to 526 PLHA and their family members

6,530  people  received  awareness  and  sensitization  on  HIV/STIs,  and  3,793  people  accessed  VCT

services.  In addition, 125,000 IEC materials were distributed in the target communities.

Formed/strengthened a total of 20 support groups

PATHWAY works with 8 partner organizations to assist in program implementation

Extensive referral networks, comprised of more than 50 organizations

 

 

 

Donor:

Family Health

International/USAID

Goal:

To reduce the vulnerability of street

and working children, their families

and communities to HIV/AIDS/STI

 

 

 

 

  

 

BACKGROUND:

PCI/India’s objective is to improve the life  opportunities for  street and

working  children  by  providing a continuum  of  integrated  services that

address  the  medical,  educational,  vocational,  emotional,  intellectual,

and  physical  needs  of  the  child.  As  these  needs  are  met,  the  child’s

ability  to  take  some  control  over  his/her  destiny  is  strengthened,  and

thus  a life of desperation  and  destitution can be turned into one of the

empowerment and  hope.  CAA  project  serves  the  same  purpose  while

providing comprehensive  services for some of Delhi’s  most vulnerable

children on street.

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

1.

To  improve  physical  wellness  of street and  working  children

by providing preventive and curative health services

2.

To  provide  vocational  training  and  income-generating

opportunities to the street children

3.

To  provide  basic  numerical  and  literacy  skills  and  life  skill

education to street and working children

4.

To  provide  counseling  and  facilitate  family  re-unification  of

street and working children

5.

To  enhance  the  capacity  of  PCI  staff  and  peer  educators  by

providing  monthly  training  sessions,  exposure  trips,

workshops, and to expand  and  strengthen linkages with other

NGOs, Government institutions and other agencies, and

6.

To provide food, shelter and other basic services to  street and

working children

 

ACCOM PLISHMENTS:

 

•

38 children have been provided with a safe  space  through the

shelter home

•

666  children  have  been  provided  with  basic  numeric  and

literacy  skills  through  non-formal  education  classes  and  240

children have been enrolled in schools for formal education

•

178 children have received vocational training and 10 children

have entered apprenticeship programs for job placement

•

124  Life  Skill  Education  have  been  organized,  benefiting  a

total numbers of 1,313 children

•

761  children  have  received  treatment  for  general  ailments

through health camps

•

150 children regularly receive daily nutrition supplements

•

58 children haves been reunited with their families

 

 

 

Donor(s) :

Multiple Partners

 

Goal :

To  empower  low-income

people  to  lead  healthy  lives

through  the  informed  use  of

loan  products  and  services

easily  accessible  and

affordable to them.

 

 

 

 

  

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

1.

Economically empower rag picker families through micro-finance

and self help group promotion.

2.

Facilitate savings and credit needs of the economically and socially

challenged community.

3.

Develop micro-enterprises of poorest of poor and HIV infected

women

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Mahila Shakti Sangh: Delhi

Number of clients  -1018

Savings amount - $ 20,783

Loan Clients – 386

Outstanding loans - $ 15,035

Repayment rate – 97%

 

Navjeevan: Pune (Group of people infected by HIV)

Number of clients  -213

Savings amount - $ 1,579

Loan Clients – 108

Outstanding loans - $ 3,410

Repayment rate – 96%

 

Sneha: Salem (Group of people infected by HIV)

Number of clients  -208

Savings amount - $ 1,125

Loan Clients – 55

Outstanding loans - $ 3,945

Repayment rate – 66%

 

 

Donor:

RAILWAY- UK CHILDREN

 

Goal:

To improve the quality of life

of  500  street  and  working

children  by  providing  them

with  facilities  through

education,  supplementary

nutrition, health care services,

and vocational training.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

BACKGROUND:

 

A  program  with  the  objectives  of  reducing  malnutrition  among  90

street and railway platform children and for the improvement of their

psychological  status  and  personality  is  being  implemented  at  three

intervention  areas  in  Delhi  since  August  2001.    The  children  are

provided  with  one  time  meal  (supplementary  nutrition)  every  day

and  education-cum-entertainment facility.     This program is  funded

by Railway Children, UK.

•

Strengthened  the  non-formal  education  by  increase  in  the

attendance

•

Willingness  on  the part  of children  for  enrolment in formal

schooling

•

Health  status  of  the  children  improved  as  there  has  been  a

drastic  reduction  in  the  frequency  of  illness  among  the

children

•

Improvement in the self-esteem of children

•

Strengthened rapport with police and railway authorities

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

To  improve  the  health  status  of  100  street  and  railway

platform  children during a period of two years, by providing

them  with  nutritional  supplement  and  two  time  meal  every

day.

To  improve  the  psychosocial  status  and  self  esteem  of

children through provision of educational, entertainment and

cultural activities

To  provide  training  to  street  and  railway  platform  children

on Sex & Sexuality, STIs and HIV/AIDS

To  provide  bedding  to  30  children  at  the  3  drop-in-centers

for children (10 each per center)

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

 

Food and Nutrition - 650 Children

Health service - 641children

NFE  - 250 children

Recreation - 759 children

 

 

 

 

Donor:

Rajasthan State AIDS Control

Society

 

Goal:

To  change  attitudes

and  behaviors  among  the

truckers  and  their  crew

members

 

 

 

 

  

 

BACKGROUND:

 

The  Healthy Highways  Project  was initiated  in 1999  in Rajasthan  to

target  the  truckers,  helpers,  halt  point  workers  and  commercial  sex

workers along a major travel artery  in Jaipur. The major  components

of  the  project  are  counseling,  awareness  generation,  community

participation and provision  of  micro credit loans  to women for small

business  initiatives.  Truckers  are  trained  as  peer  educators  and  they

further  disseminate  the  message  through  audio-visual  aids.

Photo

exhibitions,  audio  cassettes,  and  videotapes  are  used  to  stimulate

discussions.

PCI/India  succeeded  in  creation  of  a  local  NGO,  the

Society  for  a Better Tomorrow,  comprising  solely  of peer  educators

and  managing  the  program  on  36-kilometer  stretch  of  National

Highway 8. Supported by the Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society,

the  2

phase  of  the  Healthy  Highway  Project  on  NH  12  had  been

ventured into in 2004-05.

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

The major objectives of the project are to:

change  attitudes  and  behavior  amongst  12000  truckers  and

crew members towards better sexual health

provide complete and proper treatment to 2000 STD patients

provide  formal  and  informal  counseling  services  to  1000

clients

ensure effective condom  promotion and distribution  amongst

12000 truckers and secondary stakeholders in the project area

sensitize key stakeholders about the  project  and the issues of

HIV/AIDS

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

 

Number of intervention sites  - 10

High risk behaviour/bridge population reached  - 27,6987

One to one interactions conducted – 7,296

One to group interactions conducted – 4,386

Condom demonstrations – 3,973

Condoms distributed – 50,283