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OUR JOURNEY

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OUR JOURNEY

Adopting a unique approach right from the beginning SJSM motivated the people and helped them with knowledge and information, establish linkages with external institutions and facilitate an equity oriented, gender-sensitive and inclusive development process. During 1977-1990 SJSM worked on awareness raising, social organization activating school machinery, eradicate the practice of child-marriage, dowry and girls education in his community and this was spread into the entire mountainous region covering more than 75,000 families.
For exploitation free livelihoods of his community, SJSM effectively used the medium of ‘cooperation’. Starting with traditional occupation of milk they later covered other sectors like fisheries, cane-bamboo works, collection & processing of non-timber forest produce, herbal medicine and processing of agricultural commodities by forming cooperatives. Over the next ten years, he SJSM established 36 cooperatives benefitting more than 9,200 families. The most remarkable among them was ‘women’s industrial cooperative society (2150 members) which processed locally available grains, fruits and vegetables and turned them into remunerative food products under their own brand, ‘Shramjivi’.

SJSM'S WORK AREA : 7 DISTRICT/12 BLOCKS/422 AILLAGES

Region
District
Block
Villages
Western Maharashtra (western ghats)
Satara
Patan
Koyna region ( 69)
Sadawaghapur (93)
Javali
Tapola ( 85)
Satara
6
Maan
17
Sangli
Tasgaon
29
Miraj
4
Konkan
Raigad
Mahad
35 hamlets of Katkari tribe
Poladpur
45 hamlets of Katkari tribe
Ratnagiri
Sangmeshwar
40 villages
Palghar
Palghar
10 villages
Thane
Javahar
5 villages
Vidharbha
Chandrapur
Poburna
11 villages
multifarious activities and programs were undertaken, especially large watershed development and social forestry programs over 25,030 ha in neighbouring drought prone block namely Man, Satara, Khatav and Patan with the help of Nabarad, central and state governments. Agro-industrial vocational training was imparted to 450 youth in collaboration with the ‘District Rural Development Agency’. Formed Self-help groups of women which culminated into five savings and credit cooperative societies and collectively they have financed more than 7000 families for self-employment.
1991 to 2005
2006 to 2012

SJSM expanded its work in the tribal area of neighbouring Konkan region amongst Katkaris - one of the three primitive tribes inhabiting Maharashtra. They are most subjugated and exploited communities and SJSM not only enthused them with self-confidence but also rejuvenated their livelihood options through inland fisheries.  At present a full-fledged low-cost innovative hatchery with fish seed (spawn) production capacity of 50 million, 18 tribal fisheries cooperatives are operational benefitting 1,825 Katkari households. To replicate this work in the entire Konkan region, a network of 22 like-minded organizations has been started. All of these have resulted into significant gains in income and livelihoods.

SJSM is operational in 500 villages encompassing more than 35,000 families. Lately, SJSM has entered into an institutionalization phase and have made collaborations with the agricultural universities, state and GOI departments especially, the Department of Bio-technology, GOI which will be working with SJSM and Konkan Agriculture University on inland fisheries.

2012 to Present