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The
Fellowship Program has trained 41 young leaders in rural areas where there
was previously little sense of social action and organization. The past
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DISHA
came up with an innovative and pioneering initiative to encourage and
foster village and regional level leadership in order to take up issues
affecting the various poor in such villages or regions. Under a Fellowship
Programme, in 1997 DISHA identified 40 young Fellows (male and female)
from differents parts of rural Gujarat and sensitized and trained them
extensively in identifying the poorís issues, organizing them around
issues, taking up their causes at different levels and bringing about
a strong movement for poorís development in these areas. |
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An
agariya (Salt-pan worker) at work. Many agariyas organised under fellowship
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As
a consequence, these Fellowship workers have developed in a strong leadership
and have established their work in the villages of Dang, Valsad, Surat,
Narmada, Navsari, Surendranagar, Junagadh, Jamnagar, Banaskantha, Gandhinagar,
Kheda and Anand districts of Gujarat. They have organized rural poor such
as agricultural labourers, construction workers, poor women, self-employed,
landless labourers, scheduled castes, scheduled tribals and other backward
communities. |
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They
have formed over 41 different issue-based groups such as trade unions,
youth groups, mahila mandals, general mandals, etc. Thirty-nine such organisations
have already got themselves registered under different relevant Laws of
the Govt. and are striving to solve the issues of the rural poor. |
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women's group discussing their sangathan matters and issues |
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The
Fellowship programme covers 5 districts of southern Gujarat, 3 districts
of Saurashtra, 3 districts of central Gujarat and Banaskantha district
in its work area. It main centre is in Ahmedabad, which co-ordinates,
manages and provides critical support to the fellows. |
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