Our work in India involves 13 partners across five states.
We’re working with Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (NBJK), SACRED, SAMUHA, EKTA, SPREAD, WORD, Margadarshi, the Narendra Foundation, BIRDS, Uma Educational and Technical Society (UETS), the Shristi Special Academy, Vasantham Federation and WORD Pudukkottai, across five states in India: Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.
A two year action research project, which is training 50 barefoot counsellors who will go on to support 1,000 unpaid carers. We will also be producing a training manual and evaluating the training programme with a view to being able to roll it out to other partners and organisations.
Achieving Socio-economic Inclusion of Vulnerable Family Carers
Location
Karnataka, India
Project Partners
BIRDS
Funder
Fresh Leaf
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This project sees us expanding our work with BIRDS for another two years to reach 400 new unpaid carers and help them to establish enterprises that will generate an income. We will assess the kind of work that would be best for them and that would fit around their caring responsibilities, and provide them with the necessary training.
Promoting Mental Health and Well-being
Location
Tamil Nadu, India
Project Partners
WORD Pudukkottai
Funder
St James’s Place Charitable Foundation
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This one year project is setting up new Carers Groups and empowering unpaid carers to advocate for their needs and the needs of their relatives. It is also providing health camps to formally diagnose and treat people with mental health conditions and any carers who require support, and providing medicines when they’re not available through the district mental health programme.
Development Of Carers Groups
And Advocacy Work
Location
Karnataka, India
Project Partners
Multiple partners
Funder
Goyal Foundation
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This project is strengthening our network of Carers Groups across the South Asia region and driving forward our work with policymakers to achieve long-term change for carers and their families.
Specifically, we will:
Plan and deliver training to the government network of rehabilitation workers at panchayat and district level across Karnataka state (south India)
Continue our focussed lobbying of the Government of Karnataka at the state level
The outcomes of this project will be:
200 government rehabilitation workers equipped to facilitate panchayat-level Carers Groups
Promotion of 1,500 Carers Groups involving approximately 15,000 unpaid carers
Reduced isolation of unpaid carers and increased access to information, advice and support
Linking 500 to 750 eligible carers with the National Rural Livelihood Mission (a government poverty alleviation scheme focussed on the rural poor)
Facilitate access to the government’s new Carers Allowance (for those carers who meet the current eligibility criteria: estimated to be 3 – 4,000 carers)
Lobbying of the state government, focussing on widening the eligibility criteria for the Carers Allowance.
To Empower Carers
Through Awareness And Alternative Livelihood Programmes
Location
Tamil Nadu, India
Project Partners
WORD Pudukkottai
Funder
Daughters of Jesus
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This three year project is supporting 350 unpaid family carers and the 350 people with mental illness that they care for. Together with our partner WORD Pudukkottai, we are promoting mental health and economic well-being through Carers Groups and livelihood support, as well as the integration of unpaid carers within their community.
Livelihoods Project
Location
Karnataka, India
Project Partners
Margadarshi
Current Funders
Scott Bader Commonwealth, Paradigm Norton Trust
Previous Funders
Fresh Leaf Foundation, Open Gate Trust, Christadelphian Samaritan Fund, Southall Trust, Embracing Carers, Be One Foundation, King Charles III Charitable Fund
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This project is providing support for 170 unpaid carers over three years, to set up new livelihood initiatives to help lift their families out of poverty. It has also established a revolving fund which other carers can continue to access into the future to help them set up their own livelihood initiatives.
The project also includes training up to 1,500 unpaid carers in advocacy skills, ensuring they know and understand their rights and giving them the confidence to ask for what they need and deserve.
Completed Projects
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