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Volume-33
Communicate Minds
15th March 2006 FORTNIGHTLY
ADVISORS
Khirod Ch. Malick Pitabasa Sethi Jogeswar Majhi Makardhwaj Sahu Shiv Prasad Meher Aurobinda Mahapatra Pradeep Kumar Mohanty
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Editorial Women empowerment & AIDS CARE Documentation Other BISWA News
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Chief-Editor Debabrata Malick Editor Guru Prasad Nahak
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15th MARCH
Empowerment of women would mean equipping women to be economically independent and personally self-reliant, with a positive self-respect to enable them to face any difficult situation. Women should be able to contribute in the developmental activities of the country. The empowered women would be able to participate in the process of decisionmaking. Women empowerment is a dynamic process that consists of an awareness, attainment and actualization cycle. Again, it is growth processes that involve intellectual enlightenment, economic enhancement and social liberation of women. Education is one of the factors, that plays the most crucial role in empowering women. Schools, colleges and other professional bodies are persistently trying to educate, motivate and train the women in their chosen areas of career through curriculum, training, field-exposure and other practical methods. Research and publication in the areas of womens problems, social evils and their eradication and women empowerment are the hot topics of the present era. We observed the International Womens Day on March 8th, 2006 in such a scenario, with a hope to bring the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. IN-HOUSE TRAINING BISWA organized a two day training program in its campus on Financial Management with the support of CARE, Bhubaneswar from March 1st to 2nd, 2006. The objectives of training program were to identify components, purpose, relationship and importance of main financial statements and to analyze the financial statements and to monitor profitability, efficiency and portfolio quality. Mr. Bishnu Panda, Partnership CoordinatorCARE, Sambalpur and Mr.Sanjeeb Puhan, System Analyst-CARE, Bhubaneswar, were the resources persons in the training
International Womens Day was celebrated by BISWA on March 8th, 2006 at its conference hall. Dr. Narayani Panda and Dr.Diptibala Pattnaik, renowned women of reputation joined the function as guests on the occasion. Mr. K.C.Malick, Chairman-BISWA welcomed the guests and explained how the organisation is working for empowerment of women in their respective fields. Dr. Pattnaik, opined that how today women have come up & taken active participatation on the process of development. On the grand occasion Ms. Amulya Sahu, Area CoordinatorNaktideul block, Mrs. Subidha Bag, Organizer, Sambalpur Urban and Ms. Tapaswini Singh, District Coordinator-Malkanagiri district were felicited by BISWA for their outstanding performance in SHG mobilization and helped the women to be self sufficient.
BISWA organized an inauguration ceremony of technical REDP-Soap making at Budapada in Maneswar block on March 10 th, 2006. The welcome address was delivered by Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, PRO- BISWA. Sri B.K. Das, AGM, NABARD, Sambalpur, as the chief guests explained the objectives of the training programme to the trainees a n d emphasized upon the self reliance of the rural poor people. He also opined that development planners are increasingly giving emphasis upon rural cottage industries for providing sustainable income to the rural people. He also advised the trainees to learn about making business plans and go on setting up of their own enterprises with availing loans, if necessary. The vote of thanks was proposed by Sri Mihir Kumar Nath, area coordinator of BISWA at the end.
VISIT ORS: TO * Mr. & Mrs. Nagarajan, the renowned personality of India visited BISWA on March 11 th , 2006. Basically they studied the structure of BISWA for installation
of computer software for better functioning of microfinance program. They interacted with the desk staffs and computer staffs to know the working pattern. * Mr. Jaan Messiner, a research scholar from GTZGermany visited BISWA, as sponsored by NABARD, Bhubaneswar for six days. His main objective to visit BISWA was to study on vialbility of SHG, comparative transaction cost analysis for delivery model in SHG lending in microfinance program. Mr.Ashish Kumar Sahu, Project Officer and other field staffs appraised him about participation and achievement of BISWA in this field.
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CARE DOCUMENTS BISWA ACTIVITIES BISWA microfinance program got a shot in arms after CARE came to participate in it as a partner. Its activities got a boost, moral as well as physical, when CARE-CASHE was introduced in it. It is now getting such support in the district of Sambalpur. Various banks from government and private sectors are now willing to extend their financial loans to BISWA only after they could see the success of BISWA-CARECASHE program. CARE has extended similar supports to eight NGOs (including BISWA) in Orissa. CARE has designed an ambitious program to get documented these activities. A camera crew in the leadership of Sri Birendra Das, an eminent television personality, came here to document activities on BISWA-CARE-CASHE program. The team consisted of Sri Sudipto Das and Sri Supdipto Bhowmik (both are famous cameramen from Kolkata) and Sri B.P.Panda from CARE and Sri S.P.Meher from BISWA participated as local guides. The crew team visited Hatibari Health Home to document the agricultural activities and particularly the ongoing vegetable growing project works on March 11th. They took shots of their barrack and interacted with the inmates to take stock of the situation. They visited BISWA microfinance federation office at Barmunda in Dhankauda block to cover the success story of its land bank project there at the next morning. The crew took shots at some beautiful outdoor locations there. They visited the Common Facility Centre at Rengali and met the traditional artisans of brass and bell metals at works. Besides, their traditional works in making household utensils the artisans are also being given training on Dhokra for value addition to their products with using lesser raw materials. Sri K.C.Malick, Chairman, BISWA and Dr. Amulya Mohanty, Technical Manager, CARE also helped the crew in their documentation works on the final day. 123456789012345678901234567890121 123456789012345678901234567890121
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An inauguration ceremony of Dhokra Cluster was held at Kamrei in Anugul district on March 13 th, 2006. The program was supported by Director of Handicraft & Cottage Industry, Bhubaneswar. BISWA is the implementing agency of the program. The program started with the welcome address by Sri Shiv Prasad Meher, PRO-BISWA, who also introduced the invited guest to the trainees. Among the guest who graced the occasion are Sri Dharanidhara Mishra, AGMNABARD, Dhenkanal, Sri Sanatan Nayak, GMDIC, Anugul, Sri Gopabandhu Pradhan, DCIODIC, Anugul. The guests explained the objectives of the cluster development program and advised the trainees to extract maximum benefit out of the ongoing training program. They also advised the trainees to learn the art from the master trainers sincerely & utilize the same for improving their socio-economic conditions. They also highlighted and praised the initiative taken by BISWA and urged the trainers to establish a long association with the organisation. Mr.Jayant Swain, Planning Manger-BISWA, Mr. Sanjeeb Mohany, Cluster Manager were also present on the occasion.
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