Services for Dalit Communities
Livelihoods, entitlements and legal help, for families who have too often been denied them.
MASS's work is not limited to Devadasi women and the tradition. Its vision includes Dalit communities, other vulnerable women and children, through livelihood promotion, quality education for Dalit children, a campaign against child marriage and legal support for women who face injustice.
What this programme aims to do
- Empower women to access livelihoods, social entitlements, quality education and nutrition for their children.
- Ensure that women in Belgaum district, and Devadasi and Dalit women in particular, have a place to approach with confidence when they need legal help, and make the legal and social environment more supportive of women's and children's rights.
- Raise public awareness of HIV/AIDS and STIs, and link Devadasi, Dalit and minority families to treatment, care and support services.
Support secured so far
| Number | Support secured |
|---|---|
| 2,732 | members supported to get ration cards |
| 1,213 | members with free electricity for home lighting |
| 332 | members with smokeless chullahs |
| 67 | members with irrigation bore wells |
| 59 | members with gas |
| 30 | members with toilets |
| 24 | self-help groups with loans from the SC/ST Corporation |
| 22 | self-help groups with a revolving fund |
| 14 | members with loans and subsidy from the Udyogini Scheme |
| 9 and 11 | self-help groups and individuals, respectively, with loans from DRP |
| 7 | members with old age pensions |
| 5 and 3 | physically handicapped members with subsidies and with pensions, respectively |
| 4 | members with health cards |
The source does not state the period these figures cover. Figures are as reported on MASS's website in January 2020, the latest published date for this material.
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