UPDATES

• This year 195 rights holders accessed government entitlements and benefits under programme implemented by SOIR-IM partner Mount Valley Development Association.

• SOIR-IM Partner Kiran enrolled 55 (32 boys and 23 girls) Children with Different Abilities (CwDA) and was able to retain them in low resourced government schools.

• Around 250 women in Uttarakhand are now able to sell their farm produce at better prices through an initiative ‘Sunday Market’.

• Mountain Children Foundation’s continuous dialogue with State Commission for Protection of Child Rights enrolled 26 children from the tribal community to school.

• Maximising Employment to Serve the Handicapped (MESH) diversified the skill set of one of its producer groups Anand Craft that also comprises 10 women living with leprosy.