INTRODUCTION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNTIES
The communities we belong to can help us to be more effective citizens. They
play an important part in our personal wellbeing. They are the source of many
creative ideas and solutions, especially to the problems that arise because people
lack power and wealth. They can care for or harm the environment we live in.
Communities do not just preserve old links and traditions. They change and
grow. Sometimes economic and social pressures threaten to break up the links
between people. But people also come together in new ways, undertake new
activities and create new, more diverse communities, releasing new energy and
resources. In the modern world, one person can belong to many different
communities, based on where they live, their interest or culture, or the people
that share common difficulties. Tremendous strengths can be found in
communities. But these are not automatically built upon, especially when
economic disadvantages or rapid social change makers it difficult. In the end it
is what communities can do for themselves that matters. But there usually needs
to be something in the background-some person or organization to help get
things started, or to whom people can turn for advice or support, or to build up
the right skills.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The United Nations defines Community development as "a process where
community members come together to take collective action and generate
solutions to common problems." It is a broad term given to the practices of civic
leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects
of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local
communities.

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by

providing them with the skills they need to effect change within their
communities. These skills are often created through the formation of large
social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must
understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities'
positions within the context of larger social institutions.
Community development as a term has taken off widely in anglophone
countries i.e. the USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and other
countries in the Commonwealth. It is also used in some countries in eastern
Europe with active community development associations in Hungary and
Romania. The Community Development Journal, published by Oxford
University Press, since 1966 has aimed to be the major forum for research and
dissemination of international community development theory and practice.
Community development is a process, a way of doing things. It can bring
people together
Help people to identify the problems and needs which they share and

respond to these problems.

Help people to discover the resources that they already have
Promote knowledge, skills, confidence and the capacity to act together.
Strengthen organization an leadership within communities
Strengthen contacts between communities
Take action to address inequalities in power and participation
Deal directly with issues they think are important change the

relationships between communities and public or private organizations

Help public organizationsto work in more open and inclusive ways
Promote increased local democracy, participation and involvement in
public affairs.
But it goes beyond a narrow focus on any one of these things. Good community
development work is done in ways which challenge disadvantage and tackle

inequalities. It involves changing the relationship between ordinary people and

people in positions of power. It is not simply about listening to the loudest
voices, or doing things the way they have always been done. It is an approach to
achieving social change. It is based on the idea that disadvantage and social
injustice cannot be tackled by top-down solutions alone.
COMMUNTIY DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION
Community development is an active process. It happens when somebody
intervenes to help people to achieve things that they might not otherwise do.
Who does the Community development?
Community development work can be done by a wide range of workers (paid
and unpaid) in a wide range of organizations. Knowledge and skills are
required. These are often gained partly through training, which is available at all
levels up to postgraduate. Especially in local authorities, now a days many
professional workers work in community learning an Development teams these
may include specialist community development or capacity, building, workers,
alongside colleagues who apply community development principles to adult
learning or youth work.
Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by
providing them with the skills they need to effect change within their
communities. These skills they need to effect change within their communities.
These skills are often created through the formation of large social groups
working for a common agenda community developers must understand both
how to work with individuals and how to affect communities positions within
the context of larger social institutions.
Definitions of community development.

Community development is defined as a process where community members

come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common
problems. It is broad term given to the practices of civic leaders, activists,
involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of communities,
typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities
The United Nations defines Community development broadly as "a process
where community members come together to take collective action and generate
solutions to common problems."
Community Development Exchange defines community development as both
an occupation (such as a community development worker in a local authority)
and a way of working with communities. Its key purpose is to build
communities based on justice, equality and mutual respect.
Community development involves changing the relationships between
ordinary people and people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part
in the issues that affect their lives. It starts from the principle that within any
community there is a wealth of knowledge and experience which, if used in
creative ways, can be channeled into collective action to achieve the
communities' desired goals.
Community development practitioners work alongside people in communities
to help build relationships with key people and organizations and to identify
common concerns. They create opportunities for the community to learn new
skills and, by enabling people to act together, community development
practitioners help to foster social inclusion and equality.
The Community Development Challenge report, which was produced by a
working party comprising leading UK organizations in the field (including
(Foundation Builders) Community Development Foundation, the (now

defunct)Community Development Exchange and the Federation for Community

Development Learning) defines community development as:
A set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty
and disadvantage, knitting society together at the grass roots and deepening
democracy. There is a community development profession, defined by national
occupational standards and a body of theory and experience going back the best
part of a century. There are active citizens who use community development
techniques on a voluntary basis, and there are also other professions and
agencies which use a community development approach or some aspects of it.
HISTORY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Community development practitioners are involved in organizing meetings and
conducting searches within a community to identify problems, identify assets,
locate resources, analyse local power structures, assess human needs, and
investigate other concerns that comprise the community's character (case study).
These practitioners, sometimes called social activists, use social resources to get
the economic and political leverage that a community uses to meet their needs.
Often, the social resources within the community are found to be adequate to
meet these needs if individuals work collectively through techniques like
cooperation and volunteerism. A form of community development that links
academic resources to community problems in a reciprocally beneficial manner
is community-based participatory research (CBPR), a form of research which
engages a community fully in the process of problem definition/issue selection,
research design, conducting research, and interpreting the results. One of the
principal ways in which CBPR differs from traditional research is that instead of
creating knowledge for the advancement of a field or for knowledge's sake,
CBPR is an iterative process, incorporating research, reflection, and action in a
cyclical process. In the UK Rural Community Councils support local

communities to build sustainable futures. They assist local communities in a

form of CBPR called community led planning. Rural Community Councils
employ experienced, independent community development workers.
DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Community economic development (CED)
Community capacity building
Social capital formation
Political participatory development
Nonviolent direct action
Ecologically sustainable development
Asset-based community development
Faith-based community development
Community practice social work
Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Community mobilization
Community empowerment
Community participation
In detail of numerous overlapping approaches to community development
Community capacity building; focusing on helping communities obtain,
strengthen, and maintain the ability to set and achieve their own development
objectives.

Social capital formation; focusing on benefits derived from the cooperation

between individuals and groups.
Nonviolent direct action; when a group of people take action to reveal an
existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to
a social issue which is not being addressed through traditional societal
institutions (governments, religious organizations or established trade unions)
are not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.
Economic development, focusing on the "development" of developing
countries as measured by their economies, although it includes the processes
and policies by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social
well-being of its people.
Community economic development (CED); an alternative to conventional
economic development which encourages using local resources in a way that
enhances economic outcomes while improving social conditions.
Sustainable development; which seeks to achieve, in a balanced manner,
economic development, social development and environmental protection
outcomes.
Community-driven development (CDD), an economic development model
which shifts overreliance on central governments to local communities.
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); is a methodology that seeks to
uncover and use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable
development.
Faith-based community development; which utilises faith based organisations to
bring about community development outcomes.

Community-based participatory research (CBPR); a partnership approach to

research that equitably involves, for example, community members,
organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the research
process and in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making
and ownership, which aims to integrate this knowledge with community
development outcomes.
Community organizing; a term used to describe an approach that generally
assumes that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in
order to generate collective power for the powerless.
Participatory planning including community-based planning (CBP); involving
the entire community in the strategic and management processes of urban
planning; or, community-level planning processes, urban or rural.
Methodologies focusing on the educational component of community
development, including the community-wide empowerment that increased
educational opportunity creates.
Methodologies addressing the issues and challenges of the Digital divide,
making affordable training and access to computers and the Internet, addressing
the marginalisation of local communities that cannot connect and participate in
the global Online community. In the United States, nonprofit organizations such
as Per Scholas seek to break the cycle of poverty by providing education,
technology

and

economic

opportunities

to individuals,

families

and

communities as a path to development for the communities they serve.

There are a myriad of job titles for community development workers and their
employers include public authorities and voluntary or nongovernmental
organisations, funded by the state and by independent grant making bodies.
Since the nineteen seventies the prefix word community has also been adopted

by several other occupations from the police and health workers to planners and
architects, who have been influenced by community development approaches.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
To empower individuals and group of people by providing them with the skills
they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often
created through the formation of large social groups working for a common
agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with
individuals and how to affect communities position within the context of larger
social institutions. Community development involves changing the relationships
between ordinary people in positions of power, so that everyone can take part in
the issues that affect their lives. It starts from the principle that within any
community there is a wealth of knowledge and experience which, if used in
creative ways, can be channelled into collective action to achieve the
communities desired goals.
A set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty
and disadvantage, knitting the society together at the grass roots and deepening
democracy. Community development is a structured intervention that gives
communities greater control over the conditions that affect their lives. This does
not solve all the problems faced by a local community, but it does build up
confidence to tackle such problems as effectively as any local action can.
Community development works at the level of local groups and organisations
rather than with individuals or families. The range of local groups and
organisations representing communities at local level constitutes the community
sector.
OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME :
The community development programme has for its objectives economic
development, social change and democratic growth. These three objectives are

to be promoted jointly and in such a manner that they support one another. In
India, the objective behind the community development programme is to
develop the resources of the people and to assist each village in planning and
carrying out the integrated agricultural production. Like this, the major
objectives of this project are:
To change the outlook of the village people
To improve the existing village crafts and industries and organizing new
ones
Providing required educational facilities for children
To provide recreational facilities
To help them maintain a cleaner surroundings by conducting awareness
programmes.
Improving housing and family living conditions of villagers
To develop a responsive village leadership, village organization and
institutes
To suggest the villagers how to increase their income and standard of
living
To develop the villagers so that they become self-reliant and responsible
citizens
Organizing or arranging trainings for voluntary local leaders like
members of panchayats, village and block advisory committees etc. and
professional community development workers like village level workers,
extension officers etc.

 The community development has been instituted with a view to free the
toiling millions of the country from the chain of economic slavery.
Broadly speaking it creates opportunities to guarantee the people their
basic human rights such as right to earn a living the right to receive the
rewards of ones efforts.
In fact it is a living movement giving the people new hopes and
aspirations for better and peaceful living. The people are taking a breath
of solace after a long suppression by foreign rulers over centuries.
However the board aims and objectives can be discussed as follow:
i) Community development is based on the principle of people welfare.
This would be expressed in such terms which are intelligible to the
people. The programme should be capable to inspire people to develop
the desire for better living by dint of their own efforts.
ii) Community development programme aims at promoting and
developing socio cultural and economic conditions of a particular
community. Such a development is to be achieved through co ordinate
methods with more emphasis on utilisation of local resources.
iii) To bring about an all round development in the field of industry,
agriculture, etc.
iv) To develop a feeling of community living.
v) To develop the sense of self dependence and self reliance among the
people.
vi) To make the villages self sufficient and to bring them to the main
stream of national life by fostering the spirit of nationalism.

PROFILE OF THE ORGANISATION

SAPTHGIRI

HOME

NURSING

SERVICES

(HOME

FOR

THE

OLDAGE)
HISTORY
Sapthagiri is recognized by the government of Karnataka .The founder
Mrs.vijayshanthi who has done with her post graduate degree in master of social
work (MSW) in Bangalore University in the year 1991.Her friends Mr.patil and
Mr.shivappa they had exposure visits to various volunteer organizations, initiate
a development organization to give back our knowledge and skills to the needy
people in our society particularly the rural masses.
Our institution of sapthagiri was not a sudden idea, it came into existences on
07-11-2005 . At the outset the team felt that they could focus on health and
sanitation and conducted awareness programmes , and also carried out a survey
for houseless people and submitted a proposal to CAPART, NEW DELHI and
got sanctioned 25houses and built houses for the neediest people .
The nobel view of the organisation is to render service with clear vission , real
mission and strong comittiment to all kinds of disablities for their welfare,
education and rehabilitation. Reach thr unreached through provision of quality
and quantity of services for better lives of differently abled. The residents when
they arrive at the home one thing are common that they are in drive need of love
and serious and immediate medical attention which is not fulfilled by them here
were the old age home plays an important role. Homes for the aged are ideal for
elderly people who are alone, face health problems, depression and lonliness.
Organization gets funds to run this organization from donors who dont disclose
their name.

ABOUT SAPTHAGIRI OLD AGE HOME

Abandoning the aged persons is alarming everyday. They are ill treated by their
kith n kin since they are unproductive. They are not in position to contribute
anything economically to their families. They are also suffering from many
diseases such as diabetics ,cataract ,blood pressure etc. the inmates in our home
totally abandoned by their family members. In our home we provide all the
services at free of cost to our inmates. Old people need every sort of basic
failities along with peace and happiness at this crucial stage of life , Hence we
think this is the most needed and essential service to be done.The inmates of
this old age are physically, posses rich ,knowledge filled experience and talents.
Hence without neglecting or ignoring them one should appreciate their golden
moments. only then it would be a great contribution to the siociety. Spathagiri
also expects the same kind of help and co-operation from the public and join
hands with them in treading this path of service.
They have rich and wonderful imaginations, talent and real life experience
which can be used in rightful way for the success of our society. With this aim
and objective we are serving the needy people and old aged.
Sapthagiri gives a disciplened way of life and the services rendered to the
inmates of this oldage home as been appreciated by one and all. The old age
home as merely a feeding center for the aged people. It wants to give a new
image to the concept of the old age home. the plight and the living condition of
these old age homes are heart touching.
SAPTHAGIRI PROVIDES SERVICES LIKE:
Old people care
Home nursing services

 Wound care and dressing

Injection-BP recording
Enema and catherisation
Ryles tube inspection and negulisation
The inmates are from different parts of Karnataka. They are above 55-60 years
some of them are little bit educated. 50% of the inmates are able to work
physically the remaining were bed ridden.
ON THE AREA
The old age home is located at #51, 19 th cross laxmipuram ulsoor (opp.
B.P. Bakery) Bangalore-560008.
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA COVERED
Sapthagiri is operating its activities in ulsoor, utharahalli, devar chikknalli,
urban of Bangalore and also in some rural of Bangalore.
VISSION
" They might be aged but their experiences can't be dethroned "
MISSION
"To work with marginalized sections of the society towards their empowerment
and enable them to evolve a vision of an alternative society including alternate
models of social and economic relations and alternate development paradigm"

OUR REACH

Our reach is expanding to the territories to the Bengaluru urban and rural to help
old age find their needs. We are focusing on the identifying the less privileged
across Bangalore and help them to get complete access to quality life with
normal and hygiene food and shelter.
UPCOMING CHARITY ACTIONS

Mid-day meal program

Home based education program
We also provide manpower to other NGOs in order to serve their inmates.
Improving the living condition of the old ages
Provide recreational facilities for the old ages to keep them happy

ADVERTISING OF THE OLD AGE HOME

Advertising of sapthagiri old age home is through distribution pamphlets
in our operational areas and other places and also fastening the handouts
in routine buses, field staff and help line.
Referred by other NGOs and old age home run by others on payment
basis since ours is free old age home
They also use use banners in commercial areas to popularize their old age
home
Most of the inmates of the home had joined the old age home through
advertisement in VIJAYA KARNATAKA news paper by seeing our
advertisements
Sapthagiri has also registered in JUSTDAIL in order to get easy access to
the people who are in need for old age home
Sapthagiri also advertises through mass media like television and radios

VISITING CARD

PAMPHLETS

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION

Sapthagiri old age home provides various facilities to old age people. There are
around 20 members in which 12 are female and 8 are male who live there.
Sapthagiri provides them all their basic needs.

The organization provides breakfast in the morning at 8 o clock.

The organization provides an eye protein for inmates at 11am.
The organization also provides lunch from 12:45pm to 1:30pm
They provide hot water for bathing .
They also give sponge bath for the physically handicapped inmates.
They also provide three times tea or coffee according to the requirements
of the inmates.
They also given a separate locker to keep their belongings.
Along with these all things like bed, pillow, blanket, clothes and utensils
and all other things required to live day to day life.
Doctors are visited twice a week.
In addition to all these things, people are given medical treatment at free
of cost and also performed funeral ceremonies for dead peoples very
systematically.
There is good seating arrangements outside of the organization with
number of benches and chairs.
If any inmate is physically challenged and cannot do his own work then
organization will appoint servant and make all his work to be done
properly.
Creating recreational activities with in the organization in order to
bloom and cherish the mind, smile and happiness of the inmates.

FINANCIAL ASPECTS
The success of a long-term financial strategy depends upon your abilities to get
connected and networked in order to establish several long-term partnerships

that will support your basic need of secure funding throughout the years. It is
also important to think creatively and evaluate different options. For instance,
you could start a collaboration with organisations whose overarching goal is
different from yours, but with whom you could work on short projects
combining interests, ideas, and efforts.

MY INTERVENTION

HUMAN RESOURCE ASPECTS

INTRODUCTION
The Human Resource Management for Ngo here aims to make small and
medium-sized Ngo understand and assess organizational behavior and
functioning;

manage

organizations

through

planning,

implementing

and monitoring activities strategically; improve the performance of their staff;

build effective management systems, policies and plans and improve longterm sustainability and resource mobilization.
Human resource management is the management of the people who work in an
organization. They can be managers, employees, project officers, field workers,
coordinators. Since the organization is run by these people, they are considered
to be a resource a human resource. Like we use funds to manage a project,
we also need to use these human resources or the people to manage the
organization.
It is not enough just to have a dedicated team for an organization. It is
fundamentally believed that unless the team is not properly managed, motivated
and performed, the organization will not achieve its goal and objectives.
The Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is a database that records and
maintains information about all employees in an organization. This system is
useful in job recruitment, developing terms of reference, and monitoring,
assessing and coordinating work with each of the employee. This system also
ensures transparency of the organization in employing people.

We are familiar with MIS or Management Information System to

implement projects and deliver results. The Human Management Information
System is similar to it in the sense that it is used to manage the staff and achieve
results for the growth of the organization.
Although this kind of information system is also used for carrying out job
analysis and career development of an employee is larger organizations, here is
a simple format which Ngo use to record and store data related to their
employees.
It is better to use a Microsoft Excel sheet to fill in the information, save the file
in the computer and take a printout and file it at a safe place. The document
should be easily accessible for others to see.
ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Central to an effective quality system is commitment and support from
management at all levels including
Clearly defined organizational structure that define accountability,
authority and responsibility
Designation of a quality manager, with the necessary skill and expertise ,
in each blood center and hospital blood bank.
Formulation of a quality section or identified work are in each blood
center and hospital blood bank from which quality activity can be
coordinated
Development of a culture of quality through a management focus on
building quality into all activities
Motivation of staff to ensure their commitment and support for the
quality system

 Identification of specific process and procedure their and critical control

points
Development of a system to manage the issue, use and retrieval of
documents
There is no particular procedure for recruitment and there are two employees
who is qualified in masters or other employee who performs data entry and
administrative work is qualified with B.com. There are other supporting staff
in achieving the organizational objectives of the NGO.
TRAINING
Comprehensive, appropriate and effective training is required for all staff
and other health care professionals.
Important activities includes
Training policy and plan
Training for all staff in general principals of quality, the quality
system, documentation and use of quality monitoring tools
Training program for other health care professionals
Clear understanding of the role of the individual in the quality system
Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of training and its impact
The NGO also provides staff training for 1 month with daily 2 hours.
Staff Recruitment Policy of NGO:
Staff recruitment is the process of hiring staff to carry out various activities in
an organization. In Ngo, staff recruitment is mostly determined by the
availability

of

ongoing projects and

how

they

have

been

budgeted.

Nevertheless, staff recruitment is essential because many donors seek to know

what policies grantees have adopted in terms of hiring personnel for projects
funded by them. No male staffs are recruited.

ADMISSION PROCESS FOR OLD AGED PEOPLE

The member should be of the age of 60 or above.
If a person doesnt have any relatives then organization approves his or
her admission even though he or she is not of the age above 60.
A person should be with his or her relatives. If he or she doesnt have any
relatives then any person very near to him or her like neighbour etc,
should be with him or her.
They dont accept any kind of monetary help from relatives.
STAFF IN THE NGO
There are 8 staff working in the centre. Their role & responsibilities are as
follows.
DUITIES OF THE STAFF IN THE NGO
1)SUPERINTENDENT/WARDEN/MANAGER
She is total responsible for the programme
Monitoring and supervision of day to day affaires of the programme
Her responsibility is to take care of the inmates in all aspects including
medical care
Managing and maintaining the home
2)SOCIAL WORKER/COUNSELOR
Responible for counselling the inmates
Taking them to hospitals for any treatments
Visiting the field areas and conduct awareness on the problems of the
elderly persons
Adocacy the grama panchayat members, local leaders on the senior
citizens problems.
3)DOCTORS(PART TIME)

 Responible for health care of the inmates

Referring them to other hospitals if it is required
4)NURSE(PART TIME)
Responsible for health care of the inmates
Assisting the doctor in his work
5)COOK
Responsible for cooking the foods in time
Keeping the kitchen and dining hall neat and clean
Take the instruction from the warden/superintendent for daily routine of
menus and others
6)SECURITY
Keep vigil on the home in the night time
Take care of the inmates in his duty time
NGO MANAGEMENT PROFILE
The director of the Sapthagiri NGO is Mrs vijayshanthi.
They have nurse or GNM (General nursing mid wifire) this is done by
Mrs anjali who is incharge of both administration and office incharge
As the head of patient incharge Mrs.Rashmi a BSc staff plays an
important role in the services of the NGO inmates
The NGO also provides staff training for 1 month with daily 2 hours
They have 4 Field visitiors for every center
The BSc nursing staff where recruited from hospitals if only they had 6
years of hospital service in experiences
There are 5 wardens, 3 cleaning workers, 5 BSc nurses, 2 visiting
counsellors, 3 part time doctors, 2 cooks, 2 security guards.
SWOT Analysis

Only NGOs perform well are likely to survive and grow in the long term.
Organisations that fail to manage themselves appropriately, struggle to achieve
their mission and find it difficult to create real change are likely to ultimately
found themselves cast by the way side in the favour of more efficient ones.
Therefore, the ability to be able to strategically evaluate your organisations
performance is crucial to its long term sustainability.
The SWOT analysis is highly effective tool for understanding and decision
making for all business including NGOs. SWOT is an acronym for strength,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats the tool can be used for business strategic
planning, competitor evaluation, marketing, product development and more.
Strength and weaknesses describe where the project or organization is now :
the existing resources that can be used immediately and current problems that
wont go away .It can help identify where new resources, skills or allies will be
needed ;Both refer to technical, financial, promotional, networking, knowledge
or competency based factors internal to the program. when thinking of strengths
it is useful to think of real examples of success to ground and clarify the
conversation strengths are those things that are working well in a project or
situation. The aspects people are proud to talk about and which differentiate the
programs from others. Weaknesses are those things that have not worked well or
that the program is less efficient in than others.
Opportunities and threats describe what is going on outside the organization or
areas which are not yet affecting the strategy but could do; Opportunities
include ideas on how to overcome weaknesses and build on strengths; within
the environment the program operates .Threats are things that constrain or
threaten the range of opportunities for change in the program environment. The
external aspects are often related to sociological, political, demographic,
economic, trade specific and environmental factors. The SWOT analysis

template is normally presented as a grid comprising four sections, one for each
of the SWOT headings : strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Below
is the SWOT analysis of sapthagiri old age home Bangalore:

STRENGTH

WEAKNESS

It is purely service based

The
structure
is
well
established as it is center of the
city
Medicines and doctor facilities
are available 24/7
Every attender supervises two
people only
Management is well organized
and staff are well trained
They
are
capalabe

Fund raising for the NGO is

been a challenging path
Lack of popularity of the old
age home
Lack of

proper

spacious

infrastructure in the old age

home
Insufficient volunteers to serve
the members of the old age

of

home
Improper response from the

responding flexibly and rapidly

public to the field workers in

to peoples needs and changing

case of emergency
The trust is not built that big

circumstance
It has advantage

of

tax

enough in the public

exemption

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

It can link with other NGOs

Limited financial resources to

when in need for volunteers

the old age home

Lack of volunteer and staff to

for the old age home

They should also set up society

the old age home

Accessibility by the old age

in various places across the

city in order to expand the old

people is one of the threat

Lack of support from the

age home
They can show improvement

external factors
Political interference and civic

in publicity of the home in

leaders

cause

order to raise more funds

hinderence to their work

major

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
The very concept of an old age home is new to India. An old age home is
usually the place, a home for those old people who have no one to look after
them or those who have been thrown out of their homes by their children. The

place is of course like home where the inmates get all the facilities for a routine
living, like food, clothing, and shelter.
It is very clear to all who visit an old age home that, all the inmates are there,
not for the love of being away from home and independent but, because there is
no better alternative left for them, once they are neglected and unwanted in their
homes by their own children.
The only solace is that, they are getting their daily requirements of shelter and
food - if not the bonds of love from the family.
Infrastructure of the organization is not so good.
Houses are not well maintained.
As there are only few rooms and there are 20 members so it is very
inconvenient for them to live in this much space.
There are concerned only about two time meal and only the basic needs.
But they are very emotionally hurt and they have to live far asway from
their family.
People were not willing to answer any question related to their past
memory.
It provides education to physically disabled person, blind or mentally
retarded people.
This project has helped me to become a better person. I got an experience to get
adjust with each other and also to forget and forgive.

CONCLUSION
Old age had never been a problem for India where a value- based joint family
system is supposed to prevail. Indian culture is automatically respectful and
supportive of elders. Ageing as a natural phenomenon has all along engaged the
attention of the civilized world. Provision for the aged in the society has become

one of the constitutive themes of our modern welfare state. The problems of the
aged vary from society to society and have many dimensions in our country.
However the disintegration of the joint family system and the impact of
economic change have brought into sharp focus the peculiar problems which the
old people now face in our country
And in the traditional sense, the duty and ob-ligation of the younger generation
towards the older generation is being eroded. The older generation is caught
between the decline in traditional values on one hand and the absence of an
adequate social security system on the other hand thus, finding it difficult to
adjust in the family.
They have started walking out of their own home in search of a journey that
promises peace, joy and celebration of life with a group of people who share the
same boat of life. However not may rather any of them receive it. Young people
with vigor and strength forget that its not too late for them to be in the same
shoes.
If we respect the one who has molded you into a fine being, then just hold their
hand and lead them straight into your home. They dnt need our money or
luxury, they just needs shoulder to lean. Help them lead the last few days of
their life that doesnt trigger loneliness.

SUGGESTION
In India the ageing process was influenced by the socio-economic development
of the society. Better standard of living, freedom from infectious diseases, and
better nutrition, social protection programs, be it for a limited number of

working class- all contributed to the ageing process of the society. But now we
are entering into a new century, where the process is going to be reversed. The
ageing of society is going to affect the course of socio-economic development.
On one hand it is a welcome trend that human beings are living longer in our
country on the other hand the situation poses a potential danger if not addressed
immediately- we may have millions of destitute down the line. A serious
welfare policy shift is required to address the situation. Some of the
recommendations
may be:
a) Encouraging the family members in the first place to take care of their aged
parents and incentive scheme wherever feasible and possible,
b) Including geriatric sociology in the curriculum of the schools so as to
sensitize the younger generations to the problems of the aged so that they may
keep the family tradition in tact
c) Value education, advocacy on the rights of the aged has got to be given
priority in all the programmes
d) Immediate strengthening of primary health centers and motivating the
doctors to
work in the primary health centers in rural India
e) Retraining rural un-qualified doctors, who have been accepted by the rural
socio
economic system, in geriatric care and assigning them with the responsibility of
elderly care
f) Designing and developing occupation based social security programs for the
workers in the Unorganised sector with individual contribution and along with
employer contribution where ever there is an identifiable employer;
g) A rights based approach than an institutionalization of aged care should be
thought of for mainstreaming the aged
h) Establishing district wise old age homes with community support; ( As a lost

resort for family care and mainstreaming is strongly recommended)

i) Raising the retirement age in public service to 65 so that the knowledge and
skills of the aged can be fully utilized at the same time lessening the burden on
pension systems to pay for longer unproductive years

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