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Corporate Social Responsibility: Adopt-a-Slum (Block/ Street) Introduction:

"We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home." -The Dalai Lama
This quote gives us a notion that we live in a community and its development is not only the responsibility of few people rather of all and we can work towards it only if we understand that the whole world is our home. In Indian scriptures, it has been nicely put as vasudeva Kutumbakam. We can work for the upliftment of our nation only if we really believe in this. But overtime, we forget our responsibilities, and this term remains only in our textbooks for children. Our Vedas say that a man can live individually but can survive only collectively. Hence the challenge is to form a progressive community by balancing the interests of individuals and that of the society. To meet this, we need to develop a value system where people accept modest sacrifices for the common good. A value system is the protocol for behaviour that enhances the trust, confidence and commitment of members of the community. It goes beyond the domain of legality. It includes putting the community interest ahead of our own. In India and elsewhere there is a growing realization that business enterprises are, after all, born out of the society and must therefore, serve it for their own enlightened sustenance in the enlightened self interest for sustainable social development. It then becomes the duty and responsibility of the business to share the burden of the society to develop and mentor the community and to enrich it as a whole. The ministry of company affairs (MCA), which is finalizing the new Companies Bill, has accepted a Parliamentary Standing Committees recommendation on the issue. The standing committee on finance headed by former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has proposed that companies with a turnover of Rs 1,000 crore or net profit of Rs 5 crore or more earmark 2% of their net profit for the preceding three years on CSR. (The Times of India, 10 th February, 2012).

Concept Note: It is the law of nature is that you sow a seed, you get grains, if you need more grains, you need to put back certain amount back to the land to get new grain. This is what is CSR i.e. giving back to the society, a part of what you have received from the society. Any kind of activity, department, person etc. has to give back to the environment to earn more like name, fame, money, business, reputation etc.

As we are aware that its a give and take function or relation, even to earn respect from your own children, we have to support them, provide them with all the facilities then only they work for us or respect us. Without this even they dont value us, thus, leave apart the rest of the society. Thus, to gain stature in the society it is important to work for it and give us whatever input that we can. As guruji rightly states: Spiritualize the religion, secularize the politics, socialize the business and that is Art of Living The 4 major concerns in todays community development that an organization can tab at are:

EDUCATIO N
EMPLOYME NT

SLUM

HEALTH

Fig. 1 Immediate national concern

Background of our work:

HYGIEN E

Slum Population simply refers to people living in slum areas below the poverty line. As India is still on the path of development, there is large number of people living below the poverty line. These people usually live in slum areas connected to the city. According to Government sources, the Slum Population of India have exceeds the population of Britain. It has doubled in last two decades. According to last census in 2001, the slum-dwelling population of India had risen from 27.9 million in 1981 to 61.8 million in 2001. Indian economy has achieved a significant growth of 8 percent annually in last four years, but there is still large number of people nearly 1.1 billion still survives on less than 1 $ (around 52 INR) in a day. Increase in Indian Population over a period of time has also resulted in slum population growth. Despite of Government efforts to build new houses and other basic infrastructure, most of the people living in slum areas do not have electricity, water supply and cooking gas. i After Mumbai, Delhi has the second largest slum Population in India. Nearly 1.8 million people lives in slum areas in capital of India - New Delhi. These people are mostly unemployed or daily wage workers who cannot even afford basic necessities of life. Delhi Slums: Delhi, capital of India, is estimated that 45% of its population lives in unauthorized colonies, Jhughi Jhompri (JJ) and urban villages. As the UN-HABITAT definition states a slum household is a group of individuals living under the same roof in an urban area that lack one or more of the following: 1. Durable housing of a permanent nature that protects against extreme climate conditions. 2. Sufficient living space which means not more than three people sharing the same room. 3. Easy access to safe water in sufficient amounts at an affordable price. 4. Access to adequate sanitation in the form of a private or public toilet shared by a reasonable number of people. 5. Security of tenure that prevents forced evictions.

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fig. 2 total population is delhi slums

In Delhi state, it is estimated that 40/% population live in slums & resettlement colonies and there is ever increasing migrating population in Delhi from neighbouring states like U.P., Rajasthan, Bihar, etc.. There are a no. of factors responsible for people to come to Delhi like landless labour, poverty, search for better employment/

income, disorganized families etc. hence, the growth of slums, resettlement colonies, unauthorized colonies remain unchecked. In slums : There are lack of proper civic amenities, educational opportunities, proper employment, recreational facilities.

Fig type of settlements in delhi (Source: Economic Survey, GoNCTD, 2007-08) Fig Health Health of Women Women and and Infants Infants in Delhi Delhi Jhuggies Jhuggies Fig: Infant mortality rate ............................100/1000 Infant mortality rate ............................100/1000live livebirths births Under Underfive fivemortality mortalityrate rate.................................... ....................................146/1000 146/1000 Total Totalimmunization immunization(children (childrenup upto to22years) years).............. ..............60% 60% Severe malnutrition.................................................... 40% Severe malnutrition.................................................... 40% Three prenatal checks of pregnant women............... 17% Three prenatal checks of pregnantmid-wives women............... Deliveries conducted by untrained ...........17% 80% Deliveries conducted by untrained mid-wives ........... 80%

The Community - Trilokpuri The Trilokpuri re-settlement colony was set-up in the month of March, 1976 during the time of emergency. It came as part of cleaning the city drive where the people from the slums were moved out of the city. The aim at that time was to move the squatters outside the periphery of the city. Today Trilokpuri again finds itself within the city. Nearly 5 lakhs people have made Trilokpuri their abode in search of livelihood. As regards jurisdiction, the community is located in East District of Delhi and is divided into two phases - Phase I comprises block 1 to 12 and phase II comprises block 13 to block 36. Each block has 500 houses, roughly 25 sq yards in size. Some Jhuggi clusters have also come up haphazardly in between these blocks.

SOURCE : http://des.delhigovt.nic.in/Census2001/wards.html

WA RD NO.

WARD NAME

NUMBER OF

TOTAL POPULATION

SC POPULATION

0-6 AGE POPULATION TOT AL MAL E FEM ALE TOTA L

LITERATE

SEX RAT IO

TOTAL HOUSEHOL D

MALE

FEMA LE

TOT AL

MAL E

FEMALE

MAL E

FEM ALE

LITE RAC Y RAT E

67

TRILOKP URI

38235

185889

1021 12

8377 7

412 04

222 71

18933

291 88

153 52

138 36

1248 08

756 04

492 04

820

79.6 5

Fig. 3 ORSTOM-IEG household survey1995,

casteprofile
upper class OBC SC& ST 27 22 51

fig. 4 representing caste makeup of population

relig ionprofile
sikh, muslim & Jain hindu muslim

fig 5, representing the religion wise make up of the population in Trilokpuri slum area

The above given data provides the total make up of the slum dwellers on the basis of their religion and caste. Figure 3 also represents the state in which the majority of slum dwellers stay i.e. approximately 85% of population of slum does not even have toilet, and thus we can understand the way these people stay without any proper sanitation, and the water that they may thus, get. Moreover, out of 60 dwellings, 47 are in unauthorized colonies (76%), and 13 in regularized colonies (21%). The Ambedkar Block: This block is an unauthorized dwelling that lies in between Block 32-33. It has a population of about 4,000 people with maximum people lying in the age group of 15-35 years. On this basis, we can state there are about 1500 households in the total camp. During our conversation with them, it was found that maximum children in the camp dont go to school because the facilities provided in the camp are not adequate, and even if they do want to go then their parents stop them, as they feel that their kids should earn rather than going to the school. Because of this, maximum children are involved in labour work, and this also leads them to consume drugs and involve in anti social activities like theft, murder etc.

The above given two pictures represents the present reality of the conditions under which these people are staying. Based on these, we can very well estimate their standard of living and other parameters by which we judge a person and their surroundings. This also represents the need, scope and expectations of the kind of work that, that community has for its development. The parents do not understand the value of education, hence do not make efforts for educating their wards. Lack of education, discipline and moral values result in youth engaging in Crime. Initially they are involved in petty offenses, but later it takes a serious turn like Murder, Drugs, robbery, looting etc. These are the views represented by Inspector Arvind Sagar Negi (SHO- Mayur Vihar East). These very well echo the views of the slum dwellers when they were asked. When further questions regarding the development of block were asked, he agreed that right motivation, direction and directing their energies in a creative directions. But he also expressed his concern, that doing a few days program will not help, as lot of NGOs made their sincere efforts to resettle these youth, but majorly the reason of failure of lack of a sustainable strategy.

Inspector Negi also feels, that the parents of these wards, generally work either as domestic servant in bungalows nearby or as sanitation workers. Since they themselves are not very educated, they engage their wards in petty jobs, slowly getting them into child labour. These children, when they will grow up, develop lot of aggression, rebellion behaviour and have very low moral values nd ethics due to lack of education and motivation. It is found, at very early age these children are caught in petty crimes like drugs, drug trafficking, pick pocketing, theft etc. He felt that any sustainable initiative of bringing these youth and children into education, motivating them for respectable livelihood, to quite an extent, this will help reducing the crime rate of Ambedkar Camp and nearby area.

Why invest in corporate social responsibility for community development There could be four major reasons why companies need to be responsible to society. Each of these could make for good business case. Purely philanthropic reason; Internal reasons like employee morale and customer and shareholder satisfaction; External reasons like satisfying local communities, publicity and tax benefits; Enlightened self interest, wherein a stable social environment and increasing prosperity mean a larger market, and hence more profits in the long term. In todays scenario companies are generally acutely aware of the need to conduct their business responsibly in the countries in which they operate and recognise the need to reconcile all three pillars of sustainable development in their decisions and activities. Many companies have expressly developed and adopted their own corporate principles and codes of conduct, which they apply to their worldwide operations. They have long realized that understanding their responsibilities and investing substantially in their own human resources enable them to attract and retain a highly qualified workforce. But, in this development they have forgotten that CSR is not only restricted to the employees, but they have an obligation to the community or society in which they operate. Applying Abraham Maslows hierarchy of need paradigm we can infer that human at their basic level have pure physiological needs i.e. food, clothing and house needs, but once they work their way up in the pyramid, they also have need for achievement and esteem. One of the parameter to achieve this is by contributing to the society however we can. But again what are the major advantages if you invest in the project. These can be summarize into 5 points: Image Building : Slums hold a very high media and public attention Attracting Eye Balls : Touching of basic National Concerns of Health, hygiene, education and

employment will certainly attract attention. Word of Mouth Publicity of Brand among Masses Available Pool of highly motivated young Manpower for Grade IV positions in your organization. Opportunities to Connect your Employees in Community Service by organizing Volunteer Service day/Week, thus uplifting sense of Satisfaction among Employees.

PROJECT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES As we have already mentioned that there are four main key areas that an organization can contribute in for the development of its community. These are

Health- as we can infer from the above discussion, i.e. the condition that they stay in it is not difficult to assume what all diseases that they might be suffering from including malaria, dengue, cholera (this is most prevalent during the rainy season). Another reason that might make these people vulnerable to these diseases is the inadequate nutrition available in their diet . But because these people are unaware of the treatments that are available to them and also because of fear or lack of money they may suffer in silence. This also increases poverty as they may miss work, which may further endanger the lives of their families and also making them also at risk of development of these diseases. The immunisation level in the slums covers a dismal 34 percent of the population and because of the negligence of civic authorities in providing safe drinking water and sanitation, there is a high incidence of diseases such as diarrhoea (75 percent) and anaemia (63 percent). The nutritional status of the urban poor in Delhi is a matter of concern. Delhi has 35.4 percent stunted, 15.5 percent wasted and 33.1 percent underweight children under the age of three despite being a state with the second highest per capita income in India, the report said. (Hindu, December, 2009) Thus, to rectify these ailments some steps can be taken and this includes creating an awareness regarding different ill health that they might suffer from. This will also include organizing Medical/Vaccination Camps and First Aid Training Workshops. Moreover, organizations can also contribute by providing the community with Ambulance Service, Mortuary Van or running it by themselves, whatever is feasible for the organization.

Factors Economic conditions Social conditions Living environment Access and use of public health care services Hidden / Unlisted slums Rapid mobility

Situation Affecting Health Vulnerability in slums Irregular employment, poor access to fair credit Widespread alcoholism, gender inequity, poor educational status Poor access to safe water supply and sanitation facilities, overcrowding, poor housing and insecure land tenure Lack of access to ICDS and primary health care services, poor quality of health care. Many slums are not notified in official records and remain outside the purview of civic and health services. Temporary migrants denied access to health services and other development programmes, Difficulty in tracking and providing

follow-up health services to recent migrants. Health and disease High prevalence of diarrhoea, fever and cough among children Negotiating Capacity Lack of organized community collective efforts in slums Fig 6 factors contributing to the vulnerability of the urban poor.

EAST DISTT.
DISTT. ASSEM BLY NO. ASSEMBLY NAME SR. NO . DISPENCERIES DATE OF OPENI NG OWNERSH IP OF BUILDING RURAL/URB AN MOTHE RS LAB FACILIT Y CONTAC T NO.

EAST 55 TRILOKPU RI 1. DGP HIMMAT PURI, BLOCK32, HIMMAT PURI, DELHI91(SCSP) 22.03.9 3 GOVT. URBAN NO 22782408

DGP MAYUR VIHAR, 436A, 437A & B, MIG FLATS, MAYUR VIHAR, DELHI91 DGP TRILOKPURI, BLOCK-5, NEAR CHAND CINEMA, TRILOKPURI, DELHI-91, (SCSP) PUHC NEW ASHOK NAGAR, B-69, NEW ASHOK NAGAR, DELHI(PUHC

11.03.8 3

GOVT.

URBAN

YES

22752593

09.06.7 6

GOVT.

URBAN

NO

22782815

24.06.7 6

GOVT.

URBAN

NO

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Fig STATUS OF DELHI GOVT. ALLOPATHIC DISPENSARIES/HEALTH CENTRES/PRIMARY URBAN HEALTH CENTRES in
Trilokpuri area

If we see from the above data, we can very well state that there are just 4 dispensaries available to the people of Trilokpuri, which had been established in 1976, and only one provides the facility of birth to the people and only one is located in Trilokpuri area, rest other lies outside this place. Therefore, this statistics highlight the need for contribution in health.

Hygiene- under this water plays an important role. As if safe water is not provided to the people it can lead to wide variety of health problems and moreover, if proper outlet of water is not made then it can also lead to diseases. Availability of basic civic facilities, like potable water, water disposal and sanitation, are vital human needs for health and efficiency of human beings. On assessment by various organizations, it has been found that available situation in the villages/urban slums in sanitation and water supply is not satisfactory. Location, distance, water source, time to travel, facilities to clean water and cost involved are some important components. Open defecation alone is responsible for many diseases. Over more than 50 infections have been found just due to open defecation. Around 80% of all ill peoples disease is transferred to healthy ones through human excreta and unsafe drinking water. Moreover, people should also be made aware of their own personal hygiene especially women. This will involve educating them to wash their hands, daily baths, etc. Thus, this would include organizing a Cleanliness Drive in the community, also putting up awareness Campaign, Community Involvement Programs, Capacity Building Programs to make people staying in the community aware regarding what are the advantages of staying in a clean place and how it is harming their health. The Hindu (December,2009) report also states that 31 percent of Delhis slum-dwellers has no sanitation facilities and no underground sewage system.

These photos and many others can be taken right now to represent the state of hygiene that is prevalent in this camp. Apart from the diseases that may prevalent because of unhygienic conditions, there have also been reports of sexual abuse on females in news due to non presence of personal baths in these dwellings. (http://www.shareresearch.org/Resource/Details/violenceagainstwomen_india). Education- we all know the importance to basic education in our daily lives. It is not only a necessity to earn livelihood, but it also helps us in our daily lives. It makes us more aware of our surroundings and deal with daily hassles. For example, if they are educated than they would want to lead a hygienic lifestyle, and also, if they are educated than if they suffer from illness than they will be much more motivated to cure it and this will also help in controlling population of our country. Government is also taking steps to increase education for all the children. If the judgment that is pending in supreme court regarding Right to Education is passed, then a lot of changes can take place in this regard. This act will state that all children have a right to free and compulsory education. Moreover, 25% of seats

in private schools (pre-school/class I) shall be reserved. Moreover, progression at this pace will also allow schools to develop professional and emotional needs of children from diverse background. They also state that many children from disadvantaged groups have shown that, given a facilitative environment, they can cope with the curriculum, as well as, so often, even better than other children. They further go on that statistics show that increasingly it is children from relatively poorer households who gain admission into IITs. In sports arena too, it is largely children from poorer households who have excelled. (Kapil Sibal, The Times of India, 2012-04-20). Even though information about this act has been made available to all, yet the end user have not been able to get any respite from the private school owners .
http://josh4india.org/schoolsthrowthe-formin-my-face-ews-applicantfirst-post-feb-9-2012/) (SOURCE :

For many, the experience of dealing with some private schools has been humiliating. Whenever I go for my grandchilds admission, I am turned away. Some of the schools throw the form in my face, others dont even let me inside their gates. The school madams refuse to talk to us even, said an anguished Kamlesh, resident of neighbourhood called Trilokpuri in East Delhi. They tell us to get out. Is this the way to talk? With the government choosing to look other way, there seems to be no respite for parents from the highhandedness of some private schools who remain defiant even in the face of the law. In this regard, an organization can contribute by sponsoring children from these dwellings into a private school nearby their locality. This will help both the tormented parents and the private school owners. These enthusiast children can be located by holding competitions. Moreover, they can also contribute by providing uniform and other school requirements like lunch box, bottles, stationery etc. Apart from this other ways in which a corporate can involve itself is by providing Back-to-School Program for school dropouts, Free Coaching centers for Competitive Exams like IAS, IPS, Medical & Engineering, creating an awareness Programs on various Scholarship / Grant schemes etc. apart from teaching the children, education for adults can also be provided. Employment- the last and the most important point is providing employment to the unemployed people in this camp. Any person consider himself or herself developed only after he has been able to earn and support their families adequately by providing the minimum level of standard of living. This will cater to first making them realize what all they can do and accordingly provide them with the training to develop their skill. When we interviewed the people in the camp, we realized that they are more inclined towards vocational development. For example, women want to get involved with fashion designing, boutique courses whereas, males are more inclined towards courses in battery making, mobile repair etc. To achieve this it would include organizing Capacity Building / Skill Development / Vocational Training to link unemployed youth with Private Service Sector.

As we can see from the above discussion, that all these issues appear to be interrelated to each other and thus, coexist hand in hand. For example, apart from the living conditions that these people are staying in, lack of education also creates opportunities for development of diseases and contributing to ill health. Thus, tapping at one issue can overcome many problems associated with it. Strategy and Activities: Our overall strategy in involved in 3 phases which are:

PHASE I: AWARENESS The first step under this phase is to recognise which block or street that you are interested in adopting and it also includes making the decision to choose from all or any prescribed 4 activities mentioned above. This phase is generally spread over the time of 30 days. After this decision has been made, Art of Living family will then create awareness in that area by: 1- Interacting with slum area opinion makers; 2- Interacting with social leaders; 3- Organizing awareness camps; these include a) Nav-Chetna Shivir (Age- 18-80 years) b) Bal-Chetna Shivir (Age- 8-14 years) c) Yuva-Chetna Shivir (Age- 14-35 years) Objectives of these camps are: Stress free lifestyles; Inculcating hygienic way of life (routine); Motivating participants to take responsibility of cleanliness of their respective surroundings; Enforcing team buildings;

Introducing transformation- sustaining development.

PHASE II: EMPOWERMENT After making people of the community aware of their surroundings, then will come making the youth empower. It is the youth that forms the backbone of any project implementation, because they are the doer, thus, it is of prime importance to empower them and make them responsible for the project for which changes are to be made. This phase involves about 60 days for execution of its programs. Catalyst of Change: Youth Leadership Training Program Sri Sri's Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) is designed to train youth to become community leaders and agents of socio-economic change. launched in 1997 as a flagship project of the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), thousands of youth across the world, including south Asia, Middle East, South Africa, North America and South America area making visible transformations through community involvement.

These pictures represent some of the activities that a participant in usually involved in during the YLTP course. The prospective or future leaders are then identified in the course, who will further help us in implementation of the development activity that we are targeting at. Their inputs will be taken and they will be trained for the implementation of our program. They will then also be asked to make their team which will be from the participants of the shivir. PHASE III: EXECUTION: This phase is involved with launching a program and later monitor and evaluate its success.

This is how one can pictorially represent the development of program. Phases Activities Time Span Phase I Awareness; Shivirs 30 days Phase II Empowerment 60 days Phase III Execution Refer table II Table I representing the phase wise activity and estimated budget This phase development can be explained by taking up the example of creating an awareness of cleanliness campaign in the community. This whole cleanliness drive can be divided into short term or long term. Short term can be for 6 months and long term investment may include an yearly plan. Time span 1 Week Activities involved Providing dustbins i.e. different for paper, plastic and aluminium, 1 cleanliness awareness camp to keep surrounding cleans and how to utilize these dustbins etc. 1 Month Including above points, it will also include improving the sewage system, its cleanliness, where to dispose etc. 3 months Apart from above, how to make garbage enzyme, providing the permanent kit for sewage cleaning, providing redhis to transport the litter. 6 months Including the above activities, it will also include teaching them techniques for recycle, 1 year Apart from the above mentioned programs this will include more inclusive program development like apart from organizing different camps regarding waste management (recycling, garbage enzymes)we will also be involved in helping and guiding them to achieve this, Table 2 representing the timeline for cleanliness drive As we can see from the above table, different approaches will be used within different time frame. For example, if you opt for an yearly plan for the cleanliness development, apart from making people aware of different cleanliness activities i.e. waste management which includes recycling etc., they will also be helped to achieve this. Like apart from making them aware of the different techniques by which they can recycle the waste, some coaching and training will also be given to them. Later, it will be reviewed and they will be monitored whether they are actually making use of the training or not.

If they achieve the required standard, then the possible employment avenues based on this will also be made available to them for example, to sell in a shop, or to make their own shop etc. Similarly, for garbage enzymes, its process takes about 3 months for development, thus in 6 months they can be made aware with full implementation as to how can they make use of it for their personal use and monitored and reviewed. Similarly, in 1 year plan, apart from personal use, they can be taught the business sense to use the same for the other areas, thus, creating an employment provision.

Sponsored garbage carts

dustbins to segregate garbage

FIVE EASY PROVEN METHODS FOR WASTE COLLECTION AND TREATMENT

1.

Lorry at the slum entrance: Slum lanes are usually kept clean, but waste usually lies uncollected in large heaps just outside the slum entrance. It takes a lorry 15-20 minutes to load this. Instead, a lorry waits at slum entrance at a fixed time, while helper moves through slum with whistle to announce its arrival. Slumdwellers come to lorry with their waste. Lorry pickup time and frequency unchanged. So no extra payment is required. Door-to-door collection in handcarts: This is done in Calcuttas upgraded slums where lanes are paved
and wide enough for movement. Waste is collected in the usual way in hand-carts at a fixed time of day. No payment is required as this replaces earlier lane-sweeping practices.

2.

3. Take-away bins in narrow lanes: In Mumbai, slum assns appoint youths for cleaning work, before going
to college or jobs. First a mass clean-up drive is undertaken. Then the new system is immediately started. 7-8am : narrow open drains are swept clean. 8am : 50-litre bins given by city are placed at path crossings, one per 25 homes or so. 8-10 am: waste is carried from each home to nearest bin at residents convenience. 10-11 am: All bins are removed and unloaded directly into waiting truck outside slum, and stacked till next day. Citys cooperation in regular and punctual presence of lorry at 10-11am is vital!!

4. Shared bio-bins: Waste Concern NGO provides 5-6 families a perforated barrel on a raised base, with
compost layer at bottom as a starter bed. Residents must fill only kitchen waste daily in layers not more than ~50mm, for mulch-composting in the barrel. NGO buys the ready compost when barrel is full after 3 months or so. Demand is good and cooperation too, as residents see their waste as valuable.

5. Community bio-bins: This bio-bin replaced a dirty overflowing waste container. It serves 125 families at
Diamond Gdn Chembur, who pay for the program. Segregated waste is loaded daily by door-to-door collectors, bioculture is added & waste is turned. After 15 days, a similar bio-bin is used while the compost in 1st bin matures in 15 more days. Compost is not sold but used in flowerbeds for street beautification. 3 get employed, for an hour a day for dtdoor collection, street and drain cleaning, gardening + composting.

On this basis, we can hire/ donate hand redhies and give them money to collect garbage and put about 40 big dustbins, colour code them so that the people know where to dispose off degradable and non degradeable garbage. This, will make things easier as it will involve division at house level itself.

This pyramid represents the 5 phase paradigm of how the waste can be managed. 1st step requires disposal of garbage. Then recover the waste that can be further utilized for other purposes. Next phase is recycle the product that is recognised in the second phase. Reuse again by duplicating the storage and restore the quality and then finally reduce the waste that is generated. As mentioned before, at the disposal phase itself, the dwellers will be taught how to segregate the waste into degradable and bio-degradable product. Thus, this will ease our recovery of useful waste material from the lot.

Note: if we refer to table provided above regarding the time line for each phase, then we can see that Phase I will take 30 days i.e. 1 month to finish and second phase will be started in the second month. Thus, the final step of implementation of program for development will be started at the beginning of the third month itself. Moreover, the refresher course for recycle program will be held after every 2 months. For the refresher course, the cost covers the amount for food, water, sound, dari and all other logistics required for a seminar.

This diagram well represents our motive and strategy for community development. This starts from making people aware about what we want to do, moving ahead with empowering them to work for the motive and finally executing our proposed activities. This will ultimately result in a cleaner, healthier and informed and would also add an educated society!!!

WHY ART OF LIVING? It was founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Art of Living Foundation is a not-for-profit, educational and humanitarian NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) engaged in stress-management and service initiatives. The organisation operates globally in 151 countries. Art of Living Projects The Art of Living Foundation has spread peace across communities through diverse humanitarian projects, which includes: Conflict Resolution, Trauma & Disaster Relief,

Sustainable Rural /Urban Development, Women Empowerment Prisoner Rehabilitation, Education for all, and Environmental Sustainability. The 5H Program of Art of Living HOME: for Homeless HEALTH: Healthy Life for all HYGIENE: Hygiene Life for all HUMAN values HARMONY in diversity Thus, the above points represent that our organization is involved in various humanitarian projects and since we are the largest volunteer based organization, thus, our approach for developing any community is by utilizing the manpower from that area only and making them aware of their worth in developing their own community or area. This also leads to sense of belongingness within that area and people are more motivated to work for their development and this will lead to better results than with using people from some outside community.

This is the picture of the cleanliness drive that we had organized in Ramdaspur village of odisha and similar drive was also done in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra this year.

These are the pictures from the health check up camp organized by Art of Living in Gujarat. The doctors who put up these camps are all well educated practitioners in good hospitals all over India and are also volunteers, who do it as seva to the community. It is a broom making program that we had organized to empower the women in rural area, so that they are self sufficient and moreover, are not dependent on some outside source to provide them with resource of cleanliness.

This is one of the school opened in Agartala by our organization by the name of Sri Sri Seva Mandir. Thus, from above given pictorial description we can infer that we already made some of the attempts in the area of hygiene, health, employment and education to uplift the rural population in other states of India. And we thus, have a sound policy to how to execute our programs and achieve the requisite results.

CONCLUSION When you serve you feel useful, and when you are useful you always feel wealthy and never feel insecure. You dont need wealth to be a philanthropic- you need to have a philanthropic heart to utilize the wealth you have. You dont have to be super rich to be a philanthropic but you need the intention and will to give. (Forbes, January, 2012). This statement explains rightly what has been written in our Indian scriptures. Indian philanthropy has always found a way, earlier in the form of charity through religious institutions and now through trusts and CSR activities. But charity without involvement is an unsustainable transaction. When one puts his heart and soul in a charity he gets immense satisfaction but if out of social compulsion because others are doing, Guruji says it is also okay as at

least one party is benefitted, but if you give both your heart and soul both the parties are benefitting, the giver and the taker. Our motive is not to provide the slum dweller money or donation so that they can improve the conditions in which they stay, but rather to empower, educate and enable them with our program so that they can earn money themselves and improve their situation.

(source: http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/population/slum-population-in-india.html)

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