Add : Nagdah, Begusarai
Begusarai
Bihar
851117
Tel :
Mobile : 99319 59051
Email : rmvs01@gmail.com
Website :
Contact Person : Prem Kumar Bharti
Purpose : Social Work
Aim/Objective/Mission : Rmvs follows an eight-pronged approach to achieve its goals: since its inception rmvs originally started focusing on literacy and disaster preparedness in begusarai district. Gradually rmvs started exploring the other development needs of the communities in which key development issues evolved i. e. Livelihood and environmental programme. Literacy government representation disaster preparedness/ disaster response livelihood environmental programme. Youth leadership health & sanitation agriculture & horticulture sanitation mission rmvs seeks to assist the poor and the most vulnerable people by addressing the root causes and building capacities for long term development solution. Rmvs’s mission is rooted in a clear understanding of the community contexts that locks communities in a chain of poverty due to unmet development needs, a phenomenon which thrives in various interrelated factors including: the rural vulnerables view themselves; their understanding and skills to deal with outside systems; their access to resources; their indigenous knowledge to use the resources that they have; other causes that are rooted beyond the local context. Over the many years that rmvs has worked in begusarai local community. Rmvs learned valuable lessons that serve as a guide to fulfilling the organization’s mission. Among those learnings are the following: addressing the development challenges in the rural communities of begusarai is an extremely challenging task. Development efforts must be conducted with the collaboration of different and equally interested actors in order to make an impact. Rural communities are fragmented along caste and class lines. These tend to restrict the effectiveness of joint action for development action. Among the vulnerables, women are generally marginalized, yet they proven to be more effective agents of social change. Sadly, however, such potential is not well recognized. There are plenty of resources in the rural areas – including human resources – which remain largely untapped. With all this in perspective, rmvs seeks out to define the space in which it can be the most effective, as well as the approaches that can best help the vulnerable people to enhance their capacities. Among the four components of rmvs’s intervention, the core competency is in the area of disaster preparedness. By addressing issues of disaster preparedness, rmvs is able to immediately affect the lives of vulnerable communities in vulnerable pockets of begusarai. By building capacities rmvs are preparing them to face a disaster situation, which would result into less vulnerability to the adverse impact of natural and man-made forces. Such is also a powerful intervention to break the cycle of livelihood vulnerability to disasters. This normally led into getting control over the source of livelihood vulnerability to disasters by improving the community’s image. Opportunities to deal with outside systems are created, and a greater impact on the resiliency against disaster is attained. In this light, rmvs is guided by the principle that for the rural poor communities to be able to access opportunities for disaster preparedness, they must first be enabled. This concept of enabling communities implies that rmvs adopts participatory processes in its work with the people, making available ideas and technologies in a manner that enhances the vulnerable’s access to and control over their resources. These resources, in turn, aid in the improvement for their preparedness. Rmvs looks for concrete disaster preparedness interventions in the local context of the specific environments. We constantly seek to extend intervention that is sharper and more relevant, aided in the process by a thorough process of action, reflection, and learning. But rmvs does not pretend to be the sole actor in the disaster preparedness work. As susceptibility to disasters is so widespread and multifaceted, it is not possible for any single actor to make a significant dent on the problem merely on its own. Efforts will be sustainable only when made at multiple levels and in a scale that is significant. Therefore, rmvs also collaborates with, educates, and influences mainstream actors in disaster preparedness. A gap exists between the mainstream and the grassroots, and rmvs is competent in expertly filling such void. Moreover, rmvs strives to share its experiences to other disaster preparedness workers, recognizing the unfortunate fact that knowledge about processes in addressing vulnerability is severely limited. Rmvs carries out all of these activities with the collective hard work of its highly 154 dedicated volunteers.