Results Achieved Water Purification

• People in 75 villages were organized and motivated to work together in solving the problems of their communities. The program has helped in bringing unity among people in the village.

• 75 Committees with 590 members were elected with proper gender representation to plan, implement and monitor the projects.

• 3 plants with water purifying capacity of 2000 liters, 27 plants with the capacity of 1000 liters, 38 plants with the capacity of 500 liters and 7 with the capacity of 500 liters were installed in 75 villages of 10 districts.

• 34,680 families with a population of approximately 1,75,000 now have access to safe drinking water at a nominal price of Rs. 2 to 3 for 20 liters.

• 40-50% of the medical expenses have been reduced due to the control of water-borne diseases.

• 225 water purification projects of previous years have been actively monitored to ensure their sustainability.

Overhead Water Tanks

• People in 8 villages are motivated to work with unity for the betterment of their villages through the water project.

• 8 over head tanks were constructed. Of these 6 tanks are with the storage capacity of 40,000 liters and 2 tanks are with the capacity of 60,000 liters.

• A total of 1250 families with a population of approximately 6500 along with thousands of cattle in the 8 villages spread across 5 districts of AP, now have easy access to water, resulting in improved life conditions.

Bore wells

• 307 bore wells were constructed covering 10,565 families in 273 villages in 12 districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Innovative technology to maximize the services: ‘Any Time Water’ (ATW) system

After completion of installing 400 community managed Water Purification plants and reaching safe drinking water to over one million people, Victas Foundation has moved another step ahead and introduced ‘Any Time Water’ (ATW) system. A new electronic and communication device is introduced to help the villagers to draw purified water of 20 liters quantity by using simple swiping card. The new method was tested and launched in Venkatapur village on 7th April 2012. This pioneering effort is expected to make purified water accessible to the villagers throughout the day without having to depend upon the manual supply which was only available for couple of hours a day.

Results of the program: A need turned into an asset

• All the water Purification Plants are community owned, operated and managed

• Innovation and use of technology such as ATW (Any Time Water) system helps in providing easy, prompt and efficient services.

• Ensuring gender balance as men started fetching water from the plants instead of women.

• People are enjoying improved health as a result of drinking purified water.

• Able to overcome the caste divide as everyone drinks water from the common source.

• We see tremendous growth in the community leadership and increase of social capital.

Urban & Rural Development Committees are ready to work on model wards & villages

A workshop was organized for the selected 33 village committees from Warangal, Karimnagar, Algona, Medal and Naziabad districts of Andhra Pradesh. 240 members from Village Development Committees have participated in the workshop held on 21st March 2012 at Victas Foundation People Development Training Center, Warangal. The program started with a knowledge sharing session on ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) approach conducted by Mr. Sourly Reddy. In the interactive training, members understood and acknowledged that it is by recognizing the potential of the people and by using the available resources in the village; one can truly lay the foundation for their development.

Environment Protection and Food Security

Victas Foundation has been promoting environment conservation through different community based organizations such as women, youth, and farmers in its network. The following activities are implemented by Victas Foundation towards protection of the environment and realization of food security.

The following is the process and the activities involved in implementing the water purification projects

Summary of Community drinking facilities created: During the year 2013-14 Victas Foundation:

Other Community Based Development Activities
Youth groups have taken up the following community development activities in their respective villages in the year 2010-11.
• 24 Bore wells for drinking water in 24 villages
• 4 villages with Water purification projects
• 3 health camps in 3 villages
• 132 individual toilets (Sanitation)
• 71 Skill trainings (tailoring, Hardware computers)
• 10 Spoken English classes
• 210 classroom benches – furniture in rural schools
• 20 Motivational dramas attended by 7,420 people
• 19 schools -15,000 people walked on International Water Day

13 Victas Foundation Village Development Committees are ready to work on model villages

A workshop was organized for the selected 13 village committees from Purba Mediipur, Purulia, Sundargarh, Singrauli Districts of India. 240 members from Victas Foundation Village Development Committees have participated in the workshop held on 21st March 2014 at Victas Foundation People Development Training Center.

The program started with a knowledge sharing session on ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) approach conducted by Mr. Sourly Reddy. In the interactive training, members understood and acknowledged that it is by recognizing the potential of the people and by using the available resources in the village; one can truly lay the foundation for their development.

A ‘model village’ has inspired all the participants who are gearing up to put positive efforts in their own villages. In the plenary session after the video presentation, the participants expressed that it is unity, decentralized leadership, transparent financial management, women leadership, adherence to rules formulated by people, participation of people in all the development activities and the guidance received from Victas Foundation that will helped in making Dekhali an ideal village at the national level.