Model Village Trust’s Health initiatives are focused on the real issues and root causes of health-related problems in the intervention area. We work closely with existing institutions through a community centric and participatory approach to ensure better and improved health for rural community.Our health initiatives comprise maternal and child health, well-being of youth through de-addiction programs and prevention and treatment of prevalent diseases.
Empowering marginalized rural community through ensuring maximum literacy and quality education.
Model Village Trust acknowledges the crucial role of education in economic, social, and cultural development of the nation. To imagine growth while large parts of the region bounded in illiteracy is just impossible. For MVT, building quality institutions to provide ‘the right’ education will help a downtrodden community move forward, build their life, and participate in the nation building.
Our education programs aim at improving literacy level within the villages to reach at least the national level, maximizing enrolment of children in school education, preventing dropout, ensuring equal participation of girls in formal education, and creating awareness on education among the villagers.
Unemployment and poverty are widespread in rural areas of the country. While rural population is majorly dependent on agriculture and labor work for their livelihood, household incomes in villages are quite low impacting the overall quality of life. Livelihood is a powerful means for fighting backwardness and poverty. For MVT, livelihood is not only a way of economic growth but also an empowerment that brings ownership, accountability, self-esteem and dignity in peoples’ life.
Our livelihood programs intend at generating better employment alternatives, maximizing involvement of marginalized communities in income generating and livelihood activities, reduction of migration by promoting self-employment ventures within the area, modernization of traditional livelihood activities, and conducting training and workshops on new trends and best practices in the field.
Universal, affordable and sustainable access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene- WASH is the focus of Sustainable Development Goal 6 and major global public health issue. Our country faces significant challenges in the provision of quality water, sanitation, and hygiene. More than 90% of urban residents accessing sanitation facilities compared to only 39% in rural India.
Our WASH initiatives aim to ensure access of a majority of the community to safe drinking water and safe sanitation for better health and environment. MVT capacitate community leaders and motivate people to sustainably manage water projects and take action to improve the sanitation and personal hygiene related practices.
Woman empowerment is a core project of Model Village Trust. MVT holds a firm belief that empowering women and improving their political, social, economic and health status is highly important for transformation of the villages. Development projects are most effective when steps have been taken to improve the status of women.
Focus of our women empowerment initiatives is on women leadership development, skill development, awareness on women issues, promotion of self-employment programs, women health and female literacy.
Any development or empowerment project in rural villages of India will not be successful without taking agriculture and environment into consideration. The more we embrace the both the more our project becomes productive. Agriculture is the source of livelihood for nearly 60 pc Indians, contributes 17.6 pc of the total greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in India. Our programs in this sector aims at promoting of organic farming, supporting irrigation system, access to existing government schemes, capacity building of farmers, creation of green spaces, making environment friendly institutions, working on the principle of 3R (Reduce, Reuse & Recycle), etc.
Model Village Trust provides immediate response to the needy in emergencies situation. In recent years we have reached the people in remote areas and helped them through ration kits, winter relief supplies, clothes, medical supplies etc.
MVT has actively worked on ground during COVID-19 outbreak.