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URMUL TrustURMUL Trust& FAMILY& FAMILY
Welcome to
Thar Desert
URMUL URMUL in Tharin Thar
Issues of the TharIssues of the Thar• Extreme temperatures
• Harsh physical terrain
• Scanty and unreliable rainfall (average rainfall 31 8.7mm)
• Frequent occurrence of droughts & Migration
• No food, fodder, water, livelihood security
• Distant & scattered settlements
• Lack of infrastructure
• Sex ratio (807 females per 1000 males)
• Absence of basic Health Facilities
• Abysmal literacy rates
• Poor socio-economic condition of women, girl childr en & backward castes
• Environmental Imbalance
To lead the poor towards self reliance by making available to them
a package of development services that they themselves decide on,
design, implement and eventually finance.
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•• Beginning :1986Beginning :1986•• Health :1986Health :1986•• Economic :1988Economic :1988•• Education :1990Education :1990•• Advocacy :1992Advocacy :1992•• Decentralisation:1993Decentralisation:1993•• Strengthening Strengthening
community community
URMUL TrustURMUL Trust
URMUL Trust represents URMUL Trust represents a family of organisations a family of organisations
working towards social and economic working towards social and economic change in the lives of the people change in the lives of the people
in the harsh, inhospitable difficult in the harsh, inhospitable difficult terrain and interior region of Tharterrain and interior region of Thar
What keeps these different What keeps these different organisations and the TRUST organisations and the TRUST
together are . . . together are . . .
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Transparency
Secularism
Belief in Democracy
Gender Sensitivity
Ethics
Commitments
Participatory Approaches
Shared Feelings
Equity
Urmul GavaniyaarBikaner
Urmul SeemantBajju
Urmul SetuLunkaransar
Urmul SamitiPhalodi
Urmul JyotiNokha
Urmul KhejdiJayal
MarushaktiSujangarh Vasundhara
LunkaransarAawam
Vikas SansthanSri Dungargarh
URMUL TrustURMUL TrustBikanerBikaner
The core of the development premise of The core of the development premise of URMUL Trust is URMUL Trust is an intrinsic faith an intrinsic faith in the capacity of in the capacity of
the rural people to the rural people to devise and manage and devise and manage and
sustain development programssustain development programs
Most of the members are the natives from the Thar Most of the members are the natives from the Thar and only a handful of development professionals and only a handful of development professionals
as middle level managers come from reputed as middle level managers come from reputed institutions of higher education.institutions of higher education.
Since inception there has Since inception there has been an unflinching been an unflinching
commitment towards commitment towards strengthening the strengthening the
processes of local initiative processes of local initiative and leadership both within and leadership both within the organization and at the the organization and at the village level & Panchayatsvillage level & Panchayats
The drought of 1986-88 taught us
a basic lesson that development
interventions in the Thar
would have to be informed by the fragile context of the crisis of food, water &
fodder security
Health & Education
Environment
Self Help Groups
Capacity Building
Women Empowerment
Panchayat Raj ,
Female Feticide ,Adolescents
Income Generation Programme
Animal Husbandry & Agriculture
Water Harvesting
Advocacy & Research
Village Resource Centers
Rural Developmental Tourism
MSSK & Child Line
Desert Craft Desert Craft & &
Desert Art Desert Art for for
Social TransformationSocial Transformation
Western Rajasthan & the Thar desert brings to mind i mages of sand dunes, starry nights & lilting folk music. For the discerning buyer, Rajasthan has also being synonyms with a ric h and colorful craft tradition. Potters, weavers carpente rs, jewelers and leather workers are but some of the artisans that a bide in the region.
The stark landscape & seemingly barren stretches ar e in remarkable contrast to the vibrant colors that the inhabitants clothe themselves in.
The symbol of woman The symbol of woman with a spinning wheel with a spinning wheel
or CHARAKHA, or CHARAKHA, signifies an attempt to signifies an attempt to
ensure that rural ensure that rural artisans can bear the artisans can bear the
fruits of their labour fruits of their labour with dignity and with dignity and
securitysecurity
Empowering PRI & Self Governance
Partnership with IGPRSTraining of trainers for PRI
Need assessments for trainings
Training responsibility forBikaner, Churu, Ganganagar, Hanumangarh
Jaisalmer
Trustees of UTMD, RCDF
District Collector
Principal, Medical College, Bikaner
CMHO, Bikaner
MD URMUL DairySh. MK Khanna
Sumita Ghose
Rita Sareen
Funding AgenciesFunding Agencies GovernmentGovernment InstitutionsInstitutionsAction Aid CAPART NID
Save the Children
CARE RCDF Urmul DairyThe Hunger Project NDDB Gangmul
RUDA TISS
Oxfam DCH IDS, Jaipur
Aga Khan Foundation DRADA NIFT
Ford Foundation BADP
PANOS
NORAD CADA
CBCS CIDA DWCD
PLAN International Shiksha Karmi
IGSSS Lok Jumbish
Amar Foundation Min. of Health & Family Welfare
N(O)VIB
KKS-CEVA
CRY
Sir Ratan Tata Trust
IFES
The Hunger Project
Partners in DevelopmentPartners in Development
�� Govt. ProjectsGovt. Projects
�� Funding AgenciesFunding Agencies
�� Self Sustaining Income Generation Programmes incl. Self Sustaining Income Generation Programmes incl. Handicrafts, Vermicompost, Folk Artistes etc.Handicrafts, Vermicompost, Folk Artistes etc.
�� Public ContributionPublic Contribution
�� Govt. ContributionGovt. Contribution
�� Individual DonorsIndividual Donors
Fund Raising TechniquesFund Raising Techniques
URMUL TRUSTURMUL TRUSTP.O. Box 55P.O. Box 55
URMUL BHAWANURMUL BHAWANSri Ganganagar RoadSri Ganganagar Road
BIKANER BIKANER –– 334 001334 001
[email protected]@rediffmail.comPhone : 0 151 2523093Phone : 0 151 2523093
Fax : 0 151 2522041Fax : 0 151 2522041