Haripur Amra Sabai Unnayan Samiti (HASUS)

Child Right & Protection:

Aalo home for Girls: Since 2009, HASUS is running a residential home for the CNCP girls under the JJ Act with an aim to restoring childhood and installing them social values of independence & strengthen decision making process later to become a responsible citizen. Children's are here providing safe shelter, food, basic health care, education, recreation & alternative skill development trainings.
Aalo home for Boys: As per the JJ Act, since 2009 HASUS is also running a day & night shelter home for the boy's children with an aim to provide appropriate safe environment for the children in different categories like- migrant, missing, trafficked, deserted abandoned, orphan, child laborers etc to enjoy their safe childhood. Children's are preparing their individual care plan with right based approach addressing physical, mental and emotional needs.
SAA Home-Sisu Greha: HASUS has been awarded by the Govt of India as a Special Adoption Agency [SAA] to run a SAA home to provide safe shelter to the new born orphan, abandoned & surrendered baby followed by replace them to different childless couple, following Government protocols.
Jyoti Home for destitute Girl Children: HASUS is also running a destitute home to the girl inmates [Age group 6 to 18 years of age] under Govt Cottage scheme. Inmates are here providing safe shelter, food, clothing, basic education, medical, recreation facility & alternative vocational training to ensure proper rehabilitation in their respected family & society.
Prevention of Child trafficking: Since last fifteen years, HASUS is actively involved in prevention of child trafficking at six vulnerable blocks in the district through mass awareness, formation & strengthen of Protection mechanism and linkages with excising Govt protection mechanism.
Child Right Promotion Awareness Programme: HASUS organizes awareness programme related to child right & protection issues on regular interval with active participants of home inmates, local children, school teachers, guardians, community people and Govt officials.
Education Support Centre: Since the year 2000, HASUS is actively involved, ensuring basic education to the poor school dropout & non school goers children through running Six Non Formal Education centers. These centers are functioning at four backward villages & two brick kilns. Average 35-40 drop/non school goers'/working children's and exposed similar type education curriculum through these centers.
Education & Livelihood Programme: In partnership with Railway Children, HASUS is implementing an innovative project at 30 villages & 4 transit Railway Stations to ensure basic education, health services, livelihood support to the vulnerable family & formation of protection mechanism with a focus to prevent child trafficking from these villages.
Safe Village Programme: To make community aware to prevent child trafficking, HASUS is involved to form Safe villages through using an innovative behavior change module under the title of: Operation Red Alart. This Programme is covering three vulnerable blocks in South 24 Parganas.

Women Empowerment:

Prativa home under Swadhar Scheme: HASUS is running a Govt supported home for ensuring protection & shelter to the women rescued from difficult circumstances. Victims are providing here safe shelter, institutional care, vocational training, legal support and psychological counseling to mainstream into the society.
Uttaran home under UJJWALA scheme: Since the year 2010, HASUS is running a shelter home for providing safe place and shelter for the trafficked victim .They are providing safe shelter, food, clothing, medicine, sychological / trauma counseling and legal aids. Children of these victims[those have] are linkages with formal schools along with all related supports like- text book, school uniform etc. Adults are also providing vocational training to find out alternative livelihood opportunities. Restoration to their family is a major component of this scheme.
Swawlamban scheme: HASUS is running skill development training on readymade garments making with 50 rural women,in partnership with Govt Deptt following linkages the trained beneficiaries to different service providers and starting their own entrepreneurship activities through formation of Self Help Group [SHGs].
Prevention of domestic violence: Being a service provider on domestic violence, every year HASUS organizes a series of awareness generation activities to promote women right, existing women protection mechanism and reduce incidents of violence. Victims are being providing counseling, short stay homes and legal aid services by the organization.
Mass Awareness: Every year organizes community awareness against child marriage, dowry system, child trafficking & domestic violence in partnership with Govt Departments, community level forum and media houses.

Community Health:

Free Eye checkup & TB detection camp: Every year HASUS organize health clinics at remote areas in Sundarban region to identify & refer cataract and suspected TB patients in partnership with district lions club and District TB cell. Poor and marginalized villagers have accessed these facilities in their door steps.
Free Health Check up Clinic for the orphan children & victim women: HASUS is also organizing free health check up clinics following free medicine distribution for the poor and victim children & women reside remote villages in South 24 PGS District.
WASH Programme: In partnership with District & Block Sanitation cell, HASUS is actively involved in WASH, including proper hand washing campaign activities at 35 villages & 28 Govt schools.
Running a Community Health Clinic: As a part of providing quality health services, HASUS is running a free static health clinic at its Office premises to ensure quality health services to the marginalized villagers. The clinic is open from 10:00 am to 2:00 PM everyday with free services of blood pressure checking, weight checking and first aid services. Two Qualified doctors are involved voluntarily and providing their services.
Seminar on Save the Girl Child, HIV/AIDS, Drugs Snake Bite: Every year HASUS organized seminar on community need based health issues to make them aware and improve their health seeking behavior from Govt health services.
Health Workers Training: Every year HASUS organize health workers training programme on alternative prevention & curative medicine, importance on proper immunization, Family Planning & spacing and its related issues in collaboration with local Health Departments.

Livelihood Development:

Vocational training provider scheme: In partnership with Directorate General [DGET],Govt of India HASUS is actively involved in skill development training activities: Tailoring & Computer for the unemployed youths.
Skill development training for school dropout youths: In partnership with FVTRS, HASUS is running skill development projects with 120 school drops out youths in four different trades: Beautician, Garments making, Cell Phone repairing & House wiring. EDP training was an integral part of this programme.
Computer learning laboratory: With financial support from State Bank of India, HASUS has set up one modern computer Training Centre, where average 100 children for the home inmates and surrounding poor families undergone six months duration training.
Strengthen SHGs: Presently 62 SHGs with 778 members are exists in the community under five different blocks in South 24 PGS district. Time to time HASUS organizes leadership development training among the members to motivate them to involve in income generation activities. 47 out of total 62 groups are involved in income generation activity in partnership with SJGSY schemes.
Micro finance project: HASUS is deeply involved in micro finance activities. Through this ongoing initiative, encouraging the rural villagers to get involve in petty business and self entrepreneurship activities to maintain their own livelihood. Loan recovery status is around 93% in this year.

Environment & Disaster Prevention:

Celebration of Environment Day: 5 th June, on the eve of World Environment day, every year HASUS organize awareness programme related to causes and consequences of environment pollution, global warming followed by sapling distribution.
Disaster Prevention: HASUS has adopted 22 disaster prone "Aila Affected" villages / island under its Disaster mitigation strategy programme. As a part of organization's regular activities the villagers in these villages are being sensitizing on the following issues through ongoing community level meetings:
- Procedure to adopting preparedness measures to effectively handle disaster situations to minimize loss of human lives and property.
- Importance on convergence in-between different departments and Govt officials to act in time to manage any disaster in a proactive pre planned well coordinated manner.
- Importance of Formation and strengthen of Disaster Risk Management Committee [DRMC] with active community involvement. Strengthen DRMC time to time etc.
Disaster Risk Mitigation and promoting alternative means of Livelihood: HASUS is implementing this project at 15 villages /island under Sundarban delta region in partnership with CASA. Through this project attempts is being taken to enhance capacity of the community through Disaster Risk Reduction & Mitigation measures. Improve environmental biodiversity and access them to alternative livelihood options through promotion of SHGs & accessing existing Government services / schemes.