Shripur Mahila-O-Khadi Unnayan Samity
Although women’s power is given priority in our country, women are still lagging behind in many areas. ‘SMOKUS’ want all women in our country to wake up and learn to recognize their own strengths.
Mission
To build up a cadre of socially conscious youth in the field of community development through capacity building, mainstreaming,
Vision
A dynamic civil society influences policies and actions at all levels to safeguard the global environment and promote sustainable
Aims & Objectives
To initiate the awakening process. To build up the people’s organization and the capacities of the people.
The Story Behind Of Our ‘SMOKUS’
It was mid-1990, and a few college-going girls with vivacity and social concerns were confronted with the social reality of suppression, marginalization, and pathos of rural gentry. These budding women from various parts of Uttar Dinajpur with an approach to do better for the said rural populace; contact a few more women and the organization came into its existence. Extensive interaction between the volunteers and their own money was the primary resource for the upcoming social organization and their modest planning and its implementation.
– Methodological – Getting Knowledge – People’s Participation – Sustainability
We Take Action. To Make Better Changes
Your help can have a big impact on the most urgent problems in society.
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Women Development
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Women Education
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Women Empowerment
Our Events
International Anti-Child Labour Day
Child-youth-community participation. Through this activity, we tried to sensitize the parents of those kids who were becoming child labours as they grew distant from their education and school because of closed schools. Through this event, we intended to protect the children from being exploited.
The role of youths and children
World Environment Day
In this day and age, our environment is deteriorating every day, therefore, we decided to celebrate this day and make it a mark in our locality’s history. The importance of this day cannot be stressed enough since the environment is where we live in.
Tree plantation, seed ball distribution, rally, poster campaign, leaflet distribution, community
Our Causes
SMOKUS wants to build a developed and neutral society where all women can be happy. We have dedicated ourselves to the betterment and the liberation of women’s lives from the shackles of law and order.
Support for Education of children
Identification of drop-out & at-risk children:- SHGs, VVCs, and the community,
Running Child Clubs & Youth Group
In five Child Club (age group of children: 8 yrs – 14 yrs) and ten Youth Groups
Village Information Centre
While printed materials have been sufficient in the two Village Information
Strengthening Self-Help Groups
Through regular meetings, SHGs are now able to conduct meetings properly,
Become Our Volunteer
Join us in repairing systems that trap women in the face of social constraints and gender inequality. Our campaigns are based on evidence of their development and humanitarian work. Take action on the most urgent issue in society.
I am pleased to share the Annual Report of SMOKUS for the year 2018-2019. Detailed information about SMOKUS’s efforts, project, achievements, and lessons learnt and activities for the year were included in the Annual Report. This report is a valuable tool in evaluating our actions, reviewing our efforts and learning about what our organization is committed to and how we had implemented our project in the past year. We are incredibly grateful to our managing committee members, who have worked tirelessly on all of our activities and goals and making them a reality.
Empowered by their confidence and efforts, we look ahead to the future and move forward to create an overall better community environment. We are very fortunate to have such dedicated managing committee members, volunteers, and staff as our team that provide their own unique experiences and visions to help our organization grow. Their efforts have allowed us to strengthen our internal organization and promoted a better understanding of issues in our community.
On behalf of the managing committee and staff of SMOKUS, we wish to express our most sincere appreciation for our funding partners, TDH-Suisse, The Government of India, The Government of West Bengal for their commitment and support to our mission and vision. Our gratitude is also extended to our community people, individuals, local, and national NGOs for their helpful contributions as well. However, my greatest thanks and appreciation must go to my entire staff and those in the project area, and the community with whom we work every day. SMOKUS is committed to an all-around more developed community that works towards sustained socio-economic development and improved quality of life. We work as an agent of social change by implementing community-based projects that are present in rural and marginalized areas. Our projects consist of a combination of developmental strategies that aim to improve living conditions of children, increase community participation and encourage women’s accessibility to decision making skills and other opportunities.
In the coming year, SMOKUS hopes to improve on all of our projects and achieve our goals using new and fresh strategies. We look forward to very promising prospects in the following year and hope that, with the support of our funding partners, community people, and staff team and managing committee members; we will again have a very successful year filled with new accomplishments and goals that are just as great as the last.