EHA

Asha Sagar Project was initiated by EHA soon after the twin disaster of tsunami and earthquake on 26 December 2004. The EHA team provided immediate medical, psychological assistance and essential commodities to the affected people. Based on the relief phase evaluation recommendations, a second phase was designed for the long term rehabilitation and development focusing on needs pertaining to Livelihoods restoration, Community Health, Disaster preparedness and Leadership development. In the second phase, work was implemented by six local faith based partner agencies viz, Indian Evangelical Mission (IEM), Shiloh Evangelistic Mission, Methodist Church, Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church (GELC), Hindi Baptist Church and PILAR Health Center. The project aims at building the capacity of the Faith Based Partners in Integral Missions and enabling them to organize the communities for sustainable development.

Key Accomplishments:

• Resource Management Committees are formed and started functioning. The products made by about 40 groups are being marketed through the Emmanuel Cooperative Society outlet in PortBlair. This provides the groups members an additional income along with their regular income.  211 individuals are engaged in Income generation programs.
• 10 Production and Marketing centers were set up in the locations. 6 are functional and the others waiting to get permission for facilities like water, electricity, etc.
• 115 Community health volunteers have been trained and certificates were given in the presence of the government officials in a public program.
• 20 faith based organizations leaders who were trained on basic counseling skills are able to practice in their regular ministry.
• About 13000 beneficiaries received basic health care through the mobile clinics, medical camps and peripheral clinic initiatives. About 100 patients were referred for further treatment through the mobile clinics and peripheral centre.
• 3 trainings have been conducted for the Disaster management committee and its volunteers. The village level contingency plans are finalised and are made available with the point persons of the project at each locations.
• The mitigation structures are made in 10 identified places and are functional
• 10 taskforces (DMCs) have members who have been trained on various roles of task force before, during and after an emergency. They are conducting trainings at the village level DMCs.
• Research study on the 'Livelihood of the people in the intermediate shelters after Tsunami in Andamans' helped to understand the issues faced by the people affected by tsunami.

A Journey Towards Transformation - Part I

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Depicting Milestones of the Project

Part II

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