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| RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT |
| Initiated by : SHAKTI KRUPA CHARITABLE TRUST, MOTAFOFALIA, |
| In association with : GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT AND GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA |
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Our Trust was established in 1983 by our Founder Trustee, Shri
Chhotubhai A. Patel. The Trust was originally created as a funding agency for
health and education. After a period of about ten years, our Founder Trustee
thought it fit to establish the office of the Trust at Mota Fofalia village,
with a view to undertake rural development activities to uplift the people
socially, educationally and culturally by providing facilities which are
available to the people of urban areas. As a result of our sustained awareness
program regarding the various projects being undertaken by the Trust, the
villagers were ready to cooperate and take advantage of the benefits designed
for them. However, we faced opposition from certain quarters who were
interested in maintaining the status quo of an unequal social system which
prevailed in their society.
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According to the great saint and philosopher, Shri Swami
Vivekananda "Each & every process has to pass through three stages
Opposition, Ignorance and Acceptance." When we commenced the
activities of rural development in the underdeveloped village of Mota Fofalia ,
situated at Shinor Taluka of Vadodara District, there was a reluctance to
accept the new ideas and modern facilities offered by our institute for their
development. This was due in part to their lack of education, blind belief,
bigotry and traditional values which prevailed amongst them. Further, there was
a resistance from the landlords and well established groups to the new ideas
and benefits which were to be received by the poor people due to the
implementation of the proposed projects, as they feared their dominance over
the weaker sections would gradually loosen if they received more knowledge and
facilities of civilized modern society. Additionally, there was hesitation in
part of a group of self-styled local leaders to accept the changes mooted and
propagated by the young Turks of the institute, to see that whatever was
advocated would be implemented in real spirit. However, the dynamic youth who
were the torchbearers of the ideas of their founder trustee, never looked back
in the face of resistance and non-cooperation by the erstwhile leaders of the
region and they showed their mettle by taking up the welfare oriented projects
and implementing the same in totality.
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In spite of all negative factors and adverse circumstances,
the young task makers who were entrusted the implementation of various projects
undertaken in the rural areas were inspired by the vision, guidelines and
continued moral support of the main donors of the Trust: Dr. Kiran Patel,
Dr. Dinesh Patel and Mr. Pradip Patel who presently reside in the
United States of America.
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Considering the difficulties faced by us and the hesitation of
the beneficiaries of our projects, we thought it better to translate our ideas
into practice by establishing a model project of the Community Health Centre
under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) at the village of Mota
Fofalia , with the support and cooperation of the state government. The
benefits of health facilities provided at their door step became a blessing for
them in times of emergencies and the services extended without any expectation
or profit consideration made them realize the important role played by us in
their daily lives. One of our rural development projects, Total Sanitation
Campaign(TSC), implemented with astounding success at Mota Fofalia village with
the cooperation of beneficiaries, earned us the recognition from the Government
of India in the form of " Nirmal Gram Award " by the President
of India in 2006 . Now other villages of the
State of Gujarat wish to absorb our model as a replica and often visit us to
study the paraphernalia, functional systems and work culture to start their own
projects based on their social and local conditions. It is a matter of pride
and pleasure for us to announce that so far about 1,200 village leaders have
visited our organization.
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The projects we have undertaken that have led to the silent
revolution and transformation of rural society in our region are enclosed
herewith.
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