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Mahad Taluka: PRIDE in India
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A Levels Geography (Mumbai) Mind Map on Mahad Taluka: PRIDE in India, created by Hannah Burnett on 29/12/2014.
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Mahad Taluka: PRIDE in India
Why stay?/How to reduce out-migration
Incentives
Support for farmers
Farmers market
Child health clinics
Women's health
Global: Fairtrade
Why leave?
Infant mortality
Poor sanitation
Landlessness
Dry seasons - drought
Monsoons - badly affected cotton growers
Flooding - in 2000 over 2,500 people were killed in the summer floods
Destroyed 4million hectares of crops
Illiteracy
Lack of services
More political power in cities
Lack of jobs
RESPONSE: PRIDE in India
Why?
Try to reduce mass migration to urban areas
Sustainable development
Working in 140 of 167 villages in the rural area of Mahad Taluka
Infant mortality is 25%
Periodic checks to look at children's nutrition levels and health
6 full time specialist doctors
Healthy school meals everyday at school
Children under 5 given Vitamin A to prevent diarrhoea and are immunised
70% of people are illiterate
160 adult education centres
Study centres teach English, maths and science
Pre-school education centres
Children given an education fund to repay later
Dry seasons - drought
Irrigation schemes set up using check dams and reservoirs to raise the water table
Villagers now have a supply of water most of the year
Women do most of the work in the villages, must raise children as well as do all of the domestic work
Working to educate women and ensure healthy pregnancies
Free check up throughout the pregnancy
Allowed to start their own businesses
Child care centres allow parents to work
Illness
500 family planning sessions a year
HIV check ups, advice and outreach workers
Promote HIV/AIDs awareness
Essential medicines free of charge
Regular immunisation clinics
Over 45% of the 200,000 people are landless
Professional nursing programmes
Villagers trained at a centre running courses ranging from goat rearing to baking
Local people trained as teachers
Youth clubs teach practical skills through voluntary work - improving village roads and tree planting
Trained local police
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