ABOUT US
MEDIA9 DIGITAL MEDIA SEVA SANSTHA Organization was established in 06-02-2024. It is a community based non-governmental organization working for the community. The NGO is working under Media9 Digital Media Federation is a registered Self-Regulatory Body under Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, Under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. We provide an opportunity for exponential expansion of print media as well as digital media.
TARGET AREA BACKGROUND & PROBLEMS
MEDIA9 DIGITAL MEDIA SEVA SANSTHA concentrated in rural villages of THANE District. Rural areas of this district are also known for its backwardness in education and economy. Their economy is subsistence as the natural resources of the District are meager to support its population.
Among the population of SC, ST, OBC & MINORITIES, women, children and handicapped people are the poorest of the poor. They are purely depending upon their family. Handicapped people lack support from their families as well as from the community. Government schemes reach them seldom.
Plight of the children
These children face the following problems in an age that is not to suitable to find solutions to most of their problems: Lack of basic education makes them as illiterates, retarded growth in the socio-psycho development of their life, early marriage and frequent pregnancies results poor health for mothers, malnourished, under-weight babies, respiratory tract problems, learning undesirable bad habits like smoking, pan chewing, drinking and live in dire poverty entangled with despair.
Plight of the Youth
The present day youth were the earlier day child labourers, lack basic education, skills and vision to lay down their future.
Plight of Women
Because of different factors like the lack of education, ignorance or a “Defective Value System” the existing poverty status in the target areas is possible. Discrimination, violence against girls and women are the worst forms of violence. Women’s and girl’s situation is hardly understandable for outsiders. But to be born as a daughter a women has restrained from education, socialization and participation in the decision making process. As a wife, a woman has to procreate children for the husband and rear them. She has the obligation to procreate a baby child; failure would result in deprivation of conjugal life with the husband. Still there are many other forms of mental violence against women. Moreover, beatings and other forms of physical violence are considered as normal practices in the hill-villages.
When girls or young women get married, also they are not supposed to stay with their birth family. They are considered to live with the husband’s family. This leads to the opinion, that investment on girl’s education is useless because it does not give any return to the parents. Hence, often the boy child alone enjoys the investment on education and development. This discrimination leads the girl to grow as illiterate, ignorant and inferior persons, which turn out in poverty and a submissive status.
Health Condition
Health condition in the targeted villages is comparatively poor and needs more attention by the government as well as by the non-governmental organizations. However, a number of factors put the population of the target areas both at special risk for the poor health plight. These factors include population density, rudimentary housing, dwindling ways of making a living, poor sanitation and health care systems, and lagging literacy and education. Coastal dwellers have also traditionally been isolated from the rest of the district and are at the bottom of the region’s socio-economic ladder.
Population density and housing
The population density of the target areas is very high (1,247 per village) and the population density per square kilometer averages 478 in the villages but along the coast, density is almost three times that figure (1,338 per square kilometer). Most residents of these villages do not even own the land on which they live.
Sanitation and health
Those living in tribal and the targeted villages have some of the worst sanitation and health indicators in MAHARASHTRA state, according to the Tribal Area Programme for Sustainable Dairies. Morbidity, mortality, and frequency of illness are much higher among the targeted villages and coastal communities, and particularly among women, than in the rest of the district.
Literacy and education
The targeted rural community also lags behind the general population of MAHARASHTRA in literacy rates and education levels. If they send the children to school at all, most families stop the education of their children early, as the industry has the tendency to absorb young workers in large numbers and they find themselves unable to do so because of their lack of education and alternative skills.
In these conditions, a cooperative society for women would solve most of their problems and give them self-sufficiency.
