“Suchetana” adopted a tribal village namely “Faridpur” (which is situated near Bolpur-Santiniketan, Birbhum Dist,WB, India) to build up as a model village with an aim of all round development of tribal community such as education, health, hygiene, literacy programme, adult literacy, employment generation programme and tribal culture development. To promote these activities an integrated agro-farming project, adult literacy centre awareness camp and a culture centre have benn started.One night coaching is proceeding for adult literacy, different awareness camps have been arranged time to time on health & hygiene, mal nutrition, child marraige, green revolution, health check-up camps etc. In this year 2018 an animal husbandry project with Duckery, Goatery, Fishery and vegetable cultivation was started for five(5) self-help groups involving 71 tribal women in that village which is a Tribal Development Project of State Govt. and conducted by Suchetana. Through this project entire tribal community of that village will be socio-economically uplifted because through this project the women of the village will ensure and increase their monthly earnings.
Beside this we are also going to establish an agro-tourism project with 400 tribal people who will do organic farming through cultivation of seasonal crops, fruits, horticulture. Alongwith vermicomposting, mushroom cultivation, fishery, duckery, dairy, gotary. In this unit food processing unit will be there for spices, prickle, pulses, dry mushroom etc. We will arrange required training time to time for their sustainable development. This farm house will develop as a agro-tourism project where guest can see how they grow plants, how they are doing animal husbandry, how foods are making in food processing unit and they will enjoy totally organic food. For this we will arrange hospitality managment training for few groups who will look after the guests.
Our aim is to fulfill their basic needs of life like regular food, education, health care and as well as their economical sustainability. Above all this project will ensure their livelihood development as a whole.