The need for immediate relief is crucial and must be undertaken at a greater pace and on a larger scale. PHIA Foundation is responding to support the affected communities Phia Foundation has joined hands with the Department of Labour, Employment & Training, Govt. of Jharkhand to establish and manage the COVID-19 Response Team (Control Room at State Secretariat, Nepal House).
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Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to advocating for handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Global Handwashing Day is an opportunity to design, test, and replicate creative ways to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times. Global Handwashing Day is celebrated every year on 15th October. The 2019 Global Handwashing Day theme is “Clean Hands for All.”
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As part of “Promoting Responsible Migration in Garment Supply Chain’, Change Alliance organised two days training and awareness programmes for Phia Foundation Team, Migrant factory workers and Management Team of Orient Craft and Arvind Mills in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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Dr Belinda Bennet, Managing Trustee of PHIA Foundation and Mr Bala Gnanapragasam, Board
Member, Change Alliance visited Jharkhand to know and understand about the projects implemented by PHIA in the first week of September 2019. They were accompanied by Anand Kumar Bolimera, Honorary Director, PHIA Foundation and Jharkhand team.
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In its endeavour to spread awareness among migrants to ensure safe migration for work, Dominic Asquith, British High Commissioner to India, launched a ‘Promoting Responsible Migration from Source to Destination in Supply Chain’ at Orient Craft’s Ranchi facility.
Partnered by Partnering Hope into Action (PHIA) Foundation, a civil society organisation, the project is jointly funded by the UK Government and Marks & Spencer.
Migratory workers have always played a key role in India’s apparel industry.
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The British High Commissioner to India, Sir Dominic Asquith, launched a project on Responsible Migration at the Orient Craft factory in Ranchi. The project is jointly funded by the UK Government and Marks & Spencer. Partnering Hope into Action (PHIA) Foundation will implement a research study and awareness building programmes for factory workers and communities in Jharkhand and Gurgaon.
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December 23rd, 1994 was the day when United Nations General Assembly decided, in its resolution 49/214, that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People shall be observed on 9 August every year. The date marks the day of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in the year 1982.
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Under the Project - 'Community Engagement for accessing Government’s flagship programmes on Basic Services (Health & Nutrition and Social Security Schemes) in selected villages of Dhanbad District, Jharkhand', two Anganwadi centres (AWCs) were inaugurated on 22nd July 2019. The Anganwadi centre in Chhatand village of Chhatand Panchyat was inaugurated by Mr. Amit Kumar, IAS, Deputy Commissioner Dhanbad, and another centre located in Dulubera village was inaugurated by Mr.
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The Porahat forest area in the Bandgaon block, district West Singhbhum, is highly remote and very hard to reach. Health service delivery has been a nightmare for the communities living in the area due to its difficult terrain, densely forested area, lack of communication and connectivity, distantly isolated settlements dominated by the Munda tribe until a few months ago.
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"Human Trafficking is an organised crime which is deep rooted and has multi-tiers. It can only be tackled by the joint initiative of the Government and the Civil Society."
- Ratan Tirkey, Member, Tribes Advisory Committee, GoJ.
"In order to completely eradicate the crime of trafficking, it is essential to change the mindset of people towards the victims, as only rescuing the victim doesn't solve the problem, the problem would be efficiently solved by rehabilitating the victim"