BISHNU KARMAKAR AND HIS VOLUNTEERS TEAM IN INDIA

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BISHNU KARMAKAR AND HIS VOLUNTEERS TEAM IN INDIA

Bishnu with School Children

Details Information of Bishnu karmakar:

**My Resident Address: Chand Sarak, P.O. Krishnagar,

                                           Dist. Nadia, West Bengal,India.

**My Volunteers Office Address:

                                           C/o Micro Enterprise Trust,

                                            N.S. Road,Anandabagan,

Hridaypur, Kolkata 700127, India.

**My e-mail: indiavolunteers@rediffmail.com

Tel: 91-33-2542-0605

**My Age: 52 years

**My Family: My wife is Graduate and my only son is now studying in class

12^th standard. They are living in India.

My Brother: My elder brother is MBA from Columbia University NY.

US Citizen and working as Senior Contracting Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Washington DC.

My sisters: My one elder sister is a teacher in primary school and living in India.

Myself: Recent US Immigrant, planning to stay in Maryland MD, withmy brother from January 2004. Interested to join US NGOs as an India volunteer or interested to start non-profit organization for development of Indian poor artisans Groups, self-help groups, Micro-entrepreneur groups, women and children.

My Educational Qualification: Passed H.S. Examination in Science stream (school level).

My Technical Qualification: Passed Diploma of Electrical Engineering.

Other qualification: Passed short terms Co-operative Development and Management

My work experience:

* 17 years working experience with grass root NGOs,Cooperatives to implement rural development programs.

* Having knowledge of project proposal development, representation & implementation.

* Having contact with NGOs of West Bengal &other states of India.

* Having knowledge of Fair Trade and Overseas Marketing of Indian Artisans and Micro Entrepreneurs Products.

* Having knowledge of Micro Enterprise Development, Artisans Co-Ops. Development and other social development project implementation in grass-root level.

Details Information of My Volunteers Team:

In India, we, some experienced community development volunteers are helping grass-root level Indian NGOs to plan and implement community-based project in their target communities as a purely voluntary / no-profit no-loss basis. We are operating this work in non-formal way and planning to register a non-profit organization.

Objectives of our work are to:

* Provide assistance to grass-root community based Indian NGOs to plan their need based development projects.

* Help community based NGOs to tap Government and Overseas Resources for their development projects.

* Provide project implementation training to project officers, Community volunteers, field workers and self-help groups.

* Promote new community based project concept and represent to National and international development organizations on behalf of grass-root Indian NGOs.

* Coordinate national and international volunteer’s placement in different grass-root NGOs.

* Coordinate domestic and overseas marketing support to artisans groups, micro entrepreneurs groups and self-help groups.

NGOs Contact: At present, we have contact with several NGOs in West Bengal and other states of India.

Our Volunteer’s Team:

Teachers: 04 nos. Educationist: 01 No. Sociologist: 01 no. Lawyer: 02 nos. Software Personnel: 02 nos. Hardware Personnel: 02 nos. Engineer: 01 no. Chartered Accountant: 01 no. General Technician: 02 nos. (Electronics & electrical) General Volunteers: 07 nos.

My Web Designer:

Mr. Joydev Sarkar web designer is helping India volunteers team for development of kidland activities in India.

Any coments please write to : e-mail: joydevsarkar@rediffmail.com

Other Services:

To carryout project pre-funding and post-funding evaluation.

To carryout project periodical project monitoring.

Promotion of NGOs project proposal.

To undertake all liaison and follow-up jobs.

Present Promotional Concept:

We are interested to promote the following ICT based

Concept through our contact NGOs. We are seeking

National & International support to implement this project.

Global Child Art for Environment Education Campaign.

Global Artisans Community Tele-Village.

Empowerment of Community School Children through Bridging the Digital Divide.

Details of these concepts:

GLOBAL CHILD ART FOR ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION

Objectives	Activities Planned	Assistance Required from Overseas Partners
Phase –I
Global Child Art for Environment Education Concept developed by Mr. Bishnu Karmakar, India Volunteers proper discussion with seven grass-root community based organizations. * Name of Lead Organization: Maslandapur Sarada Sevasram (MSS). Name of associated Organization: Barrackpore Sahayogi Social Welfare Society. Micro Enterprise Trust.(MET) Rotary Club of Barrackpore. Sree Mayapur Vikash Sangha. Barabhegia Human Resource Development Centre. Rotary Club of 24 Parganas ( South) Micro Artisan Fair-e-Marketing ( MAF-e-MA)	Proposal development for submission to donor and networking organization for initial support to implement this campaign. Selection of Country Coordinators. Selection and representation campaign proposal to donors, corporations, UNEP and other organizations. Launching special campaign website in different languages (English, French etc.).	Overseas Partner will develop appropriate campaign proposal. Overseas Partner will select country coordinators. Overseas Partner will represent proposal to donors for initial support. Overseas Partner will write campaign content (Child Art Competition, Date, Rules & Regulations, Prizes, Online participation of child art, Child Art Gallery, Child Art exchange, Reproduction & distribution of Child Art, Other Environment projects implementation, creation of Global Environment project for children etc.) and put all information to the website (www.globalchildart4environment.org)
SHORT TERM OBJECTIVES
To provide environment education to school children through organizing global child art competition via Internet & Website To develop Global Children’s Environment Art Gallery in the Website. Global Child Art Selection Organizing final Global Child Art Competition in USA.	To disseminate campaign news globally through website. To disseminate campaign news globally through country TV Channel, News Paper & Other Media. To disseminate campaign news globally by country coordinating agency through --Schools and School Network --Community based NGOs --Child Art Institute. Country Coordinators will collect child art from their own country and send to Overseas Partner online for putting all the art in the gallery in the website. Initial selection of Child Art from each participating country by the juries. Selected 3-child artist ambassador of each country will attend the final competition in overseas partners country. -- International Juries will select 10 child art among them and give prizes to child artist in presence of UNEP representative and other officials. -- These arts will be displayed in UN shops in NY and Other countries. -- These Child participants will also visit different donors and environment organizations and submit their copy of arts to them.	Overseas Partner will help to raise funds for meeting this campaign advertising cost and campaign launching cost. Overseas Partner will help to disseminate campaign news globally, directly using different media. Overseas Partner will help to arrange local volunteers for implement this campaign. Overseas Partner will collect child art from country coordinators and put all the child art and participants details in the child art gallery. Overseas Partner will initially select 3 nos. of child art from each country and call the child artist for participation of final art competition in any developed country. Overseas Partner Juries will initially select 3 child art from each country and call the artist for participate to final art competition in developed country. Overseas Partner will organize the final child art competition in their country with the help of volunteers and arrange necessary financial assistance from donors and corporations. • Overseas Partner will arrange to display selected child art to UN and other Govt. and private organizations. • Overseas Partner will arrange to visit child artist to different environment organizations, donors and networking organizations in their countries. So that, child artist can present their art album to this organizations.
Phase-II Reproduction of child art
Reproduction of selected child art for distribution /sale among schoolchildren globally	Selection of child art from art gallery in the internet. Design development of the following products for putting child art through these products. -- Greetings cards, T-Shirts, Shopping Bags, Caps, Balloons & Toys, Exercise Book, Child Photo album, Child garments, Clothing, child art poster & others. * Design development of child art calendar for sale and free distribution to different Govt. & Non- govt. Organizations, donors and supporters.	Overseas Partner will select appropriate child art and develop product design by experts. After completion of product design, Overseas Partner will send product design to India and other developing countries coordinators for low cost child art reproductions. Overseas Partner will establish ECO-SHOPS/ PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION CENTRE in developed countries. Overseas Partner will import the production from different countries coordinating agencies and distribute/ sale the products directly to school network USA, CANADA, EUROPE and Other countries. Overseas Partner will publish child art calendar and distribute these calendars to different Govt. & Non-Governmental Organizations Globally.
Phase III Fund Raising
Establishment of ECO-FUND for implement school and community based projects in developing countries.	Total sales proceeds will go to ECO-FUND established by the partner organizations Development of project proposal and submit to Government and Non-Government donors for implement school and community environment projects.	Overseas Partner will establish ECO-FUND and distribute to the third world NGOs projects through country coordinating agencies. Overseas Partner will develop appropriate project proposal and submit to donors.
Phase IV Long Term Objectives Environment Project Implementation
School Based Projects
School Tree Plantation and awareness program. School water awareness projects. Establishment of school based environment CD Library and environment magazine publishing. School based seminar, workshop and contest. School based child art exchange. Community Based Projects* Eco-friendly Rural Housing. Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation Projects. Eco-Friendly Watershed Projects. Sustainable Agriculture. Low cost Solar Energy Projects. Eco-Friendly Product Promotion and Distribution Projects.	Country Coordinators will carryout PRE-FUNDING feasibility study of each project proposal and submit the report to Overseas Partner Team. Country Coordinators will identify and select appropriate NGOs. * Country Coordinators will organize project concept dissemination training and promote new project concept. * Country Coordinators will carryout periodical project monitoring and submit the report to Overseas Partner Team. * Country Coordinators will carryout project evaluation of all projects and submit the report to Overseas Partner Team. * Country Coordinators will collect ECO-FRIENDLY Products from different organizations and send these products to ECO-SHOP in developed countries for distribution/ sale.	* Overseas Partner Team will study the project proposal and distribute funds to NGOs according to the progress of the projects. According to the country coordinators report (Monitoring and evaluation), Overseas Partner Team will prepare project progress report and submit to donors. Overseas Partner Team will distribute / sale ECO-FRIENDLY products through their shops and via e-marketing.
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Global artisans community tele-village

Project concept

1. Name of the Project Global Artisans Community Tele Village

2. Project Location Developing & Developed Countries

3. Beneficiaries Micro Entrepreneur groups, community Self-help groups community artisans groups.

4. Specific problems of target groups:-

Lack of product marketing resources (Domestics & Overseas) of Micro Entrepreneur groups, community artisans groups.

Lack of technical design resources.

Lack of systematic skill training.
Lack of financial recourses for purchase raw materials.
Lack of financial recourses to meet their basic social needs (Literacy, Health care, hygiene & sanitation, work shade and housing).

5. Project background information:-

Artisans of different states of India in different traditional trades like bamboo/cane work, Handmade/machine made embroidery textile, silver/brass metal, weaving cotton & silk fabrics, hand painting & printing jute product, jewelry etc. work from one generation to next generation using different traditional machine & equipment's. Government assistance reaches to these artisans in very miniature form and in a very regulated manner. As a result, the artisan has to depend mostly on their intermediary, who provides the raw materials and market the products in exchange of small piece wages to artisans. The survey conducted on the background & problems of artisans reveal the following salient features: -

Artisans have no choice but to depend on the traditional intermediary for raw materials and wages.
Artisans are using the old and indigenous methods of production resulting in lack in quality and quality management.
Artisans lack communication skills, as there is no adequate to latest developments in the global and market situation.
Artisans have no outlets for marketing of the products resulting in economic exploitation by middleman.
Artisans do not reach to popular education program, as there is no such initiative at this participatory level.
There is absolute dirt of voluntary initiatives for technical interventions as well as education dissemination initiatives.
Due to lack of demonstration, awareness and workshop for IT based education to artisans, quality production according to buyers need is receiving a set back.
Lack of training initiatives and awareness amongst artisans have lead to creation of barriers to reach faster communication and information technology.
These has been no specific and constructive initiative by any sector of the society for helping artisans form self-help groups, co-operative and engage in their community development programs for betterment of their living and working condition.

6. Introduction of "Artisans Community Tele village": -

To overcome the present problems and changing present situation of artisans/Micro Entrepreneur groups, INDIA VOLUNTEERS Team have planned to introduce ICT based Artisans Community Tele Village (ACTV) projects in the ARTISANS COMMUNITY.

ACTV is a physical place with computer, multimedia, Internet connection that provides community people (Specially Artisans Communities) with public access to ICT for educational, social & economic development. ICT offering Internet access allows even the most remote village to communicate and exchange information with the rest of the World with training, communities can locally access, manage, produce and communicate information for development.

Rural Artisans groups, women self-help groups micro-entrepreneur groups will get latest design technology & training, market information, buyers & sellers meet, raw materials availability, display & promote products in front of local and global buyers directly through ACTVs.

7. Goal of Artisans community Tele Village (ACTV)

The goal of this project is to promote ACTV in the artisans communities through enhancing the capabilities of NGOs in that Artisans community to assist member Artisans groups to tap necessary marketing, technical, financial & other resources through INTERNET & WEBSITE for social-economic upliftment of rural poor Artisans groups and their families.

8. Objective of this projects :-

Short term objectives:-

To identify micro entrepreneur groups and Artisans groups in different states of India and other countries through district level NGOs and prepare computer aided database.
To launch Internet based master web-site "Artisans Community Tele Village on line" in collaboration with overseas partner NGOs (in developed countries) for fair distribution of quality Artisans products directly to consumer.
To launch consumer awareness/education program globally through this web site.

Long term objectives: -

To establish Artisans Community Tele Village (ACTV) in the identified artisans community through NGOs in India and other countries.
To connect Global Artisans Groups through this master web site.
To provide all services directly to Micro Artisans Groups of India and other countries through artisans community managed ACTVs.

To provide technical design and other assistance directly to Micro-Artisans groups globally through this web site.

To launch artisans community exchange globally through this web site
To introduce micro enterprise development and other social & environment project.

9. Project Activities Planned: -

short term objectives

Sl. No	Objectives	Activities
1.	To identify micro entrepreneur groups and Artisans groups in different states of India and other countries through district level NGOs and prepare computer aided database.	Collection of artisans information, product sample, membership development, self-help groups formation to different states of India through NGOs. Development of computerized artisans database.
2.	To launch internet based master web site "Artisans Community Tele Village on line" in collaboration with overseas partner NGOs (in developed countries) for fair distribution of quality Artisans products directly to consumer.	Infrastructure development of Overseas Partner organization (US/CANADA/EUROPE based) for launching master web site "Artisans Community Tele Village On Line" Infrastructure development of overseas partner (US /EUROPE/CANADA) for FAIR distribution of products directly to consumer.
3.	To launch consumer awareness/education program globally through this web site.	Consumer awareness program will be implemented through master web site. Establish relation with overseas Universities, Technical Institution, Product Designer, Fair Trade Network, Association & Volunteers by US/CANADA/EUROPE based partner organization and chanalized the resources directly to artisans communities in developing countries through ACTV master web site.

LONG TERM OBJECTIVES: -

Sl. No.	Objectives	Activities
1.	To establish Artisans Community Tele Village (ACTV) in the identified artisans community through NGOs in India and other countries.	To launch fund raising program to establish ACTVs in India and other countries through master ACTV web site Establish ACTVs in different selected artisans communities in India and other countries.
2.	To connect Global Artisans Groups (ACTVs) through this master web site.	Connecting Global Micro Entrepreneur Groups and Artisans Self-help groups through ACTV master web site.
3.	To provide all services directly to Micro Artisans Groups of India and other countries through artisans community managed ACTVs.	Start ACTVs activities and program To launch electronic products catalogue in the Cyber space. Artisans products shop in Cyber space. Artisans product exhibition in Cyber space. Artisans distance learning through Internet. Information dissemination through Internet. Artisans products design development through Cyber space. Library and documentation centre in Cyber space. ACTV newsletter in Cyber space. Internship and Volunteers placement in Cyber space. Eco-Friendly products promotion through Cyber space.
4.	To provide technical design and other assistance directly to Micro-Artisans groups globally through this web site.	Implementation of products design development training, packaging developing training through Video Conferencing System.
5.	To launch artisans community exchange globally through this web site.	Implement Artisans Groups exchange program two times in a year.
6.	To introduce Micro Enterprise development and other social development projects	Implement Micro Credit development training program to organizer, field staffs & women artisans groups. Implement saving and credit habit development. Establish of artisans community credit fund. Artisans community health care & telemedicine services. Artisans Eco-Friendly work shed and housing development.

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