5. SATARA REMOTE 1

1. SCOPE works beyond the backwater. The boat becomes a meeting place.
It took a couple of years to create confidence among the people about the steps SCOPE was about to take.

Meeting them wherever possible, regularly talking to small gatherings like this one became an effective and fruit-yielding method of instilling courage.
Only then the people give place in their huts and hearts.

SCOPE went to the people as friend. Met them at their level and on equal platform.

2. Systematically mapping the area became primary need in order to set goals, only to achieve them effectively & efficiently.
a. Indian Society is patriarchal in nature. In the decision making process, one cannot ignore the major role played by men. Hence, taking the men folk into confidence becomes a necessary obligation for any NGO to work successfully in such a society.
b. Meeting them first became the most important strategy. c. Only by concientizing the men, were we then able to mobilise the cluster of villages.

d. Sitting among them as one of them made a lot of difference.

3. It became easier later to begin the actual work. The people placed confidence in SCOPE. Co-operated. The work thereafter did not remain with SCOPE alone. It gathered a momentum and became a movement.

First we set about charting their urgent needs and not what the SCOPE had to offer them.

Addressing their needs first created tremendous interest and response on the part of the people.

Every aspect, negative & positive was brought on the anvil. Discussed in minute details its pros & cons. The people fast learned the process of undertaking any work.