About the Scope Foundation Mission
SCOPE is a livelihood development organization that works to alleviate hunger, poverty, and disease in the most isolated rural villages in Bihar. Scope does not give away food or material aid, but we take a big-picture, holistic approach focusing on the entire community rather than on one issue. Scope has found that problems and issues within rural community are all interrelated and that you cannot solve one problem in isolation.
Scope invests in poor people and their communities by training and inspiring them to create their own life-changing solutions through programs in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Capacity Building, Handicraft, Health & Hygiene, Literacy, Water, Leadership, Financial management and Environmental protection.
Scope listens to people, without predetermined ideas, to identify and address their needs, resulting in greater community involvement and long-lasting impact. Scope provides knowledge and training to teach skills and gain confidence, then local leaders and organizations emerge and work together to carry on the work. This makes Scope programs very efficient and creates lasting change rather than a short-term fix.
Problem Statement
The condition of most farmers is terrible. About 80% of farmers in India are marginal (less than 1 hectare) or small farmers (1–2 hectare) category. Agriculture supports about 60% of employment but contributes only 17% to GDP. Every day, there are reports of Indian farmer suicides from different parts of the country. Farmer suicides account for 11.2% of all suicides in India. Activists and scholars have offered a number of conflicting reasons for farmer suicides, such as anti farmer laws, high debt burdens, poor government policies, corruption in subsidies, crop failure, public mental health, personal issues and family problems. The recent empirical evidences in the literature attributed the prevalence of rural unemployment and under-employment, to increasing population pressures, an ever declining land-man ratio, small and fragmented holdings, highly iniquitous land distribution structures and lack of non- farm employment opportunities in rural area.
About the Theme
The Scope at Bihar and have been undertaking various rural developmental activities for the benefit of poor farmers. Scope has established a Training Centre in Beldarichak, Patna where live training on various subjects in Agriculture and allied services(Animal Husbandry ) is imparted to interested candidates from various districts of Bihar though a panel of experts. Scope undertakes various projects and village improvement programmes.
Company helped small and marginal farmers by training them in effective animal husbandry & agriculture farming practices including animal health, production planning, artificial insemination, & creating model farms with bio-dynamic farming practices, thereby increasing the productivity and raising the income of poor rural population. The company has generated numerous employment opportunities to the youth of rural Bihar to mitigate the migration to other states & aims to build an “Aatma Nirbhar Bihar”
Scope focuses on training and educating rural communities to find lasting solutions to the challenges they face – hunger, poverty and disease – rather than giving them food, money or constructing buildings. Our programs contribute to improving the social, economic and physical resources available to and controlled by a community. This makes our programs very efficient and creates lasting change rather than a short-term fix. We invest in local leadership and organizations that continue and expand program activities after we end our support. The goal is to achieve long-lasting improvements in people’s lives and the rural community, not quick fixes that depend on outside assistance.
Our Initiatives
Currently, around 9453 people benefit from Scope work in 10 districts in Bihar namely Patna, Nalanda, Gaya, Bhojpur, Rohtas, Saharsa, Vaishai, Purnea, Muzaffarpur & Supaul. During our experience so far, more than 7236 people across Bihar have transformed their lives with the support of Scope and our partners.
