PuspaKajli, 53 years of age wife of Mr. GobardhanKajli was living with her husband, two sons and two daughters in Maheshpur village under Lakshmijanardanpur Gram Panchayat of South 24 Parganas district. Puspa’s family was too poor and had to maintain family in extreme financial hardship. Gobardhan had only two bighas of land including homestead and the yield from the land wasn’t adequate for family consumption. He used to go to dense Sundarban forest with a group of people collecting honey and wood to earn more. One day he was attacked by tiger in the forest but narrowly escapedwith the help of others. He was shifted to hospital, treated and became cured. After this incidence he lost his ability to work and couldn’t find any other livelihood option to earn daily bread. In the meantime, somehow he arranged marriage of his elder daughter and his both the sons separated with their own families. The sons were daily wage earners; yet didn’t help their parents in their miserable condition.

SabujSangha was continuing integrated development programme including education health, livelihood, water sanitation etc. in this area and undertook one survey identifying poorest of the poor (POP) families. Puspa’s family was one of the 400 identified POP families. The programme was intended to extend need based support to POP families and SabujSangha had linked Gobardhan with the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) for one life insurance in his name. Apart from this, he was supported with 100 chicks and other materials for bird cage, feed, medicine etc. setting up one homestead poultry. Technical training was also provided to Puspa on poultry farming and she along with his husband stared raring bird and gradually increasing earning.