About Us
About Urmul Seemant
With the aim to empower village communities towards self-reliance, Urmul Seemant Samiti has been working since 1994 in western Rajasthan to develop a safe and enabling environment for people that ensures that their right to health, education and employment is respected and realized without discrimination and exclusion, with special focus on children and women. Striving for development in the most distant and underdeveloped villages of Bikaner, Jodhpur and Nagaur district to ensure that people are empowered to decide, design, implement and eventually self-finance the package of development services which are made available to them under different projects
OUR STORY
In May 1988, Urmul Trust expanded its activities to the command area of the Indira Gandhi Canal area in Kolayat Block of Bikaner district so as to provide community based developmental services to the highly scattered desert population. In 1992, URMUL started decentralizing its activities so that authority and the responsibility can be transferred to the people of areas near the field. Due to this process Urmul Seemant Samiti came into existence on 4th May 1994 and was registered under the Rajasthan Societies Act, 1958.
Urmul Seemant Samiti is now operating in two districts Bikaner and Jodhpur of western Rajasthan and has direct presence in more than 300 villages in both districts. With the aim to empower village communities towards self-reliance, Urmul Seemant Samiti has been working since 1994 in western Rajasthan to develop a safe and enabling environment for people that ensures that their right to health, education and employment is respected and realized without discrimination and exclusion, with special focus on children and women. Striving for development in the most distant and backward villages of Bikaner and Jodhpur district to ensure that people are empowered to decide, design, implement and eventually self-finance the package of development services which are made available to them under different projects.
How are we CREATING IMPACT
Livelihood
Ever since the emergence of Urmul Seemant Samiti, we have strived to preserve the traditional livelihood of the desert communities. With constant motivation, support, and partnerships we aim to transform these local communities towards building a sustainable mode of living that is self reliant and self sufficient
Ensuring safety for every Child
With increasing instances of substance abuse and low employment opportunities, the former often seems to be the easy way out. By building synergies, with other like minded stakeholders and organisations, we have adopted a grassroot level approach in supporting the children
Education
We work with the most marginalized and the vulnerable children of the Thar to provide them with decent opportunities for education, so that they can learn and explore according to their potential. With decade long programmes and regular ground interventions, our values towards educating every child has been strengthened over the last 25 years.
COVID Response
Urmul organisations located in different areas of Rajasthan, with assistance from various partner organisations, are providing critical support to the worst hit communities. Essential services ranging from basic health related supplies and essentials, to fodder for livestock are covered in different areas basis the rapid need assessments undertaken by our ground teams.
Water, Hygiene and Sanitation
In rural India, almost ⅔ section of people don’t have access to proper sanitation facilities. Similarly, in a place where there is inadequate access to water, clean water is a long lost dream for the marginalized section. We are building synergies with other organisations to ensure clean water and sanitation to the vulnerable sections of the Thar Desert.
Environmental Sustainability
The extreme harsh living conditions and resource scarcity inherent to the desert environment of Thar. The arid land and water unavailability further limits the prospectivity for holistic growth. The faltered ecosystem is further pained by the geographical location, miles away from civilisation. We are working on sustainable energy models that can act as a catalyst to address a plethora of challenges in the desert, relooking at end use energy requirements and thereafter developing and demonstrating tailored energy solutions for productivity, living environment and access to key services.
