Community Covid Resilience and Resource Centers

Community Covid Resilience and Resource Centers

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Amrita School for Sustainable Futures and UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development, jointly with the Department of science and technology (DST), Government of India is working towards setting up Community Covid Resilience Resource Centers (CCRRC) across India.The centers aim to provide community level interventions focussed on various thematic areas to translate technological advancements to provide sustainable solutions to various challenges.

Community Hubs

100

Village Spokes

100,000+

Beneficiaries

Focus Areas

Objectives

Building knowledge societies

Develop local community level resource centers with a focus on the thematic areas

Developing an empowered interconnected regional and national network of communities

Build a community level platform for mapping community level socioeconomic, cultural and political dimensions

Utilize the existing knowledge, technology, innovations, and funds for resource mobilization and utilization for community empowerment

Community level resilience

Develop and deploy strategies and technologies to achieve community level resilience in specific thematic areas

Thematic Areas

Agriculture

Awareness program, agriculturists and farmer training and capacity building.

Kitchen gardens for reducing malnutrition (proteins, diet), food security (self sufficiency, diversification), improving soil health (organic, pesticides)Analysis of food habits, nutrition analysis
Cultivation of region specific crops: mushroom, seaweed, avocado, moringa
Technology used for price discovery, buyer identification, weather, Govt. schemes

Health & WellBeing

Training healthcare workers, deploying IoT health devices among vulnerable population, setting up teleconsultation training camps & services.

Linkages to tertiary hospitals (CCRRC to Amrita Hospital Kochi / Faridabad / local)
Remote IoT based patient vitals monitoring
Teleconsultation (Amrita Spandanam)
Health awareness camps (general health, hygiene, child and women care, NCDs)

Water & Sanitation

PEPE hand wash awareness robots & Jivamritam clean drinking projects

Awareness and training programs, and deployment of handwashing units, PEPE awareness robots in public places especially in schools
Jivamritam unit installation

Skill Development

Creation of Smart SHGs, training SHG members on entrepreneurship, finance management , credit availability and digitization. Vocational skill training awareness and capacity building.
Regional need based Self help groups, Smart-SHG platform