Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Advocacy
Date: 05/03/09
Resource person: UshaRani & Vanishree
Smt. Usha Rani has completed her MA & M Phil in Rural development. She is working in the KHPT (Karnataka health promotion Trust) organization. She begins the session with the introduction of fellows. In the beginning she told about the content of her presentation i.e.
.Defi nition
· Role of Advocacy
· Different steps involved
We learnt the definition of Advocacy; It is the process of people participating in decision making process affects their lives. We were taught about the Basic elements of advocacy, they are;
· Coalitions
· Objectives
· Data
· Fund raising
· Audience
· Presentations
· Evaluation
Some of the steps involved in the Advocacy are;
· Selecting Advocacy Objectives
· Identifying Advocacy Audience
· Developing & Delivering Advocacy Messages
· Making Perusable Presentations
· Fund Raising
· Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts
· These processes may be viewed as fluid as they occur simultaneously.
These things were discussed in detail with some case study example which made us more curious about Advocacy. Next the Q-A session started, many fellows asked questions, some of them are,
· What is the scope of Advocacy?
· How it will help entrepreneurs?
· Is it a nonprofit Advocacy or not?
This was followed by the Group Activity in which we were given a topic & asked to write the steps involved in that.
We got “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN “as the topic. Following were the steps involved in it,
· Objectives
1.To protect the violated women
2. To give free legal advice
3. To promote self confidence
· Audience
1. Women
2. Interested men
3. Other interested groups
4. Women & child health department department
5. General mass.
· Developing & delivering Advocacy messages
1. Provide information’s about Acts & rights
2. Provide information’s about women rights
3. Provide information’s about gender equality
4. Funds from different agencies
5. Audiences
· Make perusable presentations
1. Causes & implications
2. Case studies
3. Medias
4. Acts & Rights
· Fund raising
1. Individual
2. Mass
3. Organizations
4. Government aided agencies
· Evaluation
1. Out put
2. Evaluation during quarterly & six monthly
3. Feedback from target group
4. Internal & external
5. Comparing with other organizations who are working with same goal & same strategies.
Vanishree shared her experiences in working with professional sex workers like approaches, challenges faced, health related programs etc.
Resource person: UshaRani & Vanishree
Smt. Usha Rani has completed her MA & M Phil in Rural development. She is working in the KHPT (Karnataka health promotion Trust) organization. She begins the session with the introduction of fellows. In the beginning she told about the content of her presentation i.e.
.Defi nition
· Role of Advocacy
· Different steps involved
We learnt the definition of Advocacy; It is the process of people participating in decision making process affects their lives. We were taught about the Basic elements of advocacy, they are;
· Coalitions
· Objectives
· Data
· Fund raising
· Audience
· Presentations
· Evaluation
Some of the steps involved in the Advocacy are;
· Selecting Advocacy Objectives
· Identifying Advocacy Audience
· Developing & Delivering Advocacy Messages
· Making Perusable Presentations
· Fund Raising
· Evaluating the Advocacy Efforts
· These processes may be viewed as fluid as they occur simultaneously.
These things were discussed in detail with some case study example which made us more curious about Advocacy. Next the Q-A session started, many fellows asked questions, some of them are,
· What is the scope of Advocacy?
· How it will help entrepreneurs?
· Is it a nonprofit Advocacy or not?
This was followed by the Group Activity in which we were given a topic & asked to write the steps involved in that.
We got “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN “as the topic. Following were the steps involved in it,
· Objectives
1.To protect the violated women
2. To give free legal advice
3. To promote self confidence
· Audience
1. Women
2. Interested men
3. Other interested groups
4. Women & child health department department
5. General mass.
· Developing & delivering Advocacy messages
1. Provide information’s about Acts & rights
2. Provide information’s about women rights
3. Provide information’s about gender equality
4. Funds from different agencies
5. Audiences
· Make perusable presentations
1. Causes & implications
2. Case studies
3. Medias
4. Acts & Rights
· Fund raising
1. Individual
2. Mass
3. Organizations
4. Government aided agencies
· Evaluation
1. Out put
2. Evaluation during quarterly & six monthly
3. Feedback from target group
4. Internal & external
5. Comparing with other organizations who are working with same goal & same strategies.
Vanishree shared her experiences in working with professional sex workers like approaches, challenges faced, health related programs etc.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Manovikas
Manovlkas is an institution for rehabilitation center, especially for mentally retarded children.
Dr. J.K.Hiremath, founder of this organization says his daughter is the inspiration for starting this special school. She suffered from meningitis and died in the year 1994.
Dr. Hiremath was working in an American organization resigned his job came to India & in 1994 he started a small day care center with two rooms from 10:30am to 4:30pm for mentally retarded children. This grew into a residential school by 2003.
Reasons for the development of mental retardness
v Age of the mother
v Mental & physical health of the mother
v Genetic abnormalities
v Mother’s addiction to drugs
v Malnutrition
v Half attempted abortion
v Use of unpriscribed drugs
v Accidents
v Epileptic attack by hormonal change
v Forceps delivery (80%)
v Anoxia
v Prolong delivery
v Cesarean (2%)
v Low birth
Functions of Manovikas
Being a neuroclinical psychiatrist Dr.Hiremath design the perfect residential arrangement for the mentally challenged children. He could also successfully design the activities of Manovikas. They are,
· Visiting the villages & building the awareness. This includes early identification, facilities available from the government, diagnosis & issue of certification.
· Convergence service. They have adopted 7 districts in Kanpur, each village is having some SHGs which helps in the taking care of the children, for this parents of the children are charged Rs2/-
· Upanayana. Here they train the parents as co-therapists. Different therapies will be given to the child. Like,
ü Hydro therapy
ü Sand therapy
ü Jump fit therapy
ü Multisensory stimulation therapy
ü Squint correction therapy
ü Physiotherapy
ü Vita therapy
ü Speech therapy
ü Drooling therapy
· Special education system. Here level assessment of the children is done by check list. They follow the individual rehabilitation program (IRP), in which each child will be having its own curriculum. Basic knowledge like Time, Money, Writing name, Signature was taught to the students. For female domestic ability development program is also conducted. Music therapy, sports, yoga, dance is also part of the school activities.
· Residential service. They teach self help skills like, Toilet training specially reporting, eating, bathing, grooming, for female menstrual hygiene. They also take children for excursions.
· Achievements of school.
Ø Gold medal in china in swimming
· Challenges face.
Ø Meet the parents expectation
Ø Rehabilitation of children in home
· Contact:
Ph-9243281756
e-mail:manovikasa@yahoo.com
Dr. J.K.Hiremath, founder of this organization says his daughter is the inspiration for starting this special school. She suffered from meningitis and died in the year 1994.
Dr. Hiremath was working in an American organization resigned his job came to India & in 1994 he started a small day care center with two rooms from 10:30am to 4:30pm for mentally retarded children. This grew into a residential school by 2003.
Reasons for the development of mental retardness
v Age of the mother
v Mental & physical health of the mother
v Genetic abnormalities
v Mother’s addiction to drugs
v Malnutrition
v Half attempted abortion
v Use of unpriscribed drugs
v Accidents
v Epileptic attack by hormonal change
v Forceps delivery (80%)
v Anoxia
v Prolong delivery
v Cesarean (2%)
v Low birth
Functions of Manovikas
Being a neuroclinical psychiatrist Dr.Hiremath design the perfect residential arrangement for the mentally challenged children. He could also successfully design the activities of Manovikas. They are,
· Visiting the villages & building the awareness. This includes early identification, facilities available from the government, diagnosis & issue of certification.
· Convergence service. They have adopted 7 districts in Kanpur, each village is having some SHGs which helps in the taking care of the children, for this parents of the children are charged Rs2/-
· Upanayana. Here they train the parents as co-therapists. Different therapies will be given to the child. Like,
ü Hydro therapy
ü Sand therapy
ü Jump fit therapy
ü Multisensory stimulation therapy
ü Squint correction therapy
ü Physiotherapy
ü Vita therapy
ü Speech therapy
ü Drooling therapy
· Special education system. Here level assessment of the children is done by check list. They follow the individual rehabilitation program (IRP), in which each child will be having its own curriculum. Basic knowledge like Time, Money, Writing name, Signature was taught to the students. For female domestic ability development program is also conducted. Music therapy, sports, yoga, dance is also part of the school activities.
· Residential service. They teach self help skills like, Toilet training specially reporting, eating, bathing, grooming, for female menstrual hygiene. They also take children for excursions.
· Achievements of school.
Ø Gold medal in china in swimming
· Challenges face.
Ø Meet the parents expectation
Ø Rehabilitation of children in home
· Contact:
Ph-9243281756
e-mail:manovikasa@yahoo.com
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Leadership activity
Location: Devinagar,Hubli.
Activity done:Awarness about HIV/AIDS
The response from Devinagar people was good when we told them about our activity.We called only women for this activitiy as this can not be done with mixed group(male & female). Around 23 female gathered for the telefilm show.The voice from the mass started slowing down when the film started.We decided that during the film we are not going to iinterept them.We started the film by around 6:45pm & it ended by 7:15pm.All of them were seeing the movie interestingly.
When the film got over I asked the question to them that-What was the main theem of the movie? For my surprise non of them were opening their mouth,when I repeated the question then two young girls told that its about AIDS.Later I understood that they were not feeling good to uttter the word AIDS.This was because AIDS spreads by sexual affairs!!!This bias led to the question answer session.I asked the following questions to the audience.
Activity done:Awarness about HIV/AIDS
The response from Devinagar people was good when we told them about our activity.We called only women for this activitiy as this can not be done with mixed group(male & female). Around 23 female gathered for the telefilm show.The voice from the mass started slowing down when the film started.We decided that during the film we are not going to iinterept them.We started the film by around 6:45pm & it ended by 7:15pm.All of them were seeing the movie interestingly.
When the film got over I asked the question to them that-What was the main theem of the movie? For my surprise non of them were opening their mouth,when I repeated the question then two young girls told that its about AIDS.Later I understood that they were not feeling good to uttter the word AIDS.This was because AIDS spreads by sexual affairs!!!This bias led to the question answer session.I asked the following questions to the audience.
- What are the ways by which a person can get infected by HIV?
- By what it won't spread?
- How can the child be saved if it is in the womb of an infected mother?
- What to do when you feel that you are at RISK?
- What are high risk,low risk & no risk?
- What is the future of the positive person?
Thia led to some questions from the audience like;
- Is it spreads from mosquito?
- Can we take our own syringe to the hospital?
- Any remedy toprevent it?
- Can it occur to anybody who is not involved in illegal sexual affiar? so on......
We felt very happl to get such a good response from people.I wish to give such activity in many places to make the positive person live normaly.
Leadership activity
Location: Governament Hostle, Vidyanarara, Hubli.
Activity Done:Health care during menstrual cycle.
This activity we took during afternoon time.When we told them
that we are going to show you a telefilm most of them very interested & ready for participate in the activity.But we restrict the strength by taking only 7th,8th,9th & 10th students.There were around 19 children in the session. A small icebreak conducted made everyone comfortable in the atmosphere.
We started the telefilm with the brief introduction of reason behind showing it.Telefilm went on for 40minutes.After this I asked some questions like;
· For how many of you menstrual cycle started?
· How many of you feel stomuch pain during this period?
· How many have irregular cycle? Etc..
Later the question answer session started.They asked very less questions like;
· Why we feel stomuch pain those days?
· Why in our village they say such lady shoud not go to temple?
· Why people say in those days we should not see a pregnant ?
· Why we should not take tablets during m.c for stomuch pain? etc..
We also took feed back feom the children;
· Many things I came to ,it was a nice session.
· Now I can say in village about the wrong belives followed .etc…
I felt the whole session was effective when they gave the feed back.I wish to do such activities in many schools & hostels.
Activity Done:Health care during menstrual cycle.
This activity we took during afternoon time.When we told them
that we are going to show you a telefilm most of them very interested & ready for participate in the activity.But we restrict the strength by taking only 7th,8th,9th & 10th students.There were around 19 children in the session. A small icebreak conducted made everyone comfortable in the atmosphere.We started the telefilm with the brief introduction of reason behind showing it.Telefilm went on for 40minutes.After this I asked some questions like;
· For how many of you menstrual cycle started?
· How many of you feel stomuch pain during this period?
· How many have irregular cycle? Etc..
Later the question answer session started.They asked very less questions like;
· Why we feel stomuch pain those days?
· Why in our village they say such lady shoud not go to temple?
· Why people say in those days we should not see a pregnant ?
· Why we should not take tablets during m.c for stomuch pain? etc..
We also took feed back feom the children;
· Many things I came to ,it was a nice session.
· Now I can say in village about the wrong belives followed .etc…
I felt the whole session was effective when they gave the feed back.I wish to do such activities in many schools & hostels.
Leadership activity
Location: Governament school, Bommasamudra.
Activity Done:Cr
eative activity-Paper bag making(26/02/09)
On 26thFeb. I have done this activity in the school.I took class for 5th,6th,7th & 8th for this activity.Before starting the activity I have done the icebreak activity which made them very comfortable to come back to the class though it was the last hour of the school. Then I asked questions to them like what are the hazardes of plastic
the answers from them was as below.
· Not good for health
· Do not decay
· Harmful for manure
· Makes roads & streets dirty by flying here & there etc.....
Most of the children did not brought old news paper for this, though I told in the previous class.I made 8 groups among them, each group was doing one paper bag. I prepared glue from home.Though many of them wanted to go to the fair in the next village they were doing it with interest.I took around 45 minutes to complete this activity.I felt good to do this in the school & aware the children about reduction of usage of plastic bags.I thanked the Head misstress, teachers & students for giving opportunity.
Activity Done:Cr
eative activity-Paper bag making(26/02/09)On 26thFeb. I have done this activity in the school.I took class for 5th,6th,7th & 8th for this activity.Before starting the activity I have done the icebreak activity which made them very comfortable to come back to the class though it was the last hour of the school. Then I asked questions to them like what are the hazardes of plastic
the answers from them was as below.· Not good for health
· Do not decay
· Harmful for manure
· Makes roads & streets dirty by flying here & there etc.....
Most of the children did not brought old news paper for this, though I told in the previous class.I made 8 groups among them, each group was doing one paper bag. I prepared glue from home.Though many of them wanted to go to the fair in the next village they were doing it with interest.I took around 45 minutes to complete this activity.I felt good to do this in the school & aware the children about reduction of usage of plastic bags.I thanked the Head misstress, teachers & students for giving opportunity.Leadership activity
Location: Governament school, Bommasamudra.
Activity done: Creative activity-Doll making (25/02/09)
It was the welcoming smile by the head misstress which made me to talk to her with confidence. I told her about my assigment in the village & I requested her that can school provide me for time to do some creative activities with children for two days ,1hour each day.She happly accepted this.
Activity done: Creative activity-Doll making (25/02/09)
It was the welcoming smile by the head misstress which made me to talk to her with confidence. I told her about my assigment in the village & I requested her that can school provide me for time to do some creative activities with children for two days ,1hour each day.She happly accepted this.
I have taken 5th,6th,7th & 8th standard childern for this activity. Before starting this activity I asked children that from which all substances we can make dolls.The answers came out like paper, sponge,cloth,cotton ect.I told them that today you will learn doll making by a pair of socks.Their was a question mark on the faces of students & also teachers.Which made this activity more exiting. 
I invovled children for help. In this I have taken one 8th class girl & 8th boy. The time gap between opening of the threads from socks was not that interesting for them, but once the cut threads start giving shape to the doll they all felt very happy.One of the assistant teacher told to the children that this activity will be the project work for this semister.I felt happy when I heard this.I could finish this activity by 45minutes. It was nice to teach & enjoy with children.
I invovled children for help. In this I have taken one 8th class girl & 8th boy. The time gap between opening of the threads from socks was not that interesting for them, but once the cut threads start giving shape to the doll they all felt very happy.One of the assistant teacher told to the children that this activity will be the project work for this semister.I felt happy when I heard this.I could finish this activity by 45minutes. It was nice to teach & enjoy with children.
Right To Information
RTI
Resource persons: Mr.Ashutosh & Mr.Tippanna
Day:1
Date:02/03/09
The session started with overview of the three days content. Then followed by the expectation by the fellows, each one was give a piece of paper to write down the same. It was read by Mr.Tippanna. Then few basics of RTI's (Right To Information ) like definitions, year of act’s initiation was explained. Later the same piece of paper was given to write our experience of the incidence where we met the Govt office. Then it was read by Mr.Ashutosh, except few all were bitter experience.Next we were given many information regarding RTI which includes the following points;
· Definition
· Launching date
· Definition of Suo-Muto
· Contents of Suo-Muto
· Procedure to put application for Suo-Muto
· Importance of Suo-Muto
In the afternoon session we were taught, how to write a application for Suo-Muto information. We selected one of the Govt office to apply the same. By 2:30 we left the campus to the Govt office.
Assigment: Case study of Suo-Muto of the one of Governament office.
Day:2
Date:03/03/09
The session started with the experience sharing about the submission of application for Suo-Muto information. Resource persons gave suggestion to those who were not able to apply for the Suo-Muto information. This was followed by the presentation by each group in which we studied the case-study, with PPT presentation. Later we were enriched with the specific information act. The following are the information includes in that;
· What the Act says
· How to apply for it
· Contents of this Act
In the afternoon we were asked to bring a postal order of Rs10/- to apply for the specific information. We learn to write the application, then started to our chosen Governament office.
Assigment:Case study of RTI susscesful story.
Day:3
Date:04/03/09
Day started with the activity-extempore in which we were standing in the circle, we were given a chit in which topic was written, This went on for 40mins.Then the class room session started with case-study presentation. This was followed by the explanation about following points;
· Section 7
· Section 8
· Section 9
In the afternoon session we were given a brief session on the activities done by the apnarti established by our resource persons. In which suggestions & questions asked by the HODof Computer Science,BVB College of Engineering was enlightening for all of us. After this we, in group demonstrated the street play then left to the choose place to do the same.
We could do the street play in many places successfuly. Response from the people was tremendous. Many came out with the problems they are facing. One of the persons their came out with the offering of tea to all of us, he appreciate for our activity to create awareness among people about RTI.He told that he is very thankful for coming,he insisted us to do one more play in side of the village,which we could do later.
Three days the session was very much enriching. As I personally not read any thing about RTI it was very helpful for me. This made me excited throughout the session. Three days the session was more lively, interactive which made everybody alert in the class. We enjoyed the learning part of it.
Resource persons: Mr.Ashutosh & Mr.Tippanna
Day:1
Date:02/03/09
The session started with overview of the three days content. Then followed by the expectation by the fellows, each one was give a piece of paper to write down the same. It was read by Mr.Tippanna. Then few basics of RTI's (Right To Information ) like definitions, year of act’s initiation was explained. Later the same piece of paper was given to write our experience of the incidence where we met the Govt office. Then it was read by Mr.Ashutosh, except few all were bitter experience.Next we were given many information regarding RTI which includes the following points;
· Definition
· Launching date
· Definition of Suo-Muto
· Contents of Suo-Muto
· Procedure to put application for Suo-Muto
· Importance of Suo-Muto
In the afternoon session we were taught, how to write a application for Suo-Muto information. We selected one of the Govt office to apply the same. By 2:30 we left the campus to the Govt office.
Assigment: Case study of Suo-Muto of the one of Governament office.
Day:2
Date:03/03/09
The session started with the experience sharing about the submission of application for Suo-Muto information. Resource persons gave suggestion to those who were not able to apply for the Suo-Muto information. This was followed by the presentation by each group in which we studied the case-study, with PPT presentation. Later we were enriched with the specific information act. The following are the information includes in that;
· What the Act says
· How to apply for it
· Contents of this Act
In the afternoon we were asked to bring a postal order of Rs10/- to apply for the specific information. We learn to write the application, then started to our chosen Governament office.
Assigment:Case study of RTI susscesful story.
Day:3
Date:04/03/09
Day started with the activity-extempore in which we were standing in the circle, we were given a chit in which topic was written, This went on for 40mins.Then the class room session started with case-study presentation. This was followed by the explanation about following points;
· Section 7
· Section 8
· Section 9
In the afternoon session we were given a brief session on the activities done by the apnarti established by our resource persons. In which suggestions & questions asked by the HODof Computer Science,BVB College of Engineering was enlightening for all of us. After this we, in group demonstrated the street play then left to the choose place to do the same.
We could do the street play in many places successfuly. Response from the people was tremendous. Many came out with the problems they are facing. One of the persons their came out with the offering of tea to all of us, he appreciate for our activity to create awareness among people about RTI.He told that he is very thankful for coming,he insisted us to do one more play in side of the village,which we could do later.
Three days the session was very much enriching. As I personally not read any thing about RTI it was very helpful for me. This made me excited throughout the session. Three days the session was more lively, interactive which made everybody alert in the class. We enjoyed the learning part of it.
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