Sunday, February 15, 2009

My New Learnings

Health is Wealth
We all know that ‘Health is wealth’ so I had class on 2nd February 2009 about Public Health and also it was my first Module session in my course it was taken by Mrs. Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal (Program Officer-Global Exchange Programs) Deshpande Foundation. Health is nothing but the complete physical and mental status of an individual. It is mainly affected by biological, environmental, chemical and emotional factors. Main learning’s of this class is Core Areas of Public Health and it's uses, How to understand the case studies about slum health problem, how the health factor is effect on individual economic/social life and How to prepare project proposal for Health project she made us practice in class with two teams, learnt realities of urban slums, services available to improve their health status and our role required for the promotion of their health. Overall full day session was a bunch of learning to understand Public Health.

One Session with Founder of DCSE
We had session with Gururaj Desh , CEO of US besed Sycamore Inc and Founder of Dheshpande Foundation.Desh started his interaction by using local language(Kannada) mainly he focused on innovative solutions to the social challenges would take the country towards list of developed country’s. He also said that students should pledge to search of creative ideas to the burning challenges that have been affecting the nation's growth. This will definitely lead a sustainable change in the country's economyMainly he focused on that scaling, innovation, and entrepreneurship were three most in essential parameters in taking the fast track.

Last he told that Hubli city was opening up itself to the developments. He asked students to choose Hubli to make it a model city.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Talk with former President, Dr A.P.J Kalam


“Dream is not that what you see in sleep, Dream is the thing which does not allow you to sleep” -Dr.Kalam
6th February, 2009 is a tremendous day for me and whole Dharwad District. Whole Hubli people were get vibrated. We had chance to meet him and took snap with him. This made us very happy.

Strength of youth (Dr.Kalam) has inaugurated our foundation, Deshpande Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at B.V.B College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli. After inauguration referring “Vision 2020”, he said: that “All of us have before us a mission of transforming India into a developed nation. The five key areas where India has a core competence for integrated action are agriculture and food processing, education and healthcare, infrastructure, reliable and quality electricity supply, surface transport and infrastructure for all parts of the country, information and communication technology and self-reliance in critical technologies.” He also motioned that these five areas were inter-related and if they progressed in a coordinated way, it would lead to food, economic and national security. “Of the five areas, the major one is development of infrastructure in rural areas through Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas. The number of PURA clusters for the country has been estimated at 7, 000.
He hoped that DCSE and BVB College would take the initiative of forming a “PURA” complex near Hubli. He mainly focused on creative leadership which is essential for economic development and hoped it would create an atmosphere conducive to produce leaders from among the youths of this region. He mentioned Prof.Wangari Mathai, Ottavo Kapachi and S.Ramanujam’s examples to the youths and entrepreneurs. Kalam referred to the success of “Chandrayaan” of ISRO and elaborated on the hard work behind it.
I am really happy to be a part of Deshpande Foundation because it is very easy to meet wonderful personalities from national and international and talk with them. I am so grateful to Deshpande Foundation for providing such opportunities. And I request my foundation to give this opportunity to some more students in future.

The same day we met some other personalities like
· Narayan Murathi- Infosys
· Sudha Murathi- Infosys
· Manivannan- District Commissioner of Mysore











LETTER TO MY SELF

To,
Savita
Sub: When I interacted with my self


Dear Savita,
Hey, Hello… Hello……….. Savita, what are you doing here? Are you mad? You had a good job, good position, handsome salary in your previous organization. Why you left the job? And here you are learning like a student and working restless you are big fool.(so several time peoples asked this question to me)




Same time my one more inner voicewhispered that hey fool stop your question, and baseless arguments. Think pakka practically having good salary having good job is does not stuff having practical, competitive and sensible knowledge is very important ok…..
Hey see I joined this foundation just two days back and how I am getting things in induction only. Definitely I will show you what I am within six months. Do you know what I have already this is not enough for work in developmental sector minimum I have to have 50% acquaintance/social contact where I want work.
Just I entered in this foundation see how the things, attitudes, and my personality is waiting for healthy change in me.
Do you know I don’t want to be a beneficiary of DFP I want to be a partner of this DFP and contributor to social change.
To achieve this goal, to see an clear picture about me I am ready to face any challenges and any kind of work assigning to me here. Don’t disturb me again & don’t ask me these question ones more.
Bye…………………………….
My Aim and Dream: I want to become great IDEAL in this world. I want to start my own Enterprise/NGO after working some time in a funding organization.
For this I am already saving Rs. 500/- pm from last 2 years in a separate Bank Account.

My Step Towords Village

Village Stay: As a part of our course we Conducted PRA At Kamplikoppa:
First day we visited to Gram chetan at Surashettikoppa, it is greenery and covered by trees. Mr. Deepak Kshira Sagar introduced about Gram chetan & he has shared his experience about people participation. He said that Building participation of people is very important tuff job. It is not easy task. Initially they have countenanced more problems to work with people. While selecting the people they didn’t have any restriction. With support of community they built check dam at Harugera. He shared other examples also with us.
After completion of orientation by BIFE Project Coordinator our team stepped towards Kampalikoppa to conduct PRA. The villagers have welcomed us very different way, applying color turmeric powder & turmeric powder (Traditional way). We have divided our entire in to 5 groups. Each team got different activity like Resource mapping, Seasonality Mapping for income & migration, Venn diagram, FGD on milk production, Matrix ranking for composting. And conducted Time line on sanitation. Finally we got some 50% idea about PRA. After that I moved with my coworkers I have been in Resource mapping group. We did the resource map about natural resources of the village with support of villagers. The drawn map indicated that the village having enough NR.
Village Stay: As a part of our course we visited to Naganur Panchayat.
Introduction:
The Nagnur village is comes under Khalgatigi Taluk, Shurshetti Koppa Panchyath of Dharwad district. It is 25 KM away from Hubli city. Only road transportation available for this village. Four our team members and me visited this village on 11th and 12th of Feb 2009.
History of the village:
‘Nagnur’ means village of snakes. We got different stories from the people regarding village history. One of the elders said that the village was called Laxmipura after that it changed to Yalghatigi Nagnur and Nagnur. Other sources said that some body found Nagalinga in the village long back that is why villagers named Nagnur.
Team 5star conducted activities:

ž Transact walk
ž Anganvadi Visit
ž School Visit
ž Discussion with Director of Mahasangha
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Visited Fields
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Social Mapping

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Time
Line
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Resource
Mapping

Transect Walk at “Naganur"
On 11th Feb 2009 in the morning we went to Nagnur which is comes under Kalaghatagi Taluk, by walk it is 2km from Grama chetan, tar road is destroyed. On the way we saw ground nuts, cotton crop, and sugarcane & sunflower crops in field. When we entered in to the village Coconut trees welcomed us to village in front of every house. We met some youths & Key persons few of them helped us for transect walk. We observed that houses are built very systematically in proper way. In the entrance of the village we have seen the plat “Government Asharaya Yojana “Houses. Roads are very big and space able. Majority of the houses are Kachha houses.
When we entered in to the village people were busy with their works. They were waiting for bus at Basavan temple, some people were going to the field, and others are having tea at hotel & children were playing in front of community hall. We catch the one local person called Shivappa and we continued our TW. There are 5 temples in the village; Basavan , Devamamman , Hanuman Durgamman temple and one mosque. Education system concern there is a primary school, Anganwadi and institutions concern community hall, Milk Dairy, Panchayath office.
Village was hygienic. Everyone has drawn eye-catching rangoli in front of their houses. It shows their indigenous familiarity, local customs & practices. Rapport building was main challenge for us. As soon as we entered the village we make the first move for rapport building.
When we met people our team members were saying “ Namskara “ to villagers. We clearly explained them reason for entering to their village. Afternoon we visited one land which was very greenery we collected some information regarding soil and crops.
It was the late evening when we started our activities because people still returning from the fields. Later we gathered the people for social mapping and Time line map.
Secondary Data collection:
For collecting secondary data we have visited Anganwadi, Panchayt, Milk Dairy, and Mahasangha & Village Accountant. The total population of the village is 1390 in this 686 male & 704 female. The voters are 891. Village composed with 360 families. In this one house is Pakka remaining all houses are kachha. Big formers are 5, Medium formers are 132 & small formers are 172. The total land is 1982.2 Hectors. For detail information you can see below table

FGD: Our team has conducted focus discussion group in the evening. We have collected information about health & sanitation. But, gathering people was challenge for us. When we called people they have not responded us because they were busy with their work & they neglected us. So we have used one traditional tool for bring the people to apply kunkuma door to door & someone we met on road we applied them. We After gathering Mrs.Jayashree villager sang a welcome song. Later we started discusstion
Social Map

This social map has helped us to understand about Naganur village. This map is drawn by village people and which shows the social structures and institutions found in an area. It also helped us to learn who is living where & about where is a temple, school, Community hall, Anganwadi & other offices.

Time Line
Our team has decided to draw the time line map. Mainly our targeted group was women and we called them traditional way putting KUNKUM on their forehead. And we did time line comparative study between situations in 1970 periods and now. Before 1970 the cholera, pelage & T.B like that disease was there. But, now AIDS, Cancer & Chicken gunny. Everyone believed on Ayurvedic treatment. Before 1970 they didn’t have hospital facility, Toilets, Pure water facility, Transport facility & Schools. Now they have school so every child getting literacy, they are growing other crops like suppota trees & mango trees, everything has changed the ladies didn’t not know about bank but now they can easily do bank transaction. Like that there village has changed
Resource Mapping :

The Resource map has helped us to learn about community & its resource base. To learn the villagers perception of what natural resource are found in the community and how they are using. We started in the next day morning after gathering people we have introduced about resource map we have given rangoli powder to draw. We also took care about involving people. They have drawn water source, different type of soils, Hills, roads, lake, & grazing land.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Vocational Training For Childern


Child Centered Activities
Leaders: Latha.k and Malini
Follower: Savitha and Gayathri

It was 12:30pm when we reach balakiyara balamandira in gantikeri. It is a beautiful place. We met Mrs.Kankanur who is the in charge of that balamadira. She explained us about balamandira it has 130 girl children out of them. Some are orphan, some are Child delinquency. When we told her, we came to teach children some activities and wish to follow up it in following days she felt happy and provided us two classrooms.
we selected 7th, 8th and 9th students for activity that is paper bag making. w
e started teaching the activity it went for 1hr, children with enthusiasm. Children were happy and asked us to come again. While coming we met Mrs. Kankanur and presented few paper bag made by children’s she felt happy and appreciated our work, asked us to come again and teach many things to children.

Monday, February 2, 2009

My Ongoing Activities in DFP

25th January 2009

25th January was Sunday but still we were on duty. In the afternoon I attended the class on ‘Development Dialogue’ Programme in DCSE. And we got committee wise work and I belongs to committee on CLASS ROOM ARRENGEMENT & NOTE TAKER. Because of this I learnt how to collaborate like this programme with help of the entire group.
In the same day evening we prepared some of the banners and posters. Why do you know? Because the next day was Republic Day for this purpose we all the fellows decided to conduct a Candle March Past with peace for this movement first we went to Police station to take permission after getting permission from concerned person. Around 6:45pm to 8:00pm surrounded the KITTUR CHENNAMMA CIRCAL with candle. And through this we make the people aware about Terrorism.

26th January 2009
This day was very special for me because I did my first Entrepreneurial activity in early morning 6:00am.with me Usha (My Co-fellow) came with me. We both of us soled around total 50 batch’s of Indian flag(50x5=250) and National flag (15x5=75).finally I got Rs.325/- but I have invested only Rs.65/- & got Rs.360/- Revenue.
In the evening made arrangements of class rooms for Development Dialogue Programme.

27th, 28th and 29th January 2009
We all fellows were participated in Development Dialogue Programme. For this programme so money delegates represented from Local, National & International level really it was very good opportunity for us to build network with all NGOs, Interaction with founders of the DCSE.

Main Events of which I was participated.
· Field Visits –Despande Nagar& Ranebennur with all the participants
· Making arrangements for case study analysis
· Note taking
· Guide the people to go respective class.
· Arrangements for seminars conducted by eminent personalities
· Participated in 4 case analysis as a note taker
· Experience sharing by SANDBOX FELLOWS Etc.
Really it was very good exposing for us.

30th January 2009.
In this day all fellows visited to Historical place called Hampi with all delegates but we four fellows were not visited so that we called to office by our Programme Manager Chinnababu. And we got class on how to create News Blurbs regarding in Sandbox by Account Ms.Medha and assignment to do 31.01.09 News Events.

31st January 2009
This day was very special for me because we had a class with founders of DCSE, Mr.Gururaj Deshpande and Ms.Jayasree Deshpande in this the participants were DCSE staff, Sandbox fellows and DFP fellows all had an opportunity to share their views and ideas towards DCSE Vision, Mission, Values, Core Values and Programmes it means in this environment is really giving a chance to all to contribute their ideas this made me some more confident about me.
In the same day in classroom our co-fellow, Mr Laxmish has engaged class on News Blurbs with the support of Me, Malini and Chandru Lamani. After this the class engaged by PM about group formation for Guest lecturer and other topics.

1st Feb 2009.
In the early morning we visited to Glass House near bus stand for create advocacy between people opinion and Government organizations. We mean Me, Laxmish as leaders and Usha&Latha as a follower. We had interaction with people who came for their yoga and mental peace. When we interacted with them they responded very positively and they also appreciated DCSE and DFP (us).In this park so many dustbin also there but the people are not using due to proper management. In one of the Board says that there is no entry to any kind of vehicles still we have seen there so money vehicles inside the park, there is no proper system for drinking water tap but The place of relief is changing in to dustbin so the people came forward to support us to intimate this factor to Government. This activity will continue……….
In night we all fellows red our reading materials which has provided by DCSE. Because the next day’s class on Public Health and Urban population Health.

2nd Feb 2009