Awarness about our work in Nruptunga Betta

As Nruptunga Betta is one of the most famous tourist places in Hubli. Most of the families wish to spend their Sunday evening at Betta. From last month we are visiting betta frequently for cleaning the garbage in betta, we interacted with public regarding plastic awareness and watering the plants and also we planned to put holding to make the people aware about not to through waste here and there.

Our Cohort I fellows have done a great job of cleaning, plantation and maintaining this place. So we prepared some new and some earlier made photo hording regarding what are all the activities they have done in Betta, so we planned that why cannot we display all these holding. So we conducted an photo exhibition at Betta and we tried to make Cohort I fellows work identified and to aware the visitors for making this place clean.

On 15th February, we visited to betta and placed all holding. Some People thought that we are from NSS and asked us about ourselves. After placing all our holding, people started coming forward and many of the people surprisingly gone through all holding and went away without reacting but few people asked about our purpose of our activity.

Observation:
Some people recognized the place which was in that holdings and try to make out from that holdings.
People appreciated this cleanliness work and enquired with us.
Some youth students asked about our fellowship program.
One BVB college women professor recognized us relating to Dr. Abdul Kalam’s visit.
Some family members were showing these hording to their children and giving them lesson that how we fellows are cleaning this place.

Learning’s:
We have to explain our plans and what we are expecting from public (public Participation)
We should display on a hording about us, why we are doing this, what we expect from visitors.

Lead Activity(Doll Making)

On 14th Feb 2009, we(Meenakshi, Malini, Fathima and Myself) all visited to Government Higher primary school in hunkal. We spoke with Teachers and introduced our self and explained about the purpose of our visit. We enquired about the timings of schools and students free time.

We selected 6th, 7th and 8th std students to teach doll making, students strength was more so we planned to demonstrate doll making process. We engaged the class for an hour. First all student thought that to prepare doll we have to invest more money. After seeing they were very much excited to prepare dolls and told us to come next week to teach us, we all will bring the materials required to prepare doll making. They requested to come next week.

Learning’s
All children’s are very much eager to learn new things and by using local resources how effectively we can prepare dolls and make children to think creatively.

Lets Move to Villages

Introduction
On 11th feb 2009, A group of four members in each group formed for village study. We were four members( Chandrashekhar, Basavaraj, Usha and Latha) in our team. All fellows left Gram Chethana and walked for 2km to reach soorashettykoppa to catch bus, but bus was left early on that day again we start walking for more than 6km to reach Innam veerapur.
I never walked for such a long distance, before reaching village I was tired and I thought how I can work whole day. We met Mr.Shetteppa Navi, who is a Sustainable Agriculture Promoter of AME foundation and Other members of Basaveshwar Susthir Krishi Sangha have welcome with pleasing manner and offered tea for us. He introduced other farmers to us we interacted with them and told our purpose of being there. Other groups went to their respective villages from our village. Members of BSK sangha have introduced about types of compost for land like Nadaap Compost and vermi compost, Azolla farming as food for animals.

About Inam Veerapur:
Freedom fighter stayed in that village and during British period they used to give Prize in the form of Garlic. Inam veeapur is a small village consist of 515 people population and 17Km away from Hubli and majority of the people depended on Agriculture.

During Transect Walk:
We planned to go for Transect walk, first our team members divided to collect information separately on different issues like Health, Agriculture, Demographic, Infrastructure and natural resources details during Transect walk.
First we visited to Anganwadi center to collect basic Demographic and health and education details of that village, we couldn’t visit Village Panchayat because for four villages one panchayat in Belagali.
Demographic Details:
· Population-521
· Temples -4
· School-1
· Water tank-9
· Youth group-1
· Continue education center-1
· ANM-2
· Library-1
· Stree Shakthi sangha -3
And also we got information that all villagers are healthy, from past they are not affected by any dreadful diseases. TB patient was found last 2yrs back. Even chkunkunya it was affected through Karnataka, Only 2patient were suffered from that disease.

During Social Mapping
To build initial rapport with people, we got support of AME foundation. Those who are undergoing training in AME foundation gathered with us. For social mapping we used Sheets to draw mapping, in this mapping they identified Schools, Tanks, Temples, Street name and other foundation/Ngo’s.

Resource Mapping
We have done mapping of Agriculture land resource of inam veerapur, after observing the demographic details most of the people are depended on Agriculture so we planned to do on Agriculture.
· Total Land-971.17
· Cultivated land-907.20
· Crops-Jawar, Maize, Soya, Sapota, and Guava.
· Soil –Red and Black
· Water facilities
As a part of Transect Walk, we visited to Agricultural land most of the farmers using Waste water of KMC and Hospital waste of hubli to grow crops.

Major Observation:

Adopted Self-sustaining farming system, PHC were not there. Utilization of waste water for cultivation land, Individual Hygiene is lacking in villagers, Open deification is not a major problem for villagers, Comfort with their earnings by cultivation, Government projects was not initiate and Importance of Indigenous technology.

Learning’s:
If we want to do PRA activity, we have to see the villagers convince timings. Usage of PRA tools in collecting the information from villagers

Entertainment for childrens

Leadership activity
*Educate the children about their health and hygiene.
*To enhance their knowledge about the epic & to inspire them to adapt the values of rich Indian culture.

Activity: First we met Mrs. K.K.Kukonur incharge to get permission, and then we started with an introduction. Gayatri & Malani were performed sloka with children. There after we showed important of Hindu epics Hanuman. Children understood with enjoying after we asked some related questions to that film. Every child has answered, even 7 years old child Shruti has answered well. If we teach them through book they won’t get anything.


I done some activities as ice break, Savita & Gayatri were interacted with the children & educate them about how to take care of their body parts( teeth, Hairs, Tung, nails, take bath, eyes) and maintain their hygiene.

Paper bag usage (Leadership Activity)

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. we 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.

Follow-up

I can train children in paper bag making and I can find marketing (for hotels and stationary shops we can promote) for paper bag at the same time I can share profit with children and new way to avoid plastic.

Recap Session of 3rd feb, 2009

For Participatory rural Appraisal, Dr. Prakash Bhatt handling PRA topic as a faculty. He is working in BAIF Ngo’s, at present he is on lien. Dr.Bhatt started session by singing a prathrana Kannada song, after that he told all fellows to introduce other fellows who are sitting behind to them. it was a good experience for all fellows to know each other. Later Fellows were asked to form groups and told us to discuss within a group about the problems and cause of developing Indian Villages. Halfan hour was gave to discuss in groups.
During presentation many fellows came out with interesting question like how can we participate people in development etc…All group presented well, by this activity we came to know about basic problems enhancing in villages but not with solution. really we have to think on those problem.
Overall purpose of this exercise is to understand where we stand in knowledge wise and to know the cause & effect relation of problems. Many times Knowledge will restrict us. Knowledge is a bias for all of us. It’s just like ‘ignorance is a thorn and we need a knowledge thorn to remove ignorance thorn’.
later explained about the paradigms, the way we see certain things. In development issues there are some paradigms, how we see the problems is entirely different from how beneficiary oversee the problem. if we want to develop villages means make people to know there problem rather than giving tempravory solution.
Explained about how attitude of the people changed constantly towards problem foreseeing from years later like, we have all the right answer if they have right problem
At last explained about why PRA and before PRA how we have to prepare and during PRA we have to adopt adult -adult relation not parents -child relation. Adult-adult relation means we have to treat them equally, first thing we have to trust each other and then try to find similarities between people not differences. Told to come and prepare by reading resource material.

Lead Activity (Glass House)

On Sunday all my team mates visited to Glass house in Hubli. First we came to know about the glass house is maintained by Horticulture Department, all friends went around park-

first thing we noticed that vehicles are prohibited in park but we saw number of vehicles in that park.

Bins are not using by public and waste plastic glasses are through inside the park, they are not cleaning regularly.

finally we interacted with people ( Morning Walkers) to identify what necessary steps we can take to make aware Horticulture department. Finally we decided to draft a letter to horticulture Department by taking signature of the public. These activity is still in process.

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