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.

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.