Welcome Dear Readers,
Aurobindo Chaudhuri Memorial Great Indian Dream Foundation [ACM GIDF] welcomes the readers of the November 07, issue of Karmani Hite the newsletter of ACM GIDF, a Social wing of Planman Consulting and the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM). GIDF is glad to share its account of social initiatives across 12 states in India with people having social interest and those who dream of making India an educated, healthy nation, free of poverty and its human indignities.
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| A School a week campaign! |
| We at ACM GIDF firmly believe that besides health, education is the only asset that a nation can provide to its citizens. Despite the low cost involved in providing education at the primary and secondary level, the current trend in India is not impressive and the vision of a literate India, seems difficult to be realized. Taking forward the task of making India entirely literate ACM GIDF is glad to Inform its supporters and all the concerned citizens of India about the launch of the
‘A Week a School Campaign’ which aims to establish 52 schools around Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad and Bangalore in the year 2007-08. To know more about this campaign and contribute kindly visit www.gidf.org or write to us at care@gidf.org |
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| Awareness program on Nutritive food. |
| At ACM GIDF we aim at achieving holistic development of a child by meeting their educational and nutritive needs. Working towards child centric health improvement, we organized an Informative session on nutritive food on 4th October 2007 at Chennai. The focus of the session was to inform the parents of ACM GIDF’s pre school and NFE students about the drawback of low nutrition diet and how nutritious diet can be easily prepared at a minimal cost. Parents of 15 students participated in the session where they had an opportunity to attend practical sessions on nutritive food preparation at home. |
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Eye Check up camp |
| As apart of ACM GIDF health related activities, we organized a free eye check up camp at Gotamedu in Chennai on 31st October 2007. The Gotamedu community has a substantial number of ageing population which was in need of an eye check up and thus the community camp was organized. The objective of the eye check up camp was to identify aged men and women suffering from cataract and to refer them for operation at their freewill and to conduct general screening / eye check up for identifying long / short sightedness and provide them with necessary treatment. |
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| Jagruti |
The Jagruti project is aimed at providing awareness and education about Reproductive Child Health to the uneducated and underprivileged women. In the month of October our female facilitator made some home and community meetings with adolescent girl groups in the villages of Gopalpura, Palika bazaar, Padarkhedi, Vijaipur, Balabhent, and Gharetia which have been recently added to our activity areas. The Purpose of the meetings was to provide the women folks information about. the Importance of breast feeding ,care during pregnancy,Complete nutrition,care before and after delivery and vaccination |
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Ehsaas |
| Project Ehsaas is aimed at mitigating the transmission of AIDS through awareness generation and sensitization activities. On 30th Oct 2007, we organized a HIV camp in palika bazzar village of Madhya Pradesh, whose objective was to reach out to the village women and sex workers and make them aware about the causes and reasons of HIV infection. Special information dissemination session was organized where around 50 women participated. |
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Anti Tobacco campaign |
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Slogan and essay writing competitions were held in various schools and localities of Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi which saw the participation of 250 school children, the objective of which was to generate awareness among the up coming generation about the bad affect of consuming tobacco. |
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ACM GIDF has been focusing on reducing tobacco usage and generating awareness in about the ill affects of tobacco in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. In the month of October, 2007 we conducted four movie shows on Anti Tobacco in different Schools through which we successfully reached out more than 700 students from 9th to 12th standards. The Movie show is one of the best methods to educate children about the harmful affects of consuming tobacco.
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Expanding the network of schools |
One of ACM GIDFs core value and area of activity is to reach out and provide education to as many children, who belong to the under privileged section of the society and are unable to attend schools or gain any form of formal education
Working toward this cause we have established new centers in Mumbai. Kolkota, and Chennai in the month of October. A new Supportive education centre was set up on 10th of October, 2007 in Otteri area of Chennai where at present 15 children are being benefited. In Khalpaar, Mandirpara area of Kolkota another supportive education centre was established on 29th October, 2007 where 10 childre have been enrolled till date. On the same day a new supportive education centre was inaugurated in Sathe Nagar area of Mumbai where around 25 children who have enrolled in this centre participated along with their parents. |
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| Staff development |
| At ACM GIDF we constantly endeavor towards grooming our staff and helping them grow with the job by providing adequate training and orientation from time to time. On 12th October 2007 two training session were conducted for our field educators and teachers in Chennai. The first session was on time management., where the staff was taught and explained about the various techniques of effectively managing the time and the relationship between meeting deadline and overall organizational performance.
The second session on the Play-way methods of teaching helped the teachers and the field staff understand the importance of creativity in imparting basic foundation classes for the children and how this can lead to more improved classroom conditions for the children and the teachers alike. |
| Empowering communities |
| Sheetal Saras Mela |
| Other then education and health our priority area is livelihood generation and economic empowerment of the BPL families, for which we have been continuously undertaking the task of forming SHGs and introducing the rural people to the concept of group income and savings. We also liaison with respective agencies to promote these SHGs and seek opportunities to showcase their work. Working in this line ACM GIDF assisted and established SHGs from village Dhoom Manikpur, under Gautam Buddha Nagar of Uttar Pradesh participated in Sheetal Saras mela held at Leisure Valley Park, IFFCO Chowk, Gurgaon from 27.09.2007 to 15.10.2007.
The Mela was organised by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India under Swarn Jyanti Grameen Swarozgar Yojana for providing marketing opportunity to the Self Help Groups of persons/ artisans leaving below poverty line (BPL). The women had a first hand opportunity to sell directly to the customers as well as test marketing of their products. Our SHGs products have also been selected by The DRDA, Gautam Budh Nagar, for display in the India International Trade Fair to be organised from 14.11.2007 to 27.11.2007 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi for SARAS Mela, a very popular annual fair organised by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. |
| Project Sakhi |
| Project Sakhi is all about involving the unemployed and underprivileged communities in income generation activity and improving their economic condition. Under project Sakhi we have till date formed a total of eighty SHG’s with the total saving of “Two Lakh Forty Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety One Only”.
Beside this two of our old SHG’s have been selected at District Level by the Government for receiving a substantial amount in loan, so that they can initiate a sustainable income generation program. Our signature program on educating rural women to deal with finance and financial institution has also received huge success and positive response from Local government. |
Providing a meaningful knowledge and
experience sharing opportunity. |
| We, are glad to inform you of our upcoming Volunteer Involvement Program ‘Karma Mitra’ which seeks to promote, encourage, develop, and facilitate meaningful learning experiences amongst individuals on an ongoing basis, with the aim of building stronger and humbler societies, where poor are not just merely reduced to statistics but where there are no poor at all. We believe that sustained commitment by dedicated volunteers will one day help in solving the most pressing social issues facing mankind today, and if you also think the same way we do, write to us at volunteer@gidf.org , and know more about how we can together make the world a better place. |
For more information on our activities and initiatives please visit www.gidf.org If you have any suggestions or queries please feel free to contact us at
karmani.hite@gidf.org
We wish, GIDF’s Karmani Hite keeps on inviting cheers and encouragement from you and other well wishing quarters.
Head office:
ACM GIDF, IIPM Campus,
Chhattarpur Bhattimines Road, Satbari Chandanhaula
New Delhi-110074
Tel: 91-11-42789888-92, Fax: 91-11-42789999
E-mail: care@gidf.org
Website: www.gidf.org
Regional offices: Mumbai, Chennai & Bangalore
Project offices: Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh and Guna district in Madhya Pradesh |
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