Welcome Dear Readers,
Aurobindo Chaudhuri Memorial Great Indian Dream Foundation [ACM GIDF] welcomes the readers of the October 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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| We are growing ! |
| We at ACM GIDF are happy to announce that we have initiated two new chapters in Pune and Kolkata respectively. Our aim to initiate urban based community projects in the field of education, health care, livelihood and environmental protection |
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| Making Education Entertaining. |
| ACM GIDF’s play schools TARA, inherently have the concept of introducing innovative and entertaining models of imparting education, and educating children through site visit and educational trips. Working on this line a exposure visit to the ‘Rail Museum’ was organized on 28th September, 2007. The trip was organized in order to provide TARA students a tangible and entertaining way of learning in an outdoor environment. |
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| Building blocks of success for Women groups: Project Sakhi |
 Last month ACM GIDF’ s Madhya Pradesh chapter successfully established 30 new SHG’s in the villages of Kakvasa, Raghunathpura, Naroni, Bhulaya, Vijaipur and Palika Bazaar, taking the total number of SHGs under the Sakhi project to 65. Our aim would be to introduce these SHGs to the concept of a federation and finally club these SHGs into a federation.
The Guna district of MP, local Government institution selected one of our SHG to participate in National level- Swarojgar Mela, which was held in New Delhi. Beside this, the government also provided them Jute material to sell in the Mela and announced to donate 15% of the total profit to the selected SHG itself. This fair was organized from 12th to 26th of September in Delhi Haat. It was a unique exposure for our SHG members which not gave them a great platform to prove themselves and also helped to boost them immensely their confidence level.
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Building capacities of the staff.
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 ACM GIDF has always worked towards promoting and sustaining the quality of the staff involved in various programs and activities. On 19th September, 2007. GIDF organized a orientation meet of its staff involved in the early childhood development ( ECD) program, in Bangalooru. Eleven staff members associated with this program were provided an orientation and the objective of the meet was to identify and analyze the future plan of action and the problems in the way of successfully implementing the program.
Various plan were discussed and future course of action was charted out, which would give more impact and add value to the program, Questions and recommendations were jointly discussed and reporting structure was also finalized during the meet. |
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| National Nutrition Week |
 ACM GIDF’s works closely with underprivileged children in providing them education, through its various initiatives. Dealing with is a complicated task and when they come from uneducated parents, the job of the teacher and educator becomes more responsible and challenging.
Some recent studies in India have reveled that almost 39% of the Indian child population is malnourished or lack prime nutritional requirement, necessary for proper mental and physical growth of the child. During the ‘National Nutrition Week’ an initiative of the Government of India, ACM GIDF organized a seven day training workshop from 1st September 2007 to 7th September 2007, for all its Educators located in Delhi. The Idea was to build the capacity of the educators and teachers who in turn can advice and guide the parents of the children about better nutritional needs of the child and the harmful affects of nutrition deficiency.
The workshop was attended by almost 15 educators from Delhi and various resource persons from the Food and Nutrition Board of India, gave their valuable lectures and organized orientation sessions. The week long program was very fruitful and went a long way in developing the knowledge of the teachers about various nutritional requirements of a child and the affect of nutrition deficiency. |
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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. |
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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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