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Journey during
Fellowship
Savitri L.P
Raichur
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I. Introduction
II. Objectives
Learning’s
List of Visits and work
Understanding the Community Health
LOOKING INWARD
Fellows Orientation
Organisations Visits
a). HCCRAP Hanur visit
b). Hospet sakhi visit
c). Navjeevana Mahila Okkuta Raichur.
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) Mysore
a). Work of SVYM
b). What did I do in SVYM
c). What did I learnt from SVYM
d). My thoughts
a). Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan Pothnal
b). Sanchalakies
c). Herbal medicines
d). Terracotta Jwelerry Unit
e). Neem Fertiliser Unit
f). Land project
g). Chilipili Residential School for child-labourers
h). What did I do in JMS
i). What did I learnt from JMS
a). Basic Needs India
b). What did I do in the Basic Needs
c). What did I learnt in Basic Needs India
a). Narendra Foundation Pavagada, Tumkure
b). Activities of the Narendra Foundation
c). What did I do in Narendra Foundation
d). What did I learnt from Narendra Foundation
a). Community Monitoring Pragramme (NRHM) in Raichur Dist.
b). What did I do in this Programme
c). What did I learnt from the Community Monitoring Programme (NRHM).
a). National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
b). Public Distribution services (PDS)
c). Right to information
d). Alumni Workshop in CHC
a). Medico Friend Circle (NFC) Annual Meet
b). What did I learnt from the MFC meet
c). Ant Organisation
d). Chakrasheela (Assam)
e). Health communition workshop
Project Field work for 3 months in fellowship
What did I like in this Fellowship
Case studies
a). Members of Herbal Medicine
b). Members of Land Workers
c). Members of Disabled Person
ANNEXERS
a). SHG Members Information
b). Self Help Groups Information
c). SHG Level Question and Answers
d). Federation level Question and Answers
e). Individual Question and Answers
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Presentations during Fellowship
Land work survey details
I. Introduction
Born in a village, to a poor family I have seen the struggles of
my people. People have to go far for work early in the morning
without caring for their children. The children used to roam in
the village without wearing clothes. With nobody to take care, it
is hard to know if a child will have food or not. Some times the
child’s brother or sister will stay in the house to take care of the
child. The children never go to the school and lack education.
People use to stay in one small room, 10-15 members together
and one woman will be having more than 10 children. The
woman will always get headache, back pain, uterus problem etc.
And one bigger problem is that the situations of primary Health
Centres PHCs in the villages are poor. If the doctor is there, there
are no drugs, if drugs are available, there was no doctor. I had
not gone to a PHC and I was so scared to go to PHC. Even the
village people never go to the PHC because there was no hope
that the person will come back to the house safely. I had no idea
why the people are migrating to Bangalore, Mumbai and
Hyderabad etc. and bringing Sexually Transmitted diseases
(STD) like HIV-AIDS to the village. I have no idea how to tackle
these problems
While studying Bachelors in Social Work degree BSW I used to
have fieldwork twice a week in a primary school. In the school I
have seen many children who were HIV + and there was no care
given for them. Many were suffering from skin diseases.
In the beginning, I was thinking what I am going to do for the
future after finishing BSW. I had fieldwork during my degree
BSW and also had worked for 3 years an organisation called
Vimukti in Pothnal with Dalit women. I had visited many other
organisations. I was confident that I can work at the community
level and I was also interested to work with community. I had
heard about Community Health Cell, in Bangalore. At the time, I
came to know about the Community Health Learning Programme
(CHLP). Then I applied for the CHLP, and luckily I got selected
for the CHLP.
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I joined the CHLP Programme mainly as I have seen these
struggles of the people so this is the best opportunity to my
interest in the community, I wanted to build confidence among
my self, to find in myself what I am searching for and find out in
which issue I was interested.
II My objectives while joining CHLP
• To understand the health issues of Woman and Children
and Correlate between gender and health.
• To understand Right to Health.
• To know linkages between Livelihood practices and how
livelihood relates to health.
As I got exposed to Basic Needs I got interest in their work in
mental health and I included the following objectives
• To understand the Mental Health Programme and how it
is implemented
• To learn how Person Living with Mentally Ill (PLMI) have
benefited from joining a support group and Self Help
Group SHG.
These objectives were included to understand more about
Disability and about mental health
Personal Goals
• To improve my skills in Documentation
• To improve my skills in training
LOOKING INWARD
While looking back at myself, I have many differences, my
thinking capacity has really improved because now while going
out and seeing people who are suffering, I will not go without
understanding the situation and think and ask with others what
can be done for that. I realized that every issue is related to
health and also I can relate each issue to health.
My Observation skills have improved and I am able to
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understand the situation much better. And if I see any problem
in the village I will go to them and talk with them and if I don’t
know any thing about the medicine, I have the confidence that at
least I can tell them to go where they have to other wise I will
find out the thing and make sure. I also visit the PHC and Sub
Centers and see what are the facilities that they are having in
the PHC. Sure that I have got information about the PHC and
Sub Centers etc from the orientation programme and practically
with community monitoring programme.
LEARNING’S
In the beginning, I learnt about health, Health care and Health
services. Primary Health Care and how it should be
implemented. The senior on Ill Effects of Tobacco and the
diseases due to Tobacco use was Very useful.
I came to know about the problems people get from the mining
and where they are staying and normally what are the types of
diseases that will affect them during mining work.
One of the important skills I got gained is, have given training on
the community monitoring, personal hygiene and about health
in the Raichur, Bagalakot, Mysore and in Chellikere. I have
developed confidence in giving training following the CHLP.
My Communication skills have improved including my skills in
Speaking in public, I was responsible to submit the case study of
people who were denied services from the PHC in the public
hearing during the community-monitoring project in Raichur.
Talking with people especially with disabled people when I went
to the Narendra Foundation. Learnt about Disability and Mental
Health and types of Disability.
I learnt how to do case study and Survey during my field
placement at JMS. I had developed 6 case studies and also did a
survey of agricultural workers.
Difference between Federation and SHG.
What is the use of Caliper and learnt about it, which is used by
Disable people.
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Getting more interested in Organic farming, learnt about the
preparation of vermi compost
In my house, we had no toilet, as it was not acceptable in our
village. The CHLP helped me to understand the social and
cultural dimensions of building and using a toilet within the
house. I felt that I would not be able to convince other people in
the benefits of toilet without using one in my own house.
III. List of Visit and the work during Fellowship
Date
Name of the Organisations that were visited
02.06.2008
to 05.07.08
01.09.08 to
07.09.08
01.12.08 to
17.12.08
23.02.09 to
28.02.09
Orientation programme in CHC
Midterm Review
Alumni workshop and Silver jubilee
and planning for Field Project
End term meet of Fellows
programme, Debriefing
Visits to Organisation
07.07.08
FRLHT
08.07.08
Association of People’s with Disable (APD)
10.07.08
Agriculture Man Ecology (AME)
25.07.08
Visit to handloom centre in Ilkal
26.07.08 to Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan Pothnal
29.07.08
30.07.08 to Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Mysore
23.08.08
08.09.08
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Forum
31.10.08 to Basic Needs India and Narendra Foundation, Tumkur
29.11.08
18.12.08 to Tribal Health Initiative Sitlingi Tamilnadu
20.12.08
Meetings and Trainings that are attended
15.07.08 to TOT ( Training Of Trainers) Training in Raichur - Community
20.07.08
Monitoring and planning pilot project-NRHM
21.07.08
Lokayuktha meeting and JAAK meeting
23.07.08 to Health as a Human Right training in Bagalkote
24.07.08
30.08.08
CHESS meeting
15.09.08 to National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Community Monitoring
30.09.08
in Raichur
17.10.08 to NRHM meeting in Bangalore
19.10.08
20.10.08 to Survey and case study of Land worker in Raichur
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30.10.08
24.12.08
Aid India Annual meet Bangalore
27.12.08 to Komu Souhardha Vedike Chikamagalure
29.12.08
15.01.2009 MFC Annual meet in Assam
to 18.01.09
Field Project Work
01.01.09 to Field Project work during Fellowship
20.03.09
Community Health Learning Programme (CHLP)
Learning’s from the orientation programme
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In the beginning I was so scared while talking to every one in
English and slowly I picked up.
Interacting with the people from different backgrounds was a
good learning experience for me
I learnt about the definition of health and illness.
Class, Caste and Gender sessions were really good and it
made me to observe the situation what is happening in the
world.
I was able to understand the values and responsibility of the
community health worker. The Chinese proverb explained
clearly the role of those working with the community“Go to the people
Live among them
Love them
Learn from them
Start from where they are
Build up to what they know”
Socially, Economically, Politically, Environmentally and
culturally these all have related to Health by seeing the
pictures
Relating the Issues by telling stories of health
I Got an idea about Primary Health care and public health
care though the PHC visits. The visits to PHC and Sub centre
helped me to understand what facilities should be at the PHC
level.
The seminar presentations on Migration, child labour, Issues
of women and children living with HIV and Environmental
pollution and health impacts was very useful.
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I also learnt a lot by meeting with our mentor and with the
Staff.
FIELD VISITS
HCCRHP Hanur
In Hanur I saw many projects meant for the community about
Water shed programme, Residential school for children removed
from child labour and bridge school, SHGs, and Herbal
Medicine. Here we met Sr. Teena, Sr Marsita, Basavaraj, Rani ect
who are actively working in this field. CRHP is also working with
the school and weekly they conduct mobile clinic in all the
villages
The Satvidya residential school is for children removed from
child labour is very good and they teach children for a year so
that the children can join regular school. They also have tailoring
and computer classes for older children so that they can build
skills. The Day Bridge schools in villages help children to learn
and join the schools.
The Health workers had been trained in preparing and giving
herbal medicines to the community. One of the health workers
Jedemma explained all the medicines which they used and
shared the health status of the people.
Jedemma’s brother is engaged in making bamboo chairs from a
locally available “Lantana” grass.
Visit to the PHC to see and understand what the facilities
available at the PHC level, and saw the drugs that were there, 6
beds, allopathic medical officer was there, no AYUSH medical
officer and Delivery room that were there in the PHC.
MYRADA project
Myrada is basically working in Agriculture and Livelihood sectors
in giving training to the community. They have computer and the
tailoring training too.
b) Sakhi, visit Hospet
Sakhi started working with 1st generation Dalit girls, in
supporting their studies. SAKHI supports girls sexually abused.
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Girls are now coming forward and some are working, some
others are doing higher studies.
When SAKHI started at that there were only use to get 8-9 seats
in the hostel for the SC/ST students but now, 80-90 seats are
available for them after doing strikes and Darana, It is a good
improvement and success in their life.
Sakhi is also working with child labourers and with the people
who are working in the Mines. These people are migrants from
different places and staying there in small plastic huts where the
mining work is taking place. The people go for mining work with
their children, so lot of child labour is present. People depend on
mining as they get good salary. They cannot worry about their
own health and their children also, as they all are depending on
this work. Many have sold their land for mining and now they
don’t have any options other then to work in mining.
Sakhi had developed a short film called “hjghsdkj”. And they had
struggle while doing this short film by the people was that,
without telling to the people they have taken some of them in the
film and Sakhi had asked with the people that what they are
going to do other wise they will not express their thoughts etc.
We visited the de-addiction centre of Punyakoti foundation. The
social worker of this centre shared their experiences, which was
really interesting. They explained the struggle to talk with people
and make them aware of that centre, and the activities done and
the advantages that will be available for the people. While
listening to this, I understand how much patience one should
have to build a relationship with the people while doing
community work.
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) Mysore
SVYM had started in 1984 and the organisation is not only
working for Health care but also working on other aspects like
Education, Community Development in tribal village of Saragure.
I met Dr. Balsubramanya, Dr. Seetharam, Dr. Ananth and the
Staff who are working on the field.
Work of SVYM
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SVYM is working on Primary Health care especially in tribal
areas.
- Visited Govt Schools with whom SVYM is working to show
slides on Personal Hygiene
- Communities are shown video on hygiene and sanitation
- Went with the SVYM team on their monthly home visits to
check Mothers, Pregnant women and children’s Health and
to give tablets and to guide about Family planning
- Kenchanahalli Hospital where SVYM has started in the
beginning, to meet the Doctors who are using herbal
medicine to the community
- Hosalli Tribal School
- Mobile Clinic
- Mysore V-Lead training center
- Basavagiri halli where Tribal people are shifted. These
people are shifted their place to Basavagiri Halli and SVYM
is working with them.
- Visited PHC and Sub centers
- Went to SPT (School Parliament Training) camp with school
children
Dr. Ananth had introduced the whole programme of the SVYM.
At the community level they are not only working on health but
also on education and economic issues.
Visits and learning
The activities that SVYM is doing are free medicine distribution
to the tribal community and to the other backward community.
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SVYM gives awareness on sanitation to the community,
through video documentations including the benefits of
sanitation and the problems related to open-air
defecation. And I attended this programme.
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SVYM gives training on personal hygiene in the govt
schools. This type of training was really good to make
each student understand the things that has to be kept
in mind. Cutting nails, washing hand, wearing slippers,
and that each to be take care by them selves so that
they won’t get any health problems. I took a part in it
and gave training to the children by learning from there
and learnt to give training.
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I also learnt how to keep the place clean and dry,
in one dig, they have to put the big stones and sand and
then fill it full, it will observes the water, so that place is
clean without water and no irritation of the mosquitoes
are breed.
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They have RCH (Reproductive and Child Health)
programme in the community. Training in the
community on how to take care of woman and children
health and also pregnant woman by doing home visits.
Basically this training is to reduce maternal and infant
mortality rate.
How to take Care of self, Mother, Pregnant Woman
and the Children, from 3 months of Pregnancy to 45days old baby. What are the schemes that are available
to the Mother?
At the same time I came to know that there is a
PHC in next village and there is no sub center in this
PHC and there is one more PHC near by village and that
is at a distance of 10 km to both the PHC, I was so
exited to see the PHC and get information about that
PHC, I thought there may be some difference in this
place. I thought visit to the PHC and to know what the
structure of this PHC is and what is special in this
place. Went to the PHC and asked about PHC, the
doctor was not telling any thing, he only told that tell
some medical officers to call me to give you information
and he left from there, he was not at all listening to me.
Then I came out and I called to Lokayuktha and applied
for the RTI so he has to give at any cost.
Learnt to apply RTI when I went to the PHC.
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They give information about Family Planning by
interacting with Husband and Wife this activity is really
good to learn for me and interesting.
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They are working with Antenatal care, Intra natal care
and Postnatal care in the community, going to the
community and checking them and giving medicine to
the person.
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They are also working on out reach YPM (Youth People’s
Movement) in 100 villages
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Working on HIV/AIDS patient project called Samastha.
Giving awareness and training to the people in the
Anganawadi so that Anganawadi teacher can be involved
in this programme.
Kenchanahalli Hospital was established in 1984,
where SVYM started. Later moved to Saragur where
SVYM is presently placed. Kenchanalli hospital not
only gives allopathic medicine but also herbal
medicine. This hospital is very far from the city;
system of this hospital is that, the permanent doctor
will be one and the others for surgery and other
needs three doctors visit the hospital twice in a week.
Other staffs that are working in this hospital will
change once in 3 months and go to Saragur hospital
where the SVYM is located.
The day I went was heavy day, for the Doctor
which the process of BCG and Immunization to the
children were given was rush and the doctor had no
time for lunch and at the same time we were talking to
the mothers and seeing the process of BCG. And then
went to the sub center which is in the same village. The
ANM has no work; she was saying that there are no
people so she is going to other place for personal work.
see the situation of the privatization and the Govt. This
is one of the examples to say that the privatization
impact, the Govt moves away from that place.
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They have built their own school for the tribal children
with free Education and there are more than 400
children in this school. The Education is till 10th
standard. Now they have started D.Ed from 2008 in this
school, for this course other community people can also
join. 8-acre of land has been given by the govt for this
school. They have a big and large place. In each class
they have a drawing of picture of tribal cultural, social,
marital practices so that they should not forget the
practices, which were carried by their ancestors.
They have in the computer lab, 28 computers for
the students to learn computer. They have a Library in
this school, this library has 90,000 books on arrange of
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topics on whatever the children need to understand and
is arranged in an order. They have trees; birds and
cocoons, which are built by the birds and the snake’s
skin (pari), all there are placed on the trees and kept in
the library.
The Biology laboratiry was really good as the
children
learn practically. They have a model of a
foetus to explain the development of a foetus. They also
have models of body organs and skeleton to explain the
functions.
I have gone to the Hosalli school, this school was
really good and the teaching method, practical
experiments, Computer Education and the Structure of
the class rooms all were very good, method that they are
using to the tribal children to understand quickly.
And also I saw boards to both the sides in the
classroom so that first preference to the children and
the Teachers this is very good method which learnt
here.
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They have School Parliament Training in the school and
exposure to one school to another school for cross
learning. Cleanliness in the schools like watching to
cook, is she cooking after washing vegetables, cleaning
of the toilets and school ground this is done by the
Health minister and other ministers like Education
minister, Cultural minister etc. will have their own work
to maintain. I participated in this SPT.
SPT (School Parliament Training) is really good and
it has made me to start in my place. So the children also
will know the problem in the village and that child can
be the member to reduce the problem. So that child can
also teach their parents about the personal hygiene,
cleanliness and about the health. This also makes
sense to keep school ground clean by making one
minister on Health, Education, and Cultural and on the
Sports so that they will do whatever the responsibility
on them.
My thoughts
When I went to SVYM staff it was really good that they
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were interacting with the community. They were giving
training to the community people that how to take care of
Mother and the pregnant woman and baby and also the
Anganwadi teacher, but now the Anganwadi teacher has to
take care of the village, going to the house for check up of
mother and baby. But the SVYM staff only will go and
check the mother and baby, and give medicine etc. then
what is the work of the Anganwadi teacher and the ANM in
these places.
They have to give awareness about what can be got from
the Sub Center and from the PHC and what is not possible
from there, then it really works. When we talk about
privatization I feel this type of work also will makes the
Govt to move away from their responsibility.
Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan (JMS) Pothnal, Raichur
Dt. (Navanirman Trust)
JMS is working with dalit women in Raichur Dt. Pothnal. JMS
is working for the Rights of Dalit Women, because the upper
caste people in this district dominate this community.
Residential school for the Child Labourers
JMS is having 42 SHGs in 30 villages in 2 taluks, pothnal.
JMS started in the beginning by conducting SHGs in 10-15
villages in VIMUKTI NGO and then shifted JMS. Fitting for
their rights and started small kind of livelihoods like,
watershed programme, Terracotta, herbal medicine etc,
Because of no work and migration of the people. JMS is found
by Premdas, Neju george, Mita Deshpande, Koshy,
Chourappa, Deveputra and Narsappa. JMS have done many
strikes and Dharanas on women’s violence and rights. JMS is
working well and women have come forward and they are
ready to share others problems too. JMS is also having many
group activities.
They are working on the issues of PDS, NREGS, and RTI.
They have given many awareness programmes about PDS and
the people are able to ask in the PDS if they give fewer grains
to them and the PDS shop person is scared and gives properly
to the person who demands it as a right. And NREGS work
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going well and now who are not given wages have done strikes
and taken the money from them. Still if they are not paid then
they apply throw RTI and RTI is not only applied for NREGS
but also on the panchayat, PHCs, totally 23+4+11=38
applications has been applied in the RTI from JMS.
They have Sanchalakis team in JMS, and are working on
Community Monitoring programme of NRHM. They have also
started different types of livelihood activities because this
district is very drought prone area. So the people from this
place migrate to Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad etc. They
have Herbal Medicine, Terracotta Jewelry, Neem Fertilizer,
and Land work and also have child labour school. All these
activities are running well and the people are also working
hard.
Sanchalakies:
It is new method, which JMS have developed from five years.
. Eleven Sanchalakis work as staff of JMS. They are
responsible for all activities. They conduct Sangha meetings
daily in the villages. They facilitate discussions according to
the situation with women in the villages and stay over night in
that place and then in the morning go to the next village.
Once in a week they will go to their houses and to the JMS
office. The type of work done by then has brought in changes
and improvement with in them. This type of work has long
standing benefits as the sanchalakis are from the same place,
and they can understand the situation of the people
compared to outsiders. They have been trained on capacity
building, on conducting SHGs, Taught them reading and
writing etc. They have visited many places to see the other
organization, to understand what can be improved in their
places.
Herbal Medicine:
Herbal medicine stared from 2001 it self this was in the
beginning when Mita Deshande ask with the people the
people were saying they don’t know about herbal medicine
but when Mita took them to the field to find out the name of
the plants in a village that time women only started saying
that it will comes for this disease that disease and all. Then
Mita thought thinking that this herbal medicine almost people
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knows and they can continue by adding other herbal medicine
which they don’t know and they can remember the medicine
and the plants because they will be seeing daily in the field.
This is how the herbal medicine has started and also the
women were not able to come out from the house to learn
more about this medicine. The staff going to their house and
telling them that they will learn more about the medicine and
they can able to give to the others that this and all. Then only
our community will improve.
Sixteen women have been trained in preparing and dispensing
herbal medicines. Two from each village members have been
selected and they have gone to different places to learn about
herbal medicine. The women conduct a clinic in the JMS
office at Pothnal. People from the villages come to this clinic to
get medicines. This herbal medicine is given for many
problems like cold, cough, jaundice, women related problems,
Piles Mulawadi, Thannu (white marks on the body), Joint
pain, skin diseases, hair fall, TB, Kidney stone etc. they will
give a medicines on all most of diseases. Only for severe
problems they will refer to the Govt hospital.
They are going to give training about herbal medicine to the
other organizations. The health workers have a good training
and still they want to learn about health wherever the training
is held on health. And all the people will remember Mita who
taught them this Herbal Medicine.
With Herbal Medicine Members (Health Worker) I asked how
did they get interest in this Herbal Medicine and now how
they feel about their patients? They said, all of them were very
happy as, they were helping others in this way. I have done
some case studies of Herbal Medicine members.
Terracotta Products:
The Terracotta unit was established in JMS Raichur Dist.
Pothnal and has 15 members. This Terracotta unit has
started from year 2001 and in the beginning the people were
neglecting this work because this is made by clay, the people
started to tell that who will take mud products and we don’t
know to do it, we are village people, from our hand it will not
come properly like this many were sterted. Koshy going and
callling them to do and started to do in summer time when
they dont have work the people started to come and now this
is the spirit of the members who aremaking these products.
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The products are they have jewellery and not only jewellery
but also wall Hangings and door curtain are made by clay.
Terracotta has really made them to stay back in their own
place other wise many people are migrated from this place.
Now these people have 365 days work in this unit. They also
go to different places to sell their products, like Exhibitions,
and they are part of the Dastakar Exhibitions, Like Bangalore,
Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Goa etc to sell the
products. V. Koshy who gave training to them and able to be
doing independently now these people.
Terracotta Jewelry production is carried throw out the year
and when there is an urgent order placed, the work is done
even during the night. Members were asking opinion about
improvement of the quality of the product in order to attract
more people to buy their products. I helped in designing and
packing of the products.
Neem Fertilizer unit:
Neem Fertilizer unit is started from 2003-04 and it placed in
Pothnal Raichur Dist. Neem powder Fertilizer is been accepted
by the local people have faith in using it as fertilizer. This unit
is stared by one SHG from Mudhanaguddi village Raichur
Dist. when this idea has given by the Neju George, the people
found very difficult to go to all the villages to collect the neem
seeds and then crushing it by the tractor.
This is a unit coming of more than 20 members. They manage
all the process of this work, though they are not educated are
managing 5-10 lakh Rs accounts. They are getting many
orders from different places like Bangalore, Kolare,
Doddaballapure etc. and they only will deliver it. Totally whole
process of the product is taken care by them selves.
Neem Fertilizer unit members were very happy about this
work and whenever the order comes they will prepare the
fertilizer so that product will be very strong. In the beginning
they have to go all the villages to collect the neem seeds and
pile it in one place. End of the year they divide the profit
among them selves.
Land Project:
JMS has taken Land project to work in their area because of
migration. Land work has been started in 3 villages covering
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100 acres of land. In this project land basic work of Tiller, 2
times ploughing, totally to make the land ready to grow crops
in the field. This work is under taken in drought prone areas
where people are not able to grow any crop in their land. This
work has been done to stop migration. After starting this
project work on land the migration has come down especially
among dalit community and they say that this has made us to
stay back in their place with their children enabling them to
go school now.
I Visit to the houses of the Agricultural labourers to do a
survey on the Land project to understand whether it has
helped them or not. As well as did few case studies about land
workers and documentation of land project. I grew in this
place but still I did not know the problems faced by
agricultural labourers. Now I understood the problem the
reason for migrating to other places.
When I saw vermi Compost I got interested, learnt to make it.
I improved to do survey, case studies and Documentation.
g) Chilipili Residential school for child-labourers:
.Chilipili School was started 5 years ago to bring back
children who had dropped out of schools to become child
labourers in Raichur district. From five year this school was
shifting to one village to another, where dropped out children
found in Raichur where the JMS is working. 2-3 months the
Teachers are in process of doing survey of these children and
if the people are ready to support to this school by sending
their children to the school has been build. And from this year
school has become Residential school with 40 – 50 children.
In this school they have 3 Teachers one cook and one warden.
The teacher will teaches them using non-formal methods like
singing, dancing, playing, group discussion, slogans etc. This
type of education builds self-esteem and confidence and each
child helps children to learn quickly. The teacher teaches
them according to their mental ability and age. They have
exams to write every month to see their improvement in
studies and end of the year also they will write a exam. Then
they referred to Govt Schools in different places. Now children
are able to tell their parents not to send children for coolie
work and it is their right to be asked. Every year they goes to
the Villages for rally by saying that send children to the
school and they have a slogan conveying the meaning and
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make every one understand.
And also the old students of this school will come to this
school to share their experience and one in a year they have a
meeting by calling all the students of this school.
Chilipili school children are very active and ready to do
whatever wants them to do. And while listening to the songs
and the slogans by the children it was really amazing
I have participated in the Community Monitoring programme
was attended and took some of the responsibility in this
programme. And did the MC (Master of Ceremony) in this
programme. So it helped me to develop my public speaking
and improved communication skill. I came to know about
schemes for mother and child. Facilities available at PHC, Sub
center and Anganawadi and their role in the community.
We went to the villages to see the Panchayat and the PHC. In
order to understand the problems and the situation of the
Panchayat and the PHC.
Basic Needs India
Basic Needs India is working with Mentally Ill person in rural
area and in the urban slums. Organization is working on giving
project to other organization who is working with Disability
and mental Health and gives project only on Mental illness.
Basic Needs is working in many states Tamilnadu, Andra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
In Karnataka they are working with other organizations like
Apsa, Paraspara, APD, Narendra Foundation etc. And they
counsel mental ill person and the caregiver. This counseling
gives very good improvement for the mental ill person.
b) What did I do in the Basic Needs
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Basic Needs India counseling center was visited, which is held
for the mental ill person and to the caregiver. Went to attend
the meeting got held for the caregivers, unfortunately this
meeting was canceled and the doctor came to check the patient
and gave medicine to that person; this type of clinic will be
conducted once in a week in Koramangala office.
I attended the programme held for the mental ill person and to
the caregivers and took the responsibility in this programme as
a volunteer to help the people.
From Basic Needs India I visited the place Narendra
Foundation in Pavagada taluk, to understand the role of
Federation and the SHG of this foundation. And how the
Mental Health activities are implemented.
c) What did I learn in Basic Needs India?
I learnt how to talk with mental ill person by seeing the
counsellor. And I realize that counselling is one of the main
methods for the mental ill person to recover the problem.
I learnt to prepare for the presentation and to do it.
VIII Section
a) Narendra Foundation Pavagada, Tumkure
Narendra Foundation works with Disabiled people in Sidhapur of
Pavagada thaluk,Tumkur District. The foundation is now 13 years
old and in the beginning they were working in Pavagada Taluk only
but now spread to whole district. The foundation is basically working
on right based approach, all the volunteers, staff and the Disability
groups are very strong, when I saw them in the meeting I was so
shocked because they were so independent and do their work on
their own. They know what is right and wrong and go directly to the
Govt officer to talk and clear it.
This foundation is not only working with disability people but
also with Women, Children and Youth. They have 98-women’s
group, Men and Women mixed 3 groups, 8 Youth groups and
more then 150 Disability groups. All caste people are involved
in this foundation, till 2001 there was no SHGs were there in
this foundation after that only they have built. Among the
Disability group only 4-5 groups are doing savings other
groups are not interested in savings.
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Narendra Foundation has made them to build a federation
themselves, so that we can see the different levels of the group
meeting in this place. At first they will have village level SHG
meeting, from each SHG group 5 members will go to the
Panchayath level meeting, from each panchayath 5 members
will go to the Hobli level meeting, from each hobli 2-3 members
will go to the taluk level meeting, from each taluk 2 members
will goes to the District level meeting, from each district 2
members will go to the State level meeting, and from this each
state one person will go to the National level meeting. This is
how they have networked from the village to National level. So
that one person can participate in all the activities. And before
joining the group they have to pay to the federation or the
sangha an amount of Rs 15 – 50 at different level.
The Foundation has given training and awareness on right to
Disability and mental health to each group. They are getting all
the schemes that are available for them and also use it very
well. They have done many Dharanas and strikes to get the
schemes. When a rape had happened on a disabled woman
and they succeeded in those cases.
Now all the responsibility has been given to the taluk
federation, Pavagada. And this federation is conducting the
programmes and trainings for the Disabled. In the beginning
23 staffs were there but now only 4members because the
foundations goal was to reduce the staff and the federation to
take care of all the activities. Already the responsibility has
been taken up by them and has started to conduct the
trainings.
They are also giving training on EDT (Entrepreneur
Development Training) to every one to do some small kind of
business and sheep rearing, these kinds of activities have
already been started in some villages.
They have got 15,000 houses from the scheme IAY (Indira Awaj
Yojan) in the Tumkur District for the Disability people. And
this year in each panchayath level one-disabled member has
been chosen as a VRW (Village Rehabilitation Worker) to work
with disability and to find out other disability member in the
village. And in Karnataka 1600 VRWs are selected in the
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panchayath. And the foundation is giving training to the VRWs
and to the MRWs to understand the rights of disability and to
work on that.
In this foundation there are different types of people been
involved they are Educated, illiterate, Students, Anganawadi
Teachers, Advocates, Man, Woman, Children, Youths, Rich and
Poor.
They have sabha for the mental ill person to share their
experiences of last month because they will conduct this
meeting once in a month and so they can learn from others
and in this type of group they are comfortable to share
The process of the meeting was really good, when they come to
for the meeting they will introduce them selves and put the
subject which they want to discuss and start the meeting. The
subject, which they have put, fully about to talk with BEO, go
to panchayath to ask, go to the district office to give this letter,
these kind of discussion. There is no savings or loan etc. it was
really wonderful federation I feel.
next month after January 15, 2009 they have a state level
convention in Bangalore and have some objectives to ask in the
convention that they need a separate minister for the Disability
people, Treatment has to be available in PHCs to mental ill
person, Housing schemes should not change again and again
and VRWs programme has to be continued it should not stop
in one year.
SHGs in the Narendra Foundation are really good, because
these groups are build for the right based and all the groups
are not doing a savings only few are doing. From the gram
panchayath 3% money is given to the disabled people and
selected VRW for the work in panchayath level and these
VRWs are working with the foundation is very well. All the
Govt officers are giving respect to the disabled people and the
work also is done faster then before. Houses are sanctioned
40% of the disabled people, not for 60% disabled. The
federation has built to take care of the saghas and for the
communication with the people.
This Foundation is basically working with disable people.
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Physically Handicap, Mentally Illness, Mental Retardation and
Speech and hearing. This foundation is started to work in
pavagada thaluk only, this is what called projected area, and
in full of district they have started to work now, this is called
non projected area.
Project Area
Basically in project areas work started with service based and
then went to the right based. Project area is included 33 Gram
panchayaths in Pavagada thaluk.
Non-project Area
Non-project area is not like that it’s started with the right
based. The non-project area is included rest of 9 talukas in the
Tumkur district. Here there is no income generation
programme works on the right based and they only have build
the volunteers to work in the particular area
This foundation has done many strikes and Dharanies to get
govt facilities, which are available to the disable people.
Disable peoples Participation should be in the Gram
panchayath level
Discus and meeting should be front of the disable people
3% money should give to disable
Medical certificate should allow every where and
Every 40% of the disable people should get a houses
In this foundation all the issues have discussed not only on
disable. With school they will talk about children’s rights and
giving information to the teachers about disable, and to the
school children.
b) Activities of the Narendra Foundation
1. To make aware of the people about facilities that are
available to the disable from the Govt
2. SHGs of the disabled
3. SHGs of the Women’s and youths
4. Federation in Hobli, taluk and district level
5. Sabha for the mentally ill members in the panchayath and
Hobli level
6. Giving training and awareness in different topics, like
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❖ Mental illness
❖ Personal hygiene
❖ EDP
❖ To VRW and MRW training
❖ Occupational training like, handicrafts out of
cocoons, Tailoring, etc
7. Training to the school teacher and to the children
8. Child massage (case study of the children) funded by the
ADD India
9. Orthopaedics unit for the repairs the callipers, walker and
physio- therapy etc
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Discussing with school teacher and with BEO for the
sports day for the disable children
Now foundation is given the responsibility to the taluk
federation. Mr Sudhindra is the president of the taluk
federation. This taluk federation is conducting the programmes
and Taken the responsibility. And now to this taluka federation
site has given by the taluk panchayath
c) What did I do in Narendra Foundation?
I had attended 3 Federation meetings at different level, one is
District level federation, second one is Taluk level Federation
and another one is Hobli level Federation.
Training on Personal hygiene to the Disability people especially
women because there are many rape cases that are happening
in the villages on Disability women and they don’t know
whether they are pregnant or not, in this personal hygiene
subject they will learn that how to take care of them selves and
how the woman will get pregnant, every thing is explained to
them. This rape is basically happening on the dumb and deaf,
blind woman and to the mentally ill woman. I have visited the
houses of the raped and she is having a child now, and I have
visited the houses that have kept the small shop in their own
house.
Attended the meeting, which they call sabha of mental ill
person will come and share their experience of previous month.
And this meeting will be held once in a month.
I have done survey on Individual, SHGs and on the federation
and also some of the case studies on disability what are the
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benefits they have got and what the changes have happened in
their life. 14 Individual, 7 SHGs and 3 federations have done. I
spent 14 days in this foundation.
Individual Benefits they had after joining the Foundation
- Self-care and Personal hygiene training
- Livelihood options have realized
- Role in the SHGs is very good
- Awareness of schemes and funds
- Availing Govt schemes
- Opportunity for the treatment
- They have confidence
- Physiotherapy
- Training in different issues
- Attending household duties
- Improved inter personal relationship
- Participated with zeal in Dharanas
- Stopped Mal practices
I also have visited the training on silkworm product which has
given by the govt. attended 3 days EDT (Entrepreneur
Development Training) and the meeting, which was held with
BEO to discuss about Disabiled children sports day.
d) What did I learn from Narendra Foundation?
Inspired to see people who have stopped begging. And they
were saying that they will never go for begging if nothing is
there to eat in the family because we have realize that we don’t
get respect from others in the village.
Training given to the disability people from the Govt, they only
have decided to give training to these people this is very good
and now they are able to see to the Govt.
Sabha for the mental ill person, this sabha has really well and
this kind of sharing also will reduce the sickness of the person.
Understanding the use of caliper. Before I use to think that
this caliper has used only the person whose leg has broken,
here I came to know the use of caliper. And I was thinking that
to talk with the Disability person because if I speak what will
they feel or I don’t know how to talk with them all these kind of
things, now I realized that they are also human being why to
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think to talk with them talk as usual how will talk with others.
Inspired by the achievement of a blind person, I was hear that
a blind person will be very strong but here I saw a person
called Sudeendra staff of the foundation he alone goes to the
meeting and for other work, and he caries the things like
coconut and other thing to their shop not for the house. He is
the one person who is selected in National level federation
meeting.
Silkworm products where the training was held in Thumkur to
this disability people and I were involved in that training and
learnt.
Federation-symbol of self-advocacy and strength, this is new
learning for me to understand the federation and its strength.
Group going one level to the other, village to panchayath and
panchayath to Hobli...etc. this is one of the great thinking that
to make every people to participate in all the activities.
Learning from other sangha by exposure visit, this type of
exposure I have seen in the school level and learn but this is
really good idea, and one more thing is that the people will
never come from the house but here they all are ready to go to
the other sangha to improve their own sangha.
And at the end of the day I was practicing the drum with youth
unit who were coming to practice in the foundation and I learnt
a bit.
IX Section
a) Community Monitoring Programme (NRHM) in Raichur Dt.
Community monitoring programme is very good programme to
give awareness about the govt schemes and the services which
needs to be proper in the rural areas. Community-monitoring
programme basically has come to reduce maternal mortality
rate and the child birth rate. This Community Monitoring has
implemented in 2005 but in Karnataka it started this year. In
the beginningof this programme they have taken only 4
districts to see the use of the programme and then can be
given to the other districts. And in one district 3 thaluks has
taken to this programme.
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The main objectives of the NRHM is to reduce maternal
mortality rate and the child mortality rate, Select one ASHA
health worker in each village, Create a VHSC committee for
1500 population, 2 medical officer should be there in each
PHC one allopathic and another medical officer is Homeopathy,
to reach the services to every human being in the world.
In the village the process is by, giving information to the public
about the programme, mother and pregnant woman meeting,
VHSC committee meeting, and do the survey with VHSC
members and end of the day have to draw the village map this
process takes three days in one village.
b) What did I do in this programme
I have attended the TOT (Training of Trainers) in Raichur
district for 5 days. And in this training they taught us to what
are the activities to be done in the community-monitoring
programme. Giving information to the public about the
programme, mother and pregnant woman meeting, VHSC
committee meeting, and to do the survey with VHSC members
and end of the day, have to draw the village map, this process
has done in three days in one village.
Went to the Community Monitoring Programme in the villages
with Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan karyakarthas. And done
some studies in the village about how the PHCs running and
the Sub Centers, Snakebite cases and who are not got services
from the PHC and from the Centers.
I have gone to places called Bagalkot, Ilkal, Chellikere to give
training on community monitoring programme
And also took responsibility when the PHC level public hearing
was held in Raichur Dt. Submitting the cases which were
neglected by the medical officer in front of the public, done the
MC (Master of Ceremony) in the PHC public hearing. Totally I
have attended the 5 public hearings in the district.
c) What did I learnt from the Community Monitoring
Programme (NRHM)
In this community-monitoring programme I have learnt to give
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training to other people. Speaking in the public have improved
and I am able to talk in the community and with the public.
Learnt what is Health and Health as Human Rights, and how
to get health by the services, what facilities should be there in
the community, which are schemes that are available for the
mothers etc.
And what are the difficulties that the Anganwadi teachers are
facing problems and the Community problems.
X Section
a) National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
NREGS scheme was very good learning and I did practise in the
village where I was doing my project work during fellowship, and
gave good response from the panchayat to hand over again to the
panchayat and to the people. Because some times tha panchayat
people did not receive the application that we have written by
asking work and the job cards.
b) Public Distribution Services (PDS)
I have learnt about PDS that, how it will be applied from the RTI
and after wards how it is effectively works in the village level.
c) Right To Information Act (RTI)
About RTI act I did not know any thing, and now I learnt what is
RTI and how application has to be put throwgh RTI I applied in
Raichur district by asking the 18% scheme which is there for the
SC, ST Community and in Mysore asking information about the
PHC because when I went to ask, the medical officer did not give
me the information.
d) Alumni workshop in CHC
This alumni work shop was very useful for me because all the
Alumni had come and there are lots of people whom we can meet
and listen to their experiences their past CHC experience and
their work experiences after leaving the CHC was very good.
We can see that lots of work has been done by Alumni from the
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spirit of CHC. And the CHC always gives a spirit to young
generation and to all.
XI Section
a) Medico Friend Circle (MFC) Annual Meet.
MFC Meet is the entire medical and the other background people
who are wants to think and share their thoughts and work
experience in the group and discusses issues that are rising in
the community such as Migration, Health status in their area,
History of the place etc. This group is always ready to work with
the Community and MFC is very good platform to learn and
discuss about different topics.
b) What did I learn from the MFC meet?
I learnt mainly about Northeast life style and the historical
stories.
I had met and talk to elder people who were sharing their
experience
Details of North East
One thing I clearly understood that there is no caste system in
this North East……….
c) Ant Organisation
This Ant is working in the North East Bongegao with Women of
the Poor family basically on the Livelihoods. Because when the
people are not having work that time Janny and Sunil has come
to this place and did study on these people. They found that
there is a need to work and also they came to know that all the
people were know handloom work so they have started that
handloom work is good and now this work is handled very well
from them selves only they have shops of their own.
This Ant is also working on Community Monitoring Programme
(NRHM) in this place. These people are having very simple life
style.
d) Chakrasheela (Assam)
Golden lungur is the famous in this place and we went and
stayed in the tent, which I really love to stay. We saw many
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golden lungurs, went to bird watching, claiming the mountain
was fun for me, and went to river and Boating. These all are
unforgettable memories in my life.
e) Health Communication Workshop
Health communication workshop was very good learning for me.
About Communication they have teach us in very simple method
how to understand very easily.
By using velvet paper and telling stories to the people, skits and
awareness songs. This class was really very good useful for me
and enjoyed a lot. Every one has participated in this class.
This Health communication workshop is use for me and if I have
to do the presentation I am using this method thank you for the
CHC for this Workshop
Understanding the Community Health
Community is a small world. But this is the place where the
people lead life, community Health is where people are healthy
that is only community health according to me. In this
community, people did not get any information about health and
their life style.
Working with tribal people and giving free health care for them.
• Training in the community about taking care of mother
and child, giving information about family planning and
also how to take care of pregnant women from 3 months
to 45 days baby.
• Mobile clinic to the community, giving medicines was
really good and this is a new learning for me.
• Training at the school level about personal hygiene and
School Parliament Training (SPT) and exposure visit.
• Community level awareness programme to build toilet.
• Giving training about community monitoring and asking
schemes, which are available in the PHC level by the
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community people.
• Asking medicine for the Mental illness from the PHC level
by the community (Disable groups).
• Choosing VRW in each panchayath level especially to
work for the Disability.
• Understanding the use of Herbal Medicine
XII Section
a) Project work for 3 months in fellowship
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villages.
Training to the VHSC members on what is NRHM and who and
all should involved in VHSC and what is their work
Meet PHC and get list of Arogya Raksha Samithi in PHC.
2 Public Hearing in Balaganoore PHC level and in the Ragalparvi
PHC
Planting Herbal Medicine plants in the 2 Village by making
small garden.
Put NREGA application to the Panchayat by asking Work and
the Job Cards.
And put application to 10 Panchayat by asking what was plan of
budget in NREGA from 2000 by using RTI.
The project work has really helped a lot for me because when I was
going to the village to talk with the people that I want to give training
on health and on health rights. All people agreed for the training and
did.
While giving the training to the women who all are involved in the
SHGs of JMS and to the others, I felt very useful because after
finishing the training all the women started to discuss among them
selves. And all participated actively in the training. Both the trainings
which I have done in the village were very useful. When this type of
the training happens in the community level the people will able to
understand the health status and schemes.
The people always thinks that any body comes to them and tell some
thing to them, and that should be like make them to think of their
village and what the solution is for that. So that people will get an
answer for the question.
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When I went to the PHC to ask information about PHC, the PHC
medical officer gave me the information and supported me to Public
hearing and the people who lives in the village have supported.
20th of Feb I have done the Public hearing in Balaganoore in front of
PHC. I feel that I have done good job by doing Public hearing in
Balaganoore because not only conducting the public hearing but also
cooking food in the programme instead of buying food from the Hotel
because one issue has come up that when the SC (Dalit) people were
cooking no body was touching the things. And in the programme the
most important we feel it should not happen caste discrimination.
This type of problems always will be there in the community but
where these all which we called discrimination is, the community
health will not improve.
One more public hearing done on 20th of March 2009 in Ragalparvi
PHC level and the people all are participated and PHC medical officer
also have encouraged doing public Hearing.
b) What did I like in this Fellowship
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Round table discussion was really made me to feel every one is
equal and in the CHC all are feels equal.
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Explaining the subject by telling stories and playing stories to
feel they are in the village
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Taking section to think our self. This is the section I really love.
This section is very good useful for me by thinking Negative and
Positive
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Every one will encourage to every body who know language and
who don’t know the language has equal.
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Every one in the CHC is very helpful and helping for every thing,
which is needed for us.
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My batch was really very good because all back ground
members were there and every one can learn from every body.
Thank you so much to my batch and to the CHC for
encouraging me in this journey.
This CHLP programme had changed my life and gave some space and
taught me a lot. I have learnt about Health, Grown up my skills and I
had a new skills which is use full for me. I had visited many
Organisations which were gave me to understand of primary health
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care and its implementation, about Disable people especially mental
health people.
My personal objectives also have fulfilled here while doing my
fellowship. I have done case studies, Survey documentation and
conducting the programmes etc. thank you once again for every one in
the CHC.
XIII Section
Case Studies
a). Member of Herbal Medicine
1. Huligemma Mudhanguddi
Huligemma is illiterate women; she got married in her childhood.
She is having 3 children and is a active member in the family.
She was working in the Vimukti (where the JMS started from) as
a cook. And in this NGO one of the staff who taught herbal
medicine to sangha people was Mita Deshpande.
Huligemma dont know any thing about herbal medicine, and
Mitha wants to teach about herbal medicine to these sangha
people and Huligemma also one of the sangha member in
Mudhanguddi village.
Mita started to teach herbal medicine and took Huligemma and
other members for one round in the field, that time these people
were thinking that is she teaching us medicine or some thing
else and Mitha knows the purpose of going to the field, to make
them understand the plants and taking out from them that what
they know about herbal medicine. And then every one started to
tell this plant, that plant and learnt the name of the plants,
which is called in this place. And then started to teach them the
medicine. Huligemma says that Mitha has taken risk to teach us
herbal medicine.
Hiligemma has gone to many training to learn herbal medicine;
first training that she has attended in Mysore Jeevadaru with Fr
Chitoor. When she attended this training, she was confident that
she could prepare medicine in their village and use it.
And she also has gone to the Bangalore, Udupi etc. to learn
herbal medicine. All these training have made her to be
comfortable to prepare the medicine. Now she knows many
medicines they are Pain oil, Skin oil, Hair oil, Cough choorna,
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Cough syrup, for the kidney stone etc. every thing she can
manage.
She says that Mita has taught us not only preparation of
medicine but also how to communicate with the people who
comes to ask medicine how to make people feel comfortable and
then go to the medicine and also she was sitting with us to teach
how to give medicine to the people. This method really good and
now we are using this method only, she says.
And now she is going to give training to the other organizations,
Huligemma says that she is very happy in giving training to
others and so that they also are aware of the medicine and use
it.
Now Huligemma is involved in the Neem Fertilizer when it has
started because this fertilizer group is same which she is there.
huligemma says that I m not getting time as before because
involved in fertilizer but still she is there in this and goes to give
training to the other organisation. She says she is very interested
in herbal medicine and also she says that if training is there on
the herbal medicine i m ready to learn.
b). Members of Land workers
1.
Name of the person
Name of the Mother
Name of the Village
Age
Sex
Education
Land
Work
No of the children
: Mariamma (Devadasi)
: Eramma
: Gonavare
: 45
: Female
: Nil
: 7Acreas
: Coolie
: 8 members
Family Profile
No of the family members
: 9 members
Resources available in the
Family
: Nothing
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Situation of the land before
Starting the land work
: From 60 years this land was not
used and this land was not issue
and no water for this land. This land
is full sallow land
Mariamma is a person in the house to take care of every one.
Because she is a Devadasi. Mariamma is from SC community
member. Socially the higher caste people dominate this
community. She has 8 children, 2 boys and 6 girls. Only boys
are going to the school, girls are doing agriculture work. She is
having 7 acre of land but because of money problem she is not
able to grow crops in the field.
And also she is having 6 members of girls; she is responsible to
get them married. Till now 4 girls marriage has been done, 2 are
small. This type of situation had made her to stay back.
Economically this community people are very poor.
Now she says that from 60 years we could not clean and
crop this land even my father also has not done, but this project
has made us to do it. This work was use full for me and to the
family. Now I feel like to do some thing in the family, because of
cleaning and have put organic fertilizer in the land. Yield is
better if you want to see more yield then have to wait for 6
months definitely yield will be good. But still she is having
2acreas full of sallow land she thinks that cant do any thin in
that land. She can able to do by the Panchayath from National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
Mariamma says that after joining in this sangha I had
learnt many things, before I could not talk in front of the village
gowdas and lords, but now we are ready for every thing. And this
land work had given life to us.
2.
Name of the person
Name of the wife
Name of the Village
Age
Sex
Education
Land
: Sidhappa
: Nirmalamma
: Pannure
: 44
: Male
: 7th
: 2Acreas 10 Gunte
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Work
No of the children
: Coolie
Girls 50 Rs
Boys 70 Rs
: 4 members
Family Profile
No of the family members : 6 members
Name of the children
: Arogyamma – Tailoring
Pavithra Raj – 9th
Nobel Raj – 6th
Parimala – 5th
Resources available in the
Family
: Nothing
Situation of the land before
Starting land work
: Land was not prepared and we did
not touch the Land to crop
Sidhappa is from SC family member. Basically this SC people are
dominated by the higher caste and by the village Gowda people.
This caste people will never have land and other things in their
life, if there is they don’t have capacity. This has made them
economically backward. They are labourers. 2-3 years back this
family had migrated to Bangalore because of no work in the
Pannure.
And at that time Sidhappa had a piles problem, this
problem become very serious and continuous bleeding was
there. The doctor told that he has to go under surgery. To do
surgery family went Mangalore and stayed for 20 days. Surgery
was done freely but Rs 4000 was this spent for other expenses.
This made them poor. Nirmalamma use to have half head each,
she was not able to go to work this also made them poorer. She
says that, land work we was not taken seriously because we
were spending money for studies of our children.
Nirmalamma and Sidhappa say thanks to JMS, for
involving in the sangha. our children are studying and we got a
land work, other wise our children might go to the field. This
land work made us not to migrate again to Bangalore. Now the
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plan has changed and we have crops on own land, which made
us stay back. And from the sangha Nirmalamma took loan and
repayment is done this is also useful to family. She used to take
Rs 4000 per year and repays it.
The neighbours says that land work has made them to stay
back in the village. This world help every body to stop migrating.
3.
Name of the person
Name of the Husband
Name of the Village
Age
Sex
Education
Land
Work
No of the children
: Ningamma (Widow)
: Mudhakappa
: Pannure
: 46
: Female
: Nil
: 2 Acrers 10 Gunte
: Coolie Work
:5
Family Profile
No of the family members
: 6 members
Name of the children
: Dhodda Hanumantha
Sanna Hanumantha – Degee
Amrutha
Marianna – 10th
Monesh – 4th
Resources available in the
Family
: 2 Cows
: 2 Ox
Situation of the Land before
Starting the land work
: Land was full of sallow land
Ningamma is a responsible person in the house. 3 years
back her husband died. She has 4 children 2 boys children are
studying and 2boys are engaged in land work with her. She
belongs to SC (Scheduled Caste).
Economically very poor and after Ningammas husband death
the family has become very poor. She spent Rs 48,000 for her
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husband operation but he never woke up from the bed. And her
brothers also helped her in this situation.
Ningamma says because she is a sangha member of JMS
(Sangha) has made her stay back in the village. Upper caste
domination is reduced and SC families have become stronger.
From agriculture we were able to bey books for children and lead
the life
Ningamma’s 2 children dropped out of a school because no
money for studies and helping the mother in agriculture work
and going as labourer.
Ningamma says that this land work had made us very
useful because we don’t have that much money to spend for the
land. This land was not good but we were putting some crop
simply, yield was nothing. But now every crop will come properly
because land has become clean and level has done. She says
that water is not there for the land so this is also has big
problem in this area. And this year crop has come proper but no
rain so all crop is becoming dry. If rains than the crop will be
good, but it should be in October and November other wise the
situation will be very difficult. At last she says if possible please
do get water facility for this area.
4.
Name of the person
Name of the wife
Name of the village
Age
Sex
Education
Land
Work
No of the children
: Balaswami
: Rangamma
: Pannure
: 52
: Male
: Nil
: 5Acreas
: Coolie
: 5 members
Family Profile
No of the family members
Name of the children
: 7 members
: Ravi
Loordu
Kamala
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Shivakumar – II PUC
Hanumantha – 8th
Resources available in the
Family
: Nothing
Situation of the land before
Starting land work
: Sallow Land
Balaswami is a Physically handicap person he doesn’t have his
right hand. He is a father of 5 children 2 girls and 3 boys. He is
only child to his parents. Balaswami had married when he was
25 year old. His wife is Rangamma. Balaswami is SC community
member.
Balaswami had a severe Underarm pain, that pain had to an
Operation. For this Operation 30,000 Rs was needed, but
nobody was willing to give money to the Balaswami. So they sent
their son as a Bonded Labourer to an Andra family, who gave
money. This had happened when his son was 12 year old, that
time they were dedrecting Rs 900 per year towards the loan. Till
he was 21 years old he had to work as a bonded labour. the
operation was conducted (open drynage), but not successful.
Still there is an open hole under the arm.
This person suffered very badly in his life because all the
children were small and elder son was sent as bonded labour, no
body was there in his house to do work. Rangamma and
Balaswami had to work. But Rangamma always suffered from
headache and was not able to go to work daily. Balaswami had
to go for woodcutting and other work, which he can do. And it is
their way of life.
Balaswami had 2 acres of land but nobody was there in his
family to work on the land. Govt had given 2 acres of land and a
place to stay. 10 year the land was left fallow. For the land 4-5
years they have started growing crop on the land. His son (who
was sent as a bonded labour) came back at the age of 21, this
has made him happy.
Balaswami says that cultivating land had made us very good use
full from the JMS. Because till a day, we could not able to clean
a land we were suffering from the other problems. Our land was
full of Stones and trees that all had clean and I was happy while
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seeing all these things.
This year (2008 March), 6 months before he had a problem that
is air breath in will come from the underarm and puss also will
come ones in a while. Doctor told that again he has to under go
surgery. He says that he is very weak well not be able to control
pain and may live in the world for another 2 or 3 years so why to
take a loan and go for surgery. I don’t wanted my family to suffer
again because of the loan. But yet had spend 8000Rs for me.
Now he is not able to do any work this is the situation. We are
growing crops on the land and getting good yield. This is what he
needed and it is happening and is happy.
5.
Name of the person
: Renukamma (Widow)
Name of the Husband
Name of the Village
Age
Sex
Education
Land
Work
No of the children
: Erappa
: Gonavare
: 42
: Female
: Nil
: 6Acreas
: Coolie
: 1 Daughter
Family Profile
No of the Family members : 2 Members
Name of the Daughter
:
Resources available in the
Family
: Nothing
Situation of the land before
starting land work
: this land was given to others on a
loan
Renukamma is a lady who is suffering from poverty. She is a
widow; 12 years back her husband died. She is having one
daughter, when daughter was 5-6 years old the father died. So
Renukamma had to take care of the child. She belongs to SC
community. Basically the higher caste community dominates
this community.
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Erappa her husband had taken loan for his health problem
(cough and wheezing), because of this loan his 6 acreas of land
was mortgaged to the Gowda (Who have given loan) for 10 years.
After this her husband died. She is alone in family with her 5year-old daughter. And was not able to send her to school. That
land was given back to Renukamma in 2007 March when JMS
started (Lean the for agricultural activity) land. This mainly
helped her to use this project.
Yet she is alone and nobody is there in the house to do the land
work. So she leased it, so that she will get half of the yield from
the land. Due to financial problem as well as no male member to
help her in cultivating the land which is far away from the
village. No water facility available. One has to go 4 kms to bring
drinking water.
Renukamma says after joining JMS (sangha) she had got
the strength and able to go from the village, and participated in
strikes, jathas and other programmes, that is related to them.
c). Members of Disabled person
1. Shashidara
Shashidar loves his mother so much that he does not want
to leave his mother. Once his mother migrated to Bangalore at
that time he was fully upset and was not talking to any one. One
more reason was that he likes to act in Drama, but his parents
did not allow him. These two reasons made him a mentally ill.
During this time he was fully ill person and wanted to kill his
parents and throws stones at others. His interest in acting made
him to tie the anklets to his legs and started dancing in the mid
night. This was his behaviour when he was mentally ill.
At that time the Narendra Foundation came to form SHG of
disable people and this person. Got involved in this SHG and
started to get treatment. During that period from Basic needs
project came and helped for the treatment and one more thing is
that from the foundation they have started a monthly once
meeting for the mentally ill person to share their experience and
difficulties they have fused in the time. This activity helped a lot
of mentally ill person, accept the treatment.
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Now this person is very good, he is fully cured. Going for
work and taking care of the family. And the village people are
giving respect to him and he is fully recovered now and his
family is very happy.
2. Erkyathappa
Erkyathappa is a very poor family member. He is only child
to his parents. He has finished BA and got married. He loved his
wife, very much but she had some other afficial, but he did not
believe others saying about it. Once he saw her with other boy.
Then he threw her out of the house and was fully upset thinking
about her. From that time he and became mentally ill. He did not
listen to his parents, he was talking to him self. His parents were
worried about him and they were aged. They have to go for work
(Coolie) and take care of the family and him.
Narendra foundation had come to work with disabled
people, that time Erkyathappas mother made him join the SHG
of disabled and Basic Needs project was there in this foundation,
and then started the treatment for the MI. He took medicine
properly and now he is cured from the illness.
Now is selected as a VRW in Gram panchayath, and taking
care of the family. He is helping other people for the pension and
other things not only disabled people but others also in the
community.
Now he is doing very good work and it he finds any
mentally ill person he will take them for treatment. He keeps the
documents of the patients with their photos; this document is
referred even by the foundation and has appreciated him. He is
conducting the SHG meeting and is the member of Hobli level
federation.
XIV Section
In Narendra Foundation
a) SHG member Information
1.
2.
3.
Name of the person
Name of the Village ( place)
Age
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Sex
Caste
No. of members in the family
Marital status
No. of the children
Education (Qualification)
Which group do they belongs to
11. Nature of Individual
12. Occupation
13. Income (Wages)
14. No. of members working in the family
15. No. of members involved in the SHGs
16. Any group Occupation
Out come in the Family
1. Economic
2. Social
17. Benefits of joining the Group
Federation :
SHGs :
Association:
Other :
Physical :
Psycho-Social :
Normal :
For Male:
For Female:
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b) Self Help Groups Information
1.
Name of the Group
-
2.
Areas which SHGs is formed
-
3.
Which caste belongs this group
-
4.
Total no. of members in Group
-
5.
No. of Male members
-
6.
No. of Female members
-
7.
No. of Disabled members
Male :
Female :
8.
How many Mental ill members are there and Why they join the group?
9.
Changes after joining in the group
a) Economic
b) Social recognition
c) Individually
d) Other
10. Any Group Occupation
Individually :
- Outcomes
Family :
As a group
11. Benefits of joining the group
12. Functions in the Groupa) What issues are discussed in a meeting?
b) Has the Group organized an event? c) Has the group or any members
attended the panchayath meeting?
d) Does
this
group
have
any
panchayath members?
e) Have the group participated in any Dharana or Rally?
f) Awareness about Mental illness
g) Do you have conducted any training of mental illness
h) What kind of schemes
availed
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- Disability (ID Cards)
- IAY Group House
- NREGA
- Total sanitation Programme
- Bagya jothi
- Other(Advocacy)
13. Link of the SHG to Federation
14. Do federation members participate in any SHG meeting?
15. How
does
information
pass
from federation to SHG, SHG to Federation?
c) SHG level Question and answers
1. Why does mental ill person join the group?
- Treatment
- They are also the disabled person, so that they can get a
govt facilities
- To come out from the illness
2. Changes in Economic after joining the SHG?
- Got loan for the surgery from the SHG
- Loan for the house repair
3. Changes in Social recognition after joining the SHG?
- Community is respecting and govt officers also
- If some thing happens wrong to the members we all are
ready to fight
- Decided Not to going to the begging
- All will comes to the SHG meeting
- Asking to the panchayath about govt schemes
4. Changes in Individual
- Courage to talk with others
- Satisfaction is there
- Got training of making silk products and SSA
- Woman’s are going out of the house
5. Individual occupation
- Selling Coffee Powder
- Sheep raring
6. Benefits of joining the SHG
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Govt schemes
Houses
I D cards
Wheel chair
Pension
- Getting treatment to the mental ill person
- We have strength
- Getting awareness of the different issues
- Helping child labour to go the school
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7. What are the issues discussed in the meeting?
- Disabled schemes
- Personal hygiene
- Loan
- 3% money from the panchayath
- RTI, Right to food
- Houses to the 40% disabled not to the 60% disabled
- Pension
- State level convention in January
Separate minister for the disabled
Houses scheme should be stabilized
Need PHC level medicine for the mental illness
VRW scheme should continue
- School, Anganawadi
- World disabled day celebration
- According to the situation of the village, SHG and
individual will be discussed
8. What are the schemes has got from the Govt?
- ID Cards
- Bus pass
- 3% money from the panchayath
- Ration cards
- Pension
- Medical certificate
- Houses (IAY Group houses)
9. NREGS work
- Started to distributing the job cards
10.
-
Link between SHG to Federation
SHG members only will be participate in the federation
meeting and they are the member of the federation
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When the SHG will feel that they are not able to solve the
problem than that issues goes to the federation
11. How does information passes from the federation to SHG
and SHG to federation?
- SHG member only will participate in the federation
meeting, so that they will come to the SHG and share the
issues which are discussed.
- What are the sangha discussed will goes to the federation if
it is serious issues but, What the federation discusses all
will comes to the SHG through the members
12.
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Has the SHG organized any event?
Organized a exposure visit to see the developed SHGs to
develop their own SHG
d) Federation level Question and answers
1. Why does mental ill person join the group?
- To get treatment
2. Changes in Economic after joining the SHG?
- Helping to the other in financial matter
3. Changes in Social recognition after joining the SHG?
- Getting respect from the people
- Municipality has given a room to conduct meeting
- The all people feel that others problem is our problem
- All are having helping nature
4. Changes in Individual
- Self confidence
- Aware of talking to other
- We know the govt officer
- Commitment is there
- Participation
- Identifying in the thaluk level
- Aware of the legal rights
5. Other Development
- Govt officers are giving respect and encourages
- Govt officers only thought to give a training of the silk
products to us
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6. Benefits of the joining the federation
- From the govt SSA, Anganawadi teacher and ASSIRD
7. What are the issues discussed in the meeting
- Education
- Personal hygiene
- World disabled day celebration
- EDT (Enterproners development training )
- Houses and 3% money
- PDS system
- NREGS
- Children’s sabha
- State level convention
Separate minister for the disabled
Houses scheme should be stabilized
Need PHC level medicine for the mental illness
VRW scheme should continue
- VRWs work ( In panchayath)
- Monthly meeting to the mental illness
- Property right
- RTI
8. Has the federation organizes an event?
- Dist convention
- World disabled day
- Awareness of the mental health
- EDT ( Enterprines Development Training )
- Personal hygiene
9. Govt schemes
- more than 40% of disabled can get houses not to 60%
disabled
- ID Cards
- Medical certificates
- 160 Wheel chairs from the govt
- 3% money from the panchayath
- Bus passes
- Pension
- 15000 houses have sanctioned in thumkur dist
- NREGS started to distribute the job cards
10.
Link between SHG to Federation
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Link is that from the SHG 5 members will goes to the
panchayath level federation, from the panchayath 5 members
will goes to Hobli level federation, from the Hobli 5 members
goes to the thaluk level federation and from the thaluk 2
members goes to the district level federation.
SHG members only will be participate in the federation
meeting and
They are the member of the federation
- When the SHG will feel that they are not able to solve the
problem
Than that issues goes to the federation
11. How does information passes from the federation to SHG and
SHG to federation?
- SHG member only will participate in the federation
meeting, so that they will come to the SHG and share the
issues which are discussed.
- What are the sangha discussed will goes to the federation if
it is serious issues but, What the federation discusses all
will comes to the SHG throw the members
e) Individuals Question and Answers
Benefits of joining the group
▪ He himself weir the cloths
▪ Interesting in helping
▪ Govt schemes
Pension
Calliper
VRW (working in the panchayath)
Toilet build
Medical certificate
3% money from the panchayath
Wheel chair
ID Cards
▪ Loan for the Sheep, House repair, For the surgery
▪ Conducting SHG meeting
▪ Speaking
▪ Treatment for the TB
▪ Training of Basket making, Leadership, Gender and
vegetable garden
▪ Drip irrigation
▪ Courage
▪ Dharana
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Spoke with Kumaraswami
Working in the house
Involving with others
Working as coolie
Strikes
Identifying in the village as a normal person
Disabled children Going to the school
All the class mates speaks to me
Last year class leader in the school
Drawing the pictures and got prize from the England
Doing occupation as a individual
Support from the group
Left alcoholism
Made to keep a person in the custody because of raped to
Shivamma
▪ Physio therapy
▪ Special sheet
▪ CP child will be able to move from the place
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