By Shilpa Pandya | Consultant
Children in tribal areas Celebrate Children Day
Greetings from Shaishav and Adhar teams.
Once again we are happy to share some of our experiences of working with children in remote tribal areas of Dahod district in Gujart state, India. Every year India celebrates Childrens Day on 14th November. This year children of our Balghars in five villages celebrated with great enthusiasm. We had organised Balmela i.e. children’s fair. Aroud two hundred and sixty children of five programme villages and other villages participated in balmela. The programme was inaugurated by the village head and he also appreciated our efforts of providing opportunity for exposure to the children of surrounding villages. We had organised different activities in Balmela so that children can learn new things while having fun. We organised different activities in different rooms that aimed to provide learnings of different subjects. We also conducted games for children which were designed with a salient features of brotherhood and equality.
Further we continued our balghars during this period with variety of activities in addition to our regular educational programmes for the children in Junapani, Ravalikheda, Devaliya, Kotada and Himala villages. These balghars have covered nearly two hundred children collectively who attain supplementory education in a very child friendly way which is innovated by Shaishav.
Apart from this, in Kotada village, the school building was in a very poor condition and had become risky for the children to come for education. Some of the village leaders presented this issue to Adhar organisation. The team of Adhar coordinated and followed up with the district and village authorities and finally we could get approval of restoration of the school building. Nevertheless, team of Adhar, further coordinated with respective department to undertake the task on priority and complete the restoration at the earliest.
Moreover, Shaishav consistently provides support to Adhar team for their capacity building and for liaisoning with government officials as and when need. Thus we are putting our hard efforts to make this a replicable model of collaboration for child development where in Shaishav and Adhar together endevour to transform the lives of children from marginalised communities in tribal areas.
Thus last quarter was quite intensive in terms of interacting with children as well as government officials. And the movement is still on as we have a very long way to go……
We also take this opportunity to thank all of you who are supportive and helpful in our mission and movement of creating a child friendly society around us. Bye for now and will get back to you with new updates in next quarter meanwhile
We wish you all MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!
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