Leadership Activity

When we travelled in local buses, we found something we are hesitating to inform to the respective responsible persons. But one day we were seriously discussing about social issues. And we have decided to convert social issues into Leadership Activities. By which we will be able to inform the responsibility of Government build awareness in people.

So we have listed some social issues out of which the first one is here with innovative results. Firstly we have gone to inform the NWSRTC (North Western State Road Transport Corporation) Officer but they have confused us to whom we have to contact and who is the right person? But finally we have decided whether they give permission or not but we will do it. And with that intention yesterday we went to Central Office with Written document and Questionnaire for the public opinion. We have given them the written document and got the acknowledgement. From their when we have stepped into Bus we started. The first lady who took this Questionnaire she said that, “I was waiting for such kind of activities from students like you”.  So that was the best response we have got and we went to old bus stand of Hubli because our target is “Problems facing in local buses by public”. We have got very nice response from people by which we have understood that we are able to understand the minds of people. Because we have prepared the questionnaire considering, those people who are travelling everyday and facing the same problems. We have met mainly School and College Students, Job holders, and Senior citizens.

Questions are as follows: 1) Do the Buses are coming on time? 2) Do the Conductors, Drivers and Officers executing their duties properly? 3) Are the Buses stopping on respective places? 4) Do the conductor cooperating in providing seats to the Ladies? 5) Do the Buses are keeping clean? 6) Please write your suggestions:Statistical data on above Questions:

SUGGESTIONS: Conductor should take responsibility in providing seats to the senior citizens n ladies ,   Should decrease the pass rate. More buses should be there with right time by well administration, Technical improvement should be there in buses.     The buses should stop on specific stops, the conductor, drivers’ n officers should behave pleasantly n cooperative,      Cleanliness has to be maintained,     Need to be more improvemen,Bus should go slowly  Smoking should be avoided strictly,      Mobile phone usage should be avoided, Facilities are good in NWSRTC, Public cooperation in maintaining bus clean &  Public cooperation in reserve seats. 

Leadership Activity for Blind Children

We performed leadership activity on 15 Feb 09 in the Evening Vidya Nagar.

We wanted to help blind children of Siddharudha Mutt. When we met them first time by conducting games we realized their hidden talents. They are facing challenging life but they are extraordinary children we decided to build their future and betterment of their life. We are collecting money for the welfare of blind children. So we all are Gayatri ,Meenakshi, Chandrashekhar & Savita  have visited  door to door to collect money. The response from people was good. We have collected around Rs 600 to 700.  We did not open the box because we have planned to continue same activity for next 2-3 weeks, after that we will open & we will give some valuable brile kit or cloth to Blind children.

In the evening at 5.00pm we have gone door to door & shops. While collecting money we met different type of people. Many people have given good response. While they were putting money into the box we all were became happy. Before we thought no one will agree to contribute because many people have cheated by using social work name. But we are working heartily & honestly. Who one understands our feelings like that we were thinking in hostel our friends encouraged us to move forward. Only few people (2-4) thinking to give money.  Someone told they are helping directly to children why they have to give us. Then we replied one person can’t do big help if you collect one side it become big strength to do work like that we convinced people later they have given happily.   

Village study

First day we visited Gram chetan, it’s a nice place covered by lot of trees. Mr. Deepak Kshira Sagar introduced us about Gram chetan  & he shared  his experience with people participation. Participatory building of people is very important its not build within a day. Initial they faced many problems to work with people. While selecting the people they didn’t have any restriction.   With support of community they built check dam at Harogere. He shared other examples as well.

Conducted PRA At Kamplikoppa:  

 We have visited  to Kappalikoppa to conduct PRA. The community people welcomed us applying   color turmeric powder & turmeric powder.   We were divide in 5 groups. Each team was going to do different activity such as Resource mapping, Seasonality Mapping for income & migration, Venn diagram, FGD on milk production.  Matrix rank for compost. We conducted Time line on sanitation.  Then we can understand PRA practically. After that I moved to Kamaplikoppa along with my co-fellows. We had practical experience of the PRA. I have been in Seasonality mapping. We did the seasonality map for income & migration.  There is very less migration because they depend on irrigation land. & they will get job at VRL it is very near to Villagers. 

After coming back from village we have enjoyed by dancing, singing & making jokes  with our sir Naveen Jha, Chinnababu & all classmate. 

Village Study at Naganur:

The Naganur village is comes under Khalgatigi Taluk, Shurshetti Koppa Panchyath of Dharwad district. It is 25 KM away from Hubli city. Only road transportation available for this village. Our team members and me visited this village on 11^th and 12^th of Feb 2009.

History of the village:

‘Nagnur’ means village of snakes. We got different stories from the people regarding village history. One of the elders said that the village was called Laxmipura after that it changed to Yalghatigi Nagnur and Nagnur. Other sources said that some body found Nagalinga in the village long back that is why villagers named Nagnur.

Transect Walk

On 11^th Feb 2009 in the morning we went to Nagnur by walk it is 2km from Grama chetan, road was not good.  On the way we saw ground nuts, cotton, and sugarcane & sunflower crops in field. When we entered in the village Coconut trees welcomed us to village in front every houses.  We met some youths &   old men few of them helped us for transect walk. We observed that houses are built very systematically side by side.  In the entrance of the village there are houses built in the planned way given by Govt.   Roads are very big. Majority houses are Kachha houses.

When we at entered the village people were busy with their works.  They were waiting for bus at Basavan temple, some people   were   going to the field, and others are having tea at hotel & children were playing in front   of community hall.  There are 5 temples in the village; Basavan Temple, Devamamman Temple, Hanuman Temple & Durgamman temple. There is a primary school, an Anganwadi , community hall, Milk Dairy,  Panchayath  office. There is a Durga.  Village was clean. Everyone has drawn rangoli in front of their houses.  It shows their indigenous knowledge, local customs & practices.  Rapport building was main challenge for us. As soon as we entered the village we initiated rapport building.

When we met people our team members were saying “ Namskara “ to  villagers. We clearly explained them reason for coming to their village. Afternoon we visited field we collected some information regarding soil and crops.

It was the late evening when we started our activities because people still returning from the fields. Later we gathered the people for social mapping. 

Focus Group Discussion

We conducted focus discussion group in the evening. We have collected information about health & sanitation.    But, gathering pople is very difficult. When we called people no one came because they were busy with their work & they neglected us. So we have gone to apply kunkuma door to door & someone we met on road we applied them. We told them to gather round in public place.  After gathering Mrs.Jayashree villagers sang welcome song. Later we discussed.

Social Map 

A A social map has helped us to understand about Nagnur village. This map  is drawn by village people  and which shows the social structures and institutions found in an area. It also helped us to learn who is living where & about where is  temples, school, Community hall, Anganwadi & other offices.social map has helped us to understand about Nagnur village. This map  is drawped us to learn who is living where,  where is  temples, school, Community hall, Anganwadi & other offices.

Time Line:Our team has decided to draw the time line map.   Mainly our targeted group was women and we called them traditional way putting KUNKUM on their forehead. And we did time line comparative study between situations in 1970 periods and now.  Before 1970 the cholera, pelage & T.B like that disease was there. But, now AIDS, Cancer & Chicken gunny.  Everyone believed on Ayurvedic treatment. Before 1970 they didn’t have hospital facility, Toilets, Pure water facility, Transport facility & Schools. Now they have school so every child getting literacy, they are growing other crops like suppota trees & mango trees, everything has changed the ladies didn’t not know about bank but now they can easily do bank transaction.  Like that there village has changed.

Matrix Ranking : we conducted matrix ranking on  compost. by this we understood diffrent types of compost. which compost they will use more & which is the good.

 Resource Mapping :The Resource map has helped us to learn about community & its resource base.  To learn the villagers perception of what natural resource are found in the community and how they are using.    We started in the next day morning after gathering people we have introduced about resource map we have given rangoli powder to draw. We also took care about involving people.  They have drawn water source, different type of soils, Hills, roads, lake, & grazing land.

Secondary Data collection

For collecting secondary data we have visited Anganwadi, Panchayt, Milk Dairy, and Mahasangha & Village Accountant. In that village 1390 population are living 686 male & 704 are female. The voters are 891. It has 360 families. Only one house is Pakka remaining all are kachha house. Big formers are 5, Medium formers are 132 & small formers are 172.  The total land is 1982.2 Hectors. 

Observation:Female population is very high,mentally challenged children and village was clean 

Summary:We had village study. we conducted PRA in Nagnur village of Kalgatgi Talku Dharawad dist. This exercise helped in understanding village situation, developing the rapport with the villagers, their overall developmental & if you want implement any project involvement of people is very important.

Leadership Activity with children

It was 12:30pm when we reach balakiyara balamandira in gantikeri. It is a beautiful place. We met Mrs.Kankanur who is the in charge of that balamadira. She explained us about balamandira it has 130 girl children out of them. Some are orphan, some are Child delinquency. When we told her, we came to teach children some activities and wish to follow up it in following days she felt happy and provided us two classrooms.

we selected 7^th, 8^th and 9^th students for activity that is paper bag making. we started teaching the activity it went for 1hr, children with enthusiasm. Children were happy and asked us to come again. While coming we met Mrs. Kankanur and presented few paper bag made by children’s she felt happy and appreciated our work, asked us to come again and teach many things to children. 

 

Leadership Activity in school on 8 Feb 09

Leadership activity

 Activities performed on 8 Feb 09 at Balakiyar Bala Mandira, Kantikeri, Hubli.

Team Members: Savita & Gayatri as leaders,  Malini & Latha as a followers.

Objectives: 

     1. Educate the children about their health and hygiene.

        2.  To enhance their knowledge about the epic & to inspire them to adapt the values of rich Indian culture.

Activity: First we met Mrs. K.K.Kukonur incharge to get permission, and then we started with an introduction.  Gayatri & Malani were performed sloka with children. There after we showed important of Hindu epics Hanuman.  

Children understood with enjoying after we asked some related questions to that film.  Every child has answered, even 7 years old child Shruti has answered well.  If we teach them through book they won’t get anything. 

Lata has done some activities as  ice break,   Savita & Gayatri  were  interacted with the children & educate them about  how to take care of their body parts( teeth, Hairs,  Tung, nails, take bath, eyes) and maintain  their hygiene.

Guest Speaker Manivannan

On the day, guest speaker, Mr. Manivannan D.C from Mysore Dist, who was also a former DC for Hubli, Dharawad. He asked us what is purpose of life, survival equal to this birth after death. He was interacted with fellows very frankly.

Abdhul Kalam

Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam Former president of India, inaugurated the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship, auditorium & Dr.R.H.Kulkarni memorial lecture hall complex on 6^th Feb 09 through lighting the lamp. I was excited to meet him and to take photo with him. As usual he showed great interest interacting with students & youth. His way of speech inspired & kept everyone active he also interacted with students by addressing to some of their questions, such as:  How many of you want to join industry? How many of you want to be entrepreneurs? How many of you want to research & teaching? How many of you want to give an out of the box an innovative solution for national problem.

 It does not matter who you are & thinks one is very important to keep in your mind. Have a great aim, Acquire knowledge continuously, Work hard sincerely, Perseverance.  “Problem should not become your captain; you should become  captain of problem solving”  Every sentence was very important that he told like how a leader must be “during failure think it is your mistake when you get successes it goes to team”. Another one is “low aim is crime “successful people drive by their inner force by bigger dream. The dream won’t allow sleeping.

 He has given example of infosys Narayanmurthi & Gururaj deshpande. They will think only about thousand, lack & million not on ten or hundreds. He shared about Pura scheme. Lastly, he asked us to tell words “I can do, we can do, India will do”.

Later Mrs. Sudha murthi spoke, it was special that it was in Kannada which attracted everyone. She was the student of BVB Engineering College and she said that, “Behind every successful man there is a women, but behind my success its man, husband Mr.Narayanmurthi”.  Then, Mr.Gururaj Deshpande addressed people, He told about entrepreneurship, in motivational Idea & always he thinks about big aim. In the next year Deshpande foundation is going to do 10,000 lead activities.  There after Mr.Narayan Murthi addressed the people by his inspiration speech, regarding campus selection when student are selected through campus interview during 6^th sem, they lose interest in his study.

It was memorable day for me. It was great opportunity to meet such great legendaries.

First Module

We had first Module session on Public Health Sector by Mrs. Meenakshi Agrawal, Deshpande Foundation on 2 Feb 09. First we introduced ourselves and also we shared what we did last day and then she has given introduction about herself. Later she shown "Tale of Two Cities” it shows on slum dwellers in Indor & She explained about Health Public Sector through PPT . Then we have answered for question by written.
In the second session we had debate on “Sex Education in Indian school” & another one is “Whether Smoking should band in the Film industries” It was interesting debate everyone has participated.
In the afternoon we involved in another activity Mumbai based NGOs case study. It is facing many problems, causes, Solution & Challenges. We acted as social worker & we found solution. One more interesting activity was writing project proposals for public health and represented it in front of funder organization. There are some key points to write proposal. We should know about criteria of Funding organization & we have to have clear idea of our project.

Hampi Visit

Early in the morning we have started our journey with excitement an enthusiastically, with Developmendialogue delegates, we 

have divided two

 groups & we have started with singing songs, in Kannada, Hindi, Telagu in enjoying mood we reached to HAMPI. It was nice with guide, to see the Hampi. Foreigners amazed after looking those statues. There was a link chain it made by stone and in one statue 3 shapes.  Near Queen Bath we had tasty launch. Hampi  journey- Krishna temple, Queen Bath, Mahanavami dibba, Elephant Houses and Musical Hall.

 

Developmental Dialogue Programme

Developmental Dialogue has helped us to learn more. It is a three day conference of Social Entrepreneurs from all over the world. More than 250 social entrepreneurs participated in this conference from USA, UK, Kenya, and South Africa and from our country also. In all this process I got an opportunity to be talk with foreign delegates, because I am the member of registration comity with Laxmi. There are other 6 people in our team: Malini, Latha, Fathima, Chandarshekar & Naveen from vidyaposhak. We didn't get time to speak everyone only few delegates I talked well.   Because we were busy in searching name tags.  

I wanted to go for case study I didn't get time first day I had to be in registration desk. Next I got chance to notes take about case study. I have attended with Ajay & Lesley Water literacy Foundation. On 29th I have attended with Liz & Ajay for Vidya Poshak case study.  

Apart from this I did entrepreneur activity with team Meenakshi, Latha & shekar.  It improves our marketing skills. I sold 4 dolls & 1 with team & others are sold by my friend. Only we prepared 10 dolls. When I sold four I got more confidence I have taken 1 doll I went to Ashok fellow. She didn't listen anything.  She told that she don't like any doll.  Then I was thinking how I can convince her. It is very difficult to convince. I want to learn more marketing skills. 

 In evening we had dinner in Hotel Naveen, it’s a very bountiful hotel. I wonder to see Lady Drummer performing there, there energy, there confidant were very good. Sorry to say that there is no support from the audience. The team was expecting inspiration from the audience. The last day we had another class room session.  I was in vidya Poshak class session & I have attented open session that was It session. It was very usefull for me. In the Night   We went to Hotel Trupti International. The small student from Dharwad performed ‘Bharat  natya’ and some of them sung a song. It’s a refresh session for me after the three days. There also the same scenario as in Hotel Naveen. All delegates busy in their personal activities and performer performing at the same time.Developmental Dialogue gave birth to many sweet memories among the participants. I am very happy because I will be the delegate for next 2010 Development Dialogue. It is very useful to network building. 

Pulse Polio Activity

Polio Activity performed at Chikkoti Kannada medium School, Unkal
Activity was conducted on 1st Feb 09 at 9.30 am to 11.00am by Gayatri, Jagadeesh, Chandra Shekar, & Meenakshi
The aim of the activity was make awareness about pulse polio. Lack of Health awareness some people neglecting about polio.
Discussion with trained student in booth.I & Jagdeesh were leaders & Meenakshi, Chandrashekar were followers. We have gone to Chikotti Govt. School, Unkal, Hubli on 1st Feb 09 at 9.30am. There was second phase of National pulse polio programme in and around the city. The trained B.sc nursing students were conducting the camp. We discussed with them & went door to door asked their children who under 5 years of age to bring to respective polio booths. We brought their children, after feeding drops we marked on last finger nail for identification. Nearly we have covered 175 houses.
House to house visitSome people have given good response & some others were neglecting because it’s Govt work they will come to their door & feed drop to children. Several people have doubts due misinformation for being neglected child will not get drop.
Feeding polio drop to childPolio is diseases it is mainly attack to less than 5 years old children.Govt has taken more care about child health. Only two drops are enough to kill the disease. I felt before conducting pulse polio programme Govt. must aware of this programme through mass media many people do not know about polio. If people not use properly then we never irradiate polio.

Leadership activity at Govt Girls Hostel

Activity performed at Govt. Girls Hostel, Hubli.
The activity was conducted on 25th of Jan 2009 at 11.00pm by Meenakshi, Chandrashekar, Latha & Gayatri.
The aim of the leadership activity was generate creativity in students.

Meenakshi & Chandrashekar were Leaders , I & latha were followers . Our intention is to build relationship with students and bring Innovative ideas from students. Chandra Shekar has asked them to take a paper and create whatever they want? Most of them have folded paper & created Boats, few have done cameras, one girl has made frog. So like this each individual has got his/her own talent we have to recognize it.


Meenakshi has given initially some instructions n distributed raw materials by making into 3 groups. Each one of us has facilitated one group Meenakshi has taught generally. Everyone has got so much of eager to see what will be the final output? But there are 3 outputs with different type of new Dolls With white in color n having red eyes, red lips, dimple chin, teeth within n lovely hairs but open heart.

Activity performed at Unkal Kere, Unkal, Hubballi, Karnataka.
The activity was conducted on 25th of Jan 2009 at 06:00 am by Ms.Gayatri, Mr.Veeresh, Mr.Shambuling, Mr.Lakshmish.
The aim of the activity was make the people take responsibility of social properties and to conserve them for next generations.
The objectives of the activity were
1. To bring in awareness about cleanliness, conserving the natural resources and proper utilization of the facilities provided by Government.
2. To bring in the notice to the Government about the mismanagement by the authorities.
3. Educate the society about health and hygiene through various activities like drama, skit, role plays etc

Activity: The group members led by Me and Mr.Veeresh joined by Mr.Shambuling and Mr.Lakshmish as followers started cleaning the park by picking up the garbage lying all around the greenery area of the park. All the four members pecked the waste and collected it in one corner of the park. It was not an easy task as the waste was just spread over the park in each and every corner. Picking glass pieces of the cool drinks bottle and gutka packing cover was really a challenging job for the group

Seeing the cleaning and advocacy work by the group, many people around the area were motivated to take part in the activity. Many young and elderly people also joined hands in the activity. Children took it as a joy and were happy to do it as fun. By elders response was quite good and suggested the group to bring in the change that were necessary to keep the surrounding clean and tidy forever and to do it by the fellowship program gets over. They assured the group that they would contribute their help in needed.