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078 - Five Days Training on Home Based Spices for SHG Women
The objective of this training was to impart skill and knowledge on spice making as micro business for supplementary income. 20 women from the slums successfully completed the entire training. The training was imparted by ‘Kasturba Mahila Khadi Gramodyog Vidyalaya’ which is a government recognised training institution.
Participants of the training were selected after studying their needs and aptitude for setting up business. 15 different kinds of spice making were taught including Sabji masala, Sambar masala, Chana masala, Garam masala, Chicken masala, Meat masala, Sunday masala etc. It also included sessions on marketing, coasting, budgeting, pricing and brand building.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Nagsen Chauhan (Training Coordinator - DBDS) said “Our endeavour is to help women learn skills and setup small business so that they are economically empowered and we are also monitoring their progress.” Mrs Ranjana Torene (Co-ordinator - DBDS) added that “Our effort is to encourage poor women in slums to learn skills and start enterprises and for that our team holds regular meeting in the slums.”
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077 - Free Health Camp for the Underprivileged of Pune: joint venture of Don Bosco and Manos Unidas
Dr. Suraj Gaikwad (Physician), Dr. Deshpande (Paediatricians), Dr. Sneha Ansari (Ophthalmologist) and Dr. Nilofer (Gynecologist), Dr.Munde (Medical officer) along with number of other staff examined the patients in this health camp.
Ms Rita Jadhav (staff - DBDS) expressed her opinion that “along with holding free health camp we are also trying to change the health care seeking behaviour of women through education also.” Sharing his experience Dr. Munde said that “no major illnesses were found but there are cases of anaemia, cough, cold, worms in children, joints pain, low BP etc.”
Free medicines were distributed and people with serious illness were referred to Aundh Hospital. Ms Ranjana Pandit (Co-ordinator - DBDS) of the project expressed her satisfaction saying that “this was our first health camp in this slum and we got good response and co-operation from people.”
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075 - Workshop on Financial Goals and Investment
In the first session, Mr Kumar discussed about the effect of inflation on savings and income. He gave various examples how inflation reduce the purchasing power of money. He then explained about how to plan for financial goals.
In the next session, he informed the participants about the post office saving schemes, PPF, Insurance schemes, Pension plans, Sukanya Samruddhi Yojna etc. He then informed how these schemes can help people in achieving financial goals. Many of the participants agreed to open PPF, pension plan counts in post office.
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074 - Workshop on Women Rights and Personal Law
Advocate Anupama Joshi was the resource person for this workshop. In the session she explained women’s Property rights, Marriage and personal laws, divorce and their provision under law, maintenance, domestic violence, inheritance law, Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Talak system etc. She also encouraged women to speak-up their problems and act collectively. She than discussed Nirbhaya rape case and informed that how to help such a victim. Participants also actively discussed their problems and were guided accordingly by the resource person.
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073 - Community-Based Projects at DRISTI
DRISTI, Don Bosco (Kapadvanj, Gujarat) is of the center for implementing the community-based project funded by BMZ, Germany. This project is functional in 100 villages of Gujarat: tribal villages and backward villages.  Business Entrepreneur Training On 08-April-2017 they had a Business Entrepreneur Training Programme for the project beneficiaries. The resource person was Kamal Sangeet.  Exposure Visit On 21-April-2017 the farmers who are beneficiaries of this project were taken to the Agricultural University, Anand (Gujarat). The focus of this visit was to teach the farmers from the villages advance techniques of farming.  IGP Training On 20-April-2017 they had Income Generation Training for the project beneficiaries. The resource person was Dr. Ashwin Patel. The training was focused on Organic Farming. |
072 - Advocacy Workshop for Strengthening Food Security and Health
Fr Rolvin D’Me
llo (Executive Director – DBDS) said, “This is an ongoing initiative of DBDS to strengthen civil society’s participation to strengthen rights and entitlements of people at the bottom of socio-economic pyramid”. Mrs. Affsaran Kaur, Project Director-SNEHA and Mr. Akshay Kamble-Programme Coordinator- SNEHA were the Resource Persons for the workshop. They introduced the participants to the concept of MAS (Mahila Arogya Samiti) and its functioning in the slum communities. A MAS should consist of ten women members and each woman will cover ten families. So effectively a MAS will cover 100 families taking care of issues such as Health, Sanitation, Domestic Violence and Education. As MAS is a government recognised unit it will automatically co-ordinate and link to other government schemes also. The workshop also focussed on process of forming MAS, role of U-PHC, NRHM etc.
In the next session the Anna Haq Parishad activists explained about the progress made in review of Food Security Act in relation to PDS, informed participants on the new GRs, GR for creation of State Food Commission, GRs for increasing food supply quota, formation of Vigilance Committee at Ration Shop level etc
At the end of the workshop future line of action was discussed and all the activists resolved to unite and fight for these issues.
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071 - 183 Underprivileged Benefit from Don Bosco-AXA Health Camp
he ‘Women Empowerment Project’ supported by AXA Business Services. 183 underprivileged women and children were examined by a team of doctors and para-medic staff from Aundh hospital. The health camp was held in Vidya Nagar slum in Chinchwad. All the beneficiaries were from poor and needy families who can’t afford private health care services. Dr. Suraj Gaikwad – (Physician), Dr. Deshpande (Paediatricians), Dr. Mane (ophthalmologist) and Dr. A.L. Doshi (ophthalmologist) along with 12 Nurses, one medical Social worker, 5 Lab technician and 2 MPW examined the patients in this health camp.
Ms Vibhawari Kamble (social worker - DBDS) expressed her opinion that “our effort is to improve the health indicators and environment in the slum communities under this project.” Ms Lalita Choudhary (Co-ordinator - DBDS) expressed that “no major illnesses were found but there are cases of anaemia, cough, cold, migraine, GRDS, worms in children, joint s pain, low HB etc. Free medicines were distributed and people with serious illness were referred to Aundh hospital for further treatment.
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070 - Workshop on Financial Fraud and Right Investment
The workshop focused on various fraud financial schemes in which people lost their money. Mr Mahesh Kumar was the resource person for this workshop. In the first session, he discussed about the anatomy of Ponzy schemes, their operation and mechanism. He gave example of schemes such as PACL, Speak Asia, Stock Guru, EMU farming, CITRUS Check-Inn, Royal Twinkle etc to explain how these companies looted the hard earned money of people. Lakhs of people invested in these ‘scams’ and how their money was lost in these fraud schemes. He also informed people how to check about such schemes and how they can avoid investing in these schemes.
The next session informed the participants on the type of investing in Gold. Investing by physical gold, gold saving schemes, gold bonds, gold ETFs etc The difference between various types of gold; white gold, green gold, grey gold etc and also difference between 24/22/18 Karat gold. He also informed how the gold smith price jewellery and how they can bargain with the jeweler.
There were few ladies who had invested in fraud scheme like Pancard, royal twinkle and they enquired the resource person, how they can get back their invested money. He shared his views with them. The women participants like the session and request to conduct such session in their locality with their husband/ head of the household so that they also benefit from such workshop. The resource person agreed on this.
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