Visit to Pavagada on 29.12.2005
Visit to Pavagada on 29.12.2005 for the Health Intervention with HRFDL-K
Purpose of the visit:
The previous training on the adolescent health classes to the potential full timers (10 from each block) from the blocks of Pavagada and Doddaballapur has resulted in a problem not unexpected. Some of the most potential ones who had come for the training were non-literates. So when some of the criteria were laid down for the selection of the full timers this became an obstacle. In fact in whole of the HRFDL group very few women were literates and most of them had been identified for some program or the other. So we had to relook at the whole issue all over again Identification of the 4 potential full timers who would become 3 finally Identification of the 10 villages for each of these full timers ( Totally 40 villages to begin with) The Visit: I happened to travel with an intern, Judith Osario. She was doing her intership with NESA and hence she was also wanting to visit Pavagada to understand HRFDL work. Hence we traveled together. It was good fun traveling with her explaining to her the whole program etc., We reached Pavagada around 1045 am and then headed straight to the IB (Inspection Bungalow). At the IB all the women who had got their first round of training by Aradhana and Sandhya in Doddaballapur along with some newcomers had assembled there. Actually this meeting was the most difficult one for me to handle. On the one side were women like Kollamma, Lingamma etc., who had shown so much of promise but were non-literates. Also we had spent considerable amount of time, money and other resources to train them up and we had to make a very harsh decision. I then tried to make a democratic decision. I threw the decision open to the group. The choices were a) The literates would teach the non-literates some basic literacy so that these women could be still asked to continue as the full timers. This would result in a delay of about 6 months for these people to pick up which actually I didn’t mind b) Or the non-literates would say that they would leave the space for the literates to take over The non-literates were also asked whether they would have any hard feelings about them not being selected. It was also made clear to them that they were not in a way considered inferior to the literates just because they were not able to read and write. So finally a decision was made to choose 4 women who had at least done their Secondary education. Accordingly the 4 women were: i) Vijayalakshmi ii) Kamalamma iii) Nagarathnamma iv) Sulochana who also happens to be a librarian All these women were told of the nature of job involved and the work expected from them, the traveling involved. So it was stressed upon them that the family support should be the first criteria if they were to succeed etc., The idea of the adolescent classes was conceived to give these women the visibility in the villages where they are going to be starting health work. This was to help them get the initial recognition to start the next processes. The villages where these 5 women had to start the work was also decided. Kamalamma Sulochana Srirangapura Kotagudda Bhoopooru Shylapura Bugudooru Kadapagere Thimmammanahalli Gundlahalli Kyatagaanakere Veerammanahalli Nagaramadike T.N. Pete Pendlajeevi Bommaththanahalli Kyadiguude Kodamalakunte Tappagaanadoddi Kodacheradagu Palavalli Kenchaganahalli Vijayalakshmi Nagarathnamma Kannadi Gangasagara Veeralagondi Ponnasamudra Kilarahalli Saaravaatapura C.K.Pura Budubetta Byadanuru Maridasanahalli Nalliganahalli Rajamaranahalli Devarabetta Yetnahalli Mugudalabetta Karigetanahalli Rajavanthi Singareddypalli R. Hoskote Tippaganahalli and S.N. Halli The next step was to arrange for a training of these people as only 2 out of the 4 had got the previous training. Subsequently we could get a young Bangalore Medical College student Dr. Sandya and her 2 classmates to train these women on Adolescent health classes and the classes went on very well with positive feedback from Sandya and her classmates. The same training session could not be held at Doddaballapur because they were all busy with the Panchayat elections. Report of AID Bangalore volunteer Vidhya Kandi from her visit to Pavagada on 21.01.2006 (Vidhya had gone on to be an observer of the potential full timers) 4 out of the 5 women took part in the event on Saturday - Sulochana, Vijayamma, Kamalamma and Vijayalakshmi. We met at the Govt Girls High School at 11:00am and conducted sessions for students of Class 9 and 10. 2 women handled each class and the sessions went pretty ok but i realized that they needed more training with regards to the presentation. But we didnt have much time for discussions because we had to head to the latest by 1:00 because they had asked the women to assemble by 12:30. We waited at the bus stop for a while but with no luck. Finally we arranged for a private vehicle because we had to cover 3 villages each at a distance of 10-15 km from each other. Also i had to leave by 5:00pm, so we had very little time. The vehicle driver demanded Rs.650, but we paid him Rs.500. We had no other option, the cycle option was ruled out because cycling 10-15km in the heat was not feasible and also the women didnt know how to cycle. So we conducted sessions at 3 villages with abt 20-25 women and girls of the villages participating. They were happy with the information that was provided to them. But we realized that some of the women were suffering with Anemia and other menstrual related problems and they needed more help than just a session. They asked us for help with regards to consulting doctors and treating them as you might know that the Govt Hospital has no facilties for treating these women. This was just a brief of what happened on Saturday. I will get in touch with you with more updates once i hear from Subbaraju. Even i am unable to manage both work, the wedding preps and these activities. I will be unable to commit much time to these activities as of now.
Purpose of the visit:
The previous training on the adolescent health classes to the potential full timers (10 from each block) from the blocks of Pavagada and Doddaballapur has resulted in a problem not unexpected. Some of the most potential ones who had come for the training were non-literates. So when some of the criteria were laid down for the selection of the full timers this became an obstacle. In fact in whole of the HRFDL group very few women were literates and most of them had been identified for some program or the other. So we had to relook at the whole issue all over again Identification of the 4 potential full timers who would become 3 finally Identification of the 10 villages for each of these full timers ( Totally 40 villages to begin with) The Visit: I happened to travel with an intern, Judith Osario. She was doing her intership with NESA and hence she was also wanting to visit Pavagada to understand HRFDL work. Hence we traveled together. It was good fun traveling with her explaining to her the whole program etc., We reached Pavagada around 1045 am and then headed straight to the IB (Inspection Bungalow). At the IB all the women who had got their first round of training by Aradhana and Sandhya in Doddaballapur along with some newcomers had assembled there. Actually this meeting was the most difficult one for me to handle. On the one side were women like Kollamma, Lingamma etc., who had shown so much of promise but were non-literates. Also we had spent considerable amount of time, money and other resources to train them up and we had to make a very harsh decision. I then tried to make a democratic decision. I threw the decision open to the group. The choices were a) The literates would teach the non-literates some basic literacy so that these women could be still asked to continue as the full timers. This would result in a delay of about 6 months for these people to pick up which actually I didn’t mind b) Or the non-literates would say that they would leave the space for the literates to take over The non-literates were also asked whether they would have any hard feelings about them not being selected. It was also made clear to them that they were not in a way considered inferior to the literates just because they were not able to read and write. So finally a decision was made to choose 4 women who had at least done their Secondary education. Accordingly the 4 women were: i) Vijayalakshmi ii) Kamalamma iii) Nagarathnamma iv) Sulochana who also happens to be a librarian All these women were told of the nature of job involved and the work expected from them, the traveling involved. So it was stressed upon them that the family support should be the first criteria if they were to succeed etc., The idea of the adolescent classes was conceived to give these women the visibility in the villages where they are going to be starting health work. This was to help them get the initial recognition to start the next processes. The villages where these 5 women had to start the work was also decided. Kamalamma Sulochana Srirangapura Kotagudda Bhoopooru Shylapura Bugudooru Kadapagere Thimmammanahalli Gundlahalli Kyatagaanakere Veerammanahalli Nagaramadike T.N. Pete Pendlajeevi Bommaththanahalli Kyadiguude Kodamalakunte Tappagaanadoddi Kodacheradagu Palavalli Kenchaganahalli Vijayalakshmi Nagarathnamma Kannadi Gangasagara Veeralagondi Ponnasamudra Kilarahalli Saaravaatapura C.K.Pura Budubetta Byadanuru Maridasanahalli Nalliganahalli Rajamaranahalli Devarabetta Yetnahalli Mugudalabetta Karigetanahalli Rajavanthi Singareddypalli R. Hoskote Tippaganahalli and S.N. Halli The next step was to arrange for a training of these people as only 2 out of the 4 had got the previous training. Subsequently we could get a young Bangalore Medical College student Dr. Sandya and her 2 classmates to train these women on Adolescent health classes and the classes went on very well with positive feedback from Sandya and her classmates. The same training session could not be held at Doddaballapur because they were all busy with the Panchayat elections. Report of AID Bangalore volunteer Vidhya Kandi from her visit to Pavagada on 21.01.2006 (Vidhya had gone on to be an observer of the potential full timers) 4 out of the 5 women took part in the event on Saturday - Sulochana, Vijayamma, Kamalamma and Vijayalakshmi. We met at the Govt Girls High School at 11:00am and conducted sessions for students of Class 9 and 10. 2 women handled each class and the sessions went pretty ok but i realized that they needed more training with regards to the presentation. But we didnt have much time for discussions because we had to head to the latest by 1:00 because they had asked the women to assemble by 12:30. We waited at the bus stop for a while but with no luck. Finally we arranged for a private vehicle because we had to cover 3 villages each at a distance of 10-15 km from each other. Also i had to leave by 5:00pm, so we had very little time. The vehicle driver demanded Rs.650, but we paid him Rs.500. We had no other option, the cycle option was ruled out because cycling 10-15km in the heat was not feasible and also the women didnt know how to cycle. So we conducted sessions at 3 villages with abt 20-25 women and girls of the villages participating. They were happy with the information that was provided to them. But we realized that some of the women were suffering with Anemia and other menstrual related problems and they needed more help than just a session. They asked us for help with regards to consulting doctors and treating them as you might know that the Govt Hospital has no facilties for treating these women. This was just a brief of what happened on Saturday. I will get in touch with you with more updates once i hear from Subbaraju. Even i am unable to manage both work, the wedding preps and these activities. I will be unable to commit much time to these activities as of now.
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