TCSRD Round Up

Improving quality of life

Health

TCSRD, Haldia organized an anemia camp for the adolescent girls and women at Kumarchak area. During the camp, blood samples were collectedand examined. 40% of the women and girls who came for the camp were found to be anemic. The doctors held an interactive session and gave them iron supplements.

A blood donation camp at TCL, Haldiawas organised, in which 52 donors donated blood. At Mithapur, four dental camps were oraganisedin Ghadechi, Arambhada, Devpara and Bhimrana. 180 people were treated and given medicine in this camp.

During this quarter, one eye camp each was orgainsed both at Haldia and Babrala. At Haldia, 160 people eyes were tested by medical team from eye hospital. 85 were provided with spectacle and medicine while 18 patients identified with cataract were operated at the eye hospital.

At Babrala, with the support of Gandhi Eye Hospital, Aligarh, 11 camps were organized in 11 core command villages (Baghau, Baghau Ki Madhiyan, Mehua Hassanganj, Mehua Ki Madhaiyan, Kail, Kail Ki Madhiyan, Noorpur, Panwari, Dadpur, Lodhi Nagla, & NagliyaKazi). 412 patients were registered and out of which 60 patients were selected for operation. The operation will be done at Gandhi Eye Hospital, Aligarh in the coming quarter.

The mobile clinic services at Babrala continued as per the schedule. Antenatal and postnatal patients and infant vaccination were given prime importance. The expecting mothers and infant identified by the ASHA and field coordinator were regularly motivated for the checkup and vaccination. The patients with gynecological problems were provided immediate attention. This quarter, 3182 vaccinations (815 Pregnant Ladies & 2367 infants of 0-2 years) were administered in 85 Mobile health clinics organized in 40 Villages.

An eye camp was orgainsed at Okhamandal for 125 SHG members involved in Okhai handicraft. AIDS Awareness program was also organised to mark the World AIDS day on 1st December. 300 truck drivers participated in the program at the Truck Association.

This was done in association with Sarvoday Mahila Mandal, a NGO at Okha

Education

At Babrala, a career resource center has been started at the village house, to support children sitting for the All India level Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya's entrance test. 2 students out of 15 from the core command area cleared the district level written entrance exams of Navodaya Vidhyala through coaching classes of TCSRD.

Apart from this, the center also holds the coaching classes in maths and science for the Polytechnic Exam for the students of classes 9th to 12th. On the request from the community, coaching classes for the entrance exam for the police has also been started. The awareness about these classes was done through contact programs and through word of mouth.

At Haldia, an INTER-SCHOOL MEET was organised with 8 government high schools to providea platform to the students to showcase the academic talent and skills.During the Intra School program there was participation of approximately 800 students in different programs like the debate competition, extempore, elocution, singing and dancing.

The preliminary round was held at the school level. The winners from the school level represented the final round at the inter school level. The winners were given the title "School of the Year" in the award ceremony.

175 parents from Okhamanda lvillages, participated in one day education workshop. Information on various education initiatives was given with the aim to motivate school dropout to continue their education.

6 adult education classes conducted for 120 women from Mithapur till September 2013. These classes have helped in increasing the enrollment of children in school as they have stated to realize the importance of education in life.

12 SNDT classes for 305 drop out girls were initiated in different villages of Okhamandal. TCSRD continued to provide support towards transportation, scholarship and stationary.

Under the LAMP program, AIF and TCSRD with the support of its partner's organizations expanded the work for Strengthening School governance in 530 villages. Two new partner organisations, UNNATI and Shikshan and Samaj Kalyan Kendra (SSKK) have been included in LAMP programme from December 2013 to work in Kutch and Amrali district respectively. After getting trained on different aspect of Learning Enrichment Program (LEP) and preparation of School development Plan with support of SMC, 153 SDP have been prepared and out of which 120 have submitted at the concerned level. The learning classes for children were also expanded around this time, and planning was done to bring them into a structured learning program, as per AIF's LEP model. Currently, 3770 children are covered through 91 LEP class in 7 blocks from five districts. Four block level SMC federations have been formed in the blocks of Sayla, Chotila (Surendranagar), Mahua (Bhavnagar) and Danta (Banaskantha) due to the intensive efforts of TCSRD, AIF and its partners during the reporting period. These federations have been formed to prepare an enabling environment for promoting elementary education and to provide handholding support to SMCs and teachers to improve the status of school governance.