Education India Project #11915

Born Learning Campaign to impact 50,000 children.

by United Way of Bengaluru

Project Report | Sep 15, 2017
Nutrition Program organized iacross 10 BLC centers

By Reena Pillai | Manager- Communications

Innovative nutritous dishes prepared by mothers

On the onset, we would like to thank our dear Donors for your generous contribution towards our Born Learning Campaign. It is people like you which makes the world so much better place to live in! We appreciate the time taken to not only support our Campaign but also for going through this report. I hope reading it gives you immense joy and satisfaction just as it has given me when writing it!

We also wish to thank GlobalGiving for us giving us the opportunity to raise fund for supporting the holistic development of children from poor socio-economic backgrounds. Due to the due diligence activities initiatived by GlobalGiving. Early this year, we were unable to share a report with you for the past six months.

We request you continued patronage to help the holistic development of these children through refurbishment of school infrastructure, creating a conducive environment for learning and empowering mothers to look after their children by guiding them in the areas of health, hygiene and nutrition.

We are happy to share highlights of the Campaign during this period

From a humble count of 55 anganwadi centers in 2016, we are now supporting 165 centers, reaching out to nearly 18,000 children
United Way India selected the Born Learning Campaign as our National Campaign. This entails that the other six United Chapters initiative this campaign in their cities and states.
United Way Bengaluru was selected as the Center of Excellence. We have been entrusted with responsibility to train and standardize the program to be implemented in other chapters.
To initiative this process, in the month of August we organized a National Level Born Learning workshop and participants from the six chapter took part in it. The objective of the National workshop was to provide tools and training to the participants to implement the program in the field across the six states thus rea.ching out to thousands and thousands of more children in the coming years.

We would also like to share details of an interesting workshop on nutrition which was organized recently.

United Way Bengaluru in association the Women and Child Welfare Department, Government of Karnataka organized a Nutrition program on the eve of Poustka Sapthaaha (Awareness week on nutrition)

The nutrition program which was held across 10 anganawadi (Government run day care centers) in Mandur, urban Bengaluru on 12^th September witnessed excellent participation from 40 mothers, 20 Self Help Groups and 10 Anganwadi teachers. The motive of this program was to create awareness on the importance of nutrition among the participants. On the occasion, expert speakers stressed on giving a balanced diet to children which had sufficent proteins, carbohydrates, fat, minerals and vitamins in order to counter malnutrition

Various other topics such as importance of eating locally available food, nutrition content level in various types of food, importance of good nutrition during pregnancy and post child birth for women, nutrition for lactating mothers, etc. were covered.

Participants took part in a potluck where the focus was on preparing dishes using highly nutritious ingredients. The standard, knowledge and presentation skills displayed by the mother were outstanding. Participants and guests got to sample dishes like sprouted salads, various dishes made from the local variety of millets, fruit based desserts and snacks made from whole grains.

Prizes were distributed to the winners based on taste, presentation and high nutrition value of the dishes. We couldn't be prouder of our talented mothers.

Here are images of the event. Enjoy this visual treat!!

Taste, presentation, nutrition were top criteria

Guidelines to combat malnutrition were shared

The team which made it possible!

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Jan 17, 2017
Kaverinagar Anganwadi Gets A Fresh Look

By Reena Pillai | Manager-Communications

Before Painting

Case story notifying impact:

Ever since the Kaverinagar Anganawadi centre in Bengaluru, India was inaugurated 10 years ago, it hasn’t received a new coat of paint. Under the Born Learning Campaign and with the support of donors and Global Giving, the walls were repainted and murals with educative themes were painted. Minor repair work on windows and the main door were also completed.

Laila, the teacher at the anganwadi was extremely happy with the new look and ambience, “I am extremely happy with the new look of the anganwadi. The children are happy too and look forward to coming to the Anganwadi now. The community members and mothers too have expressed their appreciation. We wish to thank United Way Bengaluru for their generosity”.

United Way Bengaluru with the generous support from our all donors and Global Giving undertook painting activity at a Born Learning Center at Kaverinagar in Bengaluru, India between from October to December 2016 benefitting a total of 261 beneficiaries out of which 134 are girls and 127 are boys.

Objectives of Born Learning Campaign:

Enhance early learning abilities, including fine and gross motor skills, among children.

Engage mothers to spread awareness on health and hygiene among children

To provide conducive environment for the children for early learning

Highlights:

One anganwadi center was cleaned and given a fresh coat of paint

Beautiful murals were painted in the inners and outer walls of anganwadi centers

Mothers’ committee began to gain momentum in the recently added new anganwadi centers

Action Plan for next Quarter:

Community Participation

Supply of Early learning play material

Greening of Anganawadi

Health camp

Basic refurbishment

Putting up of informative Signage boards.

Challenges:

High cost of procuring early learning materials

High cost of providing nutritious meals to children on a sustainable basis

Need more funds to hire more resource people

We thank our donors and Global Giving for their generous support to the Born Learning Campaign. United Way Bengaluru is focused to develop and upgrade all the 42 centers to bring it at par with mainstream educational centers in terms of facilities and amenities. We also aim to provide a holistic development of the all the children and ensure that they are school ready when they step into the first grade. We request you to kindly continue your support and disburse additional funds to accomplish all the above mentioned tasks and much more.

Thanking you,

UNITED WAY BENGALURU

After Painting

Children served nutritious food under BLC

Mother feeding children

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Oct 16, 2016
Five new Born Learning Centers in Bengaluru

By Reena Pillai | Manager- Communications

Children at the inauguration

With the Born Learning Campaign declared as United Way’s national campaign of India and statistics reflecting the urgent work required in this direction,United Way Bengaluru will support five new anganwadis in the city in an effort to scale up this initiative.

It was earlier supporting 32 BLC centers and the five new centers will take the total up to 42 in Bengaluru Urban and Rural.

Supported by our corporate partner, the five anganwadi centers too will be brought under compliance by United Way’s Born Learning Campaign with its clear cut objectives which are:

• Enhance early learning abilities, including fine and gross motor skills.
• Engage mothers to spread awareness on health and hygiene
• To provide a conducive environment for early learning

The initiative was inaugurated in September, 2016 by Political leader of the area Mr Krishnappa and Executive Director of United Way Bengaluru Mr Manish. Nearly 100 mothers, teachers from neighboring schools, anganwadi workers and children participated in this event.

The program commenced with an ice breaking session for mothers who played fun games, sang songs and also actively took part in a discussion on the legal repercussions of child marriage which is still a prevalent practise in rural areas.

The chief guests for the event were CDPO of the Women and Child Development Department Mr Siddaramanna and Political Leader Mr Krishnappa.

Speaking the occasion, the CDPO Mr Siddaramanna hailed the role of a mother in a child’s life and stressed the importance of guiding the child in the right direction through its formative years. He also urged mothers to use their time constructively, “Take up income generation activities in your spare time. In today’s day and age, one income is not enough, especially when living in the city. Once your child is able to handle most tasks independently, use your spare time to learn a new skill or take up a small job to financially support your family”

Political leader Mr Krishnappa said, “United Way Bengaluru is reaching out to children from the poorest of poor communities. We are happy with the impact they have created.

The event ended with a sumptuous meal and positive resolve among all present to enhance and better their lives.

Dignitaries light the traditional lamp

Fun and game session for mothers

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