Abolish Open Defecation from India:"Build Toilets"

Abolish Open Defecation from India:"Build Toilets"

Thanks continued…… from our community members who are the direct beneficiaries of your support. In the current quarter, we have primarily focus on the training of mason in target village and panchyats because the major problem is of trained session availability at village level in last 3 month’s we have conducted 5 training of Mason in Bhagalpur and Samastipur

The intervention has been introduced in 5 blocks namely Kahalgaon, Pirpainti, Shahkund, Jagdishpur and Sanhoulla of Bhagalpur district.  The sole essence of the project is to ensure that the poor and the vulnerable sections of the select blocks of Bhagalpur can have equitable access to all the public schemes related to health and sanitation, education and social security to enhance their wellbeing, with a special focus on improving delivery and accountability mechanisms.

 Thus, AIPAD aim towards ensuring that all the people including the poor can access the benefits of the public schemes.
Uniqueness of AIPAD:

1. Adopt participatory and collaborative approach
2. Focus on the entire community, including all vulnerable groups
3. Involve wide range of stakeholders at village, block, district and state level

 The effort has been created a responsible and aware citizenry, empowered the community to work together with the Government so that the entire community including the poor and the vulnerable can have access to better services for an improved living standard. We are working in three domain mainly Health, Education & Social Security.

Health & Sanitation:

Health, sanitation and hygiene are important factors for socio-economic development of a community. Good health and sanitation practices reduces the risk of acquiring diseases, thus saves individuals from monetary expenditures. Good health also ensures better work productivity which in turn improves household’s economy. Poor sanitation and unhygienic conditions are the key causes of poor health, diseases and mortality, especially among children. The effects of poor sanitation permeate into every aspect of life; economic, health, education, nutrition, dignity and empowerment, stemming into an unending cycle of poverty and deprivation.

To improve the sanitation condition in school, Anganwadi, we have initiated several tools like meeting with mothers and kids at Anganwadi center and also engaged Vidyalaya Siksha Samiti,Parents  & teachers to monitor the sanitation condition of schools and took measures to improve it. We also initiated the Hand washing practices in schools and Anganwadi centers. We educated members of Meena Manch in schools on menstrual hygiene.

We have also initiated meeting with Lactating mothers and pregnant women and discuss on personal hygiene and Post natal care. We motivate community for construction of toilets and  its use. We tried to educate them about benefit of toilets on perspective of health, financial, social. Team also support in survey of existing facilities of toilets in the community along with Lohiya Swachchhata Mission team.

WASH

1. 30 staff’s capacity building on WASH and communication done. Now we have to follow these training.
2. To commemorate this event we focused on our geographical area schools & sensitized the students on the Swwach Bharat Mission and ODF in the form of community meetings and rallies. We also organized painting and essay competitions and gave away prizes for the best painting and essay.

• Highlighted the low cost toilet construction model as envisaged by the government.
• We emphasized among the students the importance of toilets and hygiene.

1. We organized in all our interventions school I,e 32 global hand washing day in which we oriented students on steps of hand washing and its importance.

Name of activity: Mission recycle support my school Phase -2.

No. of school covered- 15

No. of participants- 2355

Description: In this activity we conduct awareness sessions in schools and communities on waste management; in particular to plastic and PET waste, through various games and activities by using the Information, Education & Communication (IEC) materials developed with different stakeholders like Teachers, SMC Members, Grampanchayats, Students and Parents also. We aware 15^th schools of our interventional area Kalyanpur Samastipur and Patna urban also on support my school mission recycling. In this we sensitized of children and school teachers, SMC members grampanchayts to session wise main objectives and his outcomes.

These topics are discussed at schools on Mission recycle.     

• Pet Recycling- In this we sensitized to children  India has a very high rate of PET recycling as compared to any other plastic as it is highly valuable. Useful products like shirts, bags, shoes and blankets can be made from the polyester obtained from recycling PET. It also saves a lot of energy that can be used to light homes.
• Waste segregation- In this session Waste should be segregated into 3 categories at source: Wet waste or food waste or biodegradable waste for composting in the Green Bin. Dry waste or non-biodegradable waste for recycling in the Blue Bin. Domestic Hazardous waste for incineration or landfill in the Red Bin.
• DOS and DON”TS- To simplify and list down a basic set of Dos and Don’ts for children to follow in their day-to-day life to create a positive impact on society.
• To encourage children to see how our mode of celebrations affect the environment in harmful ways and to explain to them alternative ways of organizing events and parties to celebrate their Birthdays.
• Puzzle game- In this we sensitized a method to assess the knowledge of children about waste management. The activity also provides an opportunity for students to understand that if managed properly, waste can come back into our lives as a resource through Puzzle game.
• Vertical Gardening- In this intended to introduce children to gardening and reusing of plastics. We sensitized  to children during the process and encourage them to be creative and innovative as well. There could be a drive where each child or group of 2 children take care of their own vertical garden in school for a month.

Health and WASH

Activity #1 Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day.

We participated in 5 non budgeted Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Day in our project intervention area. This time during VHSND our key focus was on monitoring of 4^th ANC of pregnant women and to ensure that every pregnant woman went through all the 4 essential elements of ANC checkup and we also ensured Anemia testing of pregnant women.

• Total Participants                                                             : 238
• Total women registered for ANC                              : 17
• Total Children provided immunization                    : 91

• Total number of ANC                                                     : 63
• No of Lactating women                                                 : 98
• Anemia test of pregnant women                              : 56

• Name of activity:- World water day.
• Date:- 22/03/2019
• No. of Participants:- 875
• No. of school covered: 7
• Description:- in this activity we celebrate World water day at MS Bhagirathpur, MS Tolemathurapur, MS Birsingpur, MS Jhaury, MS Keshopatti, MS Basudepur Moth and MS Basudeopur horizon of our intervention area. In this activity we organized Drawing/Painting, essay and Quiz competition on significance of water, safe drinking water, hygiene practices, Water conservation, Water harvesting technique , Global warming  and sensitized to children how to conserve water and Ecology. Children are very interested in this competition and they performed very well. We felicitated topper students by Head master and teachers  in this.
• Name of activity: Orientation of SMC/ teachers on school WASH, at schools
• No. of Participants: 55
• Venue: MS Keshopatti
• Date: 18/3/2019

Description:- in this activity we oriented and sensitized to Teachers and SMC members on school wash also  aware  on gender and age appropriate WASH facilities and activities in schools, SMC can work  well-functioning school system, Consistency of positive actions . SMC  change the dynamics and solutions will begin to take shape, first at local levels and then at the larger systemic levels. In this programme we covered five schools and 50 School teachers and SMC members of MS keshopatti, PS chandharpur, PS daulatpur, MS bhagirathpur and MS sivnandanpur.

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