By K R Raju | Project Director
Final Report: During this period of reporting, Village Development Centre (VDC) was unable to continue its Child Learning Centres (CLCs), Supplementary Education and meetings of Children’s Clubs due to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The resultant nationwide lockdown starting from March 25th, 2020 and being uninterrupted till date disrupted the hitherto smooth functioning of CLCs, Supplementary Education and Children’s Clubs. As a result, VDC was forced to change its goal post from education to awareness building and relief activities on prevention of COVID-19 among children and their parents.
VDC created awareness about COVID-19 among children, adolescents and parents by explaining its specific symptoms, the manner of spreading, preventive measures from COVID-19 infections, the importance of hand washing with sanitizers and wearing masks, self-quarantine and self-isolation, the real meaning of individual distancing, whom to approach if the symptoms persist, etc.
VDC provided them with three-layer fabric masks prepared by our experienced women tailors of our women Self Help Groups (SHGs) at free of cost. VDC also collected donations in cash and in-kind and distributed rice, groceries, and vegetables to the families of our target children.
With the support of volunteer-counselors, VDC arranged counseling through mobile phones to children and their parents to cope up with the new situation. VDC advised the entire family members to take steps to prevent COVID -19 infections by following thepreventive measures.
Since the Government declared pass to all school-going children from their respective classes, we advised children to study the next year syllabus at home. VDC advised the parents to provide nutrient food to improve their immune system of children during their stay at home and make the children enjoy the family life with their family members. Further, we asked the parents to prepare the children to involve in organic kitchen gardening.
VDC once again expresses its gratitude to those donors who contributed a lot to make our program objectives to get materialized.
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