Born Learning Campaign to impact 50,000 children.

Born Learning Campaign Goals, 2016 

Campaign Highlights:

• We are pleased to share that we have initiated our partnership with Women and Child Development Department, Government of Karnataka to work with Anganwadi (Government run day care) centres. 

• Makala Habba (Children's Carvinal) was organised on Children's Day in partnership of Government of Karnataka.

United Way Bengaluru launched Born Learning Campaign in 2012 to address the issue of Holistic Childhood Development for children under six years of age. The campaign concentrates on addressing the issue of malnutrition and early learning development requirements of children from the lower economic section of our community. 

Working on this campaign for three years has helped United Way Bengaluru to develop a model around holistic early childhood learnings. In 2015, United Way Bengaluru partnered with the Government of Karnataka to scale-up the Born Learning Campaign. Under the new strategy, 10 Government run day care (called as Anganwadis) centers were identified after creating detailed project reports. Gaps were identified in the Anganwadis and the following steps are being taken to address these issues.

Improving Infrstructure of Anganwadis

United Way Bengaluru undertook the infrastructure improvement as a first step to ensure that children feel happy at the centre. The following activities were undertaken to improve the infrasturcture:

1. Painted the Anganwadis.
2. Build new shelves in the kitchen to stack and store various food provisions
3. Refurbished the latrines and replaced old water taps and pipes with new ones
4. Provided rice cookers, plates and drinking cups to the centers
5. Provided new story books and charts

Mothers Groups Formation

A total of 10 mothers groups are being formed, in each group there are 20 - 25 mothers. The mothers groups meet on a monthly basis at the centre to discuss issues about child development. During the meetings the mother are also oriented and trained about best partices to take care of thier young toddlers. 

Makkala Habba – 2015 (Children’s carnival)

This year United Way Bengaluru joined hands with the Government of Karnataka, the Department of Women and Child Development and one of the city’s leading NGO to organize Makkala Habba-2015. This unique children’s carnival aimed to reconnect youngsters to the traditional and leisure lifestyle of their parents in the form of games, activities and cuisine. People from all walks of life and all ages eagerly participated in this event. Our Born Learning Campaign Stall was promoted here and we are pleased to say that it was the most visited stall over the two day event. Identification of colours and shapes, block building, checking growth charts and charts, painting on dry leaves were some of the activities conducted here. Click here to read more.

Our Journey in 2016

United Way Bengaluru will scout and identify new Anganwadis to work with in order to reach out to more underprivileged children. We want to reach out to an additional of 50 Anganwadi centers in Bengaluru thereby bringing more than 1300 children under our Campaign.

We would like to thank Global Giving and our donors for their support towards are Born Learning Campaign. These centres which have been given a facelift in terms of infrastructure, educational materials and most importantly moral support have uplifted the spirits of the many children studying here. We hope you will continue to support their early learning development so that they witness tremendous growth and accomplishments in their future lives.

UNITED WAY BENGALURU

Links:

• Report on Makkala Habba (Children's Festival).