By Lijimol | Project Coordinator
The Child Rights and Resource Centre (CRTRC) or SETU is the training and resource creation center of Shaishav and this reporting period has seen active engagement to the SETU wing.
Ms. Parul Sheth (Coordination Head_ Child Participation Group) facilitated an inspiring session on Child Participation on the NACG-SAIVAC platform. She emphasized the importance of strengthening child participation nationwide and in all domains and not limiting it to certain themes. She proposed to create a children's forum at the national level.
LSC meet at Bengaluru: Life skills Collaborative (LSC) is a collaboration of all organisations engaged in imparting life skills to children in the country. The LSC Narrative track Convention at Bengaluru was attended by Ms Parul and Ms Isha of Shaishav. Around 40 organisations attended the convention. The convention discussed the trajectory in which the collective efforts can be streamlined to reach more deserving children, ways to create an acceptable ecosystem for life skills and what should be the ultimate vision to take this momentum forward. Shaishav attendees emphasized how it is essential to think beyond the conventional school system while scaling and more importantly, child rights is a life skill and life skill is learning child rights.
TRAINING at AATAPI
Shaishav has long term partnership with Aatapi Sewa Foundation. On 27th and 28th June, Shaishav facilitated training of Aatapi’s Balsaathis- facilitator on the topics of life skills. The Balsaathis were happy to learn new activities with children. They realized that life skills are not just for children, they are for everyone, and they can learn and implement them in their life as well.
WENLIDO TRAINING Shaishav trainer and Wenlido certified trainer Ms. Isha went to Anjali, Sabarkantha to review and give feedback to two Wenlido apprentices of Anjali who facilitated the sessions with 24 girls who are stakeholders with Sahyog Krusht Yagna Trust. The girls provided positive feedback after the sessions.
On 13-15th August, staffs and peer/young leaders from 4 organizations' of Shaishav, SAHAJ and their partner organizations from Dahod, Kheda were provided Wenlido sessions by Shaishav facilitators Ms. Parul Sheth and Ms. Isha Sheth, who is a Wenlido Master trainer and certified trainer respectively. A total of 20 women attended the same. It was a transformative experience for the participants as per their words. Many have requested for invitation to the advanced training sessions.
Aatapi OD process:
Ms Parul Sheth facilitated the OD process for Aatapi. She employed various tools to evaluate programmatic and administrative level structure. Later she presented her findings and recommendations and finally she presented the report to the Senior team.
STAFF TRAINING
Staff training of Dediyapada and Bhavnagar: We facilitated training of the entire Shaishav team from both Bhavnagar and Narmada totalling 11 members on Child Rights, life skills and learning science through science experiments were the major theme of this training.
Creation of Emotion Chart: An emotion chart displaying an array of possible emotions that children can have been created, Children usually shoes difficulty in identifying or labelling their emotions and after the use of this chart the Check in process that we usually do before every session is giving good responses.
We have created a set of activities that can be facilitated during the Health and Hygiene sessions. These activities aim to make children inform about their own diets and how to take informed decisions regarding the same. The session also includes self-diagnosis of anaemia by children using a colour scale.
We also have developed numerous life skill and Mental wellbeing sessions considering the tribal context in Narmada to guide the children for their own self-awareness.
Gandhi mela training: The Aaranyak eight-member team planned Gandhi mela during the October first week to commemorate Gandhi Jayanti. The team was intensely trained to facilitate games and discussion points among children.
Adolescent Empowerment ToT: Shaishav’s Aaranyak and Balsena team both were trained in the Adolescent sessions. Training of trainer (ToT) session had Shaishav and Vidya Bharati members totalling 15 participants. The session comprised of discussing sex, gender, Physical, mental and emotional changes during adolescence, Safe decision making, Body image, Healthy sexuality, Healthy friendships, love and relationships and other associated topics.
The participants had a fruitful learning experience and were informed about various facts which they were unaware of even after reaching adulthood. The methodologies of facilitations was also discussed in detail.
EXPOSURE VISIT
The nine member Aaranyak team went for a study tour/ exposure visit to ARCH, Dharampur, Gujarat. ARCH is an organisation that primarily works with children of ages 3-13. They focus more on Mathematics and science activities and aims to improve the foundation of children in the same. They adopt hands on activities for engaging with children. During the three-day exposure visit initially we interacted with ARCH program team and were introduced to their science and mathematics activities. Later for two days we actively observed their facilitations with children of 6-8 grades of Pindval Aashramshala run by Sahayog Trust. Aaranyak team had a great learning experience observing the facilitation and provided feedbacks.
By Isha Sheth | Project Consultant
By Lijimol | Program Organizer
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