Education India Project #8862

Enable 100 low-income girls to complete graduation

by Udayan Care

Enable 100 low-income girls to complete graduation

Project Report | Jan 4, 2016
Update from Udayan Fellowship Programme

By Mohd. Faheem Khan | Assistant Director, Udayan Shalini Fellowships

Business Etiquettes

Narrative Report Format

Name of the Organization: Udayan Care

Reporting Period: October 15 to December’15

Name of the project: Udayan Shalini Fellowship Programme

Executive Summary

Udayan Shalini Fellowship (USF), one of the unique programmes of Udayan Care that aims to promote and support higher education for girls from disadvantaged background to develop them into dignified independent young women. The fellowship ensures that the lives of the girls do not succumb to monetary hardships and they do not give away their most cherished dream to think big and make a mark for themselves. Howe ever, USF is not just envisaged as a monetary assistance programme but rather as a holistic programme of sustained mentoring support and association. The growth is fostered with continued association of mentoring, motivational workshops, and development of socially responsible behavior through awareness drives. The fellowship stands different because of its pyramidal mentoring.

The quarterly workshop conducted covering diverse topics on diverse themes incorporating, “Programming for gratitude” to Disability: “A boon or a Bane” to “Right to education” for children from economically weaker section of society. Small group workshops conducted on imbibing an understanding on Business etiquettes and indispensible life skills including conflict resolution aims to bring awareness to resolve conflict situations in life. Induction ceremony marked another milestone with the new intake of fifty additions to the USF family. Campaign conducted on the grave issue of girl child trafficking in the slum area of Jahangir Puri has developed a sense of social responsibility which comes with social sensitivity.

Details of Progress during Reporting Period:

S.no.

Activities Undertaken During the Reporting Period

Results

QUATERLY WORKSHOP

DATE

15 October’15

THEME

DISABILTIY

(A BOON OR A BANE)

PROGRAMMING FOR GRATTITUDE:

(TO LEAD A HAPPIER LIFE)

RIGHT TO EDUCATION

FACILITATOR

Ms Binni

Ms Vibha (Co-founder of Muskaan Trust)

Indus Action Team

FELLOWS

133 fellows (All batches)

VENUE

Mahavir Senior Model School

THEME ONE: DISABILTIY: A BOON OR A BANE

PROCESS OF THE WORKSHOP:

The facilitator who herself is considered in the category of Person with Disability in societies view, has decided to take up the issue of disability among people spearheading a talk on disability as a boon or a bane. She commenced while emphasizing on “Person with disability Act”, 1995 which claim to give equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and complete involvement of people with disability but on practical grounds has many loopholes which needs to be taken care of via appropriate amendments. The facilitator addressing fellows puts across a question on what do they all feel when they all meet and see, a person with disability, most of the fellows responded in a sense of hesitation in communicating whenever dealing with person with disability. In addition to the question, the facilitator queried on what encourage them to help person with disability, why do we help them? What do we get in return? Fellows responded in terms of a Sense of satisfaction all of them experience whenever they get an opportunity to help someone in their capacities.

The facilitator puts forth the discussion on the major role of society, plays in shaping the person with disability. Often seen as a liability than an asset, Nevertheless our positive contribution in the society has already been proven by many like us. Giving instances of the famous personalities like Sudha Chandran, the facilitator talks about the contribution PWD’s (person with disabilities) are making in the society.

Talking on the denial of basic Human Rights including the denial of getting admission in the general school system, to get employment, to live independently in the community, to vote, to participate in sport and cultural activities, to enjoy social protection, to access justice, to choose medical treatment and so on.

The facilitator culminated her session with a Quote “Disability is god given but the handicap is man-made”. Where she emphasize on dialogue, we all have options, options to choose our vulnerability to weaken ourselves or to strengthen ourselves.

THEME 2: PROGRAMMING FOR GRATTITUDE: To lead a happier life

Prior to the commencement of the gratitude section, Ms Rachel Siyang, who is an alumnus from Harward business school shared few words of knowledge with the fellows, talking on facts, she informed on how 25% of employment depends on our Intelligence quotient and rest 75% depends upon the willingness, and eagerness to learn in life. Saying on three points as follow:

Gratitude

(Showering thankfulness to the people we are blessed with in our life)

Writing a Journal

(Memoir of daily experiences, everyday writing down three things we are grateful for).

Exercise

(Exercise to keep mind and body in best of their health, exemplifying as concentrating on every intake of breath every morning)

Mrs. Vibha, founder of Muskaan trust spearheaded the session with a quote, “Whatever happens in life, happens in the form of give and take”. She commenced her session asking the fellows to sit in one big circle. The first exercise she asked “what do our hand lines says about gratitude (looking at our hand for a minute). Then asked few volunteers to come up and share their experiences. Responses came up as follow:

Feeling of thankfulness
Our right hand is following the lines of our left hand and vice versa.
Thankful for the hands which are an important component of the body.
Giving without expecting any mean
The small lines on our hands are the happiness and the small lines are the problems.

The facilitator then further illustrated her points on exploring ways to show gratitude to people:

Showing Smiley’s: We all have choices on how we react to the world and worldly vibration. Many of us have this habit to criticize things in life whether its people, situations or places. Explaining how the nature of every single thought going on in our mind, further turns into words and action, produces molecular waves and vibration in the atmosphere which has an effect on every object and waves spread throughout the universe.

The facilitator explained how any good thought, word or action produces a good vibration and does well to many and so in the same way how every bad thought destroys the person capacity to think.

The facilitator whilst explaining the circle on how our every thought give rise to the words we speak which further turns into actions and then takes the shape of our habit became our character and then turn into our destiny. She explained the more we give into a negative thought the more will be the drain in our energy and the more you give in to your negative thoughts, the stronger harmful they become.

Interconnectedness: Putting in dialogue the interconnectedness we all share with the world. She explained we all are part of the universe and by de-facto all are the somewhere related to each other.

Negative Self Talk: Addressing fellows, the facilitator bring forth the concept of self talk. The nature of conversation we have with ourselves determines our happiness.

Amplifying it with the lenses of neuron-science, the facilitator explained every self talk we have with ourselves sends out vibration to the universe. Every action produces molecular wave and spread in the universe.

Quoting “It is not happy people who are thankful rather it is thankful people who are happy”. The one thing that is common in all human beings is that we all want to become a happy soul.

PRACTICING GRATITUDE: The facilitator briefed on the levels of practicing gratitude. We all have so many things in life for which are grateful. All the levels are covered in the form of individual exercises.

Gratitude to YOURSELF:

In the ambit of which the facilitator asked the fellows to do an individual exercise, “Notice any one thing positive about oneself and write a note saying ‘Thank You’

FELLOWS Responses

“Thankful for having a helping nature and a helping heart”
“Thankful for having faith in almighty”

Gratitude to “NATURE”: During this individual exercise fellows were asked, to “Pick any one thing for which they are thankful to Nature”.

FELLOWS Responses

For the sun that glows.
For keeping us healthy.
For the autumn and Rain

Gratitude to “CARING FIGURE”:Part of the exercise the facilitator asked the fellows, to name anyone in their life, be it their mentor, teacher, friends who they considered as caring figure in their lives.

FELLOWS Responses

Thankfulness to USF mentors
Majority expressed heartiest thank to “Mr Faheem” (Assistant Director of USF program) for being a caring brotherly figure

Gratitude to USF: The facilitator asked the fellow to quote one thing for which they are thankful to the USF program. Realizing that though it is not an easy task to put feeling into words.

FELLOWS Responses

A platform has been provided though which I happened to meet inspiring people who shaped my personality and changed me as an individual.
The programs believed in us and act a catalyst in making us believe in our capacities as an individual.

Gratitude WALK:the facilitator asked the fellows to walk out of the room and make a call to that one person to whom they are thankful to the bottom of their hearts.

FELLOWS Responses

Feeling of contentment and onus prevailed all over body.
Enhanced level of happiness when the feeling of gratitude was expressed.

EMPHASIS of the Session

Each time we express gratitude, a pathway leading to happiness and positivity is made.
Taking note of few good experiences of the day previous day help us to stay positive

The session culminated with a de-facto confession, addressing fellows that every individual is blessed 84000 second in a day and it is upon each individual how we utilize each and every minute.

THEME THIRD : RIGHT TO EDUCATION

Since the Right to Education has opened up many opportunities for children from economically weaker sections. The Indus team informing on Section 12(1) (c) of the RTE Act which mandates that private unaided schools reserve 25 per cent of their seats in for EWS students and those from disadvantaged groups.

The Indus team, praised fellows who made their best efforts to spread awareness and knowledge on the policy during their engagement as a volunteer for the cause. The team congratulated fellows for their previous contribution in making difference in the lives of many children via volunteering for the cause and guided on how to carry on worth the work.

SMALL GROUP WORKSHOP

DATE:

11^th October, 15

THEME

Conflict Management

VENUE

Mahavir Senior Modern School

NO. OF PARTICIPANTS

13^th Batch

FACILITATOR

Ms. Shalu Saharan

Mrs. Arti Upadhayay

OBJECTIVES

To draw the attention and participation of the Fellows on the topic of Conflict.
To increase their ability to analyse conflict situations
To bring awareness to resolve conflict situations
To provide a platform where they can share their thoughts and get clarity.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SESSION:

Facilitator conducted Small Group Workshop for batch 13. The whole workshop was divided in two sessions. These sessions were as follows:

SESSION FIRST:

The first session was conducted with the aim of understanding what is meant by the term “Conflict”. The facilitator asked the fellows what they understood by this word. The fellows related it with the word “Duvidha”, and happens when there are two equally important situations, to choose from and then to decide which one to do. The facilitator then asked if this kind of a situation happens very often, to which there was a mild “YES” and then they were asked to think of a conflict situation that they last faced. Conflicts, if not handled properly, can become huge problems, and make things difficult.

The fellows said that due to this being their important year being in the 12^th grade, there were lots of conflicts that they were going through, and most important of which was to keep up with their time for study hours. The Facilitator then drew the attention of the Fellows to the question on what in their opinion is the source of conflict, how and when does a conflict arise. What is it that gives the chance for a conflict to happen? The sources of conflict, she explained, were because of power or strength, and there is also economic power. These are bases for conflict which can also be aggressive conflict situations. There was another source of conflict that is non-aggressive, and arises from conflict in values. She said, in our day to day life, values have an important part to play. We all have values, and when that is affected, or when someone hurts our self esteem that is when most conflicts arise.

When bringing in discussion our ways of reacting to situation. We end up feeling agitated, dustups, and often ignore the situation or the place but there is a way called “NON AGGRESSIVE CONFLICT RESOLUTION” which

Conflcit Resolution Role Play

Induction - Delhi

Quarterly Workshop (Programming for Gratitude)

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Oct 6, 2015
Capacity Building of young fellows

By Mohd. Faheem Khan | Assistant Director, Udayan Shalini Fellowships

Re-living the dream of "MBBS"

Executive Summary

The quarterly workshop on communication skills added knowledge on the awareness log of technical aspect for effective communication. Knowledge impartation on the key components prerequisite for effective communication and developing interpersonal skills. Small group workshops covering stress management able to create an adaptable stress management plan for academic success incorporating stress management techniques. To welcome the 14th batch of fellows, the unique selection process that began with networking with schools and inviting applications and culminated in the three tier process of written test, interviews and home visits leading to the final selection of 50 Needy and meritorious fellows.

II. Details of Progress during Reporting Period:

Activities undertaken during the Reporting Period

QUATERLY WORKSHOP

THEME

Communication skills

EMPHASIS OF THE SESSION

whilst preparing for a talk/ speech prepare yourself on what the audience want to know
If possible structure your content and make a blue print of it that will make one more self-confident.
Upon improving modulation which is the expression of voice; study the effect of your voice by recording and hearing it.
To improve body language on should practice prior the final performance in front of the mirror

CONCLUSIVE OUTCOMES

Gain knowledge of using the term PREP, which are fundamentally the major sections of any speech.
Learnt the concept of "structuring the content”; an indispensable part of communication.
Understood the communion of mind, body and voice a prerequisite for an effective communication
Enable to concentrate more on positives which will give one “a sense of power” and create positive milieu

SMALL GROUP WORKSHOP

THEME

Stress Management

PROCESS OF THE WORKSHOP

The relevance of the theme arises from the fact that in this fastest growing world stress has become a universal and unavoidable phenomenon. The workshop was basically designed keeping in mind the relevance of stress management for the fellows in their personal and academic life. Stress nowadays has become a major issue affecting the students who find it difficult to understand the prime reasons of stress and how to cope up with these factors eventually affecting their performance

OBJECTIVES

To understand the meaning of stress including its positive and negative aspect
To build an understanding on the repercussions of stress on our mind, body and behaviour
To explore the sources of stress and to identify the stressor in our lives
To set personal goals for self-care

OUTCOME

Able to maintain a stress awareness log. Including identification of causes, symptoms and analysis of effects on mind, body and behaviour.
Able to create an adaptable stress management plan for academic success incorporating stress management techniques.

SMALL GROUP WORKSHOP

THEME

Importance of quarterly Performa

PROCESS OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop was conducted with two batches and the whole workshop was conducted in two sessions, held as follow.

OBJECTIVES

To involve the participation of fellows on the importance of the quarterly Performa
To understand its components with respect to the fellows learning and progress
To bring clarity on the requirements of form filling
To add to their level of involvement and confidence

MENTOR MENTEE MEETS

MENTOR MENTEE MEET 1

OBJECTIVES

To address the motive behind the meet

To discuss on enhancing the performance level of mentee’s
To discuss the learning of workshop on “Stress Management”

PROCESS OF THE MEET:

Mentor mentee meet was conducted primarily with the aim of encouraging the fellows on how to study to perform well in their 12^th boards and also emphasized on the techniques one should adopt in the same direction.

The meet also revolved around making the fellows understand the prominence of scoring well in their boards which is a pathway headed towards their dream careers and the fields they want to excel in future. During the interaction session with mentee’s the fellows were asked about their individual experiences of workshop and how now they perceive stress in their lives and if encounter with any situation what are going to be their strategies to combat. The prime motive of the workshop was achieved when all fellows were able to elaborate the word stress and ways towards its management.

OUTCOME:

They got a sense where they are lacking and guidelines on how not to repeat in Future.
Mentor’s suggestion will also keep them motive to secure high.
They are able to figure out the loopholes in their way of studying and how to improve upon on the same.

MENTOR MENTEE MEET 2

OBJECTIVES

To get to know the fellows routine.
To make them aware of importance on use of time.
To help them understand how loss of time affects day’s plan.
To know ways to work on alternates and coordinate for positivity.
To let them know that USF activities are a platform where they can share their thoughts without any inhibition.

CONCLUSIVE OUTCOME

Realize the importance of managing time to get effective results.
Short term goals on day basis should be realized.

SELECTION PROCESS-

Batch 14^{th -}

WRITTEN TES & INTERVIEW

Girls qualifying the written test are interviewed by a panel consisting of 2 members in each panel depending upon number of candidates. The panel consists of core committee members, mentors, staff and senior Shalini fellows

Sucess Story

Reliving the dream of “MBBS”

Rashmi ( Name Changed), batch 11^th fellow joined Udayan Shalini fellowship in 2011; from the very beginning she undoubtedly was clear with her aim of becoming a doctor. She was so firm on her decision that soon after completing her 12^th boards with 95% when she didn’t cleared medical exams, but she secured good rank for B Sc Nursing in AIIMS. But she denied to take admission in Nursing. Her desire was to get admission in MBBS so that she took one year gap, worked thick to thin and finally her hard work paid and she performed commendably well by getting 104 rank in AIPMT (All India Premedical Test) at all India rank, stood 26^th at Delhi and secured 67^th rank in UPCPMT.

Her belief systems has been further reinforced via incessantly attending USF workshops and meetings with her mentor that through handwork and determination on can accomplish any goal in life. She shares an emotional bond with the program.

Apart from her academic brilliancy she has also turned into a socially sensitive citizen of the country. She has volunteered for SIDHI, an NGO for collecting clothes and relief materials for Nepal earthquake victim.

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Jul 7, 2015
Update from Our Fellowship Programme

By Mohd. Faheem Khan | Assistant Director, Udayan Shalini Fellowships

Fellows enjoying in residential camp

Udayan Shalini Fellowship Program (USF)

With an aim to develop the overall personality of our Udayan Shalini Fellows, Udayan Care organized a Residential Camps and quarterly workshop to hone their existing skills, improve their academic performance as well as build their capacity to stand for their rights

Residential Camp:

Leadership & Team Building echoed as the central theme of the USF Residential camp 2015.The camp saw the participation of 38 fellows from Delhi & Gurgaon centre. A six-day long camp from 26^th May held at Jagshanti Udayan Ghar Greater Noida was a mixed bag of imparting knowledge and fun based exposure to team building. It began with 40 minutes Morning Exercise and then went on with Role Play, Ice-Breaking games, Self-awareness and Leadership workshops.

Mentor Mentee Meet

Mentor mentee meet was organised during the reporting period to discuss the academic progress and share their academic concerns of fellows with their respective mentors. It was a motivational meet where good performing fellows were motivated to do their best and others to improve their performance.

Quarterly Workshop

It was felt the incidences of verbal abuse and eve teasing are increasing day by day. Therefore, the workshop was organised with our fellow students to sensitize and empower them to fight back such incidences and also monitor their choice of words and actions.

Launch of Project Shiva (shalinis against verbal abuse): A campaign against verbal abuse

After knowing the graveness of the issue and its direct impact on society as a whole, on mutual consensus it was decided by the Shalini’s that they are not going to entertain any incidence of verbal abuse and would take required steps if they encountered the same in their lives. The campaign will address the issue of violence and disseminate relevant information through social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter etc)

Success Story

Manisha (Name Changed), a girl from lower middle class family carrying dreams to be an engineer, joined Udayan Care in 2009. Her father is a retired government employee from National Textile Corporation (U.P) Limited and mother is a house wife. Her father had limited resources since he is the only earning hand in the family of 5 people (parents and three children) and could only provide education till she completes her schooling.

The fellowship gave her wings to fly high to reach to the level she wanted to. Today, she is in her final semester of Engineering and will be joining “Wipro”(A multinational Company) as System Manager, the job which she got through her campus placement.

“I m grateful to USF for providing me immense support in my education and in making me a confident individual - Manisha (Name Changed)

Group Activity during the residential camp

Quarterly workshop

Mentor Mentee meet

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