Final Report for the Project:  Nourish & Educate HIV Affect Children In India for the Quarter April- June 2012

Key Activities of this quarter:

1.    Monthly Capacity Building Workshops with

a.         HIV+ infected parents – Internal Resource Person

b.         HIV affected Children – External Resource Person

2.    Three monthly Home Visits of the Families

1. Monthly Capacity Building Workshops with

a. Workshops with HIV+ infected parents

Objective: To facilitate the process for creating Mutual Support System (MSS) among the HIV+ parents.

Process: Open collective sharing of problems faced by each of the participants resulting into broad classification of their concerns / constraints. 

• Fight against social stigma and psychology of social exclusion
• Need for and relevance of Group identity and collective action.
• Need for and relevance of information dissemination on institutions providing services to AIDS victims.
• Need for and relevance of being proactive in campaign against AIDS.
• Need for and relevance of social inclusion.

In present scenario most of the people especially the people who are not educated are not considering AIDS as a medical problem, rather they take it as a social problem due to lack of knowledge and awareness. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) are facing social stigma and exclusion in the society. There is no particular identified group because they have come from different parts of Delhi. For collective action we are facilitating them in order to make a MSS. MSS will help them to play an active role in campaign against HIV/AIDS, it will lead to their social inclusion.

Monitoring Table of the monthly workshop

Name of the resource person: Mohd. Faheem Khan & Sameer Pathak

Sl. No: 1  

Theme of the workshop / Date:- Dreaming Dreams on 29.04.12

No. of participants: 53

Main outcome / s: 

• Whole group shared their feelings.
• How they can expand the span of life.
• They are the need of their children & vice-versa.
• They are the one who can make themselves strong to fight with any difficulty.

 SL. No: 2

Theme of the workshop / Date: Problem Sharing on 27.05.2012

No. of participants: 51

Main outcome / s: 

• The group sharing about issues related to HIV/AIDS – treatment, medication, tests etc.
• Psychological support to each other by the group
• Group showed signs of maturity and can be strengthened further.

 SL. No: 3

Theme of the workshop / Date: Social Exclusion on 24.06.2012

No. of participants: 30

Main outcome / s: 

• All parents want to share and disclose their status to the society.
• They are afraid of the attitude of the society. If society does not accept them then their children also will become a part of social exclusion.

Detailed reports are available on request.

b. Workshops with HIV affected Children

Objective: To help HIV affected children grow in an inclusive environment – in family, in schools, in communities, in peer groups.

Process: Open collective sharing with children to comprehend different aspects of their problems.

• Counseling to enable such children overcome their traumas;
• Instances of exclusion in family, school, community and peer groups;  
• Development of right attitude to face the real world;
• Motivation for academic excellence and good health.

We are providing moral education to HIV affected children through workshops to overcome their trauma using various methods and techniques like storytelling, art therapy and craftwork. As we are forming the group of parents, similarly our aim is to make the children feel secure in their own small group. We are encouraging these children for developing confidence, right attitude and importance of education.

Monitoring Table of the monthly workshops      

Name of the resource person: Mohd. Faheem Khan

Sl. No: 1

Theme of the workshop / Date: Story telling  on Key to Success on  29.04.2012

No. of participants: 69

Main outcome / s: 

• Good education is the way of success
• Never deceive to any one
• Never break the trust
• Always obey the parents / teachers / elders

Sl. No: 2

Theme of the workshop / Date: Story telling   Deceive crocodile & Craft Work on 27.05.2012

No. of participants: 72

Main outcome / s:

• We should never let down others.
• We should never lose hope.
• We should always work wisely and sincerely.
• Be a help to friend in need.
• Always make your own choice.
• Children learnt to make paper flowers
• Children will not throw their old copies as useless things.

Sl. No: 3

Theme of the workshop / Date:  Communication on 24.06.2012

No. of participants: 43

Main outcome / s:

• Children are able to speak in the group.
• They are becoming confident.
• They have tried to understand the thing, howsoever difficult it was
• They have understood the difference between verbal or non-verbal communication.

2. Home Visits: 

Objective / s of quarterly home visits:

i)              To ascertain the degree of involvement of parents in catering to nutrition and education needs of non infected children

ii)             To ascertain the physical and financial status of parents.

iii)            To ascertain / gauge about the real pattern of fund-flow.

To find out the degree of involvement and contribution of parents in needs of children for their education and nutrition. Home visits are also helpful to know the health and financial status of the parents and we also can monitor the flow of fund. 

The home visits revealed that children are really benefiting from the grant. Not even a single instance was brought to light where we felt that the money was not being spent on the beneficiaries. The children are regularly going to schools and are getting tuitions as well as good nutrition. We are really satisfied with the home visit reports.

We from the Team of Udayan Care want to thank to all our supporters of this project.We have received so much of support since past years which helped us to transform lives for all those who needed your support. Currently we are winding up our project: Nourish & Educate HIV Affect Children In India.

But, I would like to take this oppurtunity to share that we have two more projects listed with Global Giving. Please visit our Projects and we request for your support like all of you have done in the past.

1. http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/udayancare-sunshine-homes-for-orphaned-children/- 

2. http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/udayan-shalini-fellowship-programme/

Links:

• Project: Udayan GHar- Sunshine Homes for Children
• Project: Udayan Shalini Fellowship Programme for Needy girls