To help Widow’s to regain their Self Respects

Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti School, Basai Bhopal, Alwar,

Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

To help widow’s to regain their self respects

• Bharti Foundation• Bharti Foundation is the

philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

• The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program• The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship

program of Bharti Foundation.• It aims to deliver free quality education to

underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

• The program goal is to establish 500 Primary and 50 Senior Schools reaching out to over 200,000 students

• The promise of this large scale program, through its operation, is to create a replicable, scalable and holistic model of quality education in rural India

• Present Operational Status:• Number of Schools Operational:256• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,

Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal & Tamil Nadu• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 38,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location:• Basai bhopal Singh is located at 20 km from NH-8 and

District office of Bharti Foundation.• With a total population of 1872 In 803 No. of households.

About the Community

About the Community

• Cultural Background:

– Majority of the population belongs to

Hindu community .They followed Hindu rituals and traditions.

- Dominant Caste in Village is Rajput. - Women dressing style is Ghagra & Odhni.

• 1.Community people hate widow women's.

• 2.condition of widow in this society are very miserable and pathetic.

• 3. Society ignore them & not provide any social freedom. All are helpless and unable survive there life.

• 4.They are not familiar about any scheme provided by government for widows.

• We felt it is very cruel behavior of society..

We ‘Felt’:

• ‘We should help widow's to regain their self respect and support them morally and economically.

• Aware the community people about benefits given to widow from different scheme provided by Government.

• Make the community aware towards their social responsibility for widow’s respect & her developments.

We ‘Imagined’:

• Organised a meeting with community people to make them understand about the initiative of Satya Bharti School.

• Organised the rally against the identified issue.

• Make them aware about benefits of Government schime.

• Door to door counseling and discussion with villagers

• Conducted Street play, sang motivational songs, slogans with prepared ply cards, poster and banners.

We ‘Did’:

• Community people have understood the problems of widows & they are realized her situation. Community peoples are ready to help the widows

• Community members involved and contributed their efforts to getting benefit scheme provided by government.

• All of the participants in our joy for giving campaign have signed on the common memorandum and took oath to help and support to widows in their society.

Impact on Community:

Impact on Community:Work done by panchayat to promote widow conditions & scheme provided by sarpanc & govt.

Impact on Community:

Upsarpanch giving appreciation letter to our Ht

• Understand the felt need of community and work on it which gives new learning to them .

• Children feel proud to be a part of this campaign and become change agents in the community.

• Staff members gained the confidence to deal with community problems which is totally different from daily class room teaching.

• They are curious to do such activity in near future and willing to do something different from their daily routine work.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• Community members:

- ”Aaj hamare bachho ne ankhe khol di, hum apne gaon me rahrahe vidbao ke saat galat kar rahe the. Aaj se hum apne gharo main rah rahe vidbao ka samman karenge aur dusre logo ko bhi samjhayenge.”

-Bijendra Singh

Upsarpanch• Teachers:

- ”Hame gaon main ye change lane ke liye, bahut mehnat karna padi. Aur aaj hame ye dekh ke khushi milti hai ki log vidbao ka unka huk dilane me madat kar rahe hai or unko samman v mil raha hai.”

- Rajaram Yadav

HT, Basai Bhopal

• Periodic and timely follow-up through: - Door to door visit. - Parents Teacher Meeting. - Individual data keeping.• Regular counseling to every stake

holders. - Students. - Parents. - Community members. - Community key persons.• Trying to impart knowledge on making: - Sarpanc provide govt. scheme. - also aware government provided

scheme.

The Road Ahead…..(in the next 3 months)

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of

Students Participating

Name of Student Class

 

Rajasthan Alwar

SBGUPS BASAI 10 Sapna  Chauhan VIII

      Khushbu  VIII

      Neha-1 Sharma VIII

      Deepa VIII 

      Uma VIII

      Neha-2 Sharma VIII

      Gyatri VII 

Pinki VII

Kalpana VI

Chaya Sharma VI

Name of Mentor Teacher: Raja Ram Yadav, Nidhi Sharma, Anita & Nisham

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