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INTRODUCTION:
Know that service to these (poor, illiterate, ignorant and afflicted) alone is the
highest religion.
- Swami Vivekananda
Whatever the action taken, or policy made by any government, institution,
organization or charitable trust can be said to be fruitful only when the common
man, the most down trodden one, the very last one in the chain of development - is
benefited. The social activities of India are guided by this fact.
The organization is committed to those activities that would generate
an active reaction over issues relating to environment, hygiene, moral and social
values, sustainable development, practicing non-violence and reformation of
misled youth who would otherwise be antisocial elements. The root cause for all
the evils that rural Rajasthan has been facing today is lack of proper guidance to
and awareness in the people who live here. Volunteering India has taken up its
activities to the level of movement by bringing about awareness in these people
about the consequences of various things that eventually affect their own lives.
Social Interaction is where you are around other people. These people could be
Family, friends, teachers, or just people in the community. Anytime you are around
people you interact.
An important key to well-being is being involved in social activities. These
activities are based on doing things with others. Social activities include spending
time with friends, attending parties, being involved in team sports, being a member
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of a club, going to local parks, writing a letter to someone or even phoning a friend
or family member.
Social skills are skills that you need when interacting with others. There are certain
ways we all must behave if we want to have fun and to have others like being
around us. For example, we must take turns, share, be patient, be respectful, listen,
talk positive about others and be friendly. Interacting with people who do not use
social skill is difficult
HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK:
Social work has its roots in society to deal with poverty (relative poverty). There
are many influences. Therefore, social work is intricately linked with the idea
of charity work; but must be understood in broader terms. The concept of charity
goes back to ancient times, and the practice of providing for the poor has roots in
all major world religions.
Social work, as a profession, originated in the 19th century. The movement began
primarily in the United States and England. After the end of feudalism, the poor
were seen as a more direct threat to the social order, and so the state formed an
organized system to care for them. In England, the Poor Law served this purpose.
This system of laws sorted the poor into different categories, such as the able
bodied poor, the impotent poor, and the idle poor. This system developed different
responses to these different groups.
Social work involves ameliorating social problems such as poverty and
homelessness.
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YOUTH VOLUNTEERING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:
Social integration, poverty alleviation and employment lie at the heart of people’s
participation in their societies. Social integration is defined as a “dynamic and
principled process of promoting the values, relations and institutions that enable all
people to participate in social, economic, cultural and political life on the basis of
equality of rights, equity and dignity”
The process of social integration takes various forms and depends on the actions of
a variety of stakeholders − public and private. Policy reform by governments or
lobbying and advocating for active citizen participation are two such forms. Decent
work is another pathway to fostering social integration. So is creating the
conditions for volunteering.
People volunteer because they believe in the values of the society they want to see.
It is not a job. It is grounded in values of the world and the community that they
want to be part of and therefore volunteers give of their own knowledge, expertise
and time to creating that possibility not alone but with others.
The process of social integration is especially important for young people who
need to experience a sense of belonging and responsibility to become productive
citizens and participants in society. Social integration harnesses youth potential and
creativity, which is necessary to meet societal objectives.
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COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND
DECENT WORK:
A key to achieving social integration is ensuring that people are able to meet their
needs, i.e. that they do not live in poverty, that they are able to access quality
healthcare and education and that they are able to participate in the economic and
political life of their society. Since the ability of a person to participate
meaningfully in society “is inescapably qualified and constrained by the social,
political and economic opportunities that are available to us”
“All in all, making sure that young people have the opportunity to build and use
human capital − whether through better schooling, better health, or more
productive employment − will take the world a long way toward meeting targeted
goal, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Young people who are involved in voluntary service, if provided with good
guidance and leadership, are often able to develop a sense of autonomy and
agency, and can help others to do the same.
IMPACTS OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:
• cognitive skills and educational attainment
• self esteem
• community pride
• mood
• social cohesion
• crime prevention
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• health improvement
• social behaviour
• Perform better at school in a range of areas
• Improving academic performance
• Imparting skills for the 21st century workforce
• Improving citizenship
• Improving attendance
• Fortifying cognitive skills
• Increasing self-esteem
• Reclaiming at-risk youth
• Supporting life-long learning
• Helping families cope
• Improving health and sanitation
• Higher standardised test scores
• Higher measured reading levels
• Improved attitudes concerning commitment to the community
SOME SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:
1. TREE PLANTATION: A SOCIAL CLUB ACTIVITY
The RDIAS social club organized a Tree plantation drive in college premises.
RDIAS has taken up an ambitious plan to save the environment by planting trees,
making India green and thereby reducing the effects of global warming. After
achieving unprecedented success in increasing the green cover RDIAS social club 5
will put its effort to plant more and more trees on vacant lands through active
involvement of student volunteers.
2.PERSONAL HYGIENE AND CLEANLINESS AS SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES:
Personal cleanliness and good hygiene practices are essential for health
and social reasons. Healthy hygiene habits should be practiced daily. Volunteers
interacted with children and other people regarding when and how many times
should they wash their hands; why should we keep ourselves clean and
maintain our surroundings like our homes, classroom and public places.
They also spoke about the precautions to be taken during summer, rainy
and winter season.
3.ORPHANAGE AND OLDAGE CARE:6
An orphan child supported by the IHH orphan care program is someone in
INDIA or anywhere in the world who has lost their father or both mother and
father to war, occupation, natural disaster, chronic poverty, illness, accidents
and similar reasons and who lives with their relatives or in an orphanage.
• To support orphan children who are unable to live on their own until they become
self-sufficient, to provide them with education and prepare them for life with
compassion of a family.
• To take necessary steps to prevent violations of basic rights and freedoms of
orphan children as well as other children.•
To construct safe environments where both material and non-material needs of
orphan children are met.
FROM OUR
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ORPHANS…
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE:
• Providing clothing aid to 1,592 children
• Distributing clothing for Eid to 220 children living at Hoca Abdullah Ensari
Orphanage
• Purchasing kitchen goods for Kabul Orphanage that is to house 80 children
• Constructing three toilets and two bathrooms at Badakhshan Orphanage where
there were no toilets and bathrooms; laying stones in the garden to prevent mud
ponds
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• Providing desks to the school of Takhar Orphanage and assisting with expenses
of the orphanage
• Providing 40 bunker beds to Talukhan Student Dormitory
• Paying a visit to İmam Bukhari Orphanage and offering clothing and stationery
materials to children staying there
• Paying visits to families with orphan children
• Distributing clothing for Eid to 220 children
• Distributing meat to 180 children at Qurban period
• Restoring the family home of an orphan
HEALTHCARE ASSISTANCE:
• Providing health screening to 301 children
• Having four children undergo surgery
EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE:
• Providing stationery materials to 957 children
• Completing educational and classroom inadequacies at Takhar Orphanage that
houses 145 children
• Paying for annual expenses of Afghanistan Science Courses offered to the public,
including orphan children, at seven centers Cultural support activities
• Organizing a picnic and trip with 470 children Sponsorship
• Adding 119 orphans in the Orphan Sponsorship Support System
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Within the field of social work, there are many different specializations and
industries that professionals can pursue and focus on. While these different fields
all require practitioners to show the cornerstones of social work: empathy,
flexibility, and persistence, and respect for different circumstances; there are some
skill sets and knowledge that social workers will need to utilize in order to become
the as effective at their jobs as possible. Social workers can be required to aid with
issues directly caused by trauma, disability, poor family circumstances, abuse,
mental and emotional problems, addiction, and acute, chronic, or terminal
illnesses. Some social workers prefer to focus their skills on one area of expertise
by going into specific fields.
Family, child or school social work involves providing assistance and
advocacy to improve social and psychological functioning of children and
their families. These social workers attempt to maximize academic
functioning of children as well as improving the family’s overall well-being.
These professionals may assist parents, locate foster homes, help to arrange
adoptions, and address abuse. In schools they address problems such as
truancy, bad behavior, teenage pregnancy, drug use, and poor grades. They
also advice teachers and act as liaisons between students, homes, schools,
courts, protective services, and other institutions.
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Public health social workers are often responsible for helping people who
have been diagnosed with chronic, life threatening or altering diseases and
disorders, helping connect patients with plans and resources in order to help
them cope. One of the most difficult things a person can go through is
dealing with acute, chronic, and terminal illnesses and these social workers
provide services to ease these patients’ process. These services include
advising family care givers, providing patient education and counseling,
making referrals to other services, case management interventions, planning
hospital discharge, and organizing support groups. These social workers are
often employed at health care centers, assisted living homes or in hospitals.
Addictions and mental health social workers offer support and services to
those struggling with unhealthy grounding techniques, connecting them with
facilities that serve to teach healthier behaviors and get patients back on
track. These patients often struggle with mental and emotional problems as
well as addictions and substance abuse problems. Services that mental health
and substance abuse social workers provide include individual and group
counseling, intervening during crises, case management, client advocacy,
prevention, and education. They also focus on counseling families to assist
in understanding and dealing with the patient’s problems.
PROMOTING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS:
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Interacting and playing with peers provides many learning opportunities for
young children.
In integrated preschool settings, nondisabled children and children with
disabilities may need to be encouraged to play together. Social interaction
between the two groups of children can be encouraged in a number of
different ways.
Teachers and adults can be very effective in promoting social interaction by
encouraging children to play together and by praising them when they do.
However, it is important to remember that too much adult attention may
interfere with the children’s interactions. It is a good idea, therefore, for
adults to remove themselves from the play situation once children have
begun to play together.
Teachers and other adults also can promote interactions by teaching children
specific ways to ask other children to play, to share toys, to take turns, to
express affection and to help other children.
Assisting children to control their aggressive behavior encourages the
formation of friendships.
Planning small group activities that require cooperation and sharing
motivates socially interactive behavior. For example, painting a mural or
making soup as a group encourages children to learn to work together.
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Being certain that children with disabilities are seated next to nondisabled
children makes it easy for the children to interact with and learn from each
other.
Allowing the child who is disabled to lead activities, pass out materials, and
be praised in front of his or her classmates helps the nondisabled child view
the child who is disabled as a competent friend.
Toys such as blocks, dolls, dress-up clothes, trains, and cars promote social
interactions much more than do toys such as beads, clay, puzzles and paints.
Providing toys with which the child who is disabled can play competently
encourages the children to play together.
Limiting the number of toys available and requesting that children play in a
small area requires the children to share and engage in the same activity,
thereby encouraging social interaction.
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LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL PARTICIPATION:
A person’s lifestyle is defined by the way they live and the individual
choices they make. These are influenced by personal characteristics and
circumstances, social interactions and relationships and interests. Traditional
activities such as watching television, spending time with family and friends,
reading, going on holiday, playing sports and interacting within
communities are still as popular as they were 40 years ago. However, over
the last four decades new technology has advanced at a rapid pace and
affected people in many different ways, providing greater access to
information and an increased choice of leisure and entertain.
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion social bonds are improved when families recreate together and when
seniors and individuals with disabilities are actively engaged in recreation
activities. Social activities help promote social bonds by uniting families.
Recreation provides us with family and community bonds that last a lifetime. The
combined values that may be gained are almost endless.
In the future, the principles of social innovation, such as working collaboratively
and in a participative manner, should also be applied to the evaluation of social
innovation. Good evaluation will require constant feedback from those involved in
social innovation and should be flexible enough to capture the subtle nuances of its
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impact. Although general principles and evaluative tools can be applied, such as
Reeder et al.’s (2012) scorecard and rapid assessment tool, there is a need for more
detailed work in specific fields, such as the environment, to firm up
recommendations and assessment methods. Although it is challenging, the
evaluation of environmental social innovations is an exciting prospect for
researchers, providing them with the opportunity to develop new methods,
approaches and indicators. It must be ensured that their results and outcomes are
utilised and applied to their full potential.
REFERENCES:
1.United Nations Programme on Youth
2.Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (2006). Measuring happiness with a single-item scale. Social Behavior and Personality 3. http://www.service-enquiry.co.za4.http://www.google.com5. RDIAS Social Club.
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