Planning Document - Community Trips

Balavihar -   1 Presentation, Bhajans, Game

   They are planning events for the whole day. The kids in balavihar are preparing to present what they have learnt to show our teens. They will be conducting a drawing competition that our youth will participate in organizing. 

•     Teens can teach them bhajans. 
•     Teens can play a game that will teach them values.
•     Teens can make charts and present one of the topics(hygiene/nutrition/values) suggested later in the slum visit section

Mahila Mandal Visit - 1 Presentation on "Glimpses of Youth Life in the US"   -    

The youth will see the mahila mandal and the micro-credit operations. They will have a chance to interact with the women. They can make presentation about their daily life that they have prepared for the yuvati group before. 

The Sidhbari team thinks its usefull to share with the women 

• How are the classrooms in US
• how are the schools
• Life in general 
• Plans for future

Presentation Outline from Akash M


Slum Visit  - 1 Presentation and List of Small Items to take

Slum visit day would start with making posters on various topics. Youth can prepare them before hand here and take them. The teens will talk to the kids in the Slum and present one of the Topics below

•    Importance of using Toilets
•    Hygiene
  Presentation Outline from Radhika Narsimhan
•    Alcholism  
   Presentation Outline from Jayendra
•    Cleaniness
•    Nutrition
•    Personal Hygiene

Some of these can be reused in balavihar.

The kids could be rewarded with the following gifts which are appropriate to the topic or based on utility value:

•        Toothbrush
•        Erasers
•        Pencils
•        Compass Box
•        Rulers
•        Coloring pencils/Crayons
•        Coloring Books

Differently-Abled Children -  List of things to take

The Sidhbari team plans to take us to visit the children along on a field visit. The youth can experience how CORD is helping the affected children  in making their home accessible, interact with family. 

They have a separate activity for the Differently-Abled children to make bracelets/necklaces with beads. The ground team suggested that we could bring the kind of beads appropriate for this kind of activity. Other items of interest.

• Beads with not so small holes to be used in Necklaces and Graduation Tassles
• Resistance bands used in physical is also usefull for them. 
• Books with large pictures and little text. 
• Toys that help in fine motor skills