Connecting youth as social development
agent
India is the country with highest youth population
in the world. Youth is the power which can change country’s future. PARYAY has
initiated engaging youth, which is especially means to form a group of young
people with energetic effort to make the changes in development with zeal. This
is the platform for youth to come together and work towards better Maharashtra.
Building the skills of rural youth & women in Maharashtra and empower them
to act as change agents, positively influencing the development of their
communities and their own future in a prosperous and democratic country.
Enthusiasms among rural youths are no less, but they are in lack of information
about their talent, capability and leading ability,
where PARYAY plays an important role to build them all the way they
deserve as a key platform.
A wing for all round development of girl child
It is indeed
important to save girl child as today’s girl will be the mother of a child
tomorrow. Prayer is source of power. In our life we get power from mothers,
sisters, wife, daughters, with this power PARYAY has initiated
this wing as to save girl child. In many parts of India, the
arrival of a baby girl calls for mourning rather than celebration; they are
counted as economic burden. Abandoning them at birth or marrying them off young
is a common practice. Pre-natal sex selection following pre-natal sex
determination tests is stealing the right of a girl to be born and live in this
wonderful world. PARYAY is bound by duty create awareness to save
girl child as the source of power. Power gives us strengths which lead to live
life happily. It is mean to fight against the situation around our society
happening to destroy girl child / infanticide. People are well aware about
fetal sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offence in India, but
its practice is widespread. Number of doctors carrying out private clinics uses
ultrasound machines and other latest technologies to figure out the sex of an
unborn child. People are ready to pay huge sum of money for this and don’t even
hesitated to abort a girls child. Our drive is to protect and develop our
coming children all the way.
We usually find in rural poor community basically that female
feticide and infanticide are not just only issues pertaining with girl child.
But at every stage of life, she is discriminated and abandoned for education,
living standard and basic nutrition. She is not considered at par with boy
child. Not only in early ages but even as a teenager, she is not provided with
good clothes, nutritious food items and forced to eat left over crumbs. Even
when she is supposed to be in college, she is hurriedly married off where she
has to depend on others for her survival. She doesn’t enjoy social or economic
independence. Moreover her illiteracy results into early pregnancies and high
fertility rates. These conditions further aggravate the overall condition of
females in a country. Again is she gives birth to a girl child, the whole
journey of murder and discrimination begins.
A
wing for Women Empowerment
Women are increasingly making more of an impact
than men in rural India. It is important to remind ourselves that issues of
gender discrimination and poverty are not problems of one country or another,
but global issues which need global solutions. Global resources must be fairly
shared so that all people regardless of gender, age, disability, class, caste,
religion, nationality or ethnic background can lead a decent life. People have
a right to an equitable share in the world’s resources and to make decisions
about their own development. The denial of such rights is at the heart of
poverty and suffering. PARYAY must play a positive and creative role by partnering
with people, particularly women, to empower them and provide them with
opportunities to build lives of human dignity and self reliance. Investing in
poor and marginalized women by helping to realize their full potential and
partnering with them as full and equal participants on all level is integral to
successful economic and social development. This wing is especially mean for
that. At the initial stage it focused by encourage house wives for their self
development. It is an effort to make women self sufficient, help them pursue
their dreams which they may have shelved due to various responsibilities. PARYAY is trying to provide such platform for house
wives for their all round development. PARYAY is another pioneering opportunity for them to
show their hidden talents and to share their feelings openly for sustainable
livelihood as well as their personality development to become as leader for
community development.
By this way PARYAY initiating using pro poor, pro
women strategies can lead to social transformation. Practical and simple
poverty alleviation innovations that PARYAY has used to overcome the challenges of gender inequity,
impacted women and assisted them in making the transition from passive
acceptance of their fate to become vocal and active partners in their own
development. Women’s empowerment, although it still has miles to go, has
certainly come a long way. Despite gender equality seeming a far from
attainable goal, the winds of change are blowing, slowly but surely. They are
increasingly becoming aware of their rights and demanding not only basic needs
but also a share in household and community resources.
A
wing for education
Education needs to be compulsory for all in
India. Numbers of poor children are deprived of education due to high cost and
other factors. PARYAY is initiated to help these children, who are belongs
to poor community and let them attend schools and complete their education in
proper way to become extraordinary asset of the nation. PARYAY has adopted remarkable numbers of poor kids
from various schools and took responsibility for their education up to a
sustainable level. Child
development refers to the changes that occur as a child grows and develops in
relation to being physically healthy, mentally alert, emotionally sound,
socially competent and ready to learn. They are the foundation that shapes
children's future health, happiness, growth, development and learning
achievement at school, in the family and community, and in life in general.
Basic efforts:
v Facilitating poor students
for formal
v Hygiene practice for school
children and mothers
v Various competitions on
Health, Environment, Sanitation and hygiene practice, sports.
v Film show, Drama &
Group Discussion
v Running Hand washing
campaign in schools towards making school children healthier
v Providing soap and giving
hygiene education
v Spreading awareness in
community through children on sanitation
v Promote general
hygiene rural areas
v Motivation of constructing toilet
and sensitize them to use toilet
v Provide educational help such as
study material, uniform, school bag, admission fee and other materials.
v Volunteers
of PARYAY collect old newspapers from corporate, organizations,
shops, from homes, etc. and sell these to raise fund for providing books and
stationery for poor kids.
A wing for community development
One
eighth of the world's population lacks access to safe drinking water as per
UNICEF record. Millions die every year from waterborne (bacteria-contaminated
water) and water washed (insufficient water for washing and personal hygiene)
related diseases. Diarrhoea alone, a life-threatening symptom of a number of
waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and bacillary dysentery, kills
1.5 million people every year - most of them are children under the age of
five. Malnourished children are at greater risk. Access to clean water is a key
factor in reducing poverty, improving health and achieving sustainable
development. Freeing women and young girls from the back-breaking work of
travelling long distances to collect water contributes to achieve gender equity and improves economic possibilities for families, as women have more time for income-generating activities, and young girls can attend school. Improved health from contamination-free water not only promises a better quality of life, but eases pressure on heath care systems, and can drastically reduce the number of work days missed from ill health.
This wing is initiated by PARYAY to fight against open defecation
and to improve sanitation level, save water & environment in its
operational areas basically. Its initial aim was to make Bhandara district of Maharashtra
free from open defecation with proper managed water sources and eco friendly
greenery environment by planting more and more trees. PARYAY has been working in Bhandara district
of Maharashtra and its adjoining areas for total sanitation since its
incubation.
A
wing for child development
In recent decades some extreme forms of violence against
children, including sexual exploitation and trafficking, female genital
mutilation, the worst forms of child labour and the impact of armed conflict,
have provoked international outcry and achieved a consensus of condemnation,
although no rapid remedy. But in addition to these extreme forms of violence,
many children are routinely exposed to physical, sexual and psychological
violence in their homes and schools, in care and justice systems, in places of
work and in their communities. All of this has devastating consequences for
their health and well-being now and in the future.
On
the other hand, parents who embrace the role of parenting with enthusiasm
enable children to acquire skills that maximize their life potential. Poor
parental care impacts the rapid growths and change that occurs in the
developing child from infancy to adolescence with long-term negative
consequences. Physical growth and development occurs at an astonishing pace in
early childhood, with poor nutrition presenting a risk for impaired physical
development in the youth child’s growing body. For example, children who do not
receive sufficient iron in their diet may exhibit problems in reaching
cognitive and motor milestones, as well as problems with anxiety, depression
and social skills. Stunted physical growth and less efficient transmission of
neural signals in the brain may result when parents fail to provide adequate
nutrition. Keeping all in mind and to play role as facilitator, this wing did
and doing remarkable works more or less regularly for the overall development
of the children every year. Connecting children to
social development is one of PARYAY’s main
areas of focus under this wing. The initiation to bring out the views, feelings
and thoughts of children on various subjects, like Child Labour, Sanitation,
Save Girl Child, Future of India, Technology, Global Warming, Energy Saving,
Domestic Violence, etc. were meant to establish a platform to motivate and
sensitize children towards social development.
A development wing for Disable Children
/ Persons
Child disability is an emerging global health priority to
address the need for internationally comparable information about the frequency
and situation of children with disabilities; remarkable
numbers of children with disabilities are not enrolled in educational system
yet. Children with disabilities continue to be left out of school even as some
countries assert that they have met the millennium development goal (MDG) to
grant every child access to primary education. Although the government claims it has achieved
the MDG of enrolling all children in primary schools, found that in reality,
across Maharashtra,
still many children with disabilities are not in school. The sustainable
development goals, which come into effect, have several provisions to improve
the lives of people with disabilities, including targets to educate all
disabled children and to find more jobs for disabled adults. We need to ensure
that the health, rehabilitation and education systems work together both at
national levels and at district and school levels so that children with
disabilities are supported to access their local mainstream schools.
The
individual’s experience of the life with their disability will be greatly
influenced by their own personal attributes, their family and social
surroundings and the level of care that they receive. It is worth remembering
that there may be increased levels of need at key points in that person’s life,
such as starting school, going through puberty and leaving the children’s
services. The child’s educational needs will be a particular area of concern to
parents. There may have to be a statement of special educational needs and
special schooling may have to be considered. It has been shown that support for
children who remain in mainstream schooling is valued but patchy. National
guidance remains poor in certain respects and those involved in the child’s education
(teachers and associated staff) benefit from close links with healthcare
workers.
The
long term outlook for these children remains variable, depending on the nature
of the problem. Some children will face a rapid physical decline and early
death, others such as those with cerebral palsy (CP), will take their
disability with them into adulthood. Some skills continue to increase, few
deteriorate. However, problem behavior tends to remain the same, at best, it
not deteriorates and by the same token, social implements show no improvement
in the absence of intensive input.
Useful comparable,
historical prevalence figures are hard to come by, but it appears that the
incidence of disability among children and adolescents has risen over a period
of thirty years. This apparent rise has several contributing factors: It is, at least partly, due to medical and
social advances enabling severely disabled infants to survive, as well as
prolonging their life expectancy. There
has also been an increase in diagnosis rates for most of the conditions that
cause childhood disability. There is also likely to have been an increase in
the reporting of disability through enhanced knowledge among the general
population, medical, teaching and social care professions. When considering developmental delay and possible
disability in the child, it is worth remembering that development does not
progress in a linear fashion but in uneven steps. Each stage will open up
possibilities for other developmental 'streams' (so if gross motor was a little
slow, it may have been hiding a more advanced fine motor development). These
'streams' - although all interlinked - run at different rates and, in the
otherwise normal child, it is helpful to remind ourselves and parents of this
fact once other more worrying conditions have been excluded. Realizing all described condition as facilitator, we don't
forget the bigger family picture: a slow walker is less worrisome in a family
of slow walkers and started this initiative to protect our children from
disability providing needful supports to some extend in our operational areas
under this wing. We the team also guiding other interested people, community
& groups to initiate in this sector and have been able to motivate them
well for long run betterment of our child / persons, even some of the sister
concern has already started facilitation centre under their control with our
proper and timely guidance. We do
believe a comprehensive
approach for appropriate care and support including: early identification;
assessment and early intervention planning; provision of services; and
monitoring and evaluation. Early screening and diagnosis must be linked to
the provision of timely and appropriate support and advice to families,
combined with the design and orientation of a corresponding intervention plan
for more complex problems and for developmental delays. Approaches
combining centre-based programmes and parenting interventions may help parents
and professionals to detect developmental delays early on, improve children’s
development, prevent abuse and neglect, and ensure school readiness. It is
instrumental to provide education and training on disability for relevant
stakeholders from mainstream and specialised services. Training will also
be covered the rights of children with disabilities, the need for both
mainstream and targeted services, and strategies for the inclusion of children
with disabilities and their families. Programmes have to be undertaken advocacy
at all levels to highlight the urgent need to include children with
disabilities and provide targeted services. By utilising diverse
communication channels, including mass and community media, traditional media,
such as puppetry, poetry, song and storytelling, and interpersonal
communication, stigma and prejudice and positive attitudes towards children
with disabilities and their families promoted under this wing.
A wing of Village Information & Tourism Development
In a step to minimize
the gap between urban and rural, the Village Information Centre (VIC) had been
initiated for the first time in Shivni by the organization. This VIC serves as
a notice board, where all our villagers and school students get all the
information related to education, sports, career, etc. in terms of
opportunities available in various schools, colleges, universities, various
fellowships and programs or job schemes, various advanced technical knowledge
and information on farming, various plans and policies of the State &
Central Govt., which could beneficial to them towards the community. The basic
concept of this wing had been introduced by the President, PARYAY and gained
well acceptance of the local people and appreciations of outsiders as well.
Continuing this effort, PARYAY always gives importance to promote village
tourism along and carrying an extraordinary role to the tourists come from
different location of our country and international serving them with guest
honour providing information and proper guidance about their stay and visit
comfortable letting them understand and aware about its strong history, eco
friendly environment, the down to earth and cooperating nature of people with
its cultural and traditional heritages.
