Promoting Personal Health & Hygiene among villagers

Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti School, Sultangarh, Alwar, Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

Promoting Personal Health & Hygiene among villagers

• 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: 236

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 30,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location:– Sultangarh is located at 40 km from NH-8

and District office of Bharti Foundation. – The village comes under Khundroth

Panchayat.– Total House Hold – 33– Total Population of Village -200– The village declared Below Poverty Line

village by State Govt. on efforts of Bharti Foundation and today each family is holding the BPL Card.

- Satya Bharti Govt. Primary School is the only School in the Village.

- Most of the population is migratory in nature and they are working as a Snake Charmers.

- Transportation/ communication is not existing in village .

- The Nearest Health Centre, bus stand, Bank, Post office & Police station is Mandhan which is approx. 4-5 km form the village.

- The nearest market for village is Mandhan which is approx. 4-5 km form the village

- Hand pump is only the source of water but most of the time it does not work so that they have to fetch the water from 1-2km.

- The most of families are living either in tent and huts.

About the Community

About the Community

• Cultural Background:

– Majority of the population belongs to

Hindu community -Nath Community (Snake Charmer)

– They followed the most of the Hindu rituals, but they do not followed the Hindu Marriage & funeral Systems.

– Dominant Cast in Village is Sapera (Snake Charmer)

– The community earn their bread & butter by begging & snakes Shows

– The dressing style of community is long Kurta & Dhoti for men and women dressing style is Ghagra & Odhni.

– They prefer to have non veg. food in a day at least once

– The community does not believe in family planning

– The community is migratory in nature– They are the followers of Goga ji

Mahraj

• There are lots of problem in the village but personal hygiene is one of the major problem. Due to unhygienic condition villagers faced many Health problem.

We ‘Felt’:

• Total community is migratory in nature. They don't reside any where for a long time. Therefore the condition of hygiene and sanitation is very poor. Due to that our kids decided to make a remarkable change to initiate step to improve the personal health & hygiene of community people by counselling individuals, groups along with the nukad natak planned by them.

We ‘Imagined’:

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

• Organised the rally in community .

• Make them aware about importance of Personal Hygiene in our Life.

• Conducted Street play in different location of community on importance of Personal Hygiene.

We ‘Did’:

We ‘Did’:

• Make community people more aware about their personal Hygiene.

• People understand the importance of healthy life.

• They adopt the ways suggested by children and keep their community clean & Hygienic.

Impact on Community:

• Proud to be a part of this campaign and become change agents in the Understand the felt need of community and work on it which gives new learning to them .

• Children feel 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:

• The teachers realize that they have done something special which make real difference in the life of community people.

• The community people feel that they can improve their quality of life by adopting good habits.

• We will be in touch with community people and adopt the policy of reach every one and aware them about personal health & Hygiene.

• We will monitor their progress on weekly basis and call them in Parents Teachers meeting so that we can discuss with them.

• We will try to identify other community problem and prepare the action plan for the same.

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

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of Students

ParticipatingName of Student

Class

1 

Rajasthan

Alwar

SBGPS Sultangarh 

10  Ajit Nath  IV

2      Harish   IV

3      Pawan  IV

4      Sangeet Nath IV 

5      Airti IV 

 6      Manisha IV

 7     Rekha IV 

8 Vikky Nath IV

9 Mukhbal V

10 Harish Kumar V

Name of Mentor Teacher: Om Prakash Yadav

Thank you