CSS Meeting- 23rd August 2009

Venue- Independence Day Park, Time- 4.00pm
Highlights-
  • Lata and Bala had attended Tulir's special workshop on Monday and Tuesday- 17th and 18th August 2009. more than 25 NGO's from different parts of amilnadu participated.
  • Highlights were difficulty for abused victims to get timely judicial help due to lacking of certain legal provisions protecting children
  • the inadequate representation of children in legal fora against crimes
  • the penalty imposed is paltry
  • procedures to help te victim- like registering an FIR and also identifying oneself as Against Child Abuse volunteer so that law enforcement agency is more receptive to our approach
  • respect the victims feelings and not to urge to narrate the incident often and proper care; during interrogation the victim is accompanied by an adult and always videographed for documentation
  • Child toll free helpline number is 1098
  • Joy of giving beginning from 27th to 3rd October wheren Tulir would be interested to conduct a silent rally on Child abuse prevention. Tentative date confirmed is 2nd October. Tulir will do the basic ground work like rally location and placard designs.
  • Child Abuse prevention day November 19th 2009

2. National Sports day for Disabled students- VScribe event

  • August 30th is the day of the event at CP Arts Centre, Alwarpet at 9.30am
  • The competition will be held for Carom and Chess events for hearing impaired children on knockout basis
  • two schools have confirmed; 20 to 30 students.
  • there will be two winners in each game and paricipation certificate to participants
  • there will be 3 sports arbitors and 1 interpretor for children

3. Madars School of Social Work Presentation

  • The presentation was part of CSS commitment to address the bachelors course students on various CSS projects and their willingness to collaborate with our activities
  • Murali, Venkat, Dr. Ashwin, Sangeetha and Satish were present on the day of presentation.
  • nearly 50 students were present for the presentation; interested students will forward their details for any assignment

4. Gramudharan

  • Lata, Murali and Dr. Ashwin visited the vayalur village and briefed them on various SHG opportunities accompanied by Mrs. Gomathi, a SHG head.
  • Swaminathan, Jagdish, Murali, Ranga, Anish were present at Meenambal slum to interact with children and also to get to know their needs on 20th August at 4.30pm. we had a free wheeling discussion from Murali and also we were joined by Julian's CRY team.
  • few things which were agreed upon at Meenmbal slum are- a.) Pre-employment training camp
  • b.) identify VIII dropouts and enrol them into schools
  • c.) Medical camp
  • d.) Tuition center for children
  • e.) Street play

5. ECG- SMS-a-SAPLING

  • there are now designated volunteers in various zones who would cater to those regions requirement for sapling
  • we have distributed 1000 saplings to volunteers; planted more than 500 saplings at various places in the city
  • Most IT companies have taken to task for helping us out with SMS-a-SAPLING initiative

Guests

we had two freinds from 'SWARG' an organisation primarily looking into educational needs of the village or slum children hailing from poor backgrounds. They are a bunch of software professionals who joined hands in helping spread education.

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