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Rang De

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

It’s been one more long hiatus since you, our loyal supporters, have been updated on our activities here at Sangam India. We’d like to share something exciting that came up yesterday. We met with the CEO, Ram, of an organisation called Rang De (www.rangde.org). Rang De is a microlending organization based in Chennai and consists of a dynamic group of people who really want to make a difference. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with them and are looking forward to working with them in the future. Please do check out their website for more information.

Rang De is hosting a fundraising concert on May 1st at 6 pm at Buck’s Theatre, YMCA, Chennai. The main artist will be Swarathma, an Indian folk band with a socially conscious message. Tickets are available at www.indianstage.in, or you can approach us for student tickets. The great thing about this concert is that Rs. 100 of your ticket cost will go to an investment in Rang De and its borrowers, and will come back to you. So you can listen to great music AND make a difference! Let us know if you’d like student tickets, or you can buy regular tickets online.

Please make sure you visit their website at www.rangde.org.

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Tamil Flyer for Tomorrow’s Camp

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Included below is the Tamil Flyer used today to promote tomorrow’s camp.  It was distributed to each household in both of the slums that we are targeting.

tamilflyer

Thanks to our volunteers for committing so much time and energy in promoting the camp and we hope that the residents of these areas will come out to get treatment!

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Spreading the Word about the Upcoming Health Camp

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Today a group of volunteers, led by Pamela and Sri Nandini, went to the Ramavaram area to promote the upcoming health camp to the residents of the communities.  We went to both the slums where we had visited previously: the MGR Nagar community where we are currently focusing our activities as well as the community across the street.  Each household was given a simple Tamil-language flyer to remind them of the camp.  The residents were reportedly very interested in coming to the camp and we hope people will take advantage of the opportunity to see the doctors tomorrow.

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Flyer for Upcoming Medical Camp

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Here is the flyer for Sunday’s Medical Camp, made by Rifa Khan, one of our members.

healthcampflyer

Sangam India was started a year ago by a group of students-quite like you. Today we’re an organization that aims to improve the social and economic conditions of underprivileged communities in urban Chennai.

Our efforts are aimed at empowering the inhabitants of slums by focusing chiefly on:

  • Value based education
  • Health & Sanitation
  • Focus groups for women

After having conducted health camps for the slum dwellers in Ramavaram, this time around we hope a conduct a multi-specialty health campin association with Paathai Foundation, for the residents of MGR Nagar slum (map over-leaf).
So if you’re a PG student and our cause interests you, please contact us at : 9789901650.
Date: 23/08/09 Time: 10 A.M.–1 P.M

As we wrote in our last post, the camp is scheduled for this Sunday, August 23rd. We’re in need of volunteers, so if you can come, we’d love the help. Please let us know if you’ll be volunteering.

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Update: Change in August 8th, 2009 Plan

Friday, August 7th, 2009

We’re happy to announce that there has been a change in tomorrow’s educational programme.  Instead of the educational programme that we had scheduled, several of our members are going on a day trip with the children.  The trip is being organized by Paathai, another NGO which is working in the MGR Nagar Slum.  The day trip will be to the Children’s Park, Guindy.

The group at Paathai invited us along for the trip and additionally requested any financial aid that we could offer.  We’re honored by the chance to cooperate and collaborate with such a hardworking NGO, and to be given a chance to meet with and work with the children in the slum.  Paathai is doing an incredible amount of work with the children of the slum.  Our Educational Board, consisting of Vidyalakshmi, Adya, Ashita and Lekha, will be accompanying the Paathai members on the trip, which is leavning from the slum at 10AM tomorrow.  In addition, Sangam India will be partly sponsoring the trip.

We hope that tomorrow’s trip will be a great chance for our Educational Board to learn more about Paathai and how we can best work with them, and for them to learn more about the children they’ll be workng with.

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Upcoming Visit: August 8th, 2009

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

This Saturday we are conducting a visit to the MGR Nagar slum.  Our project this week includes the weekly Educational Programme, where we plan to ‘register’ the children by collecting basic information about them.  In this way, we’ll learn more about the kids individually, we’ll be able to start collecting attendance, and we can use the information we collect to motivate and inspire the children more and more.

The programme is being developed by our Educational Committee and it will be executed by the Vidya, one of the leaders of the Indian team.

As usual, we appreciate any and all help that we can get and please let us know if you can come!

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Upcoming Visit: Saturday August 1st, 2009

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

This Saturday we will be going to the MGR Nagar slum where we hope to do the following:

  • Study roofing options: there is a large demand in the community for help with the roofing to help prevent the surge in fires that the community has been experiencing. It will be difficult for us to make any changes in the community unless the people there have some security with their homes.  We hope to collect data regarding the houses that will need assistance with metal roofing and get advice from an engineer regarding feasibility and cost.  If you are a civil engineer, or if you have any experience in construction, we’d love your help.  Please contact us if you are interested in coming!
  • We will be running our Educational Programme this week.  The agenda is being developed by the Educational Committee and Vandhana and Nivedita will be running the project.  Please let us know if you can come!

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Focus Group Discussion Tomorrow, July 24th 2009

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Meeting before the survey, July 18th 2009Hi folks!

Tomorrow, we will be conducting a small focus group discussion with the women of the MGR Nagar slum. As you may have read on the SI website, women’s issues and women’s empowerment are a huge part of community improvement and development. Without sufficiently addressing the perceived needs of the community, pushing our own agenda onto the community is ineffective and inappropriate. Through holding a small group discussion with the women, we are hoping to bring out what the women themselves feel to be the issues that should be addressed. I am including the proposed agenda here. If you feel that there are things that should be added, please let me know by tonight, or latest, tomorrow morning around 10. We will go with the final agenda.

Proposed Agenda:

  1. What general concerns do you have about your life?
  2. What are your immediate priorities for issues for which you would like to seek solutions?
  3. Have you previously accessed, received, or attempted to access help in any of these areas?
  4. Do you have any solutions in mind?
  5. What – according to you – is being ‘empowered’?
  6. Do you think you need to save more (financially)?
  7. What is your current source of income and are you interested in any other jobs?
  8. Are you willing to form a group with other women in the community? What timing suits you?

I’m looking forward to receiving input from all of you!

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Visit to MGR Nagar Slum Tomorrow, July 23

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Tomorrow we are heading on another trip to the MGR Nagar slum where we have two goals:

  • Survey: Our survey last week covered approximately 65 of the 108 houses. We hope to cover more of the houses this week with a team that will be following up with those.  This will be lead by Gautam Bagga.  If you’re planning on coming, please check out the survey, the consent form, and the handout so you can get familiar with them before we start.
  • Focus Group Discussion (FGD): A focus group will be conducted by the ladies who come out tomorrow. We hope to involve the able-minded and proactive members of the community to come together and to discuss their needs and how they can overcome them.  We hope this will be the beginning to a dialogue with the women which will give them a forum to grow and progress.  More about this activity will be available in a later post.  The FGD is being run by Nivedita Gunturi.

We’re always in need of volunteers, so please contact us if you can come!

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Upcoming Survey, July 18th 2009

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We have been working hard on our survey that we are going to be conducting this Saturday at the MGR Nagar Slum.

The objective of this survey is to learn more about the community and to use this information to determine how to best help the people there.

A large number of people have been involved in making the survey, a project that has been coordinated by Goutam Bagga, a volunteer from Sheffield, Britain.

The survey was developed by three teams:

  • A health and nutrition survey, developed by Dr. Gayatri
  • A sanitation survey, developed by Kathleen Bush, a PhD student from Michigan.
  • An educational survey, developed by Educational Committee.

With the help of our wonderful volunteers, we hope to use this survey to collect data about the community. We have tried to keep the survey short in order to be able to cover more of the population.

We’ve also made a quick handout for the interviewers and a consent form for the interviewees is in the works.

We will be using the census data provided by Paadhai in order to quicken the data collection. An immense thanks to Krithika Rajaram, of our Educational Committee, for translating this into English in a usable format.

If you are in Chennai and would like to help us volunteer the survey; we could really use your help! The success of this survey will depend now on having as many volunteers as possible to ask questions. Please contact us if you are interested.

This is the survey we are using, attached as a PDF: MGRSurvey.pdf

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