Saturday, March 16, 2013

Using local media to bring out change in society@JEEVIKA Jhabua


A street play had been organised in village Rojiya and Chota Jhulwaniya on the date 26/02/2013 for addressing the issue of Mal Nutrition and role of Anganwadi and PDS, in which total 300 respondents were taken participation in this event.During street it was observed that people know anganwadi and PDS just for taking benefits or we can say taking food items from it. They even don’t know what are its importance in their daily life?, How it functions?,even don’t know who is Anganwadi worker of their respective villages.

Firstly, we had done street play in village named Rojiya around 12pm where total 150 respondents take participate in which 80 men and 70 women alongwith youths and childrens were present there.Play start with the traditional folk song comprises importance of PDS and Anganwadi.Then slowly shifted towards the act play for addressing the above issues.The players play a significant role in solving the problems of village for not understanding about role of Anganwadi and PDS in their village.After the end of the play villagers had been asked by our colleagues that what they have understand from the play?and the sabha is open for discussion.Answer that comeout from them was very surprisingly. They tell that nobody had tell them before like this about anganwadi and PDS in a way that we are telling them.They said that the tool that we are using for creating awareness was very good and which makes villagers to be in a comfort zone for understanding the problems and its ultimate solutions for the well being of the village.

Secondly,we went to village chota jhulwaniya at 7pm where 170 people were the key participants in which 90 women and 80 men were present there.The same line up also followed here,starting with folk song and all........ .The main thing that to be focused there is that the village is very near to thandla block with only 5km even though the understanding of men women both towards Anganwadi and PDS was very poor.They even don’t know for what? they have to go for anganwadi. The main reason behind is that the whole village is effected by groupism between the leaders of the village.

In spite of that they had paid very keen interest towards the play and act as a patience listener.During discussion they had also told that the information given by our team was very much useful for them and they will definitely implement the knowledge which they getting form the play in their families and personal life.

By JEEVIKA Jhabua team ( Pragati Sansthan)

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