New constructions and students, August 2009

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End of August 2009:

We have started constructions to build the roof for the Sambhali Trust on first floor where we had the thatched roof.

Before Construction

A day before the construction

Sambhali Trust:

New batch of girls are enjoying their time interacting with the teacher and the volunteers, they are having wonderful time at the project, and the graduates are busy stitching materials for Corinne so that Sambhali India will have enough ready materials to sell when it is setup.

I have employed Ajay Singh, he is assisting me with looking after the office work, he goes out does stuff for me when I am occupied with other activities at the trust, he is of help but has to learn a lot.

UNICEF has a meeting on Child marriage issue on 31^st of August and we have been invited by the government to participate In the meeting, it is a big honor and priviledge, in former meeting with the UNICEF I met with the officers, they called me the other day and shows interest in visiting our projects after the meeting, I look forward to it and will keep sharing with you the news on it.

The Service learning trip(SLT) from the Standford University is doing wonderful, the students have come up with some amazing ideas to help the Setrawa village at large, it includes women and girls health workshops, eye, dental and physician doctors will come for medical aid camps.

Workshop on SHG(self held group) FSD will help us a good motivator who works with other SHG’s to come to Setrawa and help women know more about the self help group and the benefits from it.

The other project is to choose one boy and one girl elected by the students of the government senior school and make them responsible student leaders of the school, so that they Sambhali could be a platform for them to share their problems and with medium of Sambhali all the students can get their voice heard by the government officials and making some plantation in school.

The last project is clean village campaign and placing dustbins around Setrawa village, this would be done with the help of villager’s involvement.

The reports from these interns from SLT will be online on the website soon.

Thanks for your time in reading this report, all the best.