SOCIALLY USEFUL

PRODUCTIVE WORK

“VISIT TO CHETANA

INSTITUTE FOR THE MENTALLY CHALLENGED”

 

Section D Group 3

Spandan Mishra (U113232)Sailaja P B(U113220)Shikha Jain (U113226)Nirlipta Panda(U113211)Saurav Ganguly (U113223)Saibal Tripathy(U113219)Soumit Biswas(U113231)Avinash Kumar(U113195) Shaikh Shahnawaz Ahmad (U113224)

CHETNA INSTITUTE

OBJECTIVES

To establish the creative levels of children with mental disabilities and to establish their ability to count from rote memory

To undertake a tree plantation drive at the school by allowing the children to plant trees within the premises

To establish their level of interaction with modern gadgets such as the touch screen smart phones for taking snapshots

To have a few moments of fun and interaction with them to help them enjoy our company and vice versa

To interact with the children and the residents on a personal level

To see their ability to correlate designs with patterns and associate them with colour

To map their abilities by providing them with chart papers and crayons

To make them understand the importance of plants in our surrounding.

To know what makes them happy and be able to bring them that happiness.

EXPECTATIONS

TEAM ROLES Saurav, Soumit and Shaikh managed most of the

logistic work

Avinash and Nirlipta ensured that various operational activities went as planned

Shikha and Shailaja played a vital role in conflict resolution and tried to keep the team spirit high

Saibal was instrumental in the team’s communication with Chetana and ensured that they were kept in the loop throughout the entire operation

Spandan assessed and evaluated each plan of action

GROUP DEVELOPMENT

• Skeptical and doubtful about the effectiveness of the group

• Creative ideas surfaced

Forming

• conflict and debate

• project topic and venue was decided

Storming • Members

adjusted

• got into the flow

• Complimented each other

• tasks delegated

Norming

• Assigned tasks completed without external supervision

Perform

IMPLEMENTATION

Ice-breaking

• Talking and asking names in Odia• Giving paper and color for drawing• Clicking their pictures in our phones

Activities

• Drawing and sketching competition• Rangoli competition with prizes for 1st and 2nd

• Distribute chocolates and biscuits• Tree plantation inside the campus

Future Course of

Action

• Planned fortnightly visit to the campus to assess the improvement

• Collaborate with Rotary Club to take this initiative forward

CHALLENGES

Acceptance initially was an issue the team faced

Implementing a pedagogy was tough with the kids because they seemed to be a robust group

We had to initially give incentives to make the kids sit and draw

APPENDIX

Drawing Drawing

Tree Plantation

Rangoli Chocolate distribution

CONCLUSION

Creativity plays a very

important role among all of us

Dreams are a manifestation of

our creative spirit

Unique way to do things even though they are

mentally challenged