Anti dowry campaign

Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti School, Khundroth girls, Alwar,

Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

Anti dowry campaign

• Bharti Foundation

– Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

– The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program

– The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship program of Bharti Foundation.

– It aims to deliver free quality education to underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

– The program goal is to establish 500 Primary and 50 Senior Schools reaching out to over 200,000 students

– The promise of this large scale program, through its operation, is to create a replicable, scalable and holistic model of quality education in rural India

– Present Operational Status:

• Number of Schools Operational: 256

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu & West Bengal

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 38,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location:– Khundroth is situated at a distance of 28

km from NH-8.

About the Community

- With a total population of 6241 In 651 no. of households.

About the Community

• Cultural Background:

– Majority of the population

belongs to Hindu community .They followed Hindu rituals and traditions.

- Dominant Caste in Village is Rajput.

- women dressing style is Ghagra & Odhni.

- Pant, Shirt/ Dhoti, kurta for males.

• People are dependending on farming, minings and services for their livelihood.

• There are many problems in the village but we felt that Dowry is one of the major social problem of village.

We ‘Felt’:

• Dowry is one of the evil practices in our country. It causes a great impact and social disturbances. Our students have decided to conduct rallies, campaign, nukad natak to aware the villagers.

We ‘Imagined’:

• Organised a meeting with community people to make them understand about the initiative of Satya Bharti School.

• Organised a rally on anti dowry and educate community people.

• Conducted Street play in different location of community on anti dowry.

• Prepare the Slogans & posters on anti dowry.

• Write an Anti Dowry Massage on walls & other public Places.

We ‘Did’:

• The community people recognized the effort of Satya Bharti School.

• The villagers told that “Satya Bahrti School is not only providing quality education to their children but they are also educating villagers on various Social issues”.

• Village Sarpanch appreciated the initiative of Satya Bahrti School and asked the villagers to be a part of this campaign and eliminate such social problems from their village.

• 150 community people took the oath and participated in signature campaign & will not take dowry.

Impact on Community:

• Understand the felt need of community and work on it.• The girl child feel proud to be a part of this campaign and

become change agents.• The teachers were confident to take such initiative in Rajput

Dominant Community. • It was great feeling for all girls, those are studying with Satya

Bharti School.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• The teachers feel that they can make a difference in society by initiating such kind of campaign in the village and eliminate the dowry system from our society.

• The community people feel that they can work together for

such social evil and eliminate from their village.

• They got the confidence to raise their voice against Dowry.

• We will be in touch with community people and request to stop such practices in their village.

• To educate community people about the Anti Dowry Act.

The Road Ahead…..(in the next 3 months)

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of Students

ParticipatingName of Student

Class

 

Rajasthan

Alwar

SBGUPS Khundroth girl

10 Rinku VIII

      Sarita  VIII

      Shakti VIII

      Nisha V III

      Sarita VIII 

      Poonam VII 

      Neetu VII

Sushma VII

Bindu VIII

Priyanka VII

Name of Mentor Teacher: Sahender Singh

Thank you