To Promote using of Toilets

Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti School, Doomroli, Alwar,

Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

To promote using of toilets

• 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: 236

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

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 30,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location:

– Doomroli is situated approx. 28 km from NH-8 and District office of Bharti Foundation.

– Sr. Sec. School is situataed in village it self. – There is no public transportation facility so that people have to walk or travel

by own conveyance from the main bus station Kadipuri,which is approx. 14 km from the village.

– The Nearest Health Centre is Kaysa which is approx. 8-9 km. – The nearest Police station is Mandhan which is approx. 28 km from the

village.– The nearest market is Narnaul which is approx. 14 km from the village– Drinking water facility provided by government and constructed water supply

tank, apart from this Hand pumps and bore wells are other source of water.– The main occupation of villagers are agriculture, mining and own business.– The Total Population of Village is 1300– Total No. of Children in village is 254 .

About the Community

About the Community

Cultural Background:

– The villagers belongs to Hindu Community .– Dominant cast is Yadav. – They followed the all Hindu rituals and festivals.– The dressing style of community is long white Kurta & Dhoti / Pant &

Shirt, for men and women dressing style is Ghagra & Odhni.– It’s a mix culture of Rajasthan & Hariyana because Hariyana is very

close to this location. – They prefer to have vegetarian & Non vegetarian food but most of the

people are vegetarian.– Village women always in long veil and it’s a part of their culture.

• Community people are habituated to use open space (field located in front of Satya Bharti school) for toilet purpose and polluting the environment of school and village. Next generation studying at our schools has realised the adverse impact of using open space for the same not only on our environment but also it effects our health. We felt it a first hand negative impression of our village.

We ‘Felt’:

• ‘Promoting of using toilets at every home rather than using the open space’, we imagined and make the people imagine the same.

• Aware the community people on benefits of using toilets.

• Make the community responsible of prohibiting to use open space in future for toilet by involving them to clean the field (located in front of the school and earlier being used for toilet) and prepare it as a playground for the village kids.

We ‘Imagined’:

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

• Organised the rally against the identified issue.

• Make them aware about benefits of using toilets rather than doing it in open space.

• Door to door counselling and discussion with villagers

• Conducted Street play, sang motivational songs, slogans with prepared ply cards, poster and banners.

We ‘Did’:

• Community people have understood the benefits of using toilets at homes rather than using the open space located in front of Satyabharti school.

• Community members involved and contributed their efforts to clean the field located in front of our school.

• All of the participants in our joy for giving campaign have signed on the common memorandum and took oath to use toilets and support eco-friendly environment.

Impact on Community:

• Understand the felt need of community and work on it which gives new learning to them .

• Children feel proud to be a part of this campaign and become change agents in the community.

• Staff members gained the confidence to deal with community problems which is totally different from daily class room teaching.

• They are curious to do such activity in near future and willing to do something different from their daily routine work.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• Community members:

- ”aaj hamare bachho ne ankhe khol diya, hum apne gaon ke prati aur apne prati bahut galat kar rahe the. Aaj se hum apne gharo main hi sauch karenge aur school ke samne wala field ko bachhon ke khelne ke liye khali chhod denge.”

Anganwadi worker• Teachers:

- ”Hame gaon main ye change lane ke liye, bahut mahnat karna pada. Aur aaj hame ye dekh ke khushi milti hai ki log gharon main hi sauch karte hain, aur bahar ka watavaran saaf rakhte hain. Hame ye asha hai ki log hamesha yese hi karen”

- Desh Raj

HT, Doomroli

• Periodic and timely follow-up through: - Door to door visit. - Parents Teacher Meeting. - Individual data keeping.• Regular counselling to every stake

holders. - Students. - Parents. - Community members. - Community key persons.• Trying to impart knowledge on making: - Low cost toilets. - Less cost on its’ maintenance.

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

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of Students

ParticipatingName of Student

Class

 

Rajasthan

Alwar

SBGPS Doomroili 10 Yatender  V

       Praveen  V

      Rinku V

      Dharamveer V 

      Bhupender V 

       kajal V

      Palak V 

Sonu Kumari V

Shivani V

Chavi Kant V

Name of Mentor Teacher: Vinod Yadav

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