Anganwadi

SSY support programmes conducted in various Anganwadis through the Central Government’s  Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS).

•  7,943 of Anganwadis functioning in Maharashtra, through 36 districts.

 

 

 

What is Anganwadi?

•  Anganwadi is the centre for the holistic development of women and children.

•   In Maharashtra State, 63,113 Anganwadi centres function.

• Anganwadi, which literally means ‘the courtyard play centre’, is a childcare centre located within the village or the slum area. Anganwadi is the focal point for the delivery of services, at the community level, to children below six years of age, pregnant and nursing mothers and adolescent girls. Anganwadi centres also serve as the meeting place for women's groups, mothers' clubs and mahila mandals promoting awareness and joint action for child development and women's empowerment.

• To achieve effective coordination of policy and implementation between the various departments to promote child development.

• To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education.

• To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age group of 0 to 6 years.

• To lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child.

• To reduce the incidences of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and dropping out of school.

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"A Brahmachari learns continuously. This eligibility comes when you realize
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to work." - Guruji
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Role of RSVK :

• Pilot Project for 4 months in 2008 given to anganwadi sevikas.

• Training conducted in 5 centres.

• 250 sevikas underwent training.

• Resulted in benefiting 6,250 children in Thane dist., Mumbai slums.

• Proposal submitted ICDS for conducting training throughout Maharashtra state.

•   Received work order for training supervisors throughout Maharashtra for 6 districts, namely Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nasik, Amravati and Thane, for year 2008–2009.

•   Completed 5 districts successfully. Each supervisor looks after an average of 40 anganwadis. Each anganwadi has an avarage of 50 children.

• Resulted in benefiting 12,000 children on an average throughout 6 districts.

Presentation Skills Imparted to the Participants - Anganwadi teachers :

•   Holding Mic, Voice Modulation, Dramatizing, Emotional Expressions, Body Language, Maintaining Eye-to-Eye Contact,       Anger Management for Self & Subjects.

•   Planning, Storytelling, Singing, Fun Club and Games.

•   Physical Health: Imparted training on Human Body, Physical Development, Pregnancy, Post-Natal and Prenatal, Miscarriage.

•   Role of Food in Physical Growth: Classification of Foods, Nutritional Values in different Vegetables and Spices, Impact      of nutritious food on growth of Mother and Child. Recipes of healthy food.

•   Role of Breathing in Physical Health: Importance of breathing, Breathing Techniques, How to boost the immunity of          the body through breathing technique.

•   Relaxation Techniques: How to relax the body and mind through the relaxation technique.

•   Mental Health: Imparted training to the participants in the areas of understanding the psychological problems of the pregnant mother and her husband, and counselling both of them to avoid  miscarriage due to mental stress, fears and phobias. Anger and anger management.

 

 

•   How to educate the parents about social, religious and gender behaviours, emotional management etc., prenatal        and postnatal. Body and sense development of the child, and training parents on how to maintain the cumulative  
     growth of the child.  

•   Teaching the parents how to understand infant behaviour, handling child tantrums while feeding, teaching, bathing        etc., behaviour at home when guests are around, while visiting others’ houses. Creative story telling techniques, goal       setting and training the child at Alpha level.

•  Teaching: Imparted training to participants on how to teach children by explaining                                                          about the human brain, classification of brain and functions of the left and right brain.

•   Development of brain with respect to age.

•   Techniques of teaching a number of languages.

•   Techniques of teaching Mathematics effortlessly.

•   Techniques of teaching to identify objects, various national flags and memorising contents of the encyclopedia.  

•   Training on 'how to create a vision and achieve greater goals'.

•   All the training sessions were conducted in a joyous atmosphere.

•   Sessions were designed in a fun and playful manner.

•   Every aspect was taught in an effortless way, which helped all the participants to absorb the maximum and which will enable them toput into practice in their day-to-day situations everything that they learnt.

•   Each and every participant’s state of activity was analysed in a survey before the commencement of the training and after the completion of the training, in their regional language.

•   Sample questioners collected from the participants were enclosed after translating them into English for your review.

 
Six groups have been set up at six places and a system of regular followups keeps the results of above trainings in place.