Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

carers2Hazaribag, 26 – 29 February: NBJK, Sacred (Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh) and Samuha Samarthya (Koppal, Karnataka) – the organizations working with Carers groups have joined hands under auspices of Carers Worldwide and Commonwealth Foundation, UK to participate in the 2nd phase Partners Training on “Skills for Facilitating Group Process to Empower Carers”. These VOs have promoted the people who care for their family members eclipsed by physical, mental or geriatric challenges by organizing them in groups after an extensive field survey and trying to engage such groups with livelihood or other activities for their empowerment.

The training was participated by staff members and Carers representatives associated with the program of Caring Carers, appreciated widely for its new approach coined by Dr. Anil Patil, (Founder & CEO of Carers Worldwide). He inaugurated the training and briefed about understanding of group dynamics & process, counter mechanism for inter-group conflict, attitude for group work, skills for leadership and advocacy as the objectives to add something positive in lives of the carers. Dr. Patil has informed about Carers groups supported under MNREGA in Karnataka and Andhra and their issues being raised during Gram Sabha meeting in villages of Hazaribag to sensitize our society towards carers. These are like Change Agents to make our family or society more humane and deserve a lot of importance, pointed out Mr. Ramakrishna Surdeo (Org. Dev. Trainer) while introducing the program. Mr. Manoj Puttur (Program Officer, Carers worldwide India) has praised these silent and hidden people always busy in caring of their dependents and referred to Community Caring Centers by Sacred, Andhra Pradesh to strengthen Carers movement.

Out of 30 participants in the training, most of them were women and covered such a long journey besides caring of their children or reliant. NBJK team involving Mr. Rajiv Singh, Md. Nayeem, Mrs. Vimla Rana, Mrs. Pratima Devi and others was responsible to organize this interstate training on Carers issue.