Workshop on #FosterCare&Sponsorship by #DLSA @ bread4theworld

28 March 2019, Amrit Nagar : A Legal Awareness Camp was organized under joint auspices of District Legal Services Authority, Hazaribag and NBJK under Capacity Building Program for Social Workers with support of Bread for the World, Germany. On this occasion, DLSA team planned a workshop on Foster Care & Sponsorship to make people aware of child rights. Mr. Arun Prabhat Sinha (Retd. CJM) was the chief guest of this function who called the law framed in the year 2018 as a need of our time.

Mr. Bhaiya Mukesh (DLSA team leader) has introduced the theme of foster Care & Sponsorship and said that our judiciary is responsible for realization of the law and ensures people’s participation. The very caring and safety of orphan children is a sensitive matter that needs a legal purview to avoid irregularities as no one can possess any orphan child randomly rather he/she has to follow required process and to inform local police first of all, he opined. Mr. Saurabh Anshu (DLSA member) said that the process of child adoption is now on-line, transparent and the adopted child gets legal right from the family she/he goes. Mr. Anuj Kumar explained about the age group of children as 0-6 years for foster care and 6-21 years for sponsorship purpose, Rs. 2000 monthly as caring stipend for new parents and role of district Child Welfare Committee to protect child rights. Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Srijan Foundation, Hazaribag) supported for a family set up instead of an orphanage for stray children and cautioned that any parent with already three children can’t be eligible for foster care. Md. Moazzam (DLSA team leader) appealed the parents to avoid gender dicrimination among children. Mrs. Anamika Kumari was in favour of protection for each child and Mrs. Renu Kumari focused upon people’s introduction with legal provisions towards child rights.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) welcomed the chief guest with DLSA team and said that we could link more than 1500 children with sponsorship program under Child Centered Community Development in Churchu block and associated with more children through programs like Family Counselling Center and Childline 1098.

The workshop was attended by about 50 women from SHGs at nearby villages like Oriya, Amrit Nagar, Birbir, Sakhiya, Baihari, Rola etc. and Mrs. Saraswati Devi (vill-Oriya) has elaborated about her family problems before DLSA members. Mr. Rajeev Singh (Porgram Manager, NBJK) delivered vote of thanks at last. Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counsellor, Family Counselling Center), Mr. Shankar Rana (Lok Samiti), Mr. Sudhir Upadhyay, Mr. Prayag Prajapati and Mr. Mahesh Kumar (all Micro-credit dept.) have played important role to organize the camp.

#Training Completion of #SkillForLife Trainees @WeareSwades @HSBC

19 March 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): Two months skill development course namely “Skill for Life” for a batch of youths has been completed today. This was conducted by NBJK with support of Swades Foundation & HSBC, Mumbai. The trainees have received their course completion certificates and were offered individual placements in a simple ceremony held at the coordination office of NBJK.

On this occasion, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) and Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) were present and motivated the passing out youths to labour hard patiently with dedication at the begining of their career. Both of them have encouraged the trainees to accept different experiences coming up with crisscross of their lives. Also the youths have expressed satisfaction over fooding, lodging and training facilities available at NBJK and many of them admitted about learning of new skills here.

There were 12 youths who completed training under the trade of General Duty Assistant (GDA) or Bed Side Patient Attendant (BSPA) along with 20 others with Basic Computer Application and 04 with Mobile Repair or servicing. All 12 girls of BSPA and 20 girls-boys of BCA have got placement on the same day while 04 boys from Mobile Repair have decided to start their own service centres as an initiative towards self-employment.

The certificate distribution ceremony was attended by Mr. Om Prakash Gupta (project mobilizer), Mrs. Sunita Kumari, Mr. Anurag Shrivastava, Mr. Subodh Kumar Chanchal, Mr. Rohit Raj (all faculties) and Mr. Kirti Rawat (placement officer).

#SanitationFortnightAwareness Workshop by #FamilyCounsellingCentre @MinistryWCD

15 March 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag):  NBJK run Family Counselling Centre with support of Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi and Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board, Ranchi, has organized a workshop at village-Oriya in Hazaribag Sadar block on the occasion of Sanitation Fortnight Awareness campaign.  The workshop was focused upon Use of Toilet, Health & Sanitation and participated by girl children, students, women & men of the village.

During the programme, Mrs. Meera Gupta (Sr. Counsellor, FCC) discussed about voluntary contribution of labour, hand wash with soap, hygienic habits, freedom from open defecation and made people aware of general cleanliness in village or settlements. Mr. Sanjay Kumar (Counsellor, FCC) said that by proper hand wash with soap before taking any food and after defecation, we can prevent infectious diseases. Some school girl children like Neha, Babita and Sandhya have demonstrated the way for handwashing with soap.

Mrs. Babita Devi and Mrs. Nasima Bano (village women) provided tips about household hygiene and played a demo with brooms. Mrs. Sunita, Mrs. Sandhya and other cleaners at NBJK too have contributed to arrange the workshop effectively.

#CapacityBuilding Training & Exposure Visit for Small VOs @bread4theworld

13-16 March 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): Four days residential training including an exposure visit for small Voluntary Organizations and social workers has been organized under Poverty Eradication Programme supported by Bread for the World, Germany. The programme bears the components like general food security and treatment of PwMIE (People with Mental Illness & Epilepsy).

Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has addressed the participants during concluding session and said that some progressive farmers defeated the very idea of non-profit agriculture and they are making income through new  practices with farming as well as with dairy. He placed an example of Kunwar Dairy Farm by Major (Retd.) Uma Shankar at village-Amrit Nagar which could earn the profit of around 35% with improved production of milk & crops by a professional-scientific approach. An exposure visit to Kunwar Dairy and it’s vegetables unit was arranged for the VOs. On initial days, the trainees were provided training support on Documentation, Media Liaison and Accounting System.

On documentation & media liaison, Mr. Vinay Kumar Bhatta was the resource person who discussed about the topics like minute book, case study, news clips, photo-video usage, visitors’ views, annual report, handbill-poster-brochure, event report, correspondence  and advantage of positive news. Also he provided tips for drafting a press release and said that our press release must reflect a support to the issues of weaker section, social harmony and environment protection but to oppose superstition, atrocity and social inertia. On accounting system, Mr. Pravesh Singh has briefed about the role & responsibility of cashier-account officer, methods of accounting, vouchers, account, supporting registers, cash book, ledger, trial balance, receipt-payment, income-expenditure, audit, assets & liabilities, balance sheet, book keeping etc.

Total 27 VOs from Chatra, Koderma, Hazaribag, Giridih, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Ramgarh, Gaya, Nawada, Muzaffarpur, Khagaria, Chhapra, Patna, Motihari districts of Jharkhand and Bihar were represented in this residential training. Mr. Rajeev Singh (Programme Manager) and Mr. Shankar Rana (Asst. PM)  played important role to organize the training.

#Condolence Meeting in Remembrance of Mr. #AlanLeather @ActionVillageIn

06 March 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): Mr. Alan Leather, the president of Action Village India, U. K. departed for heavenly abode on 3rd March 2019. He was sick and under medical treatment for some time. This sad news was shared by Mr. Ivan Nutbrown (Ex – Coordinator, AVI) who was in Hazaribag recently. As NBJK is a partner organization of AVI for a long time, the information was quite shocking and a condolence meeting held to remember Mr. Alan Leather. This started with an introductory note by Mr. Rajeev Kumar Singh (Programme Coordinator, NBJK) who invited people to offer flowers and garlanding the portrait of Mr. Alan as paying homage to the deceased.

This was followed by a minute long silence to mourn his demise and Mr. Ivan Nutbrown talked about his first meeting with Mr. Alan in the year 1969 at Patna. At that time, Mr Alan was representing Oxfam in India and Mr. Ivan was a volunteer at Samanway Ashrama, Bagaha, near Barachatti in Gaya district of Bihar. Later Mr. Alan has worked with refugees from Bangladesh as well as with trade unions in UK, South Africa and other countries emerged after dissolution of Soviet Union. Also he was a theatre artist and contributed to pro-democracy movement in South Africa. Mr. Alan was a versatile man with access to both rich or poor and he was like a life insurance for AVI, Mr. Ivan said in the meeting. Ms Zennie (AVI Supporter) praised Mr. Alan as a master communicator and remembered one of his address with body language on Women’s Day  at Chennai earlier. Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) recalled about the first meeting with Mr. Alan Leather in 1966 during drought relief works in Odisha and valued his dedication for social work across the globe passionately. Mr. Alan was a great believer of democracy and always he cared for the wishes of AVI partner organizations, Mr. Girija Satish pointed out. Also Ms Ellie Cockle and Ms Vicky Addinall (both AVI supporters) have talked about Mr. Alan Leather and his contribution to humanity.

Later a mango plant was sown in memory of Mr. Alan Leather at NBJK premises. All the staffs have participated in the meeting and plantation ceremony.

#TrainingSupport to #CarersOrganization @CarersWorldwide

21-22 February 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): Under the Carers Promotion programme with support of Carers Worldwide-UK, NBJK has identified 1413 people taking care of their family members suffering from disability, mental illness and old age problems. These carers were found in Sadar, Katkamsandi, Katkamdag, Daroo, Ichak , Chauparan blocks of Hazaribag district. NBJK promoted their 83 SHGs with cumulative saving as around Rs. 10 lakh and provided financial support woth Rs. 7 lakh to 110 carers to link them with different income generation activities during last year.

Now the carers have been motivated to form an NGO namely Pragati Carers Sewa Sansthan under Society Registration Act and NBJK organized a training programme for it’s office bearers including executive committee members. This two days training was focused upon the topics like carers’ problem with explanation, their role & responsibility, recognition by the government, data collection, people’s association and organizational expansion. On behalf of Pragati Carers, Mrs. Sumitra Devi (President), Mr. Vijay Paswan (Secretary), Anita Devi (Treasurer) and executive committee members have participated in the training. They were of the view that the government should make a plan to support carers.

As the facilitator, Mr. Rahul Mehta (Rehab. Expert) has contributed to the training while Mr. Natesh and Mr. Madan have represented Carers Worldwide for the activity. They said that in many countries, the very issue of carers got attention of civil society as well as of the governments and we will propose to form a state level forum by carers to riase their concerns publicly. Mr. Rajeev Kr. Singh (Programme Manager, NBJK) outlined about the programme that may be expanded in other blocks of Hazaribag district with the objective to empower  carers in service of their family members despite various constraints. The programme field workers like Mrs. Vimla Rana, Mrs. Pratima Devi, Mrs. Neelam Sharma, Sujit, Mr. Kamal Kant and Mr. Navaratna Pandey too have participated in the training.

#DifferentlyAbledYouths Learn #MobilePhoneServicing @WeareSwades @HSBC

07 February 2019, Amrit Nagar (Hazaribag): There are 3 differently abled youth trainees in the program of Skill for Life at NBJK with support of Swades Foundation and HSBC, Mumbai. These are Sonu Kumar, Vikas Kumar and Hem Lal Murmu. Sonu and Vikas belong to Nawada Sadar and Roh blocks of Nawada district in Bihar while Hem Lal is from Churchu block in Hazaribag district.

All the three youths are interested to learn mobile phone repair skill and enrolled themselves in the concerned trade. Their class have been started from 20 January 2019 and they will continue here till 15 March. Sonu Kumar is merely 17 years old and passed 10th class Board Examination with first division. He bears the brunt of polio right from his childhood and has a severe mobility problem to walk. He was passionate about mobile phone and it’s applications. Sonu wanted to study in Intermediate but didn’t find it suitable because of his physical constraints. He learnt downloading songs & films in mobile phones and started to do this commercially at his home based family shop. When people come to him with other problems in their mobile phones, Sonu became interested to learn those skills also but couldn’t find any proper trainer. When he came to know about the same training course at NBJK, Hazaribag, he joined here.

Likewise Vikas Kumar too has passed class 10th and started to assist a local DJ group. Though he used to earn Rs. 500 for every program but this was irregular and inconvenient. This made Vikas to think for self-employment and he got admission in Mobile Repair course with Skill for Life program.

Hem Lal, the third differently abled guy has passed +2 (Intermediate Atrs) from Gulmohar College, Hazaribag and preferred to complete this two months course on Mobile Repair. He sees a bright prospect of this skill and plans to open a servicing centre for cell phones in his village.

Mr. Rohit Kumar (Faculty, Mobile Phone Repair) praises the determination of these differently abled trainees to learn new skills for self-employability.

#ITAllianceAustralia Plans for #CharitywithNBJK @ITAllianceTweet

29 January 2019, Hazaribag: An NRI Mr. Rattesh Gumber, Co-founder and CEO of IT Alliance Australia has visited NBJK office and work areas to see result of the effort as making Prajapat Nagar village (Panchayat-Maangarh, block-Chauparan) free from Open Defecation. He is associated with Vision 2020 Australia, an organization by Indians in Australia which supported NBJK to make 53 lavatories in the village with contribution of Rs. 1000 from each family. This ensured villagers’ stake in that ODF program, Mr. Rattesh said. Also he mentioned about the support from Vision 2020 Australia for opening of a Vision Centre at Sherghati (Gaya) by NBJK run LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital.

About IT Alliance Australia, he said that its a leading Australian IT resourcing, recruitment & advisory company providing services to large private organizations, Govt. bodies and many Fortune 500 companies like Capgemini, Infosys, ITC Infotech, Virtusa/Polaris etc. across Australia, New Zealand, USA & India. On 22 December 2016, we started ITAA and expanded it to provide work opportunities for Indian graduates also. Mr. Rattesh Gumber outlined that in next 7 years, ITAA will invest Rs. 60 million as FDI in India and looking forward to generate job opportunities for around 5500 youths in the field of HR and IT Consulting verticals. He said that campus selection for youths will be started during 2019-21 with provisions of internship, on job training, stipend for graduates with good communication skills, learning acumen and HR/IT skills as an added advantage. The CEO of ITAA suggested the youths to visit  website https://www.italliance.com.au/current-openings/ or to send their profiles directly to jobs@iatalliance.com.au for Internship or Job Opportunity.

In next 3 years, we will fulfill our social obligations with NBJK as vision restoration to 1000 cataract patients and toilets construction to make some more villages ODF, he informed. Mr. Rattesh Gumber reiterated his commitment to strengthen India-Australia relationship also.

Sub-Committee Meeting of #FamilyCounsellingCentre @MinistryWCD

28 January 2019, Hazaribag : NBJK run Family Counselling Centre (FCC) with support of Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi and Jharkhand State Social Welfare Board, Ranchi has called it’s Sub-Committee meeting at Women’s Police Station, Hazaribag. The meeting was presided by Mrs. Munni Kumari Devi (In-Charge, WPS).

The Sub-Committee members have suggested for knowledge sharing meetings by FCC in villages & town area upon marriage offers now being used as a luring practice for sexual harassment of young girls and such nuptials must be protected by court marriage initially. The In-Charge of Women’s Police Station said that an alertness is required among women and youngsters to escape from sexual exploitation in the name of marriage. She advised to launch an inclusive mass awareness campaign through Aanganbadi centres and women SHGs to avoid such frauds.

During this meeting, Mrs. Meera Gupta (Counsellor, FCC) has placed the quarterly report of Family Counselling Centre from November 2018 to January 2019 before the members which includes total 32 cases as marital disputes (11), liquor caused violence (07), disputes with in-laws (04), propety disputes (01), extra-marital relation or second marriage (02) and others (07). The FCC has initiated and settled 17 cases as reconciliation among the parties.

The Sub-Committee meeting was participated by Mrs. Seema Hembrom (Asst. PSI), Mrs. Neena Purty, Mrs. Usha Devi, Mr. Arvind Jha, Mrs. Sheela Kumari, Mrs. Annie Thomas, Mr. Tulsi Dubey, Ms Veena Sethi, Mrs. Sharda Devi and Mr. Chandan Kumar.

#NBJK Celebrates #RepublicDay2019

26 January 2019, Hazaribag: 70th Republic Day was clebrated gracefully at the coordination office of NBJK. Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) hoisted the national flag and led the recital of national anthem by the people present there. In his short address, Mr. Girija Satish said that independence & equality are like spirit of our constitution and we have equal respect for all religions but this must be reflected in our daily life. From October’19, NBJK will enter in its 50th years and we have decided to celebrate this as the Golden Jubilee Year. We worked amid the people under deep influence of casteism and superstition but fought with the ideas like Manav Jodo Abhiyan, Anti-liquor campaign and many more to ensure a change, he pointed out. Mr. Girija Satish opined that our development programs must focus upon individuals and their objective should be to facilitate individual schemes what a person thinks to be developed. The NBJK President has talked about village-Bahera where NBJK could be able to transform lives of some landless Bhuiyan families. He advocated for less water farming and referred Mahatma Gandhi for cleanliness, self-evaluation and liquor prohibition in Jharkhand.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) said that NBJK shares a role in making of this republic and spent 50 years in service of the people uninterrupted. Now our programs generate two third of total resources and there are more than 100 VOs promoted by NBJK, he proclaimed. Mr. Satish Girija thanked all the donors, supporters for their trust upon NBJK and talked about Golden Jubilee celebration from October in this year. He supported a legal ban upon liquor which women need from the government. Mr. Prabhu Nath Sharma (Treasurer, NBJK) has greeted all and called the day as Sankalp Diwas. He appealed to do own work honestly and to draw satisfaction by doing that well with interest.

In another program organized by the district admiistration, NBJK-Churchu has participated with a tableau bearing the message of Empowering Girl Children. In the schools and branch offices of NBJK, Republic Day was celebrated with parade, cultural show and feelings unbounded.