#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.                                           

#PhotographyTraining for #VoluntaryOrganizations @ActionVillageIn

06 January 2019, Hazaribag: One day training on photography was held for NBJK & partner VOs for documentation purpose. Ms Esther Trienekins and Mrs. Thea Sallaekts from Action Village India (U. K.) were the resource persons for the training who shared tips & techniques to get good photographs from simple cameras even.

They focused upon footwork of the photographers rather than to zoom out or zoom in with their cameras. They suggested to draw the photographs as specific as possible and to discard generic imagery. The pictures with too many people do not serve our purpose and any photo with just one or two people is normally the best, Ms Esther said to the participants. She discussed about the significance of ISO numbers in camera and warned that any source of light should be behind the photographer. About features of any good photograph, the resource persons advised that it should be active and helpful to tell the story. Such photograph should be positive, dignified, real, neither manufactured nor too posed, smiling with positive impact, should be expressive and caring about feelings, they told and shown such photographs with help of the projector. Ms Esther was concerned about facial reaction in a natural way that could be possible with the snaps to be taken while the subject talks or works whatever we want to show. We must care about his/her open eyes, not too much light or too much background, she cautioned.

At the outset of the training, both the resource persons were greeted by Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) and Mr. Rajeev Kr. Singh (Program Manager, NBJK). Mr. Satish Girija has appreciated the training on photography and said that our phtographs shouldn’t capture the actions only but those must reflect expressions also for value addition.

The training was participated by Messrs Krishna Prasad Kushwaha (Head Master, Birsa High School, Devkuli, Ichak, Hazaribag), Pankaj Kumar Sinha (Vikas Foundation Trust, Jarmundi, Dumka), Ramadhar Singh & Abhay Kumar (Lok Shakti Shikshan Kendra, Paraiya, Gaya), Bilchen Ekka & Sushana Kujur (Arohi, Ranchi), Chandan Kumar (Stri Shakti, Hazaribag), Filman Bakhla (Lok Prerna Kendra, Simariya, Chatra), Shankar Rana & Vinay Kumar Bhatta (NBJK, Hazaribag). After theory sessions, all the trainees got a small exposure for practical handling of the situation with their cameras. This training on photography will be helpful to our documentation work, most of the trainees have confirmed.

#AdolescentSummit Held @UNICEFIndia

17 December 2018, Ranchi: UNICEF Jharkhand and NBJK have organized an Adolescent Summit for Child Reporters at hotel Capitol Hill, Ranchi. The program was inaugurated by Mr. Jeetu Charan Ram (MLA, Kanke) and Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) jointly.

Mr. Jeetu Charan Ram appreciated UNICEF with NBJK for the program of Child Reporters that provided such a platform for school children to express themselves so productively and brushing up their talent with skill and creativity. These Child Reporters are really impressive as they are writing against topics like child marriage & child labour so amazingly, the MLA said. Mr. Ram advocated for protection and encouragement of child rights for  allround development of the society. Mr. Satish Girija termed Child Reporters as a different program among various programs by NBJK and valued it as a channel to reshape children’s lives through a positive perspective.

Mr. Rajesh Jha (Media Coordinator, UNICEF-Ranchi) has explained about Child Rights in detail and focused upon the need to eradicate Child Marriage as a social obligation for all members of the society. He congratulated the Child Reporters to be a part of the campaign against violation of their rights. Mrs. Sushmita Bhattacharjee (Program Manager, NBJK) has briefed about the objectives of Child Reporter program and presented a summary of the annual achievements.

Also many Child Reporters have come on the dais and shared their experience with the audience. The Adolescent Summit was anchored by Surabhi Lohra and Shubham (both Child reporters) remarkably and the vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Vivek Kumar (MIS Coordinator, NBJK). The organizing team was comprised of Messrs Anup, Sarita, Puja, Shivcharan Munda and more than 150 Child Reporters & teachers from 60 schools of Ranchi district have participated in the event.

State Level #Farmers’Convention by #LokSamiti

10 December 2018, Patna: A state level farmers’ convention was organized by Bihar State Lok Samiti at IMA Hall, Patna. The main speaker of this program was Mr. Girija Satish (National President, Lok Samiti) who called farming as an uncertain occupation with deficit and expressed deep concern over issues like drought-flood including suicide by farmers. He made adverse governmental policies responsible for the mess in agriculture sector which is relied by 60% population, provides livelihood for 50% labour force and contributes about 17-18% to our GDP. He said that people migrated from villages become victims of atrocity-diseases at other places and its necessary to uplift the farmers if we are really intended to develop our country. The national president of Lok Samiti has considered farmers’ disappointments as the government is unable to procure farm products, couldn’t provide them profitable price and failed to irrigate their land through worthless irrigation projects spending millions of rupees. Mr. Girija Satish referred about every year draught in Bihar and complained that the farmers are suffering a lot as they don’t have any crop and lack a viable support system from the government. He stressed upon strong organization of farmers, long-peaceful campaigning for their causes and opined that all farmers belong to one caste i.e., farmer caste and their votes must go to the person or party that can safeguard their interest. He suggested for filling up of Resolution Letter by political parties-candidates and about stake of farmers’ bodies for pricing of agriculture products.

As the chief guest of this convention, Mr. Sachin Sharma (Resident Editor, “Prabhat Khabar”, Patna) has requested all to think over farmers’ problem irrespective of mainstream politics. Mr. Kaushal Ganesh Azad (National Coordinator, Lok Samiti) weeded out about agriculture sector that generates maximum employment but passing through a bad phase. He supported the reccomendation of Swaminathan Committee that suggests for minimum support price as one and a half times more than the cost price of agricultural products. Mr. Vijay Kumar (President, Bihar State Lok Samiti) has chaired the convention and called for the need of non-political movement and benefit of profitable pricing to farmers. The program was anchored by Mr. Sheoji Singh (General Secretary, Bihar State Lok Samiti) who tabled a 15-points letter of demand for the state government.

Bihar State Lok Samiti demanded for market price of paddy, wheat, rabi, pulses, oilseeds, milk etc. as one & a half times more that their cost price, a comprehensive irrigation program through micro irrigation-borewells-canal & value added finishing of incomplete projects, employment oriented program in drought affected areas, 95% subsidy for farmers to install solar pumps and other steps in favor of the peasants. Local community leaders like messrs Raghwendra Prasad Singh (ex-district councillor), Ramayan Singh, Chandrabhushan, Kranti Rasosh, Godawari, Manjushree, Meean Devi, Subodh Pandey, Kalyani Sharma, Parmeshwar Yadav, Mantosh Kumar, Radheshyam Filkus, Satyendra Kumar, Jagannath Singh, Vinod Sharma,  Mani Pandey, Dr. Umesh Prasad, Manti Verma, Ramakant, Shankar Rana, Ray Sunderdev Sharma were other speakers on the occasion. The vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Saudagar Das (Coordinator, BSLS). About 400 farmers from different districts of Bihar have participated in the convention.