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 Online Awareness Session for the General Public, Correction Authorities, Students, Teachers, Parents, NGOs.

Program Conducted by:

Namdhesam Foundation.

Project Future India Trust.

Online Awareness Activity

  • Program #1

NAME of the Program:    For Earth’s Sake

Guest Speaker:                Dr. Sultan Ahmed Ismail, Director, Ecoscience Research Foundation, Soil Biologist, Chennai

Date:                                 August 22, 2020 between 5 and 6:30 pm.

Core Content:                  Presentation on Ecology and Environment

Highlights of the Session:

  1. Restoration, Rehabilitation, Mitigation, Adaptation.
  2. Basic needs for Human Beings.
  3.  Ecosystem
  4. Who eats more? Elephant or dog?
  5. Ecology vs Economy
  6. Biodiversity
  7. Diversity of vegetables and Diversity in the vegetables.
  8. Tractor ploughed soil, compaction.
  9. Precipitation and Erosion
  10. Digestive system, Respiratory system, circulatory system, excretory system, reproductive system, nervous system.
  11. Soil has a brain.
  12. Ripening of fruits.
  13. Pesticides and chronic health effects.
  14. Earthworms, Types of earthworms
  15. Food waste composer.
  16. Colour in food.
  17. Types of plastics.
  18. Greatest reward of his research – Vermicompost and Vermitech.

Online Awareness Activity

Program #2

NAME of the Program:   Why Child Safety is still a question mark Vs Increasing Sexual Offences against Children?

Guest Speaker:                     Tmt. M.P. NIRMALA IAS, Chairman, State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights.

Inspector J. GAJALAKSHMI, Juvenile Aid Police Unit-Crime Against Women and Children Wing, Chennai.

Date:                                       August 28, 2020 between 5 and 6:30 pm.

Core Content:                        Awareness on POCSO ACT.

Online Awareness Activity

Program #3

NAME of the Program:   The Silence of Male Child Sexual Abuses in India

Guest Speaker:                Dr. P. Manorama, MD, DCH, DM(Gastro) Founder & Director CHES, Former Chairperson Child Welfare Committee, Chennai.  Inspector. K. C. Shree Devi, Juvenile Aid Police Unit-1, Crime Against Women and Children Wing, Chennai.

Date:                                    Sep 4, 2020 between 04:00 – 6.00 PM.

Core Content:                     The Silence behind the Male Child Sexual Abuses.

                                              Awareness on POCSO ACT.

Online Awareness Activity

Program #4

NAME of the Program:   Central and State Government Welfare Schemes and Policies for Children Empowerment.

Guest Speakers:                1. Thiru. S GANESH MOORTHY. Office Superintendent ,Department of Social Defence Chennai.

                                                   2. Sindhya. L, Women Welfare Officer(MSK) Social Welfare Department, Chennai.

                                                   3.Poongodi Prakash, Tamilnadu Social Welfare Board, Chennai.

Date:                                        Sep 11, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

 

Core Content:

Highlights of the Session:

  1. The Central and State Goverment Welfare Schemes and Policies for Children Empowerment.
  2. Juvenile Justice Act and Integrated Child Protection Services and Schemes.Eg. Foster Care, After Care fund, Adoption etc..
  3. Digital Literacy.
  4. Health and Nutrition.
  5. BetiBachaoBetiPadao.
  6. SukanyaSamrutiYojana.
  7. MalikaSamrutiYojana.
  8. CBSE Scholarship Program.
  9. Pragati Scholarship Scheme.
  10. Indra Gandhi Single Girl Child Scheme.
  11. Preconception and Prenatal Diagnosis Act 1994.
  12. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.
  13. Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Pregnancy Scheme.
  14. Anganwadi/Balwadi.
  15. Rehabilitation and Repatriation
  16. NAPDR.
  17. Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
  18. State Child Protection Society.
  19. District Child Protection Society.
  20. Safe and unsafe children.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #5

NAME of the Program  Increasing Suicidal Deaths vs Examination Fear!How to reinforce our children against suicidal ideations?

Guest Speakers:          Dr .G. Vanishree MBBS, DPM, MD ( Psychiatry) Assistant Professor,Institute of Mental Health

Date:                                  Sep 16, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

  • Every one hour one student commits suicide, which turns out to be 28 suicides on an average in India.
  • Tamilnadu ranks second in the no:of suicides.
  • Highest rated age group is between 15 years and 29 years.
  • Average 381 Suicides daily in India in 2019 with the numbers still being increased.
  • A 3.4% increase was observed in suicides during:
  • 2019:- 1,39,123 suicides.
  • 2018: – 1,34,516 suicides.
  • 2017: – 1,29,887 suicides

Participants:

  1. Madras Medical College.
  2. Department of Community Based Corrections, District and Magistrate Court, Mannar, Srilanka.
  3. Crime against Women and Children Wing, Chennai.
  4. District Mental Health Programme
  5. Social Welfare Department, Chennai.
  6. Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society.
  7. Government Hospital, Periyakulam.
  8. WIPRO.
  9. One Stop Centre.
  10. Dr. MGR Institute of Science and Technology.
  11. School students from various districts.
  12. Teachers and Parents from various districts of Tamilnadu.
  13. Tamilnadu college of Pharmacy, MMC
  14. GH, Chennai, Aranthangi, Ooty Padmanathapuram.
  15. MERF, Institute of Speech and Hearing
  16. Tamil nadu Social Welfare Board.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #6

NAME of the Program:   Social Exclusion of Gender Non- Confirmed Children (Childhood of Transgender Children)

Guest Speakers:              Olga. B. Aaron, Trans-Woman Social Activist.

Date:                                        Sep 18, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

Here is what our Guest Speaker Olga. B. Aaron shared with us!

  1. During the early adolescent childhood of transgender people (gender non-confirmed children) what is the family’s, neighborhood’s, educational institutions (schools) & general public reactions.
  2. As they grow what are the psychological issues they face?
  3. What are the challenges they face to access education and skill buildings?
  4. When they self identity themselves as transgender people after/or during adulthood (after 18) what are the types of challenges they face?
  5. What is the transition process?
  6. After transition as transgender people does the social inclusion exist? What are the challenges they face after it?
  7. What are the livelihood opportunities for transgender people?
  8. What are the existing social inclusive policies and laws?
  9. What is the transgender people’s protection bill? Current status.
  10. Their marriage and adoption.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #7

NAME of the Program: JJ ACT – an extensive overview.Child Labourers, Child Trafficking, Child Begging, a curse for children vs

Why Child Safety is still a question mark in India?

Guest Speakers:            Thiru. A.J.Hariharan, Secretary of ICWO, Indian Community Welfare Organisation.

Thiru. Natharsha H. Malim, State Co-ordinator, Tamilnadu, BachpanBachaoAndolan(BBA).

Date:                                        Sep 25, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

We had an extensive overview on:

      1. JJ ACT.
      2. BachpanBachaoAndolan – Save the Childhood Movement.
      3. Indian Community Welfare Organization.
      4. Prevention, rescue, and re-integration of Second Generation Children of Female Sex Workers.
      5. Prevention of Crime against Women and Children.
      6. Anti-trafficking Clubs.
      7. Homeless Children, Street Children.
      8. Child Beggars.
      9. Anti-child labour Law.
      10. Anti-trafficking Bill.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #8

Conducted by:

  • Project Future India Trust.
  • Namdhesam Foundation.

NAME of the Program: The Opportunities and the Welfare Schemes provided by the Government of Tamilnadu for the Welfare of BC and MBC Students and How to avail them?

Guest Speakers:          Thiru. C. Kamaraj, IAS Director, Tamilnadu Backward Welfare.

 

Date:                                        Sep 30, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

We had an extensive overview on:

  • What are all the loans available for the students?
  • What are all the loans available for starting a business?
  • What are all the scholarships available in all institutes in Tamilnadu?
  • Where and how can the students get the loan?
  • Whom to contact regarding the loan and who are all the district officers who has to be contacted regarding the loans?
  • What are all the loans available for BC and MBC General Public as well as BC and MBC Students?
  • The Special Programs available for the students?
  • Throughout India how many hostels are available for the BC and MBC students.
  • What are all the benefits being a BC and MBC student.
  • How many BC and MBC students are there in the BC and MBC Hostels?

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #9

Conducted by:

  • Project Future India Trust.
  • Namdhesam Foundation.

NAME of the Program: Celebrating the Girl Child.

Guest Speakers:       Tmt. H. Jayalakshmi, Deputy Commissioner of Police, IPS, Crime Against Women and Children Wing.

Date:                                        Oct 2, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

On behalf of the Ministry of Women and Children Development to celebrate 151st Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji, Department of Social Welfare, Mahila Shakti Kendra, Project Future India Trust, Namdhesam Foundation has celebrated the Girl Children promoting the programme Beti Bachao Beti Padao (BBBP) for ensuring equal opportunities to the daughters of India, empowering them and making them self-reliant to bring about equality and empower our girls by combating against deep rooted socio-cultural biases and gender discrimination over a life cycle continuum.

In order to bring visibility and create awareness about the value of girl child today we inaugurated the event screening Thiru. C.KAMARAJ, IAS, Director of Backward Welfare, sir’s audiovisual on empowering girl children. The chief guest for today’s program is Ms. JAYALAKSHMI, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Against Women and Children Wing. We finally took Oath in front of her to Celebrate the Girl Child and Enable Her Education.

We would wholeheartedly like to thank Ms. JAYALAKSHMI, IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Against Women and Children Wing, for being our Chief Guest today, who gave her valuable time for us and made this program a grand success. We were overwhelmed and excited by her surprise presence. We would also like to thank Inspector Gajalakshmi, Crime Against Women and Children Wing JAPU-2 and Inspector K. C. Shree Devi, Crime Against Women and Children Wing, JAPU-1 who had been continuously supporting us in creating online awareness on the CHILD SAFETY and EMPOWERMENT.

We take this moment to thank and express our gratitude to Thiru. C. KAMARAJ, IAS, Director of Backward Welfare for his special Audiovisual message promoting the importance of girl children, Thiru. GANESH MOORTHY Sir, Superintendent, Department of Social Defence and Thiru. Senthilvel, Journalist and Thiru. Balavel Chakravathi, Journalist, who shared their audiovisuals supporting the importance of protecting the girl children and enabling their education.

We extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to Thiru. BASKAR, Assistant Commissioner, Public Relations Officer, Commissioner of Police, Chennai who supported us in this noble cause. Also, we thank Ms.Sindhya, Women Welfare Officer, Mahila Shakti Kendra and Ms. Poongodi Prakash, Family Counselor, Tamilnadu Social Welfare Board who is continuously supporting us in this cause.

We also thank all the parents who were counsellors, advocates, doctors, professors, teachers, and layman, shared their audiovisuals supporting this cause celebrating their girl children and also thank each and everyone who made this event a grant success.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #10

Conducted by:

  • Project Future India Trust.
  • Namdhesam Foundation.

NAME of the Program: Building Awareness – Reducing Mental Illness and Suicide

Guest Speakers:     DR. VENKATESH MATHAN KUMAR, Professor of Psychiatry, Madras Medical College.

Date:                               Oct 14, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

Here is what he elaborated in the session:

  • What is mental health?
  • What is the relation between physical well being and mental well being?
  • Stress, anxiety, depression. How does and when does one escalate into another.
  • Psychopathological disorders?
  • When do we need to seek help with the counseling psychologist and when to seek medical attention?
  • Factors causing the mental illnesses, risk factors associated with the mental illnesses.
  • Coping up mechanisms.
  • Overall it was an eye-opener, educative and interactive session.

Online Awareness Activity

 Program #11

Conducted by:

  • Project Future India Trust.
  • Namdhesam Foundation.

NAME of the Program: Insights into the Link between the Drug Use, Increasing Criminality, Crime Rate among the Children and Adolescents Vs How to Control and Prevent Drug Usage/Coping up Techniques

Guest Speakers:   DR. VENKATESH MATHAN KUMAR, Professor of Psychiatry, Madras Medical College.

Date:                              Oct 23, 2020 between 05:00 – 6.30 PM

Core Content:

Here is what he elaborated in the session:

  • Here is what our Guest Speakers have addressed to the General Public and Participants.
    • What is drug abuse/drug addiction?
    • What are legal and illegal drugs?
    • How can we identify if someone is addicted to drugs?
    • What are all the classification of drugs?
    • What is drug abuse and drug dependency?
    • Drug abuse, conduct disorders and anti-social personality/behavior.
    • What is non-addictive drug addiction?
    • When to seek medical attention for drug addiction ?
    • What is drug de-addiction?
    • The coping up techniques and rehabilitative measures?
    • Insights into the link between the drug usage and criminality among the children and adolescents.
    • The legal aspects pertaining to drug trafficking and drug abuse.
    • What is NDPS Act?
    • How can we report trafficking?
    • How can join hands with the correction authorities – Police Department to fight against the Drug Abuse?
    • The role of everyone in the society to fight against the DRUG ABUSE and CRIME.
    • The various capacity building programs and Awareness Campaigns on Drug Demand Reduction and Drug De-addiction.