Summer Camp at Dadar 16th & 17th May 2018

CSA with its networking partner Salvation Centre for Community Organization held a two day summer camp at Dadar on the 16^th & 17^th May 2018. Twenty three children from various communities across Dadar participated in the camp.

For the first day the resource person Ms. Clipsy Banji conducted a session on ‘Behaviour Management’. She took an interactive session with the use of various games.

She explained the children how they would generally react to various situations and how they must portray themselves with their good behavior at various levels and phases of life.

On the second day Ms. Darshana Souz, CCO staff conducted a session on “Personality development” with the use of games and action songs. She explained the method by which in difficult situations one should overcome their weaknesses and turn it to their strength.

The main focus of the summer camp was to provide social and personal values to children through these sessions. Children have actively and whole heartedly participated in the program.

Women’s day celebration at Bandra

International women’s day was celebrated at Bandra on 12^th March 2018. One hundred women with sixty children were present for the celebration. The theme chosen was ‘women and Equality’.  The main speaker for the evening was a police inspector from the crime branch at Bandra. She spoke about various laws in the country related to women against Domestic violence act 2005, Sexual harassment at workplace, cybercrime, and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Along with providing safety and security instructions, the inspector urged the women to look after their own health as well. The chief guest representing CSA motivated the women to overcome difficult situations through a short inspiring story. Songs, skits and dances were performed by women and children.  The program ended with a nourishing dinner. The celebration was well planned and executed by the community animators under the guidance of CSA & Centre for Community Organization (CCO).

CSA Empowering Women through Financial Literacy!

CSA changes the life of 40 women with its Financial empowerment program (FEP) which began in November 2016 at Mumbai & Dharavi Island. The objective being to enable the marginalized & underprivileged women to understand the importance of savings. In order to encourage women to make their own decision for their personal & family growth and for the growth of the society at large, CSA in collaboration with its networking partners designed a module for the program. Engaging at the grass root level CSA conducted sessions every month at Poinsur, Bunderpakhadi, Goregaon & Uttan areas. Fifty women participated and understood the method of savings, the various types of bank accounts like Saving and Recurring Deposit(RD) and the procedure to open a simple bank account. Out of the 50 women, 40 completed their 12 months RD of Rs. 500 a month and decided to make an FD as well as restart an RD (of Rs.1000).

A lady from Bunderpakhadi said, “After the FEP program I learnt to save money daily. To increase my family income & savings I started to work as a domestic worker instead of staying home and have decided to increase my RD saving from Feb 2018.”

Another participant from Goregaon said,” I was working past 15 years as a domestic worker but I could never save even Rs.500 an annual but now I could save Rs.6000 last year.

Leadership Skills and Celebration of Saheli Din at Pragati Kendra Trust, Worli 25.01.2018

Ms. Shilpa Kashelkar, who specialises in Women empowerment and is a visiting faculty member from Nirmala Niketan, led a training program on Leadership Skills at the Pragati Kendra Trust, Worli on 25th January 2018. Ms. Sheetal Palande CSA staff; helped in organising and assisting the event. A total of 57 women from Janata Colony, Golfadevi and Waorli Koliwada attended the program which majorly revolved around different aspects of leadership. The women were mainly from the self-help groups and domestic workers. 

The session started with discussing the types of leadership i.e. Strategic Leadership Style, Cross-Cultural Leadership, Democratic Leadership etc. The speaker went on to explain the values one requires to be a good leader. Every Ideal leader should have the 6 basic qualities, she said, i.e Trustworthiness, Ability to understand others, Team worker, Intelligent, Responsible, and Punctuality. Group activities were conducted to understand to make them understand the concept better and feedbacks were shared on the same.

At the end Pragati Kendra Trust also celebrated Saheli Din on the occasion of Makar Sankranti with these women. Ms. Vanita Patil, CCO staff of Pragati Kendra trust explained the concept of working together as a group and spreading the sweetness around just like the combination of jaggery and sesame seed does.  The program helped the women realise the leadership potential each of have in them and how should one shape them in order to become a successful leader.