Volunteer Photographer for Malur Taluk Water Project visit w/AA Foundation

I visited Angashetty with AA Foundation and got this unique opportunity to see the completed water and sanitation project in the angadwadi and also talk to the women who send their kids their. Before the water and sanitation projects weren't in place, parents weren't very keen on sending their kids to the Angadwadi and rather leave them at home due to obvious reasons. But many thanks to the initiative taken by PWX and AA Foundation, the sanitation and water problems are now solved and up and running and kids are sent regularly to the angadwadi with its safe and hygienic environment.

The toilets were in use and considerably in good condition with no odor. The caretakers of the angadwadi did a good job to keep the system up and running. However, the rainwater pipe that runs from the rooftop to the tank below was displaced, the reason given was that the kids while playing had dislocated it. I guess this is a small issue of maintenance which will be taken care in the future.

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The toilets were being used and well maintained. No odor. The rain barrel on site was about 1/2 full but the pipes draining the roof were no longer connected. The teacher said that the children play with it and broke it recently. The water was used to clean the bathrooms and also used for cooking.

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Increased attendance in angnawadi's

The organisation has been supporting the anganwadi center in upgrading the quality of education ,health and also maintenance of infrastructural , recent information collected by our staff nandini has shown a remarkable increase in attendance of children to the the angnawadi, regular visits , inputs , activities and improved infrastructural such as water resources and toilets is one of the factor.

The angnwadi staff also been supporting in terms of maintenance and receiving the inputs such training session on health and education.

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Followup field visit

Myself visited along with advisory board Ms Indiraswamynathan who intracted with anganwadi and class 1st and 2nd children, deomosnstrated for teachers and staff many simple methods to stimulate learning among children, the half a day session with children was interesting and beneficial accr to teachers.

It was also observed the toilets were maintained by angnawadi helpers.And regularly used by children. the watertank was full with water supply from GP. the tree planted in the month of November has all survived and care taken by children.

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Follow up-Reporting

From 24rth December to 28th December Organisation is doing a assessment of the completed project in the field, regarding labour work , material used , accounts and interviewing community, after this completed final report will be uploaded,
as of now all the work have been completed and also water connection has been made.

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Report

Nandini field educationist , have worked a time table with anganwadi teacher, before they didin' t had specific timing for using rest room, now the timings are made morning 10,after noon 1pm, and evening 3 pm, although the children who are very small and not used. teachers have guided to make it dialy practice.

Report

Grampanchayat secretary had visited the project site, and give permission to drawn panchayat water from the Cistern out side.

Completion of toilet and rainwater harvesting structure

The women and child department has been informed , and GP about completion of the work,GP needs some time to give water connection , as it is busy in elections.( till then there is GP bore well supply to cistern in front of anganwadi, they have to fetch the water from there as they are doing now).

We thank all the villages laborers who involved in construction work and Mr Chandrappa village elder who monitored the work, Also all the school teachers who initiated discussion and involved in budgeting.
Also Our staff who through hard work gained good experience.
and volunteers team who filled the AW center and toilet with colors and planting trees around.
We thank PWX who supported and guided us to do things in our time. and also waiting for comments from Peers group

Hope all the above team work will bring changes in future in terms of good practices on health and hygeine

Our followups will be on effective usages of toilets by the children, increased learning among children in usage of toilet,(in turn influencing their families to built a toilet in houses) importance of safe drinking, saving water , and planting trees. This will be disseminated in each angawadi through teaching aids by the foundation with angawadi workers.

Completion of toilet and rainwater harvesting structure

The women and child department has been informed , and GP about completion of the work,GP needs some time to give water connection , as it is busy in elections.

We thank all the villages laborers who involved in construction work and Mr Chandrappa village elder who monitored the work, Also all the school teachers who initiated discussion and involved in budgeting.
Also Our staff who through hard work gained good experience.
and volunteers team who filled the AW center and toilet with colors and planting trees around.
We thank PWX who supported and guided us to do things in our time.

Hope all the above team work will bring changes in future in terms of good practices on health and hygeine

Our followups will be effective usages of toilets by the children, increased learning among children in usage of toilet,(in turn influencing their families to built a toilet in houses) importance of safe drinking, saving water , and planting trees. This will be disseminated in each angawadi through teaching aids by the foundation with angawadi workers.

Reporting

Mr.Chandrababu had few technical corrections( connection to water storage tank level and filters) to be made in rainwater harvesting, Krishnamurti have taken suggestion and will be completing on 12th December. Also Babu wanted to know in what ratio the sand and cement are mixed for the construction

The tiles work is completed and all related work to toilet, the photos will reach us on 12 th evening.

The logo painted by children and volunteers needs correction .

Reporting

On 11th evening ,the teacher called and felt sorry about 8th incidence, and said they are ready to meet us plan other related activity which we also agreed to have meeting in third week of December 2012.

Reporting

Thou we had been sharing our day to day work with peer group, As a new group we had to experience the system existing in terms of RW or any construction related work in the field .Our team work/experience was on child rights issue, and had least experience in construction public structure,
The Agnashetty halli construction has given us a new dimension to under stand the force, system and corruption ,dominance involved when we want to implement in the field level.

We would like to share our preparation ,implementation level opinions and learnings.

One Day seminar With Ayappa Masagi

The foundation has organised one day awarnes programme and invited Mr Anappa Masagi a Asoka fellow as a resource person 6 months back.
the information on rainwater was useful as GP member , teachers and community representative , children learnt the importance of harvesting rainwater and using toilet, Based on this our foundation had discussion with Ayappa Masagi to support in designing the rainwater harvesting for the Angashetty halli ,he quoted a 40/40 width open tank dried to plan and implement RS 22 laks which involved pooling all drain water to the small pond. He learnt from us that we are applying for PWX fund ,Later came to know he have approached PWX. He suggested to us to work under him,if PWX supports.

Later when we approached for RW budget- there was no reply and once he called that The Kolar DC has asked him to take up Malur for RW in our villages where we planned,we ignored all his communication and concentrated on our work.

The planning with local school teachers on RW and toilets.
The three masons have quoted 50-60 thousand rupees for the toilet construction alone.Later Teacher group was upset as we didn't agree.

One mason from kolar Quoted 1,50 000 thousand rupees. after one day exposure to Bangalore.
Later We decided to hire labour and buy materials , to see what will be actual cost.

The meeting with angawadi workers , local mason and village elders and letter to GP was given.

In this process local village elder gave his time to monitor the construction activity as well sand and jelly worth of half load for construction.

The labourers in the villages were involved in the construction.

The construction of toilet 9 ft/8ft with 2 camods and RW costed (expenditure file attached).

Organisation have taken the following decision after this construction.
The each toilet and RW construction budget will be differences according to the size,So the materials will be supplied and laborer from the village will be hired, till we get a reasonable ,committed mason in the field.

The shops identify will supply materials, and payment wil be made by cheque.

Krishnamurti to continue reporting every day work as well once a week settlement of accounts. He also felt that community had least participation when construction was taking place, the awarnes programme for community through interaction and meeting is planned in December month.

The size f the toilet constructed is little big, so to work out in observing the school toilet already built by SSA for the next project dimension.

RW will vary according to the building existing.

The GP will supply water to angawadi which will be used for drinking , cooking and toilet, as well rainwater connection is also there for the 1000ltrs tank installed.( the Photographs will be posted soon on completion of work).

The day to today discussion over the phone and reporting has taken place , every week two to three visits has been made by myself and our staff krishnamurthy has been on the field every day and updating PWX.

We have presented and planned work with Taluk office ,GP and Monthly meeting of Anganwadi Malur cluster.
foundation have hired the staff to work closely with Anganwadi's and to monitor utilization of the resources built.
currently waiting for GP to supply water, which in day or two the connections will be provided by them.

On totally when it comes to Donor and implementer, the day today sharing Through SMS,over the phone in need and reports, helped us to take away burden , stress for future work, and motivating to take up more projects like this and also experience our mistakes happened.
Our staff also need technical training which is happening in the process now with interaction.

Thankyou

Toilet and rainwater harvesting

The project of toilet construction and RW has been completed on 7th late evening , the last few cleaning up and fixing up pipes connection will be done on Sunday. The foundation had organized child friendly wall painting on 8th Saturday, The anganwadi and toilets were painted by volunteer( (Awareness and Active Group) with few children and villages children , This 7 hours programme of 30 volunteers ,staff and local community completed painting , planting 50 saplings around the anganwadi and villages ( neem , chickoo, jack fruit,poppy tree(Singapore cherry), mulberry, amla,)various variety planted provided by Kolar Forest department. The responsibilities of takeing care of plants is given to each children in the village, anganwadi workers and grampanchayat member Chandrappa to water and safe guard the plants.

The toilet built was also painted by the children .

toilet and rainwater construction

On 9th evening Sunday,Chandrababu,krishnamurthy and myself had a review for 2 and half hour, taking feedback and experience of krishnamurthy in the process, difficulties ,challenges he faces , corrections to be made for next project and few alterations required for toilet and RW.

Planning for Bingipura Angawadi.

Toilet and rainwater harvesting

Dear Rajesh
Yesterday on 8th , during interaction with chandrappa local GP member came to know there was materials contribution for toilet foundation stone and sand, jelly also during last pace of work, which was not mentioned from our staff, so today will be getting exact contribution received from local community, which we would like to acknowledge in our reports. So latest by Tuesday evening all related , accounts and reports statement will upload.

Toilet and rainwater harvesting

The project of toilet construction and RW has been completed on 7th late evening , the last few cleaning up and fixing up pipes connection will be done on Sunday. The foundation had organized child friendly wall painting on 8th Saturday, The anganwadi and toilets were painted by volunteer( (Awareness and Active Group) with few children and villages children , This 7 hours programme of 30 volunteers ,staff and local community completed painting , planting 50 saplings around the anganwadi and villages ( neem , chickoo, jack fruit,poppy tree(Singapore cherry), mulberry, amla,)various variety planted provided by Kolar Forest department. The responsibilities of takeing care of plants is given to each children in the village, anganwadi workers and grampanchayat member Chandrappa to water and safe guard the plants.

The toilet built was also painted by the children .

toilet and rainwater construction

while wall panting was happening at Anganwadi premises, the group of teachers and cluster resource persons came to the spot, they were upset about we haven't given the construction work to the mason whom they suggested last time , who quoted 52 thousand for toilet only. As I was trying to explain them ,we have built in a reasonable cost, they got angry and suggested to donate for children exposure trip rather than doing unwanted things like toilet construction which is not important as they said.

Thou I was trying to explain politely, they were least interested to listen , i am writing them to organised a meeting , where I have to put effort to make them understand the concept of whole programme and issues related.

I said due to the reason of children dropout is found in higher numbers and we mentioned doing two day camps and enroll them to school ,still they said it is not important programme for them an only interested in conducting events ,and insisted donation from the foundation.

From the Day I our staff and ourselves are facing a force to agree for the budget they have made, and we are not getting the support expected.But we have determind, and taking peoples help who are related to angawadi,specially our staff krishnamurthy discuss each aspect taking suggestions and getting the work done.

After internal discussion on sunday, Till we identify committed people after awarness programme in various level, our staff will monitor and take up construction with hired labour work and foundation will pay directly to the materials providers in Malur identified shops to avoid cash transactions.