Girls Dropout Because Of Menstrual Hygiene

Many Girls Dropout From Their School Just Because Of Periods .

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Time For Menstrual Hygiene And Gender Equality (French Language)

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Time For Menstrual Hygiene And Gender Equality (English Language)

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I am Beatrice , Team Member Of HEEALS Non -Profit /NGO . We are working on Menstrual Hygiene and Gender Equality Project In India . We Started Crowdfunding Page For Our Project On Menstrual Hygiene and Gender Equality . We are raising Funds For White Boards ,Markers ,Sanitary Pads ,MH.& GE Booklets ,Posters, Soaps ,Masks ,Sanitizers. Please Help Us In Helping These Childeren & Communities . Kindly Donate and Support Our Fundraising Campaign. Below Is The Link.

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Time For Menstrual Hygiene And Gender Equality

Hello Everyone , I am Beatrice , Team Member Of HEEALS Non -Profit /NGO . We are working on Menstrual Hygiene and Gender Equality Project In India . We Started Crowdfunding Page For Our Project On Menstrual Hygiene and Gender Equality . We are raising Funds For White Boards ,Markers ,Sanitary Pads ,MH.& GE Booklets ,Posters, Soaps ,Masks ,Sanitizers. Please Help Us In Helping These Childeren & Communities . Kindly Donate and Support Our Fundraising Campaign. Below Is The Link.

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INTERNSHIP VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES IN FORMAL & INFORMAL EDUCATION PROJECTS

INTERNSHIP VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL

EDUCATION PROJECTS

Formal education refers to the education that takes place in the education and training system of a country. It is official, structured and is organized by public organizations or recognized private institutions and results with formal certification recognized by relevant national educational authorities. In simple terms, this means that the certification of completion of education that we receive at the end of our education period is the end result or proof of our skills and knowledge.

Formal education is mainly full – time education and is a continuous process with defined stages. Formal education encompasses primary, lower and upper secondary education, higher and university education that culminate in the achievement of a degree or a professional qualification or diploma or a recognized certification. School education is given utmost importance all across the world because it lays the foundation of a child’s bright future by providing him/ her  a platform to showcase and make full use of the unique talents s/he possesses. This not only helps an individual to do well financially, but also helps him/ her to bring about impactful changes around them.

Non-formal learning is characterized by a deliberate choice of the person, which takes place outside of the systems mentioned above. This include educational and training purposes, even volunteering, the national civil service, private social service and in enterprises.

 Non – formal education is also any type of structured and organized learning which is institutionalized, intentional and planned by an educational provider, but which does not lead to formal level of qualification recognized by the relevant national education authorities. People of all age groups can participate in non - formal education which can be offered through courses, workshops, seminars.

Non formal education is as important as formal education, because it helps an individual to enhance their personality by learning certain soft skills that help develop the emotional quotient of the person. Activities done selflessly for the benefit of others can take a person a long way. It not only gives satisfaction for having done a good deed, but can also bring about big changes in society and the lives of those in need.

Countries across the world, including India, welcome volunteers from across the world to selflessly engage themselves in both formal and informal education projects through a wide range of internship and volunteering programs. In India, there is a need to spread awareness among children in several domains like menstruation, sanitation, gender equality, sexual exploitation etc. Thus, volunteers are required to spread this message in a friendly and easy to learn manner. Through small changes, we can transform our upcoming generations into responsible and wise citizens.

At HEEALS, we invite people from all across the world, who have the time, intention and relevant skills to make a difference in society, to come and intern with us. For us, both formal and informal education is equally important in the life of a child. We aim at making the lives of children belonging to poor financial backgrounds a better place by providing those opportunities to explore and showcase the unique talent that they possess. Come work with us today!

-Tvisha

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NUTRITION AT SCHOOL

Nutrition is the intake of food, considered in relation to the body's dietary needs and a

balanced diet, together with physical activity, is a cornerstone of good health. The

international organisations are increasingly focusing their efforts on nutrition as they

underscore the importance of it, not only on at the individual level but as an asset for the

sustainable development of a country . As Ban Ki Moon stated: “Nutrition  is both a maker and a marker of development. Improved nutrition is the platform for progress in health,education, employment, empowerment of women and the reduction of poverty and inequality, and can lay the foundation for peaceful, secure and stable societies”. 

Nutrition is therefore a very complex and multifaceted issue as it encompasses a broad range of topics and, taken form a Sustainable Development Goals perspective, can be taken as the focal point from which one can address every one of those. Unfortunately a big share of the world population faces issues related to malnutrition, this being defined by the WHO as the condition related to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients. Whilst many western countries are facing a growing burden of Obesity and overweight individuals, the other side of the coin is represented by those developing countries affected by undernutrition and micronutrient-related malnutrition, with 90 per cent of the developing world’s chronically undernourished (stunted) children living in Asia and Africa. 

Under nutrition is defined as the outcome of insufficient food intake and repeated infectious diseases. It includes being underweight for one’s age, too short for one’s age (stunted), dangerously thin for one’s height (wasted) and deficient in vitamins and minerals (micronutrient malnutrition). According to Unicef, more than one third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India, with the rural communities having the highest rates of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. Other nutrition issues faced by many underprivileged communities is Iron-deficiency-Anaemia (IDA), for which India earned by far the world sad record, and Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM). The Indian government recognizes the importance of an adequate nutrition in order to end the vicious circle of poverty and its paramountcy for development, as noted in the national nutrition policy. The same document underlines the importance of nutrition education and the fact that schools are an ideal setting for that. Reason why the Mid-may meal scheme is been designed. Unfortunately, as noted in the previous article the shortcomings about the implementation of the programme are manifest and if we take them from a “nutritional” angle we notice that the programme failed to provide nutritious food as per programme guidelines.Therefore the question is: 

What can be done to remedy to these

shortcomings? The ministry of Human Resource Development highlights the importance of community participation for the successful implementation of the scheme, in order to

ensure an effective monitoring at the local level and underlining the importance of the

participation of NGOs which work at a grassroots level, having a hands-on approach to

such issues and dealing directly with the problems faced by the communities, thus creating a dialogue between those and the government. 

Therefore NGOs such as Heeals can be paramount for the remedying of the government shortcomings regarding the implementation of programmes such as the MDM scheme; tackling issues such as Infrastructure implementation, nutrition education and nutritional balanced meal provision. It is paramount to empower voiceless and unprivileged communities in order to buttress their rights as the issues that their facing are not an accident or a natural outcome of their actions, but they are socio-economical phenomena engendered by asymmetrical power relations and lack of access to the most basic resources and agency. 

As demonstrated by Amartya Sen, hunger and food insecurity are not related to food availability but to the lack of access to it on the part of certain individuals, and if we are to support the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, we have to support and empower those people whom are more in need, making their voices audible as well as endorsing a pragmatic solidarity” approach. As Paul Farmer stated, the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong in the world.

-        By -Andrea Angeli

WASH Intern Coordinator

Source

1 Global Panel on Agriculture and Food systems fo Nutrition; http://glopan.org/sites/default/files/

SDGPolicyBrief.pdf

2http://ucx3x320eshgjxppibt1rqg0.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/SUNMovement-

Strategy-and-Roadmap-Ban-Ki-moon-message.pdf

3 UNSCN; http://glopan.org/sites/default/files/Downloads/SDGPolicyBriefSummary.pdf

4 WHO; https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition

5 UNICEF; https://unicef.in/Story/1124/Nutrition

6 UNICEF; https://www.unicef.org/progressforchildren/2006n4/undernutritiondefinition.html

7 UNICEF; https://unicef.in/Story/1124/Nutrition

8 WHO; http://www.who-seajph.org/article.asp?

issn=2224-3151;year=2018;volume=7;issue=1;spage=18;epage=23;aulast=Rai ; https://

www.hospitalmanagement.net/comment/anemia-prevalence-nears-40-india/; https://

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/51-of-indian-women-aged-15-49-anaemic-most-in-world-study/

articleshow/61538152.cms

9https://wcd.nic.in/sites/default/files/nnp_0.pdf

10 see “Food and Hygiene” article.

11Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development; https://

elementaryeducation.tripura.gov.in/mid-day-meal; see “Food Hygiene” article.

12 Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School

Education and Literacy; http://mdm.nic.in/mdm_website/Files/Guidelines/

3.MDM1%2021.09.2010.pdf

13 Amartya Sen, “Poverty and famines”, 1981, Oxford India Paperbacks

14ICESCR

15 For the concept of “pragmatic

WASH & Food Hygiene Workshop !

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WASHBooklet Distributed In Schools

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We welcome our new interns From Italy 

He Is Working On Water Sanitation & Hygiene Program.

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Today We Celebrate HEEALS Foundation #Day! 4th January

HEEALS Is An Acronym Denoting Our Commitment To Committing Human And Technical Resource To Achieve Health Education Environment and Livelihood Society for all. 

We Give Thanks To Our Team Member, Partner, Interns,Volunteer And All Those Who Are Continuously Striving Together To Achieve Our Mission, Vision And Goals & Objective .We Give Thanks To Everyone Who Tirelessly & Generously Giving Their Service To The People In Need. And We Give Thanks For All Those Who Will Come And Join Today ,Tomorrow & In Future Years To Be Good Help To Those In Need.
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EDUCATE TO SAVE Why is it so important to educate girls?

EDUCATE TO SAVE
Why is it so important to educate girls?

What’s going on?

One of the greatest problems of the indian sub-continentis the lack of education provided to girls. According to the data reported first by the MHRD (Ministry of Human Resources Development) and then by CENSUS, in 2011 around 84 million children were outside the school system, almost 20% of all those who have an educational obligation, according to the norms of the RTE (Right To Education Act). The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education is an act of the Indian Parliament which guarantees free access, and confirmation of its mandatory nature, to education for all those who are between 6 and 14 yearsold.

However, especially towards the end of primary studies, the number of girls attending school is low and indeed the dropouts are numerous. The data iseven more negative when we start talking about secondary education, where 32% of girls do not have access to school, compared to 28% of boys, as highlighted by researcher AnjelaTaneja.

Why?

What determines the dropouts and what prevents many girls from studying?

Reasons can be traced to three macro-areas:

1)      Family responsabilities: traditional gender roles come into play,according to which girls must take care of home and family, and then get married soon. The responsibility however does not stop there, since the parents are often worried about the sexual harassment that girls could experience, bringing dishonor on the family, as reported by Rachel Williams on The Guardian;

2)      Lack of toilet facilities: an other serious problem that leads to poor attendance by female students is the lack of adequate sanitation and the presence of negative myths and beliefs related to puberty and the menstrual cycle;

3)      Priority to the boys: access to the internet and other facilities is often generally poor, therefore the priority is given to the boys, who hence have better access to knowledge, which facilitates their studies.

Why educating girls is so important?

This situation must necessarily be solved because of many reasons. In particular, educating girls would lead to both personal and social benefits. Let’s look atthem in more detail:

v  Economic independence: educated girls can aspire to jobs outside the house, which can give them a salary and thus make them economically independent;

v  Gender equality: among the SDGs there are “quality education” and “gender equality”. Adequate education allows girls and women to become aware of themselves and their abilities, reducing inequalities;

v  Society development: there can be no development within a society, and this cannot be said to be developed, unless there are equal rights and opportunities for women;

v  Social independence: as well as for economic independence, adequate education helps girls to be aware of themselves, their abilities and their rights as women, which emancipates them from traditional logics;

v  Chasing dreams: an educated girl is also a girl who, thanks to her skills and knowledge, can develop aspirations and goals, dreams that are more easily reachable with the right education;

v  No more pay-gap: another key point is the wage difference. With the right education and the right qualifications women can aspire to positions of a certain level, and they can fight to abolish wage differences.

Obviously the reasons for ensuring a (better) education for girls are not only these, but the list would be far too long to enumerate them all. We will therefore limit ourselves to these.

What can be done?

Of course, different interventions are needed to make a change: on the one hand, the role played by NGOs and non-profit associations working on a local scale is very important. As reported by The Atlantic, NGOs and individuals are moving to promote womens’ education,building schools dedicated only to girls. On the other hand, the push must also come from the government: although the problem has been recognized, the indian Government is slow in its response, putting the problemat the bottom of the list ofitspriorities. HEEALS is continioulsy campaigning on the importance of education among childrens ,espicially girls in schools and communuities.

Educated girls are fundamental to achieve a better future for themselves and for all of us, it’s fundamental that everyone understands it.

-Martina Pignatelli

Sources:

-          Why Do Indian Girls Drop Out Of Schools?,The Times Of India

-          Why Girls In India Are Still Missing Out On The EducationTheyNeed, The Guardian

-          The Groups Fighting For Girls’ Education In India, The Atlantic

-          The High Dropout Rate Of Girls In India, AnjelaTaneja

-          Right To Education, righttoeducation.it

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SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

What is the difference between schools in metropolitan cities and schools in villages.

When it comes to infrastructures, there is a complicated issue that needs to be considered from different points of view:

1)    Gap between metropolitan cities and rural villages.According to the Census 2011, there are 6.4 lack villages in India and about two-third of the whole Indian population lives there.

2)    Gap between government schools and public schools. Indian families can choose what kind of education their children will have, depending on their financial resources. In short, both government and public schools are in villages and in cities. While government schools are free between the 6^th and the 8^th class – and between 9^th and 12^th you have to pay a nominal fee – in public schools there is always a fee to pay, even if in villages is cheaper. Another difference is the quality of teaching of course. On the other hand, in public / private school (Village ,semi urban & semi rural )teachers just have to have passed a 12^th class to obtain an assignment.

These factors affect education, opportunities and children’s future and more in general the country growth. In particular, it is clear that government schools in villages are the problematic ones. Lack of infrastructures is the issue. For instance, 53% of total government schools, which form majority of schools in rural India, have electricity connection:

When it comes to hygiene facilities, according to the Towards UEE-Flash Statistics, NUEPA & GoI, 2005-06 to 2015-16 11% of the schools in our country do not have toilets. More than 2 lakh schools do not have toilets for girls. 49% of the schools don’t have hand wash facilities near the toilets. About infrastructures, according to DISE Elementary flash 2014-15, 40% of schools do not have playgrounds. 23% of schools do not have kitchen sheds. Furthermore, usually in villages there is an agricultural economics. For this, during certain periods students are busy with field works.

As NGO, we strongly believe that we are the only ones can provide concrete aid and supports to rural villages. We also are of the opinion that government should do much more. Since 2010 Heeals

is strongly concerned in programmes with villages and rural communities about Wash; Menstrual Hygiene and Health. Many contents have been produced: films and documentaries that we have been screened in schools; booklets and photos; distribution of sanitary pads and soaps about every month. As far as infrastructures are concerned, we are involved in projects that dependent on donations. For example, we bought water filters for people in villages. Then, in order to improve quality of teaching, we bought white boards and we brought them in schools. Lastly, we are involved in a new project we recently came up with: The Wash Wall Project. We painted walls in toilets and school with messages concerning hygiene, hand wash and menstrual hygiene. We believe that this is a good and impact full way to communicate with children.

- Nancy 

(WASH Intern )

Sources:

http://www.mahindraconstructionequipment.com/blog/the-role-and-importance-of-rural-infrastructure-in-india-and-mahindras-contribution-to-it

https://www.financialexpress.com/education-2/why-rural-india-still-has-poor-access-to-quality-education/1393555/

http://www.dise.in/Downloads/Paper_on_Physcial_Facilities_(Draft_prepared_for_CABE)_-_Report.pdf

https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs/digital-classrooms-in-schools-is-rural-india-ready/401931/