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November, 2011

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Krish and Karunadeepa of JEEVAK. See also Tribal Child Health & Early Education

Krish with Suresh Bauddha of Youth Buddhist Society
Krish & Suresh Bauddh of Youth Buddhist Society, in Bodh Gaya, India

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Seven-year-old boy begging in train on way to INEB conference in Bodh Gaya

Sr Cyril with teacher Sr Cyril of Loreto Convent with a teacher

Shop boy
This 10-year-old Kolkata boy would rather be in school than running a tea shop to support his family.

Street child with garbage
Inequality in action

Guwahati railway girl

Like many others, this little girl and the boy below live along the railway lines in Guwahati, Assam. They face dangerous lives every single moment. What can we do to help these children live productive lives?

Railway boy, Guwahati

Krish's News from South Asia

23 January 2012. Just in

Nusrat Zahan, recipient of 2nd Denis Wright Memorial Scholarship for Underprivilged Female Working Children, Dhaka.

Krish has just left Dhaka for the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. In addition to his evaluation role, Krish is representing BODHI in Dhaka and at Moanoghar at awards ceremonies for the 2nd annual Denis Wright Memorial Scholarships.

Krish's initial report for September-November 2011 is now available. Please click here to view.

A boy and his monkey, from Krish's travels in South India

More as it arrives.

18 November. Krish has sent the first two photographs from Pune, where he has gone to evaluate our Tribal Child Health & Early Education program. Initial impressions are very positive.

Krish with children. See also Tribal Child Health & Early Education

Krish with parents in awareness program. See also Tribal Child Health & Early Education

29 October. Krish has filed his first report from the International Network of Engaged Krish with underprivileged students Buddhists (INEB) conference in Bodh Gaya, India. He is meeting with local partners Susanta Chakma of SNEHA, Dr Ko Tar of Burmese Farm Children Education and Suresh Bauddha of Youth Buddhist Society (YBS). He is having many meetings, for instance with the Burmese community and with Somboon Chungprampree, INEB’s executive secretary, and is visiting the local Alice Project school (see photo at right). He will be meeting with a potential local partner in a few days: something we have been developing for about a year now and hope to tell you about soon.

25 October. Krish is on the road again. He's now arrived in Bodh Gaya for the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) conference, and also to meet with a new potential local partner. We'll be hearing from him soon, with more of his moving photographs.

Oct 2011:

Krish represents BODHI at a consultation program organised at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, a premier institute of social work in India.

Late September-October, 2011: Krish travelled to the Loreto College in Kolkata to attend our second teacher training program for Youth Buddhist Society-associated schools. He gave capacity-building workshops for teachers and principals from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and represented BODHI at Banchbo's awards ceremony. Krish's report (PDF 2.3MB)

Teachers learning

Capacity building

Program Coordinator BODHI South Asia reports for the first month

Guwahati children in science museum

1. Building communication with local partners/non-partner NGOs: Initial contact has been made with
* Chakma Mahila Samithi Mizoram (CMS)
* Youth Buddhist Society (YBS), Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh
* Jeevak, Pune and SNEHA, Arunachal Pradesh
* Kirti Nishan Chakma of Moanoghar, Bangladesh for the forthcoming visit to assess the needs, implementation and room for improvement of the project functioning.
* Brig Gen (Retd) Aftab Uddin Ahmad of Underprivileged Children's Educational Programs (UCEP), for assessment of the Denis Wright Memorial Scholarship for Underprivileged Female Working Children in Bangladesh. Plans were made to meet him in Dhaka and to represent BODHI at the presentation of the second scholarship in January, 2012.
* Dr. Dhires Chowdhury of Banchbo from West Bengal was contacted for possible utilization of his expertise in the field of health.

2. Initiatives for effective implementation of projects: levels of monitoring, accountability and absorptive capacity of some of the partners need to be improved, which will enable them to achieve expected outcomes. Hence, to bring more accountability and to assess the areas of improvement, Partners Capacity Assessment and Quarterly Partners Progress Reporting forms have been designed to begin with the process of effective and efficient projects implementation by local partners.

3. Linkages: As a part of partner capacity building, SNEHA has been linked with Aide et Action, an international development agency, for free livelihood skills training which is scheduled to begin in the month of December, 2011 at its training centre in Guwahati, Assam. However, SNEHA is yet to respond to the proposed training for dropouts/staffs.

Krish with childrne at Morigaon

4. Sharing Expertise: In an effort to return service to non-financial partner sSTEP, expertise sharing on programme planning and designing on rural livelihood has been made for the first phase of the process with in Morigaon. This will be followed by the second and final phases.

5. Representation: The importance of making the presence of BODHI felt in the region was kept by attending events organized by various organizations. On 16th September, 2011 such an event organized by sSTEP for the children living on the street in Guwahati city was attended and shared about BODHI and its incessant efforts to bring smiles and happiness to the faces of the destitute since 1989. Besides, lunch was also taken with the children who live on the street, railway platform, bus stops and underneath flyovers in Guwahati city.