INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION TO NGO WORK

1.1. Our Daily Activities: Teaching at slums, work office projects and much more!

2. NOVEMBER EVENTS & WORKS: November events & works: First

Welcoming, Children's Day, Fashion and Jajpur week, and Ashayen
Association Street Children!

2.1. First Week: A great welcoming and Puri – Konark Weekend

2.2. Second Week: Children's Blossom Day and and Fashion Week Charitable Action
2.3. Third Week: Living like a rural native. A colourful week in Jajpur with Kalinga
Group.
2.4. Fourth Week: Visiting Cooperative School and Preparation of Argentinan
ambassador meeting with Ashayen association Street Children.

3. DECEMBER SETTLE PROJECTS MONTH!

3.1. First Week: International Volunteers Day and Hockey World Cup ALICIA
3.2. Second Week: Chiilika Lake Ecowork and Sport's Day Children in Blossom.
3.3 Third Week: Collecting Materials Campaign & Crownfunding for schools ALICIA
3.4 Last but not least....Farewell of first YOSE volunteers and Next Projects. Christmas
dinner and Long life binds.

4. LAUNCHING OUR OWN VOLUNTEERING PROJECT: MATERIAL

CROWNFUNDING AND EVALUATION PROGRAM CHILDREN!!

4.1 Monitoring and Evaluation in Slums. Problems.

4.2 Method and Needs
4.3 Next Steps and Tools
4.4 Final Overview
Introduction to NGO work
1. Our Daily Activities:
Teaching at slums, work office
projects and much more!
As far as this 25 year old anniversary
association “Jeevan Rekha Parishad” works
in so much ways that is hard two do a proper
summary in a few lines. So let's start with
our daily work that we can sum up in two
basic pillars: teaching at Kanchanjunga and
Banafulla schools slums and managing
projects and events at the office. Moreover,
we also go weekly to cooperative schools
and some other JRP projects as Old Age
Home visiting, and napkins and eco-honey
production. But taking in account our
principal task, this is teaching children basic
maths, english and try to motivate them, in
order to help them to get the same
opportunities that rest of the children in India
to access to public schools. In the other
hand working in office has a wide view that
comes from coordinate with the rest of the
team, sharing tasks, timetable, working in
projects together, having local language
lessons till give welcome & farewell to the
volunteers!!. Even we have time to celebrate
indian festivals as Happy Diwali!
2. November events & works:
First Welcoming, Children's
Day, Fashion and Jajpur week,
and Ashayen Association
Street Children!
Our first week was more about settled us
and know the city of Bhubaneswar. It was so
impressive that goes from when to
Khandangiri and Udagiri ancient caves,
where we even interact with monkeys. Apart
from that we met some temples as Ram
Mandir and more about indian culture. Apart
from that, we just start in slum schools and
know how the association worked. An
important spot in this first weekend was go
to make a concientation campaign about
menstruation in a local rural school in GOP
area where we were received with an
amazing local sing “Swagatam” which
means “Welcome” in local dialect. We also
have time at weekend to know another
sacred and magical city called Puri where
hinduist can visit the temple of the Lord of
the Universe, Lord Jagannath. Apart from
that, we visit Konark with its amazing Sun
Temple.
In our second week we attend to a benefic
event to raise fund to help local women
without opportunities in The Fashion Week,
selling clothes made by them. Besides, we
continue our work in slums and my
colleague Antonine and me attend to the
International Children's Day where we were
introduced to the whole school and invited
by teachers.
Our third week was totally frenetic. We spent
a week in a authentic rural area called in
Jajpur, where we celebrate a local festival,
Bomita Bandan Day, and we met a lot of
families where we were received as Gods (in
natives words), we make cultural exchange
week in a St. Xavier International School, we
met local politics and we participate in
celebrate several events like muslims final
year day (Mubarak).
Apart from that, went visit to several villages
and see lot of rituals and temples.
The last week of November was focused on
our daily tasks, visit cooperative schools
(Sitanath School) and work to prepare along
with street children support by Ashayen
association the meeting at weekend with
Argentinian Ambassador in India, who know
more about the work of the association and
we spent a nice time together with
embassador and their relatives and friends.
3. DECEMBER SETTLE
PROJECTS MONTH!
3.1 First week: International
Volunteers Day & Hockey
World Cup
The first week of december was as intensive
as we felt time is running to fast even the
experiences we got everyday were
undescriptible.

It passed between two big events: the
national spanish team of hockey visited our
Apart from that, we celebrate a great event
with International Volunteer Day in 5th
December when our spanish colleague Alice
promotes to prepare a big cellebration with
breakfast and games in the slum along with
friends and relatives of argentinian
ambassador in India, after have a nice talk
before with them where we agreed to
celebrate a great breakfast for this special
day.
Kanchanjunga slum school and Sitanatha
High School, bringing us some presents and
invited us along with 45 children to attend to
their last match in India against New
Zealand.
Sadly spanish national hockey team was
beated soon but they showed totally at our
disposal to visit us again and with the
commitment to publish our work in their
social networks in order to give us more
visibility.
3.2 Second Week: Chiilika Lake
Eco Work and Sports Children
Day in Blossom
Our plan to chiilika is Mangrove protection,
doplhins campaigne and Kitchen Garden.
Apart from that we will celebrate a Sports
Day with Children in Blossom School.
In our route to Chiilika Lake, after a really
long travel which includes 5 hours in 2
crowded buses, from Bhunaneswar to puri,
and Puri to chiliika, we took a boat to arrive
the amazing island of Badakuda in Chiilika
Lake. After our arrival we get a tuk tuk to go
through a narrow road full of straw and with
some cows sleeping in the middle of the
road.Finally we arrive to the little village of
Khati where we were received by JRP staff
who show us the multipurpose help center
and the main areas of the island as well as
the work they were doing in schools.

Once we left our luggage there, we met a
nice animator of JRP staff, Sangritha,
and we got invited to it in their home.
After that we were headed to our room
and were invited to some coffee and
snacks. Our JRP assistant, Runu, told
us that we will practice an Hindi dance
for tomorrrow, on 13 November.
Chiliika 2nd day. 13 november
This day started with an early tea but after
expected cause one of our volunteers got
sick. After taking care of her, we went to
meet some children in the school (foto) and
some of the JRP staff in the island. After that
we were shown the eco wc and the soil for
harvest, so my colleague Antonine along
with JRP staff start to prepare the soil to put
some Marigold seeds while I was painting an
awareness eco draw on the toilet door. After
finished our work that was being followed by
the locals, my friend Antonine also make
some harvest in front of the door in order to
grow a tree in the future and he painted a
peace symbol in the door toilet with the
message: pee & love. Moreover we enjoy
the peaceful environment of the island and I
spent my last evening with a charming walk
where I were invited by a local fisherman to
take a chai and biscuits in his home made
by his kind wife. All was an incredible
experience that I still can remember grateful,
thinking about how important is to save and
keep the mangroves which are growing in
the sea and help the river dolphins really
exotic and special from this area.

3.3.Third Week: Collecting Materials Campaign & Crownfunding

for schools

After some weeks evaluating the main needs of the children in the slums, our colleague Alice
from Spain, started to settle a whole budget proposal called “Plan Marshall 2018” in order to
make a budget who cover the main areas to help and assist that slum children, specially
education, sanitary conditions and basic material as clothes, glasses and shoes in their daily life.
 The second point in the plan was about raised some funds and help from NGO Jeevan
Rekha Parishad and promote a crowdfunding in social networks and with relatives and friends,
explaining our plan, in order to get enough money for help the children.

In this case, some people from Spain and also Czech Republic, specially some friends
answered our initiative, sending money which helped to carry out our plan. It started with a
journey where Alice, with the collaboration of other volunteers, bought with the raised money
some materials for schools as folders, pencils and notebooks, with the name of each student in
order to make a stronger belonging feeling with the school and to motivate children to go there.
They received happily all the unexpected material in the Banafulla Slum.

3.4 Last but not least....Farewell of first YOSE volunteers and Next
Projects. Christmas dinner and Long life binds.

After our time teaching at schools and meeting the vast and diversity of Indian culture was
the moment to do our last visits to children in slums and to say goodbye to our friends and
coordinators, or better said, “see you soon” in our farewell. It was a great dinner with our friends,
made also by a French couple which is travelling around Asia, through several countries with a
great gastronomic initiative in order to exchange traditional recipes between countries around
the world. In this case they made for all the European volunteers staff their amazing traditional
crépes which we enjoyed all together. After that, Alice and me, Daniel, we had to say good bye
to all and going to sleep bearing in mind the long journey we have to face the next day. After our
long journey, we spend some days resting and taking into account, for sure, how to continue our
labour in Bhubaneswar with the European volunteers who are still there, with the NGO and for
sure, with the children to continue promoting a better life long conditions for them.
4. LAUNCHING OUR OWN VOLUNTEERING PROJECT: MATERIAL
CROWNFUNDING AND EVALUATION PROGRAM CHILDREN!!

4.1 Monitoring and Evaluation in Slums. Problems.

One of the problems we found in the slum schools were about there were not any written
control or a way to motinorize about which is the level of knowledge of each children,
furthermore than teacher knows about each child. So, in order to have a more accurate
knowledge about the children improvements, we have created a shared online document of
each slum where all volunteers and teachers can write the advances and needings of the
children. It allows the teachers and volunteers to follow a coherent line with every children, and
have a control of teaching in formal and non formal education.

There is a lack of motivation in some children in slums which even includes parents that didn't
have a proper and constant education and that is the reason why sometimes don't see how
education can also helps their children.
So, with this simple document online we can know the features, strong and weak points of each
one with a customize profile which includes photo, name, age, education fields that includes
english, maths and oriya to help them to reach goverrnamental school access and even, how to
motivate them and their vocational skills.

4.2 Method and Needs

About the method is just a first step to look into the pupil needs. In the future will be desirable to
do a more wide document that will be filled from time to time, scheduling a kind of continuos
evaluation where all the children, separated by ages and level, will be followed in their
improvements and needs in order to get a process more similar to formal education and, of
course, for get a control about this dynamic changes that sometimes happens unnoticed even
for teachers who deal with them everyday.

About needs, even when always there are more we can improve, essentially the roots of the
problems are around how we can involve the whole slum community and to raise awareness
about how important is education to change things in the community, specially to find their
vocation and a more adequate to face the problems that, generation by generation, are being
perpetuated by stereotypes and deeply rooted ideas in the society.

So first, be aware of cultural stereotypes, second boost education culture in this communities
and third get more resources to improve the evaluation and teaching system are the main
aspects to overpass for all the community.

4.3 Next Steps and Tools

After see the main problems we have to face all together to improve the educational situation in
this areas, we can point what should be our next steps and possible tools to improve education
system in slums.

First of all, we can learn some important lessons about non formal education, as for example
some success methods like which are applied in Montessori schools.

They put first the creativity of the children and logical reasoning through games instead just
being focused in old methods of formal education that don't works on motivate children of
continue improving.

So, in that way, we can also learn a lot about the widely treatment that European Union has
been given to non formal education in different countries, collecting first the best information
about the most effective games and methods to motivate and teach children without being
limitated just due to formal rules which don't cover all kind of intelligences that actually exists.

4.4 Final Overview

After our amazing and really educational experience, we will strongly advice to continue the
work and efforts to continue supplying resources and motivation to this children, as is being
doing with the support of Jeevan Rekha Parishad and european volunteers. Is this strong
alliance between the know-how of this long-term association work and the several points of view
and the field work of the volunteers that allows, keeping in the time, that the life of at least some
of this children will change drastically, reducing the gap between social classes with low
resources and social classes which has more advantages for several reasons.

It's all of this, which as said, has to be keeping the path to the success for the work of all the
NGO staff and volunteers, and for sure it will continue a lot of years more.