On Thursday and Friday, 24th and 25th April, Vishakha had a training day for the cluster-in-charges in Astha training centre in Udaipur. The training was about the issues the workers are facing in their daily duties specifically when dealing with the adolescents.
The lectures concentrated on health in general, hygiene, nutrition, development from a child to an adult and especially on adolescent issues. These are all matters the cluster-in-charges face when meeting with the local populace, specifically with young girls, and cooperating with the Anganwadi centres.
The lecturers were good. Despite my inability to understand Hindi, it was clear that the audience mainly consisting of cluster-in-charges liked what they heard and saw. In addition to normal lectures a movie was shown, workshops were held in small groups and activity tasks were arranged. And what I understood from the feedback sessions (mainly in Hindi, though) people had learned a lot of new important information.
There are now 35 cluster-in-charges from which more than 10 are new. First of all, the training was a great way to teach a large audience but it also worked nicely to bring the new and old cluster-in-charges, block coordinators and Vishakha's partner NGO Jatan's staff together. Between the lectures was group singing, when Vishakha's worker, a talented Musician Shivdayal, always got the group to join him in his singing and drumming. In the evening people were getting familiar with each other, telling stories and dancing. Despite the heavy information content of the two days the atmosphere was very relaxed and happy.
Training the workers in Vishakha is overall quite constant. When I asked the people who had worked for Vishakha for a longer time they said they had visited Astha training centre many times before on same kind of training events. New training days are already scheduled in the beginning of May so Vishakha sure wants its employees to know their business.
There are now 35 cluster-in-charges from which more than 10 are new. First of all, the training was a great way to teach a large audience but it also worked nicely to bring the new and old cluster-in-charges, block coordinators and Vishakha's partner NGO Jatan's staff together. Between the lectures was group singing, when Vishakha's worker, a talented Musician Shivdayal, always got the group to join him in his singing and drumming. In the evening people were getting familiar with each other, telling stories and dancing. Despite the heavy information content of the two days the atmosphere was very relaxed and happy.
Training the workers in Vishakha is overall quite constant. When I asked the people who had worked for Vishakha for a longer time they said they had visited Astha training centre many times before on same kind of training events. New training days are already scheduled in the beginning of May so Vishakha sure wants its employees to know their business.
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