Community Stay

                      Community Stay  

       Ramdeowadi  Jalke Sector Jalgaon

                              2022-23                                                 Niteen Maghade

 

Introduction

Three months village placement program .My name is Niteen Maghade student of PG Diploma in sustainable rural reconstruction at Gandhi Research Foundation Jalgaon. During this PG Diploma I was placed in Ramdeowadi village for three months village placement program. During this three months I have learn different dimensions of village and understand its socio economic condition. Ramdeowadi is a small village near Jalgaon . Village surrounded by forest area on Eastern and Northern side and it has farms on southern and western side. This village has around 1600 population. Thare is one school in village which is upto class 1 to 4 and two Anganwari for children. Main characteristics of village is that all population of village is Banjara Tribe and it act as a village biggest strength and weakness also. Village is on Jalgaon – Pachora highway but not much developed. There is lot of scope for development in village mainly in education, health and sanitation.

Responsibilities in roleThree months village placement under the Gandhi research foundation. In this three months I live in small village Ramdeowadi in Jalgaon District of Maharashtra and understand different aspects of rural life. The objectives of the Village Placement Programme are: i) to offer an opportunity to the students to understand the different facetsof the rural community; ii) to enable the students to comprehend and relate classroom learning tofield realities; iii) to facilitate the students to identify rural issues and problems; iv) to share development information with the people v) to inculcate socially relevant values and responsibilities among thestudents, and vi) to facilitate the initiation and sustenance of socially relevantprogrammes/projects that benefit the rural community.Trained village students in sports and develop sports culture in village.Describe in detail, your main responsibilities and goals in this role.

 

 

                                 

    

                                              

1.           People Interaction                

2.           Education                            

3.           Sports                                  

4.           Hygiene and Sanitation     

5.           Agriculture                          

6.           Conclusion                          

Village Profile

 Ramdeowadi is small village in Jalgaon Tehsil of Jalgaon District in state of Maharashtra. Village is on Jalgaon Pachora highway 15 km away from Jalgaon City. Village has forest area by its eastern and northern side and agriculture land on southern and western side. There are various lake near by village and big dam around 2 km away from village which provides basic needs of water to villagers. Village is biologically diverse which has various flora and fauna. Forest and lake added more diversity in it. Ramdeowadi village mainly has Banjara tribe all off villagers believe in spiritual guru Ramdevbaba and on his name the village called as Ramdeowadi. There are total 5 temples in village two are of Ramdeobaba , one is Lord Hanuman , one is Lord Shiva and one is Durga Devi. All the Banjara people in village practice their unique culture and speak Banjara language as their first language but they understand Marathi and Hindi also. On the special occasions they were their own traditional clothes. I’m village there is problem of alcohol and tobacco addiction and both male and female are addicted to it. There is poor condition of hygiene and sanitation , also problem of open defecation . I think this mainly happened due to problems in education. The village has one school which is upto class 1 to 4 and 2 anganwari . 

People Interaction

I started my village placement program with people interaction. Initially in this process my coordinator Vikram Bhai help me.

 

Village placement start at Ramdeowadi village in Jalgao District.

 

I reached here around 2 pm. After that firstly I clean room arranged my room in proper way. Then search out tiffin service for me and hopefully I able to do it.

 

Meeting with Kabbadi Players : on a very first day I get a chance to interact with Kabbadi players of Ramdeowadi village. While interact firstly we introduced ourself to each other and after that they told me about sporting culture of village . Challenges they facing in this small village for Kabbadi game like lack of family support, lack of good infrastructure. But although this players has lot of problems thay have passion and compassion for the game which I observe during this conversation.

 

 

 

Meeting with Youth : on a second day of my village placement I went to ground at early morning around 6 AM where I interact with youngsters of village who are preparing for competitive exam like police bharti, mpsc and other. I ran with them on track and told about my purpose of this village placement. There were around 15 youngsters on ground most of them were graduate .

Public Distribution System Center Visit

        To understand a village and it’s socio economic conditions I visited PDS center. Most of the villagers have orange card and few of them have yellow card which which show that village village economic conditions is not so good. Main occupation in village is agriculture, then many villagers work in Jain Irrigation Company apart from this few of them in government job. Village has huge potential in singing and dancing many talented singer in village  . Some villagers have their own livestock for daily needs of milk  one thing I surprise me a lot that in village there is no permission of eating  chicken and egg due to some beliefs of villagers.

 

 

 

Grampanchayat Visit

         New grampanchayat office is in under construction so villagers officers still seats in old office. Village has 7 members in grampanchayat. Gramsevak as a government officers playing his duty very well. As he told village is changing a lot last 5 years due to his serious involvement in all development works. As he told there is problem of government funding but still they manage to implement scheme in village with minimum resources  . CSR activities by Gandhi research Foundation also play important role in village development earlier there was problem of drinking water in village but after establishment of Jain Solar Water Pump village get enough water on daily basis.

Scheme in Village Waste Management Cleanliness Compost Khadda – for ola kachara Dust bean 4 Vaishali

Cycle for waste collection

School Visit

Primary School in Ramdevwadi

 

Classes from 1 standard to 4 th standard  School premises is good. 5 Teachers with school headmaster. Total staff 6.

 

Mid day meal scheme successfully run in school. There are around 300 children I’m school. I think 6 classroom are not enough for such a huge number of student also school don’t have enough play ground there is hardly any space left after all student seats in ground. There is also problem of drainage because it flow in to the middle of school. But after all this challenges student ate very enthusiastic towards learning a new skills in a life which is one positive thing I noticed.

 

Anganwadi Visit

 To understand the children of the village I visit to Anganwari.

It was good experience with spending time with children playing with them understand their way teaching.

Daily around 40 childrens come in anganwari. Anganwari is very creative and this room have all kind of equipment which will be helpful for  teacher to teach this children in interactive way. Anganwari was small in size but it has all important elements which is necessary for children growth. Card board, pamphlet, toys helps students to understand about their surrounding.

 

Library Visit

The biggest strength of Ramdeowadi village is its youth. Many youngsters are involved in preparation of government job like police, and Indian Army. For that they practice a lot . So to meet with youngster there was no other place than library in village. Most of them mainly study in library.

Ramdeowadi is small Village but still it has its own library which was quite surprising for me. This library is well arranged and open to all for 24 hours. Daily around 25 students came in library and study here. Mostly students of 10^th and 12^th board exams , students of competitive exam mostly study here. There are two rooms in this library but one was close which needed to repair. Also surrounding area of library not properly clean which also needed to be clean for this library.

Education

Daily Classes

Village has serious problem of education like high drop out rate, low acceptance of STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) after 10^th.

 

There is huge scope for development in education sector in Ramdeowadi village. Village has one school class 1 to 4 , two anganwari, and one library.

 

In fourth week of village placement

After spending first three week in sports ecosystem development in village now I want to start new initiative in education also

 

Teaching of school competitive exam to students.

 

In each school scholarship exam conducted every year for class 5 and class 8 standard but most of the students failed to pass this exam due to lack of exam oriented teaching. So I thought instead of teaching students in school I started extra classes for students in place where I am stayed.

 

Exam Included

-        Scholarship Class 5

-       Navodaya Class 5

-       Scholarship class 8

-       National Talent Search Exam Class 8           and 10

 

 

In this class I will try to teach students in innovative way which I learned in one month internship in Bhavnagar.

 

The new initiative about education which I started in my village placement program at Ramdevwadi getting good response from students.

 

 

 

Today I thought them about basic numerical to get familiar with mathematics and try to reduce their fear about math.

 

This students are lacking in basic concepts of math. So I teach them types of number which is most important topic to understand mathematics.

 

 

 

 

Revision Session

 

Revision is most important components which I always tell my student. So everyday at beginning of class I took revision session so that student able to recall from previous classes.

 

 

 

 

New Addition in Class

 

When I started class two ago only boys come to class in second week only two girls come but this week 6 new girls join to my class and I feel proud that I able to influence them also.

 

 

 

Conduct some activities with students. Many students just wanted to play games and enjoy but study is also important for them because many students of grade 5 and 6 don’t have basic knowledge of number amd alphabet. So it’s bit of challenging for me to teach them about numbers and alphabet in grade 5.

 

Each day I emphasise on their mental and physical growth so added meditation and prayer so they become calm. I think students active in various activities throughout a day but they also need some kind of rest mently so meditation is best way to do that.

Language

All students in my daily class has one common problem that they are not good in language many of them don’thave enough knowledge of writing and reading and after carefully understand the problem I understand that they are speaking a different language at home that is Gormati language of  Banjara tribe. So I follow a basic technique to teach them language from basic level like writing and reading a letter of Marathi language. Eventually they start to improve their capacity to reading and writing. I divided them into different group and make sure that each group should have one member who can read and write. This technique help them.

 

 

Basic Mathematics

I teach them mathematics by using natural resources like sticks, stone etc. While math may not seem like a creative subject, it encourages children to be creative. This is because math is all about finding different solutions to problems. Students must think outside the box and develop innovative solutions to solve math problems. This process requires them to draw on their imagination and think creatively.

 

In addition, math can also help children develop their spatial awareness. This is the ability to visualize objects in three-dimensional space. Children can develop creative problem-solving skills by understanding how to visualize objects. It also help me to think out of box to teach them math. This teaching improve my teaching skills.

Ethical Values

Community Prayer

 

It very important for me this student should learn the important of prayer in their life so at the end of two hours long class which starts at 5 and ended at 7 pm I took community prayer each day. So this student feel calm and relax after their busy day.

Team Activities

Group Activities

 

This week I try to arrange some group activities of student, which help me understand their capacity their strength and weakness.

 

 

Peace Games

 

Peace Games are the best methods to involved this students in class

 

 

Art and Craft

 

Creative Activities

 

Painting is one the main hobbies of student which I observe in this village placement. Almost half of them are good in painting so I share some tips and method of painting and drawing to students. I also learn  a lot about painting while interact with them.

 

 

 

Craft making.

 

This is one skill on which I will work in upcoming weeks because this children have lot of potential in craft making. I show them some examples of craft making.

 

Here is emage of beautiful flower made by student of calss 2

Rangoli

Craft making

Painting

Mud Art

Cultural Activities

 Holi Celebration

Holi celebration with students

 

Students always enjoy to celebrate festivals but when its about holi it is one of favourite of them.

 

On this occasion of holi I able to understand unique culture of Banaana community to celebrate holi. It is quite fascinating to experience this unique way of holi celebration. It 6 day long celebration in which one thing I like the most that both men and women enjoy the festival and both have equal significance for this festival.

Cultural Program

This happened on holi. All student enjoying their festival so grab this opportunity and organised one cultural program. With minimum resources like mobile phone and some colors they wanted in their performance.

 

Program started with their individuals perform in which they mostly dance on Ahirani songs and Banjaara songs.

 

Follow with group dance and play which I enjoy the most. 

Price Distribution

Sports

 

Youth

 

Athletics Training for Students

 

So I started training to student for running events and physical test for various competitive exam like police and army.

 

This whole week schedule is like this

 

Monday – ABC drills

 

Tuesday – 5 km running

 

Wednesday – 400m × 5 Rapitation

 

Thursday- 800m × 3 Rapitation

 

Friday – Speed workout

 

Saturday – Yoga and stretching

 

Each day I try to do something innovative so student can involved in this activities

I started training session at 6 am and ended it at 8 am

 

After a massive response from student in athletic training I wanted to improve it from third week and make it more creative. And also change the timing of training because most of them didn’t able to wake-up in early morning so I started training half hour later that is 6:30.

 

Changes made in training

 

•       Adding more activities for warm up.

•       Addition of speed drill and body weight workout for more strength

 

WhatsApp Group

Creating impact in sports using technology.

Created whatsapp group of some senior players of villages. The motive of this group is to create a forum where I can share whatever knowledge and changes happening in sports for developing village social and economic development. The Impact

 

Now they get know about various competition of sports happening in the district, taluka and state level on their mobile itself.

Children

 Sports Activities

 

Additon of sports activities in this student life is my main motive so I continuously try to create sports environment in village with the help of this students.

In sports I continue my daily training session which help me creat good bond with youths. Many youngsters who preparing for police and army asked me how to prepare for physical test in such competitive exam. I am fortunate that I able to share my knowledge in sports and physical fitness to this youngster for their growth and development.

 

 

Sports helps them teach life skills such as teamwork, leadership, accountability, patience, and self-confidence and prepares them to face life challenges. Students get a chance to work on their physical and mental abilities to achieve goals in their life

Hygiene and Sanitation

 

Sanitation

Rally

Eco Bricks

An eco brick packages all non-recyclable or compostable waste into a single-use plastic/ PET bottle, leaving as little air and space as possible. It is often talked about as a unique solution that helps address pollution and single-use plastic PET bottles. Through this initiative student take actively involved in making eco bricks by using plastic in village.

Cleanliness Drive

Cleanliness drive help this student to realize situation of their village in cleanliness. In this drive we walk in village went to thlife. ay ground and started picking wrappers lying scattered there. After collecting them they threw them in to the dustbins. After doing this job for two to three hours. Students enjoy this and it give them some kind of satisfaction.

 

Agriculture visit Ramdeowadi

On 9 March I visited one farm with field officer Vikram bhai. Farmers name Sunil Pawar. He utilizes his 5 acres land properly. In his farm crops like sugar cane, red chillies, sunflower along fruit like Banana. Under the government scheme called Nanaji Deshmukh agriculture scheme he build one shed net house in his fram in the area of 2016 sq ft. He is getting great profit from this shed last year he get around 4 lakh profit from cucumber and this year he doing great business with capsicum. I think this kind of progressive farmers is inspiration for all farmers in the area.

 

Agriculture Visit Wavarda

Banana Seed Program by Maria

 

Jalake Village

Program at Jalake.

 

On International women day field officer Mayur bhai and GRF student Shubham pawar conducted program at their village Jalake. In this program chief guest was Maria a researcher from Argentina who talked to village women about health benefits of Banana flowers and it’s various way or cooking . In this program Sudhir Bhai plays important role of to translate the all information given by Maria ji to the women. In this program around 65 women was present and I think they get a enough information about health benefits of banana flowers so in future they will not waste it

 

 

Dhanora Village

Seed Collection

 

 I started the new initiative for student called seed collection or seed bank this Seed bank project has importance objectives to conserve diversity of plant/tree species through their seeds and keep seed resources for forest restoration project. The mission of seedbank included many procedures such as seed collection and identification, seed cleaning. Through this activity student able to understand biodiversity in Ramdeowadi village. They talk with senior citizens so it created bond among them.

 

Conclusion

Achievements in role

The learning outcomes of this three months village placement is1) General awareness on the rural realities, issues and problems2) Comprehensive knowledge, skill and attitude to work in rural areas3) Improved knowledge on rural social structure4) Improved observation and analytical skills5) Improved interaction skills6) Improved reporting skill7) Enhanced team spirit8) Personality Development9) Enhanced values and social responsibilities Share the outcome of your goals and responsibilities, and any other achievements in this role.

As a Teacher I able to understand subject matter deeply and flexibly so that they can help students create useful craft, relate ideas to one another, and address misconceptions also to see how ideas connect across fields and to everyday life.

This three months teaching activities help me in sports and class also Interpreting learners’ statements and actions and shaping productive experiences for them require an understanding of child and adolescent development and of how to support growth in various domains – cognitive, social, physical, and emotional. Teaching in ways that connect with students also requires an understanding of differences that may arise from culture, family experiences, developed intelligences, and approaches to learning.  It's need to be able to inquire sensitively, listen carefully, and look thoughtfully at student work.