Say no to Alcohal

Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti Elementry School, Village : Gomla,

District :Mahendergarh, State - Haryana

Bharti Foundation

The change we plan to bring about in the community:

Make the community alcohol free.To improve their lives.

Improve their family’s lives

• Bharti Foundation

– Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

– The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program

– The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship program of Bharti Foundation.

– It aims to deliver free quality education to underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

– The program goal is to establish 500 Primary and 50 Senior Schools reaching out to over 200,000 students

– The promise of this large scale program, through its operation, is to create a replicable, scalable and holistic model of quality education in rural India

– Present Operational Status:

• Number of Schools Operational: 254

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 35,000

Introduction

About the Community

• Geographical Location:– Situated 25 km. from Mahendergarh town in East.

– Sandy & gravel soil.

– Under ground water level : 350ft

• Cultural Background: Major casts are : Yadav, Rajpoot, Harijan etc. Dominating castes : Yadav Main source of earning is agriculture, animal husbandry and labouring. Population : 1200

• That opium has adversely impacted the

• Social as well as the family life of the majority

• In the village.The village has become a major

• alcoholic hub and consequently the young

• and the old of the village have been trapped in

• this addiction .

We ‘Felt’:

The village has been suffering a major financial setback.•There is an increase in the cases of thefts,family disputes,idling amongst the youths and the villagers have become disease prone.

•The aforesaid situation has led to unemployment and the education of the children has suffered a lot.

•Since all these things impact our lives,we decided to take up this issue.

• •We imagined that together as a team we can at least sensitize people towards the evil impacts of the poisonous opium.

• That our village can also be a prosperous

• Well educated and healthy village with peace

• and fraternity all around if only this addiction

• Is given up.

We ‘Imagined’:

• We prepared posters with appealing slogans to stick on the walls.

• •We tried to persuade people to give up the consumption of opium.

• •We made them understand about the harm of this evil and they swore not to consume any sort of drugs/liquor, amidst a big village gathering.

We ‘Did’:

•We prepared posters with appealing We went door to door to identify the people Addicted to opium and affected by opium.•We had an awareness rally through the Village.•We organized corner plays in the park, where people had gathered in big number and the places where People were consuming opium.

Encouraged by the campaign,the sarpanch

of the village Mrs.Shanti Devi said, “The efforts

Of the SBS students are really an eye opener

For us. We are planning to organize to a drug

Eradication camp to keep this evil away from

our village.

Impact on Community:

• •We also realized that social issues raised by

• Children are much more touching and make

• a rather deeper impact on the masses.This event a highly motivating and encouraging for us. So many parents took the oath not to consume alcohol further and hence we think that this event is going to put a life long impact on our lives.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• The campaign was taken heartily by the community members.During the rally the number of the people kept increasing, which substantiates the fact that the program was taken positively and they had higher expectations from the campaign.

We had never thought the the small kids could do so much for the community. They should,in future,take up some more challenging issues. Now, we expect a lot from them.”

• To make the campaign a permanent success we plan-

• •To visit those peaople at regular intervals who had vouched for giving up opium consumption so that their morale is kept intact.

• •To persuade more people for doing away with such addictions.

• •To monitor the progress of the upcoming drug eradication camp, to be organized by the village panchayat.

The Road Ahead…..(in the next 3 months)

Students Participating in the Contest:

Name of Mentor Teacher: Omprakash Yadav

SAPNA VI

PRAVEEN VI

BABLI VI

HIMANSHI VI

CHANCHAL VIMANISHA VI

KIRTI VIGAGANDEEP VI

ANKIT VIDEVENDER VI

GAUTAM VIGAURAV VINARESH VIAASHISH VIMANOJ VISUMAN VI

KOMAL 2 VKHUSHI V

SAPNA 2 VNISHANT V

SHASHIKANT VRAHUL VAMAN VNIKHIL V

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