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SUMMER RURAL
INTERNSHIP
2009
SESSION: 2008-09
FINAL REPORT
Prepared by:
Ankit Avasthy
08BT01010
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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LIST OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
ABOUT THE NGO 2
OBJECTIVES 3
STRATEGIES 4
IMPLEMENTATION 5
ACHIEVEMENTS 6
LEARNING 12
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INTRODUCTION
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ABOUT THE NGO:
The Young Citizen of India Charitable Trust is a non-government
organization founded by Mr. Amar Vyas. The NGO works on
three main issues/projects in Mehsana district:
1) Mehsana
2) Visnagar
3) Unjha
Form each taluka, twenty five most prone villages have been
selected. Thus, total seventy five villages in Mesana district are
being covered under the three projects.
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OBJECTIVES
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STRATEGIES
STRATEG
Y
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IMPLEMENTATION
Our group was given Visnagar Taluka to carry out the research
work.
i. Bhandu
ii. Savala
iii. Kamana
iv. Valam
v. Kuvasna
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i. Ankit Gupta
v. Udayani Makwana
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Even the educated portion of the society gets the gender test
done.
• If the first child is a boy, then people opt for the family
planning operation, and if the first child is a girl then go for
second, third…….until a boy is born.
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• The authorities in the concerning villages are found to be
quite ignorant.
BHANDU
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• The sex ratio of Bhandu is 667 females to every 1000
males.
• The Sarpanch was ignorant about the low sex ratio in his
village.
SAVALA
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• The sex ratio of Savala is 563 females to every 1000
males.
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AMANA
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• They told for the boys that “We get interest and interest
from them.”
VALAM
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• The sex ratio of Valam is 703 females to every 1000
males.
KUVASNA
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• The sex ratio of Kuvasna is 656 females to every
1000 males.
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LEARNING
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HIV/AIDS Project
The NGO has been working on the projects related to this for
the past several years. We were given information about the
projects related to HIV/AIDS and were taken to different centres
where treatment is done.
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The third phase which is currently in progress includes
prevention and cure projects. The IRHAP (Integrated Rural HIV
AIDS Control Programme) as a part of this phase in order to
control the spread of AIDS from one person to another, limit its
spread from one region to another and to ultimately cure all
opportunistic diseases for free which the AIDS patients may be
suffering from.
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be factored in while calculating requirements/indents at all
levels.
We had a brief discussion with our NGO YCICT about the project
they are undertaking on HIV/AIDS, in the 75 villages of Mehsana
district. The strategy they implement for effective working of
project includes the following steps:
STRATE
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PREVENTI CARE &
SERVICES
ON SUPPORT
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us about HIV infection. ART is started when a person has no
other medical options.
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after conception and problems faced in the working of
implementation of the ACT and certain directions of Hon’ble
Supreme Court after a PIL was filed in May, 2000 by CEHAT and
Ors, an NGO on slow implementation of the Act. These
amendments have come into operation with effect from 14th
February, 2003.
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