Site Visit to Sarva Vidya Trust Nursing Assistant Training – By: Sabita Balachandran Asha SV(ex) volunteer on Aprl 26 2015 330 to 5 pm As requested by the steward Vandana Hariharan I connected with SVT. As it happened they were running classes on April 26th and having alumni celebrations on April 30. Since I was interested to see a class in session I chose to go on April 26th SVT has supported by Asha Stanford for several years now and the background information including site visit reports can be found at: I was met warmly by the committee members led by Mr Srini Sundaram, Mrs Sarawasti Vaidyanthan, Mes Namagiri( who runs NCLP) , MRs Thenmozhi, Teachers Priya and the two people helping with accounts Ganesh and Kamala. They gave me a detailed account of the history, operations and why they are so passionate about this, I am not repeating the same as it is well laid out in the site visit report by Pradeep and Aparna. Mr Sundaram and the original inspiration behind SVT have long associations with Ramarksihnan Matt and inspired by’ MOTHER” to uplift the girl child. The members are committed especially Ms Thenmozhi who personally makes several trips to villages just outside Chennai to reach out to girls who can benefit from this service. During April-June, they reach out to panchayats, NGO network and the Balwadi network through the ICDS platform to spread the word. Ms Thenmozhi has interacted with Balaji Sampath (AID India) who is well known to AfE. The outreach helps to set a favorable attitude towards the nursing program given the apprehensions of the parents sending their daughters away. I visited the class in session where the students (30) where studying about the endocrines. They stood up and kept standing until I remembered to have them sit down reminding them I was a visitor. At first if I asked a question all fo them would answer simultaneously so I would walk up to one to them ask their name, background, what they thought about the program etc. Most of the parents are coolies or farmers. I asked one girl what she would be doing if she were not here and she said I would be married by “Oh now”! I asked one of them what she was studying in the class. English is an issue but I was talking primarily in Tamil from the start. They do have a volunteer who helps them with
Site Visit to Sarva Vidya Trust – Nursing Assistant Training By: Sabita Balachandran Asha SV(ex) volunteer on Aprl 26 2015 330 to 5 pm As requested by the steward Vandana Hariharan I connected with SVT. As it happened they were running classes on April 26th and having alumni celebrations on April 30. Since I was interested to see a class in session I chose to go on April 26th SVT has supported by Asha Stanford for several years now and the background information including site visit reports can be found at: I was met warmly by the committee members led by Mr Srini Sundaram, Mrs Sarawasti Vaidyanthan, Mes Namagiri( who runs NCLP) , MRs Thenmozhi, Teachers Priya and the two people helping with accounts Ganesh and Kamala. They gave me a detailed account of the history, operations and why they are so passionate about this, I am not repeating the same as it is well laid out in the site visit report by Pradeep and Aparna. Mr Sundaram and the original inspiration behind SVT have long associations with Ramarksihnan Matt and inspired by’ MOTHER” to uplift the girl child. The members are committed especially Ms Thenmozhi who personally makes several trips to villages just outside Chennai to reach out to girls who can benefit from this service. During April-June, they reach out to panchayats, NGO network and the Balwadi network through the ICDS platform to spread the word. Ms Thenmozhi has interacted with Balaji Sampath (AID India) who is well known to AfE. The outreach helps to set a favorable attitude towards the nursing program given the apprehensions of the parents sending their daughters away. I visited the class in session where the students (30) where studying about the endocrines. They stood up and kept standing until I remembered to have them sit down reminding them I was a visitor. At first if I asked a question all fo them would answer simultaneously so I would walk up to one to them ask their name, background, what they thought about the program etc. Most of the parents are coolies or farmers. I asked one girl what she would be doing if she were not here and she said “Oh I would be married by now”! I asked one of them what she was studying in the class. English is an issue but I was talking primarily in Tamil from the start. They do have a volunteer who helps them with
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