Avisa Charitable Trust®

“Join Your Hands to Build Our Healthy Nation”

Activity Report
On

Internship Programme
(Rural Development Program)
Udupi and Mysuru District

Address

Avisa Charitable Trust

2nd Floor, Anjanappa Building, Water Tank Road, Sanjeevini
Nagar, Sahakara Nagar Post, Bengaluru – 560092,
Phone: +918904419501, +919008231223, +919591377282

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Website: www.avisastrust.in, email: avisatrust@gmail.com
Acknowledgement

The pleasure that follows the successful completion of a project would

remain incomplete without a word of gratitude for the people without
whom this project would be a distant dream.

We sincerely expres our deep sense of gratitude and indebtness to

Dr. Ramesh Babu, Principal, Sai Vidya Institute of Technology,
Bengaluru. for his constant encouragment and whole hearted Co-
operation throughout the internship.
We take opportunity to thank Dr. Harish H T, NSS Officer, Sai Vidya
Institute of Technology,
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Zilla
Panchayath of Udupi District, for providing us an opportunity to
conduct this internship program in different panchayaths of Udupi
District.
We are indebted to Ms. Preethi Gehlot, CEO of Udupi District,
Sri. A. Srinivas Rao, CPO, Nodal Officer for Swachh Bharath Mission,
Zilla Panchayat, Udupi(D), for their valuable guidance, advice and
constant encouragement and for all the facilities provided.
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Ms.
Sruthi D C, Executive Officer, Piriyapatna Taluk Panchayath, for
providing us an opportunity to conduct this Rural Development
program in different panchayaths of piriyapatna Taluk.

Furthermore, we would also like to acknowledge the crucial role played

by the authorities of Grama Panchayat and the town folks of all the
panchayaths, who gave us the permission to use all the available
resources and supported our internship.
Lastly, I would like to give my gratitude to all the volunteers of Avisa

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 Charitable Trust without whom this feat would remain impossible as
it was.
About Avisa:
Avisa Charitable Trust a non-governmental organization educates and
empowers rural women and children. Our mission is to educate and
empower underprivileged women and children and support them to be a
part of healthy nation.
Avisa Charitable Trust is a growing organization in every way: we began on
30thNovember2012. We started a project namely “Healthy Village Healthy
India”. Healthy Village Healthy India is a project started for the benefit of
rural women who do not have the facility for menstrual Hygiene, which was
later renamed as Manasvini. We concentrate on spreading awareness on
menstrual hygiene, menstrual health, and also about the usage of sanitary
napkins. We also concentrate on providing sanitary napkins to women of the
rural area. We then named our overall rural development program project as
“Healthy Village Healthy India”.
Inadditionwith“Manasvini” we also started four more projects namely:
“Praharati”, “Vanasiri”, “Healthy Village Healthy India” and “Krishi” which
deals with education, environment, Overall Rural Development and
Agriculture as their major criteria.
Avisa Charitable Trust works in and around five districts of Karnataka
which are Udupi, Hassan, Mysore, Hubli and Bengaluru. Avisa Charitable
Trust has worked in various villages of these districts.

Our Team:
Dr. H T Harish - Trustee and President
Dr. Manjunatha S R - Trustee
Mr. Divakar H S - Trustee
Mr. Ganesh Shetty - Manager
Ms. K Navateja - Manager

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Mission:
To bridge the rural – urban divide pragmatically and ethically
Vision:
To promote an egalitarian society of education, health and peace

Our Projects
1. Praharati
“PRAHARATI” meaning moving forward, is a project made for the benefit of
the underprivileged kids to help them achieve their goal by providing proper
guidance, motivation and study friendly environment.
– Under program Praharati there are five major projects namely
 Career Guidance Campaign
 Classroom Pocket Library
 Painting schools
 English and Computer Classes

2. Manasvini
Manasvini is a project started for the benefit of rural women who do
not have the facility and awareness about Menstrual Hygiene and also
women empowerment. We concentrate on spreading awareness on
menstrual hygiene, menstrual health, and also about the usage of
sanitary napkins. We also concentrate on providing sanitary napkins
to women of the rural area.
– Under program Vanasiri there are four major projects namely
 Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Drive
 Self-Employment Opportunities Awareness
 Women Empowerment

3. Vanasiri
Vanasiri as the name suggest is a program developed to help in the growth
and stability of the richness of our environment. The project focuses on

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sapling plantation and maintenance, seed ball making, water conservation
and also provide awareness about the importance of plantation and
conservation.
– Under program Vanasiri there are five major projects namely
 Sapling Plantation Drive
 Sapling Maintenance Drive
 Seed Ball Making
 Water Conservation
 Plastic Usage Awareness

4. Krishi
Krishi as the name suggest is a project to help in the growth and stability of
the richness of our Agriculture. The project focuses on taking farmers to
traditional form of farming and making business plan to market the
agricultural products from farmer end.This project would also act as a
bridge between farmers and technology and bring technology closer to
farmers.
– Objectives:
 Bring technology closer to farmers
 Help in the outreach of Govt. Schemes to farmers.

5. Healthy Village Healthy India

Healthy Village Healthy India is a program done to educate Rural India
about the facilities available to them for their benefit in economic growth
and also helping them grow in socio-economic aspects.
– HVHI includes two projects under it
 Spreading awareness about Govt. Schemes
 Overall Development of Villages

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List of Gram Panchayath
Avisa Charitable Trust worked in and around 34 Grama Panchayaths of
Udupi and Mysore District, They are

Sl No Grama Panchayath
(Udupi District)
1 Koteshwara
2 Ambalapadi
3 Kolluru
4 Siddapura
5 Marvanthe
6 80 Badagabettu
7 Thrasi
8 Hombadibandadi
9 Padubidri
10 Basrur
11 Tekkate
12 Nada
13 Bada
14 Haladi
15 Shirva
16 Koni
17 Kadur
18 Kokarne
19 Perdoor
20 Hebri
21 Varanga
22 Marne
23 Kukkandoor
24 Yerlapadi
25 Bailoor

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Sl No Grama Panchayat
(Mysuru District)
1 Bettadapura
2 Ravandur
3 Bylukuppa
4 Chowthi
5 Komalapura
6 Chittenahalli
7 Hitne Hebbagilu
8 Malangi
9 Chilkunda

Given above are the names of Grama Panchayaths where the volunteers of
Avisa carried out overall rural development program.
All the panchayaths immensely supported and cooperated with the
volunteers which led to smooth functioning of this project.

SLRM in Udupi
Udupi, also known as Odipu, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is
the administrative headquarters of Udupi District. It is one of the fastest
growing cities in Karnataka and has various educational institutions. Udupi
is one of the top tourist attractions in Karnataka. It is notable for
the Krishna Temple. It lends its name to the popular Udupi cuisine
Udupi is also one of the first District who has started and is successfully
running Solid Liquid Resource Management units .It is a district which is
able to manage waste and convert it to resource and make profit from it.
About 50 gram panchayats in Udupi district of Karnataka have a solid and
Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) Centre, each equipped with a specially
designed tricycle/vehicle that the local Self Help Group, uses for collection
of household waste. The system works like clockwork, contributing to
making the villages look clean and beautiful.

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SLRM is a method by which garbage is converted into a source of income,
while creating a lot of employment opportunities. Waste collected from the
households is brought to the centre for processing in a scientific manner.
The project is a part of the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) ODF
(open defecation free) plus activities.
Across the district, Green protocol by which use of single use plastic and
disposables is minimised is encouraged at all public meetings, ceremonies,
schools, anganwadis, government offices, etc.
Our volunteers were taken to visit these SLRM units and were educated
about waste segregation, management and disposal. The volunteers in turn
educated the villagers about how important waste management is, how
important SLRM unit is and how to segregate, manage and dispose waste
effectively. They also educated people on Ban on Plastic and the harm from
plastic usage to mankind.

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Activities Performed
Rural Development Program January – February 2020
Rural development is a program done with an objective of bringing out
overall development of rural parts of the country. This program focuses on
bringing awareness to rural people about govt. level initiatives, about waste
management, about education and its importance in one’s life, about how
the civilization is change and how to adapt to it. This program falls under
Healthi Village Healthy India (HVHI) project of Avisa Charitable Trust.
Started on 13th of January 2020, in and around 25 panchayaths of Udupi
and 9 Panchayaths of Mysuru Distirct, this program was framed for overall
development of villages and enhancement of national level initiatives. This
program included some activities like

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1. Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Programme
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is an essential aspect of
hygiene for women and adolescent girls between menarche and
menopause. Despite being an important issue concerning women and
girls in the menstruating age group MHM is often overlooked in post-
disaster responses. Further, there is limited evidence of menstrual
hygiene management in humanitarian settings. We at Avisa aim to
educate women about clean and proper menstrual hygiene.
Women of Udupi and Mysuru District were given awareness about
menstrual health and hygiene, as it is proven that 62 percent of rural
women use unhygienic methods during menstruation, 47 sessions
were given to the women of all the panchayaths. This program falls
under Manasvini project of Avisa.

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2. Street Play
Nowadays, street play is used to convey a message to the crowd
watching it. Street play is considered to be the rawest form of acting,
because one does not have a microphone or loud speakers. Spreading
awareness waste segregation, management and disposal and its
importance in one’s life and also awareness about ban on plastic plays
a crucial role in this vastly growing world. As it helps to control waste
and protect earth from pollution and destruction
Awareness about waste segregation, management and disposal and its
importance in one’s life and also awareness about ban on plastic was
given to people in the form of street play. All the volunteers actively
participated in the activity and brought awareness to the localiets.
totally 22 street plays were performed in different panchayaths.

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3. Compost Pit
Pipe Composting is the method in which wet waste is converted
into manure. Two pipes (either of Cement or PVC) are installed and
wet waste is stored in these pipes where they get converted into
manure through bacterial decomposition. Initially, cow dung and
jaggery are poured into th0e pipe which help in decomposition of
wet waste.

Compost pit is a beneficiary method used to manage wet waste.

Volunteers learnt about compost pit from the session given to them by
CPO of Udupi district, which they further educated the villagers and
motivated them to implement it in their life. They personally planted
690 compost pits in the houses of the villagers in all the panchayaths.

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4. Wall Paintings
The overall objective of the wall painting project is to make people
aware of the serious health hazards posed by open defecation,
motivate them to shun the unhealthy practice and make proper use
of the toilets to improve hygiene and sanitation in their villages, said
sources in the School Education Department.
Volunteers with the help of panchayaths did wall paintings on school
walls and other compound walls on the themes like motivation to
study, water conservation, waste management and disposal, SLRM,
bus stop painting, etc. 133 paintings were done on an average to
fulfill the purpose of spreading awareness and beautification

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5. Door to Door Campaign
Canvassing is the systematic initiation of direct contact with
individuals, commonly used during
political campaigns. Canvassing can be done for many reasons:
political campaigning, grassroots fundraising, community awareness,
membership drives, and more. Campaigners knock on doors to
contact people personally. Campaigning is also known as Door to Door
Campaign
Reaching out to people is easier when we talk to them individually,
this can be fulfilled by doing door to door visit. Volunteers visited
5182 houses and educated people about waste segregation,
management, disposal and ban on plastic.

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6. Cleaning
To create awareness on Swachh Bharat Campaign volunteers cleaned
public places, lakes and bus stops. Totally around 174 places were
cleaned.

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7. Rally
Street rallies were conducted by the volunteers to give awareness to
people about waste segregation, management, disposal and ban on
plastic. School children, members of panchayath and localiets
participated in the rally. Around 28 rallies were conducted in different
panchayaths.Volunteers distributed pamphlets to the villagers en
route and explained to them the hazards of plastic wastes. They
appealed to the people to contribute their share towards environment
protection.

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8. Ban on Plastic
Volunteers visited shops in the villages and educated them on ban on
plastic and motivated them to stop using plastic and manage waste.
1469 shops were visited during this drive.

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9. Basic Computer and Basic English
Basic Computer Education, Basic English Education and Career
Guidance, While working on the project Praharati, which was while
giving career guidance to students of 8th,9th and 10th standard, we
learnt that the knowledge on computer was really poor in some of the
government schools, which motivated Avisa to conduct a survey on
how effective was computer education in government schools.

After the Survey, we framed a new syllabus and textbooks for basic
computer science, which was then distributed to all the volunteers.
These volunteers then educated children on basic computers by using
this syllabus. During this program, volunteers visited 72 schools and
educated children on basic computer and English classes, volunteers
also gave career guidance classes for improving educational quality
and confidence in children. This program falls under Praharati project
of Avisa

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10. Other activities
A wall was built in Maravanthe SLRM using Plastic Bottles and sand.

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