BENGALURU: A group of girls from YuvaLok High school in Hennur are taking stock and identifying various issues affecting their localities. They have even sketched out solutions. The students are residents of Bagalur, a semi-urban slum near Lingarajapuram.
As many as 26 girls from the school have been divided into five groups to identify the issues. The students came up with solution with the help of technology.
The four issues identified by the students were solutions for women’s health and safety – over-crowding in cities, potable water, effective garbage disposal and sewage systems. All the groups have written down their observations, illustrations and paintings in a website.
On one occasion, the girls walked the streets of the locality and observed that they were not able to find many women and girls on the street since they afraid to go out alone. The girls presented a skit with regard to the issue which gave basic awareness to one and all on how to handle such issues.
Too Many People
The second group were able to identify the issues related to over crowding in cities. They also presented various illustrations and charts to discuss solutions. They also threw in a skit about the importance of education.
Cheap Filters
The next group came up with an innovative idea to purify water and presented a low-cost filter that can be used by small groups. The next group presented skits and illustrations related to effective garbage disposal and issues related to sewage systems.
‘Opened Our Eyes’
The students were extremely thrilled about the projects they were part of. “This project helped us to identify the issues in our surroundings that we never noticed,” says Aishwarya R , a class nine student. “We really enjoyed the team work and it gave us a chance to get more practical knowledge,” says Swetha Shankar from, also from class 9.
YuvaLok Foundation, is an NGO that works with over 1,500 underprivileged children. “One of our important aims is to provide better education to the unprivileged class and by that we aim at community development,” says DP Daniel Corporate, PRO, Y