Baduku: The Alternative Life Skills College ( an initiative of Samvada) Invites you to the Concluding Discussions & Valedictory Celebrations of Badukuӳ First Certificate Course
Water-lenses : Towards Sustainable Water Management
On
19th October 2006, 4.00pm to 6.00 pm,
at Baduku Centre, c/o Samvada Maneҍ
427/2 7th A Main, 12th A Cross, Yelahanka New Town
Bangalore 560064 ph 080 28562421
About Samvada : Samvada has been working with youth in and around Bangalore Urban and Rural Districts for the last 17 years, helping young people reflect on themselves and society and mobilizing them for social change. Our vision is to build a equitable, gender just, secular and sustainable society where notions of caste, class, gender, religion, culture, sexuality , science and development are critically examined in terms of our values and aspirations, as well as our paradigms of progress.
Through intense workshops, outreach camps, exposures, film festivals, cultural interventions as well as classroom debates, sports, theatre and music we have introduced college students and youth to NGOs and social movements, creating spaces to re- examine beliefs, redefine development and creatively engage with issues of social justice and sustainable livelihoods.
About Baduku : Baduku is an initiative, wherein we aim to help young people, especially from rural underprivileged backgrounds, to acquire life-skills which will contribute towards alternate development.
Baduku will organize courses on Sustainable Water Management, Eco Tourism, Child Care and Child Rights, Journalism for Peace and Development, Leadership for Crafts Communities, Gender-just Counseling, Sustainable Building Technologies etc. We hope to equip young people with livelihood options that inherently contain and nurture the seeds of social change
About Water-Lenses : This one month course has covered a wide spectrum of perspectives and skills related to water. The first part of the course focused on looking at the politics of water accessibility in terms of class, caste, gender dynamics as well as rural/urban, and agri/industry divides, inter state conflicts and implications for health, equity as well as social mobility. The second half has been devoted to equipping the trainnes with hands on skills related to Rain Water Harvesting, Water Shed Development, Tank Rejuvenation, Eco-Sanitation and concepts from water related Sciences and technologies.
17 participants including 4 girls, mainly dalits from Ramnagaram, Anekal, Devenahalli, Kolar, and Hospet., with qualifications ranging from 4th standard to Graduation, some with masonry and other skills have successfully and enthusiastically completed the course. DO COME AND ENCOURAGE THEM!
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