| NSS UNIT NO 129 ACTIVITY REPORT (2015-18)
The NSS unit no 129 of the College is a very dynamic unit.Commendable activities during the period include the follows. 1)Our college was selected one among the eight colleges to be chosen from India , where the Programme Officers were selected and trained to become Active Citizen Facilitators , an initiative by NSS Cell and British Council, at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute for Youth Development from 6 to 10 th February 2017 2)Our Social Action Project(SAP) ,done as part of the Active Citizen Programme in the college, won the 2nd and 3rd place at the National Level Social Action Project evaluation by British Council on June 2017. 3)Selected as Master Facilitator by British Council to train NSS Programme Officers at University level. Invited to be part of the Home Team of Trainers for second stage of Facilitator Training Programme, along British Council Global Trainer Mike Waldron and Monomita Singh at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai from 15 to 19 th July 2017. 4) Invited as resource person for Facilitator Training Programme as Master Facilitator at Bharathiar University,Coimabatore(), Bharathidasan University, Trichi(), MG University, Kottayam and University of Calicut . 5) Conducted 8 Voluntary Blood Donation Camps and contributed much to Organ and Eye Donation Drives. With assistance and technical support from Kerala Federation Of the Blind, we were able to create a directory wherein all the 100 NSS volunteers of the Unit and Unit no 98 were active participants in the Blind Assistance bank. Students went as scribes for blind students both within the college and outside.Voice bank initiated recordings of Malayalam books as there was no known software for recording books in Malayalam whereas there were many in English. Our volunteers recorded as many as 100 books into Malayalam, which was recorded with help of android phones and transferred to computer and then stored as audio files. These audio files are available in the archives of Federation of the Blind. A safe and secure Home is everyman’s dream. Our NSS Unit was able to take up and complete the following ‘Home for the Homeless’ project, both partial and complete.Construction of a home for a physically challenged student, Hinto Varghese of II BBA of the college at Mudikkode, Thrissur,along with Unit no 98.Construction of a home for a physically challenged person Mr. Nidheesh from Ollur. Nidheesh was the unfortunate victim of a car accident and he is now confined to a wheel chair with no control over his body ,leaving his wife and two kids destitute.Construction of a home for Ms . Madhavi, a destitute and middle aged woman at Bharatha, Amballur, Thrissur. Environment protection is the need of the hour. With special emphasis to environment enrichment, we have introduced various programmes like Rain Water Harvesting by digging nearly 100 rainpits in the college campus. Our college stands at a drought prone area and in summer season, the wells dry up and there is severe water shortage. It was really a challenge to maintain the vegetable garden and other gardens in the college campus in summer season. The college is situated in a sprawling 25 acres of uncultivated land. The NSS unit of the college has been detrimental in converting most of these land into cultivable land, as is evident from our extensive agriculture activities. Our volunteers have succeeded in bringing about a change in the mind set of the society through their activities. The money raised have been utilized for charity purposes like wheel chair donation to the poor and needy and to meet medical expenses for the destitute in Old Age Homes and in the adopted village. We have also successfully imparted the concept of food security drive as the college boasts of continuous upland cultivation of the medicinal rice variety of Njavara in 1 hectare of the college campus for the 5th consecutive year thus upholding the motto of `Food Production is superior to Food Donation’ The NSS Unit in our college has become the most effective organisation which intervenes in the society for many social causes. Our Unit undertook Disaster Management programmes in flooded areas during the monsoon season.We have also offered indispensible services at Ockhi Cyclone Refugee Camp at Kodungallur, Thrissur by providing financial assistance and donated medicines and dress for the refugees. For continuous interaction with the NSS alumni, the Changathikoottam was officially inaugurated in the times of the previous Programme Officer Smt.Soni.T.L and it still continues ardently to this day. Free Medical camps were conducted inside the campus and in the adopted area. Blood sugar –pressure, eye camps and Blood group detection are among the highlights. Solution to Pollution was collecting the two great antagonists-plastic waste and e –waste. The NSS Unit collected 2500 kgs of e-waste in regard to the seven day camp in 2016-17 and handed it over to Clean Kerala Company. Compost pit and bio gas pit in the college campus were another remarkable achievements in waste management.Our NSS volunteers strove hard to conceptualise three main donations; Medicine donation(which were handed over to Ollur Primary Health Centre), Toy donation(which were handed over to children in the local anganvadi) and Specs donation(wherein the frames of used specs were given to poor people). Along with it, we also regularly conduct hair donation and dress donation. Our Unit observed all days of National and International importance in unique ways. Elocution contest, Quiz competition and street plays marked the days in a remarkable fashion. The Unit also arranged skill development and Women Empowerment Programme for the benefit of the volunteers, such as training in martial arts, learning to make paper pens and grow bags, ornament making and carry bags out of waste cloth materials. Durable Asset Creation Home for Homeless a) Construction of a home for a physically challenged student, Hinto Varghese of II BBA of the college at Mudikkode, Thrissur,along with Unit No 98 b) Construction of a home for a physically challenged person Mr. Nidheesh from Ollur along with Unit no 98. c) Construction of a home for Ms . Madhavi, a destitute and middle aged woman at Bharatha, Amballur, Thrissur along with Unit no 98. 1) Campus cultivation- Organic farming that included Elephant Foot Yam,Red Spinach and Green Spinach,Ladies Finger, Ash Gourd, Bitter Gourd, Pumpkin, Drumstick,Chinese Potato, Cauli Flower and Cabbage and the like. 2) Collected about 2500 kg of e waste from the adopted village, neighbouring areas and areas in and around the 7 Day camp premises . The money was utilised for the construction of home for Hinto Varghese. 3) Donated wheel chair for physically challenged person Mr. Balarama Swamy of Puthur, Thrissur from generating money from sale of organic vegetables and hand wash made by the volunteers. 4) Donated 25 plastic chairs to the local anganvadi from money generated from selling 300 kg of Elephant Foot Yam. 5) Donated 15 water beds for physically challenged persons. 6) Constructed a concrete seating arrangements around the trees in the Birth Sign Star Garden . WORKS CARRIED OUT IN ADOPTED AREA 1)Books on Wheels- Mobile library for residents of the adopted area who did not have access to reading room or library 2) Mango Girl- Distribution and planting of mango sapling in homes where a girl child is born 3)Free Medical Camps 4)Distribution of Study materials to children in adopted village 5)Curry leaf sapling and other fruit bearing tree saplings distribution 6)Organic Kitchen Garden assistance 7) Free Medical camps 8)Skill Development classes 9) House visits and Immunization Campaign 10)Waste management efforts-plastic waste and e-waste 11)Pain and Palliative care awareness class 12)Participatory Appraisal for Resource Mapping 13)Facility for soil testing 14) Voluntary Blood donation camps 15) Eye camps 16)Disaster Management Programmes 17)Monsoon related issues and disease awareness and survey 18)E –literacy classes to children and veterans 19)Toy ,Dress and specs donation 20) Women Empowerment Programmes
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