Tag Archive for: site visit

THE BEACON OF HOPE

Regular jailings, false accusations, illegal dealings and being discriminated, No,i am not making a list of the worst crimes in the world,i am in actuality listing the daily atrocities faced by the Charranager community. You may say how is this possible, Khanyi? Well this is only possible because of the false which has been put […]

Sauhard and Youth Citizenship

Sauhard believes in sensitizing and enabling the youth to voice their opinions, ideas, concerns and views over social and political issues through creative media. As such, they were a natural partner for this year’s theme of Youth Citizenship. With mediums like theatre, comics, movies and documentaries, exposure trips, and workshops, Leadership Collective learners have been […]

ADVENTURES IN AHMEDABAD: BORN A CRIMINAL

ATISH: HELLO POLICE COULD I PLEASE GET A POLICE VAN TO COME DOWN AND ASSIST!!! 112 DISPATCHER : WELL SIR COULD YOU PLEASE REMAIN CALM AND TELL ME WHAT IS HAPPENING. ATISH: I AM IN THE CHARRANAGER COMMUNITY AND WE HAVE JUST BEEN ATTACKED BY OVER 500 POLICEMEN AND , MANY PEOPLE ARE HURT AND […]

Chhara Theater

Today we visited in Chhara community. Aatish was telling us a story about Chhara community. I expect that we will learn drama but I learned how Aatish is helping to Chhara? I was feeling good because I thought that today I will learn drama. At first we visited in prison of old Chhara community. In […]

Journey to Our Minds

Yesterday (16th July) was a great day because we went to the Green sSraw organization building to attend a long session there. We started the session with cleaning up the street by collecting trash from the ground and put it in plastic bags, so we wore gloves then we started collecting the trash till we […]

CHHARA COMMUNITY!

We have a common name that is HUMAN but human is divided into many classes, castes, countries. Due to dividing this we get our own identity. This identity is the most prestige thing whose shows our manner and history. Today we went in Chhara community. Chhara is the caste of 200 people . During British […]

Mental Health at St. Xavier’s

We had a special day at the Mental Health Center at “St. Xavier” University. Yesha Kotadia – a consulting psychologist, offered her time to explain the meaning behind the terms mental health and mental illness to us. Mental health is mandatory for living a happy life, protecting and taking responsibility for other people’s lives in […]

Mental Health Session

Today we went to St. Xavier’s College. Today’s topic was mental health. Mental health thought by Yasha Kotodia. Whatever I expect I got it. Like I expect, what is mental health and illness? This all things I learned. I want to learn, how do we now that people are in mental illness? Which type of […]

Mental Health Myths

Today, my group and I attended Ms. Yesha’s session about how mental health is perceived in India. By participating in various activities which included myth ranking, acting, and analyzing a specific scenario of someone seeking help in India, it came to my surprise that many citizens of this country do not take mental health seriously. […]

HIDDEN TRUTHS OF SOCIETY

Today is a Eye opener for me because I get to knew the hidden truth in Society about Chhara community. Chhara community is tagged as criminals by birth because they do liquor sneaking. And they are denotified tribes in India. Liquor sneaking is not their actual profession. They are forced to sneak liquor at the […]