COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY Ø Introduction Education should not confine to the textbook. Apart from the bookish knowledge, we must come across many hands on experiences in the society. Scout and guide is one such organisation which promotes the students to develop life skills and allow the students to participate in different types of activities with people of society. These activities will help us to understand the problems of the society. So I always feel proud of this organisation. In this regard we obtained a project on Reduce Child Mortality . Diseases like pneumonia,birth asphyxia,diarrhea are commonly effected to children during some seasons. Lack of knowledge about the diseases, improper sanitation is the main cause for the death of children in and around of our town. Having all precautions taken by the government authority still child mortility is increasing So through this project we got an opportunity to know more about child mortility and we could educate the people of the town to take precautions from these problems and we believe that “PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE”. Ø Aims and objectives o Uppinangady is a village area. So people here are not aware of the causes and effects of malaria. Dengue and some major diseases spread by mosquitoes o Our village is not highly affected by diseases like diarrhoea ,pneumonia. Hence people here are not aware of this syndrome and its treatment. o Our aim is to create awareness about these diseases and reduce child mortality. o Our main aim is to educate the people of our village about the treatment of such diseases and make them think in positive way. Ø Selection of the topic As community development project is a compulsory requirement for Rashtrapathi examination we had a meeting in the patrol. Thinking the aims and objectives, problems in our locality we decided to work on reduce child mortality and educate people. Later the topic was passed in the Court Of Honour. There it was finalised and ideas were given to work on this topic. Ø Ideas for the topic After this topic was finalised in the COH, we met our Guide captain for more ideas for the project. She guided us with few ideas and told us to meet our science teacher. Later our science teacher gave us some information and few ideas to continue this project. She also toid us about an awareness programme, pamphlets distribution and questionnaire. Then she told us to meet Dr Naina Fathima who is a doctor in Govt. Hospital Uppinangady. Ø Visiting Govt. Hospital Uppinangady As advised by our science teacher, with the permission we visited Govt. Hospital. Later we met Dr. Naina Fathima and explained about our requirements. Then she took a class about a few diseases and explained how it is caused, their symptoms and some preventing methods. Then she gave some guidance to continue the project. Later she asked us to come another day for more information. We fixed a day and visited the hospital seeking her permission. We had a PPT presentation and gave us more information. She also discussed problems of or locality and gave us ideas for the project. Ø Pamphlets distribution With these ideas, we collected pamphlets from the hospital and discussed many doubts with Doctor. She helped us to clear the doubts and asked us to create awareness by distributing the pamphlets programme in our locality with speech, song etc. Ø Awareness programme We decided to conduct awareness programme to make the project more effective on the topic REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY. With the help of our guide captain we planned the awareness programme neatly. First we took the permission from our parent, guide captain & principal. We conducted awareness programme in our locality in the places like bus stand, temple, school, and in the street. We prepared a speech, banner and a song with the help of our guide captain. We also prepared a questionnaire and along with the awareness programme. We even distributed it in near our house. We went to the government hospital of Uppinangady and we got the pamphlets from the doctor. We earned lot of information from which it was useful for us to prepare speech and the song. We presented our awareness programme and got good appreciation from the public. Ø Preparing questionnaire To understand the Children who suffered from these disease we prepared a questionnaire to interview the people who suffered from diarrhoea,pneumonia. With the guidance of our guide caption, we prepared the questionnaire. There were total 10 questions. There were question related to symptoms, total days took for recovery and opinion of our duty. There were total 5 copies of questionnaire 3 people were suffered by tetanus and 2 were suffered by diarrhoea We could understand the cause and their present opinion.