COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COMBAT HIV/AIDS MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES  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 Combat Malaria, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. These diseases are commonly effected the people during some seasons. Lack of knowledge about the diseases, improper sanitation is the main cause to spread these type of diseases in and around of our town. Having all precautions taken by the government authority still people are suffering from these diseases. So through this project we got an opportunity to know more about these problems and we could educate the people of the town to take precautions from these problems and we believe that “PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE”.  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 human immune deficiency virus (HIV)/aids. Hence people here are not aware of this syndrome and its treatment. o Our aim is to create awareness about these diseases. 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.  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 combat malaria, HIV/AIDS and other diseases 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.  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.  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.  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 m our locality with speech, song etc.  Awareness programme We decided to conduct awareness programme to make the project more effective on the topic COMBACT HIV, MALARIA AND AIDS. 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.  Preparing questionnaire To understand the people who suffered from these decease we prepared a questionnaire to interview the people who suffered from dengue, malaria and chikungunya. 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 dengue and 2 were suffered by chikungunya. We could understand the cause and their present opinion. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN  Introduction From time memorial women are living under clutches of men. Though Indian constitution has given reservation still women are deprived of rights to lead independent life. Therefore it’s our duty to empower the women of our country. So we the guides decided to prepare a project on women empowerment.  Aims and objectives o To empower the women of our locality. o To know the problems and challenges of women in village area. o To educate the women about gender equality. o To know the problems of the working women. o Encouraging the women to take part in the social life. o Our main aim is to educate the people of our locality to empower women  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 and with the opinion of every guide, we conducted COH. In the COH we decided to choose the topic Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women. Then we decided a few ideas for our project and few works to be done for our six month project.  Ideas for the topic After the topic was finalised in the COH we met our Guide Captain for more ideas. With her guidance we met other teacher for more information about women empowerment. She also gave ideas for the project, how to work on this project and a few suggestions. Our Guide Captain also told us to visit few institutions which is maintained by women, their aims and objectives etc. We planned to visit SIRI, milk diary maintained by women and a community of women. We also collected few ideas from our locality, our parents, and educated people and also met the elders to know more about gender equality.  Visiting the Diary After we visited Siri, we researched about women communities and decided to visit diary which is maintained by women. They get nearly 270l of milk in a day. They also give milk for temple when there is necessary of lots of milk. Timings: Morning: 7:30 -8:00 Evening: 5:15-5:30  A visit to Siri Gramodyoga, Belthangady As we decided to visit Siri, we asked the permission from the management. Then we decided to attend a session from Manorama Bhat. There are several products which are all prepared by women. Women working there are provided with several opportunities, proper facilities with proper care. Women from faraway places come to work there. They give hostel facilities and they also have canteen food. The management also provides ATM for every employee and their salary will be put on to their own account. There are products like garments, pickles, agarbattis, bleaching powder, honey, coconut oil and so on. Women also have classes on stitching and they are given salary according to their grading. They are also provided with ESI facilities in which women get free treatment for any accident. Products are given according to their contract and they also conduct Siri festival.  Session from director of Siri We asked Manorama Bhat to take class about Women Empowerment. She gave us information about women empowerment and also gave a few ideas for our project.