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CAMPAIGN ON WHEELS 2008
World AIDS Day Celebration
Organized by RSSO & supported by Concern Worldwide on 3rd.
December 2008
Read all about it...
Mrs. Inderjit
Khurana, of Ruchika Social Service Organization, was
awarded the World Children’s Honorary Award, one of the ‘The Worlds
Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC)-2007’, on April
16, 2007...
Read all about it...
RSSO organizes
a Blood Donation Camp in
collaboration with Sarvodaya International Trust, Orissa
Chapter, on August 16.
Read all about it...
CHETNA
Ahmedabad announces a 6 day Interactive Course...
Children
as Catalysts for Change
Click here for full details
A Fully Interactive Course on:
Rights based approaches (children / young
people), gender equality and life skills.
Special focus on Child-To–Child approaches.
The vulnerabilities of children & youth in their
own country.
Program management skills for planning and
implementing, monitoring & evaluation programs.
Designing an action plan for priority issues of
children.
Ruchika
holds Cancer Awareness & Education Camp
in Nov. 2006
Ruchika
hosts 'Chintan' Exhibition on World AIDS
Day in Dec. 2006
Inderjit Khurana wins the Henry Derozio
Award for 2006.
Read About It...
Childline
has rescued three children aged
between 1yr and 2 yrs...
[click here to read more]
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Inderjit Khurana received the National Award for
Child Welfare for the years 2003 and 2004 at the
Children welfare awards to be presented tomorrow... (ANI)
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CAMPAIGN ON WHEELS 2008
World AIDS Day Celebration (3rd,December,2008)
Organized by RSSO and supported by Concern Worldwide |
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part of the World AIDS Day celebration Ruchika Social Service
Organization with the support of Concern World Wide organized a
vibrant colorful awareness campaign at lower PMG in Bhubaneswar
with slum community and others who took part in it.
In this occasion a meeting was held
before the campaign, and the invited guests were Sri Parameswar
Swain, Project Director of OSACS, Ms. Aparajita Dhar Program
manager, Mrs. S. Gomathi, Ms. Khatila Walling from Concern, Mr.
Benudhar Senapati, Program manager of RSSO , as the guest of
honor.
Sri Parmeswar Swain the honorable
Chief Guest inaugurated the campaign and flagged off the
decorative AIDS awareness Ratha(Chariot). The AIDS Ratha moved
around the city with the noble intention to create awareness in
the society regarding the routes of transmission of HIV and AIDS
and about the discrimination due to stigma and its prevention.
The Ratha had to disseminate the
message in a innovative dramatic way and conducted quiz
competitions to encourage public participation. The condom man (
a man decorated with condoms) was the center point of attraction
in the program. IEC and condoms were freely distributed at the
stoppages of the chariot at different places.
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 RSSO
SHELTER GIRL WINS A SILVER MEDAL IN NATIONAL KICKBOXING
Ms. Milli Gauda – a RSSO shelter girl
aged just 10 years had won the Silver Medal in the INDIAN OPEN 2008
NATIONAL KICKBOXING OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP held at the Kalinga Stadium,
Bhubaneswar between 18th to 21st December,2008.
About 2000 kickboxers participated from
the State. She not only made the
State proud, but brought us an immense sense of satisfaction. |
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Awareness Program on
Inclusion
Held on 3rd and 4th December 2008
by RSSO
World Disability Day holds an immense
significance for the disability sector for the organizations who are
involved in the welfare the Disabled People.
December 3rd is celebrated around globe
as a “World Disability Day. Ruchika Social Service Organisation
supports the disabled slum children through the ”Inclusive
Education” Program for the differently abled children. This year the
program organized a two days awareness program on “Inclusion &
Integration” in the major slums like Bharatpur and Salia Sahi,
Bhubaneswar.
The event was Street play Viz. “ Hum
Honge Kamyab Har Din”.
The Street play group “ Bande Mataram”
performed the play in the 8 major public places in the slums.
Besides an auto decorated with Banners,
spreading the message of Inclusion and Integration was moving about
in the slums and distributing leaflets and broachers |
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An Exposure of the Visit
of Slum Disabled Children undertaken by RSSO on The 14th of
December,2008
On 14th Dec. 2008 a group of 25 Slum
Disabled Children were taken to the Nandankanan Zoo for an outing.
Ms. Anneke Claeys a Volunteer from
Belgium, a few parents and 3 RSSO staff accompanied the children.
It is often noticed that the disabled
children are neglected and deprived of their basic social,
educational and cultural rights due to their impairments and
handicaps.
As Ruchika runs a program “Inclusive
Education” and working on Inclusion for the disabled slum children,
an effort was made to bring them to the lime light of the society,
outside their scanty huts and to show them to the external world.
The objective of the visit was to
increase the awareness of disabled children about the animals and
birds. A bus was provided by the Ruchika High School and the
children were collected from different slums and taken to the Zoo.
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Diagnosis and Assessment Camp
for the Visually Impaired Children
Inclusive Education Program, RSSO |
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 Most
of the children from the slum and rural communities belong to poorer
family backgrounds and experience visual impairment due to disease
and malnutrition.
Many children are infected by
water-borne parasites resulting in very serious eye infections many
leading to blindness. All these can be treated effectively if they
are diagnosed earlier.
On January 6th, 2009 a diagnosis and
assessment camp for the visually impaired slum children was
organized by the Inclusive Education project in the premises of the
Ruchika Social Service Organisation.
 About
24 visually impaired children from the slums were examined and
assessed in the camp. Dr. Renuka Mohanty an ophthalmologist of Lions
Eye Hospital diagnosed the children and prescribed treatment and
medicines. Mr. J. Adhikari an optometrist assessed the visual acuity
of the children.
It is apparent from the diagnosis that
most of the children are suffering from Keratomycosis, Keratoconus
and corneal infections because of which they have lost their vision.
The parents have also been explained about the prognosis of the
patient, who have no treatment except cornea transplantation and it
is very expensive and impossible in the present situation.
 According
to the doctors prescription the parents were explained to take care
of the eyes and save the remaining visual capacity so that the
condition of the children will not be deteriorated in future.
Medicines were purchased and provided to the children for one month
from Dr. Herman Kuppers a medical specialist from Belgium heading
the Inclusive Education project support.
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R.S.S.O In The Youth
Festival-2008 held at Cuttack |
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A Youth festival was organised by
Utkal Sevak Samaj, at Cuttack and supported by Concern Worldwide,
India , for three days from 8th -10th December,2008.
Fifty six talk AIDS volunteers from
different partner organizations of Orissa participated in the
festival. The activities were planned to empower the peer educators
and to impart special skills to make them change makers. The Project
Director, State AIDS Control Society, the District Collector, many
film star’s and social and professional leaders were invited.
Thirteen peer educators from Ruchika
participated in the programme. They were involved in different
performing art including drama, dance, song, demonstration of
martial art, jhoti (traditional paintings with color and rice
powder) quiz etc.
Miss Anita Nayak from Ruchika won the
Best Volunteer Award for her all round performance. Ruchika was
selected as the best organization and awarded for its presentation
in all the categories of performance.
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