Village Study Report
Name of the Village: Veerapur
Team Members : Lingaraj and Jagadeesh
On 17 of February we both had been to veerapur. It is around 26 Km away from Dharwad. While travelling we found quarries throughout the way. It comes under Ramapur Village Panchayat and surrounded by these villages namely Ramapur, Kallapur, Hosawal. Each village is very near to one another.
As soon as we entered the village we saw school and went to meet the head master so that we can make arrangement of accommodation and get cooperation. We introduced our self and explained about the intension of village study. Later we met Anganawadi teacher and collected some general information.
After the lunch Mr. Manohar called and met me. He took us to a house and told them that, they will conduct village study and stay here for 3 days. Then we both started roaming around the village as to introduce with villagers. We come across some of them and talk to them and also observed their houses, streets, fields etc.
In the evening we went to transect walk and saw a big lake which was under reconstruction. Then I discussed with the villagers about their life and daily activities. On the next morning we went to many households and collected the data regarding their livelihoods. Later we visited to Panchayat office to get some secondary data and we collected. After that we discussed with SHG members and came to know about their activities. And I spent some time with school children. In the evening we chatted with some young unemployed youth and they asked us the career opportunities, we tried to tell them.
On the final day we met elder women and spoke about their life, how was it in their previous days and they started to describing it. And I also discussed their livelihoods. Likewise we went through different ways to know more about this village.

GRAMA CHETANA
It is a rural development training centre of BAIF located at Surashettikoppa of Kalaghatagi taluka and around 20 KM away from Hubli.
On 10th Feb we went there in the afternoon. Mr. Ksheerasagar welcome us and introduced himself and organization. Later we went to Kamplikoppa village for conducting PRA activities. We all 21 fellows had been divided into different groups and been assigned different works, such as resource mapping when diagram matrix and focus group discussion.

We did accordingly and assembled in the community hall, where villagers were already gathered. Some of the fellows and villagers sang the song. Then we distributed sweets and khara to them. Later we came back to Grama Chetana in the night and had dinner. Around 11 O” clock, our Director joined us to the Campfire.

About Village Study

On 11th Feb at 7.30 am, I had breakfast at Grama Chetana and went with 4 members by walk to Kuradikeri village as part of village study as soon as entered the village, we met small children playing there.
The villagers were busy in their household works as there was a fair in previous day, we introduced ourselves to the villagers and took them into confidence to build a good rapport and to get support from them for the village study, we met a senior person of the village and got the primary information. Then we went to transect walk around the village with some villagers and noticed the facilities there.Later we visited to Anganwadi and Govt. school and collected some statistics there.

In the evening, we asked the villagers to be assembled in the temple to draw map and matrix meanwhile, we met Shetteppa who is working for AME Foundation. He was also with us until the end and we came back at 9 p.m.
Next day,we again visited the same village for collecting the further information.we conducted FGD in the Anganawadi and drew out the outline of the village and came back to Hubli in the evening.

About Leadership activities
Leaders: Lingaraj and Hanamanth
Followers: Devadanam and Jagadeesh
Myself and Hanamanth both went with our team of 4 members to pre-matric Govt girls hostel at Unkal cross on 26th January to perform Leadership activity on the eve of republic day.
Our motto was to motivate them towards studies and to make them sincere about schooling.We encouraged them to have that passion to learn and inculcate the reading habit.We played two videos before them and explained about it so that they can get inspired by these videos and be cheerful throughout the day.
I quoted an example of Wilma Rudolf who was polio affected in her child hood but later she come over of it by daily practicing and won 3gold medals in Olympics. This was influenced them to work hard and never give up the confidence and hope of victory. Hanamanth sang a patriotic song and made them to sing. He also told some interesting stories.

Daily Documentation

Daily Documentation
Date: 4/2/2009
Prepared By: Lingaraj and Beeralinga
The class started as usual at 9 0’ clock in the morning. Ajay informed us to speak in English, if fail to do so you will be penalized and also told that I and Lata will be responsible to collect the fine. Then Beerlinga joined them. Meanwhile Chinnababu entered the class and clarified it.
This day’s recap was done by Basavaraj and Lata. Soon after story telling session began. Voluntarily some fellows narrated the story and Chinnababu advised them. Due to short of time others could not told the story.
Around 11 0’clock Mr. Prakash Bhat came and session began with prayer by Usha. He explained about PRA and later sang a song, we repeated followed by him. After some time he asked some fellows to assume a situation and act accordingly, so that we feel relaxed and laugh.
After the lunch break class started about 1.55 pm with the mimicry by Hanamanth. Then he explained about mapping, its types, how to take participation in it etc. Later we have been divided into 3 groups and given us a task to be performed that it should create a village atmosphere. Each team performed different roles. It was humorous. And we all enjoyed a lot.
Finally at the last he explained matrix through the example of mobile, how we assess and grade the things. With this he concluded and winded up the session.

Hampi Trip

We all the fellows and some delegates went to Hampi the world famous tourist spot and heritage center.Our journey began on 30th of January at 7.50 in the morning.Deshpande Foundation had made good logistic facility.They had booked 3 AC buses. At Gadag we had breakfast.We reached there around 12.30.It was too late as bus driver went in wrong way..we visited many places namely sasive kalu ganapati,vijayvitthal temple,kamal mahal,elephant stable,queen's bath etc but we missed to visit the main virupaksha temple due to lack of time. Then we come back at 10.15 in the night.really we enjoyed a lot.This was my first ever visit to Hampi and I never forget this experience.