Now it was their time to start our community work. They had 2 training sessions on dos and don’t
s of the community work plus the ECCE.
The group then decided to start the awareness programme with
a small skit on the issue of immunization. Simple information of immunization
can bring lot of change in the thinking of the community. So the skit was
finalized and the day was decided for the big Nukkad Naatak
Practice Practice
Practice
They were all going crazy learning dialogues sequence of the
play and got lot of help from New Mumbai Volunteers. The Big Day came with lot
of excitement they assembled community members and start performing within
seconds they had a crowd to hear them.
It was wonderful feeling of getting people reaction of
staying and listening to the volunteers. With every reaction and scream we
gained our confidence to scream out loud our dialogues and reach out to as many
as they could.
They performed the
street play in two places in the
community
Ravi Bandra Volunteer experience “It isn’t always that we get time from the hustle bustle of
life and spend it to cheer other faces. Fortunately, we at CRY ‘Bandra’ - a
relatively naive group in years but full of enthusiasm in ideas – happened to
enlighten the Kherwadi Community at Bandra East on the importance of
immunization and vaccination on the 12th of October, 2014.
They say “You
can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last
one”. Pondering days on when to enact the skit on immunization in the
Community, we were getting a bit late. And we finally met on 11thOctober – a
three hour preparation – and all set to rock. We needed to act!!
The skit was
performed at two places in the community and the response, we humbly state, was
commendable. One could overhear “ You people should keep coming; no matter
polio immunization has been taken care of in this country at large”. Ah! We
were talking of smiles, right! How about seeing the happiness of the children
through the day’s pics!!
The Bandra Team
was guided by the veterans Abha Mam and Ravindra Sir along with the fantastic
members of Navi Mumbai group comprising Sagar, Amey, Suman and Ajay. The
participants from Bandra group were : Mohit, Madiha Yash, Rahul, Akshay, Ravi 1
and Ravi 2.
We tried our
best to pass on the message to the audience of leading a healthy life, to be
extra vigilant on immunization and vaccination front.
The whole group
eagerly awaits our further tasks which include teaching kids on a regular
weekend basis, health care among others.
Video link -- Nukkad Naatak Video
