ACV Project Workshop for Adolescents and Women Collective Members

Amplifying community voice matters to community foundations because they exist to serve their communities. As local leaders and connectors, community foundations must ensure there is active, meaningful participation by the people whose lives are most affected by the policies, systems and structures in the communities they serve. In order to successfully implement these issues, Mukti and “OAK Foundation” have simultaneously organized several workshops to help underprivileged communities, mainly for women and adolescent groups in remote areas of Herembagopalpur GP of Sundarban.

From 28^th May to 31^st May 2022 Mukti has organized 3 workshops with the adolescents’ groups and 2 workshops with the women collective groups. 83 participants including adolescents and women from disadvantageous communities have attended the workshop.

Overall the objective of the workshop is the same for all the groups. The workshops have been planned for setting agendas, creating a clear idea of what needs to be done in the community, discussing their objectives, what visions they will set by themselves, and so on.

 Adolescent meeting

Mainly the discussions are on the topics like – adolescent issue identification, prioritizing the issues, creating a “problem tree” through images to understand the root cause of problems and be aware of its immediate and long-term effects. Understanding the difficulties will create a vision of their own, they will be able to start their own campaigns to troubleshoot the problems, they will be able to communicate with other stakeholders living in the community and they will be able to solve the problems themselves.

Mauja/ Village	Gram Panchayat	Number of Participants
Purba Surendranagar	Herembogopalpur	15
Herembogopalpur	Herembogopalpur	13
Kuyemuri	Herembogopalpur	13
		41

Women Collective meeting

To discuss the gender-related issues, to identify the issues through identify mapping and to ensure the inclusion part of the SC, ST and Muslim community vulnerable groups two meetings have been organized with the woman’s collective members of Herembogopalpur and Kuyemuri village. Through these orientation meetings, they have been informed about the importance of their participation, objectives, topics of meeting and of their roles in the community.

Mauja / Village	Gram Panchayat	Number of Participants
Dakshin Kashinagar Banigheri	Herembogopalpur	23
Kuyemuri	Herembogopalpur	19
		42