Project Report
| Aug 23, 2022
Kolkata Sanved SRHR Report
By RAJYASHREE DATTA | Kolkata Sanved SRHR Report
Kolkata Sanved and Jeevika Development Society collaborated to conduct a Dance Movement Therapy based Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Workshop over a period of six days at Joka, Kolkata in West Bengal, India. 6 sessions were conducted from 10th June to 17th June 2022. The participants were 20 adolescent girls aged 14 to 17 years from remote villages in and around South 24 Parganas.
Objectives :
-Creating body awareness among participants and helping them understand their own body
-Helping participants understand the difference between sex and gender and gender stressors at present and during the lifespan.
-Helping participants understand the menstrual cycle and reproduction
-Helping participants understand safe unsafe relationships and helping them identify safe space
Recommendation
The group had great enthusiasm for attending the sessions. They were able to follow instructions while doing the movements. As the girls come from remote villages of South 24 Parganas in the state of West Bengal, they shared that all of them have some restrictions or the other at home like the pressure of getting married, and resistance towards education but they are still trying to complete their schooling in spite of the resistance. They were also quite interested in learning about Dance Movement Therapy in detail and based on the practitioner's feedback these girls can be introduced to TOT (Training of Trainers) which helps us in reaching out to more adolescent girls from in and around their villages in South 24 Parganas in West Bengal.
Kolkata Sanved and IPER (Institute of Psychological and Educational Research) has collaborated to conduct a Dance Movement Therapy based Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Workshop over a period of six months between 1st July 2022 to 31st January 2023 at P- 39/1 Prince Anwar Shah Road, CIT Scheme 114 A in Kolkata, India. The participants are adolescent girls from 12-16 years of age who visit the IPER open shelter home. 3 sessions have been conducted with 12 girls including a needs assessment to assess their physical, emotional, social, and cognitive abilities along with covering topics of body awareness, learning about one's body, sex, and gender studies. Through the sessions, the participants learned the right names of all the body parts including the private body parts. The sessions also helped the participants to improve their concentration post the movement activities and made them energetic. It has also helped in improving peer bonding among the participants. The participants were responsive and showed enthusiasm.
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Apr 26, 2022
Report from Kolkata Sanved
By RAJYASHREE DATTA | Project Leader
Four Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights workshops for adolescent girls were completed between January 2022 and March 2022 at four different locations; Chitpore, Sickine and Khidirpore in Kolkata and Jonha in Jharkhand. Kolkata Sanved collaborated with three NGOs, Hope Kolkata Foundation, DIKSHA and Aahan Foundation to facilitate the above mentioned workshops. The workshops were facilitated with the youngsters with the aim of creating awareness on gender, sex, sexuality, safe sex, and safe and healthy relationships. A total of 69 youngsters participated in the workshops. The participants were mostly adolescent girls, however their overall age ranged from 11 to 20. The participants came from marginalized communities, residing in urban slums of Kolkata and tribal villages in Jharkhand. The workshop gave the participants an opportunity to discuss many taboo subjects like menstruation, sexual organs, sexuality, safe sex and romantic relationships and learn correct information about these topics which will help them to understand and look after their sexual and reproductive health. The workshops also gave the participants an understanding of gender, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. During the sessions the participants reflected on their own lives and questioned the existing gender norms and were sensitized about diverse gender identities and sexual orientation. The workshops received positive feedback from the participants who shared that they learnt many new things from the sessions and will share their knowledge with their peers.
Participants at khidirpore doing an activity on identifying safe space
Participants at Jonha doing a body mapping exercise
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Dec 15, 2021
SRHR Report - Kolkata Sanved
By Rajyashree Datta | Project Leader
Online SRHR workshops have been facilitated in Angara, Jharkhand with the help of Aahan Foundation, an organization working with the Tribal community in that area. The workshop was facilitated with the objective of providing adolescent girls access to information on issues surrounding body awareness, sex, gender, menstruation, and sexually transmitted diseases. Through the workshop, Kolakata Sanved was able to reach out to 20 tribal girls in the age range of 12 to 21. The sessions were well received and gave the girls an opportunity to ask questions and have a discussion on issues that are otherwise considered taboo. The participants moved freely in the class and were able to connect the information shared with them to their daily lives.
At the end of the sessions the participants shared that they will share this information with others and will try to have open conversations about their bodies and sex and saftey with their friends. Despite the challenges that accompany online sessions, overall the SRHR workshops were successful and received positive feedback from the participants and the care provider present at the session.
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