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quite hopeful that this training will help them a lot and add to their experience. This will provide indirect employment to the members also. In his concluding speech; Mr. Shroff congratulated the Chairman for the National Micro-Insurance Award conferred on BISWA. He hoped that the participants will apply the learnings of the training for a professional output. He advised them to educate the group members in their respective areas.

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Communicate Minds
31st August 2007 FORTNIGHTLY

Volume-68

Helping hand of BISWA

BISWA is not only implementing micro-finance activities in its project areas to enhance the socio-economic status of poor people but also it is doing a lot of social developmental activities for the needy people. Very recently a news item in The Sambad, an Oriya Daily on the story of a handicapped person named Chagala Nayak (40) was published. The 40 year old Chagala had lost his father. His mother takes care of him. Due to poor financial condition his mother is in a helpless situation to take care of her handicapped child. So, the story of Chagala was given in the newspaper soliciting some financial support. After going through the story of Chagala in the paper, Mr. Manas Ranjan Mohanty, Area-Coordinator, BISWA and Mr. Promod Kumar Mohanty, Organizer, BISWA went to his house and offered him 50k.g. rice, some dresses, sari for his mother and some monetary help. They expressed their deep concern for the helpless poor Chagala and assured all possible help for a permanent solution of his problem.

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Workshop on Health Issues of Women Residents of SWADHAR Home

A regional workshop on Health Issues of Women Residents of SWADHAR Home was organized at B I S WA Training Institute Hall on 21st August07. The 1-day workshop was presided over by Dr. D i p t i Pattnaik, Consultant, BISWA. The welcome note was given by Ms. Pranati Bag, SWADHAR Superintendent which was followed by Lighting the Lamp by a SWADHAR resident namely Ms. Pramila. Soon after the welcome ceremony, Dr. Dipti Pattnaik elaborated the objectives of the Workshop, details of the working problems in such homes and inadequacies to manage such homes within the prescribed financial support and paraphernalia by the Govt. of India, Human Resource Department. The other organizations also highlighted some problems like: only Rs. 500/- is given towards food for the whole month which is very low to meet the basic needs and Rs. 25/- is given towards medicine expenses which is very low to meet the demands. As the residents are already in a miserable condition, they need more care & attention. Hence, more medical facility is required for them. Another major problem which all SWADHAR homes are facing is: sometimes people send mentally challenged women to these homes. Such women need special care and attention and also some essential infrastructure with-in these homes are required to keep them which is unfortunately not available anywhere. So these homes face much difficulty when such types of mentally challenged women come to the home. In addition to this, the children need more
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IMPORTANCE OF TIME
Time and Tide waits for none. Everything in nature changes with time. If one accepts changes; then he pulls on well and he manages well also. Time management is the BEST management. We have to address as per the demands of the Time. If we fail to adjust ourselves with time and give bad answers; then time retaliates. This is quite important in our day-today-working as well. If we fail to deliver in time; then it disturbs the whole process. It has a cascading effect. This time mismanagement creates a bad repercussion. It tarnishes the image of the organization. We must make best use of the resources like Time, Money & Manpower. As a responsible and vigilant worker in the Social Sector; we should realize the value of time. Let us pledge to be time-conscious in its truest sense.

SWADHAR homes. Some of the participants said that there must be a provision of health insurance for pregnant women coming to the home. In this Workshop there was a sensitive dialogue on availability of service support at the Government level which was discussed and explained by the various departmental representatives of the Sate Govt. The Workshop was supported by SWADHIKAR Forum. The summary report of the resolutions was compiled by Mrs. Bani Mahapatra. At the end of the workshop the vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Mousumi Poddar.

Third TATA AIG Training

The 3rd TATA AIG Training was held at BISWATraining Institute Hall (BTI) from 28th July 2007 to 31st July 2007. 59participants from Sambalpur, Bargarh and Deogarh districts participated in this On the second day, he deliberated on the Companies TATA and AIG with the help of a power-point presentation. He further explained the 3 Schemes of TATA AIG namely Sampoorna Bima Yojana, Nav Kalyan and Ayushman. Since BISWA has decided to go for Sampoorna Bima Yojana (SBY); Mr. Barik discussed in detail about the same. pants asked their doubts which were clarified by Mr. Barik and Mr. Shroff. Mr. Shroff announced that there will be a formal Test at 11 AM on the concluding day. The questions were of objective type.

FVTRS Training
A 2-day Workshop on Monitoring of Functional Vocational Training and Research Society (FVTRS) Projects was organized at BISWA Training Institute Hall (BTI) on 25 th and 26 th July07. More than 50 FVTRS partner members from four states attended the workshop. The objective of the program was to find out a way to monitor the projects run by FVTRS. The resource persons in the workshop were Ms. Rupal Panchal and Mr. J.D Kennedy, Consultants to FVTRS. The workshop was supported by FVTRS.

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The participants were divided into 4 Groups. The Team leaders were training and 32 out of them were lady nominated. They were asked to have participants. Mr. Bhagbat Barik was the intra-group discussion among themResource Person-cum-Trainer from TATA AIG. Mr. Ajoy Kumar Shroff, Manager, Insurance coordinated the program on behalf of BISWA. On 27th August07, there was an informal inaugural session presided over by Shri Jogeshwar Majhi, Advisor & In-Charge of BTI, BISWA. After the inaugural session the participants introduced themselves followed by the guests on the dais. Mr. Majhi gave a birds eye-view of BISWA; its vision, mission and interventions. Mr. Shroff briefed on the training methodology. In the introductory class; Mr. Barik spoke on Savings, Insurance, Micro Insurance, its importance for the SHG members.

Then Mr. Barik spent the entire day on the procedure to fill up the new Proposals. There was a rigorous practical session on this also. As planned; the Test was conducted on the 4th day. After the stipulated 90 minutes; the answer papers were interchanged among the participants. With this innovative idea, the trainees were able to discuss the questions in detail with the experts, their doubts were cleared also. In the valedictory function, Mr. K.C. Malick, Chairman, BISWA graced the occasion. In his short but thought-provoking speech, Mr. Malick spoke about the significance of micro-insurance and the relationship with TATA AIG. He advised all to carry forward the achievement of BISWA in the field of micro-insurance more professionally. He was
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care and attention during their growing years. Many Organizations run SWADHAR homes along with orphanages. Their query was that when they receive a child left over at the campus and none comes to claim, in that case what will be the fate of such child : Where will the child be kept & in whose custody? Some also put this query that there is no legal support or legal advice in detail in the guidelines of Govt. for

selves on the topics namely Insurance, Post Office, Banks and SHG & Micro Finance. Then they gave presentations group wise. In the beginning of the 3rd Day; the participants were asked to recapitulate the learnings of the previous day. It was quite interactive as the partici-