Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan Government

College of Home Economics

 Community Internship A Report

Specialization in
APPAREL AND TEXTILE DEPARTEMENT
COURSE TITLE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME A.
Course no: 614.1
Submitted by: Habiba Arif.
Seat no: A1-15066053
Course Advisor: Miss Maria Jahangir
Semester: BS-VII
Session: 2019
 Acknowledgements
The internship A could not have been able to be accomplished without the
guidance of our supervisor. I highly appreciate the teachers of home economics,
especially to Miss Maria Jahangir, the internship A advisor, who motivated me to
give my level best in attaining of the objectives of this internship. Special thanks
to our classmate Hareem’s mother who was with us all the time on our visits and
the host Rabiya who helped us in providing her home for our internship.
S.NO INDEX Page no
1 Introduction 1-3
2 Objectives 03
3 Link between home economics & community development 3
internship
4 General & specific competencies 3-4
5 Activity chart 4
6 Activity log 4
7 Activities
i Problem identification 5
ii Solution of the problems 5-6
iii Internship group list 10
iv Planning of project 6-7
v Execution 11-13
vi Evaluation 13-14
vii Product score card 14
viii Skill Teaching 14
ix Display and sale 14-15
x Curriculum changes suggestions 16
xi Research topic suggestions 16-17
xii Apparel and textile society executive list 8-9
xiii Office maintenance 18
xiv Face book page 18
xv Video making 18
9 Conclusion 18
10 Summary 19
11 Appendix 19
TABLE OF CONTENT
COMMMUNITY INTERNSHIP A PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
HOME ECONOMICS:
 Home economics is concerned with almost all the field of education that are essential
for running a home. REFERENCE:
www.merriumwebster.com

Home Economics education is the only field of knowledge which revolves around an individual
and his family; it is concerned with all aspects of home & family. Home economics education
aims to improve the individual’s families, community, nations & the world.
. REFERENCE:
Ayesha khan thesis.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:
Community development is a process where people come together to take action on
what's important to them . .
REFERENCE:
www.nacdep.net

 Community development is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that

promote participative democracy, sustainable development, rights, equality, economic
opportunity and social justice, through the organization, education and empowerment
of people within their communities, whether these be of locality, identity or interest, in
urban and rural settings. 
REFERENCE:
www.peernetbc.com

 Community development is a process where community members come together to

take collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Community
wellbeing (economic, social, environmental and cultural) often evolves from this type of
collective action being taken at a grassroots level. Community development ranges from
small initiatives within a small group to large initiatives that involve the broader
community.
REFERENCE:
www.useful-community-development.org

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERNSHIP A:

Through internship A program students learned to help community & solve community
problems by their skills. Community internship have a lot of positive effects on students, such
as helping others through their skills and allowing them to improve the quality of life. First of
all, many students learn about their personal strengths and weaknesses. When you're working
on campaigns and projects and getting to see real-life results, you'll get to know how your
personal attributes and actions can make a difference. This kind of exposure to different
situations can then teach students how to further develop skills that they have, and how to
work on areas they struggle in Community internship allowed students to become directly
involved in. community

BENEFITS.

 Positive impact on students’ academic learning

 Improves students’ ability to apply what they have learned in “the real world”
 Positive impact on academic outcomes such as demonstrated complexity of
understanding, problem analysis, problem-solving, critical thinking, and cognitive
development
 Improved ability to understand complexity and ambiguity
 Greater sense of personal efficacy, personal identity, spiritual growth, and moral
development
 Greater interpersonal development, particularly the ability to work well with others, and
build leadership and communication skills
 Reduced stereotypes and greater inter-cultural understanding.
 Improved social responsibility and citizenship skills
 Greater involvement in community services.
 Satisfaction with student participation
 Valuable human resources needed to achieve community goals
 New energy, enthusiasm and perspectives applied to community work.

INTRODUCTION
The community development internship A has been done in Samanabad Block 18
( Kachi abadi ) ,where students went for their Community Internship A work.

It was small house, where 7 – 8 families were lived. The families were divided in 7
groups of student, each group consisted of 3 students. The work has been done in 3
visits. In first visit, students talked with families in a friendly manner so that the ladies
felt comfortable to communicate their problems with students. Students identified their
problems & started to plan solutions of their problems.

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 In second visit students, student went for implementation of their plan. We gave them
solution of their problems by teaching them skills & taught how they could simplify their
work. Students taught them multiple skills like mending, stitching, craft making,
seasonal storage etc. Because of short space, problem of storage were the major
problem.

In third visit, students went for evaluation. We evaluate that what these people learned
from us. We checked on them that how much they have learned from us.

OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY INTERNSHIP A:

 GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY INTERNSHIP:
1. Advocate for home economics in general, and one of its components in particular, as an
agent for the community development.
2. Utilize home economics in general, and one of its component in particular, for
community development.
3. Estimate progress necessary in home economics education to meet the need of the
community.

 SPECEFIC OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY INTERNSHIP A

1. To increase the ability to manage material resources for the implementation of
community development program.
2. To develop ability to manage time & skills for the community development program.
3. To demonstrate the ability to interpret knowledge related to community development.
4. To teach them sustainable lifestyle.
5. To enhance the ability to council a variety of individuals & groups for providing
awareness.
6. To give awareness about home economics to others.

LINK BETWEEN HOME ECONOMICS AND COMMUNITY INTERNSHIP A:

We working in the field of home economics educate, take actions & advocate to the community
in order to enhance the wellbeing of individuals and families, especially as it relates to textiles.
The focus of the work is to enable individuals and families to make informed and ethical
decisions in order to enhance their everyday living. At another level, the focus of the work is on
individual & family wellbeing.

COMPETENCIES
 GENERAL COMPETENCIES.
 Ability to translate knowledge of home economics technical/subject matter
expertise into guide line/messages for general public.
 Ability to conduct research to find out community needs and to assess the
impact of interventions.

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  Ability to communicate and collaborate with individuals, organizations and
institutions related to community development projects.
 Ability to plan and execute community developed projects.
 Ability to work professionally as a team member and leader as required.
 Ability to communicate, empathize and interact with community in relation to
need assessment and interventions
 SPECEFIC COMPETENCIES.
The competencies were achieved by:
 By teaching them new skills that they have not learned before.
 By communicate with them in a friendly manner that they felt safe to tell us about their
problems.
 By demonstrated them how they can solve their storage problems, & create new spaces
for their goods.
 By given them awareness of recycling projects.
 By creating awareness about proper utilization of resources.
 By teaching them the way for earning, how they can earn by making textile products,
handicrafts, stitching apparel wear etc.

S.NO ACTIVITY CHART

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01 Identify problems of the community in related to specific area of specialization
(individual).
02 Estimate the potential of home economics education and specific area of
specialization to solve those problems (individual).
03 Plan project to utilize home economics education to solve the problems and
mode of solutions identified (subgroups).
04 Execute the project.

05 Evaluation of the project.

06 Technique/skill teaching.

07 Promotion, Display and sale.

08 Suggest changes in curriculum to increase the home economics potential to solve

the community problem (individual).
09 Suggest ideas research to increase the home economics potential to solve the
community problem (individual).
10 Departmental society office maintenance.

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11 Facebook page

12 Video making.

ACTIVITY # O1.
 IDENTIFY PROBLEMS OF THE COMMUNITY.
1. Difficulty in removal of stains of grease on fabric. Stains of oil & kerosene oil were also
hard to remove.
2. The problem of storage were the major problem that had been identified. Houses are
usually small. All the blankets & pillows cupboards & showcase were placed in one
room. The cupboard had no space to place more clothes or other upholstery material
due to inappropriate arrangement.
3. There is a lack of care for infant clothing. People had not any idea about how to wash,
dry and store infant’s clothes.
4. Lack of knowledge about how to understand label. It was necessary for them to
understand labels as without proper instruction of labels, people are not be able to do
proper laundry.
5. Scarcity of proper knowledge about how they can reduce the amount of money they
spent on clothes by repairing them & creating a mix and match of clothes according to
the principles of art.
6. Uncommonness of sustainable life style. Lack of concept of “Reuse, Reduce, Recycle”.
Usually people throw away used clothes that could be used more.
7. Due to humid & warm climate. Color selection for clothes is most important as some
colors absorbs heat & that could be dangerous as there would be a serious risk of heat
stroke. Issue of color selection for summers.
8. Inappropriate laundry practices. People usually use inadequate amount of detergent for
laundering. Insufficient knowledge about sorting of clothes in washing machine.

ACTIVITY # 02

 IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS OF PROBLEMS THAT EXIST IN COMMUNITY.

1. For Removal of stains of oil use Talcum Powder/Baby Powder. Spread some talcum
powder or baby powder on the stained part of the cloth, leave for 2-3 minutes & then
launder.
 For grease stain Take a soft cloth. Sprinkle some cornstarch on it. Rub it on the
grease stain, till it vanishes. Then launder it.

2. For storage issues smart folding of clothes can reduce the amount of space. Towels can
be rolled instead of straight fold. Another ways like sections in drawers, hooks & rods
for hanging, boxes/bags with compartments for seasonal storage. By these ideas the
wardrobe would be organized as well as will store more clothes.

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3. Give them awareness about infant wear. Use detergent with no added colors, intense
fragrance & conditioning chemicals. Use baking soda for washing infant wear (1 tbsp
corn starch dissolve in 1 liter of water). Luke warm water is ideal for washing infant
clothing. Don’t stretch or twist clothes. Dry in sunlight but sunlight should not be direct.
Store them in wardrobe in separate section.

4. Teach them label symbols like symbol of bleaching, not bleach, ironing etc. by making
them diagrams in an easy way.

5. To give them knowledge about mending & repairing so they can use what they have. By
giving sense of color selection for clothes to create amazing mix and match of clothes.
Like black trouser will go with any color. Showing color schemes, shades and tints of
colors.

6. Demonstrate them to adequate reuse & recycling of clothes. Making of bags, pouches,
clutches, wall hangings, accessory boxes and many other things can be made through
recycling.

7. For extremely high temperatures in summers wear lightweight, light-colored and loose-
fitting clothing. Avoid dark colors -- dark clothes absorb the sun's heat, while light colors
or white reflects light and heat.

8.  For laundry only use about a tablespoon of laundry detergent per regular load size. (The
measuring cup that comes with your liquid laundry detergent is about 10 times larger
than the actual amount of laundry soap needed).Sort clothes based on color, based on
weight, wash dark and bright clothes together, Wash the most urgent load first,
Finish with underwear and socks. Don’t wash clothes of a person in washing machine
who has contagious disease or skin problem.

ACTIVITY # 03
 PLANNING OF PROJECT:
 In first meeting, all objectives for internship were set.
 Discussion for activities were held.
 In second & third meeting the area were decided (where internship has to do).
 Application was signed by principal Dr. Rubina hakeem to grant permission for
internship at “Samanabad Block 18 (Kachi abadi ) .
 A van were arranged for visit.
 Before visit, the people of those houses signed a consent letter to permit us for
visiting their houses.
 Application to excuse classes were signed by subject teacher.
 Discussion on questions that have to ask to those people and first visit.

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  On first visit, we met with people, seek their problems by visual inspection of
house. Then we tried to interact with them with gentle talk about their daily life
practices. After, when they fully interacted with us we decided to ask questions
to them about their problems.

QUESTIONS THAT HAD BEEN ASKED:

 What problems you are facing related to clothing practices?
 What problems you are facing regarding laundry practices?
 What problems you are facing in removal of stains?
 What problems you are facing concerning to infant clothing?
 What problems you are facing regarding to wardrobe organization & planning?
 What problems you are facing regarding to storage in your room?
 Do you know how to mend clothes?

After general discussion we identified all the problems related to clothing, laundry, & storage.
We took pictures and make videos of their house & wardrobe with their consent.
After all this work, we started to work on solution of these problems.

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We planned all activities regarding those problems that had been identified and make checklist
of all

equipment that will be needed.

APPAREL AND TEXTILE SOCIETY

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

 PRESIDENT:
Maliha Naqvi

 VICE PRESIDENT:
Areeba
Naseeb

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 GENERAL SECRETARY:
Masooma Abid
Fizza Ramzam

 JOINT SECRETARY:
Habiba Arif
Areeba Arif

 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE:
Alina Pervaiz
Hareem
Hira Arshad
Shifa Kulsoom
Khizra Tariq

 PUBLICATION:
Javeria Hanif
Zobia M. Arif

 WEB COMMITTEE:
Fazila Nasir Shaikh
Nashiza Shafiq
Hoorain Aiman

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 TREASURER:
S. Farwa
Sobiya Fatima

 PUBLIC RELATION:
Raheela Ashfaq
Zoobia Mujtaba
Wajeeha Naeem

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INTERNSHIP GROUPS:
 GROUP NO. 1:
Hareem (LEADER)
Shifa Kulsoof
Kizra Tariq

 GROUP NO.2:
Fizza Ramzan (LEADER)
Shiza Shafeeq
Alina Pervaiz

 GROUP NO. 3:
Maliha Naqvi (LEADER)
Masooma Abid
Fazila Nasir

 GROUP NO. 4:
Areeba Naseeb (LEADER)
Zobia M. Arif
Javeria Haneef

 GROUP NO. 5:
Farwa (LEADER)
Sobiya Fatima
Hira Arshad

 GROUP NO. 6:
Raheela Ashfaq (LEADER)
Habiba Arif
Wajeeha Naeem

 GROUP NO. 7:
Zobiya Mujtaba (LEADER)

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Areeba Arif
Horain Aimen

ACTIVITY # 04
 EXECUTION OF PLANNING.
 Storage boxes & organizers were made for storage of clothes and organizing
accessories. These were also used as a sample to teach them making of storage
boxes.
 On second visit, we bring all material & equipment with us to teach all the skills &
guide them for their issues.
 Clothes folding techniques were demonstrate to them for better spacing, all
accessories were arranged in storage boxes. It increased a lot of space in their
wardrobe.
 Demonstrate them different methods of stain removal specially the stain of oil and
grease .stain of oil removed by rubbing talcum powder while stain of grease was
removed by rubbing baking soda. Stain of chewing gum removed by rubbing ice
cube & stain of tea removed by sprinkling of salt over stain. All stains are removed.
 For infant clothing problems, verbal explanation was given. All details cover in
explanation like how to wash, dry & store infant’s clothes with a lot of care.
 For appropriate laundry practices, description was given them verbally in depth. I
taught them in detailed about adequate amount of detergent according to the load
& how to sort clothes for washing machine. Guided them about labeling symbols of
clothes for washing, drying, ironing etc.
 Basic hand stitches like back stitch, invisible hemming, running stitches were taught
to those women & show them how the can mend clothes easily with these stiches.
 Wall hanging were made out of spare jute & pieces of felt for storage as well as
decorative purpose.
 A bag was made by hand & machine stitch out of torn shirt.
 Guidance about color & material selection for summers to prevent themselves from
heat stroke.

PICTURES OF WORK.
Before.

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 After

Before

AFTER

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ACTIVITY # 05

 EVALUATION OF ACTIVITIES:
 On third visit, evaluation of all activities were made. We asked questions about
our performance of teaching skills & making of solutions to their problems.
QUESTIONS/ANSWER SESSION FOR EVALUATION.
 Did you learn anything about appropriate laundry practices?
Yes we learned a lot about proper laundry practices. It helps us a lot
 Did you faced any difficulty in removal of stains after my demonstration?
No, remedies that you taught us, are very useful.
 Do you get any help regarding infant’s clothing?
Yes a lot, before this I didn’t know about infant clothing care.
 Do you satisfy with your learning from us?
Yes a lot. Very thankful to you.
 Did you see any betterment in your wardrobe?
Yes my wardrobe is well organized with extra space.
 Do you agree that through recycling you can save your many resources?

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 Yes, it is very useful
 Do you think that through Home economics education you can make your life
better as it teaches you sustainable way of life?
Yes, home economics is a good field .

ACTIVITY # 06
 TECHNIQUE AND SKILL.
SCORE CARD OF PROJECT
The project was a hand bag, made out of old shirt. The purpose of this project was recycling.

S.NO MATERIALS COST TECHNIQUES/SKILLS

.
1 Shirt ( torn spare shirt) Free of cost Hand stitching
2 Needle Free of cost Machine stitching
3 Thread Free of cost Hemming
4 zip Free of cost marking
5 Felt Free of cost -
6 Sewing machine Free of cost -

ACTIVITY 07
 DISPLAY & PROMOTION:
Blog on display of Community Internship (2019)
In Pakistan, the people living in underprivileged areas have a lot of potential and
talent, the only setback is that they lack in confidence due to illiteracy, and have very
limited resources available at home. In Pakistan, however the handmade crafts are very
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popular and valuable. The handicrafts sector plays a vital role in income and
employment for generation and has also been recognized worldwide as a tool for
poverty reduction. For our community internship program, we plan to motivate and
enhance the craft skills of the women of underprivileged areas to utilize their available
limited resources at home and to promote the concept of recycling. We educated them
how to utilize their resources to make products for sale to earn income despite of not
having any modern resources or techniques available for them. To educate the women
of underprivileged area, we visited them at Samanabad Federal B. area block 18 near
Hasni Technical College for our community internship project and to serve them in a
better way that is most beneficial for them. We took with us the available material at
home for the purpose of recycling and demonstrate them how to utilize those used
materials in order to make a recycled product and earn by the sale of those products.
We provided them the needed material to enable them to make quality products from
the available material. They worked hard and make it successful beyond our
expectations. Then we arranged a display/sale of those recycled products made by them
at our college for women empowerment and to give them confidence that they have a
potential to work hard which will enable them to earn at home respectfully in this
society. Through this community development program we guided them to the path by
which they can earn for the betterment of their living. The outcome was positive and
the journey we have embarked on must be continued later.

PICTURES OF DISPLAY

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 PROJECT DISPLAY CARDS.

ACTIVITY # 07

 SUGGEST CHNAGES IN CURRICULUM TO INCREASE HOME ECONOMIST’S

POTTENTIAL TO SOLVE THE COMMUNITY PROBLEMS.
Suggestion for curriculum changes as below:

 Old drafting & pattern making methods should be replace by current & new methods.
 In specialization years of Apparel & Textile Department, Adobe Photoshop should be
include in all four semesters.
 Syllabus should upgrade every year according to current trends & for specialization
more focus on digital work should be consider.
 Must conduct industrial visits for semester-III & semester-IV.
 Industrial internships must at least 2-3 rather than 1 for more experience in professional
field. These internships should starts from semester V and continue throughout
semester VIII.

ACTIVITY # 08
 SUGGEST IDEAS FOR RESEARCH TO INCREASE HOME ECONOMIST’S
POTTENTIAL TO SOLVE THE COMMUNITY PROBLEMS.
 Suggestion for curriculum changes as below:

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  Requirements of dress for handicap people.
 Sustainability in fashion, impact of ethical fashion on society.
 The impact of fashion bloggers and magazines on the society
 Fashion sense and traditional dressing among women of underprivileged area.

ACTIVITY # 09
 MAINTAINANCE OF COMMUNITY OFFICE.
 The pictures of community work were placed on soft board.
 The blog on community internship was placed on soft board.
 Covers on table were added.
 The objective of this work to promote community work.

BEFORE:

AFTER

ACTIVTIY # 10
 FACEBOOK
PAGE OF APPAREL &
TEXTILE SOCIETY.
The face book page is created according to the specific area of specialization (Apparel &
Textile) that helps to increase home economics potential to solve the problems of
community problems. Through this page I can display or demonstrate my work in

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 pictures and videos & promote home economics all over the globe. It helps to open
vision of people to see diversity into the field of apparel & textile.

Logo of face book page.

ACTIVITY # 11
 VIDEO.
A video is based on different folding techniques of Shibori method. At first all pieces of
fabrics were fold or tie in different styles. After this the silk paint was applied with the
help of brush with different color paints. Let it dry for 5 minute and then all the pieces
was un-tied. Different effects of shibori were looking so good.

CONCLUSION:
In this internship, I have gained a lot of experiences. I learn to communicate with
people, who lives in underprivileged. Listen their problems & making solution of these
problems enable myself to put trust on my abilities and capabilities that I can serve my
community and utilize all my knowledge that I have gain from home economics
education. I taught them several skills like stitching, fabric painting etc. These skills
made them capable to mend their clothes & making handicrafts for selling.

SUMMARY:

The community development internship A has been done in Samanabad Block 18

(Kachi abadi ) ,where students went for their Community Internship A work.

It was small house, where 7 – 8 families were lived. The families were divided in 7
groups of student, each group consisted of 3 students. The work has been done in 3

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 visits. In first visit, students talked with families in a friendly manner so that the ladies
felt comfortable to communicate their problems with students. Students identified their
problems & started to plan solutions of their problems.

In second visit students, student went for implementation of their plan. We gave them
solution of their problems by teaching them skills & taught how they could simplify their
work. Students taught them multiple skills like mending, stitching, craft making,
seasonal storage etc. Because of short space, problem of storage were the major
problem.

In third visit, students went for evaluation. We evaluate that what these people learned
from us. We checked that how much they have learned from us. We asked them
questions about their level of satisfaction regarding solution, that we gave to them.

We arranged sales display of projects at our college. These crafts were made by these
women. The display was very successful & almost all item had been sold at good prices
& that amount of money was given to these women who made projects.

After all this work, the society office was maintained. The pictures of display & our work
were placed on soft boards & table covers were made for tables. After all this.
Committees had arranged and selection of committee & distribution of duties were
done. Face book page and hack videos were also done .

APPENDICS.
 www.merriumwebster.com
 Ayesha khan thesis.
 www.nacdep.net
 www.peernetbc.com
 www.useful-community-development.org
 Deggrees.grifitth.edu.aue

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