Back Online

After 6 months of inactivity, we are back online!

Over the next few weeks we will be adding new content and updating old content, uploading new photos, and generally bringing things back up to speed. The first addition is the inclusion of our brand new brochure, which can be found either under the Documents section of the Resources and Support menu, or by clicking here.

Thank you for visiting us, whether it’s your first time or you’re a regular reader. We hope that you support our work and keep coming back.

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2010 in review

We just received this from WordPress, it’s a nice overview of how the new site has performed since it was launched back in April:

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2010. That’s about 10 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 37 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 727 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 200mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.

The busiest day of the year was September 16th with 100 views. The most popular post that day was Funding Information.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, childreach.org.uk, slashingtongue.com, digg.com, and google.co.in.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for shaishav, shaishav bhavnagar, lok samarthan, balsena, and www.shaishavchildrights.org.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Funding Information March 2010

2

Balsena March 2010
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History of Shaishav March 2010

4

Where do we work? March 2010

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Contact Shaishav March 2010

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Shaishav Support Group

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Shaishav Support Group

Shaishav has completed its operation for more than one and half decades now. But we have a long way to go. It is very important that Shaishav does not become person oriented but a system base organization.

We have making very sincere efforts to develop the second line leadership from among the team members who are at senior level and / or waking with us since long. More ever , we thought that we can extend it to those ex-team members who had contributed significantly in development of Shaishav and who are still in live touch with us.

A meeting of Shaishav support forum was organized on 12th and  13th November 2010 with present and ex-team members. Right from the first employee Dhirubhai Bariya to the new one were there. Many of them met each other for the first time.

In this two days meeting, the old members shared about the history vis-a vis memorable experience and the new ones updated them about the present programs. We discussed at length about how to move forward in future. We also discussed how they can contribute and support to Shaishav. Almost all of them promised that they are ready to provide whatever support is needed to  Shaishav. Thus these two day not only helped in birding the gap and  sharing information among old and new ones but also reminded lots of memory. It helped to reassure to carry the process forward with same spirit and values.

Falicitation of Old Committed Team Member

We had read somewhere that the beauty of peacock is in its feathers. Like wise any voluntary organization is judged based on its team. Shaishav is very lucky that it has get many dedicated. Hard working, honest and committed team members who had deep love care and concern for children. Few have stayed with us and many have moved on.

We are very happy that apart from two founder members of Shaishav, now there are five members who are with us from more than one decade. There are three more who have completed more than five years.

Usually we organize “Parivar Milan” (Get together with family of all team members) after diwali. This year the parivar Milan was organized on 13th Nov.2010 at Dolat Anant Valiya School. At this occasion we decided to facilitate these committed members who have contributed significantly in the development of Shaishav.

Shri Suresh Buch (Ex-Director State Bank of Saurashtra of management trainer and consultant) was present an the occasion. He expressed his happiness and appreciated the efforts and commitment of these members and their contribution in development of Shaishav .

Those who completed more than ten years are Ashish Raval, Ashok Patel,Alpesh Parmar Usha Katariya and Nilam Jadav . Those who completed five years a more are Gautam Mundava, Mina Parmar and Bhumi Sheth.

Peter Norris was volunteering with Shaishav since march 2010. He also contributed significantly in documentation work of Shaishav, particularly developing this web-site. 13th nov. was his last day at Shaishav so we look an opportunity to thank him for his valuable contribution, say good-bye and wish him ‘Bright Future’.

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Weekly Update 13th – 19th October 2010

Given that we are now trying to add details of almost all our activities to the website we have decided to condense it all into a weekly updates section. The update will happen on Tuesdays as that is when we hold our coordination meeting and decide what should go up!

Of course, when we have special activities they will get their own post as usual.

  • On the 14th – 16th October the CRTRC held training with Dharuv Sansta, and organisation that works with adults to provide them with life-skills education. There were 40 participants and we provide them with training based on the various life-skills modules that we offer.
  • Balsena held some team training sessions about the concept of Balsena and the importance of participation, as well as doing some team work and planning activities in which there were 84 children involved.
  • Navratri celebrations were held across India, but especially in the festivals home here in Gujarat. To make sure the children were able to join the fun we held programmes in three areas of the city; Pushka, Kumbharwada and Khedutvas.
  • We held two events this week for women and girls only, the first being our girls fair Kishori Mela and also a women’s workshop called Mahila Samelan. These were attended by 22 and 28 participants respectively.

There should be some photos to add to this pretty soon.

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Statistical Research and Analysis Training

As part of our continued efforts to keep accurate statistics about the areas in which we work we recently carried out a house-to-house survey across most areas of Bhavnagar. The survey was intended to check on the status of children within each household and included questions about their family (income, ration card status etc) and the children themselves.

We will use the information collected on this survey to target out activities more effectively, making sure we are focusing on the right children and the right areas. It should also help is to judge how successful we have been so far.

The survey was carried out on paper and over 10,000 forms we filled. This data now needs to be entered into a computer and analysed. This part of the process is not only difficult but extremely time-consuming. Due to this, two members of staff attended a special workshop on statistics and analysis using the EPI Info software that was held in Vinoba Ashram, Vadodara.

EPI Info is a software package designed and distributed free of cost by the World Health Organisation that is aimed at non-profit organisations and health care professionals to carry out detailed survey and analysis. We are now able to use the software to construct data entry forms and tables, run detailed analysis programs and create reports based on the results.

We hope to have completed the program in the next few days so we can begin testing a sample of a few hundred forms. As soon as the project is complete we will publish our results on this website. Stay tuned!

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Childreach International

Take a look at this small story about the Balsena elections and one of our Balsena members, Dipak, over at Childreach International. CRI is one of our major funders and are based in London, UK.

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Leadership Camp 1

On the 25th of September we held a leadership camp for a group of around 30 children. The camp was residential, so the kids stayed over and made sure the staff didn’t get any sleep!

The activities were all focused on leadership and team building, and as well as doing some group discussion we also played some games that were designed to make the children think and work together.

We are running several leadership camps at the moment, so you can expect some more about them over the coming weeks.

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