Livelihood Directions, Manori CCO, 16th Feb, 2016

The first Income Generation Programme session was held for Women and Kishoris at Manori on the 16th February, 2016 at the CCO Office. There were 40 participants and Mr. Vency Dabre was the Resource Person. 

Domestic Violence Act and Rights for Uttan CCO - 16th Feb, 2016

On 16^th Feb.16 we had the session for women on Domestic violence Act and Women’s rights by Ms. Chitra Joshi from Dilasa. There were total 36 women attended the session. 

The session began with asking the question on what is the D.V. some of the women could answer in their own understanding and experience that it the harassment from in laws and the husband. She also told them the different  types of violence.

1. Physical Violence
2. Psychological Violence 
3. Economic Violence
4. Sexual Violence.

Then Ms. Chitra continued with her experienced examples as she is the councillor for the women.   She gave the tips on what women can do after she faces the D.V. Since many women go through this harassment they were very much attentive and were responding to it. She also in simple language explained to them about the criminal and civil laws related to D.V.

She also stressed on the rights of women and how they can use it. She made them aware of their rights and how they can speak for themselves and also can support others too.  It was very informative and knowledgeable session where women could understand and learn something. Questions raised by women helped the resource person to make the session more interesting.

Reported by: Sr. Martha CSA. Ms. Sanjina. Ms. Velencia Uttan CCO

DI Project Core Committee Meeting at Uttan, 15th Feb, 2016

On the 15th February, 2016 the CSA DI Staff along with the CCO Staff executed the DI Project Core Committee Meeting at Mukti Sagar Hall, Uttan. Almost all the Core Committee members of the six CCOs i.e. a total 60 participants actively took part in the meeting. 

The meeting began with a  prayer led by the Chowk CCO Core Committee. Mr Dayanand Patil the newly appointed joint Program Coordinator for the Project took the first session on Government Schemes of the Central and State Government. He placed this in the context of the Administrative Structure of the Mira Bhayandar Muncilpal Corporation and the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation various offices and the officers currently in the posts who could be accessed for the schemes. Some queries were answered concerning SHG registration and the availability of bus concession for senior citizens as applicable to Mumbai Municipal Corporation. 

The next session was taken by Fr.Laslie Malaya, the Director of Mukti Sagar Prabhodan Kendra. He led the participants to understand the need to take up issues, he focussed on the serious issue of Alcoholism prevalent in all the six CCOs. He posed two questions which he asked them to discuss in groups as per their CCOs. He asked them to confirm the existence of the issue of Alcoholism and secondly what steps they would propose to address the same. After putting down their responses on the black board, he led them to focus on concrete actions like awareness building of the issue during their group meetings especially as many of the groups would be meeting frequently during the season of Lent. 

All the six CCOs committed themselves to take up the issue and conduct awareness programs through charts and street plays. 

Dayanand then led the participants to reflect on their planning of Women's Day Celebrations being planned in all the CCOs and how they could move from making it primarily a cultural celebration to being socially oriented with a theme. The theme suggested was based on the CSA suggested reflection "Women's Oppression a reported fact & reality, but never in our community?". Various kinds of means to potray this were suggested and also shared by Sr. Christle - CSA Staff from Gorai. 


The meeting ended at 1.00pm with a few observations on improving the Core Committee participation by Mr. Cletus Zuzarte from CSA Goregaon. 

Women's Trg - Understanding Property Rights and Disputes, Pali 13-2-16

Sahjeevan Social Centre, Pali conducted a training on the 13^th February, 2016 on “Property Rights and Disputes. 92 women participants attended the session. Adv. Sandip Dhoble was the Resource Person.

He spoke on the topic of how to write a living Will and discussed with the participants issues related to property and the importance of 7/12 Extract Document (Saat baara utara) as property document. He also spoke of the effective use of RTI and its procedure, women’s rights in maternal property as well as from the side of husband.

The outcome of the training was that at the end of the program women expressed that they were really glad to have this session which was very informative and helped them to understand and overcome all their misconceptions about women’s property rights in the maternal side. 

Understanding Domestic Violence Act, Manori 12-2-16

Date-12^th February 2016

Time -11am to 1pm

Venue-Manori Church Hall

Target group-women

Participants-20

Resource person-Ms Sindhu, Ms Shruti, Ms Christine from Majlis-legal centre for women related to DV cases.

Topic- Domestic Violence (DV) act 2005 and Women rights

On the 12th Feb, 2016 the Savdhaan Social Centre at Manori organized a session for Women on  Domestic Violence and Women's Rights. 

The resource persons began by share on information related to Domestic violence the growing phenomena and how it needs to be identified and reported. 

They showed   a video clipping on women rights. She asked questions to the women on what they understood from this clipping. The participants replied that no women could be arrested after late evening and secondly that women have equal property rights even after her marriage.

The resource persons cited many examples and case studies and encouraged the women to report such incidents so that the women could come out openly and be supported through the Community Centre. Ms Christine explained that what is D.V and types of DV. There are mainly four types of DV.

Physical, Mental, Sexual &Financial

Ms Shruti- She explained that how to logged complaint in police station? Because most of the times women don’t have idea regarding how to file complaints. There are two types of complaints.

1.  NC- it logged for minor offence.

2. FIR (First Informant Report) - it logged for severe offence. It includes the details record of name, address, section of law etc.

How to file DV complaints-

·   Through Police helpline no 100 & 103

·  Concept of zero FIR- it can be registered from anywhere in India.eg the rape case happened at Rajasthan and the person belongs to Mumbai (Malad) locality. Then under the zero FIR the case can be transfer to concerned police station.  

·  Medical Lego Case (MLC) - medical test report it’s very important in DV cases. It’s writing the detail history by doctor from government or municipal hospital.

Report noted by- Ms Rasika Bhandari- CSA, Ms Suvarna Bandya & Ms Snehal Patil- Manori CCO

Bal Sansad Children of Uttan & Pali - Exposure to Police Station, 11-2-16

On the 11th Feb, 2016 around 50 Bal Sansad Children from Uttan and Pali CCO were taken on an exposure visit to "Sagari Police Station, Anand Nagar, Uttan". Police Inspector Mr. Devdas Mane gave a complete profile of the Police Station, its role and responsibilities to be fulfilled for the fisherfolk community in maintaining law and order in the coastal region of Uttan, Pali and Chowk stretching upto Gorai and bordering Manori. 

He introduced the children to various services being provided by the police station to the fisherfolks and how they could access these services. He demonstrated on the 1093 Police Helpline and reassured the children of their prompt service in a matter of just a few minutes. The children were at first afraid of the police, it is only when they realized the good nature of the police and the police station that their fears were removed. 

Children were introduced to the various weapons being used and one of the children even picked up a gun to feel it touch and how it was to be held. 

The children went back reassured that their lives and their families could be completely safe in the hands of the police. 

Learning to handle Domestic Violence, Gorai CCO - 2nd Feb, 2016

Women’s session

Date:               2^nd Feb 2016

Time:              2.00 to 5.00pm

Venue:            Gorai church Hall

Members:      30 women from SHG

Topic:             

Domestic Violence (DV)

Resource person: Ms. Sujata Ayarkar

Report: Session began with short prayer conducted by Mrs. Natal Gabru. There after Ms. Nasim introduced the resource person who came from Dilasa NGO, then Sr. Christel introduce Ms. Sam who is interact through CSA she has come from Canada for an experience.

After which Resource person asked the women what do you understand by Domestic violence there few women gave answered that D.V Means Harassment from husband, Mother in law, etc. then she explain to them the whole concept of D.V. how it happened, who does? What type of D.V is faced by women& young girls, she also shared her experience through various case studies, how women try to hide the thing due to few, shame of family etc.

 

Resource person also stressed what can be done when it happened to us? She mentioned about D.V. and laws which applies to it. Women also interacted with her through their experiences in neighborhood, with this one of the SHG members Mrs. Sandra Gabru thanked her with this we winded up the session.