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The Early Childhood Development intervention is a service-strengthening intervention.
The Early Childhood Development intervention is established as a service - strengthening intervention. We collaborate with the Department of Women and Child Development to strengthen pre-school education at Anganwadi centres, we conduct hands -on, intensive, capacity-based training to Anganwadi workers and helpers, on age - specific activities to aid the physiological and psychological growth of children from 3 to 6 years. We do so by employing a two-pronged approach that focuses on pre-school education and nutrition. The former has grown beyond the range of Yadgir, where the Early Childhood Education (ECE) intervention was honed, and is now being scaled to five other districts under jurisdiction of the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board.
The activities look at all-round development, beginning from nutrition to early learning in children. We believe parents contribute largely to the well - rounded grow the of their children. We engage with parents by conducting demonstration camps on nutrition and through regular home visits & care-givers meeting.
Our ECD intervention comprises of two programmes – Early Childhood Education and Nutrition.
Growth Monitoring for 3,333 childrens
Facilitated 169 NRC Admissions
7,164 trained (CDPO's, ACDPO's & Supervisiors)
Demonstration center for future training in 1,385 AWCs
Intensive trainings were conducted for Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) and Anganwadi Helpers (AWHs) with focus on two primary topics: spoken language activities, cognitive development, and monthly planning of Pre-School Education (PSE) activities. The quality in conducting PSE activities have been improved and 2 hours of PSE activities are conducted. Caregivers meetings are also organized at Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) to help parents understand the significance of early childhood education. Bala Vikas Samiti members are actively involved at the meetings and take initiation to help AWCs meet their infrastructural requirements.
To increase awareness on nutrition and education in early years and role of AWCs, we successfully organized community events known as Bala Melas. The Bala Mela event brings together parents, children and the community to raise awareness on the progress made by the children as well as to help the community understand to create a space for learning and provide care to children.
On aligning with the Trust’s vision, our nutrition program strategy was finalised. Our team has undergone extensive training on the causes and identification of malnutrition in children. They were coached to monitor growth measurements and record data. The training was deemed essential to help combat undernourishment.
We also held counselling sessions at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) for mothers of in-patient Severely Malnourished Children (SAM) through meetings and demonstrating the preparation of nutritional mixes and diets.
The most notable development in our pre-school education programme was the expansion of Kalike’s Early Childhood Education to six districts of Kalyana Karnataka Region, with the vision of strengthening the quality of education in AWCs. HKRDB has created a dynamic learning space by developing a model AWC in each circle and establishing a District Early Childhood Development Resource Centre, under DWCD, to strengthen professional development of mid-level functionaries. We worked closely under the aegis of DWCD and Tata Trusts, networking with the block / circle level resource centres for potential cross learning. HKRDB attracted desirable support and co-operation from the department.
Active participation and inputs on ECE in circle meetings.
Acting as resource persons alongside supervisors and developing the AWCs as demo centres to serve as a focal point for field exposure