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- 1. Hari Krishnan B, Mitsu Shah & Vikas Johiya
- 3. 68 º 72 º 76 º 80 º 84 º 88 º 92 º 96 º 36 º 32 º Mi 100 200 300 Km 100 200 300 400 28 º 24 º India 23.5 º 1.21 billion people spread over an area of 2.97 million 20 º sq km at a population density of 408 people per sq km 69% of population is rural Only 8.4% of people use Internet in India 16 º 692 mobile phones per 1000 people Source : Internet 12 º 8º
- 4. Generic Model for Growth Keywords from the brainstorming AIM/GOAL sessions Breaking taboos Self-realisation Awareness Accessibility Sustainability RESULT Cooperation To be heard GROWTH Empowerment Widening perspectives Learning Collective e ort SUPPORT & STRENGTH
- 5. Information Exchange Rural Whistle Person in an inaccessible/ backward area The rural whistle is a service which enables and fastens critical information exchange between people in inaccessible/backward areas and the His/her immediate world outside, thereby reducing the surroundings e ect of “growth restricting forces” around her/him. The world outside which he/she can bene t from
- 6. Growth Restricting Forces in Rural India
- 7. Activists Activists Village-1 Village-2 Volunteer Activists Village-3 Village-4 Volunteer’s Collective Activists
- 8. Persona-1 Background: Anjana Name: ____________________________ 15 years Age: ___________ Sexually abused by her uncle since the age of 3 year. Thought it was a ection only to realise at age of 14 year, that it was sexual Where: Rural India ____________________________ Gender: ___________ Female abuse. Family Context: Father: dead, Mother, 2 younger sisters, Uncle, Aunt, ___________________________________________________ Cousin brother ___________________________________________________ Financial Situation: Poor, lives with uncle and dependent on him. ___________________________________________________ Skills: Good at drawing, craft and cooking. ___________________________________________________ Stays to herself, house work, helps her aunt at work, Personality: takes care of sisters. Tries to educate herself through her cousin brother’s books ___________________________________________________ Likes: Likes to cook, drawing things around and decorates ___________________________________________________ the house. ___________________________________________________ Wants: To get a voice without any adverse e ect. ___________________________________________________ Needs: * A secure; trusted way of communication. ___________________________________________________ * To make sure the same is not happening to her sisters. ___________________________________________________ * To break free. ___________________________________________________
- 9. Persona-2 Background: Sunil Kumar Name: ____________________________ 16 years Age: ___________ Sexually abused by his father’s friends when he was younger. Thinks that’s the way of life and that he has to become a Where: Modasa, Rural part of Rajasthan ____________________________ Gender: ___________ Male homosexual. Now he is abuses (sexually) youger boys in his village and threaten them to not tell Family Context: Father, Mother and Grandmother. Father works in the ___________________________________________________ anyone. wine shop on the highway. Mother is a housewife. ___________________________________________________ Financial Situation: Poor, father is only bread earner in the family. ___________________________________________________ Skills: Woodcraft, dancing. ___________________________________________________ Personality: Very outgoing, gang leader of sorts, bully. ___________________________________________________ Likes: Sports, making objects by hand and lazing around. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Wants: To settle down in city. ___________________________________________________ Needs: * To gure out himself. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
- 10. Persona-3 Background: Sapna Name: ____________________________ 10 years Age: ___________ High case of domestic violence at home. Father often beats up the mother and then her. Where: Kaya, Rural part of UP, India. ____________________________ Gender: ___________ Female Father harasses her in all such events. Family Context: Father works as a daily labour, alcohol addict. ___________________________________________________ Mother is works as a labour in the farm. ___________________________________________________ Financial Situation: Poor. ___________________________________________________ Skills: Singing and dancing. ___________________________________________________ Personality: Cheerful, play with kids around but becomes quite and scared with nightfall. Scared of strangers. ___________________________________________________ Likes: Likes to cook, drawing things around and decorates ___________________________________________________ the house. ___________________________________________________ Wants: Wants to sing and dance freely and make new friends. ___________________________________________________ Needs: * Needs to know her phobias. ___________________________________________________ * Needs guidance. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________