Personality Development Training

BDVS conducted three days of training on personality development. It was held from 3rd October to 5th October. Children came from 5 Units: Samastipur, Badh, Barbigha, Kharagpur and Jha- Jha.

Fr Sushil Bilung SJ director of Prabhat Prakashan conducted the program and Fr Anto SJ director of BDVS also took some of the sessions. This program basically focussed on confidence building.

Meditation was an important part of the program curriculum.

Panchayat Development Plan Training

BDVS had conducted 3 days training for youth from 28 September to 30th September. There were 45 participants in the program. They came from 5 units- Samastipur, Jha-Jha, Barh, Munger and Barbigha.

The focus of the program was towards the development of the village together with the youth. They worked on how to make Panchayat development plan and how to present it.

The activities that they performed were group discussion, making model of the village, making the list of things that are not available in villages and an exhibition of the models were held.

On 14th November is the last sitting, the models will be presented during this sitting.

Meeting of Unit Head and Partners

A meeting of BDVS was held on 8th October. It was a bimonthly meeting of partners and BDVS project head to evaluate the progress and the implementation of the Misereor project and also to plan the coming two months.

In this meeting the three major components Dalit Development Program, namely Youth empowerment, education of Dalit children and women empowerment were accessed.