Neighborhood Counselling Centres– a resource centre for kids, females, and youth

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03 February, 2022

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CORO has actually been bring out numerous awareness generation activities, with ladies, youth, and children, around their rights with an unique focus on gender. The women and kid security guidelines were authorized by Gram Sabha to resolve the issues of violence versus kids and ladies.

“Hummare gaon ko is tarah ki therapy ki sakht zaroorat thi. Pehel humaare gaon ki mahilaon aur yuvaon ne ki thi aur yeh humaare liye achcha tha ki hum unki madad kar paaye. Lekin counseling kendra mein na sirf auraton, bachchon, aur yuvaon, ko balki purushon ko bhi therapy di jaain chahiye”, Amar Raut, Sarpanch, Village Kandimali, Taluke Kej, District Beed.

“Baahar ke logon ke saamne bolte color dar lagta hai. Jab pata chala ki gaon mein counseling ki jayegi, toh dar bhi gaya aur mahilaon ko khud ko vyakt karne ka ek zariya bhi mil gaya”, Chaaya Jadhav, Village Sokasan, Taluka Man, District Satara.

“Gaon ki mahilaon aur bachchon ko ek saath baithne ki jagah mili aur mahilaon ke muddon pe kaam karne waali mahilaein bhi mili”, Village Bokuljhar, Taluka Nawapur, District Nandurbar.

CORO and the community members formed Community Based Organizations (CBOs) such as Samta Mahila Sanghatan in Satara district and Hengatya Mahila Sanghatan in Nandurbar district.

In Satara, the ladies leaders have actually received official training on counselling by the Women and Child Welfare Department. These ladies have actually taken full charge of counselling and guiding children and females visiting the centres.

CORO India has successfully opened 33 centres and a plan for the opening of another 17 centres is underway. It refers pride that the town environment is slowly building level of sensitivity towards violence versus women and kids. Enacting an advance and the outcome involves sensitization activities by town youth groups and emerging counselling centres.

Through these CBOs lots of females groups and youth groups were formed. The youth groups played an extremely proactive function in spreading out awareness amongst the villagers about the Counseling Centers. They played the role of a conciliator in between the Gram Panchayat and the children and ladies.

It was heartening to come throughout similar feedback from numerous females accessing Community Counseling Centers in the villages of Beed, Nandurbar, and Satara, districts. These centres, set up by CORO India are attempting to resolve several gender-based problems prevailing in these districts. COROs work over the last 4 (4) years has actually targeted at producing 50 design villages in these districts in which the village management takes responsibility for the rights of females and kids and under its leadership, the whole ecosystem around females and children gets gender-sensitive.

A contact centre within the town was a requirement revealed by kids and women themselves. In Satara, the women leaders have actually gotten official training on counselling by the Women and Child Welfare Department. These women have actually taken complete charge of counselling and directing women and children visiting the centres.

COROs work over the last 4 (4) years has aimed at developing 50 design towns in these districts in which the village management takes responsibility for the rights of children and women and under its leadership, the entire ecosystem around females and kids gets gender-sensitive.

To make sure that the objective of the counselling centres is spread out far and wide, they did nukad nataks in the villages. They went ahead and activated the women to come forward and approach the counselling centres for all their issues.

The females and child protection standards were authorized by Gram Sabha to deal with the concerns of violence against females and children.

Found within the town facilities, these centres are within simple reach of the children and females. Easy accessibility makes the centres friendly for the village neighborhood. These are areas where kids and ladies can come and share any of their problems and search for possible options. These are likewise resource centres where all details related to existing laws towards the defense of ladies and children will be offered in a streamlined kind. For those who may not like adopting an official redressal mechanism for any oppression faced, coming, and letting out any bottled-up feelings will be cathartic.

A contact centre within the town was a need expressed by ladies and children themselves. Onset of Covid 19 pandemic and the resulting social seclusion and economic insecurity increased the vulnerability of children and women. There was a noticeable boost in violence and oppression against them. Thus, emerged the requirement to have counselling/contact centres.