World Child Safety Day, November 19, Nalamdana will screen there acclaimed film, ‘Maaya Changu’ at Nayantara Theatre in Krishnagiri. Supported by the Rotary Clubs of Madras Coromandel and Rotary Club of Maa-Nagar, Krishnagiri
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NALAMNITE at the Gateway Hotel
Annual Fundraiser Gala at the Gateway Hotel
Nalamdana’s annual fundraiser a smashing success
Thanks to everyone who braved the rain and ‘other’ challenges in Chennai to come to Nalam Night and lend their support last night. Thanks to Sanjay Rao Chaganti for keeping the evening lively and the scores of people who contributed to its planning, auction and success:
- The Gateway Hotel OMR
- A & M Creations
- Covelong Point
- 10 Downing
- Eka Portraiture
- Barefoot Andamans
- Pothole Studio
- Rainbow Fish Studio
- Footprint B&B
- Taj Clubhouse Chennai
- Park Hyatt
- Aloft Hotel, OMR
- Park Hotel Nungambakkam
- Copper Chimney
- Cupcakes Amore
- Bounce Style Lounge
- Thai Sabai
Cherry Tin - Emirates Airlines
- Shobhana Ravi and Surender Babu
- Kalpana Balaji
- V. Balaji
- Ranjini Srinivasan
- Aparna Natarajan
- Hans Kaushik
- Sheetal Shah
- Priya and Sriram
- Bharathi Raviprakash
- Thota Tharani
- and the band, Subject to Change!
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Thendral Community Radio Goes Live!
Nalamdana hits the airwaves with health education radio
Thendral Community Radio – with support from the Rotary Club of Madras Coromandel and a global cadre of enthusiastic individual sponsors – officially launched in January this year. The station broadcasts to the greater Neelangarai community for four hours daily with growing listenership and interest. Ms. Supriya Sahu, I.A.S., representing the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, recently visited the studio (photo) and expressed her excitement and support for this important initiative. Thendral is a non commercial FM station located in Nalamdana‘s own office, made possible with permission from the Ministry for Information and Broadcasting. It serves to get local establishments, schools and communities to create their own programs. A non-commercial entertainment-education enterprise, created and launched by Nalamdana! Thendral community radio has a reach from Kottivakkam to VGP on the ECR, and Thoraipakkam and parts of Perungudi on the OMR. There are several IT offices, schools, residences, apartments as well as fishing hamlets who form the “community” of this Community Radio network. Read more here about Thendral Community Radio!
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RESEARCH: An evaluation of the use of drama to communicate HIV/AIDS information
AIDS Education and Prevention, Vol 11 (3), Jun 1999, 203-211
ABSTRACT:
Evaluated the effectiveness of 3 dramas created by a community theater group to disseminate HIV/AIDS information. Pre- and post-drama interviews were conducted with a cohort of 93 randomly selected audience members (aged 15–45 yrs) from 10 separate performances in Tamil Nadu, India; an interview was also conducted with a post-drama-only comparison group of 99 Ss. Ss completed a series of 12 true/false HIV/AIDS knowledge questions, as well as an open-ended question about how they would treat a neighbor with AIDS. Results show that a significant increase in HIV/AIDS-related knowledge occurred as a result of watching the drama. Before the drama, audiences had relatively high levels of accurate knowledge about HIV/AIDS, but lower knowledge levels of common HIV/AIDS misconceptions. The drama reduced these misconceptions. The drama also increased the level of reported intentions to treat HIV-positive individuals more kindly. This research demonstrates that drama can be an effective medium for communicating HIV/AIDS information and can reduce knowledge gaps associated with low levels of formal education. Drama can also be used to convey socioemotive and sensitive material and could find wide applicability in many settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)An evaluation of the use of drama to communicate HIV/AIDS information,by Thomas W. Valente and Uttara Bharathhttp://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1999-03082-002
The Hindu: Children have right to nutrition, healthcare and education
David T. Hopper appreciates South India Girl Child Initiative
CHENNAI: “Every child, boy or girl, should have an opportunity to grow with access to nutrition, healthcare and education and without the threat of violence,” US Consul-General in Chennai David T. Hopper said here on Friday.
Speaking at a function to launch an audio CD `Kuyilum Mayilum’ on the girl child, he appreciated the South India Girl Child Initiative in trying to improve the educational and health status of under-privileged adolescent girls. The South India Girl Child Initiative is a joint effort of Aseema Trust, Nalamdana, Gram Vikas Samstha and the Centre for Applied Research and Extension (CARE).
Mr.Hopper said the initiative of the US Consulate here to protect women, going to the US on dependent visas, from domestic violence was being replicated by other US Consulates elsewhere in the country.
“We had started with issuing pamphlets in English, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam with details of how one could get help in the US.”
Though this was only a small step, it would be one of the frontlines against domestic violence.
He said: “Here in Chennai, we issue more visas to the dependents of foreign students and temporary workers in the US than at any other location in the world. We will issue more than 40,000 such visas this year.”
Playback singer S.P.Balasubramaniam and Children’s Garden School’s Secretary Shakuntala Sharma received the first copy of the CD.
To create a model
Aseema Trust’s V.R.Devika said the South India Girl Child Initiative aimed to increase life options for hundreds of vulnerable girls each year through direct interventions. It also aims to create a model for collaboration and network building by grassroots organisations.
Nalamdana’s Nithya Balaji urged philanthropists to donate copies of `Kuyilum Mayilum’ CDs to schools so that more children get to listen to the songs.
A portion of the money from the sale would go towards funding the education, food and stay of rescued girl children at the CARE school.
Children belonging to three schools — Avvai Home, Navbharath Matriculation School, and Okkium Thoraipakkam Panchayat School — have penned the lyrics. CDs can be had from Nalamdana Trust.
Those who want to get details can visit www.nalamdana.org.