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Beads adventure: Boys, girls and women at BalBhawan Mandi

On 17th Jan2013 .Bal Bhavan (child's building) in Mandi village South Delhi Suneel arranged a remarkably successful and unique meeting--which developed over several years of interpersonal  building efforts.  That is to say, years of meetings were needed to develop the openness and trust with some of the participants.  The Bal Bhavan is a large area with scattered buildings, creative sculptures, various large plant arrangements, and many sites of special interactions for kids.  It was built in the semi-socialist 60's under Nehru and now has very little funding so the program is propelled by a dedicated multi-talented staff. We planned a month-long bead treatment of 25 regular attendees in the program.  The children were told to  make a painting and write 3 favorite words. This assignment will be repeated each month and become an on-going record of each child's sense of self and tension.  This method was stimulated by ...

Can the Panchayats be given the freedom to decide on community well being?

Suneel's Blog “In the true democracy of India, the unit is the village. Every village has to become a self sufficient republic.” – Mahatma Gandhi Today, the National Panchayati Raj Day  was observed with a call from the Prime Minister , Dr. Manmohan Singh, to act collectively in bringing decentralisation of self governance at the grass roots level. He said that though the concept of Self Government has now constitutional and legal recognition but still we have to go a long way in developing each village as a model village under the scheme Pradhan Mantri Adrash Gram Yojana. Concerned over Punjab Government not giving much heed to the resolutions by various village Panchayats on ‘no liquor vend’ in their respective villages, Sangrur Member of Parliament , Shri Vijayinder Singla has decided to financially empower the Panchayats passing resolutions against liquor use ( Liquor free village ). A silent Freedom From...