Events

Peace Tiles
Peace Tiles is a project launched by Development & Arts, USA for raising awareness on HIV/AIDS among the youth world wide. GBS, as a partner of Development & Arts initiated the project in India. Under the project GBS organized 6 workshops in 6 districts of the state. 400 children from 59 schools participated in the workshops and created 700 tiles depicting their response to HIV/AIDS in India and around the world.

The Peace Tiles developed by the youth and students of Rajasthan were exhibited at 3 places internationally i.e. Marquette (USA), Geneva (Switzerland) and Cape town (South Africa).

A grand function was organized by Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS) in collaboration with Rajasthan Intersect Coalition at Soochana Kendra in Jaipur on December 01, 2005 on the occasion of the World AIDS Day. Over one thousand participants including the young artists (who developed the Peace Tiles), students, health professional, Government officials, HIV/AIDS activists, journalists etc. appreciated the artistic Peace Tiles.

Youth for Health
Youth for Health A 3 day training workshop was organized at Chamber of Commerce in Jaipur on December 27-29, 2006 on Reproductive and Sexual Health & Rights in collaboration with Youth Incentives, The Netherlands. 45 NGO personnel from 5 states e.g. Rajasthan, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Gujarat participated in the workshop. It was a very useful training organized first ever in Rajasthan using a new participatory technique.

Sexual and Reproductive Rights, SRHR and link with poverty reduction, Carrousel game, Statement exercise, Stigma and discrimination etc. were the main topics discussed widely in the workshop.

NGOs for HIV/AIDS
NGOs for HIV/AIDS Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS), in collaboration with regional organizations and Sally Fisher, founder and president of Intersect Worldwide, presented workshops on coalition building in the fields of HIV/AIDS and Violence against Women & Girls (VAW&G).

First of the 3 workshops was organized in Guwahati, Assam on 28-29 October, 2006. The second in Patna, Bihar on 31 October - 1 November, 2006 and the third was organized in Ahmedabad, Gujaraton 5 - 6 November, 2006

125 NGOs/CBOs including 60 women participated in the 3 workshops. Looking to create regional coalitions, the workshops were regionally determined and brought together non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) working on HIV/AIDS and women’s empowerment projects.

The issues discussed in the workshops were based on some common questions like - what resources exists in you district that you can call on to support your work, what can you gain by working together, what barriers might you find, what are your common goals and common concerns and what other groups would you invite and include to begin your work with? It built a strong collaboration of NGOs/CBOs in these states.

Women for water
Women for water An excellent conference on water “Paani Mela” was organized by GBS on July 07, 2006 in the Jain temple in Amer.1, 200 women of 125 Self Help Groups from 30 villages from block Jamwaramgarh and Amer of district Jaipur participated in the conference. It was the biggest event organized in Rajasthan over the issue of water. Mr. Rajendra Bhanawat, the Divisional Commissioner, Jaipur was the chief guest of the conference.

Rain water harvesting, consuming water efficaciously, planting trees on wide scale, reviving traditional water structures in the villages etc. were the main concerns the women involved in their discussions.

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