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from the MCF
Empowered by the RTI the children are now becoming aware of how it can help them. Read more about how the Thati , Khal , Rani Lakshmi Bai and Horrawala Baal Panchayats have been successful in harnessing the power of the RTI for the good of their village.
RTI
Village Level Workshops: Eighteen local non-governmental
organizations are working with the MCF on an unprecendented
effort to increase understanding of the Right to Information
in rural mountain communities.
Through a series of village
level RTI workshops, which commenced Jan 2009, children
are learning how they can use the power of the RTI to empower
their communities and improve local governance.
RTI Facilitators' workshop: In
Nov.
2008, the MCF hosted a two-day
facilitators workshop to teach our partner organizations
about helping children learn about and use the RTI.
RTI
Start Up Workshop: the
Mountain Children's Foundation and Asha for Education, Silicon
Valley (Asha SV) held a workshop on 12th-13th Oct 2008, with
72 children from 18 different partner organizations all over
Uttarakhand (12 districts) to initiate them to the Right
to Information.
Community
Engagement Workshops (Jan2008 - Nov 2008):
The purpose of the workshops is to help young people see themselves
as agents for change in their villages, identify issues they
want to address, and develop strategies for how their children's
group can begin solving the problems. Lisle International
awarded a grant through its Global Seed Fund program through
the Education Resource Center (ERC) to the MCF in November
2007 for this purpose.
Commencing
Jan 2008, a series of
10 workshops and 9 follow up visits have been
conducted across the Himalayan State of Uttrakhand.
MCF
Annual Workshop supported
by SBMA/PLAN 20th -21st May 2008 focused on the Status Report
by the State of Uttrakhand on the UNCRC and the survey conducted
by the children on the status of the UNCRC. Sixty four children
from 13 district (13 Partner Organizations) under the Umang
programme (SBMA/PLAN) participated in the work shop.
Read one young person's perspective
on what she saw and heard.
Building
RTI awareness through children: The Silicon Valley
chapter of Asha for Education has joined forces with the MCF
to promote understanding and use of the Right to Information
act in rural mountain communities. Read
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