Completion of 1st process
of Action Plan
APSA:
The Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA) is a non-governmental organization
that works with child labourers, street children and other children in distress
as well as the larger communities of the urban slums in Bangalore and Hyderabad
through a combination of institutional and outreach projects. Motivated by the
motto ‘For Development without Exploitation’, we have worked at the grassroots
and the national and state policy levels in partnership with communities to
help them realize their rights as humans and citizens for thirty two years.
Most of the work done by us is very much recognized in public because of the
intervened by media.
Our
media centre is very dynamic and conducts training for young people from
disadvantaged circumstances in photography and developing documentary through
workshops. The children enrolled for the
training show immense interest for documenting the realities of their own lives,
including child labour, and other social issues. These documentaries also help
the children to talk about their sufferings and experiences to a wider
audience.
Our
media centre is also part of Adobe Youth Voices project since year 2006. The
students engage in projects like documentary, photo-essay, Animation and posters
and then the projects are submitted to Adobe.
In
the academic year 2012-13, a group of 17 youth have been created 11 posters on
different social issues and a story book on ‘Save Trees’. There were two remarkable
posters created by our media students Ms Agnes Mary and Mr Barath. Both the
posters are reflecting the issues on the subject of "Don't Waste Food” and
“Save the Water".
The
above mentioned Media group which consists of 17 youth was conducted an input
session on "Don't Waste Food” and “Save the Water" and given the
information through interaction, documentary and posters presentation. There
were 120 children participated in the session. In the session, they were
discussed about scarcity of water and reasons, as well as they discussed on
food wastage.
