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426 girls of VTL and 299 boys & 333 girls from marginalized families benefited from
it.

BIRDS follow up Activities:

A) Child Forum follow up meetings: In this period regular meetings of the Child
Forums, in all 80 villages in every month. In the meetings they are discussed about child
rights, child marriage act, POCSO act, and about the government structure like child line,
Child Welfare Committee, Menstrual Hygiene adolescent health etc.

B) Child Protection Committee follow up meetings:
CPC meetings were conducted in all 80 villages, discuss about child rights and acts, CPC
members counselled irregular children they are now going to schools regularly and they
were awareness of COVID 19 & Omicron to the children and Community and suggested
to families on how to avoid corona virus disease.
C) Livelihood Units follow up:
The project supported 510 livelihood units for their better livelihoods present all
livelihood units were running, 250 livelihood women have been linked under the
Viceroyalty Scheme, this financial assistance provided by the government has been used
to improve their existing livelihood units. Present they were very happy.
Organize a one‐day Training cum Awareness Programme:

We organized one day training cum awareness programme on Village level Chid
Protection Committee (VCPC), Child forum, Duties of the Tuition teachers and child acts
on 20.04.2022 at Hotel Blue Earth, Srikakulam. They are oriented on dealing activity‐
based class on subjects. They are also taught about Continues and Child Rights, Right to
Education Act. POCSO Act, Prohibition of Child Marriages Child protection mechanism,
Introduction to Child Rights and importance of Protection System, Explain about the Child
line, DCPU,ICPS activities and role of teacher and also shared on ICPS & ICDS structure
and how we Child need care & Protection and relevant forms to be field, strengthening of
Child Protection Committees and Child Forums with support of tuition teachers and
shared experience and views with the Tuition teachers for a positive change. In
Programme 38 tuition teachers were participated.

Annual Review meeting with Tuition Teachers:

On 07.11.2022 organized an annual review meeting with the Tuition Teachers at Hotel
Blue Earth, Srikakulam focusing on the results of the students. We are discussed about the
performance of CF and CPCs in identification, conducting regular Village level Chid
Protection Committee (VCPC) meetings, Village level Child Forum (CF), Village level
Livelihood Units Follow up visits, Conducting Convergence meeting at Cluster level and
rescue of CL & VTL, children’s issues and running of Tuition centres. In this programme
35 tuition teachers were participated.

National Girl Child Day: On the eve of National Girl Child Day on 24.01.2022
participated in the district level celebrations organised by Women Development & Child

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