Tanvi Jha with child reporters

Vishnu Rajgadia, Ravi Prakash, Amit Gupta, Tanvi Jha, Jyoti Bajaj

Vishnu Rajgadia, Ravi Prakash and Amit Gupta

Child Reporters Workshop

Dr. Suranjeen with Child Reporters

Child Reporters Workshop, 19.07.2008

Mighty pens help fight child Labor

The Telegraph

Issues selected by Child Reporters

Issue- Education & Child Labor
Kumari Suman (St. Anna Girls School) Hindi
Vishal Kumar (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Alka Bhagat (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Neha Saw (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Binita Goswami (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Chunmun Routh (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Manisha Pallavi (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Tahseen Fatma (XA, St. Margarets Girls H.S.) Hindi
Jyoti Kumari (St. Margarets Girls H.S.) Hindi
Poonam Minz (St. Margarets Girls H.S.) Hindi
Shireen Azam (Jawahar Vidya Mandir) English
Swati Singh (Jawahar Vidya Mandir) English
Anamika Sen (Jawahar Vidya Mandir) English
Yukta Verma (Bishop Wescott GS) English
Pankhuri Priya (Bishop Wescott GS) English
Mayank Shekhar (VIII B, St. Anthony’s School) English
Vedika Tayal (Bridgeford School) English

Issue- Environment
Suravi Priya (Yagsda Satsang School) Hindi
Indu Bhushan Singh (St. Anthony’s School) English
Sachin Kumar Gupta (Bridgeford School) English
Raka Paul (Bishop Wescott GS) English
Hiya Singhal (Bishop Wescott GS) English

Issue- Under privileged Child
Ruchika Kerketta (Bishop Wescott GS) English
Kirti Manjusha (Bishop Wescott GS) English
Neha (Jawahar Vidya Mandir) English
Shashwant Konai (IX B, Bridgeford School) English
Eesha Bahl (DPS) English

A note for the Media Orientation of Child Reporters

The knowledge Management Satellite Cell (KMSC)
UNICEF in collaboration with the International Library & Cultural Centre (ILCC) and Child In Need Institute (CINI) has established the KMSC at ILCC premises. The objective of the Cell is to provide a platform for NGOs and students to bring up issues related to Rights of children and house resource materials on issues concerning children especially those related to education, health, nutrition, protection, water and sanitation etc. This Cell also proposes to develop strategies of participation of children and youth in matters of survival, development and protection of children.
The Child Reporters
Under the aegis of the KMSC a cadre of students has been envisaged to be capacity built as “Child Reporters”. These reporters from various schools will write and advocate on children issues in Ranchi. They will get a chance to work with Journalists of leading newspapers in Ranchi and to get their work published in leading newspapers. They will also be mentored by NGO personnel working on child related issues.
The expected outcome from the Child Reporters Programme:-

1. The Child Reporter will learn to look incisively at issues of children.
2. The child reporter will be capacity built on an advocacy tool in the form of creative writing.

The media orientation
Taking a step ahead from a Child Reporters Workshop held on April 30, 2008 a group of children (around 35) have been selected to be trained as child reporters. These children will be capacity built on creative writing, reporting style, deciding on a news peg and gaining in depth knowledge on the children related issue of their choice. The latter shall happen through the training programme as well as the planned field visits in association with various NGOs working on these issues.
Role of NGOs
The Child Reporters shall take up children related issues of their interest and report on the same. In order to give them hands on experience of the real situation at the field level, they shall be mentored by respective NGOs working in Ranchi Urban area on the selected issues. The NGOs shall:
Facilitate the field visit.
Provide relevant inputs so that the children can frame a story.
List of issues:
Child Labour, Child Education, Childhood malnutrition, Environment, Street Children or Rag pickers

CREATIVE WRITING CAMP FOR CHILD REPORTERS

Venue: ILCC, Ranchi
Date: July 19th - 20th, 2008 , 8:00 am
Welcome - Ms. Jyoti Bajaj, ILCC
Briefing on the camp - Ms. Tanvi Jha, CINI
Introduction of NGO and media persons
Orientation on creative writing/reporting
Ravi Prakash, Editor, I next
Amit Gupta, Senior Reporter, The Telegraph
Group division for field work with respective NGOs
Field work – Respective NGO personnel

Child Reporter Project

Project Name- Knowledge Management Satellite Centre
Area- Ranchi urban area
Partner- International Library and Cultural Centre (ILCC)
Objective- Establishing a knowledge dissemination hub for children, academicians, researchers and the general public focussed on mother and child development issues
Funded by- UNICEF

बाल पत्रकार परियोजना

चाइल्ड इन नीड इंस्टीट्यूट (सिनी) इंटरनेशनल लाइब्रेरी एंड कल्चरल सेंटर (आइएलसीसी) तथा यूनिसेफ ने यह अनूठी परियोजना शुरू की है. इसका उद्देश्य विभिन्न सामयिक मुद्दों पर बच्चों में जागरूकता पैदा करते हुए बारीकी से पड़ताल करने और उस पर लेखन के लिए प्रेरित करना है. इसके लिए के प्रमुख स्कूलों के लगभग 135 बच्चों की लिखित परीक्षा के आधार पर तीस बाल पत्रकारों का चयन किया गया. इन बच्चों को अंग्रेजी एवं हिंदी में सृजनात्मक लेखन का प्रिशक्षण दिया जा रहा हैं । साथ ही इन्हें बाल श्रमिक, बाल शिक्षा, बच्चों के कुपोषण, पर्यावरण, झुग्गियों व फुटपाथ के बच्चों तथा कचरा बिनने वाले बच्चों जैसे विषय पर रिपोर्ट लेखन का अवसर दिया जा रहा है. इस दौरान बच्चों को वरीय मीडियाकर्मियों एवं स्वयंसेवी कार्यकत्ताओं से संवाद का अवसर मिला है. इस परियोजना का उद्देश्य बच्चों को बाल पत्रकार के रूप में विकसित करके झारखंड के बच्चों की आवाज सामने लाना है.