CHAPTER
- I: OVERVIEW
1.1
BACKGROUND
·
Initial Visit to the Community
As
a partial requirement for the social innovation course our team surveyed a
number of places for finding the issues of the society in Hubli and finally
after some research and knowledge we found out social problems in Ramesh Bhavan
and its surrounding areas, which we thought was a problem to be concerned of. Initially
we were under an assumption that there was no such serious social issue in the
area, but after visiting the schools in the area again we identified the Social
Issue as “Lack of books in the Library
of Dr. P.V Datti School for Deaf”.
The
students of the school were unable to increase their knowledge from external
sources due lack of books in the library.
This
is a small problem which had a great impact on the intellectual development for
students as it was a deaf school and the students needed to be provided with
every facility which is being provided in any other school.
·
Details of interaction and observations
On our first visit to
the school, we interacted with the staff and the principal .As the school is
surrounded by other buildings area it is not known to many and does not get
enough recognition. There we came to know that it faced many problems like lack
of cultural exposure and no financial stability.
In the 2ndvisit
to the school we found out that school could not co-operate with us as the
exams were going on. So the principal requested us to donate some books for the
school library.
Our key findings were
that due to lack of financial stability resulted in under development of the
library and no props for cultural activities.
·
Current Situations/Needs of the community
1.
Insufficient
books in the library.
2.
Improper schooling
facilities.
3.
Lack of
opportunities to exhibit their talents.
·
Key findings
The school lacks financial stability as result they
cannot afford basic things like props for cultural activities and books for
library. Due to lack of props they are
not able perform the cultural activities properly. And lack of books leads to restricted
and conservative study.
1.2
Social
Issue
·
Details of problem/s identified for the intervention
Our
team has pointed out many problems but the social issue identified by us is “Lack of
books in the Library of Dr. P.V Datti School for Deaf”. We
have taken up this as our main issue, as it is necessary that every school
should be provided with library.
The benefits of having library are:
1.
Easy, free access to thousands of books.
2.
Access to educational resources that can be used for school
purposes.
3.
A safe, warm, comforting environment that one can go to quietly
read, to work.
·
Details of stakeholder
Stakeholder consists of two parts where one part
consists of the people who are affected by the cause and the other people who
want to help for the cause.
1. The school students are the ones who are
affected by this.
2. The school management can contact the NGOs and
try to expand the library.
3. The people nearby the school can donate the
books to the school.
4. Government should make sure that the special
schools are provided with basic facilities.
1.3 Conclusion
As
our team has surveyed Dr. P.V. Datti Rotary School for some time we found that
library was quite essential for the students.
In
captions the community was majorly found with
1. Lack
of proper financial stability.
2. No
sufficient books in the library.
3. The
school requires an audiometer.
4. It
also requires props for conducting cultural activities.
