UNICEF lauds efforts of NSS volunteers
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Young college students who helped create consciousness on COVID-19 amongst hundreds of day by day wagers and slum-dwellers within the metropolis earned the apprecation of UNICEF-Hyderabad for his or her efforts.
The college students demonstrated the correct use of hand sanitizer, use of masks, and the necessity to observe social distancing as half of the undertaking on ‘Engagement of NSS Volunteers for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) in Visakhapatnam’. The college students additionally distributed posters and pamphlets among the many goal teams to unfold the message. The NSS Cell of Andhra University entered into an MoU with UNICEF-Hyderabad in July 2020 on this regard.
The college students had been picked from 5 lively NSS items of Dr. VS Krishna Government College, GVP College, Samata College, St. Joseph’s College for Women and St. Ann’s Degree College for Women. Twenty-four finest NSS volunteers from every of the 5 items had been engaged within the undertaking.
NSS programme officers and volunteers had been skilled by way of video-conference conferences by UNICEF.
“Each of the five programme officers conducted 12 orientation classes for the key stakeholders which helped them complete their work. The students (NSS volunteers) have almost completed the tasks assigned to them, with a few volunteers scheduled to finish the tasks assigned to them by the end of this month,” stated Dr. S. Haranath, NSS programme coordinator of Andhra University.
The college students helped create consciousness amongst 25,000 folks, who had been largely slum dwellers and day by day wage employees. They impressed upon them the necessity to undertake private hygiene, keep social distancing and put on masks to test the unfold of COVID-19.
“This is no small achievement as they spread the message when the pandemic was at its peak. In all, 120 NSS volunteers from five colleges visited 45 slums, covering 6,500 houses and interacting with 25,000 people, and an additional 35 work sites, educating over 2,000 workers, representing different professions, so far,” Dr. Haranath added.
The goal teams had been folks residing in city slums, particularly aged individuals, pregnant girls, youngsters and occupational teams similar to sanitation employees, petty distributors, development labourers and migrant employees, in choose areas of town.
“UNICEF-Hyderabad identified the NSS volunteers’ participation through social media and their active engagement in making short videos/demonstration videos on precautions and best practices to prevent COVID-19 in the community during the lockdown from March to June. The NSS Cell of Andhra University also shared the information with UNICEF on NSS programme officers and NSS volunteers role in Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts,” Dr. Haranath stated.
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