Module Session

Today it was my first Module session. This session was on Public Health and was facilitated by Mrs. Meenakshi Verma-Agrawal (Program Officer-Global Exchange Programs) Deshpande Foundation. She used various tools for teaching us about Public Health. We gave our introduction to her including our last day involvement in activity. Most of the fellows told about their last day involvement in Polio Eradication Campaign. Meenakshi explained about her background and qualification. She has done her Masters in Public Health.
She taught us about Public Health with help of PPT that what is Public Health, Core Areas of Public Health and it's explanation. She told that in United States the cholera epidemic started the public health movement and every fourth person is over weight there. Then she shown a documentary called "Tale of Two Cities". This documentary was based on dwellers in Indore and their accessibility to the Public Health Services. Then we were given some questions based on the documentary to answer on them.
In second session we all fellows were involved in the debate to discuss on two given social topics. In another activity we were given two Mumbai based NGOs case study and on basis of that study we practiced the Problems, Causes, Solutions and challenges in that particular slum. After the lunch all practised on project proposals for public health and represented them in front of funder organization through a live practice play. It was a great learning for me because I was in the role of funder. So I came to know that what are the key factors that we should keep in our mind when we represent a proposal. Overall full day session was a bunch of learning to understand Public Health.