Mangaluru: Jagriti - Child Safety Workshop held at Govt Pry School, Kodical

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Mangaluru, 02 Apr 2015: Jagriti - a child safety workshop and child self defence techniques demonstration was organized by the students of the department of mass communication, St Aloysius College (SAC), here at Government Primary School, Kodical, here on Wednesday April 1. This child safety awareness program was conducted in collaboration with the Mangalore based NGO, Inchara Foundation(R) and department of MSW of SAC.

 

Preetam Rodrigues of Inchara Foundation along with his team members interacted with the school children and gave insights about child safety. With an experience of conducting awareness program ‘Project Angel’ for more than 2,500 children across Mangaluru.

 

 

Preetam and team successfully conducted child safety awareness class for students of Class VI, Class VII and Class VIII of Government Higher Primary School, Kodical, here. 

 

He spoke about how alertness and being mindful in each situation is very important to tackle any problem. A video presentation was also conducted to instigate the children’s understanding on different safety measures that was elaborated later.

 

In continuation to the prior session a self defence demonstration was performed by Kartik Kateel also known as ‘Mangalore Ekalavya’, ‘Stunt Ekalavya’ who has carried his 123rd Swarksha- Self Defence Technique for the school girls and made them witness various techniques that one can do to defend themselves, it was an extremely interactive session as volunteers from the audience also got a chance to try out some of the self defence moves. Kartik Kateel has also organised self defence program for around 30,000 girls and women’s across the state.

 

The department of mass communication of SAC here has been supportive in organising various programs to empower, safeguard the society from various anticipatory evils and has been exhibiting their active participation. In concern to multiple incidents that happened in Mangaluru on children this workshop Jagriti was organised on keeping note about the problems school children confront.