Gutkha is a mixture kind of tobacco, catechu, lime and hard dry betel nuts and chewing of tobacco is injurious to health and is the cause of mouth cancer, dental carries, gum infections and so many dangerous diseases. So the main aim of this project is to aware the youth about the harms of Gutkha to saving the lives of relevant youth. Because eating the Gutkha is the cause of mouth cancer and so many youth have been expired due to this drug.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Chuhar Jamali. Taluka Shah Bunder, District Thatta, Sindh.
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
EFAO has strong relations with local media and grass root community based organizations and media persons. The news and photos of proposed project will be published in local news papers and stories will be shared on the ID of organization on face book and twitter.One text messaging group will be created on mobile phones to share the text messages of this proposed project with relevant youth on their cell phones about Gutkha for their information.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
EFAO is already working for the awareness in youth about the harms of eating/chewing the Gutkha, to improve the health status of youth in 5 union councils (Goongani, Jungo Jalbani, Ladiyoon, Dault Pur and Chuhar Jamali) of taluka Shah Bunder and to minimize the percentage of dangerous diseases and saving their lives through mobilization of youth. For the more success of this project local digital media persons will be involved in this project.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
In first step 10 youth participants of electronic media and 50 local community based organizations youth activists will be trained through trainings from five union councils to increase the campaigns grass root level in villages against Gutkha for the awareness of youth and one thousand youth will be mobilized in different rural villages to play their character to END THE GUTKHA. EFAO will sustain their participation by giving shields and awards.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Equality For All Organization requests for separate office on the rent for the proposed project, and one computer, one laptop, one printer, one scanner and some furniture (10 chairs and 2 tables) for the proposed project office. above Procurement material is very necessary to make material in soft and hard for the participants for their capacity building and trainings.
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EQUALITY FOR ALL Organization
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This proposed project is related with the lives of those youth, who are chewing the Gutkha, and Gutkha is the cause of mouth cancer. so saving the lives of those youth is very necessary and relevant to saving the humanity. The aim of this project is very super to saving the lives of youth.
Really Ghutka is dangerous disease cancer commonly caused bt chewing Ghutka. So I encourage to those CSOs that are working on Anti Ghutka campaign.
This is currently need to work on such issues like this, Gutkha is a dangerous drug for youth, so projects like this will play a good character in the lives of marginalized youth to saving their lives.
Very important issue, i appericiate to this project, i hpoe Global Voices will approve this project to support our poor community, who need awareness about gutkha…
Most important topic on focusing basic health of youth, we strongly support this project is very beneficial for the youth, who are losing their lives due to chewing Gutkha.
I really appreciate the hard working against Gutkha of EQUALITY FOR ALL organization, the problem identification is demand driven of this area, i hope EFAO will bring change in this rural and coastal area.
I am really impressed to see proposal on one of the burning issue of coastal Districts of Sindh province. District Thatta being the coastal district of the province has alarming social development indicators and living standard of the people; most of the people are daily wage laborers involved in fishing sector. On the one hand they have very scared livelihoods sources; resulting they are often hand to mouth in routine life, while, on the other hand once can openly observe the whole populations using this dangerous drug (Ghutka).
Being local one form the same area I would like to share such strange findings mentioned here:
• People use to purchase food for their families on credit from local shopkeepers but, they have to purchase Ghutka in cash on daily basis, no credit system in this business!!
• Only children on mothers’ milk are skipped, rest of whole population including male, female, boys and girls are daily users of Ghutka.
• No any single children in primary schools from class one till five you will find who does not use Ghutka.
• Ghutka sellers use to come to schools to sell Ghutka instead of confectionary and toffees for children, and no one fells it bad.
Above all, it seems that we are gradually accepting the trend of moving our nations towards cancer disease which is spreading in our area very rapidly. And, on the other hand no one is there to realize it, work for its advocacy and control.