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Paustik Review November
The two days Review Meeting of PAUSTIK Program was held at KROSS Resource cum Training Centre, Bengaluru on the 08th and 09th of November 2022 which was attended by the 3 Coordinators and 11 Animators from BDDS-Ballari, BDSSS-Belagavi and SSDS-Kalaburgi. The Meeting was presided over by Rev. Fr. Richard Pais, Director-KROSS, and co-ordinated by Mr. Varghese, Regional Program Officer-PAUSTIK.

Mr. Varghese welcomed the gathering and explained the agenda for the next two days of the final review meeting of PAUSTIK. The Director-KROSS delivered an introductory talk, an interactive session and addressed the purpose of the review meeting held and pros and the corns of the work performed by all the 3 DSSSs as well as the challenges faced on filed were being deliberated. The reports were then presented by the Coordinators and the Animators which led to a lot of queries, discussions, and feedback, and suggestions were provided on how we could ameliorate the work performed and sustain the program. After every presentation, the other two implementing partners' staff sought clarifications which enabled them to learn alternative approaches to solve the concerned issue.

On the 2nd day (09-11,2022) the participants continued with recapping of the previous day’s proceedings. Later the participants have acquainted with a brief session on Children Grama Saba by the coordinator who discussed about the objectives, ways to facilitate and put forward the issues /challenges faced by the children and how it is important to encourage children into becoming leaders and a movie on political awareness was played which pondered the thoughts of all the participants and provided the importance of a good political administrates .Subsequently a thought-provoking session by Sr. Juliet Cutinha, a member of Child Welfare Committee(CWC), where topics such as child rights, Woman and Child welfare, JJ act, CARA, roles and responsibilities of CWC, DCPU, and state child protection policy. The entire session was explained with real and authentic case stories which made it reliable, the participants then shared their learning and that PAUSTIK has borne fruits at the grassroots.

The two days’ program was moderated by Mr. Varghese, the Regional Program Coordinator and the vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Kashinath of BDSSS. Later the program coordinator thanked each and every one present and especially the Director-KROSS for being present on both days, the DSSSs Directors for their active role in implementing the programme and the stakeholders for their active support and guidance provided.