NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME

Report from 2017-2018

Mount Carmel College, Autonomous

#58, Palace Road, Vasanth Nagar

Bangalore - 52

Activities during the year are as follows:

1. Registration of New Volunteers:

Enrolment of fresh volunteers for the year 2017-18 was on, over 618 volunteers

enrolled. Even this year, we had online registration for NSS.

2. Fresher’s Week events:

NSS organized two activities- Blow it off and Doodle Queen in which 70 members in

total participated.

3. Inauguration of NSS :

The New volunteers were introduced to the NSS activities planned throughout the year

on 10th July. They were told about their purpose, duty being the nss volunteers. The core

tam was introduced.

4. Installation of Digital Display in School:

Our college installed Digital Display with Android in Koramangala Government School

for the purpose of providing them e-learning.

5. Blood Donation Camp:

The Blood Donation Camp was organized in Mount Carmel College in association with

Lions Blood Bank and Kidwai Blood Bank. On 13th July where over 431 units of blood

was donated.

6. Seminar on Labour and Migration Unit and Women’s Unit in Indian Social

Institute:

Our volunteers attended a seminar organized by Labour and Migration Unit in Indian

Social Institute on 19th July 2017.

7. Cul-week:

Organised games like puzzle game on 19th and 20th July where they had to identify the

different personalities and also speak a few lines about them.

8. Book Collection Drive:

Distributed over 1000 textbooks, stationary etc. to the slum kids on 22nd August by

collecting books from our college departments and the students.

9. E-waste drive with Eco Club:

Organized E-waste drive in association with Eco Club and covered the entire Vasanth

Nagar area on 9th September 2017.

10. Bharat Yatra:

Joined in the Bharat Yatra organized by Christ College and was addressed by Kailash

Satyarthi on 16th September 2017.

11. Swach Bharat Abhiyan:

Organized Swach Bharat Abhiyan in different areas throughout the entire year and put a

simple step forward towards cleaner Bangalore.

12. Cul-ah events:

NSS Unit organized Cul-al events on 7th 8th and 9th of December- Collage making on

General elections of Karnataka and Nukkad Natak on so cial issues. We witnessed a total

of 10 teams participation from different colleges.

13. Dental Health Camp:

NSS organized Dental Heath Camp in association with Rajiv Gandhi Dental College and

Hospital on 25th Of November, where around 172 college staff and students were

benefitted.

14. Seminar by SJCC:

Our students attended on 31st December, a seminar organized by SJCC on

Environmental Changes- A two day workshop where they addressed about the various

issues relating to the environmental protection in our society.

15. Republic Day:

We participated in the Republic Day celebration through a mime performance on 26th of

January which highlighted the election scenario in our country.

16. Prepared 15000 Seed Balls.

A seed ball (or seed bomb) is a seed that has been wrapped in soil materials, usually a

mixture of clay and compost, and then dried. Essentially, the seed is ‘pre-planted’ and can be

sown by depositing the seed ball anywhere suitable for the species, keeping the seed safely

until the proper germination window arises. Seed balls are an easy and sustainable way to

cultivate plants in a way that provides a larger window of time when the sowing can occur.

They also are a convenient dispersal mechanism for guerrilla gardeners and people with

achy backs. The day begun with the preparation of the seed balls. Our NSS volunteers

prepared 15000 seed balls throughout the day.

Camp Report 2017-18

National Service Scheme (N.S.S) Camp Report 2017- 2018

NSS special village camp (NammaHalli) was held from 16 th January 2018 to 23rd January

2018 at Kormangala Village, Avathi (Po), Devanhalli (Tq) Bengaluru Rural District.

DAY 1- 16th January 2018

The village camp started on 16thof January. All the volunteers were asked to assemble in the

college by 8:30 p.m. so that we can load the luggage and proceed towards the village by 9am.

We reached the village by 11:30am. Volunteers were allotted government school classrooms to

stay. All the volunteers cleaned the whole school campus and adjusted the luggage. After that,

there was a brief orientation for all the volunteers where they were instructed about the rules of

the camp and told about the activities. Both our coordinators addressed the volunteers in the

evening and guided all the volunteers and the students along with our coordinators hoisted the

NSS flag. The new volunteers were taught the NSS song by Sunanda Ma’am where she

explained each line to all the students (Kannada and Non-Kannada students.) The students were

allotted their groups according to which they had to perform all the activities throughout the

camp and their duties were addressed.

After the evening tea, all the volunteers then got ready for the inauguration function which was

at Gram Panchayat Karyalaya. All the volunteers went to invite all the villagers for the

inauguration function of the special camp, and many villagers attended the inauguration. The

inauguration was enlightened by Dr. Sister Arpana, Ramesh Sir (Dean of PG Commerce and

Management), as chief guest.

The villagers welcomed us and they were happy to see us, and had a hope that we will bring in

positive change in the village. Our principal Sr. Arpana showed her great support and

encouraged us. All the NSS volunteers were motivated from the speakers.

Day 2- 17th January 2018

The day started with full enthusiasm at 5 am and our NSS flag was hoisted at 6am by our

guest Byre Gowda Sir (President of Kannada Sahitya Parishad) for the first time in the

camp followed by prayer and refreshing refreshing exercises by Snowy, Amritha, NSS

volunteers and also our Govinda Sir.

Cleanliness is Godliness

Volunteers then had their breakfast and got ready for cleaning the village premises.

Volunteers were divided in groups so that most of the parts were covered. The

volunteers cleared the plastics, papers, wild flowers and leaves so make the places

clearner and also created awareness about the importance of cleanliness to the villagers.

Villagers were very keen to show the volunteers what they do, they displayed their silk

worms and explained the process of getting silk from silk worms;Volunteers had studied

the process theoriticallly and never seen the process practically. The interaction of

volunteers with villagers and getting to know the kind of life the villagers lead made nss

volunteers of Bangalore city realize how they never appreciated the luxuries they get.

The volunteers now had a different kind of spirit to help the villagers how much ever

they can in these days and make their lives a little better as now the volunteers

considered the villagers as their own. Volunteers were also offered lunch by the villagers

and few volunteers were also invited for wedding in village.Now, it was our village for

NSS volunteers and not some village they had been to for a camp.

After coming back from the clean p drive, the NSS volunteers had their lunch after

which they interated with the school children, played with them. Some of them even

taught them Basic English, Math and Kannada. Few of our NSS volunteers taught the

children dance for the culturals that followed that evening. During the culturals the

villagers enjoyed performances by our students, children from the village. After we

came back we were offered dinner. After the dinner their was a report presentation by all

the groups and then the volunteers were briefed about the next day schedule and then the

duties were alloted for next day.

DAY 3- 18th January 2018

Day started with flag hosting by our guest Janardhan Sir (Former President of JCI) and followed

by prayer, yoga and breakfast.

The day’s activity started by a special visit to the Ghoshala. The students enjoyed a truck ride to

the Ghoshala.

Taking care of cows is rewarding and lots of fun! The indigenous cows are very affectionate,

alert and friendly. They demand lots of love and attention, and love to be hugged and patted just

like domestic pets! Our volunteers enjoyed their visit where they cleaned the cow shed, played

games all together and knew a lot about hygiene of cow shelters.

After the successful Ghoshala visit, all the volunteers had their lunch and took rest for sometime.

They also enjoyed tasty local watermelons bought during the ghoshala visit.

In the evening after the snacks and tea, we had a speech on Kannada Sahitya Parishath by notable

guestes and a beautiful orchestra. They spoke about the importance of kannada language.

Everyone who lives in Karnataka must know kannda so that it becomes easy for them to

communicate, people should know the basic theasures so that their day-to-day life becomes more

easy.

After the programme, our programme officer Mr Govinda Gowda held a meeting and discussed

about the Enterprenuership Skills Development Programme (EDP) we were going to conduct for

the villagers the next day. All the volunteers gave in their suggestions and sir considered all of

them. Sir supported entirely for the innovative ideas and then arranged for the material required

for the EDP. The crafts finalized were quilling, mehendi, pencil stand making, paperbags, hand

embroidery, photo frame and penholder making from ice cream sticks, etc.

All day work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and NSS volunteers cannot be dull. After the

programme, all the NSS Volunteers played games such as volleyball, rings etc.

After the games volunteers started preparing the samples to display to the villagers for the EDP on the

next day.

After the dinner their was report presentation by all the groups and then the volunteers were breifed

about the next days schedule and were alloted the duties for next day.

The volunteers were all set to help the villagers grow their wealth with their craft skill.

DAY 4- 19th January 2018

Day started with flag hosting by our guest Mrs.Sandhya (President of the Grameen Mahila

Parishad) which was followed by prayer, yoga and breakfast.

NSS conducted Enterprenuership Skill Development Programme for specially village

women to help them start their own small scale business. Volunteers taught them crafts like

quilling, mehendi, pencil stand making, paperbags, hand embroidery, photo frame and

penholder making from ice cream sticks, etc.

Around 400 women were benefitted from this program.

Inaugration function was held where Me. Janardhan Sir spoke about how to increase ones

standard of living and how to generate employment from small scale industries such as

poultry farming. He explained about the bank loans and which loans bank offer villagers

and how they can avail them. Mrs. Kavya told her life story how she struggled to get the

master degree and how supportive her family especially her husband was. She made us

realize how we can achive anything if we have the determination and we should never give

up no matter how difficult the situation is.

After the inauguration we started our Enterprenuership programme. The villagers were very

keen to learn new things and they grasped everything very fast, things like quilling, paper

bags were very useful to them, where they needed very less resources and yet the product

was very helpful. The intrested they showed was more than expected. Due to lack of time

volunteers were not able to teach them but promised them to teach them the crafts the next

day.

In the afternoon after the lunch volunteers prepared themselves tfor the culturals. our NSS

volunteers taught the school students few dance numbers and a group of our NSS volunteers

prepared a skit about the importance of girl child in our society.

NSS volunteers were taken for the field visit. Mr. K V Byre Gowda showed his field and

explained the whole process of farming and also gave us delicious grapes. We were taken to

different farms like cucumber, raagi, beans etc.

After the dinner their was report presentation by all the groups and then the volunteers were

breifed about the next days schedule and were alloted the duties for next day.

DAY 5- 20th January 2018

Day started with flag hosting by our guest Nanjappa sir and followed by prayer,

exercise.

Personality development grooms an individual and helps him make a mark of his/her

own. Individuals need to have a style of their own for others to follow them. Do not

blindly copy others. You need to set an example for people around. Personality

development not only makes you look good and presentable but also helps you face the

world with a smile.

The day begun with a Personality Development and Leadership lecture where the

students were asked to perform group activities and it was an interactive session overall.

Trees contribute to their environment by providing oxygen, improving air quality,

climate amelioration, conserving water, preserving soil, and supporting wildlife. During

the process of photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide and produce the oxygen we

breathe.

Trees improve our air quality by filtering harmful dust and pollutants such as ozone,

carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide from the air we breathe. Trees give off oxygen that

we need to breathe. ... Many species of wildlife depend on trees for habitat.

Trees provide food, protection, and homes for many birds and mammals.

Trees are very important for human beings to survive. After the session the NSS

volunteers planted 200 saplings to help the villagers breathe more fresh air.

Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing

several diseases like type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Physical activity

and exercise can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly,

regular activity can improve your quality of life. A minimum of 30 minutes a day can

allow you to enjoy these benefits. In the evening after the snacks and tea our NSS

volunteers played games such as Volleyball, kho-kho and tug of war etc.

After the program we had dinner and their was a report presentation by all the groups and

then the volunteers were briefed about the next day schedule and then the duties were

alloted for the next day.

Day 6- 21st January 2018

The day started with full enthusiasm at 5 am and our NSS flag was hoisted, followed by

the NSS song, exercise.

Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social,

and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for

parents to engage fully with their children. Despite the benefits derived from play for

both children and parents, time for free play has been markedly reduced for some

children. This report addresses a variety of factors that have reduced play, including a

hurried lifestyle, changes in family structure, and increased attention to academics and

enrichment activities at the expense of recess or free child-centered play. This report

offers guidelines on how pediatricians can advocate for children by helping families,

school systems, and communities consider how best to ensure that play is protected as

they seek the balance in children’s lives to create the optimal developmental milieu.

In the afternoon, the volunteers organised games for the village children. they enjoyed the

evening thoroughly.

After the dinner their was report presentation by all the groups and then the volunteers

were breifed about the next days schedule and were alloted the duties for next day.

DAY 7- 22nd January 2018

Day started with flag hosting by our guest Byre Gowda sir and followed by prayer, yoga

and breakfast.

As health is wealth, to make our village prosper NSS conducted a free health camp at Gram

Panchayat Karyalaya with 8 doctors coming to help the villagers. the Health Camp

benefitted around 210 villagers from 10 different villages. Along with that, the students and

teachers from the Home Science department organised a session on the importance of proper

nutritio in one person’s life.

Volunteers made arrangements with the doctors for the health check up and went to the

village to call all the villagers. Villagers gave very positive feedback for the camp and

blessed us for our service. For NSS volunteers bleesings are all they need to keep them

motivated for doing service to the society.

In the evening, NSS conducted rangoli competion for the village females, they were divided

in two age groups below 15 and above 15. The enthusiasm in villagers is unbeatble, be it

giving answers for survey, playing games, learning crafts or rangoli competion. We had 20

participants in total.

Along with that we has sack race for the men adults were we also saw a lot of participation.

Volunteers presented report after returning and shared their experience about the whole

camp.

It was the most tiring day of the camp but it was all worth it and in the end non-vegetarians

were treated with egg and vegetarians with gulab jamun and tomato rice.

All camps are incomplete without a bonfire. Our programme officers arranged a bonfire

after dinner and we all enjoyed to our fullest, we were now like a family and village was our

home. The feeling that the camp is going to end in a day made us feel nostalgic.

NSS volunteers were satisfied with service they did but wanted to contribute more and

surely they will contribute to the society and make the world a better place to live in.

DAY 8- 23rd January 2018

Valedictory function was held on the last day. Dr. Josephine Rosario (Dean UG Department

of Commerce,MCC), Major Dr. Shanta Maria (Dean UG Department of Home Science)

were the chief guest.

They congragulated NSS volunteers for completing the camp and he aslo praised volunteers

for the service they provided to the villagers. He also wanted us to continue the social

service and make permanent changes in the society.

The prizes for the games conducted earlier were then distributed to the villagers. Also the

prizes for NSS volunteers were distributed by Mr. Janardhan(President of JCI).

After the valedictory function volunteers cleaned the school premises and arranged the

classrooms as they were earlier. All the NSS volunteers took a group picture and proceeded

towards the college.

Volunteers gained new friends, new outlook to life, new understanding to problems, some

very important lessons for life during the camp. Everyone promised each other to stay in

touch and promised themselves to contribute to the society whenever possible and make

each day count.

Highlights of the camp:

• Swach Bharat Abhiyan in different villages.

• Planted 200 saplings.

• Visited Ghoshala and had a clean-up drive.

• Field Visit to farm houses and their plantations.

• Conducted Personality Development and Leadership Training.

• Organized Health Camp in Koramangala Village.

• Organized Millets Mela and Training on millets to the villagers.

• Conducted training on Importance of Healthy Diet and Breast Feeding.

• Performed a skit on social issues of Dowry, Child Labour, Women Empowerment,

Importance of Education and Girl Child.

• Organized Programme with Kannada Sahitya Parishad.

• Guest Lectures on AIDS prevention, Health and Hygiene, Women empowerment, Legal

Awareness etc.

• Organized games for the village kids and adults.

• Entrepreneurial Development Programme for Villagers around 210 Self Help Group

members are benefitted.

• Organized Rangoli Competition for the village women.

• Taught Basic English and rhymes to poor village kids.