The Goodwill Social Work Centre in Madurai has been using our lessons for several years.
Between 2015 and 2017 they carried out an extensive project in Madurai to distribute the DVDs as widely as possible, and during that time an amazing two million viewings of DVDs were recorded, and local health co-ordinators reported reductions in Dengue fever. This work was partly funded by The Beacon Trust.
The report below covers just a fraction of the entire project.
23rd September to November 2016
Dr.J.Christopher Daniel Ph.D, Executive Director, GSWC
The Goodwill Social Work Centre (GSWC) has made collaborative arrangements with the Tamilnadu Voluntary Health organisation (TNVHA), Chennai, Tamilnadu who has shown active interest and willingness to work in close association with Goodwill to assist in the organisation of the project among its member NGOs/institutions in the newly selected districts and adjoining districts within the state of Tamilnadu.
TNVHA is a state level non-profit, secular, registered Association of Voluntary Organisations working for health promotion in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
The organisation is actively involved in its core areas of community health and development programmes which includes networking, capacity building, lobbying, advocacy and field studies with the active participation of member NGOs in the state of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
This is a capacity building programme conducted by Goodwill Social Work Centre in association with the Tamilnadu Voluntary Health Association (TNVHA) at Trichy (one of the newly selected districts) and the networking NGOs selected for distribution of the DVD sets who have been working in the five selected and adjoining districts, not so far included in our project.
The programme includes the promotion of healthy living, using the DVD lessons for village women and details of DVDs duplicated at our centre and distributed to target organisations and processing of orders received from local agencies through TME, UK and the direct involvement of Social Workers in organising programmes.
The structures and the member NGOs are supported by the state level government secretariat.
Goodwill has identified seven adjoining districts wherein we can extend this project.