Ms Daniela Schadt, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Germany interacts with children during her visit to BREADS CREAM project at BOSCO Bangalore, in February 2014.
Task Forces in the Communities As a rights based project, CREAM intends to create community level entities that will grow to protect and promote child rights, owning it as a collective responsibility of the community concerned. Ambitious as it may seem, it did daunt us with problems in convincing authorities for permissions and bringing different stake holders together. District teams managed their level best to penetrate the people concerned and succeeded in forming 39 task forces so far. Most of these task forces comprise of members from Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRI – local self government institutions) and other stake holders like SDMC members, government school teachers, NGO representatives from the locality, general public, Self Help Group women. The table below summarises the details of task forces formed in 2013.
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