Reg.

No: … /20
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THE BHARAT SCOUTS & GUIDES TAMIL NADU

VELLORE EDU. DISTRICT

RAJYAPURASHKAR AWARD

PROFICIENSY BADGE

# COMMUNITY WORKER #

NAME OF THE SCOUT /GUIDE :………….. …………………………………………

NAME OF THE UNIT/SCHOOL: …………….…………………………………………

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 Reg.No: …./20

Information Sheet.

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1. Name of the District : Vellore Edu. District.

2. Unit/ School Address :..……………………………………….

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3. Name of the Scout/ Guide : ………………………………………….

4. Father’s Name : ………………………………………….

5. Date of Birth : …………………………………………..

6. Date of joining the Unit : ……………………………

7. Date of Passing Pravesh : ……………………………

8. Date of Investiture : ……………………………

9. Date of Passing Pratham Sopan : ……………………………

10.Date of Passing Dwitiya Sopan : ……………………………

11.Date of Passing Tritiya Sopan : …………………………….

12. Date of Passing Rajyapuraskar : ……………………………

Signature of the S M / GC Signature of the Scout / Guide

Signature of the H.M/Principal

 COMMUNITY WORKER

1) Know the process of Community Development .

2) Convince at least twelve young boys of the locality and
encourage them to join the movement .
3) Become a liaison between Community and other resources of
development i.e. Banks, Hospitals, specialists etc.
4) Help people plan for solving at least two of their basic needs
e.g. : clean water, school building, vegetable market place etc..
5) Help in an camp in his village/ Mohall / slum.
 THE BHARAT SCOUTS & GUIDES – TAMILNADU
VELLORE EDU. DISTRICT

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TROOP / COMPANY COH PERMISSION
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Permission from C.O.H for Proficiency Badge / Service

Project/Hike
The Court of Honor held on ……/……/……. took

decision to permit Scout / Guide……………………………………… of

…………..………………patrol to work at the ….……………………………..

Proficiency Badge from ……/……/……... to……/..…./…………

Date of Completion:………………………

Name & Signature of

1) Patrol Leader: …………….……………/……………………………..

2) COH Secretary :…………………………/……………………………

3) COH Chairman:…………………………/……………………………

Place : Name & Signature of SM/GC

Date : ….../…../……..
PROFICIENCY BADGE : COMMUNITY WORKER

Place : ………………………………………………………………
Date : ……/ …../ 20 .
Introduction:
Principles of Community Development:-
 social justice, equality and human rights
 Empowerment of individuals, families and
communities from the ground up
 Maximising the participation of service users and
communities
 Partnership approaches between the community and
voluntary sector, health and social care, and other
agencies.
 Bringing about a sense of local ownership and control,
through communities taking action together to identify
and meet their needs
 Tackling the root causes of poverty and exclusion and
strengthening the social fabric and support systems
within disadvantaged communities.
 Community Project examples
Different approaches
There are numerous overlapping approaches to
community development. Some focus on the processes, some
on the outcomes/ objectives.
They include:
 Community Engagement; focuses on relationships at
the core of facilitating "understanding and evaluation,
involvement, exchange of information and opinions, about
a concept, issue or project, with the aim of building social
capital and enhancing social outcomes through decision-
making”.
 Women Self-help Group; focusing on the contribution of
women in settlement groups.
 Community capacity building; focusing on helping
communities obtain, strengthen, and maintain the ability
to set and achieve their own development objectives.
 Large Group Capacitation; an adult education and social
psychology approach grounded in the activity of the
 individual and the social psychology of the large group
focusing on large groups of unemployed or semi-employed
participants, many of whom with Lower Levels of Literacy
(LLLs).
 Social capital formation; focusing on benefits derived
from the cooperation between individuals and groups.
 Nonviolent direct action; when a group of people take
action to reveal an existing problem, highlight an
alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social
issue which is not being addressed through traditional
societal institutions (governments, religious organizations
or established trade unions) to the satisfaction of the
direct action participants.
 Economic development, focusing on the "development"
of developing countries as measured by their economies,
although it includes the processes and policies by which a
nation improves the economic, political, and social well-
being of its people.
 Community economic development (CED); an
alternative to conventional economic development which
encourages using local resources in a way that enhances
economic outcomes while improving social conditions. For
example, CED involves strategies which aim to improve
access to affordable housing, medical, and child care.
o A worker cooperative is a progressive CED strategy
that operates as businesses both managed and
owned by their employees. They are beneficial due to
their potential to create jobs and providing a route
for grassroots political action. Some challenges that
the worker cooperative faces include the mending of
the cooperative’s identity as both business and as a
democratic humanitarian organization. They are
limited in resources and scale.
 Sustainable development; which seeks to achieve, in a
balanced manner, economic development, social
development and environmental protection outcomes.
 Community-driven development (CDD), an economic
development model which shifts overreliance on central
governments to local communities.
 Asset-based community development (ABCD); is a
methodology that seeks to uncover and use the strengths
 within communities as a means for sustainable
development.
 Faith-based community development; which utilizes
faith-based organizations to bring about community
development outcomes.
 Community-based participatory research (CBPR); a
partnership approach to research that equitably involves,
for example, community members, organizational
representatives, and researchers in all aspects of the
research process and in which all partners contribute
expertise and share decision making and ownership,
which aims to integrate this knowledge with community
development outcomes.
 Community organizing; a term used to describe an
approach that generally assumes that social change
necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to
generate collective power for the powerless.
 Participatory planning including community-based
planning (CBP); involving the entire community in the
strategic and management processes of urban planning;
or, community-level planning processes, urban or rural.

What are the characteristics of community development?

Several characteristics of the community can give clues
to the degree of its social cohesion and anticipate problems
that may arise. These characteristics include the history of
the community and its relations with others, its present social
structure, its cultural values and the way it governs itself.
How can you encourage community involvement and
participation?

Here are a few ways to encourage your employees to volunteer

their time:

1. Reach Out For Ideas. Share with your staff that you're
looking into volunteer opportunities and ask for their
personal favourites. ...
2. Build Excitement. ...
3. Get Others Involved. ...
4. Share in Your Success. ...
5. Encourage a Community-Focused Culture.
How do you engage in communities?
Community engagement: 6 tips to engage your community
 1. Get people to tell stories. People love to share themselves
with others. ...
2. Use images. ...
3. Be a responsive community engagement leader. ...
4. Make sure that your contributions stay grounded. ...
5. Community engagement starts with understanding and
adding value. ...
6. Fall back on entertainment and education

To join the movement :

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What does a Community Liaison do?

A Community Liaison is like a human bridge. Community
Liaisons link organizations with the people they serve. They
might do this by providing translation for someone who
doesn’t speak English, or doing community outreach to
improve the organization’s public image.
Nan Schools-- from elementary to university level--are
one type of organization that employs Community Liaisons.
People who don’t speak English, or don’t speak it well, need
help understanding the language, so you might explain
enrolment forms to parents, translate parent-
Teacher conferences, or find tutoring help for students
in their own language. In a school, you might also do things
like giving presentations for Teachers to explain different
types of cultures, or helping market the school to certain
ethnic groups.
 Other forms of outreach might entail tasks like
arranging for students to do volunteer projects out in the
community, or representing the school during city council
meetings. Nan Translation is also big when working with the
government.

Community development bank (CDB) or Community

Development Financial Institution (CDFI) is a development
bank or credit union that focus on to serving people who have
been locked out of the traditional financial systems such as the
unbanked or under banked in deprived local communities.
They emphasis the long term development of communities and
provide loans such as micro-finance or venture capital.
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public
health workers who have a close understanding of the
community they serve. This trusting relationship enables
them to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between
health/social services and the community to facilitate access to
services and improve the quality and cultural competence of
service delivery.
Community health workers also build individual and
community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-
sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach,
community education, informal counselling, social support and
advocacy. (American Public Health Association, 2008)
The present status of the Citizen's Group that had been formed
in the village
The CG had functioned for a year after it's inception during
which general health camps were run and other activities such
as organizing blood donation camps etc. The reasons identified
as contributing towards the demise of the CG were
1. Lack of availability of the resource person (coordinator).
The local population did not have the expertise to carry on
the activities by themselves without external inputs.
2. A local parish priest who had also provided support was
transferred and the subsequent replacement was not
interested in mental health.
3. Money that had been collected as a corpus fund – by
pooling together financial resources from the community-
was exhausted and a new source could not be tapped.
 4. The CG comprised of members from the general
community as well as patient families as such had
conflicting priorities, with more people feeling there was a
greater need for general health services rather than for
mental health.
5. The patients in the area were geographically scattered over
102 villages and as such only about 10 patient/families
were participating in the group regularly.
People plan for solving basic needs clean water:-
Since my arrival in India, I have had access to three
different sources of water; tap, which most of the time comes
from a tank in my roof and is used mostly to wash dishes and
take showers; filtered, for washing vegetables and to cook with;
and mineral water, consumed in bottles or from a dispenser.
There are also water tankers (used by millions of
families), big trucks that deliver water in case of water
shortages, and people selling water in the streets.
Access to drinking water remains one of India’s biggest
challenges. This issue is reinforced each day by a growing
population, rapid urbanization and the growing demand for
water from agriculture, energy and industry.
Access to drinking water is recognized to be, above all, a
question of public and domestic health. According to UNICEF,
only a quarter of the total population in India has drinking water
on their premises and nearly three-quarters of all diseases in
India are caused by contaminants in the water supply.
Create local customer services
Designing services for all citizens in partnership with elected
representatives is something that most local people will expect.
Offering the most well-adapted customer service to all our users
by targeting their needs precisely is a duty that every water
distributor should have.
Their basic needs school building:-
Infrastructure The infrastructural facilities should be as follows:-
(i) Class rooms - minimum size should be 8 m x 6 m
(approx. 500. sq. ft.).
(ii) (ii) Science Labs. (Composite for Secondary
or/and separate Physics, Chemistry and Biology
for Senior Secondary)- minimum size should be 9
m. x 6 m. each(approx. 600 sq. ft.) and fully
equipped.
 (iii) Library - minimum size should be 14 m. x 8 m.
fully equipped and with reading room facility.
(iv) Computer Lab. and Math Lab. - No minimum size
is prescribed, however, the school should have
separate provision for each.
(v) Rooms for extracurricular activities - either
separate rooms for music, dance, arts & sports or
one multipurpose hall for all these activities
should be available.
Their basic needs vegetable market place:-
Indian Cities and Their Nicknames
City State Nickname/Nicknames
Agra Uttar Pradesh Taj Nagari
 Boston of India
Ahmedabad Gujarat  Manchester of India

 Abode of the God

 Sangam City
Allahabad Uttar Pradesh
 City of Prime Ministers

Amritsar Punjab Golden City

Asansol West Bengal Land of Black Diamond
 Electronic City of India
 Garden City of India
 Silicon Valley of India
 Pensioners Paradise
Bengaluru Karnataka
 Space City
 Science city of India
 IT Capital of India

Bhagalpur Bihar The Silk City of India

Bhopal Madhya Pradesh City of Lakes
Indore Madhya Pradesh Mini Mumbai
Bhubaneswar Odisha Temple City of India
Chandigarh Chandigarh The City Beautiful
 Gateway of South India
 Detroit of Asia
Chennai Tamil Nadu  Auto Hub of India
 Health Capital of India

 Textile City of India

 Manchester of South India
Coimbatore Tamil Nadu
 The Pump City

Coorg Karnataka Scotland of India

Darjeeling West Bengal The Queen of the Hills
Dhanbad Jharkhand The Coal Capital of India
 City State Nickname/Nicknames
Shillong Meghalaya Scotland of East
Dibrugarh Assam Tea City of India
Durgapur West Bengal Ruhr of India
Gandhinagar Gujarat Green city
Guwahati Assam Gateway of North East India
Nilgiri Tamil Nadu Blue Mountains
 City of Pearls
 City of Nizams
Hyderabad Telangana  World Capital of Biryani
 HITECH City

 Pink City
 Paris of India
Jaipur Rajasthan
 City of Palaces

Jaisalmer Rajasthan Golden City of India

 Steel City of India
Jamshedpur Jharkhand  Pittsburgh of India

 Leather City of the World

Kanpur Uttar Pradesh  Manchester of North India

Jammu and
Kashmir Switzerland of India
Kashmir
 Gateway to Kerala
Kochi Kerala  Queen of the Arabian Sea

 City of Joy
 City of Palaces
 Cultural Capital of India
Kolkata West Bengal
 Gateway of Eastern India
 Heaven of the Aged

Kolhapur Maharashtra City of Wrestlers

 Prince of Arabian sea
 Cashew Capital of the
Kollam Kerala World
 Gateway to Backwaters

 Shiraz-e-Hind
 Constantinople of the East
Lucknow Uttar Pradesh  The Golden City of India
 City of Nawabs

 Athens of the East

 City of Festivals
Madurai Tamil Nadu
 City of Four Junctions
 Temple city
 City State Nickname/Nicknames
 Sleepless City

Malda West Bengal Mango City

 Rome of the East
 Cradle of Indian Banking
Mangalore Karnataka
 Gateway of Karnataka

 City of Seven Islands

 Financial Capital of India
 Maya Nagari
 City of Dreams
Mumbai Maharashtra
 Gateway of India
 Hollywood of India
 Maximum City

Mundi Madhya Pradesh Power Hub City

Mussoorie Uttarakhand Queen of the Mountains
 Heritage City
Mysore Karnataka  Green City

Nagpur Maharashtra Orange City

Nainital Uttarakhand City of Lakes
New Delhi Delhi City of Rallies
Patiala Punjab Royal City
 City of Weavers
Panipat Haryana  City of Handloom

Pondicherry Puducherry Paris of the East

Prayag Uttar Pradesh Abode of the God
Pune Maharashtra Queen of Deccan
Purulia West Bengal Manbhum City
 City of Sages
Rishikesh Uttrakhand  Yoga City

 Gateway to the Dooars

Siliguri West Bengal  City of Hospitality

Jammu and
Srinagar City of lakes
Kashmir
Tezpur Assam City of Blood
Thane Maharashtra City of Lakes
 Rock Fort City
 Energy equipment and
Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu fabrication capital of India
 Tucker Trichy

Tirunelveli Tamil Nadu  City of Paddy fields

 City State Nickname/Nicknames
 Oxford city of South India
 Halwa city of India

 White City
 City of Lakes
Udaipur Rajasthan
 Venice of the East

 Spiritual capital of India

 Religious capital of India
 City of Lights
 City of Temples
Varanasi Uttar Pradesh
 City of Learning
 Oldest living city on Earth
 Holy City

 Blue City
Jodhpur Rajasthan  Sun City

 Wine capital of India

 Grape city of India
Nasik Maharashtra
 California of India

 Diamond City Of India

 City Of Diamonds
Surat Gujarat
 Textile city Of India

 Cultural City Of India

 Sayaji Nagari
Vadodara Gujarat  Banyan City
 World Capital Of Garba

Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh City Of Destiny

 Pensioners Paradise
Kakinada Andhra Pradesh  City of Kaja

Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh The Place of Victory

 Second Bardoli of India
Bhimavaram Andhra Pradesh  City of Prawns

Rajahmundry Andhra Pradesh Cultural City

Guntur Andhra Pradesh City of Chillies
Vaniyambadi Tamil Nadu Leather city of South India
 City of Lakes
 City of Temples
Warangal Telangana
 Second city of Nizam

Zunheboto Nagaland Land Of Warriors

TamilNadu Veg-Market:-
Help in an camp in his village :-
Suggestive list of activities during Regular as well as Special Camping
The aim of the Regular and special Camping Programme is to
bring youth face to face with the community and make efforts to improve
their life. The NSS volunteers are to devote about 80 hours in Regular
Activities for the development of the adopted village.
Special Camping has been conceived as an opportunity to live
with that community for 7 days, and experience the conditions and
problems of the people. The NSS volunteers need to be inspired to take
initiatives for the improvement of their condition.
Although the focus of the Special Camps change periodically
and regular programmes are organized in response to the community
needs at the micro-level, some broad areas of activities are enumerated
below:-
(a) Environment Enrichment and Conservation:
Whereas there would be a main theme for the special camping
Programme, activities aimed at environment - enrichment would be
organized under the sub-theme of" Youth for Better Environment".
The activities under this sub-theme would inter-alia, include:
(i) Plantation of trees, their preservation and upkeep
(each Scout/Guide unit should plant and protect at least
1000saplings);
 (ii) Creation of NSS parks/gardens.
(iii) Construction & maintenance of village streets, drains, etc. so
as to keep the environment clean;
(iv) Construction of sanitary latrines etc.
(v) Cleaning of village ponds and wells;
(vi) Popularization and construction of Gofer Gas Plants, use of
non-conventional energy;
(vii) Environmental sanitation and disposal of garbage &
composting.
(b) Health, Family Welfare and Nutrition Programme:
(i) Programme of mass immunization;
(ii) Working with people in nutrition programmes with the
help of Home Science and medical college students;
(iii) Provision of safe and clean drinking water;
(iv) Integrated child development programmes;
(v) Health education, AIDS Awareness and preliminary health care.
(vi) Population education and family welfare programme;
vii) Life style education centres and counselling centres.

(c) Programmes aimed at creating an awareness for improvement

of the status of women: They may, inter-alia, include:
(i) Programmes of educating people and making them aware of
women's rights both constitutional and legal;
(ii) Creating consciousness among women that they too contributed
to economic and social well-being of the community;
(iii) Creating awareness among women that there is no occupation
or vocation which is not open to them provided they acquire the
requisite skills; and
(iv) Imparting training to women in sewing, embroidery, knitting
and other skills wherever possible.

(d) Social Service Programmes:

Depending on the local needs and priorities, the following
activities/programmes may be undertaken:-
(i) Work in hospitals, for example, serving as ward visitors to cheer
the patients, help the patients, arranging occupational or hobby
activities for long term patients, guidance service for out-door-
patients including guiding visitors about hospital's procedures,
letter writing and reading for the patients admitted in the hospital;
follow up of patients discharged from the hospital by making home
visits and places of work, assistance in running dispensaries etc…
(ii) Work with the organisations of child welfare;
 (iii) Work in institutions meant for physically and mentally
handicapped;
(iv) Organising blood donation, eye pledge programmes;
(v) Work in Cheshire homes, orphanages, homes for the aged etc.;
(vi) Work in welfare organisations of women;
(vii) Prevention of slums through social education and community
action;
(e) Education and Recreations:
Activities in this field could include:
(i) adult education (short-duration programmes);
(ii) pre-school education programmes;
(iii) programmes of continuing education of school drop outs,
remedial coaching of students from weaker sections;
(iv) work in crèches ;
(v) participatory cultural and recreation programmes for the
community including the use of mass media for instruction and
recreation, programmes of community singing, dancing etc.;
(vi) organisation of youth clubs, rural land indigenous sports in
collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendras;
(vii) programmes including discussions on eradications of social evils
like communalism, castes’, regionalism, untouched ability, drug
abuse etc.;
(viii) non-formal education for rural youth and
(ix) legal literacy, consumer awareness.
(X) Swatch Bharat Mission
(XI) Digital awareness,
(XII) Voter awareness.

Signature of the Scout/Guide

Signature of the SM/GC

Signature of the HM/Principal