SOPAR - Bala Vikasa
Brown Bag
Thursday, May 4, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Metropolitan Building, Room 5145
Please join S. Sunitha Reddy, the PDTC Program Manager of the Capacity Building Program at the SOPAR-Bala Vikasa, for a presentation about Bala Vikasa non-profit and the programs performed by the organization.
Bala Vikasa established People Development Training Center to build the capacity of development professionals from across the globe by sharing our development experience and best practices through training modules. Every year we organize four one month exposure cum capacity building programs in 'Community Driven Development 'CDD . 60 countries have participated in the past years and are enlightened and replicating the knowledge in their local communities creating impact. We show the participants on good community development project models in water, women, agriculture, model villages, education projects etc and help them understand different approaches to community driven development. Our center is considered as 'Center of Excellence' . Our uniqueness is we don't teach from the books but teach from our ground experiences. We teach what we do and show what we teach.
The participants who come to attend our International training programs include Development students from different universities of different countries. We have partnership with Catholic University of of Milan-Italy, Mc.Gill University-Canada, Carleton University-Canada, Queen's University-Canada, University of Quebec-Canada, University of Ottawwa, Ryerson Univerity, Colombo University-Sri Lanka etc. Every year a team of 7-10 people from each university come in different times for four programs to attend this four week Community Driven Development program. This is part of their Internship program for the students pursuing Masters/Bachelors in Social work, International development, social sciences, Community development, Rural development etc. This exposure will gain points for their internship. The students express this as a wonderful opportunity because they realize what they learn in classes by seeing in the ground. They express we learn what is real development. They are happy and go back with enlightened knowledge with a different perspective, strengthening their skills, mission and carrier in development.