Community Empowerment:

Our Initiatives have varied impacts because we have targeted communities in different way or polymorphic intervention. We target the certain community in certain tailor made intervention that suits perfectly, the system. This attracts them to come and involve with B'Care response to HIV/AIDS. For example we did Slum Talk AIDS, at Nandanavanam, very big colony of slum dwellers, prostitutes, PLWHA, waste pickers, beggers, house maids etc. This community infact appreciate mass events, like Burrakathas (stories in songs), folk dance etc. The success of the event at Nandanavanam is the evidence that tailor made strategic planning brought the success to it. Hence, we make such different attempts to different places. This above activity is the example of marginal groups and is how they involved in the response to HIV/AIDS, equally. The attraction of the event pulls all the groups surrounding, peer to peer encouragement and peer call activates the marginal groups to equally involve by learning and dissemination of the messages addressed. Our deep involvement with such marginalized communities is also as significant as they do with us or reciprocate with us. Only then we could be successful in our mission.


The above different initiative empowers the communities and its marginalized groups to take action by learning their role in the society or their own community. They learn the issues that are conflict full and incompatible to them, they learn to confront those issues, counteract or antagonize them to have a better existence in the same community. For example gender inequity is a major concern in same area, Nandanavanam is a dream thought. We found male dominance, which is pretty common issue. This issue lead to great exploitation on women. Our community participation and peer education empowers them to lessen or reduce such incidences.